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LAST EDITION SURPRISE SPRUNG AT VICE HEARING BY WOMAN SPEAKER LAST EDITION YOUNG GIRL ACCUSES RICH MAN ARRESTx WILL FOLLOW Entered as Second-Class Matter April 21, 1914, at the Postoffice at . Chicago, HI., Under the Act of March 3, 1879. THE DAY BOOK An Adless Newspaper, Daily Except Sunday N. D. Cochran, Editor and Publisher. 500 South Peoria St. 398 Tel. Monroe 353. By Mai!, Except in Chicago, $3 a Year. VOL.3, NO. 211 Chicago, Friday, June 5, 1914 ONE CENT SHALL BOYS ORGANIZE TO DEMAND THE RIGHT TO PLAY AND HAVE FUN? Chicago Boy Raises Big Question of the Highest Import- ance Why Do Policemen Chase the Boys Off the Corner? And Where Will They Go To Play?, BY N. D. COCHRAN I have a letter from a boy that brings up a question which is probably more important to all of ifs than it is to this particular boy. I most earnestly invite the thoughtful consideration of, the men and women of Chicago to this letter: Chicago, June 2, 1914. Dear MrT Cochran: 71 am sending you this letter to ask your advice on a matter of importance. I am a working boy and live in the neighborhood of Western, avenue and Lexington street, and at night go down to the cor ner to play. There are also a number of other boys who work that go down there, too. In this particular neighborhood there is no place to play exception the street; bo that is where we play. But when we play there the policemen are always chasing us and taking us to tfcd station. It has happened regu- m m fbmtem4&&jJ&Ai.. Iw5- j&fe M-hSI&Z -'tt-V'!A sajt v -yw. v J,lyf i Ke. (ij-yj, v jJ-k?8