Evening star., 1926-03-03

chord in the pedagogical heart. The
Bureau of Education says the average
salary of a sChoolteacher in the
United States is $500. A famous base
ball player manager has recently been
engaged for three years on an annual
guarantee of over $4,000. Thanks to
the efforts Of DR. Frank w. Ballou, SUI
perintendent of schools in the District
u Columbia, plus the generosity of
congress, the minimum teachers sal
Try in Washington is almost $1,000.
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There never was any serious prob
tbillty that the Senate would accent
me invitation of the Better Govern
ment Association of Chicago to in
vestigate" the big city on Lake Michi-
gan's southernmost shore. A precedent
literally limitless in it's possibilities
would be set if the inquiry had been
ordei ed. AS far as the criminal ac-
tVfSleS OF aliens are concerned the
deportation division of the Department
of Labor Is always looking after these.
But lack of funds and inadeCpuate per
sonnel, to say nothing of the tallness
of the order Itself, make the observa-
ton Of foreign crooks a very difficult
proposition. Whether it would be any
simpler under system of registering
al
Davis so ardently advocates, is a ques-
ton. Chicago has always been infested
with dangerous characters of foreign
origin. The Windy City's present
trouble is with Sicilian gunmen.
Thirty-five years ago it was German
anarchists, addicted to bomb b-throwing.
who kept the community in a state
Of terror. 1t required an elaborate
necktie party on the gallows of the
Cook County Jail to put down lawless-
ness in those days. Perhaps some
thing of that sort now would be more
salutary than a Senate investigation.
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Wollnar Bostrom, the new Swedish
Minister to the United States, saws
that he seems predestined to dog the
diplomatic footsteps of Sir Esme
Howard, K. G. NJ. G., the British Am
bassa3or to this country. During the
war Sir ESme was his country'S envoy
at Stockholnl-one of the most delicate
civilian outposts John Bull had to
maintain in those days. After the war
Howard was British Ambassador to
Spain and Bostrom was Swedish Min
| lister at Madrid. A couple of years ago
Howard was transferred to Washing
| ton, and now BOstrOm finds himself
his colleague here. The Swedish envoy
bears a remarkable resemblance, in
| face and figure, to the late Lord
| Northcliffe. Soon he will be familiar
| sight on the Washington tennis courts,
| but he claims he's far too much out
| of practice, though once Swedish
, amateur champion, to be worthy the
steel of Helen Wills or Bill Tilden.
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| Now that it can be told, there was
imminent danger, about week ago, of
cloture under rule % again being en-
ployed to insure passage of the tax bill
| in the Senate. Certain Republican
Senators of progressive hue were
ready to launch a filibuster. If they
had carried out that intent there would
have been a grave possibility OF tax
reduction not becoming available on
March Is. When wind of the protected
time-killer reached certain Republican
leaders they Indignantly blurted out
their readiness. for the second time In
the session if necessary, to petition for
cloture and impose 1t. The Would-oe
| filibuster instantaneously collapsed.
Copyright. 1926)