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Show COST OF DYING IS ALMOST PROHIBITIVE Chicago. April 11. While the cost of living Is now acknowledKedly high, the cost of dying Is now, and always has been, exorbitantly high, according to conclusions reached at a conference at the city club. Accordingly, a committee was appointed ap-pointed to look into the 6ubject and secure estimates on funerals and other expenses attached to the different burial customs In vogue In Chicago. Henry E. Smoot. chairman of tho committee, com-mittee, said yesterday that its purpose pur-pose was to find out If Eomo form of legislation could not be devised to protect against public extortion. |