South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-08-11
Cleaning Up the To5Cn
With Creased Pants
and Shined Shoes
Etc, Etc, Etc.

4 II. Chief Kline has directed
"A his men 20 keep their shoes
shined and their pants
creased--again a desperate effort
20 get back into the good graces
Of the standardization organ.
resembling that OF Mayor Carson
when he called the retail grocers
into conference TO see what could
be done 70 save them from inva-
sion by the federal government in
its war on the high cost OF living.
The mayor explains now. how
ever, that the retailers will have
20 handle these government wares
without proft-and he has sent a
member OF his board of works TO
Washington 20 bring home the
bacon"
II we may Judge the appetite OF
OF administration Officials on
bacon" at all by their apparent
appetite upon booze, il IS mighty
little OF it that once reaching the
city hall. Will ever get away. save
into those officials pantries
The retailers will see mighty lit
tie OF II, profits or no profits. and
the public will pay the expense OF
the works boards member 10
Washington. You wouldn't be
able 10 pry il loose with an order
OF the courts; that is until IL is
found 10 have vanished. Then they
would be around begging for
someone 10 take II over-while
they investigate everybody con-
nected with the administration be-
low the ranking heads"
H.
D Ut the point is that Chief
II Kline is going to insist that
his patrolmen. etc, keep their
shoes shined and their pants
creased. That will help consider
able-another grand step taken in
the direction OF Cleaning up the
town'-and you are not supposed
TO be a student of Shakespeare's
''all that glitters is not gold"
One may expect a splendid ar
ray Of shined shoes and creased
pants at the hearing of Driver
Arthur Lovgren tonight. Lovgren
is the man with the consummit
gall 10 bring Tony" Barrett in
to this question Of liquor disap-
pearances.
The charge, of course is not that
but that he failed to report it to
the chief, and il is claimed tina.
such report under the rules,
should be made In writing
We had never thought OF II in
this light before. but possibly Low
gren is one OF the several officers
on the force who can't write. Five
have been appointed to the pre-
sent force OF exactly that calible:
three of which can neither read
nor write.
How Could They Report In Writing?
These assuredly were not lin
herited" by the mayor. Neither
were the two who were discharged
by the Keller administration, nor
the one by the Goetz administra-
ton that have been reinstated by
the Carson board.
III.
M 4 ~ LEN IL oODleAnAnB can
w be done TO induce the board
Of safety 10 try the chiefs darling.
Gasoline Sergt. KIMBERLEY next II
seems that some automobile cast
ings were disposed OF recently for
something like s1400-say July
land somebody forgot to turn
in the money.
1t requires more gasoline to
keep the police automobiles in
motion than for all the equipment
OF the fire department-and when
do they figure on getting that Cad
lilac back into operation. Ought
there not be some investigation
into how il came 10 be broken up.
Employment of Joe Luther's
automobiles by the police admin
istratiOn has become so frequent.
that 1t is causing a strain on the
automobile market Nobody wants
10 see Mr.. Luther owning all the
automobiles in town.