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is NOONEDIBON NOON EDITION FAMOUS 'FRENCH SEERESS PREDICTS, GREATER DISASTERS: FOR AMERICA THIS YEAR THE DAY BOOK J; V t Adle Daily Newspaper. . ;?N.D Cochran, .. -. 398. S00.S6uth'Pedria"SL- Tel. Monroe 353 Vdy&fifXAfy . .''ChicagorSaturday;j March '29,l9i3 ONE,CEWT Bl; BUSINESS SLURS', ALL WORDINGGIRLS IN, .i: .EfEORTTO KILL LOW WAGE PROBE:, v . '. f ' -' 7 - . 1 " 3 , . - , ;''.,.,''. Kept Newspapers Usedstp Chloroform lEfFectJof&flai' 'Commission's' Expose of, Rdtten Conditions as', . j f Renewal o Chicago Iniquity Approaches, j" 4- .... - - ' ' ; 1 ' r - -'.' BY'DON'MACGREGOR Big .business is trying to crawl . out of, the. hole into whichit crawled when the. O'Hara, commission turned, the. searchlight ;onstarvation wages. ' And has begun iUscampaign to -kill off' the O'Hara 'commission and wipe the-.'mempry ofwhat that-Commission-laid bare froimthe minds of the :.people. . Itjs1 doing so .in itsqwri characteristic' way ,"and -.through its own pet channel by. the underhand throwing of mud through the pages of the newspapers if'owns. T Very quietly,' very softly thotrust newspapers- are' trying-to hint.that the O'Hara commission,lby sayiiig; that?$6,-a week is less J.han"a girl possibly can-live. ,6n in Chicago, has "reflected on the morality of ev'ery-working girl iii Chfcago who- receives $? , a week of less. ' - "Except 'in -the Iriterceah, that pet 'and brazen ' mouthpiece of Big Business; thesehints' are very Veiled ah'd'hidden, and peYhaps-,axe,,ther'eforc, all the .more.iiangerous. " - ' t " ' , Thehewispapers'kridvyi and know weHt, that ifthey made such 'a. state ment openjy after the god;thafraleatiyN'ha;cbme but. of-the OHara com mission's revelations; they would be scorned by the people. For they know the statement is a'lie..- ' . ;When the O'Hara commission said there rwas a connection b.etween vlca.and lowwages, Tt dfd" not mean that that connection was direct; it did not 'mean .that every girl who receves.less than a living, wage must or does sell herself; itHid'not mean that the connection is merely one of dollars and, cents'. - ' -, ' . f What It. did mean was tfiisT That low wages.and.all-that low wages