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June L, l923.
TO THE HONORABLE, THE
CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF CHICAGO:

Gentlemen: "a
return herewith, without approval.
an order passed by Your Honorable
Body at the meeting held June 6, 1928.
and appearing on page $50 Of the
Journal Of the Proceedings of the
CIty Council of said date, purportinp
to order and direct the Superintend-
ent OF Police to refuse approval Of all
applications for licenses under Section
i1o OF the Chicago Municipal Code of
i9z< until report has been made "a
the City Council by the COMMITTEES On
JUDICIARY upon an amendment r.
ferred to the said Committee
! withhold my approval Of the said
order Tor the reason that am advised
by the Corporation Counsel that Sec
ton llo of the Chicago MunicipaI
Code Of 1922 regulates the issuance
q iscenses for twenty-five different
classes Of amusements, and, II The
superintendent of Police complies with
the provisions Of this order. u vii
seriously impede the City in the col-
lection Of revenue.
4 am also advised by the Corpora-
ton Counsel that the General Ord;,-
ances OF the City regulating the i
suance Of licenses for amusemeuts -
Tered to in Section I76 expressJv
provide upon what conditions rbe
iicenses may issue, and that applicants
complying with the provisions Of tbe
General Ordinances are entitled under
tne law, to have licenses issued 10
them, and that an order cannot in arv
way Change or amend an ordinance
= therefore, recommend thar ~
vote by which the said order 90.
passed be reconsidered, and that Nv
said order and this communicated he
referred to the Judiciary Committee
ior such further action as the Com
mfttee may deterfninee.
Yours respectfully,
William z. Deyer.
Mayor.
AZ r. said that Alderman Andersar,~
amendment went to the Judiciary
committee, which Committee va
called TO meet June II, 1928. and NJ
Anderson, still frothing at the moutb
Joiiyed his amendment through the
Committee with a recommendation
that Il pass This Committee meetina
was out Of the ordinary but Alderman
Continued on Page z)
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view published in the New York Her
aid recently.
The new Klan processes to wage
war against modern social evil" said
Sir Basil, but in reality It fosters ami
mostly against the Roman Catholics.
the Jews and the colored people AZ
can do no possible good, and it may
do much harm.
Its use of the mask opens the door
to the adoption of disguise by violent
criminals who win not be slow to copy
the form Of the Klansman's mask
when they have old scores TO settle
Some untEinking people have Iii1-
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Hoyne who most of the time conduct
ed the affairs Of his Office in the most
ratified Drained manner and tried many
of his important cases through the coll
umns of the newspapers, swore unto all
the gods at once that IF he was re-
elected, that he would wreak vengeance
upon Col De Priest and endeavor to
land him in the jail house for Col
Hoyne looked upon Col. De Priest as
his colored Democratic political slave
and that he held perpetual chattle
mortgage on every part of the being of
Col. De Priest and as his political
slave he should dance to his Demo
cratic music without the least COM
planning and the harder that Col De
Priest worked for Hon. Harry B. Mil
Ter for States Attorney the louder
Col. Hoyne would cuss and act like
half mad man.
When the ides of November 1916,
rolled around, Col. Hoyne was re-
elected States Attorney of Cook
County, and Hon. Harry B. Miller,
the Thompson candidate was defeated,
and his defeat had far reaching effect
upon Col. De Priest, it drove him out
Of the City Council without adding
any glory and honor unto his reputa-
ton and after spending thousands and
thousands of dollars he has been un-
able to break back into it from that
day to the present time.
Not long after the middle Of Decem-
Der, 1916, Col Hoyne was sworn in
for the second time at States At
torney Of Cook County, and shortly
after that time he started up all of the
powerful machinery of his Office to
land Col. De Priest behind the bars
at Joliet, Illinois, the evening before
Col. De Priest was indicted some ten
or fifteen times true white friend
of the writer who was connected with
the States Attorneys Office, after we
had crossed our heart several times
and given him our word Of honor
that we would not use his name
in connection with the story which
he was about to unfold to US. which
he did and it related as to how Col.
Hoyne proposed to have Col. De-
Priest indicted a great number Of
times, early the following morning,
and run his bonds up to at least one
hundred thousand dollars, which he
would be unable to furnish right off
of the bat and then have his officers
to grab him. and land him in the
jail house before he would be able 70
turn around and count one, two, three.
just az soon as our white friend
had finished relating the cold-bIooded
scheme to Us We rushed out Of the
Criminal Court Building. and made a
bee line to the Office of Col. De Priest,
at 35th and State streets, as we had
to catch him before he started home,
near FIVE o'clock, for as he had had
cut His telephone out at his home
shortly after he was elected Alderman
OF the Second Ward, and after we
had informed Col, De Priest what
would come off before the Grand Jury
the next morning, at first he doubted
our story and wanted to know the
name Of the party who had told rs
the wild story. We informed him that
We could not tell him the name Of our
friend but that tlie best thing for him
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ened the movement to the Italian
Fascist movement, but the Fascist
works openly and scorns the use of
masks. The Kiansfnan's defense for
the mask. or rather the defense Of
those with whom I have talked, is
that some people are shy Of joining a
movement, however much they ap-
prove Of its objects, II they have to
come out into the open. One would
have thought that recruits so destitute
of moral courage were scarcely worth
enrolling. | venture the suggestion.
which ] make without any disrespecr
70 the Klan. that without the masks
there would Be no recruits
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SOME SUBSTANTIAL coLoRED
BUSINESS MEN AND WOMEN
WHO WOULD MAKE SPLEEN
a@
DID TIMBER FOR ONE OR
TWO MEMBERS OF THE IL
BRARY BOARD

1t is reported around the City Hall
that at the next meeting Of the City
Council, that Mayor William z. Dew
er. will select some new members tor
the Library Board. and that At least
one Of the new members win Be a cob
ored person
In our humble way, we want to sub
nit the names of the following Col.
ored men and women, for the serious
consideration Of Mayor Dever, anyone
of which would reflect credit upon hts
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to do was to secure several bondsmen
who could sign up for at least one
hundred thousand dollars.
Before we left him he called up sew
era prominent white friends on the
phone. one being located in the Ash
land block and the other on south State
street, and they both stated that they
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WILLIAM E. DEVER GIVES
HISDISAPPROVAL OF THE ORDER
OF JUNE 9TH PASSED BY THE
CITY COUNCIL, AT THE NSTIGA-
TON OF. ALDERMAN LOUIS B. AN
DERSON OF THE SECOND WARD,
IN HIS WILD ATTEMPT TO CLOSE
THE BEAUTIFUL AMUSEMENT
PARK, FOR THE COLORED PEO-
PIE OF THE SOUTH SIDE, LO-
GATED AT 33RD STREET AND WA
BASH AVENUE. JUSTIFYING HIS
DISAPPROVAL BY THE OPINION
OF THE CORPORATION COUNSEL,
HON. FRANCIS x. BUSCH. rs
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would sign his bond for any amount
of money, and the next morning just
as we had informed him, he was in
dicted by the Grand Jury ten or fif-
teen times but as he was ready with
his bondsmen Col. Hoyne was unable
to land him in the Jail house.
His trial was drawn out for almost
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Near the middle Of December, 1917,
Col. Maclay Hoyne was inducted into
Office as States Attorney OF Cook
County with great poTnp and ceremo-
nv and Col. De Priest was one OF the
biggest and most important personages
around the States Attorneys Office,
he had the undisputed right to rush m
and ont Of the inner Offices Of Col.
Hovne at his sweet viii and it IS con-
tended that that fact alone caused him
to cuss louder and to make more
noise than any other person around
the Criminal Court Building and Tor
long time Col. De Priest and Col.
Hoyne we're as thick and as close to
each other as the famous "Gold Dust
Twins"
Many people at that time really
thought that Col. De Priest knew
more about conducting all OF the al
fairs of his Office than what Col.
Hoyne did himself and everything
seemed to- indicate that the warm
friendship and the strong attachment
for each other which had sprang up
between them would last to the end
Of time
But the fates had decreed otherwise
for in the meantime Col. De Priest had
firmly decided to lay aside his Demo
cratic coat and dress up in his Repub-
Hcan coat and in the fall Of 1914 ne
started his boom for Alderman Of the
Second Ward. on the Republican end
Of Il and after bitter fight between
him and Col. Louis B. Anderson, ne
won out at the primaries and he was
elected to the City Council along with
Mavor William Hale Thompson at
the Aorh election in 1915, and up to
that time Col. Hoyne still felt that as
he had bought Col. De Priest body
and soul that he was still his boss
"Nigger Democrat.
Col. De Priest after becoming
member Of the City Council, decided
to fall in behind mayor William Hale
Thompson and being so eager to make
a name for himself and to hear him.
self talk he cat hoped or assailed
white Lady right on the floor Of the
City Council, much to the disgust of
its other 80 members, that incident
happened ii connection with the affair
Of Mrs. Louise Osborne Rowe and
the Public Comfort row and It got
Col. De Priest in bad all along the
line.
Nevertheless, Col. De Priest put on
a bold front and he bluffed and bull
dozed his way through many Of the
departments Of the City Hall, and in
several instances some Of the heads Of
the various departments would take
to the woods when they would behold
him approaching them, for seemingly
they were fearful Of receiving cuss-
ing out from him.
Shortly after JAM |, 1910, Col. De
Priest who seems to be utterly incapa-
Bic of reasoning from cause to effect,
jumped in to lead the fight Of Hon
Hairy B. Miller, Republican for State
Attorney, against Col. Hoyne, Demo
crat. at that BIT Of political news Col.
Hoyne went wild or completely mad
and he few Or jumped one thousand
feet up in the air and when re-landed
On this earth again. cussing and damn
ing everybody III sight and Col.
>
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two weeks, and every day we were in
evidence in Judge Barrett's court
room in order to cheer him up, while
many Of his sO-caled friends, white
and colored, ran away from him and
left him to his fate in the hands Of
his former white Democratic boss, Col.
Maclay Hoynr.
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BRITISH CRIME EXPERT
DENoUNCES KU KLUx
KLAN
aDes6tute Of Moral Courage" Says
Sir Basil Thomson

IN. a. a. c. P. Press Service)
Sir Basil Thomson. former director
Of the criminal investigation depart
ment Of Great Britain's detective cen
ter. Scotland Yard, warns Of the dan
rer Or the Ku Kiux Klan, III an inter-
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Col or Hon. Oscar DePriest Who Has an Itching
Desire to Become the Grand Major General of All
the Colored People in This City, Stood Ace-High
With Col. Maclay Hoyne the First Four Years that
He Served as States Attorney for Cook County.

JULIUS r. TAYLOR. MANFULLYI
STOOD BY COL. DE PRIEST,
THROUGH THE COLUMNS OF THIS
NEWSPAPER, AT THE TIME WHEN
HE NEEDED TRUE FRIENDS AND
WHEN MANY OF HIS SO-CALLED
FRIENDS HAD BOLDLY TURNED
THEIR BACKS ON HIM AND DE-
SERTED HIM.
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William Hale Thompson" The col
nred People will find that they made
no mistake as has been said they did
by some of our press in voting the
Rascals out of power, thus allowing
a Just man to get his due. We here
with present verbating the Mayors
letter Of dissapproval which is as fol-
lows:
Evening star., 1923-07-15
New Plan at Tax Office.

A good many taxpayers will feel a
sense Of relief on reading the news
that ''in order to moderniZe the Office
of the collector of taxes the Commits
sioners will ask Congress in the new
estimates for $4,000 to purchase up
to-date tabulating machines and file
cases" One feature Of the plan will
make it easier to pay taxes. Some tax
payers pay early and avoid the rush,
and others get their tax bills and send
checks, but there are several thou
sand citizens who do neither Of these
things. In the closing days Of tax
paying time long lines Of taxpayers
form at the cashiers windows. And
then the "forefathers' way Of doing
business keeps the line moving at
snail's pace. The cashier takes the
taxpayers money and writes certain
bill as paid. People stand for hours,
whereas if modern ways Of receipting
bills were used they might stand only
for few minutes. When one pays the
gas or electric light bill the cashier
stamps 1t paid, tears off perforated
stub, sticks it on a spindle and takes
up the next bill. Commissioners Ru-
dolph has announced that he has ap-
proved new form of tax bill for next
year that will do away with the
present antiquated system by which
the cashier enters on a blotter every
bill paid" On the new tax bill there
will be a stub, which the cashier will
tear off and file as the record Of the
payment. The new and common sense
method Of receipting tax bills will give
relief to large number Of citizens,
but it is still the safe and sane policy
to pay taxes early. II everybody did
that there would be no congestion in
the tax Office.
Evening star., 1923-07-15
No Bad Boys!

Miss Olive Jones. who has recently
been elected president Of the National
Education Association. and who has
probationary correction in the public
schools of New York, is reported as
saying that "a really bad boy or a real
ly bad girl does not exist" 1t may be
difficult for some persons to accept
this experts definition Of Juvenile
badness. and there are persons. in
cluding some parents, who will insist
that the bad boy and the bad girl do
exist.
This expert on children admits that
some appear to be bad, and she uses
the words "waywardness" and "incor-
rigibility." Probably she means that
there is no bad boy who cannot be
cured of his badness, for she says:
More than, one boy has been saved
from pounding somebody's skull by
pounding piece OF sheet-iron instead
Mix a quantity Of manual training
work-the kind the boy likes-with book
well done, and badness will usually fly
out of the window" She urges par
ents to give a boy responsibility and
keep him busy" and she says to
fathers and mothers teach children
responsibility by making them earn
in some small way the joys and privi-
leges Of life"
Miss Jones lays blame on careless
ness and lack Of intelligence in some
parents. and there are many who have
no expert knowledge of children who
believe that the blame is we'll placed.
She says that some parents ''have
fool idea that II they feed their chill
dren and send them to school they
will be good, because they are learning
reading, writing and arithmetic"
There is such a thing as home training
or parental training. but even then it
depends on the character of that train
ing. 1t might be charged that some
home training is inefficient, and that
some parents as child-trainers are
failures. However. 1t is pleasant to
hear a "schoolmarm" of long and
varied experience with delinquent
children say that there are no really
bad boys and girls.
Evening star., 1923-07-15

to take the helm Of the industrial ship
is not financially interested. Mr.. Hays
is not a motion picture producer. dis
trioutor or exhibitor. Judge Lands is
not stockholder in any one Of the
professional base ball clubs. Augustus
Thomas does not own a theater. The
fact is these men have been chosen as
Mr.. Stimson will probably be chosen.
because they have no direct interest,
because they are immune from the in
fluences of ownership and can view
the whole industry dispassionately and
without prejudice.
This same principle prevails in many
large individual concerns. Men are
hired as general managers and as
presidents Of corporations who are
perhaps not shareholders-who "qual-
ify." 1t may be. by buying stock, per-
haps at nominal rate-but who are
definitely subordinate in point of
ownership to a board Of directors and
yet have paramount powers Of action,
subject always to the policies and will
VI thc pcdiu. III duy OIlc VI tHc5c
cases Of overlordship the man in su-
preme command, like Hays, or Lands,
or Thomas, or Stimson, If he is so
named, is under a contract which
guarantees him continuous engage
ment. But he may be deposed II at
any time he fails to represent the
wishes of the majority OF those who
engaged him. He may have a claim
for compensation, but In point Of ac-
tual service he may be set aside
whenever he Is at odds with his board
or council, or whatever may be the
title Of the representative organiza-
ton.
These positions make for higher ef-
ficiency and for a minimum of friction
between competitors who have a mutual
interest and for a reduction of loss and
waste. They are a symbol of good
business.
Evening star., 1923-07-15

ment brought this sum down to $780,
S37, and the state Of New Jersey took
enough in taxes to lower 1t still
further, to $351,753.30. There were in
all. it appears, approximately 10000
persons in the bowl.
OF the cash receipts It Is disclosed
that Willard, the beaten man, gets 35
per cent, or s123.113.66, while Firpo,
the conquerer, draws down % 1-12 per
cent. or SIS, ,144.6o. The other boxers,
in the so-called preliminary" bouts,
receive total Of $37.500, making q
payment to the talent" of the show
of $239,758.26. This leaves the pro-
moter Of the fight approximately s112,.
600 with which to pay all other ex-
penses and to make profit, If he can.
Considering the size of the army Of
attendants, he may not get away with
a very large slice Of the melon after
all.
These figures have a bearing upon
the suggestion that the champion may
demand guarantee or a gate" OF a
million dollars for his next fight, ad-
vanced by his manager the other day.
1t Is hard to see how such a price can
be put upon the match, unless the rate
Of ticket charges is raised much higher
than that which prevailed at the Will
lard-Firpo match. To bring in the
guarantee to the champion alone the
scale would have to be more than
doubled. 1t looks as If the next big
bout would be offered to the public at
rates never before heard OF in the his.
tory OF commercialized prize fighting
Evening star., 1923-07-15
MEN AND AFFAIRS
BY ROBERT T. SMALL.

| John L. LEWIS. at Atlantic City.
is fighting for more than the
IA eleven demands presented to
the anthracite coal operators by
the three districts Of the United Mine
Workers Of America who toll in the an
| thracite fields. 1t is very generally ac-.
cepted here that Mr.. Lewis is destined
| to succeed Samuel Gompers as head Of
| the American Federation of Labor
| Naturally, he wants to enter the race
| for the new honors with victory to
his credit in the pending negotiations
Whether the president of the miners
| desires actually to oust Mr.. Gompers
| Is question. Lewis Is a young man,
| and can afford to await the time
| when the venerable head of the fed
| by his own will.
The miners are by far the strongest
organization actually within the Fed
Grafton of Labor. There are some
half a million of them. The miners
are strong enough to "go 1t alone"
II necessary. but they have chosen to
go along" instead. and there is every
reason to believe that when the
scramble comes for Gompers' shoes
oOHH Lc"lS Will De lOuHu lar III the
| lead of any possible competitors.
Lewis and Gompers differ in many re-
spects. GomperS believes in union
organization by crafts. He believes
that the men who do carpentry work
in the mines should belong to the
carpenters union. Not SO with Lewis.
He insists that every one who works
in the mines, carpenters, engineers
or what not. shall belong to the
miners union-and so they do
Like Gompers, Lewis is assailed In
some labor quarters as a conserva-
tive. But he has only the conserva-
tisIn which comes with great re-
sponsibility He is a stalwart among
stalwarts for the rights of the work
ingman, and he is more active by
far than Gompers in his support of
the right to strike. Lewis has the
confidence Of the men he leads and
the respect of the employers with
earnest pleader, possesses the analyti-
cal power of the great lawyer. and
has a ready wit When some one at
Atlantic City suggested that he could
not understand the demands of the
miners at this time, Lewis calmly re-
piled:
well, you see, this coal industry is
a very dark business
X y
There were many amusing incl
dents at the conference of the miners
and the operators at the shore. The
conferences were held in the Fene-
tian gardens of one OF the most ex-
elusive and expensive hotels in At
Evening star., 1923-07-15
High Fighting Finance.

Photographs of the gigantic bowl at
Boyles Thirty Acres, in Jersey City,
at the prize fight Thursday night show
an'immense concourse of people, hu-
nanity packed solidly into a vast
arena. Unofficial reports put the total
attendance at about 100000. There
were visions Of enormous profits for
the promoter of the fight and Of rich
slices of gate money for the partici-
pants in the boxing program.
The figures are now available. Fed.
eral agents, who represent the keenly
interested Uncle Sam on the score of
war taxes have finished checking
up, and it is announced that the total
number Of paid patrons was 1912.
All others were "deadheads" and at
tendants, policemen, firemen. ushers
and detectives. The gross receipts
were $429.920.7o. The federal tax pay.
Evening star., 1923-07-15

lantfc City. To reach the garden.
1t was necessary for both operators
and miners to file through the main
dining room. Often during the pro-
ceedings the operators would ask for
the right to caucus among themselves
Then the miners and the newsoacer
men would Ale out Often again the
miners would desire to caucus and
| then the operators and the reporters
would file out together. One day in
particular the caucuses, or the cauci.
| If you prefer il. were exceedingly nu-
merous and there was much filing
back and forth. In the midst OF this
interchange there came filing into the
main lobby of the hotel long line
OF bellboys. new shift going on duty.
I And what union do they belong
to- recherche onlooker facetiousiy
inquired.
THE Gold Diggers." quickly replied
President Lewis.
A familiar figure at the conference
was Jack Leary, veteran labor writer
for the New York World. Jack knew
every labor leader and every opera
tor Of any note at the gathering and
his appearance was hailed with de-
light, for he had but recently recoS-
cred from a rather severe illness
Jack has the sort Of unfailing good
humor that meets every adversity
with smile. and out of his hospita
experience he naturally evolved
good story on himself.
1t seemed the doctors told Jack he
would have to wear a rather cumber-
some belt. He didn't like the idea
For how long?" he asked
"Oh. Just until 1t wears out" re
piled the doctors casually.
had ed orT-
he went to get fitted. This ceremony
over. he turned to the salesman.
How long will this belt last?" he
queried
"Oh, don't worry about that" said
the salesman. "It will last you life
time
A Washington traveller just re
turned from Canada tells an amusing
story of an incident on a sightseeing
bus in Toronto. The lecturer, or bal
lyhoo, on the bus had a distinct line
He rarely failed in pointing out a
place or object of interest to add
remark calculated TO catch a laugh
Much of the humor was directed at
the American passengers. For in
stance, when the bus was passing
Parliament Park.
There, ladies and gentlemen" said
the ballyhoo, ARE two historic can
non. They were captured at the bat
tie of Bunker Hill. We got the can
non: you know who got the hill"