Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-31
CHICAGO EMPLOYEES
WAITING FOR PAY
Thousands of Workers En-.
barrasSed by FiaSco in
City Finances.
BY JOHN F. SINCLAIR.
Il Dispatch To The star.

CdkU, W Rub Az AAAAaAJp 10 Au4dAlCA14As
embarrassed. No real estate taxes hav,
been paid by her citizens since TIT
Illinois Tax Commission, in May, 1928
ordered the reaSSeSsment Of all real eS
tate in Cook County as q result o.
thousands of complaints protesting ex'
cessive assessments.
The Thompson administration, oppos.
ing the new assessment. says that hun.
dreds of millions have been taken OF
the downtown buildings and spread
elsewhere. The fight is bitter one.
Some public men never worry about
their debts, so long as they can borrow
more. But the day of reckoning has
come" said Silas H. Strawn, big bust
ness lawyer, chairman OF the voluntary
citizens committee, to me, In his ONCE
in the First National Bank Building
Sessment. leave that to the experts
But what every fair-minded citizen
wants to do now is to bring order out
of chaos"
Speaking without emphasis, easily
although tired from days of study and
conference, Mr.. Strawn continued: Co
operation with the municipal otncials Is
necessary, but the first job before us is
to hammer out an agreement SAUSAGE
tory to the several tax-spending bodies
and our own citizens committee, re-
speeding the expenditure Of the funds
which our committee is prepared to adj
vance, pending the receipt Of taxes"
Mayor Thompson, bitterly opposed to
the new real estate assessment, de-
mands a special session OF the LegiSla-
ture be called. Gov. EmmerSon, eau
tious, listening, watching, says nothing
The Strawn committee waits with
cash. in lieu of tax money, to carry on,
whenever their plan is agreed to.
In the meantime, thousands of school
teachers, policemen, flremen, nurses and
other employees of Cook County and
Chicago are annoyed, embarrassed and
Inundated because they in turn cannot
pay their current bills.
Probably no city in America ever pre-
sented such financial Stalemate.
mot many centuries ago insects ruled
the world. Mankind has the upper
hand now, but only because we keep
eternally after the insects" said II. ID.
Hudson, president of the H. d. Hud-
son Co. of Chicago.
There are 1000 900 kinds of bugs
and insects in the world and most OF
them are against US. They not only eat
our crops and foods, torment US and
carry germ diseases, but some OF them
relish furntSure, leather, woolens and
other articles of value"
Pointinh a heap of vari-colored in
rocent toy guns on his desk, Mr.. Hud-
son explained that they were insect
fighters par excellence, although called
''sprayers," which, with the proper
chemicals, are the instruments Of war
fare against reaches, fies, mosquitoes
or bugs.
"The fight against the destructive
insect or bug is increasing" said the
manufacturer. I'VE notice 1t here. We
have made 10000 900 of those sprayers
a year for the last five years. Yet the
demand IS greater now than ever-it's
worldwide"
has been used in the automobile in
dustry many years for painting cars.
But in the future its greatest usage
will be in the home. Sprayers are
now used to paint furniture and var
nish floors, TO decorate lamp shades, to
molsten clothes for ironing and wash
windows. Basically, the real reason
Is that It is q simple process which
saves both time and money"
H. d. Hudson, small reticent man,
was born in a little backwoods log
cabin in Michigan, and went to work
early in life. Twenty-Five years ago,
with a capital of less than $1,000, he
entered the manufacturing field, pro-
ducing heavy agricultural equipments.
Now his factories are widely scattered
throughout the United States and his
And, say, business was never better
was his parting shot as left his ONCE.
Louis F. Swift, the Chicago packer,
believes that the new methods Of quick
freezing will revolutionize the retailing
of meats and perishables.
Few men have had more experience
in this field-probably none. Succeed
ing his father as president of Swift &
Co. 81 years ago, he has built this
institution into q property which has
$1,000 employees and $4,000 stockholders,
with gross sales last year Of over
$1,000, 100000.
For years we have distributed whole
tratnloads Of perishable foods, under
refrigeration in the company's own cars,
TO over 400 Of our own branch selling
houses and thousands of little towns, .
said Mr.. Swift in discussing the prob
lem Of meat distribution.
But the quick freezing method brings
in new factor-a most important one.
That is, public prejudice, although the
rapidity of the modern freezing causes
no disruptive action upon the cell It's
sues and the freshness is kept intact
THE American public will get over
its prejudice to frozen meats when II
realizes that nothing whatever is lost
in the quick-freezing process" says Mr.
Swift.
Has there been net decline in per
capita meat consumption" I asked.
Although meat consumption has de-
clineo from the high level Of 1924, the
total per capita meat consumption now
is about the same as it was in 1900
replied the packer. But the public
taste has changed. There has been 9
decline per capita in beef consumption
and some decline in the consumption OF
lamb. This has been Offset by increas-
ed per capita consumption Of pork and
veal. Pork has now become the mos
popular meat in the American diet"
While this company paid out $544,'
600, 900 last year in cash for live stock
the slaughtering end of the bushes.
produced little, If any, revenue. Thu
profits came from the by-products.
And do not be surprised If you sc,
drug stores, among others, selling mea
in the near future.
Speaking of net profits, would a re
tail shoe store doing a business o
$4,000 gross year be satisfied will
a $500 net profit? Would a neighbor
hood drug store having gross sales o
$4,000 be satisfied with a net prof
OF $500? Would a downtown DIR.
good store, doing business Of 5000, 00
q year be satisfied with a net profi
Of S2.400?
Yet this is the percentage which
Swift q Co. made last year, for out o
total gross sales of little over 81 900,
100000 it had a net profit of bu
s12,000,0O0
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