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"yJiP7n9af-;K 1THE DAY BOOK! N. D. COCHRAN EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. S. PEOniA ST. CHICAGO, ILA. Telephones gS2&-."sSSi ag SUBSCRIPTION By Carrier In Chi cago, 30 cents a Month. By Mall, United States and Canada, $3.00 a Year Entered as secend-class matter April 21, 1914, at. the postofflce at Chlcasro. I1L, under the Act of March 3. 1879. . THE STRIKE SETTLEMENT. The miners' strike at Clifton, Ariz., has been settled. The 5,000 copper miners who struck in September last year for higher wages and union rec ognition have returned to work, un der a compromise agreement which provides a sliding scale of wages, but does not accord recognition of their union. Upon the whole, it is a vic tory for the miners, which was made possible by the action of Gov. Hunt of Arizona in refusing to permit the importation of gunmen and strike breakers under the protection of the state militia. The strike settled, the mine owners will now turn their en tire attention to the effort being made by them, through the news papers they control, to bring about the recall of Gov. Hunt. The leading corporation involved is the Phelps-Dodge Co., more gen erally known as the "Copper Queen Crowd." This company In 1912 earned 23 per cent on its $45,000,000 capital and pays regularly a 15 per cent dividend. It is claimed that the Clifton properties paid in 1912 a div idend of 146 per cent on a capital of $1,000,000. Copper sold then for about one-half the present price. It would appear that the miners had something coming to them. At any rate, the outcome of the big strike is in refreshing contrast to that of the Colorado coal miners' strike, where the Rockefeller interests controlled the state executive and sent in hired thugs to shoot down the strikers un der state protection. If there is any predicate for the re call of Gov. Hunt in the solution of the Arizona troubles we are too dense to perceive it. CHIVALRY AND SHAME. Major Smith, you're a devil among the la dies when Friend Wife entertains her select tea parties at the Smith domi cile. You're noted for your courtly man ners. You make every guest feel she's a reigning queen. The finest flower of southern chi valry has nothing at all on you. Why don't you talk the same way to your stenographer. She comes a whofe lot nearer being a queen, in brains at least, than the dames you flatter in your diningroom.' And why don't you swat the rough stuff you know is pulled by your foremen in the factory where the wo men and girls work? You know how they snarl at them and bulldoze them, thinking ignorantly that they get more work out of them by such actions. You know how these fore men bawl out the women because they are women if they were men it would be a punch in the jaw for those foremen. We don't blame you for being po lite, major. We don't blame any body for being as polite under all cir cumstances as his nature, will per mit But a lot of folks are polite in the wrong place. As long as you bully your stenog rapher and a3 long as the girls in your factory shrink when the fore man approaches your smirking and smiling and studied deference are an insult to every women you meet Major, did you ever hear of a "whited sepulcher?" Well, you're one I