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THE CHICAGO EAGLE f)e Cijtcago Cagle eUBLlSHED EVERY SATURDAY An Indeoendent Newspaper, Fearless d Truthful. JBSCRIPriON RATES $2.00 PER YEAR Address AU Communications to CHICAGO EAGLE 179 WEST WASHINGTON ST. Telephone Main 3913 Southeast Corner Washington St. and Wells St. HENRY F. DONOVAN. Editor and Publisher Entered as Second Claw Matter October 11 1889, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illi no'la, under Act of March 3, 1879. ESTABLISHED OCTOBER 5, 1889 Incorporated Under the Laws of Illinois Founded by HENRY F. DONOVAN The Chicago Eagle, a newspaper for all classes of readers. Is devoted to Na 'Jonal. State and Local Politics; to the publication of Municipal, State, Count mmd Sanitary District news; to comment a people in public life; to clean baseball and sports, and to the publication of General Information of Public Interest, Financial, Commercial and Political. x. k '"VB X j x - YymM ,-.-j -v, .... . .... W Sv :. -V . I J ( . i flf?f " I V" i? V ysx-xfx-: . -1 VPH v V ?t ' , y JOHN F. SMULSKI, President of the Northwestern Trust & Savings Bank. GEORGE M. REYNOLDS, Chairman of the Board Continental & Commercial National Bank. SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 1922. prosecutor and in 1900 became chief assistant. lie served as County judge from 1910 to 1914. He was a bache lor, a member of the Knights of Col umbus and of the Iroquois club. The funeral services were held at 9:30 o'clock Monday morning in Our Lady of Sorrow's church, West Jack son boulevard and South Albany ave nue. A solemn high mass of requiem was celebrated. Burial was in Calvary. Active pallbearers were: William J. Healy, John W. Beck with, William H. Stuart, George Ker sten, John Courtney, Edward Richter. JUDGE McKINLEY LEADS IN CASES. According to the report of William It. Parker, clerk of the Criminal Court, Judge Michael L. McKinley headed the list of Criminal court judges in point of cases disposed of during the March term of court. His record for the month, despite a con siderable delay in the hearing of the laundry bombers' case, was 5S cases tried. S persons sentenced to the peni tentiary, 3 to reformatory and 5 to the house of correction. Judge Joseph Fitch, second on the list, disposed of 46 cases, sentenced 5 persons to the penitentiary, 4 to the reformatory, S to the house of forrection and 4 to the county jail. Judge Harry Fisher was third on J the list with 42 cases disposed of, 4 sentences to the penitentiary, 6 to the reformatory and 5 to the house of correction. Judge John R. Caverly disposed of 34 cases, which resulted in 7 sen tences to the penitentiary, 1 to the reformatory, 7 to the house of cor rection and 1 to the county jail. Judge John J. Sullivan heard 29 cases and sent 1 person to the peni tentiary, 3 to the reformatory and 9 to the house of correction. Judge Kickham Scanlan disposed of 22 cases, with 8 sentences to the peni tentiary, 1 to the reformatory, 3 to the house of correction and 1 to the county jail. Judge Kersten, who for three weeks has been hearing a taxi war murder case, disposed of 20 cases and sen tenced 5 persons to penal institutions. On 315 indictments disposed of dur ing the month of March, 69 defend ants were found not guilty and 112 sent to penal institutions. Forty-one cases were nolle prossed and 163 stricken off the calendar with leave to reinstate. Does Chicago want good citizens or bad ones? If Chicago wants good citizens it must interest itself in the 250,000 coming men who are without proper supervision in their leisure hours, say the Rotarians. To arouse Chicago to the needs of chairman of the executive committee which is directing the campaign. Headquarters have been established in the Hotel Sherman in charge of Raoul W. Vanier, secretary, from which the activities of the various committees will be controlled. SCHOOL BOARD IN HOT WATER The nomination of J. Louis Jacobs for the berth of paving inspector brought, on a bitter fight in the city council. The recommendation of Mr. Jacobs for the post came by a vote of 8 to 7 by the Streets and Alleys Committee after weeks of wrangling. Chairman John Toman of the committee cast the vote which made the recommenda tion possible and he announced him self ready to lead the fight for his confirmation on the floor of the council. Several members of the committee on streets and alleys objected to Mr. CHICAGO CONGRESS MEN N0M1NTED .J5f john a. Mccormick, Vice-President of the Chicago Trust Company. BUSINESS IS IMPROVING. "Business shows a steady increase and prices a decrease," John J. Thorn ton, superintendent of the Chicago division of the Bradstreet Company, told the business men of the Execu tive's club at their weekly meeting today at the Hotel Sherman. His subject was 'On the Way to Better Business.' "There is evidence of steady im provement in the business situation all over the country," Mr. Thornton said. "Business, failures, as far as I know, have been fewer so far this year than in corresponding months last year. upon the growth of the order in Chi the boy the Rotary Club of Chicago, with the co-operation of the boys' clubs, social settlements, and schools have organized a demonstration May 19th to 25th to be known as BOYS' WEEK. A great parade of 50,000 boys on Michigan avenue will open the cam paign. On the following days the subjects to be featured are athletics, church, school, health and safety, in rlnstrv and thrift. The week will close with special free entertainments by the boys' clubs and settlements. Indoor and outdoor meets, talks and lectures and special school programs will carry the boys' message. Mayor Wm. Hale Thompson is hon orary chairman of the general - com mittee and Dr. Milton H. Mack is Jacobs on the ground that he was not an engineer. The principal objectors were Aldermen T. A. Hogan, Mulcahy and Adamowski, who announced that they would fight against his confirma tion when the proposition was brought before the council. Mr. Jacobs bid was the lowest of three. An appro priation of $20,000 was made for the purpose of employing an engineer to inspect paving work done during the last seven years and to make recom mendations on paving materials to be used in the future. William J. Lindsay is favored by bench and bar for one of the nomi nations for Superior Court Judge. He is eminently fitted for the position. The city School Board is in for a hot time again. The last meeting of the Teachers Federation started things and the flames have been grow ing larger and hotter. At this meet ing it was charged that politicians connected with the Board of Educa tion are thriving on graft made in deals of purchases. Miss Margaret Halev, business agent of the federa tion, maintained that the federation was trying to avoid trouble, but men tioned at that time that if they failed to get a salary boost from the $13, 400,000 additional revenue voted by the last general assembly they would fight. Miss Haley spoke of criminal activities against certain men and in timated at that time that an investi gation would be made. Teachers reported that they had to buy paper and other materials for pupils while unnecessary furnishings were forced upon the schools so that some one could profit by it. Princi pals are said to have reported that they were not asked whether they ! needed them; they were called on the telephone and told to order them. The teachers openly charged that the school board was suppressing in formation regarding last year's ex penditures and that some illegal pur chases were made from the building fund. It is said that payments on emer gency repair work are being held up at this time until the investigation is well under way. Such bills have leaped enormously in the last three years. A jump of from $500 a month three years ago to $120,000 a month for January, 1922, is causing great anxiety among the board members. "If the repairs keep increasing," said Hart Hanson, a member -of the board, ' there will be no building fund within five years. The cost of re pairs, expenses and permanent equip ment will soon eat up the entire fund." The building fund is made up of four divisions sites, buildings, re pairs and permanent equipment. The costs of repairs are as large as the cost of new buildings. Political favoritism in the awarding of printing contracts and the pur chasing of phonographs from the building fund will also be investi gated. Machines of poor quality have been bought, it is charged. They were not of a standard make and these purchases were made by a com mittee in which one member took the initiative. ii ii i .- s Sr i V 3 S ' - Ay - - 1,-. . EDMUND D. HULBERT, President Merchants Loan & Trust Co., Illinois Trust &. Savings Bank and Corn Exchange National Bank. There is not much change in the list of Chicago and Cook county Con gressmen. Martin B. Madden of the 1st had little trouble disposing of his one opponent, and James R. Mann had no opposition in the 2d. Elliott W. Sproul renominated, defeating State Senator Frank P. Sadler in the 3d district. In the 4th district Henry Cm. Dobler appears to have a safe lead and Jacob Gartenstein won the nomi nation in the 5th. John J. Gorman was renominated in the 6th and Congressman M. A. Michaelson of the 7th succeeded in defeating his opponent. Alderman Al bert O. Anderson. Fred S. DeCola won the Republican nomination and will oppose Congressman Stanley Kunz, Democrat, who was renomi nated in the Sth. Fred Britten had no opposition in the 9th district and will be opposed by J. A. Prendergast, Democrat, who defeated Urban A. La very and James P. Brennan for the Democratic nomi nation. Congressman Carl R. Chind blom had a stiff fight in the 10th with three opponents, but nosed out a safe victory. Congressman Richard Yates is lead ing in the race for congressman at large, with Henry R. Rathbone of Kenilworth assured of the other place on the Illinois ticket. In 2.18S precincts out of 5,788 in the state, Yates received 130,807 votes, Rath bone 106.714, John J. Brown of Van dalia, 72,452. Mrs. Winifred Mason Huck, daughter of the late congress man, William E. Mason, and Benja min Michalek, both of Chicago, the other two candidates, were trailing far behind. Stephen A. Day of Evanston ap pears to have a safe lead in the race for the unexpired term of the late Congressman Mason. He carried Cook County with a heavy vote, which is expected to put him over safelv downstate. Mrs. Huck on first returns looked like a possible winner for her father's place, but as the downstate returns commenced to come in she lost rapidly. John J. Brown, who was also a candidate for the unexpired term, will probably take second place. The three Cook county Democratic districts returned their present con gressman, John W. Rainey in the 4th, Adolph J. Sabath, 5th, and Stanley Kunz, the Sth. E. E. Quin, the popuiar manager of the Palmer House, reports a great business at that great hotel. Charles Center Case, the well known and able lawyer would make a fine judge of the Superior Court. Judge Frank Johnston, Jr., is gain ing with the Democrats as a possible Mayoralty candidate. Dennis J. Egan Is growing in strength every day for the Democratic mayoralty nomination. Taul Wiedel, the well known chief clerk of the Board of Assessors, is talked of for higher honors. Chicago demands stationary bridges over the river. Delays caused by open bridges are unbearable. The judicial policy of allowing thieves to escape the penitentiary if they are willing to give back some of the stolen money to victims is a new one. Its effect upon a soulless community and upon the thieving pro fession generally cannot be over Charles Krutckon is one of tn most popular members of the Board of Assessors. He always looks after the people 's interests. William J. Lindsay, stalwart Demo crat and eminent lawyer, is much talked of for a place on the Superior court bench. His elevation to this place would strengthen the judiciary because of the firmness and legal ability he possesses. William J. Healy ?s growing in strength as a Republican Candidate for Mayor. Dennis J. Egan would mase a good mayor in the opinion of many people. OBITUARY. John E. Owens. John E. Owens, former judge of the County court and for many years prominent in Democratic politics, died at his home, 3335 Warren avenue, early last Saturday from heart di sease, -superinduced by rheumatism. Judge Owens had been ill since last December. Until a few weeks ago members of his family and close friends held out hope for his recovery, but it became apparent that his heart was not equal to the strain and he began to fail daily. Physicians informed the for mer judge's family then that his re covery was doubtful. Almost since his admission to the bar in 1896, former Judge Owens had figured prominently in politics. He was elected county judge in 1910 and previous to that time had served as a master in chancery of the Circuit court, city attorney and assistant city prosecutor. During all of his time in politics he was affiliated with the Carter H. Harrison wing of the Democratic party. He had a speaking acquain tance with almost every politician in Ccok county either Democratic or Re publican. Born in Chicago in 1875, Judge Owens was educated at St. Stephen's parochial school, St. Patrick's acad emy, and graduated from Lake Forest College of Law in 1896. Two years later he was appointed assistant city - pc1fft " S5 '-i.---.r-::-- .': ..: JSM-f It J ..-. ... " - S;?.V;i -4.-. i&mm:-::: m JOHN A. CARROLL, President of the Hyde Park Trust & Savings Bank. " 1 ?F - ? S; ' - , . ; " X " " ' f .-: WM V V v 1 . ' J ; v ? - . ' V jjaMaaJ ,j(.,.w.- ,.v."if.v.y.:.: , or EARLE H. REYNOLDS, President of the Peoples Trust & Savings Bank. Judging from the way the adminis tration of the law is deteriorating in Chicago, the Bar Association ought to laugh itself out of business. The Ahern brothers, who have made the New Gault so popular, are ideal Chicago boosters. Joseph F. Haas has always made a good public recora. n of the people. William J. Healy is making a good record as Sanitary Trustee. He would make a good mayor. Dixon C. Williams, the well Known manufacturer, deserves well at the hands of the Democratic party. He is a born leader. Andrew J. Ryan is one of the ablest and most highly respected lawyers in Chicago. JOHN L. BRICHETTO, Assistant Cashier Security Bank of Chicago. V-N. A - -' . . y '. :r;' ' .'.:::.::?:y.i :?::: : F . c ' i L. A. GODDARD, Chairman of the Board State Bank of Chicago.