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!PPVVVVWWPPWmMW1V! THE DAY BOOK N. D. COCHRAN EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. SOO SO. PEORIA ST. CHICAGO, ILL. . . , Editorial. Monroe 3S3 JelepflOneS Circulation. Monroe 3830 SUBSCRIPTION By Carrier In Chicago. 30 cents a Month. By Mall. United States and Canada. (3.00 a Year. Entered as second-class matter April 21. 1914, at the postoMlce at Chicago. 111., under the Act o March 3, 1878. STARS, CLUBS AND GUNS. The right to carry a gun and club and the authority that a police badge gives a man has a rotten effect on a good many coppers. This is made more apparent every time a big strike breaks in Chicago. The1 law says something, at least, about policemen being hired by the city and paid with the taxpayers' dough to protect life and property. Too many coppers have misconstrued this meaning. Their actions indicate that they believe the lives referred to are those that belong to the Big Busi ness bosses and the property, that which is capital owned. The man who earns a mere living and the shack in which he may live well, they just don't count In the present clothing workers' strike Chicago policemen have shown no backwardness in taking sides. When mounted officers charge into bands of girl workers and when beat cops wield their clubs haphazard over the heads of men strikers, just where does the police side of it fit? Puz zle! When a clothing house boss can own his home, have a couple of auto mobiles, money in the bank and wear diamonds, and yet howls against pay ing his workers the men and wom en who have made his money for him enough money to live comfortably on; and when this same boss can get police backing in case of a strike, just where do the employes fit? The only thing left for them is the backing of the general public. That's how the situation in the clothing strike now on stands. PULL. Where do trust papers get the pull that enables them to run their newspaper delivery autos and wagons haphazard over Chicago's boulevards? Why don't the corner or beat coppers enforce the laws in regard to wagon traffic on the boule vards and in regard to automobile speed? The horses and wagons of the trust press go pell-mell out the various boulevards, tearing across street crossings and picking their way past autos, pedestrians and anything that happens to get in the way on the boulevards. The automobile trucks that belong to the trust press break all idea of speed law as they tear out Madison, North Clark and Michigan av. What they do on the boulevards is a crimes rIf other autos or wagons pulled this sort of stuff arrest would be the re sult and probably a stiff court fine would follow. But the trust press wagons and trucks go merrily on their way. Why and how do they get away with it? It is interesting to watch how the drivers of some of the trust press wagons and autos toss corner cop pers a paper as they go speeding by a corner crossing. SHORT ONES Will the allies have Turkey- for Thanksgiving? Who ever thought a daschund could hold a lion at bay? If every man's life was an open book you couldn't send it through the mails. How, asks the dyspeptic, with cereals going up, can we expect breakfast foods to stay down? AMttAmaHmMtiMt