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NOON EDITION NOON EDITION THE DAY BOOK An Adless Daily Newspaper. N. D. Cochran, Editor and Publisher. 500 South Peoria St. 398 Tel. Monroe 353. ' Automatic 51-422. By Mail, 50 Cents a Month. VOL 3, NO. 89 Chicago, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 1914 ONE CENT "WOMEN ARE IN A MELTING POT OF THEIR OWN," SAYS N Y. WOMAN Miss Lillian P. Wald Says Old Standards Are Melting Away in the Fiery Furnace of Necessity Says Women Getting Their Say in Government Do ings Means a New Sense of Comradeship. BY NIXOLA GREELEY-SMITH (Copyright, 1913, by the Newspaper Enterprise Association.) What Hull House Is to Chicago the University Settlement is to New York. , What Jane Addams is to Hull House, Lillian D. Wald is to the Uni versity Settlement. This is so true that one might .call Miss Wald "New York's Jane Addams " or one might even speak of Jane Addams as "Chicago's Lillian Wald." The two women have been fast 'friends years, and they are as one in fheir interest and belief In everything which relates to the ad vancement of women-. Bliss Wald, like Miss Addams, is a suffragists The motto of ,her life and the message which has gone forth for 20 years from the University Settlement is tho oneness of the world. This University Settlement is sit uated at 265 Henry street, the very core of New York's East Side where the "melting-pot of nations" boib hardest and where for 20 years Miss Wald has-stirred into it the sympathy and understanding and helpfulness which make' life easier for newcom ers In "the promised land." "I believe in everyone working to gether all men and women together and especially women-folks to gether," Miss Wald saidto me the other day. "Women are in a special melting pot of their own just now," I had re marked. "The .old standards, the old barriers, are-melting away in the fiery mi