The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-11-04
big BILL OUT
FOR Library
HEAD SCALPS
Accuses Board of Aiding
British Propaganda; Asks
designations.
CIVIC GROUPS PROTEST
Move Against McAndreW
Branded Trivial in At
tack on Crusade.
BY C. C. NICOLET
United Press STAFF Correspondent


CHICAGO, Nov. 4.-Faced by
criticism from civic bodies and open
rebellion by the public library board,
Mayor William Hale Thompson to-
day set out after the scalps of the
guardians of the public bookshelves.
In 22-page letter to Andrew j.
Kolar, president of the library board,
Thompson accused the board of I'M
truths, of fostering British propa-
ganda and of being out of sympathy
with the voters of Chicago.
Resign, Says Mayor
"The honest thing for you to do
is to resign" the mayor said.
Furthermore, the mayor took oc-
casion in the course of the twenty
two pages to squelch any vagrant
notion anybody may have that an
unpatriotic language is spoken in
Illinois.
1.-The official language Of the
State, by a law passed through the
efforts of the late Senator Frank
Dyan, is American" the mayor
wrote.
Thompson explained that he OBJ
jected not to the presence Of OBJ
jectionable books" on the shelves,
but to the boards policy of recon-
mending certain books for general
reading courses"
big Bill' Is Hurt
Thompson may or may not be
angry, but he is terribly, terribly
hurt.
For weeks the doughty Thompson
has devoted much of his valuable
time to directing personally the war
on King George III.
At whatever sacrifice Of personal
desires, he has lent his fullest
strength to George Washington and
the Continental Army. He has I'M
hesitatingly Endorsed the colonial
fight for independence. He has dis
played appropriate bitterness toward
the redcoatS of Britain and taxed
tea.
Base Ingratitude
And what does he get for It?
SANDER. Base ingratitude. Reso-
lutions.
Delegates of twenty-nine civic or
CARNATIONS met last night and de-
-liberately charged that a faint of
politics could be detected in the
Thompson efforts to rid Chicago
schools and libraries of the propa-
ganda of the British Lion.
A resolution adopted by the dele
gates offered the remarkable notion
that the purpose of schools is educa-
ton and that as long as the super
intendent of schools is under sus-
pension, the school organization is
thrown out Of gear and education Is
likely to suffer.
1t demanded that the trial of
william McAndrew, suspended head
of the schools, charged with insult
ordination and fostering of British
propaganda, be fastened.
The trial has lasted more than a
month so far, and is proceeding
rapidly at the rate of some two
hours weekly of testimony relating
to British hopes for American
unity, British bestowal of decora-
lions on American leaders, and the
disappearance of patriotic pictures
from the walls of Chicago school,
rooms.
The twenty-nine organizations,
through their delegates, constitute
the joint committee on public
school affairs in Chicago.
Charge Office USurped
The committee charged the board
of education, which is conducting
the McAndrew trial, is politically
controlled; that the testimony in
troduced so far in the McAndrew
trial is trivial and irrelevant" and
that the board has "the evident in
tention Of prolonging the trial I'M
til the superintendent term ex-
pires in February"
Meanwhile, the resolution said,
1.-THE president of the board Of edu-
cation has usurped the powers of
the superintendent Of schools and
the schools are being run without
the professional direction the law
requires"
That's what a man gets in Chi
cago for trying to keep the British
dragon off the shelves of Chicago