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tm?m?'? '(t.m tRpi WP9NW issues vitally affecting every school kid in Chicago were discussed yes terday. The "Trib" didn't have the story, and the Examiner and Herald both carried about 200 words. 60 CLIFFORD SULLIVAN, KILLED BY AUTO, WAS GOOD BOY Sixteen-year-old Clifford Sullivan,, killed when a truck of the Herald skidded at Michigan av. and Lake sL on Feb. 29, was a good boy. And Clifford had a home at 1149 BeHen av. This is the gist of the information that several friends of Clifford have asked to have published "since the death of the newsboy and the circula tion of reports understood by them to mean that Clifford wasn't a hard worker. Friends of the boy, including his aunt, Clara Moore, asked that it be explained that Clifford had a steady position with the Herald and was making good when the accident cut off his life, and when not at work for the Herald spent most his time at home. He never had to sleep in the Her ald alley, as many unfortunates do. Gossips in the neighborhood have been misconstruing published re ports about the boy since his death, it is said. His friends want to close the mouths of the critics with the truth about the youngster. o o MAYOR'S LIEUTENANT TO GET SCHOOL BOARD JOB Morton MacCormac, whom the mayor wants to reward for his good work as political lieutenant by ap pointment to the job of statistician to the school board, was to be ex amined today as to his qualifications by a committee of the board. It was expected that this committee would recommend him, as the board seem ed favorable to giving the mayor the job. This job is one that is supposed to be filled by civil service examination and not by political appointment - i Max Loeb will lead the fight to tho finish against MacCormac in the school board, and the City club will sway its weight of influence against the mayor making a politipal plum of the statistician job. o o QUESTION REASON FOR ADS BY UT!I ITY nnMPAMIFR When is newspaper advertising the same thing as bribery? The ques tion is raised now by the Greater Chi cago Federation. At its meeting March 30 a committee will report res olutions protesting against Chicago Surface Lines, Commonwealth Ed ison and other public utility corpor ations pouring big money into news paper cash boxes for advertising gen erally regarded as bunk. "Newspaper advertising on the part of our utility corporations goes mer rily on," says an editorial in the North-West Side Commercial ass'n. monthly bulletin, out today. "Vast negotiations are about to be effected between some of these companies and the city. This resorting to news paper patronage on the part of the ' companies cannot fail to create sus picion. "The skeptic may say: 'Buying the influence of the newspapers can be done without advertising.' This is .true. But in that event the newspa pers would lend themselves to a di rect bribery connivance, punishable with penitentiary sentence for its publishers and managers involved. "An embarrassing possibility is the fact that an unfriendly state's at torney may become possessed of suf ficient evidence to convict In the selling of advertising space, however, and there is no restriction as to (JJ rates, all the purpose of bribery can be accomplished by a method under legal cover." o o Observe closely that Seattle wom an posed successfully as a man for 20 years, until the police arrested her as "a lazy husband." 'There's a mo ral in it, fellers, a deep one. mmsemaammmmmmmmmmmm