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Chicago eagle., 1919-04-19
LICENSE EVERYBODY
IN BUSINESS
Prohibition Means More Licenses
or Confiscation of Poor
Mems Real Estate.

Assistant Corporation Counsel
Breen presented the draft of bill to
the Council Finance Committee
which II passed by the Legislature
would place a license fee on practi-
cally every business in the city.
The purpose is to raise additional
revenue.
The businesses not now licensed,
but which would have to pay under
the proposed bill, follow:
Automobile, motorcycle and bicycle
sales agents, automobile drivers, ci.
gar dealers, barber shops, shoe shin
ing parlors. druggists, elevator oper.
ators, ice cream and confectionery
parlors, laundries, loan banks, life
and fire insurance agents, extract
manufacturers, window cleaners and
washers, ticket brokers, commission
merchants and cold storage houses.
Wholesale and retail coal dealers,
automobile supply and repairs, bath
houses, business colleges and private
schools, agents, solicitors and can
vassers, jewelry dealers, vending ma,
chimes, hotels, private garages, black.
smith shops, claim collection agen.
cies, dancing schools and academies,
detective agencies, hay and grain ele.
vators, banks, bankers and trust COM
panies, butter, coffee and tea stores,
wholesale drugs, storage and ware
houses, wholesale and retail furniture
and hardware, and paint.
The committee took no action.
Chicago eagle., 1919-04-19
THE CITY zoNlNC Law

The city council meeting as a com.
mittee Of the whole unanimously
voted to recommend the "zoning" bill,
which had been changing fire" in
committees for several years to the
state legislature for enactment into
law.
The "zoning" bill, II made a law,
would permit municipalities to estab.
lish residence, manufacturer and
business zones throughout the city,
within which structures other than
those provided for the zone would
be prohibited Several unsuccessful
attempts have been made to interest
the legislature in this idea.
No opposition to the bill developed
in the committee of the whole of the
council, and 1t was anticipated that
when the council considers 1t formally
it would pass easily. The coming bill
will then be included with other legis-
latiye measures which the council is
considering and sponsoring before
the legislature.
Chicago eagle., 1919-04-19

ernment had in process of construc-
non, when Germany capitulated, war
machine which was planned to ami.
hilate the armies of the Fatherland
during the coming summer. The al.
lied experts believed that Germany
would not surrender until she was de-
feated. so they planned for that over.
whelming defeat during the coming
summer Germany, however, conclud.
ed that she had enough before the
full force Of our war catapult struck
The German general staff knew that
We were building that great machine
They had felt the first blows at
Chateau Thierry. Belleau Woods, the
Argonne and st. Mihiel and had learn
ed that the American mob" knew
no defeat, gave no ground, but went on
in spite of losses Of eight to one.
They knew, too. that the American
and British navies had rendered the
U.boat impotent with American depth
bombs. strung in barrage twenty
miles wide across the North Sea.
They saw the American ships In
an almost endless stream bearing aer.
ial armadas. flocks OF tanks, battery
after battery OF rifles, howitzers, and
mortars, gas and high explosive shells
by the million, rifles and machine
guns with their ammunition and men,
regiment after regiment until there
seemed no end to the khaki clad
fighters coming out of the west. So
the German showed his "yellow
streak"
And that "yellow streak" engender.
ed by our preparations, saved thous-
ands Of lives OF American boys and
millions Of lives OF their compatriots.
Had we not made this vast prepara.
tion our boys would be plowing ahead
through Flanders mud and French for.
ests, paying with their life blood the
price OF the worlds freedom. The
preparation was made. The war Is
over. Our boys for the most part are
returning to our fresides, safe and
sound.
With the Secretary of the Treasury
we should issue our thanks to God
that our preparations made possible
their speedy return. With him we
should prepare to pay off the last OF
our debts, incurred in amassing the
war material which has made possible
their safe homecoming.
Chicago eagle., 1919-04-19
LEGAL" BLACKMAIL
The So-Called Legal Fraternity
Rotten With Alleged Lawyers,
Who Live Upon the Sorrows
of Others.

The Chicago legal fraternity needs
a purgative. Il is too full of crooks
and blackmailers who are living upon
the misfortunes of others. Fellows
who have given up all sorts of jobs
where they had an opportunity to get
hold of other peoples troubles, like
discharged and discredited former
assistant public attorneys, and other
vermin of that Tx are reported to be
thriving just now. One long.haired,
spindle.shanked scoundrel, who held
an official job long enough to get on
both sides of a certain divorce case,
is reported to have quite a meal
ticket working both sides Of II. He
is only one of many. This class Of
vermin is boosted and aided by cer-
tain reform" associations. some of
which are paid out of the public
funds and are authorized" black.
mailers.
The exposure o these frauds is Ger.
tain TO come. and will shake the
daylights out OF the legal crooks,
who now fatten on human misery.
Chicago eagle., 1919-04-19
PROHIBITION FOR YAKKS
But All the Alcohol That For
eigners Want, Free of Tax.

The prohibition fanaticism is
working out charmingly for the IA.
natics. Alcohol is subject to tax
of $l4 per gallon II used in the
United States.
II made in the United States and
shipped ont of the country It pays
no tax at all to Uncle Sam.
See how it works.
The following Associated Press
dispatch In that eminently dry organ.
the Chicago Tribune for Sunday,
April 6, 1919, tells how the thing
works:
Peoria, H., April 5.-The largest
single shipment Of alcohol ever
made in the United States was sent
out of Peoria today by the Great
Western distillery for Sweden, when
solid train of thirty.siX cars con-
veyed 100000 gallons to seaport.
Another shipment of the same cali.
ber is to be made on Tuesday.
The shipment was valued at $612,-
500, Unde? the law all alcohol eX-
ported is tax exempt; otherwise
the shipment would be worth s5,250,-
900.
The alcohol was shipped in 55 and
llO'gallon steel drums,
Chicago eagle., 1919-04-19
DEnS. FOR Low TAX
CONTINUED from page ~

revenue annually. owing to the fed.
eral prohibition law, and, with the
improvements on Chicagos program,
which must be carried out, partly to
relieve the unemployment situation
with the soldier boys returning home,
the expenses of the municipal gov
ernment must be met elsewhere. The
legislature has II In its power to ex.
tend the relief.
80 far as can learn there is no
disposition on the part Of members
of either house to cripple Chicago In
the next four years. | believe that
the members will do all they think
possible to do under the conditions
to help.
"As soon as Mayor Thompson is
ready to apear before the commit
tees OF the legislature and explain
just what Chicago requires to carry
on the government he will be vel.
coined to Springfield by the lawmak.
ers.
Il also had a talk with President
Reinberg Of the county board. They
are up against 1t, too. They must
have some relief. And the schools
will demand legislative aid. Begin.
ming Wednesday morning the legisla.
ture will be ready to speed uph and
keep speeding up to the end OF the
session.
"The country elections will be out
of the way and there is nothing now
to interfere with constant application
to the legislative work"
Chicago eagle., 1919-04-19
Reforming CHICAGO

big fight is being made at Spring.
field for the passage Of the following
laws affecting Chicago:
Non.partisan elections for aldermen
and mayor.
Reducing the number of aldermen
from seventy to fifty.
Increasing the number of city
wards from thirty-five to fifty, with
one alderman representing each ward.
Recall for aldermen and mayor.
Eliminating the Offices of city
clerk and city treasurer from the
elective offices and making them ap-
pointive by the council.
The bills, II successfully pushed
through the state legislature, must 20
to the people for ratification on ref
erendum vote.
The city manager plan of govern.
ment, which was also submitted to
the city council. was put in the dis
card. Only few voiced their senti.
ments In favor Of the city manager
plan, and there were many enemies.
The majority of the aldermen did not
feel that the council be trusted with
the selection Of a mayor, and others
raised the objection that the people
would thereby have no voice in the
selection of their executive.
The contemplated change in the
aldermanic system was first brought
to the council in a bill providing for
four years instead Of two.year terms
for the city fathers and provided for
one alderman from each of thirty.
five wards. II lost by a vote Of 80
to q and was then amended to pro.
vide for fifty wards, with an alder
| man from each.
Chicago eagle., 1919-04-19
SECRETARY REDFIELD A BUSY MAN

Secretary of Commerce william e..
Redfcld Is n busy man these days ow.
Ing To the fact that the price stabiliza.
tlon program of the industrial board
of his department Is u storm center.
For example, the other day there was
an all-afNernoon session ,of dignitaries
trying to straighten out the muddle
caused by the refusal Of the railroad
administration tn accept price agree
ments sponsored by the industrial
board. Among those present We're !:
Secretary of the Treasury Glass, Sec.
retary Of Commerce Rcdheld and other
cabinet members. Director General of
Railroads Walker u. Hines. Fuel Ad-
ministrator Harry A. Garfield George
y. Peek, chairman, and other members
Of the industrial hoard; Edgar Rick
ard, acting food administrator, and
Eugene n. Meyer, Ir., managing direc.
tor of the war finance corporation.
Director Hines stood pat on his re.
fisnl tn accept prices fixed by the
board. The case specifically under di
Chicago eagle., 1919-04-19
THE VICTORY LOAN.

The Victory Liberty Loan, which
war preparations that brought Ger
many TO her knees so suddenly last
November, will be fioated between
April u and May 10. The Secretary
OF the Treasury has announced that
the terms offered on the new loan
will be such as to make the govern
ment securities the best buy" on the
market at the time IL is circulated.
While Mr.. Glass has not announced,
the amount he would call for, the best
informed public men say that the
issue will be $5,OOO,OO0,O00, with the
right to accept all oyer-subscriptions,
And now TO consider briefly why
the Victory Liberty Loan has 10 be
foated among the American people.
In the first place, the loan is
good investment. Before the war,
most Of us were not investors. Today
Onefourth OF our population are bond
holders and half Of us hold some sort
OF government securities. We have
begun, at least, TO learn the thrift
habit that We may lay up some treas
ures on earth.
In the second place, this was our
war, a war Of the American people,
democracy against tyranny. We have
testified fully to our sanction OF this
war by sending 100000 men to the
battle front, training .1,750,000 more
and getting ready 100000 TO go into
training We testified to our interest
in II when We subscribed $7000,0oO,'
900 TO the Fighting Fourth Liberty
Loan and gave literally TO our war
charities.
Now the war is over and we wonder
a bit why we are asked for more mon
ey There are still million OF our
fghting men In France who must be
brought home. There are thousands OF
our wounded and sick In hospitals who
have yet TO be cared for. Our mer-
chant marine is stlll building that
America may take her place in the
world mart. All these take funds.
Yet that is not the real reason for
the Victory Liberty Loan. Our gov
Chicago eagle., 1919-04-19
THE COST OF MOVING.

The Auto Van and Movers Associa.
ton evidently does not take seriously
the fact that the law has never been
repealed. This may be seen by the
statement of X. j. Wood of the advis.
ory board. He said:
In 1911 the city council of Chi.
cago passed an ordinance fixing the
rate of moving at $3.50 an hour for
the van driver and 80 cents an hour
for each additional man. There has
been no ordinance relating to moving
since that date.
we we're paying our drivers and
helpers SIS week. ten hours a day.
Today we are paying them $27 week
for nine hours work. Since 1911 the
price of hay. oats, gasoline, oil, tires,
etc. have more than doubled and the
city council now demands that we go
on the old rate. II can't be done.
I'm 1914 the warehouses were de.
clared public utilities and compelled
to file rates with the public utilities
commission, and being public utility
the warehouse men are not amenable
TO the ordinances of the city Of Chi.
cago. Therefore the rates for moving
this year will be the same as last year
SO an hour for a van, horse, driver,
and two men. There will be no strike
and no trouble.
Local 73S OF the Piano Movers
Union now has seventy men on strike,
This is commercial piano local and
has nothing TO do with us. The van
people will move all pianos requested,
The old system of moving on May
/ and Oct. | is one Of our biggest
troubles. With the whole city chang.
ing residence on one day II means
extra equipment, extra men, and extra
worry. We have tried to get the real
estate men and rental agencies to
change their system of leasing so
that leases may start on the first
day of any month, II this were done
it would eliminate congestion and
make lower rates possible"
Chicago eagle., 1919-04-19
JOHN JACOB ASTOR'S ROMANCE

Capt. John Jacob Astor of the
Kings First Life Guards and his Eng.
lish wife, Lady Violet Astor, are en-.
joying Il postwar honeymoon I'm this
country. He Is the son of Viscount
Astor, once william Waldorf Astor of
New York. viscount Astor is New
York's greatest landlord and recently
made the captain Gift of S7,O00,OO0
worth OF Gotham real estate. Lady
Astor Is daughter Of the late earl Of
Mnto. viceroy Of India and governor
general of Canada.
In 1906, when Captain Astor was
twenty years old, King Edward made
him n lieutenant In the Life Guards.
He met Lady Violet Elliott, seventeen
and just out of the schOOlrOOm. II
was u case Of love at first sight with
both Of the young people.
But the Minto family would have
none of the Astors. They wanted
Lady Violet to marry Lord Charles
Marine son of the Mnrauis of Inns-
Chicago eagle., 1919-04-19

is SERBIA NOW A REPUBLIC?

Reports are current that the
Karageorgevich dynasty has been de-
posed and republic proclaimed In
Belgrade, with that city as the capital
of Serbia and Jugo-Slavia. 1t was arst
announced in the newspaper Vetcherni
Listy of Agram, according to a wire
less dispatch from Rome received In
London. At that time the Serbian
legation In London knew nothing of 1t.
In Washington Prof Voyslav NJ. Yo-
vanovitch, director of the official in
formation bureau of the new Jugo-
Slav state. declared the announcement
to be ''pece of the most vulgar prop
aganda."
Agram Is the capital of Croatia
and Slavonia, two states of the Jugo-
Slav federation. The removal of the
Jugo.Slav capital. to Belgrade means
that Serbia has tnken the leadership
away from the Croats and Slovenes.
Crown Prince Alexander has been
acting as regent of Serbia for several
Chicago eagle., 1919-04-19
MORE VOTERS FOR
EVERY PRECINCT

A reduction in the number of Chi
cago voting precincts from the pres
ent number of 2,215 to 1000 was seen
as a possibility when the election
commission took up the task of re-
districting required under the law
every four years.
BY action of the state legislature
the maximum number of voters per
precinct has been increased from 400
to 600.
II is expected that the redistricting
will be completed in time for next
years election. The reduction in
the number of precincts is expected
to save the public large sum.
Chicago eagle., 1919-04-19
He WANTS A PLACE IN THE AIR

Maj, Gen. Charles Il. Menoher
gives assurance that the army air
service, as reorganized under his d.
rection, will Cooperate In the ad.
vancement of commercial aeronautics
and promote the principle that the
United Stqtes deserves leading place
in the air, promised by our original
application of the principles Of me.
chanical flight"
General Menoher is opposed to the
plan of the war department to scrap
the vast airplane equipment brought
together by the United States at a
cost of more than 81 1,60O0OO,OOO. He
favOrs the disposal of surplus equip
ment to concerns interested in develop
ing commercial aviation.
The general, who formerly COM
manded the Rainbow division in
France, described how he had wiped
out the dual organization, consisting
of the division of military aerOnautics
and the bureau of aircraft production,
Chicago eagle., 1919-04-19
GENERAL SHUTS GOES TO HUNGARY

Gen. Jan Christian SHUTS, min
lister of defense, Union Of South Africa.
Is one of the big men of the pence
conference. Report has II that hc Is
the author Of much Of the League Of
nations covenant, That he Is fighter
the British learned In the Boer war
All Of which Is probably the reason he
has been chosen by the peace confer
ence to 60 to Hungary rs IN cmissary
of the allies and the United States to
investigate the various problems in.
cidental to the hrmistlce, but made
more complicated by the coming into
power of the proletariat government
The new government In Hungary
has definitely promulgated Il system of
government by village, town, district
and county councils, and national as
sembly of councils. The representa-.
tives 10 the nationals assembly will be
elected by the town and colslty COun.
ellis. The last day on which elections
Cnn he held for the councils has been
Chicago eagle., 1919-04-19
TRACTION LINES
HELP CITY

4 check for S3Sl,7S2.99, the city's
50 per cent of the net earnings of the
Chicago Surface Lines for the fiscal
year ending Jan. 81, was received by
the city treasurer.
Colonel Garrity is making a good
record as Chief of Police and the
public has confidence in him.
Chicago eagle., 1919-04-19

owne Lady Violet married Lord Marine In 1909 Marine and Astor went
first British
He
Astor and losta n
Chicago eagle., 1919-04-19

April IT, All reached
will be permitted to vote with the of those who
o unuics
Chicago eagle., 1919-04-19


would abdcnic
Chicago eagle., 1919-04-19

Cor all classes Of readers, Is devoted
ties; TO the publication of Mu-
niclpai, State, County and san.
itary District news; 70 comment
esseball and Sports, and TO the
publlcatlon OF General Information
"a Public Interest, Financial, Com.
r1erciaI and Political.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-08-09
Nelus dnd VieUs Of Interest t0 Women ::
 A MUCH NEGLECTED INSTINCT OF CHILH00D By Elizabeth Harrison the National Kindergarten Association

happen to have two little girl friends aged seven and nine who are children of wealthy family and are in consequence overloaded with toys | and other gifts. l was in their play l room one morning a few weeks after Christmas and noticed a flower pot Tn which still stood the remains of a ! Christmas poinsettia. The flower had disappeared and the stalk had with cred, but the pot still stood in the sun shiny window. On my return home l selected six nastudtium seeds and six morning glory seers and carefully folded three of kint' in two bits of tissue paper These l enclosed in a note, suggesting that they each plant them in one of their flower pots and see that the flower pot was placed in sunny window and that the earth was kept moistened, and added, ''If you do this, by and by you will see something wonderful happen. l am not going to tell you what it is, but it is a very, very wonderful thing"
 Several weeks later l had occasion to visit their home again. The two i children ran to meet me with open arms, exclaiming: We know now; we known now! They've grown up."
 The mother told me that of all the gifts they had ever received, she had never known any that had given them so much pleasure, for although there had always been garden on their grounds, it had never occurred to her that they would be in the least inter ested in the processes of gardening. The children had carefully followed my directions as to the depth at which the seeds should be planted and the conditions under which they should be kept; and when she said they were as delighted as if it were mans first discovery of the laws of natures pro- pagation. She added: 1 realized then how deficient my training had been." When their grandmother, who lives in another suburb, invited them to spend the week end with her, they only consented to go on condition that one of the maids in their own home would take care of these plants while 1 they were away.
 This may seem like an extreme case , of the isolation of children from na- ture, but l can assure you there are many children in our cities who know
 miracle of the phenomena of the springtime. There are many more
 who are taken every summer to some resort who pay no more attention to nature and her miracles than the greedy gathering of all the wild flow CTS they can hold, which they often throw away before they reach their hotel because of the whitening of the imprisoned little blossoms.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-08-09
Keen Interest in Coming Tour of
 Vatican ChOirs

A relative idea of the Interest in the forthcoming tour of the Vatican choirs and singers from the Roman basilicas is announced by J. J. Me- Carthy and Theodore Mitchell of New York, who are handling the business details of the proposed concerts. It was stated that within five days of the first official announcement of the plans for the limited number of con- certs to be given in the United States and Canada over one third of the tour was booked up and in each instance bringing this body of seventy singers of the Vatican Choirs is more than guaranteed by the local interests that are handling tbe concerts in their re- spective cities.
 To date twenty-five concerts have heen contracted and will be distributed throughout the following cities: Bal tai%G;se aS";s a8ssg0, on;a St: Dayton, spkio: InGanapotfSliSt, Paul ksssssn N'@ssnsls ps sAess AeR'fs sssS'asR RTsss 5s; San Errnsi is 9als,a9d, A 9aa qaL; 4; aos d ronto. 0, ttf4 rga ,$Ii
 The extent of the tour is easily re- cognibed. In, each! instance the mana cement of the tour, has been. guaran- teed that the choir's share of the re- ceipts will not be less than $1O,000, for each concert. No such guaran- antees were ever booked before in this country not even excepting the recent tour of Caruso. The demand for concerts is so insistent that it is now practically ascsured the entire tour will be booked solid before the choirs arrive in this country from Rome.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-08-09
'raldine Happy to
 Play With Husband

or the first time in her career as a Flon picture star Geraldine Farrar eented to make a personal appear e. It was in conjunction with her. dwyn Picture, "The Stronger
 and occurred at the California etre in Los Angeles.
 lss Farrar was a superb figure in amazlng frock of rose-and-silver
 which she wore her famous ITS and her first words established entente between audience and eKer which many presidential dldate might envy.
 lney tell me that you like The pnger Vow and I've come to thank TOT your kindness, and to tell you, that am in Los Angeles to make e productions of kind which I e you will like even better.
 AiHWays l have loved California tnls season is the happiest of u all. It is because MT. Goldwyn made it possible for MT. Tellegen
 me to appear together, just as naae It possible for me to meet moalon picture public some years we say that we're on our second eymoon and think that happiness
 pc apparent when you see us on screen together"