Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-21
cHlCAGO'S NEW PAPER
A Christian Daily Newspaper for the
Windy clty-outflt Bought Here.
corteIyou's New Plans Are
Developing
BY GEORGE NOX MCCAIN
CLARENCE Il. WOOD shipped two

CLARENCE Il. WOOD shipped two car
~ loads of printing machinery from this
city to Chicago yesterday.
Mr.. Wood is a western man. He has
bought and sold newspapers. started various
kinds of publications, and edited them, too,
all over the West.
first met him years ago when he was
business manager of prosperous Colorado
daily.
Until short time ago he was associated
with a Hearst publication in Chicago. He
knows the newspaper business from the
cement floor of the pressroom to the gilded
ball on the flag pole on top OF the office
building.
In his latest venture he's the herald of
q new idea. BY that mean that 1t is new
in its main essential feature.
LIE is establishing in Chicago a new
IL daily Christian newspaper. 1t is i'm
tended to appeal to Christians Of all de-
nominations.
l., In that sense it is new. 1t might also
be said to be a class newspaper. Mr..
Wood describes it as such.
The. first attempt Of this kind was years
ago when Kansas preacher undertook the
publication of a daily that was to be con-
Quoted ''As Jesus would have done it,
At least that was his expressed purpose
at the outstart. Its career was short and
undramatic.
The Christian Science Monitor, of Boston.
is the one daily puJlication conducted upon
strictly religious and sectarian basis. Il Is
carefully edited, and has been running for
number of years.
Recently there have been some acrimoni-
GUS controversies regarding its financial
management.
MIR. WOOD started to Washington yes.
4'l terday to arrange for a Washington
news service and to establish bureau in
that city.
There is ample capital behind the enter
prise he told me.
THE people interested feel that the time
has come when newspaper Of this kind is
needed. A newspaper, too, that can be
made a go to the point of being a financial
and journalistic success.
I'VE propose to publish a daily paper
that Will give the news of the world fairly,
honestly and cleanly,. One that will not
honest influences in business or politics. 1t
will be absolutely fair and unpreiudiced,
leaving it to its readers to form their own
opinions based upon the presentation of un-
biased facts"
Mr.. Woods idea, although not expressed
IN so many words. apparently is: "When
in doubt read the American Daily Standard,
of Chicago, and then form your own opin-
ions"
Tho doa suggests itself that the bueinoss
impulse behind the new Chicago daily is
that, inaSmuch as there are but two morn
ing papers in the second city of the republic,
puDncatlOn or the character he is about
TO establish will have more than reason
able chance of success.
The first issue is scheduled TO apneor on
Christmas DAY.
The sentiment behind the selection of this
day is obvious.
POBERT D. HARPER in a general way
~ is unQupstionably one of the hest
posted men in municipal affairs in this city.
lie is chief clerk in the Mayors Office.
His long familiarity with the workings of
every department. his extensive acnuaint-
ance among men of all political faiths and
officials of all degrees of Importance CON
tribute vastly to his usefulness as an official.
some one the other day told an apoc-
ryphal story about certain municipal de-
partment. Overcrowded as to the number of
lts employees. 1t was how one ornament of
IN" payroll came in at 10 a. m and raised
certain window shade. At II a. IN. an
other entered and pulled the shade down
10 IT'S former position. Each act constituted
a days work.
Nothing doing on that easy job yarn"
lntrrjectcd the chief clerk Then he went on:
"A newly elected congressman had
political friend and worker whom he was
dCSirouS of rewarding with a s.necurc at
iMfashingtGn Washing He sent for his henchman and
pointmCnt as clock windcr' in the con-
gresSiOnal office building
1t paid well, but above all it required
only on" days work week
Ih" political worker declined the an
pnlhlmnnt. There was too much cXertion
about it. His congressional patron demanded
TO know, IN heavens name, what he called
an easy job. The office seeker replied:
You must have four or five hundred of
these here monthly calendars hanging up
around the building. Get me the lob of
tearing off the monthly sheet from these
Ga!cndars. That's the kind of job | want.
Ill only have to work one day month
then
DIRECTOR JAMES T. CORTELYOU is,
~ | understand perfecting one of the
most comprehensive plans ever devised in
any municipality. in this country at least,
for the capture Of automobile thieves.
Not the slightest inklng of his plan has
b'en disclosed as yet. No formal announce
mrnt of it will be made until the plan in
all IT details has been perfected
Chief James F. Mclaughlin of the
electrical bureau. is 60 operating with his
superior. From this it is reasonable to infer
that electricity is at the foundation of the
device.
tmi"f Mclaughlin has made study of
public safety work with direct reference to
electrical engineering both in this country
and abroad.
lie has studied its details in Iondon
Paris, Berlin and minor European capitals
Some of the ideas gained abroad in other
years. with improvements and brought down
TO date, have been embodied in connection
with much of his work in this city.
Director Cortelyou's recent declaration of
a new plan to reach the motorcar thugs and
mGh"aymcn indicates trend in his do.
partmcnt to adopt methods for apprehend.
ing the new type of criminal that are
abreast of the latest developments iu crime,
nIRECTOR CORTELYOU tells me that
- almost without exception all of the
highway criminals, motorcar bandits and
other types of the class are young men, and
th"r women associates, who are drug
addicts.
4 couple of months ago five hold-upy by
one gang occurred in widely separated sec
tiOms Of the city. In two of the instances