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n mighthave brokentj'our Jeg.' He . was in earnest about it, and I guess he had more stuffy up his sleeve. T tqld him such-being the case, the next time he "was an nounced as the. pitcher, X intend ed to declare myself out of the line-up. o o ' ' CHICAGO NEWSPAPERS AND' THE NEWS'-; , , The Chicago newspapers 'are a truly wonderful study. They are so careful to present tfieir news'in a truthful, unbiased manner if you don't care what you say! For instance, the following is this morning's Tribune's" version of a'visit made by Peter Bartzen, president of the County'Board, to the state's attorney's office, yes terday: , "While Mr. Dunn was preparr ing his statement, ' Mr. Bartzen was at the state's attorney's of fice, trying to ward off an indict ment sought by the cuil service reform association." Here's what the JRecOrd-Herald ,says of the same, incident: "Peter Bartzen,, president of the county board, went to the state's attorney's officeVesterday and demanded that any charges brought against him by the civil service reform association be heard at once by the grand jury." 1 Evidently, it depends on which newspaper presents the news, what Bartzen really -went to the state's attorney's office to dp. According to the Tribune Bart-n ,zen is so afraid of an invesfiera- 'tion into the charges against nim, 1 . that he paid aspecial visit to the state's attorney's office to gag any such investigation. ' ,, According to the Record-Her-ojd, Bartzen went to the state's attorney's office to demand an immediate investigation of these charges by the grard jury. Of course, the people of Chj- cagb have a right to "know just how' the man they elected presi dent of the county board is act ing in the present scandal in re gard to the conduct of the cQUii tjs affairs. The only way for the people to know, outside of making a per sonal investigation, is to read the newspapers. . Just how the people are going to" garner anyeal truth from the newspapers when two big dailies present such radically different versions of a single trip of the president of the county board to the state's attorney's office, we leave to the imagination, of the people. - o inquisitive edwin wAnts to know Do they make bone collarbufr tons from, collarbones? ' If a bellwether has water on the brain, is he a hydraulic ram? Can the-umpire call two strike with only oh bawl? Who brings the stork its little stprks? Do soldiers shoot at aeroplanes with airguns? If a man looking over the paper can see what is in it, can a man lqoking through the paper see what is on the other side of it? mmMmtmmmtmm