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Show RICH WOMAN SAYS THERE IS INEQUALITY Chicago, June 2S, Names of the three richest women In Chicago were made public today on the completion of tho personal property tax list They are Mrs. Nettle F. McCor-mick. McCor-mick. $2,595,000; Mrs Emmons Blaine, $1,950,000; Virginia, McCor-mick, McCor-mick, $1,350,000 This is tho value of personal property only, stocks, bonds, jewels, etc. Mtb. Blaine, although listed as one of the most wealthy women In the city, believes that wealth is unjustly distributed. "It is my belief," sho said, "that before many generations the race as a whole will revolt at the senseless inequality of the wealth holding power of Individuals. It jb a question, 1 think, whether too large a part of tho wealth is held in private hands and whether a sufficient proportion should not be held by the community to meet the needs of a community as a whole so that rightful needs of any individual would not depend solely on the will of some minority of Individuals." In-dividuals." In contrast to the figures given are the assessmentn for Chicago's two most distinguished women Jane Addams has no taxable personal property and Ella Flagg Young, superintendent su-perintendent of Schools, schedules but $500. . nn |