Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1919-07-12
REFORM
Board of Works BoTows Money
For Street Cleaning
Purposes.
Petty and Rose a Dandy Combine
ton For Handing Out
Camouflage.
Colored Criminal Plays Mean Trick
on Two of the Keystone
Police
STORY OF A WISE sLrurH.

Another boost for reform" was
given at the meeting of the local
General Council Tuesday evening,
and strange to say the Bingham
press and the poor old Herald didn't
give prominence to the item. The
Board of Works went on record as
being bankrupt as far as the street
cleaning fund was concerned and
had an ordinance passed borrowing
$50, from the expense fund to
devote to the street cleaning depart
ment. And the poor old near Mayor
wasn't even in town to give. out one
Of his famous toreador essays ex-
planning, or trying to explain, why
his economy and reform administra-
ton boys were busted" Here for
the past six weeks we have had an
unprecedented fall of rain, and one
would naturally think this assistance
Of Jupiter Pluvius would relieve the
situation, hut no, the reform" boys
are broke and need the coin. Many
of the taxpayers would like to know
Just how much money has been
squandered on the vacuum cleaners,
which were put out of commission
time and time again for trying to
pick up lighted cigarette butts, or
what it cost in salaries for the small
army of men who had to serve as
Wallets to the joke street cleaners.
You'll have to hand it to the board
and Street Cleaning Department for
consistency, though. They have
stuck to their last and have never
attempted to clean any alleys,
probably thinking that street clean
Ing department must confine itelf
to cleaning streets. Anyway the al
legs haven't been cleaned.
If you want real chuckle look
over the files of the Louisville
Herald and read the flowery notices
of-tf1e Boardsof Works after the in
auguration. In one of these num-
bers the reform" administration
organ says the economy board had
abolished sey enty-seven jobs, saving
the taxpayers, $73,32S; garage rent
saved $4,000 year, making total
saving annually of $76,92S. The
Herald by all means should now ex-
plain to its readers why the economy
board, which is saving the taxpayers
s76,928 a year. has to borrow
$4,000 for street cleaning two
months before the annual appropria-
ton is made. Then the near Mayor
comes along and wants the same suf-
tering taxpayers to vote he and his
appointees a sewer bond fund of
100000 at the coming election.
Nothing doing, Smithy. old boy. The
citizens that were stung into voting
for your administration with it's
bunk motto of economy and reform
are not going to fall for the sewer
bond splurge. The rumor is that
President Wood, of the Board of
Aldermen, was dropped this time to
serve on the Sewer Board, and
speaking Of dropping, the Searcy-
Chiffon machine forced Alderman
Hill, Zeiser, Ball, Henderson and
Mason to walk the plank this time.
We predicted this some time ago
when big bills for purchasing motor
cars and trucks from the big Re-
publican boss were questioned in
this board. That was rank mutiny
and the men who thought they were
In the board to watch the taxpayers
interests and not the machine boss.
were punished for their breach OF
discipline.
We all certainly miss Davy Rose,
who for some unknown reason left
the Board Of Works. Davy could al
WAYS be counted on to hand out a
nice entertaining line of camouflage
TOR his board, and it amused many
even If it didn't fool anybody. The
promise of a civic center with
beautiful plazas. esplanades and
gondolas floating through Center
street used to make hit with
everyone. OF course nothing ever
came of il, the only thing out OF
the ordinary that floated through
Center street under the reform" adj
ministration being the several graft
ing carnivals, but at that you will
have to concede that DAVIS flowery
stories went good with the public.
What a team Dave Rose and Col.
Petty would make! The Shelbyville
Chief has an unending line of
camouflage for the public, and you
will have to admire his nerve in
trying to bamboozle the public into
believing that these Keystoners
parading around our thoroughfares
in their moss covered uniforms are
real police. The Chief used to fool
some of the old police for awhile
Wnen Iney were BeIlius IL III thO
neck. The Colonel on hearing that
one OF our real police was slated
for the discard would sob little
on the victims neck and tell him
how sorry he was to see him go.
but he went just the same.
The colored brother kept in the
limelight this week, by pulling off
the usual amount of holdups, as
saults and promiscuous shootings.
But the unkindest cut of all and ex-
poses the ingratitude Of the colored
Republicans is the act OF the colored
burglar ON last Sunday night. Two
of the Keystoners responded to
burglar alarm and surrounded the
house. After playing "I-spy" for