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MB '-a? yji $gtjV & Jto r 'ifc T -l W j- --TjP'i; "weP" t A ." J. .- j"- . .. 2,. 'V? WW cPT .h fc?" that thought it was a personal idea and had no place in a scientific re port" Kennedy read a statement from Poor's financial manual. In 1913, it stated, the surplus of Armour & Co. was $84,000,000. The net income for the same year was $11,356,000. He gave the numbers of houses in the 4500 block on Laflin street where seven men and nine women died in one year from tuberculosis. In 1908 1909 there were 429 deaths of per sons be'tween 16 and 50 years of age from tuberculosis. In the district 32.8 per cent of deaths are from tu berculosis. One out of three children die before two years of age. The death rate is seven times that of the University of Chicago district, a half hours' walk distant Crowded housing, cheap food, ir regular work, breathing fertilizer dust and working where water drips from above into work rooms are among causes or the high death rate from tuberculosis, it was stated. READERS NAME BIGGEST FAISEJ WHAT'S YOUR IDEA? Well! Well! Well! They are coming in with their guesses on what is the greatest fake in Chicago. . Everybody is going to learn a little before we get through with this. Besides the candidates mentioned yesterday, several new ones are named in letters to The Day Book today. Answering the question, "What is the Greatest Fake in Chi cago?" these are among the first bal lots in the preferential voting: W. H. Lathrop, 3313 S. Wood St., sends in the following: 1 Partisan politics in municipal elections. 2 Municipal Voters' league. 3 The ads of the loop stores in the evening papers (the, bargains are no cheaper than those in the other local stores, besides you pay more in time and carfare). Danjel A. Ureta has some interest- J ing ideas of Chicago's greatest fake. Here they are: "It seems to me the greatest fake in Chicago (as well as in other big cities) are the cunningly trimmed and decorated department store windows, especially those of Marshall Field, Mandel Bros., Stevens, etc. "Just observe philosophically the crowd of poor $6-a-week working girls standing and gazing for hours at the $100 to $2,000 gowns of the latest design put out in those win dows. What is the purpose of exhib iting these costly gowns? "Those who can afford to buy these gowns would not disgrace themselves by rubbing elbows with the 'cheap' crowd around the windows, but in stead are ushered right into the sam ple parlor as they step out of their automobiles. "Why should money-mad mer chants, who manage to squeeze every possible cent from their stores, waste enormously valuable space on State st just to show the crowds what gowns are worn by the rich? "Is it merely to create jealousy, envy and animosity in the hearts of the poor daughters of the toilers and thus indirectly hint to them to se'll their bodies for the sake of enjoying wearing such gowns? "Psychologically the temptation is indeed very strong, and if this it not the cunning intention of the big stores, then their window shows are the most atrocious fakes every intro duced in a civilized community." An unsigned reader send the fol lowing selections: 1 The police de partment. 2 The sohool system with ever changing systems. 3 Board of moving picture censors. There they are for today. There are more coming. The Day Book would like the contributors to send in their real names. If you want the names kept confidential we'll do it o o Mary Tobin, principal of Marquette school, Wood and Harrison, exoner ated of cruelty charge fftrfiW.!NNW9g!!SyHffl acA.stfa twr.-i0htitt-m t. ., xt-Sn