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PfPlPWPPPPPPIPliWPPWWI'WPW I has no voice in the management o? THE DAY BOOK the Tnb. If he did, it probably wouldn't be the crazy sheet it is now. & N. D. COCHRAN EDITOR 'AND PUBLISHER. BOO S. rEOniA ST. CHICAGO, IUt Telenhone.t Editorial, sioarsc 353 ""' circulation. Monroe 36WJ SUBSCRIPTION By "Carrier In Cnt cajro. 30 cents a Month. By Mail. United States and Canada, f 3 00 a Year Entered as second-class matter April 21, 1914. at the poatoffice at Chicago. 1IL, under the Act of March 3, 1SJ9 THAT AUTOMATIC DEAL-The combined influence of the Bell tele- , phone trust and the Chicago Tunnel company--with no protest fronmny Chicago newspaper but The Day Book persuaded the city council and the state board of public utilities to approve the purchase of the Auto matic telephone plant by the trust. y. All that was needed to complete the deal was the consent of Attorney General Gregory. But all the pull Og. Armour, the Bell phone trust, the- ' Chicago telephone Co. and the Chi cago Tunnel Co. couldn't move . Gregory to play the game for the plutes. And now it's all off. The scheme to help Armour and his pals unload the Automatic on the phone trust and, then let them make phone users in Chicago pay for itJias been busted. The people's council in Chi cago were willing to see them robbed. So was the state board of public utilities. But the attorney general of the United States couldn't be bought, bulldozed and browbeat en and h saved the telephone' sit uation in Chicago. Score another big mark for the Wilson administra tion for killing a rotten deal. THE TARDY FIREMAN. Mr. Hughes is the tardy fireman. After the fire's out he rushes to the scene, all het up with, ferocious zeal, and tells the boys how "to put it out MEDILL AND THExTRIB It isn't fair to hold Medlll McCormick re sponsible for the Tribune, even though he is one of the heirs of Jo seph Medlll, land his brother Bertie" runs the sheet Medlll. McCormick AS BREAD GOES OP. As far fetched as it may seem to be, we are willing to stake our reputation as a prophet upon the statement 'that tie rise in the price of bread, or the re duction of the size of the loaf and the enlargement of the diameter of the hole in the doughnut, is due to stimulate pro-ally sentiment in Amer ica mightily. When Turkey entered the war we mentioned that, sooner or later, we far away Americans would feel the stoppage of the supply of Russian wheat We are feeling it now, in dollars and cents and in queer sensa tions atthe pit of our stomachs. Sentiment of the heart and senti ment .of the head both give way to sentiment of the stomach. When a ' man gets so hungry that he is im pelled to steal he doesn't care very much whether he robs a friend or ah enemy. About the time bread takes another jump- as it must eventually do, many of us over here are going 'to pull awfuj.' hard for the thing which will restore to us the good, old, full-sized, 5-cent loaf. Which will be a victory for the allies in the Bal kans. Thus we are in line to have our sympathies foroed, for the first time since the war begun, by the action of the bakers and, funny , thing, most of those bakers are German-Americans. TO HELP HIM OUT "You are lying so clumsily," said the observant judge to a litigant rtvhc was making a dubious statement ol Ms case, "that I would advise you to get a lawyer." i-Browning's Mags zine. illijmimaHHummmmmMmmm