Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1919-08-02

American will publish the report of
their investigation.
It's pity that a moving picture
wasn't taken of the pretty little
scene N near Mayor Smiths office
when an oil painting of himself was
given to His Honor. Attached to
the painting was card reading:
ITO Our Mayor From Twenty of
Your Friends and Admirers" Now
isn't that just too cute for anything?
Especially when you realize that
nineteen of the twenty friends and
admirers" are all holding nice fat
jobs with big fat salaries attached.
The presentation speech was made
by Howdy Ed Morrow, the Republic
an party's regular candidate for
Governor. and responded to by near
Mayor Smith himself, who gracefully
conceded that he was the best Mayor
Louisville ever had, and thought he
had succeeded so far with the aid
and advice of the donors of the oil
painting, alias the boys who are on
the pay-rolls. Isn't Smithy the bash
full little cuss, though, when he
bashfully comedies that he is some
pumkins as a Mayor?
When one stops to think OF the
Keystone police, the hick firemen,
the dirty streets, the joke vacuum
cleaners, the fake street carnivals,
the ay-as-you-enter City Hospital,
lower taxes with higher assessments,
higher phone rates, the holdup as
machine, the reign of gambling,
burgaries, etc., and then realize that
Smith believes that he is giving the
citizens a fair and decent adj
ministration, it is time to call all
bets aft or let the race go for
Sweeney, as the TURTLES say. How
that nineteen office-holders must
have chuckled up their sleeves when
they heard the CUFF from Morrow
and Smithy about the good ad-
It's a cinch that when
they got outside you could have heard
their outlaws for an hour as they
thought of the funny reel they just
participated in, and what scream
that would make in the comedy
films.
On the same day that Smith was
getting the oil portrait Patrick
Byron, a fireman of eighteen years
service, was forced out of the depart
ment for not furnishing a twenty
dollar donation towards "oiling" the
machine. Firemen and
police are all being assessed twenty
dollars for the same purpose, and
possibly enough "oil" money was
secured to help pay for the oil
portrait. Here's another for Louis
ville's best Mayor" to ponder over:
George Berry, a veteran and crippled
fell in front of the Courier
Journal office, was taken to the
City Hospital and for a stay of
little less than two days was as
sessed 1919, practically three dol
lars a day from a poor and deserv-
ing citizen, unable to work at his
trade, and earns his living by sell
ling little sundries. Yet that mil
lion dollar institution was paid for
by the citizens of Louisville to help
Just this class of needy and un-
fortunate citizens. Mr. Berry has
an official receipt signed by the
Assistant Superintendent for his en-
forced stay at the pay-as-you-enter
hospital. m sgE
IL Dttu bOlt VI q bCo6h USCh
on our keystone cops. Two young
negro bellboys "beaned" one with a
blackjack because he attempted to
interfere with a robbery they were
pulling off at the time. OF course
the Keystoner attempted to stop
them until they shooed him off after
giving him, the love tap. but he
laughs best who laughs last. as the
comedy cop got whole 'passel"
of police to help him and they sue
ceeded in arresting the two boys.
mention in Chief Petty's
bulletin of course.
Another of our young colored
residents played mean joke on a
Keystoner by running over him with
a 'fflivver" and the indignant cop
swore out a warrant for the
desperate driver. The young negro
excused his mistake by saying that
he mistook the Keystoner in his
faded seedy uniform for one of our
old fashioned country "scarecrows."
Pretty logical defense at that. But
here's one where the Keystoner came
out ahead: This thick" cop came
from Indiana and after being. a
citizen of a weeks residence went
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