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Chicago Office- ioi6-ioi8SWILLOUGIBY TowEit Telephote CENTRtAL 33SS StYESCRIPTION $2PERtYEAR SINGLE COPIES 5 CENTS Aill communications and contr ibutions intendcd for publi- caion must bear. the name and addrcss of the author, flot necessarily for publication,% but for our îles. Such matèrial- must reach the editor by Tuesday noon to. be ini time for the current issue. HOME Boy. MAKES. GOOD Under the caption, "Paging Mr. Ickes !" The Chicago Daily, News of 'Monday published, the following editorialý in comümendation of Secre- tary of: the, Interior Harold L Ickes of :Win- netka. It is a matter of no small pride to New Tircitizens that one of our neighbors has risen, solely by force of character and demotn- cils of the'national administration: "Paglng '.%r,, Ickes ! aging Mr. Ickes becauehe is honest, fearles, and an lm- placabie foe of graI.t. Paging hlmi becau.5e thoÈse-qualities have placed hlmh ameng the: most influential iembers of the Roosevelt cabinèt. Paging hlm because his powerful influence mlght suggest certain ainendnients to the CW_. appropriation bill and because bis intervention could end the unsavory rwnors about the Chicago butter mxarket. -Tha nks to the aggressive secretary ofth e interlor, the CWA Ô;rganization is being te- fornîed in the interest of efciency. Punish- nient of the guilty under the ternis of the, national industrial. recovery act rests largely on the federal conspliracy statutes. Ainend- nwnts f0 the appropriation bill now pendlng in congress should1 speclfy penalties for price manipulation in the niaterlal field, for pay roll padding, and for the extortion of unilon dues and other payments from CWÂ workers. Such changes, would slmplify the task of pre- venting new abuses. * "As treasurer, Mr. lekes pays thxe bis for the federal Surplus Relief corporation. Be- cause of defects in the formn of bids for sup- plying butter, there have, been rumors of price. manipulations, to provide undue profits for * Chicago bldders. Sehedule. 35 of the çorpora- tion, calling for new bids, has elimninated thýai coftingency in rlase A butter. Prices icoi elass B butter in tubs, however, are still fixed (on a base of fresh 92 score butter, -while de-. livery of either freý,h or storage is perniitted. The temptation to nmanipulate the price of faits f0 hold a referendum on the question of' issuing 'tavern" licenses on or before May 10, the issaance of a license beconmes mandatory upon such city or village. It therefore becomes imperative t hat the New Provision is also made for registering the il of voters outside village or city liniits but wit.hin the. confines of the township. The vote miay bc taken to cover ail of the territor.y of the toivn- sbip flot included in any incorporated city or village, or by the various road districts. In. considering .thi's. -important issue v'oters should not -confuse the "wet .or dry" question w ith that of local option. While the 'north shorec villages havè, long- excluded the saloon, their citizens were opposed to national prohibitio .n, at least in the, manner ýof its admninistra.tion, and were frank 'and open ini their, expressions of opinion. But prohibition has now.been repealed and -does flot enter into the preent proposition. which resolves itself into the simple question: "D)o. Iwant lice nsed saloons im'.the village m.herc Ilive?" While* we believe that the answvers to the qucs-, tion will bé preponderantly against the issuance of liquor store licenses, indulgence 1 in over con- fidence might lead directly. to a resul t opposed to that sentiment. It is for this reason that the citizenship is hereby cautioned1 to get into ini- miediatê action to the enad that such an unfor- ttnate contingency nma.y fot arise. l'le law also provides that the local option feýa- ture may he submnitte d ini two formis. One ex- cludes tlhe sale1 of al liquor. The other permit.- the sale (f 4 PierceiC beer andl excludes tlhc stroniger drinks. XVhen both questions are sub- iitted together and exclusion of ail1 liquior k voted, l)eer is also exchîded. Apparcn-tly there -as been a ;t11div(l effort on the Part of. framners of the act to iij .ect inito if *provision5., that will 1'keep such- villages as ours ,'otmuitall 011 the alert toguard against the pos- the advenit of a business that is inhercnitly' .un(e- sirable. Other sections of the law provide that nio liquor nîav be sold (turinig the vQting hours of a primarv, or electioni da '%; that no liquor may be sold oil buîmdays unless the Village board or city council *gives pýermission,,and that no "t avern'" mnay be estalblished w %ithin 1,,500 feet of "anv state un i- versity ow.ned or maintainied in whole or in part bhv fle: State.of Illinois." L.eo Gallagher, a Los Angele 1s atorney, was ordered to, leave Prussia in three days, being awakened at 7:-30 a. in. to receive the bad news. We thought that was cruelly early until we learned that he is counsel for the -cogimunist party in his home tOwn. Will men neyer learn to beat 'ecm up good? Triday a Chicago judge threw the divorce case oi O'Brien vs. O'Brien out of court because in the family battles, neither. had an advantage in the *fighting. One inust ne eds be. hardboiled to read the, papers these days, with their endless records of physic 'ai and mental suffering among the poor, who are always- with. us. To us, wh ose. wells of sympathy, are sunk deep into a nature over-suscieptible to the appeais of the impecuiiious, and whose tears are close to the surface, it has -becomne impossible. We gave up the other day when the first pagescarried the sad story of a Chicago wife, who is being forced by *a brutal husband to live on a mere - pittance of $918 a month. Liv-. ing in penury in the squalid ' quarters' of a $100,000 pett house, with only a $3,000 Mexican. convent g arden from which to pick 'mumns and American Beautv roses ; in such dire financial distress that she can afford but two regular servants, With'occa- sinloutside help; unable to maintain a car and chauffeur; compelled to -dress in cheap gowvn, csngnot more than $-100. or possibly $150; too poor to pay for a '"sittingpp in a church; going deeper and deeper inlto debt to pay lawyers to prosecute a $1,000,000 alienation suit against the ."other wAomnan," and hiaving to deny herself such. niecessities of life as a box at the opera-but wIi-, go on? "The simple annals of. the poor" are to_ touching f0 impose upon tender hearts. Stich nlisery must not be. We. are holding a hat to receive your voluritary offerings. Interesting, if truc, is the marital record of a Chicago lady as revealed in the courts. She mar- ridJohn, who got a divorce, accusing Jim. Vhen she married J im, .Who later got a divorce, accus- ingý John. Then she remnarried John, who-got another divorce, again pointing a lfinger at, Jix., That just naturally led to remarr,.ying Jim, who, now seeks a second divorce with John as the goa -t. I's, ail prettv difficult to 'understand,, but- if ýwe were either John -or 'JÎm, we wou1d get as far away from that lady as possible-and stay there. The eider Douglas Fairbanks, speaking of that little affair with the titled Eng1ish lady, said that, it was strictly a private affair and should be given no publicity. Wby Douglas! You were courting publicity, were you flot? TrRe PH,&NTou REPORTER. p