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the deck going on; and most of the newspapers will line up with Sulli van. To a man up a tree, this fight looks like a fine opening for a young man who knows anbpening when he sees it. PROSTITUTIONHARD PROBLEM ADMITS FUNKHOUSER Major Funkhouser appears to have learned a few things since he under took the job of manicuring Chicago's morals. In a speech at the Wilmette Con gregational church he told of some of the discoveries he has made. And the speech was one of the most promising outbreaks Funkhouser has had since he left the silk-stockings of Evanston to begin chasing the other brand of silk-stocking that were to be found around the levee districts. "I have come to the conclusion that it doesn't do any good to drive wo men from the segregated district, ex cept in breaking up the commercial organizations that derive profit from the women's shame," said the major. "I feel like a bully when I see those women arrested and dragged into court It does no good to arrest and fine them. They soon get hardened to that. The slave before the war was a prince compared to them. "The people themselves must work out the problem of these women. No police officer can do that. "What I would" suggest is a tract of twenty-five or forty acres, where they could be taught useful trades. Most of them have never had a chance to develop." The major then intimated that probably society itself had something to do with the fall of these women. This has long been the impression of those here in Chicago that have been forced to gaze upon the problem for years. It is a hopeful sign when that impression invades the bounds of Evanston and Wilmette. o o When a woman can go out and make a presentable appearance with out wearing a corset she laughs to herself. , She considers it a good jok? on the public. SI SMALL ' . 0PPOfilTCIV7rt . . : 4