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2c NOON EDITION C WORLD PEACE PREDICTED FOR JULY 1 THE DAY BOOK An Adless Newspaper, Daily Except Sunday VOL.6, NO. 140 Chicago, Tuesday, March 13, 1917 398 rtgj FOOD HOGS ARE SOAKED TWICE BEFORE THE CITY COUNCft Plea of 500 Mothers for Food From City at Cost Is 1 Answered by Aid. Rodriguez Congress May Hear From Chicago Aldermen Other Doings of Council. rwo measures of . tremendous im portance to every common working citizen they affect the price of food, ice, coal and living commodities were born at the meeting of the city council yesterday. The first asked preparation of an enabling act to be presented to the state legislature which would give the city powar to go into the business of selling the necessities of life to the people of the city at cost This would break the commission gang, the food and ice clique and the de partment store hold on Chicago pocketbooks. The second was a move toward preparation of a memorial to con gress to ask for the regulation of in terstate. shiDments and. the prices o