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DAILY COMMENT ON
Robert Falcon Scott is dead,
but he showed himself a man of
full stature and the world will not
forget.
Judge Gemmill says that any
Chicago crook can get a parole
handed out through the back
door of a court room.
We have observed that phen
omenon especially when the
crook happened to be a news
paper slugger.
The police are expecting Teddy
Webb to pay a visit to Bandit
Perry, now in the county jail. He
probably will if he wants to.
Also, the police have received
full confirmation that Webb still
is in Chicago, as The Day Book
told them he was from the first.
He'd be a darned fool to leave
Chicago. He might get caught.
Mike Sullivan says that "Gro
gan is a political accident," re
ferring to the Democratic boss of
the Eighteenth. Maybe he is,
Mike, but he seems to get there
just the same in the "bloody
Eighteenth."
State's Attorney Hoyne says
he is going to get after the get-rich-quick-men
of Chicago. Evi
dently he doesn't give a hoot how
much work he piles on his staff.
The Progressives at Spring
field appear to have taken Medill
McCormick and his senatorial
ambitions and tied them out in a
cold and frosty world.
Just 4,482 cops in Chicago, and
only one Teddy Webb. What's
Itfc answer?
Wfiv net inventory the gun
athd see how manv of them
PEOPLE AND THINGS
are working for the newspapers?
Schuettler is the name of one
Chicago cop who isn't afraid to
talk. And he's too wise to be a
goat for the politicians.
Fatty degeneration may be
what's the matter with Illinois 3l
pontics, dui tne real trouoie in
Chicago is that too many public
officials are buffaloed by the
newspapers.
Every time The Trib has a bad
dream it sees the ghost of Billy
Lorimer.
It isn't so strange, when you
know the facts, that the trust
press puts the soft pedal on the
murder of Walter Masterson by
Ed Barrett, the newspaper gun
man. Hearst's Examiner says Illi
nois politics has fatty degenera
tion. One other name for the
thing is "too much Hearst."
A better time to build a subway
would be after the Hearst hand
has been yanked off the city ad
ministration. When a Day Book reporter
tried to interview Chief Mc-
. Weeny about a murder that hap
pened within a week, the big cop
per insisted on talking about the
Snell murder. Only 25 years be
hind the times. Turn over', chief
you're sleeping on your back! 0J
cnicago cops are entirely too
handy with their guns. When a
gunman cop shoots at 1 5-year-old
boy for no other offense than run
ning away when the cop yells
"stop," it's about time to take the
gun away from him and give him
a broom or feather duster.