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r ONE CEHT-g!igEE-ONE CENT ALL THE LOCAL NEWS-FULL UNITED PRESS SERVICE-IS HANDY TO READ THE DAY BOOK An Adless Newspaper, Daily Except Sunday VOU5, NO. 92 Chicago, Saturday, January 15, 1916 398 WHAT MAKES TRUST PRESS SO BACKWARD ON REAOEWS? Women's Civic League Takes Live Action in Auto Truck Fenders Matter Is the News Too Big for , the Loop Press? When is news not news? To the trust press it evidently is when an influential advertiser is hit by the story. A bunch of women, they call them selves the Women's Civic league, heard about the fender law and the hide-and-seek game' that the last two administrations have played with it When the speakers, had finished talking to them these women wrote out a long list of things that they thought about the fender business. They called them resolutions. Then they sent the resolutions to the City News Bureau, a news-gathering organ of the trust press. Some where between the club women and the make-up men on the m6rning papers the story was killed. The womea als,o sent copies of