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NOON EDITION NATALBY'S IS HIT BY WAITRESSES' STRIKER GIRLS WANT FAIRNESS NOON EDITION MRS. POTTER PALMER FINALLY LETS SOME SATISFACTION OUT, THE DAY BOOK An Adless Daily Newspaper. N. D. Cochran, ggjfefr Tel. Monroe 353. Editor and Publisher. ggjp5 Automatic 5.1-422. 500 South Peoria St. , .398 By Mail, 50 Cents a Month. VOL. 3, NO. 152 Chicago, Friday, March 27, 1914 ONE CENT SAYS NERO WOULD HAVE HOWLED AT THE NEW MUNICIPAL COURT PLAN And His Howl Would Be One of Delight, Says Ass't Cor poration Counsel Nicholas Michels Raps the Tar Out of the Proposed Act. The new. Municipal Court plan,, which Chief Justice Harry Olson of the Municipal Court is trying to sneak over on the voters this spring, comes in for a burning attack by Assistant Corporation Counsel Nich olas Michels. ,. "Tiberius, Caligula and Nero would howl with delight at this modern law which practically re-enacts, makes possible and justifies all of the brutal violatons of the laws of Rome," thun ders Mchels. , "One involuntarily is carried back to the malicious perse cutions of the early Christians at the behest of a set of1 debauched black mailers that sought to make a living out of the misery of honest citizens." Michels warns people that under the plan any policeman, board of park, commissioner, or any conserva tor of peace, will have the power to arrest with or without process all persons who shall break the peace or be found violating any law. Also that any judge can issue a warrant at any hour of the night without due process of law. Ther oldest bulwark of citizens against persecution by officers of the law is the "Bill of Rights," which follows: