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LAST EDITION LAST EDITION PORTUGAL BELIEVED ABOUT TO GET INTO THE WARBRITISH BOATS GETTING TROOPS rJ Entered as Second-Class Matter April 21, 1914, at the Postoffice at Chicago, HL, Under the Act of March 3, 1879. THE DAY BOOK An Adless Newspaper, Daily Except Sunday N. D. Cochran, gaggBBR Tel. Monroe 353. i Editor and Publisher. IglllP5 By Mail, Except in 500 South Peoria St. 398 Chicago, a Year. VOL.4, NO. 7 Chicago, Monday, Oct. 5, 1914 ONE CENT SEXTON'S PHONE OPINION A MERE TWISTING OF MEANING OF WORDS The Language and Meaning of the Automatic Phone Or dinance Plainly and Clearly Provide for Forfeiture of the Automatic Franchise and Plant. -. BY N. D. COCHRAN Common sense and the will of the people are supposed to be the founda tion of laws, and 'Corporation Counsel Sexton's opinion to council in the matter of the forfeiture of the automatic telephone franchise and plant of the tunnel company isn't common sense and doesn't represent the will of the people. The opinion, after all, is merely the opinion of a lawyer that the court, will place the same construction on the wording of the franchise ordinance as the corporation lawyers hired by the telephone companies place upon it. It is merely Sexton's guess as to what the courts will do. My guess is that if the matter comes up before a judge controlled by the telephone interests, or allied corporations, that judge will decide as the lawyers for the phone companies ask him to decide; but that if it comes up before an honest judge, who isn't-owned by corporations or political bosses, the wording of the ordinance will be construed along the lines of common sense, and in the interest of the public,