The day book. [volume], March 21, 1917, NOON EDITION, Image 32

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TWO GENTS THE DAY BOOK TWO CENTS
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THEY'VE HEARD THE CALL
By Jim Manee
There's a band of bloomih'-gypsies.
Who have wintered here in town.
They are plannin', so they tell us,
On the breakin' of their ground.
They have heard the call of nature,
And they're packin' up their loads.
Tis the call of spring that's pullin'
'em,
Out on the country roads.
P. S. "Wait 'Till the Sun Shines,
Nellie," as played by a hurdy gurdy,
floated in through our window today.
Nuf ced!
ANNOUNCEMENTS
WEDNESDAY
13th ward Socialists meet at Eliz
abeth Weal's, 2525 Wilcox.
Junior Socialist Labor league
meets at 738 W. Madison, 7 p. m.
Chicago Bahai assembly meets at
Hartford bldg., 8 S. Dearborn, 3:30
p. m. Subject: "The Fulfillment of
Prophecy."
THURSDAY
Mr. F. D. Flint, manager and sec'y
of Nat'l Suspended Mono-Rail Co.,
speaks before the Press Club of Chi
cago at clubrooms, 12:30 p. m.
Englewood Y. P. S. L. meets at
5824 Aberdeen, 8 p. m.
22d ward Democratic organization
meets at Yondorf hall, North av. and
Halsted, 8 p. m.
Mothers' league mass meeting to
protest high cost of living, at Hebrew
Inst., 1258 Taylor, 7:30 p. m. Morris
Seskind, Wm. Rodriguez and others
speak.
Office Employes' union, No'. 12,755,
organization meeting at Masonic
Temple, room 210, 7 p. m. Office
workers invited.
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Ferd Mendel, 21, 5492 Everett av.,
dead. Took poison bv mistake.
LAWYER HAS HEART FOR THE
TEACHERS' PENSION CHANGES
Alfred Urion, chief counsel for
Armour & Co., was a speaker in
Springfield yesterday before the
house municipalities committee.
Urion asks amendment of the pen
sion laws, so that control of the pen
sion board of the Chicago public
school teachers will be in the hands
of the school board. As the state law
now provides, control is in the hands
of the 8,000 school teachers of Chi
cago, who annually hold an election
under the Australian ballot system
and choose a majority of the trus
tees of the board.
Urion is a director of the so-palled
Chicago Public School "league,"
known as a submarine with a crew
picked by the Illinois Manufacturers'
ass'n, school land lease beneficiaries,
building contractors and ' pension
fund hopefuls, having as its main ob
jective the torpedoing of the Chica
go Teachers' Federation. "
Ida L. Fursman and Nano T.
Hickey for the Teachers' Federation
urged legislators to let the teachers
retain their present power of voting
for whoever they want to run their
pension system. Since 1895 the re
serve fund for teachers' pensions has
grown to $1,614,670.43 (Sept. 1,
1916). t)f this, $955,000 is money
paid in by teachers, the board of-ed-ucation's
share being $658,687.42. As
nearly $3 has been paid in by teach
ers from their salaries as against
every $2 paid in by the board of edu
cation, the teachers put up the ar
gument that it's their money and
there should be no change in present
methods of control. .
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WEATHER FORECAST
Unsettled today and tomorrow,
with probably showers. Somewhat
cooler by tonight Moderate, vari
able winds.