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Since ne's gone I've had to send our three-year-old girl over to Michigan to live with my mother. If we have enough mcmey left over I'm going to send for her. She asks about her daddy in every letter." "Are you going to quit work when your husband returns?" she was asked. "Oh, yes. The work is too hard, the hours too long and the pay too small," she said. "'Besides, when the baby comes ome I'll have to take care of her." Out of her small pay Mrs. Shep kowski plans a holiday in honor of her husband's return. There are going to be many things on the table that Frank likes. She has seen to that "He has told me in letters how poorly they weer fed down there," she said. "So I'm going to surprise him tomorrow. Oh, I won't tell you what He might read the story be fore it's ready. "I hope there won't be any war in Mexico," she said as the reporter turned to go. "It's terrible. I'b glad Frank's enlistment has ended. It's a bad thing for married men to join the army. I don't know what the baby and I would have done if he had to stay down there a long time." o- ALDERMEN SHUT OUT FROM SCHOOL RECORDS BOARD REFUSES INFORMATION Aldermen of the city council schools committee who ask the school board for the names, dates and figures on all contracts let by the school board since Jake Loeb be came president will not be cheerfully handed any such information. Not if the board majority can stop 'em. Anything that's already been print ed in the newspapers or anything printed for public consumption and shoved into pockets of callers at school board offices such data the aldermen may have. But aldermen are not free to cast their eyes upon "original" official records and see whether there is any soiled lingerie and spattered vestments underneath the front of finery offered for public gaze by Pres. Loeb and his aids. The policy of keeping public school records private was reaffirmed by the board vote yesterday. The resolu tion by which Pres. Loeb is author ized to maintain a bureau of secrecy instead of publicity was carefully worded. Att'y A. R. Shannon shaped it up in accord with the wishes of Pres. Loeb and Vice Pres. EckharL It said some of the information ald ermen ask for has already been given them, other information would cost too much to get and in other ques tions the aldermen don't make them selves clear on what they want. In more finely-worded diplomatic tech nicalities the aldermen are asked to state whp they are and by what right they come nosing around the school board records. The upshot and gist of the action of the school board is to tell the city council schools com mittee to go jump in the lake. Thirteen question? of aldermen were negatively answered with the following words generally strung along: "If you will advise us what par ticular duty or duties imposed upon you by law you are performing which makes this information necessary, it will be possible for us to communi cate to you everything of the rec ords." Trustee Max Loeb spoke against the resolution and said its effect was a "denial of the request of the coun cil for information." Specific denial was given by the board to the request for the list of teachers wh,o pledged that they do not belong to the Teach ers' Federation. Payrolls for June and September, 1915, and names of teachers not marked "inefficient" who were not Mmmmmmmmmimmmmmtmm