Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-01-07
News Nuggets
From Illinois

system LOT lle CITY IRE department.
Under the new arrangement, one
group will work ten hours a day and
the second group IA hours After two
weeks. this arrangement will be re-
verSed.
Springfield-Th Illinois State
Teachers association received the
names of the officers nominated TO
serve for the coming year. They are:
President, J. o. Engleman, Joliet:
first vice president. Miss Florence Hol-
brook, Chicago; second vice president,
Mrs. Fannie SpairS, Mantle; third vice
president, L. VI. Hanna. Centralia. and
treasurer, Charles Mcintosh. MOnti-
cello.
Urbana.-The Illinois State Dairy
mems association will hold its annual
meeting at Lawrenceville on january
IT, Is and 10, and, from all indica-
tons, will be one of the largest meet
lngS the association has ever held.
The feature of this years program will
! be the dairy show, conducted for the
first time this year. The first day of
the show will be given over entirely
to the cattle show, and the officers
expect to see as many as 80 high
class cattle led into the ring.
Springfield.-IlI commercial oil
! production will fall below 100000
barrels this year, rs compared with
0,75O,O 900 barrels valued at $40 100000
in 1920, reports f. w. DeWOlf chief
of the state geological survey. The
! NJ
! to the fall IN the price of oil, which
! cut down inside drilling and caused
! abandonment of some Illinois wells. In
! 1920 the state had 10000 oil wells
! averaging a daily production of 2950n
! barrels
Springtield.--Th Illinois constitu-
! tOnal convention adjourned until Jan
! nuarl - without having transacted any
actual business DOWHState anG Chi
cagO delegates were much nearer an
agreement over the technical proposal
of limitation of Cook cOunty'S legiSla-
tive representation than they have
been at any previous stage. Thir-
teen downstate delegates gave definite
/ assurance to the Cook county cOntin-
gent thar they would never vote for
the SO-calleG county representation"
plan. With this assurance. the up
! state delegation did not hesitate to
| proceed with the recess plan.
Observation-Disclosures the revenue
SYSTEM Of Illinois" is the appeal of
the Illinois State Teachers association
to the constitutional convention. This
plan was decided upon in an effort or
the part Of the teachers to obtain
more tax money for the schools. The
teachers also went on record as favor
ing 4 fight before the next session
of the general assembly for a state
diStrihutive fund of $40 100000 annually
and. on SO doing. Branded the state
tax rate as a political bugab0O."
Other resolutions called upon the
schools To teach social science rs proof
against revolutionary propaganda, urg-
ing Specialization of the social cur
riculum" as a means of preparing chill
dren for the social task of this age,
our very complex social environments
and its problems"
pringfeld.-Howard Leonard, pres
citation, charges that the Illinois tan
commission. instead of reducing the
assessed valuation upon Illinois lands
as reported. i'm reality has increased
the valuation approximately $4,000,
600 The statement carried in the
press that the commission reduced the
assessed valuation upon Illinois lands
is misleading" Mr.. Leonard said. 1.-The
statement issued by the tax commits
sion in Springfield at its final session
gave the impression that the farmer:
Of this state were indebted to the com
, mission for slice of some S56,OO0,OOC
in the assessments on land. What th'
farmers did get at the hands of tn
present commission was an increase o
approximately S55.OOO.OOO over the az
gregate valuation in the counties"
, ringfeld.-Illinois' prison pOpula
: ton at Joliet Menard and Pontiac in
creased $40 during the last year, c. +
Jenkins, state director of public wei
fare. announces in his annual repOr
to Governor Small. The Illinois stat
r penitentiary at Joliet received tn
: greatest number of new cOnvictS, Di
2 rector Jenkins said. Men and wOmel
S who exchanged their names for con
= Wet numbers of Joliet increased from
1910 to sos. At the Menard asylum
for the criminal insane the number in
q creased from 1,021 to lob. The stat
: refOrmatory at Pontiac received 10
a more inmates than it released durln
n the wear. the number increasing frOI
h 900 a wear ago to / 149 this month
Prison authorities, Director Jenkin
said, attribute the increased numbe
a of convicts to q concerted drive d
: courts and police against a wave {
S crime. An unusual number of de
S perate and dangerous criminals hay
d been "sent up" during the year, he d.
clared.
Springfield.-A total of 4S1 cases
t diphtheria, were reported to the sta
e department of health last week, a
L cording to the report issued by D
{ l. d. Rawlings, state director
/ health. The threatened epidemic
n smallpox is on the wane, the repO
shows. Only ten new cases were +
ported.
t Herrin.-Five hundred citizens he
Is have subscribed S15O,OO0 for extensi,