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( nrlY rfVvr rfvf if)' WO0 Entered js Second Class Matter October 11. 1839. at the Post Office of Publication, Office at Chicago, Illinois, under Act of March 3, 1379. 179 W. Washington St., Chicago, 111. INDEPENDENT IN ALL THINGS, NEUTRAL IN NONE. Published Weekly. Entered as Second Class Matter October 11, 1SS9. at ttie Pc Office at Chicago. Illinois, under Act of March 3, 1879. TIII'UT Y-TIIITM) YEA1J, X(. WO. Subscription Rate, $2 Per Year in Advance. CHICAGO, SATURDAY, APRIL iL 11)22. SINGLE COPY TEN CENTS. WHOLE N17MRBR 1S!M; Ok Democrats Will Name Their Judicial Ticket for the June Election on Next Monday, April 24 And Following the Policy Which They Have In augurated Will Make a Coalition Ticket With Republicans The Demoi rats will name their ju dicial ticket for the June election on Monday next. George K. Brennan, the popular Democratic leader, in reply to a query as to the probable action of the managing committee said: "A coalition ticket is the only way of handling a judicial ticket. As it has always been pood Democratic policy to keep good sitting judges. We do not intend to depart from that policy. We stood by it last year and won out." The following Superior Court judge.? will be renominated by the Demo crats: William E. Dever. Charles A. McDonald. Martin M. Gridley. Joseph Sabath. John J. Sullivan. The Republicans will have the naming of one Superior Court judge and possibly the naming of three Municipal Court judges to be elected in Jun. Whether the Brundage-Crowe Haas Litsinger committeemen will stani for a non-partisan judicial slate that starts with the five Democratic sitting judges remains to be determined. That will be settled on April 24. and included in the proposition is whether they will stand for the re-slating of Judge Miller as a "sitting judge" or whether they will insist upon a sixth candidate as an anti-Lundin Repub lican. With only fifty-one of the city's 2.22 precincts shy, the vote on the proposal to continue the thirty-one holdover aldermen in office until elec tions are held under the fifty ward plan next spring, showed that the lit tle ballot proposition carried over whelmingly. It stood 191,806 for the extension and 117,818 against them. This makes the council membership sixty-six for another year. HARDING FIGHTS FOR THE BONUS Again Serves Notice on Congre Against Any "Phony" Legislation. BILL MUST PROVIDE MONEY Certificate Plan Adopted In Hous Will 3e Vetoed If Passed by Senate, He Tells Senator Wat son of Indiana. Washington, April 20. Presiden! Harding agi.in served notice on con gress that in 'plumy" legislation oi; the soldier bonus question will be tolerated. The certificate plan adopt ed in the house bill will be vetoed it passed by the senate, as will any other measure that attempts to dispose ot the bonus without j roviding the money with which to pay it, the President made plain. To Senator Watson of Indiana, win visited the White House for the pur pose of 'liscussii.g the subject of the bonus, the President expressed strong disapproval .if the shitting policy pur sued by the senate and house in meet ing the bonus pr blem. The Presi dent said he was getting extremely tired of explaining t congress that he will consider no bonus measure as genuine unless it provides a method by which the money :s to be raised. It is uni'erste' 1 the prescient in- (FOUNDED 1889 Largest Weekly Circulation Among People of Influence and Standing i OXLf loiv.vi. .tto ai.N. th e liopeu it would not be necessary for him to convey this opinion again to either house, and that Republican leaders in both branches would begin soon to understand that he will veto any bonus measure that does not come up to the requirements which he laid down long ago. President In Earnest. Accounts of the interview between the President and Senator Watson all agree that the President was in deadly earnest and that he made his posi tion known in terms that cannot be misunderstood. Discussing methods of raising the money for the bonus, the President"! once more declared that in his opinion the only reasonable and available method to be followed was by the passage of a sales tax measure. He reiterated what he has said before that congress very easily and with entire safety can enact a genornl sales tax measure that would not add to the general tax burdens of the country not fall upon the beneficiaries of the bonus. Considers Ex-Ssrvice Men. Senator Watson suggested that en actment of the bo- us measure might be deferred until June, by which time, he stated, the treasury expects to have on hand about $4.(MH1,00000 of bonds accruing from interest on the P.ritish debt. The President declined to give any encouragement to such a plan, for the reason that the acquisi tion of such a fund is too uncertain and too far in the future to be con sidered at this time, in connection with the debt to the service men. He believes that any bonus measure passed should leave no uncertainty as to the ability of the treasury to meet the 'hlurnfion. Commonwealth - Edison announces that plans are being drafted for two 125-foot steel towers which the com pany proposes to erect on its build ing at Adams and Clark streets to support the aerial wires of its wire Jess sending station. Homecraft work will oe a feature of the Chicago continuation schools' ex hibit at this year's Pagent of Progress on the Municipal pier. Edwin S. Cooley, principal of the schools, is completing arrangements for the gen eral exhibit, which will embrace the activities of all the schools. Good news for the jobless. An im provement in the unemployment situa tion is recorded in the monthly bul letin of the state department of labor. The bulletin shows that in March 925 firms in Illinois, with some 307,000 workers, reported an increase of 1.6 per cent in employment over Feb ruary. A population of 4,000,000 in Chi cago by 1940 was forecast by Ernest Thurston of the research department of the Illinois Bell Telephone Com pany in an address before the com munity commission of the Chicago Church Federation in the Hotel Mor rison. A committee of nine has been ap pointed by the American Farm Bureau Federation to study the milk pro ducers' marketing problems in the Chicago district. State's Attorney Crowe does not be lieve in half way measures. He an nounced the removal from his staff of several members who have political affiliation with the Thompson-Lundin organization. Their dismissal has con vinced the most doubting that the break between the state's attorney and the mayor is past healing. Police Sergeant William Baldwin, detailed to Mr. Crowe's office, was transferred back to the detective bur eau. Sergt. Baldwin has been an active Thompson adherent in Thirty third Ward politics and is a close friend of Virtus Rohm, a relative of Fred Lundin. Mrs. Elizabeth Henderson, secretary 3)E to several officials in the state's at torney's office, is chairman of the woman's Thompson-Lundin organiza tion of the Thirtieth Ward, which was carried by Laubenheimer and Clark, Deneen candidates, at last week's pri mary. Others removed were AssL-tant President of the State's Attorney William C. Henry and Nicholas 13. Congliss and Fred S. De Cola, a clerk. State's Attorney Crowe appointed Michael Romano and Guy C. Guerin of Melrose Park to fill the vacancies left by Henry and Con gliss. Brig. Gen. James E. Stuart has again been elected grand marshal of the Memorial Day parade by the Cook County Memorial Association. Col. John J. Garrity was selected adjutant general and Maj. Fred L. Pond was appointed chief-of-staff. The Republicans of the 29th Dis trict have an ideal legislative ticket. In John T. Joyce for Senator and Ernest V. Turner and Michael R. Durso for representatives they have three candidates of whom they can well be proud. TEACHERS AFTER THE SCHOOL BOARD The Chicago Teachers Federation it is said, will ask William A. Bither, the School Board's attorney, for infor mation as to an alleged difference of 1858.928, in two reports he has made as to salaries paid teachers for the years 1918, 1919, and 1920. The first one was submitted to the legislature May 25, 1921; the second was made to Mayor Thompson, in private conference, on April 6, 1922, and this one indicated the pay roll for teachers involved $85S,928 more than actually was paid in salaries, ac cording to Miss Margaret A. Haley, business representative of the federa tion. The teachers' federation has issued a pajnphlet in which photographic reproductions of the two tables pre sented by Attorney Bither are shown. "The facts, as show in this pam phlet, speak for themselves," said Miss Haley. "In an open session of the legislature Mr. Bither presented certain figures as to the percentage of the educational fund expended for teachers' salaries. These figures, the printed proceedings of the board of education show, were correct. "In a private conference with Mayor Thompson. Mr. Bithers gave other figures to cover the same ground. It follows that these were not correct." In 'view of the possibility that At- ' XV--: FRANCIS STUYVESANT PEABODY, Peabody Coal Com pany, Leader in the Business and National Politics. torney Bither's report to Mayor Thompson was based, not on the 1921 appropriation for the educational fund, but on what he calls "actual I expenditures," the teachers have in sisted that the expenditures be pub lished. It seems probable the board of education will grant this request. Mr. Bither's report to the mayor showed 74.92 as the percentage of the educational fund devoted to teachers' salaries for 1921. The appropriation allowed for 69.6 per cent on teachers' salaries. The difference in dollars and cents is nearly $1,000,000. The portion of the educational fund not expended in teachers' salaries has gone to pay for "incidentals." And spokesmen for the federation, at a re cent meeting, charged "wasteful ex penditure" in connection with this item. Teachers, they said, were re quired to order phonographs and other equipment for the schools. Mr - Chief Brennan and His Well Officered Army Are Going to Carry the War to Republicans Aggressive Enemy for Extravagance and Pledges Dem ocratic Candidates to Economy The Democratic county convention met at the Sherman House headquar ters on Monday and after choosing del egates to the state convention at Springfield formally opened the cam paign of 1922 by adopting a red hot and aggressive platform. Chief Brennan and Chieftains O'- World of Finance, Connell. O'Brien, Sabath. Egan and several leaders in the recent cam paign were present as were the prin cipal candidates on the county ticket. The platform is full of pep and shows that the Democrats are going to carry the fight into the enemies' country. The Republican party was roasted to a frazzle and it goes after the Thompson-Lundin-Small machine in particular with hammer and tongs. It opens by charging that the ticket nominated by the Republicans on April 11 "was chosen by this machine, and the Republican nominees are its creatures masquerading under what ever name or title they may assume." The platform then takes up its can didates and pledges them to numerous reforms that will tend to lessen the burdens of taxation and eliminate governmental evils in the offices of sheriff, assessor, county judge and Platform is Adopted sanitary district trustees. The admin istrations of the present Democratic county treasurer, clerk, probate judge and president of the county board are commended and the increase in crime is laid to Republican officials. A drastic scaling of expenses by every public official whose duties re quire the expenditure of public funds is demanded, after which the platform has this to say of the board of educa tion and the increase of expenditures by the city hall: "The Lundin-Thompson board of ed ucation was successful in dragooning through the last Republican legislature a law which increased its tax rate from $1.20 to $2.00 per $100. upon the pretext that the additional money, amounting to nearly $8,000,000. was needed to pay increased salaries to teachers and construct new school buildings to care for the needs of our increasing population. "That excess revenue has been spent in such a manner as to excite the righteous wrath of the fathers and mothers of Chicago. Instead of employing it to build new schools, or incieasing the salaries of our army of self-sacrificing, loyal teachers, the money 'has been "wasted in the pur chase of pianos, talking machines, useless furniture, rugs and carpets and various forms of other merchan dise, which nobody asked for and no body wanted. Thus, the people's money, intended to educate their, chil dren, was literally given away, and our teachers are still waiting for sal ary increases to meet the growing de mands upon, the slender purses. "Thompson. Lundin and Small se cured from the last Republican legis lature an increase of the corporate fund tax rate that produced nearly $6. ouo.ooo of increased revenue, upon the pretext .that the money was needed to increase salaries of policemen and firemen. Instead of thus employing the additional revenues the city ad ministration secretly incurred obliga tions to a band of alleged experts in the enormous sum of more than $5. 000.000. and actually had paid mem bers of the band the sum of $2.50.000 before their financial jugglery became known. "Thus over 4o per cent of the $, 000.000. which was provided by the increased tax rate, instead of beinc distributed among our poorly paid firemen and policemen, had literally been stuffed into the pockets of men theretofore little known to the people of Chicago, as payment for salaries which are now known to have been worth less than $50,000. At the same time a big corps of lawyers was being carried on the rolls in the various de partments and paid per diem fees ranging from $50 to $150 per day for services that could not by the broad est stretch of imagination be held worth such fees." BIG NAVY AGAIN WINS IN HOUSE Administration Bill Is Passed by a Vote of 279 to 78. PARTY LINES ARE BROKEN Passage of Measure Increases Appro priation by $17,995,729 Consisting Mostly of Additions in Allow ances for Subsistence. Vashitigt Vpril '. "The big navy" bill was passed by the house and senj to the senate. The vote was J7i to 7S. with two members voting present. Prior to the passage of the. bill, the amendments increasing the authorized enlisted personnel from (m.ihmi. pro vided for in the "small navy" bill re ported by the ..:--ropriatio- -ommit- DIM Which Roasts lee sult o.nmii , . to t".o, , demand ed by President Harding and the Nay department, was approved I'l'l to IIS. with tw voting present. Adoates of the big and little navy locked horns oer the size of the en listed strength required to maintain the American tleet al the f -."-" ratio fixed by the naval treaty, up until the last minute. No attempt was made by either side to reach a compromise and when the time came for voting both sides an nounced that they wanted the issue settled by a vote on the "big navy" amendment, which had been adopted in committee of the whole house hist Saturday. Appropriation Increased. The bill as passed by the house ap propriates .S-."il,L't;i,7.'l7 as compared with $ HJNmio.ooo lor the current year. The increase in the personnel voted by the house increased the appropria tions in the bill by $l7,01)."i,72., consist ing mostly of increases in allowances for pay and subsistence of the liU0 additional men provided for. An amendment offered by Repre sentative Lnnham (lem.) of Texas, appropriating SPmi.ihmi for the ihii struction. maintenance and repair of helium plants was adopted without a record vote. Representative Hicks (Rep.) of Ntw York sought to have the appropria tions tor maintenance of naval air craft and air stations increased 1'ruiii 2?."i,47.Hmi to f7.o::M". but the bouse rejected the amendment by a vtoe of 214 to 7.5. Chairman Kellev. of the naval ap propriations iil-i ooimit tee. in -i last hour appeal for a "small navy," charged that the supporters of the Ni.lMMi nay personnel plan were ai tuated b a desire to keep navy ard ami stations in their districts open. Representative .-borne' of t'ait ft.rnia. pointed out that the submarine base site and pier at Los Angeles had been donated by the city of Los An geles to the Navy department, and denied that he was supporting the bill in the hope of establishing a navy vard there in addition. 1 County Treasurer Patrick .1. Carr announces that taxpayers who re ceived their assessments, too late are granted an indefinite extension for payment of real estate taxes ordinar ily due May 1. William .1. Sutherland was elected president and resolutions pledging co operation of efforts to make Chicago's bridle paths the best in the world, were adopted at the annual meeting of the Chicago Equestrian Association in the Hotel Sherman. Evanston has fallen in line with Chicago and will have five instead of seven months of daylight saving this year. A notice to this effect was re ceived yesterday by the Chicago city law department from Frank T. Mur ray, corporation council of Evanston. "Summer Time" will become effective in both cities at 2 o'clock Sunday morning, April 30. Daniel Ryan, president of the board of county commissioners, who was de feated by Alderman Anton J. Cermak, has written a letter to the victor pledging support to the entire Demo cratic ticket, and Alderman Cermak has replied, thanking President Ryan for his courteous letter of congratula tion. E. E. Kretschmer of the Chicago Elevated Company has been elected president of the Purchasing Agents Association of Chicago. 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