Entered
at Second Clati Matter October
at Chicago, llllnolt, under Act
Office
TWENTY-EIGHT-
11.
1889,
at the Pott
peals and in nil but a few cases tho
claims wero allowed.
In most of tho cases tho appellants
wero young fnrmors, who were cither
renting land or who had purchased
farms and wero paying for them by
In n number of cases,
Installments.
sons of retired farmers said they wero
needed at homo bcatiso tholr fathers
wero unnblo to operate tho properties.
About 10 per cent of tho men denied
exemption by locnl boards In Chicago
who carried their caBcs to tho appeal
boards hnvo had their cases reversed.
Appeal boards 1 nnd 2 linvo had to
consider 4,500 nppculs, and In 1,800
enscs tho appellants wore exempted
from service.
JUDGES PICKED
Republican and Democratic Bosses Agree
Upon Judicial Slate Public Can Pay
Expenses of Ballot Farce.
as Second Clatt Matter October 11, 1889, at the Pom
at Chicago, Illinois, under Act or March 3, 1879.
Office
CHICAGO, SATTJBDAY, SEPTEMHE1? 22, 1017.
YEAH, NO. 52.
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Entered
INDEPENDENT IN ALL THINGS, NEUTRAL IN NONE.
of March 3. 1879.
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WHOLE NUMBIB 1.157
REYNOLDS WARNS
President of Continental & Commercial
National Bank of Chicago Protests
Against Big Tax on Business.
B. A. ECKHART ON
Well, tho judicial election Is over.
Tho pcoplo have so much on their
bosscH
minds that the political
thought It would rcllovo them of a
burden by selecting their Judges for
them.
Year by year tho ballots have been
getting shorter.
Year nfter year ono offlco after
has boon taken away from tho
voter and given to other political
appointing power.
This year the voters will linvo nothing to say about choosing judges.
Thoro will bo an election in November, of course, to ratify tho choice
made by tho bosses.
And, Incidentally, tho political organisations will collect $12,000 each
from tho boys they put on tho bench,
ns the political assessment Is snid to
bo fixed at that figure.
Tho following nro tho nominations
agreed upon:
Superior Court.
Democratic.
Republican.
Albert C. Barnes,Joseph H. Fitch,.
s
Charles M. Foell, Clarence N.
win,
Kava- Michael L. Mc- nagh,
Klnley,
William H. Mc-- .
surely,
Denis E. Sullivan,
Joseph B. David.
Hugo Pam.
Superior Court New Judgeships.
Jacob H. Hopkins,
Oscar Hebel,
Circuit Court Vacancies.
Harold L. Ickes, Chilton P. Wilson.
Anton L. Zeman, Frank Johnston,
nn-oth-
Good-Marcu-
Jr.
two Democratic
organization
JUDGES CHANGE PLACES
BREAD CONTROL
Union Iibel Lcnguo; J. A. Knln,
Clgarmakors; Albert Peterson, Steam
Englncors, and Chnrles S. Grassl,
Carpenters and Joiners, constitute
tho remainder of tho oxccutlvo board.
Mrs. Raymond Robins, president National Woman's Trndo Union League,
nnd A. Robinson of tho Machinists
failed of otectlon by narrow margins.
John Mnngan, Stcnniflttcrs, nnd Oscar F. Nolson, Postofllco Clerks, were
tho two highest candidates for places
as dclcgato to tho Amorlcan Federation of Labor convention. Ono of
tho two will bo chosen nt tho next
meeting of tho federation.
Tho following will assist In tho
FItzpntrlck-Nockol- s
administration
tho coming year:
Oscnr F. Nelson.
Financial secretary, Fred G. Hopp.
Treasurer, Thomas F. Kennedy.
Rending clerk, William S. McClonn-than- .
Well Known Merchant Miller
and Financier Says U. S. Con-
trol Will Outlive the War.
Judgo Mntchctt goes to tho Appcl-latCourt, succeeding Judgo McGoor-ty- ,
who Is transferred to tho criminal
branch of tho Circuit Court. Judgo
Sciinlnn of tho Circuit Court will sit
in tho criminal branch until December 1, when ono of tho now Judges to
ho elected nt tho Novombor election
will bo assigned to tako his place
Judges Ilarrctt nnd Brothers, who,
hnvo been sitting in tho criminal
branch, will sit in tho county building, tho formor to licnr lnw cases and
tho lnttor to sit in tho divorco court,
succeeding Judgo Thomson, who will
hoar law cases.
Tho trial calendars of tho Into
Sergeant nt arms, K. A. Schrocdor.
Judges Gibbons nnd Ilonoro will not
Following nro commlttco appointbo tnkon up until after tho county
board moots. An effort is to bo mndo ments:
Flnnnco Elizabeth Malonoy, wait- to have It approprlnto money with
which to pay outsldo Judges to sit
and tako up the calendars.
In tho Superior Court JudgeB Sullivan nnd Sabatli will sit in tho criminal branch, nnd Judges Pam nnd
Fitch will tnko tholr places on tho
law sldo In tho county building.
o
Colonel I). A. Eckhnrt, President of
tho II. A. Eokhurt Milling Company
nnd a lender in Ilnunclal circles, declared on Tuesday in n statement rend
to the convention of tho Master
Halters of tho United States at tho
Hotel Sherman, that Government supervision of bread-makinand other
Industries, which was necessary ns a
war measure, Is likely to conttnuo
after peaco is declared. Colonel Eek-hawas called to Washington to confer with II, C. Hoover regarding the
national control of the Hour milling
Industry nnd his address was read by
his son, Percy H. Eckhnrt.
"When tho war Is ovor and wo have
returned to normal conditions," said
Mr. Eckhart, "many of tho methods by
which tho present problems linvo been
rt
RAWS0N HAS THINKS
InliisssssssssH
''S-t:0i-l-
Octobor 1, whon tho nominations
aro to bo inudo formally, tho ton sitting judges whoso terms aro expiring will bo renominated. Tho Republicans will namo ono candidate and
tho Domocrats ono for tho two now
Supoilor Court judgeships crcuted
Definite arby tho last legislature.
rangement lins not beon mado as to
tho two Circuit Court vacancies,
which have nearly flvo years to run,
in succession to tho Into Judges Gibbons nnd Ilonoro.
It is probablo that thoro will bo a
contost at tho polls in Novombor over
theso two placos. If an ngrcomont Is
reached before October 1, however,
tho Indications nro that Chlof Assistant Stnto's Attornoy Frank Johnston
will bo tho T)omocrntlc organization
choice for ono plnco and Harold L.
Ickes, Progressive party chioftain In
1012, will lio picked by tho Ropub-llcanTheso two men will hnvo to bear
the brunt of tho whole fight, as nil
tho sitting judges will be on both
tlokots.
Thoro will also bo a fight botweon
Hopkins and Hobel.
Many Republicans aro domnnding
tho nomination of a completo Ropub-Meaticket.
Tho mojorlty in tho
county commlttoo will not stand for
any such proposal.
Thoro is no opposition In nny qunr-to- r
to tho ronomluatlon of tho flvo retiring Republican judges, llarnos,
Fooll, Kavanngh, McSuroly and Pam.
Oscar Hobel was tho party's nomlnoo
laBt year for tho Superior Court vacancy. Anton L. SComan, who mny bo
pushed for tho socond Circuit Court
vacancy by tho Republicans, had
support in tho judicial primaries IsBt year from tho city hall
faction.
Democrats
genorally
n
favor
straight party ticket but favor the
of tho flvo sitting Judgos.
On tho Democratic sldo, tho organization is united hohlnd four of tho
flvo retiring Judgos, nnd has determined to po along with tho fifth.
Judges Fitch, McKInloy, Sullivan and
David hnvo unequivocal organization
support.
Judgo Goodwin otlginally
was placed os allied with tho Dunno
wing. Lntoly, it Is reported, tho
Dunno lendors hovo nbandonod Judgo
Goodwin, which hasn't hurt him with
tho organization.
Municipal Judge Jacob H. Hopkins,
who was defeated for tho Circuit
Court vncancy Inst yoar by Judgo
Robert 13, Crowe, Is an ngrcod
for ono of tho two now judgeships. If thoro is to bo a battlo at
tho polls, Mr. Johnston and Chilton
Wilson of tho Sixth ward will bo tho
n
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FOUNDED 1889
Largest Weekly Circulation Among
People of Influence and Standing
OF NAVAL OFFICERS
W&P
Frederick II. Rnwson, president of
tho Union Trust Company, who is directing local efforts In tho national
campaign for $1,000,000, with which to
buy books nnd establish libraries for
soldiers, roceived nn indorsement of
tho movement from Capt. W. A. Mot-fot- t,
commnndnnt of tho Oreat Lakes
naval training station. Telegraphing
from Washington. Capt. Moffett said:
"I heartily Indorso tho campaign
and hopo tho rosponso to tho appeal
will bo Instnntaneous nnd wide. Good
books nro a great help to tho young
mon In tho nnvy and tho navy Is In
nood of moro of thorn. Success to you."
At tho great war convention of the
Chamber of Commerce of tho United
Stntes, nt Alantlc City, N. J on
Tuesday, Georgo M. Reynolds, president of tho Continental and Commercial National Hank of Chicago, protested against any disposition on the
pnrt of American lawmakers to place
too heavy war burdens on tho business of tho United States, especially
In tho way of oppressive taxes on excess profits nnd war Incomes.
"Stability and fairness In laws and
iregulutlons," he tlald, "will enable
business to get its hearings nnd put
Its entire strength back of the President. Uncertainty, the mother of
fear, breeds timidity, halts business
and, If not removed, results in depression. Thoro Is no occasion for
worry If the policies to bo adopted
and cnrrlcd out arc wiso and definite
nnd mndo known without too much
delay.
"Thero lias been nbundnnt evldcnco
of tho enthusiastic patriotism of tho
business men of the country. Thousands of men, who, under ordinary
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regulations that aro too harsh nnd restrictive.
"We might ns well face the piopost-Hosquarely and unflinchingly. The
nation (and business is pnrt of the
nation) that deceives Itself, lulls
Itself Into n fnlso belief that It can
withstand tho shock of dlro threats
of nil manner of lobulations and of
conscription of property nnd Income,
submit to delay as to when or where
such threats will stop and how many
of them will ho curried out; the nation, I say, that misjudges tho effect
of that sort of talk and assumes that
all will bo serene, Is lost in any great
undertaking.
"This Is no time for partisan politics. Party differences should bo
confined to fundnmentnl principles
nnd should not bo permitted to descend to tho petty qunrrels of obWilson Is
structionists.
President
broad gauged, and is
with business In such n way as to Inspire, tho greatest effort upon tho
pnit of business men.
"Wo nre facing forwnrd, and should
now and forover wipo out all theso
damaging notions about business
needing a particularly strong brand
of legislation and regulation simply
becauso It Is big. Tho slzo of tho
establishment nlouo should not subject It to condemnation. What would
wo do today without tho tremendous
aggregation of capital engaged In
transportation, mining, steel mnking
nnd lumbering? Wo should bo at tho
mercy of tho enemy, for, stripped of
theso concerns of great slzo, It would
bo utterly Imposslblo to get deliveries of coppur, iron, steel nnd lumber in sulllclcnt quantities. Wo must
have big business nnd tho bigger tho
hotter In this wnr crisis.
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BUTTER AND MILK
in favor of tho plans nnd nil that Is
necessary now is to linvo tho sanction of nil tho depositors. Tho
Is sending out letters now nnd
uro certain that It will moot the approval of overy ono Involved. I cannot yet give out tho unities of tho
banks,"
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BLACK CLOUDS
Negro Immigration from Southern States Said to Have
Totaled 200,000 in Three
Years.
It
Is
snid that the Negro Immigrants
to Chicago from southern states
200,000 In tho last three years.
Tho North Sldo Is flooded with them
nnd they tiro settling tho North Sldo
between tho river on thu south nnd
west. North nvenuo on tho north nnd
tho lako on the east.
Tho South Side Is the main settle-nieii- t
for them.
Tho Chicago Tribune of Wednesday,
September 10, said:
Threo hundred property owners in
the district bounded by Thirty-nintstreet, Flfty-Urs- t
stroot, Cottngo Grovo
avenue nnd Michigan boulevard mot
hist night to discuss plans for keeping "undesirables" out of tho zone.
That was tho .statement of William
Kirk, n realty dealer, 101 Enst
h
street, who was elected socrotary of tho organization, which Is
known ns tho Community Property
Owners' Protective Association.
William O'Hrlen In addressing tho
meeting snid:
"Wo don't want any gentlemen of
color or geiitlonion off color In our
midst."
A nunibor of tho speakers refused to
glvo their names, declining tho meet
lug was not for tho public nnd should
bo kopt secret.
Plans wero discussed to rnlso $100
for tho work. A number of Negioes
now llvo In tho district. Tho ineotlng
was hold at Warwick Hall, East
street nnd St. Lawionco nveh
Forty-sovotit-
A battlo ovei tho length of dairy
contracts between fnrmors and milk
dealers. Is now being waged by tho
nuo.
fanners nnd tho Hoover forces.
Mr. Hoover, In a lecent conforonco
at which Charles II. Potter iopro-sentetho Elgin local organization APPEAL COUNTRY
of tho Milk Produrors' Association,
asked that tho farmers make conAUTO FINES
tracts from mouth to month with tho
dairies, Instend of for six months,
pending tho govornmont action to
What Is said to bo tho only nppenl
lower feed prices.
token in tho history of Cook county,
by a motorist fined for speeding by a
At a meeting at Elgin Saturday
evening tho Hooor proposal was country Justice of tho pence, was
unanimously voted down by tho farm- filed in tho clerk's olllco of tho Coun
ers. They demand six months' con- ty Court by V. A. Harris.
Harris was arrested in Homowooil
tracts for tho winter nt $3.51 per 100
pounds. The summer price has beon and lined $200 and costs by Justlco of
the Peaco J. C. Howe.
$2.11 per 100 pounds.
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It Is said that If motorlstii who
Tho farmers elected L. II. Rohrsen
linvo been heavily fined by country
to represent them nt n dairy
In Chicago.
Justices for spoedlng will tnko appeals, tho heavy lines will bo stopped,
Inasmuch as tho Justices will stand
to loso tho amount of tho tines nnd lu
GRAHAM
PLAN addition
the com t costs of tho appeal.
Forty-sevont-
h
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BANKERS ASK FOR
JUST TAXATION
Ropresentnttvos of nearly all of tho
loop banks nppearod hoforo tho board
of rovlow nnd asked reductions, greater than last year in many casos, In tho
porsonal property tax assessments of
tholr Institutions. Reductions ranging
from 20 to 35 per cent woro uskod.
It was declared that Chicago banks
nro assessed on n disproportionate
basis.
"The banking business Is nn open
book- - thoro Is no way In which tho
assets can bo covored or concealed,"
said Arthur Roynolds, vlco prosldont
of tho Continental and Commercial
National Rank. "A largo part of tho
assets, Including tho gonoral statements, nro nontaxnblo. According to
tho law banking capital should not bo
nssossod nny higher than any othor
capital."
Attorneys Levy Mayor and Noblo n,
Judah and former Gov. Charles S.
asked reductions for tho national
and stnto banks. Frank O. Wotnioro,
prosldont of tho First National Hank,
and E. I). Hulbort of tho Merchants'
Loan and Trust Compnny also attended tho hearing,
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Miller and Leader In Financial Circles, Who Declares
Control Will Outlive the War.
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Bread
JANK
Depositors Committee Granted
Delay to Save $1,000,000.
ressos; M. II. Phllp, enrpontors and
joiners, and Gertrude Stootzol, Trade
Union Label League
Legislative A. C. Anderson, painters and docorators; Joseph W. Morton, stationary Hi omen; C. A. Ponso,
wob pressmen; Stovo Sumnor, milk
wagon drivers, nnd T. G. Vunco, court
teportcrs.
Delegates to Illinois Federation of
Labor convention Herman Iiouhler,
bnkors and confoctloners;
Thomas
Curry, printing pressmen, nnd Agnes
Johnson, boot and shoo workers.
FOREMAN MUST SERVE
Results at the Annual Election of Appeal Board Refuses to Exempt
Officers.
Banker.
John FItzpatiick nnd
Prosldont
Secretary Edward N. Nockols of tho
Chicago Federation of Labor woro
unanimously ro:elocted by tho Chicago Federation of Labor at tho
election of that body. Charlos
Dold of tho piano nnd organ workers
and socrotary of tho Public Ownership Lraguo lod tho balloting for
board places.
Anna Fltzgornhl of tho Woman's
That
Hanking ns nn occupation doos not
furnish sulllclont grounds for granting
exemption, In tho opinion of appeal
board No. 1, which on Tuesday denied
tho appenl of Humid E. Foroiunn, second vlco president of Foreman Profilers' Hanking Company, 30 North La
Sullo streot.
Farinors tared well at tho hands of
appeal board No. 3 at this wcok's session, Tho bonid considered sixty np- -
solved will be found advantageous and
will be continued.
"At this tinio tho
loaf Is an economic Impossibil
ity. Not only Is tho prleo of wheat
moro than double what It was In
or at least In former times,
but tho cost of every Ingredient in tho
production of a loif of bread has
climbed to unheard of levels. The
average Increase of tho genornl commodities used by the public Is about
85 per cent, hut HO per cont of tho
complaint made by tho consuming
public hns boon dhectcd against tho
Inctenso In tho piico of bread."
Mr. Eckhart pointed out that whon
comparisons are made with prices of
bread in Europe tho fact Is Ignored
that "war bread" Is being eaton by tho
warring nations, and that tho quality
Is so poor that tho substitute has sent
ninny to tho hospitals.
Tho bakers are a unit in declaring
that war bread will not bo seen In the
United States.
Tho frugal housowifo who Is a good
cook can produce bread cheaper than
she cnu buy It, according to some of
tho master bakois, but tho oxports on
oroi heart chargos claim that of licit-lutho ovon and othor Itoms nro
lu ostliuntlng tho cost of tho domestic product.
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conditions, nro crowded almost to tho
limit of ondurnnco with their own uf- fairs, alteady hmo suborrtlnntert their
porsounl Intorosts to undertake the
work of tho govornmont.
"A full nieasuro of porninnont cooperation botweon tho government
iinrt business deserves nn especial
plea, for if there Is luck of a sane
working basis, prejudice, suspicion
legislation and
and discriminating
regulations upon tho part of tho ono
will result in uneasiness and unsteadiness of purpose upon the part of the
other. Even now thoio aro unmls-takablsigns of hesltnncy. Huslness
men aro nfrnld to pltico orders
thoy do not know with sufficient cortainty what tho policy of
tho government upon many subjects
vital to tho safo conduct of business
will bo, or when those policies will
be announced.
"Stability and fairness lu laws and
regulations,
nnd fowor legislative
changes, will onablo business to get
its bonrlngs nnd put Its cntlro
strength buck of tho President, Tho
host oloiuont li congress nnd tho
legislatures, tho ulomont that
really stands for progress and tho
accomplishment of those things that
aro worth whllo, can porfprm no bettor servlco thon to provont tho onact- o
o
vn-ilo-
Plans which u committee of depositors nlllims will sao at least $1,000,-00- 0
for tho creditors of thu defunct
Ginhniii & Sous bank wero completed
and letters asking that the plans ho
ratified hnvo been sent to thu 12,001)
depositors.
Federal Judgo Cat pen-to- r
today granted a continuance of
ono month on the adjudication proceedings that these plans could bo
cm tied out.
"If tho affairs of tho bank nro allow od to go through tho bankruptcy
com t and tho nssots of tho hunk in
notes and real estnto sold undor the
hammor thu creditors cannot possibly locovor moro than 25 cents on
tho dollar," said County Clerk Robort
M. Swoitzor, u moiubor of tho depositors' coinmltiteo,
"Hut 'by having
tho nssots handled by soveral banks
nnd tho greatest amount lonllzod on
the teal estoto at least $1,000,000 -perhaps as much ns $1,500,000 can
bo savod and nn Immedlato payniont
of 30 por cont. given rredltora and
ubout 75 por cont. eventually saved
out of tho wreck.
"Our commlttoo, which has woiked
for the interest of tho many ciodltors,
has completed n plan to save this
money and has nlieady gained tho
piomlso of sovorol hunks to carry
them out for us, Tho Grahams nro
CROOKED
PROMOTERS
Movement on Foot to Jail Men
Who Are Selling Stocks in
Wind Corporations.
A movement Is on foot to Joll tho
follows who hnvo been working Chicago for all thero was In it in selling
stock for various nppll.inces out of
which fortunes woro to bo mado. Tho
victims of theso crooks nio numerous
and Include- men who wero conlldenced
Into extending credit to them and who
have only received somo of their teal
capital stock wind.
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GOOD BYE FUNKHAUSER
Muor Thompson hns Issued
a
Prne-lamntlo- u
calling mi citizens to bo
patriotic and praising tho Chicago
boys who aio In tho nriny.
FOUNDED 1889
Largest Veekly Ciicultlion Areo
People of Influence and SUndwvf