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Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1912-07-13

Monday nights session OF the City
Council was busy one.
Decision to advertise for bids for
the disposal OF the city garbage,
adoption Of an ordinance prohibiting
boys from selling gum and other mer-
chandise on the streets at night and
young girls from doing the same at
any time and the adoption Of an or.
der providing for thorough inquiry
into the present taxation system were
important acts Of the aldermen. The
alderman instructed the health de.
paftment to advertise at once for bids
for incineratnig garbage. which pre-.
vents, 1t IL said, a renewal OF the
present contract with the Chicago
Reduction Company.
Aid. Healy, formerly employed in
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1912-07-13

employment and advancement during
the several administrations Of the as.
SCISSORS office conclusively shows his
ability. Mr.. Krutckoff was born in
Chicago, November /, 1871. Was edu.
Gated In the public schools Of Chicago.
Has lived In the South Town of Chi.
cago all his life--40 years-and in the
same neighborhood. He Is married and
the father Of family of two children.
Mr.. Krutckoff would serve the tax.
payers ably, honestly and fearlessly as
member Of the board of assessors.
Meeting hours for City Council CON-
mlttees are as follows:
Monday - Streets and alleys, 2
O'Clock; buildings, $3.50 o'clock.
Neutrality-suspicious. and police, IL
o'clock; harbofs, wharves and bridges,
o'clock; local industries, 2 O'Clock.
Wednesday--Special park commits.
sion, 1880 o'clock; health, 2 o'clock;
local transportation. 2 o'clock; track
elevation, $3.50 o'clock.
Thursday--Gas oil and electric
light, 2 o'clock; license, $3.50 o'clock;
water, $3.50 O'Clock.
Friday--Compensation, IL o'clock;
judiciary, 2 o'clock; finance. o'clock;
bathing beaches, $3.50 o'clock.
Chairman Block Of the local trans.
portation committee named the fol.
lowing subcommittee:
Street Car Service Complaint
Northwest Side = Twigg, Hyldahl,
Clancy. North Side-Capitain, Lips.
Southwest Side-Schultz, Donahoe,
Stewart. South Side-Fisher, Bergen,
Carr.
Committee on Wilmette Extension
Of the Northwestern Elevated Rail.
road--Block, Twigg, Schultz. Fisher,
Captain.
Through Routes - Block, Lips.
Healy.
Committee to Keep in Touch With
the Elevated Roads Valuation Com.
mission-Block. Richert. Lipps, Long.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1912-07-13
POLITICAL TALK
Heard from tho Various Camps
During tho Week About
Men Prominent In
Politics.
What the Leaders Are Doing and
What People Have to Say
About Them.
Stephen A. Malato IL a winner for
Municipal Judge.

stephen A. MalatO ID winner Tor
Municipal Judge.
Charles d. Hilles, secretary to the
President, has been chosen chairman
Of the Republican National Commit
tee. He will direct Mr.. Tafts cam.
paign.
There will be some surprises in the
result Of the Chicago and Cook Coun.
ty vote next November.
~~
Spencer Ward, Democratic nominee
for Chief Justice Of the Municipal
Court, believes the following changes
should be made in the Municipal
Court:
'There should be 40 much leniency
shown In the criminal branches 40 IL
compatible with Justice. Judges Of
the Municipal court should work eight
hours day. There should be no coun-
try Judges in the Municipal court.
These Judges do not appreciate the
situation In Chicago. The cost Of
bringing suit In the Municipal court
should be reduced"
"Ths system Of pleading and prac.
tiee now followed In the Municipal
court II 20 complex and 20 illogical
that no lawyer IL certain how to pro.
oesd. and no one really understands
It." asserted Mr.. Ward.
AnA
Joseph 8. LaBuy should be elected
Municipal Judge. He has q splendid
record to his credit 40 q lawyer and
b. viii make an upright and conscien.
tious Judge. Mr.. LaBuy was born on
. farm near Fox Lake, Wis.,, In 1873,
and was educated in the schools at
FOX Lake and at Beaver Dam and
Milwaukee. Graduating from the
Chicago Kent College Of Law, he was
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1912-07-13

That the city council should now
turn Its attention toward keeping chill.
dren Of well.to.do parents of the
streets in outlying districts was the
declaration made by William L. Bo-
dine, superintendent Of compulsory
education.
Mr.. Bodine was commenting upon
the ordinance passed Monday night
forbidding children to peddle mer.
chandise on the streets at night.
1T Is all very we'll to take care Of
these children" he said, "and It is a
fine thing. But now we must get AZ.
ter the children Of well.to-do parents
who run about the streets in outlying
districts. Just as many Of these are
ruined, and more are injured than the
poorer children who are forced to
roam downtown streets selling chew.
ing gum.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-21

I have no outlet I have no place to
which I can turn In time of need to
discount the paper which your banks
must at times send to me-"
As the seven New York banks con-
troll the clearing house Of that city, so
their correspondent banks IN Chicago
control the clearing house In that city,
and thus the control Of New York ex.
tends directly to all central reserve
cities, and TO all other cities.
A banking system which admits this
Is vicious and wrong and ought TO be
changed. But that the Aldrich scheme
or the national reserve association
plan would be any better, would de
liver the country from a legalizet
money trust there is certainty as t.
the former, that it would not, and well
developed doubt that the latter would
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-21
ONE TERM OF SIX YEARS.

The Roosevelt third term" agi-
tation is doing good in that it is
pointing out not only the absurdity
Of electing one man to third term,
consecutively or otherwise, but to the
absurdity of having these presiden-
tial upheavals so frequently with
their detrimental effects upon bust
ness for so long a period.
The suggestion of having the pres
idential administration limited to a
single term of six years has been re-
yiyed, and is worth considering.
Two-term fights are always bitter.
A third-term battle such as the
Roosevelt mania threatens to precip-
itate will be more so. During the
first term under the present sys-
TEN the president is the center of a
political fight because he has a sec
ond term in mind and is continually
playing politics. This is obviously
detrimental to the public service.
AS the Waterloo Courier correctly
points out, ''if a president serves two
terms in office he must spend the
III 81 lOui NCellS plCdolA4E luC pOllhiNdl
powers and even though, when elected
the second time he has four years re-
naming in which to do what he be-
lieves to be right, he cannot well
change the policies and the projects
which he launched during his first
term when he worked for the politi-
clans. But if given six years with no
possibility of reelection, every presi-
dents ambition would be TO leave a
record which would stand out in his,
tory and which would be vindicated
by the test of time. Insurgency and
factional bitterness for the mere sake
of gaining office would be reduced tc
a negligible quantity while such move
ments for the purposes of pure reform
would be strengthened.
"In the present situation there
would be no third term bugaboo, ne
reputation of the president because
of his lack Of political strength and
no opposition to his reforms excep
from the opposite party. Because o.
the second term precedent, the pres
ent campaign will have been carried
or three years before next autumn!
election. 1t would not have been S,
IL we had elected for six years will
no chance for reelection or Reputation
at the end"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-21
MAKING A TOWN.

Promoters with options on $4,000
acres Of corn and pasture land are
going to put what 10 to be known as
Dallas City on the map OF Illinois,
just above the dam at Keokuk.
They will touch a match to the fire.
works in a week or ten days and what
they'll talk will be that Dallas City
will be the manufacturing center Of
the world by reason Of the cheap pow
er cost obtained from the generation OF
electricity at the dam.
Dallas City may or may not become
a great manufacturing center, but ii
IF certain that the Mississippi valley
will become as great in industrial
wealth as today it is in agricultural
wealth. The manufacturing zone has
moved westward from the Atlantic as
civilization moved in the van of il
The law Of economy in production
drives the manufacturer nearer to his
market.
Push and enterprise and the ability
to take advantage of the natural re
sources and to turn them to industrial
uses is what made East Moline, which
sprang up to bloom like rose in the
desert.
The Mississippi river cities which
anticipate this movement now ar
certain to be the Pittsburghs, Birming
hams and Detroits of tomorrow.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-21
THE WORLD DO MOVE.

As Rev. Mr.. Jackson. the noted col
ored divine. once said, Behold, the
world do move"
The Manchu dynasty, which has oc-
cupied the throne Of China for nearly
three centuries, has passed away and
given place TO a republic. Some peo-
pie have the impression that all his
tory is already made, but this is a
mistaken idea, for history is being
made every day. Within the lives OF
many people now living and scarcely
being counted as old, there has been
perhaps more history made than in
an equal period since the existence OF
humanity.
The establishment Of a republic in
China shows the onward march of
and gain OF the republican idea o.
government. which eventually mus
spread over the entire world. 1t is
only a question of time when kings
and queens will be no more and those
out OF date ideas OF government vii
cease to exist.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-21
TALKS s.rf4L--
WOMEN READEPy
bD
Effh a.sK.WOO1Q1

1t is not giving the boys q military
education, preparing them for war
and for killing each other. Rather,
it is preparing them to stand up for
each other as brothers, to preserve
peace. to make life a saner and clean
er and more wholesome thing.
You never end a Boy Scout before
a juvenile court Judge.
1t isn't the Boy Scout who throws
stones at your windows and then
runs on with a derisive yell. If he
accidentally breaks O window, he
must live up to the rules Of his or
der and repair the damage, or he is
no longer a scout.
The Boy Scout isn't allowed to gibe
and jeer at an old man or woman,
no matter how queer they may look.
He's Instructed to show courtesy to
the aged and the weak.
He drills and he wears a uniform !;
he goes on hikes and learns how to
cook; he studies his little rule book
and he must obey orders from his
superior officers. He Is ambitious to
advance and win scout honors. All
this is mighty good for him and none
of it means for an instant that he is
being prepared to make an army to
fight for the capitalists or anybody
else. if war should arise.
Any movement that will interest
boy must have action in it, some
thing to stir his red blood and arouse
his chivalry.
To some people these things sound
like war.
The truth is, there is war about us
all the time-a war as sinister, as
fatal to life and liberty, and reason
and joy, almost as bloody, as any
with battles recorded in history. Il
is a silent war, industrial and social
with all humanity involved. And il
into this war we can send sucl
trained soldiers as our Boy Scouts
soldiers who have learned honor anC
kindness and helpfulness, we are go
ing to do lot to mitigate the hor
rors of this awful, all-embracinl
war.
, What matter the drill and the uni
form-the mere form of the Bo.
: Scouts-so long as the boys are in
J terested and their attention held un
til they have learned the highe
; teachings?
/ Every mother who has her boy
hest interest at heart will encour
: age him to be a Scout; and If She
wise, she'll teach herself and he
daughters to be good Scouts, too.
The boy who has had drilled int
! him, as a Scout, what is right an
} wrong, and how his individual right
are affected by the rights of Others
! is going to make the best kind of
citizen-the right kind of soldie
2 who fights for principle and not 70
the blood of other mortals.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-21

boy-even though she may not be for
you, you may be able to claim relation
ship with her some day-seeT
Dick Corning's eyes biazed menac-
ingly, and his big hands clinched tight
ly. His lips writhed into a strange
smile that was half sheer.
you mean that / may marry Alice's
cousin May and thus become her cous-
in-in-law?" he asked
Hal Marcy WINGED. "No, didn't
mean that, and you know it too. I
meant that the relationship would be
on the other side of the house"
"Oh, you mean that you expect to
marry May and we will be related to
Alice Wilson in that manner. Shall l
congratulate you. old man" Dicks
gray eyes pierced the veneer of good
nature that had covered his cousins
attitude.
"Quit your fooling, Dick" snaried
Hal, fiinging away his cigarette and
preparing another. 81 can tell you one
thing"
You have told me so many this
morning 1 am tempted to forego any
further infringement on your
"If you go down to see Alice Wilson
today you'll be making the mistake OF
your life. You'll be making a fool OF
yourself Believe me that l have 9
good reason for saying this"
Dick picked up his hat, smoothed the
creases in the soft brim and settled II
on his fair head You've butted into
my affairs today in an objectionable
manner. I have simply to say that
am quite willing to bear any mortifiea
ton that my harmless actions may
bring upon me-"
AS he closed the door he heard Hal'i
impatient voice sending after him:
Fools Grand"
EN- do it just the same" gritted Dicl
through his set teeth. and his keer
eyes had a vision then of beautiful
Alice Wilson telling him with fearful
plying eyes that she loved his cousin
Hal Marcy and that she would be ;
cousin to him forever.
I'll be BANKED If she willr' criet
Dick as he drove through the crisp
1 COOi IL Sue WOh Ndhd hhO "
she won't have a duffer like mel
shall go around the world, and when
find good place in which to forget he
I'll stay there. only know I'll neve
ind such place." he ended forlornly.
He was iercely jealous Of Ia
Marcy. Hal was several years hi
senior and OF domineering character
Dick had fallen desperately in low
with Alice Wilson the year befor
while Hal was in Europe, but Hal ha
suddenly returned three months az
and. with his customary overbearin
manner, had hustled his cousin or th
field and Immediately laid open sieg
to Aliee's heart. Dick, astonished an
quite diffldent in the presence Of a
; overpowering love. had allowed hin
self to be pushed aside until now /
found it almost impossible TO regal
the ground he had lost.
Alice treated him with sweet frienl
illness that was maddening as well {
disheartening. All the sweet. gay Il
timacy of their friendship was gon
He seemed to be numbered among
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-21
CAPITAL COMMENT

by order of the mill bosses who, in
those days, listed their employees by
name instead of number, and book
keepers didn't like to fuss with
strange, foreign names.
William quit school when his
father died. He got a job in the
Wamsutta mills, New Bedford. The
boy was quick to learn. After a
while he entered a bank and learned
finance. Then he became treasurer
of a Fall River cotton mill. He
finally mastered the art of manufac-
turing and assisted in the introduce
ton of shoddy cloth.
wood met and married the
daughter of Frederick Aver, who had
made a great fortune out of patent
medicines.
layer had been buying mill stock
ing. He backed his son-in-law with
millions, however, and by a combina-
ton adroitly managed tactics, includ-
Ing shoddy, schedule K and labor
crushing, Wood made Ayers fortune
swell to proportions that made even
the patent medicine game seem tame.
FORMED WOOL TRUST.
'The son of the poor mill worker
became a millionaire and formed the
present wool trust.
"A few weeks ago he was In Wash
ington banqueting the standpat SEN
QfnTS and onA Tnffpc
tariff board, and pleading for tariff
protection for his employees.
To-day he is in Boston giving out
statements that trade conditions dc
not warrant meeting the demands OF
| the strikers who left their looms
rather than accept a cut in wages
averaging only % cents per week.
Wood says that no dividends are
Paid on the common stock of his
company and only seven per cent or
the preferred
1.-THE fact is that the common
stock is treasury stock and the com
pany has been slowing away al
enormous surplus, while the tariff
sailing was good.
| w ood 10 dark eyed, Dtack mar
ed nervous little man with a vail
conception of his power to contro
men-his workers, stockholders, pol
iticians, editors, anyone and every
one who comes between him and tn
desired result
Wood works desperately hard a
his business game in and out OF sea
son. 1t is said here that he keep
at such a high nervous tension tina
he cannot compose himself to slee
at night until a massagist has oper
ated upon him"
! Are the American people willin
to continue to contribute to Nj
Wood by paying more for shodd
than good wooden clothing sells 70
. IN England. or do they want the tai
liz on woolens reduced7
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-21

Hal Marcy watched his cousin from
under lowering brows. Dick was
standing in the sunny window, his
mouth set In grim, obstinate lines.
"weIlT' repeated Hal coolly.
'swhat is it?" growled Dick over his
broad shoulder.
Are you going down to Scarsdale
after what I've told you? Why, Alice
would only laugh in your face!'
Dick turned sharply. s-Oh, no. she
wouldn't-she's not that sort! She
might feel like laughing, but she would
hide it WELL" he ended bitterly.
why strain her courtesy. thenT'
persisted Hal
May / ask whether this is my af-
fair or yoursT' Dick Corning was
white under his tanned skin.
cit is mine in a measure" was Halls
insolent reply. He leisurely drew out
a cigarette case and scratched match
on a gold box. He spoke between puffs
of blue smoke that wreathed his dark
thin face: "You-know-when-
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES to
ScarsdaIe today 1 asked you pun if
you were going down to see Alice VIII
son-and you snapped out-yes-and
knew why by the look Of you-there
there, Dicky, don't get hot. We all
catch it sooner or later like measles
and whooping cough. bad good rea
son for advising you not to go down
there It's a FOOLS errand for you
Dicky, my boy"
you mean that somebody else
Dicks voice choked into silence.
at comes pretty near being that
returned Hal somewhat vaguely. Their
rather condescendingly he added, 81
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-21
BY ARTHUR WEST.

Especial Correspondence of The Argus.)
Washington, Feb. 19.-As a result
of the Payne-Aldrich tariff tax, every
person in the United States is pay
ing from 80 to 100 per cent more
for wooden clothing and blankets
than the resident of Great Britain
pays. And the wooden clothing put
out by the wooden trust is much in
ferior in quality to that sold in Great
Britain.
William NJ. Wood, head of the
wooden trust, draws down the bulk
of the enormous profits extorted from
the American people.
Marlen f. Pew, a newspaper man
who will not write an article unless
be has the assurance that his paper
will publish the facts as he finds
them, was sent to Lawrence, Mass,
TO make an impartial investigation
Of the strike of the men, women and
children there. This is what he
wrote about Wood:
A CURIOUS PARADOX.
THE story of the career of Will
liam NJ. Wood, president of the
American Wooden company, provides
curious paradox.
This man is the oppressor of $50, :
600 miserable New England textile
workers.; few years ago he was one
of them. He is pitiless in his fight
against the 10000 strikers of Law
renee; in his youth he felt the sting
of hunger that these strikers now
rebel against.
Fortune has smiled upon him and
he has grown enormously rich; he
declares that 81 and SO per week is
enough for the men and women who
spin the product of his mills
''It is said of George F. Baer, the
anthracite baron, that he sincerely
believes in his famous theory Of the
divine right of wealth. J. Pierponi
Morgan was born TO large fortune
and has never seen the poverty Of
the steel slaves of Pittsburgh, though
1t is inoonceivable that he does no
know that 1t exists.
"Other great captains of industry
are so comfortable in their clubs ant
palaces or so busy playing with thu
fcibles OF society that they may new
er think Of what is happening beyons
the vision OF their dividends.
KNOWS THE DISTRESS.
Not SO with Wood. He know
these strikers are his aeighbors
Their distress he sees. Their cries hs
hears.
Woods father was a Portuguese
Immigrant. He labored In a cottol
mill and died of tuberculosis, dis
ease common 70 cotton and WOO
: epinners.
The fathers name 10 believed q
have been Alphonse Lehair, or lie
lVsir. He changed his name to Woo
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-21
MIR. AIscHuLER,s CANDIDACY.

On the occasion of the recent visit
OF Hon. Ben F. Caldwell of Springfield
TO Rock Island. in furtherance of his
candidacy for the democratic nomina-
ton for governor, the people without
regard to politics paid him the respect
becoming a man aspiring to so great
an office. This was very proper.
Today another distinguished citizen
OF Illinois is In Rock Island in pursu-
ance OF the same mission that brought
Mr.. Caldwell here. Hon. Samuel Al
schuler of Aurora is spending the day
in Rock Island and Moline, and this
evening will have an informal recep.
ton at the New Harper He. too, is q
candidate for the nomination by his
party for the Office OF governor Mr.
Alschuler. too. Is in every way quail
fed for the chief magistracy OF the
commonwealth OF Illinois.
With an untarnished record as Q
member Of the general assembly OF
Illinois In the late 90's. honored by his
party In the campaign Of 1900 as the
standard bearer for the ONCE he now
seeks. he ran 10000 votes ahead Of his
ticket and he stands today as one Of
the foremost citizens Of Illinois.
OF his worth as a citizen. Of his quail
ifeations for the once. of his high per
sonal character, his sense Of honesty
and fairness and his ability the people
throughout the state are familiar.
He 10 in every way q model man
such q man as the people naturally re
spect and delight TO honor whether In
public or private life.