Show PRICE OF THE FIX tr THE sad plight of Chicago which has been slipping sUpping nearer and nearer to the edge of downright bankruptcy ought to be a final warning a last object lesson for the American people about the evils of municipal municipal municipal party politics When Judge Jarecki the other day threw out the tax assessment rolls of 1928 and 1929 with the remark that the evidence of fraud blew into his court like a blizzard he added the final bit of evidence to prove that partisan politics can be altogether too expensive expensive expensive ex ex- ex- ex pensive a luxury for a modern city Chicago today is paying the price for years years' of acquiescence in rule by unscrupulous poli poll And what makes the affair of nationwide nationwide nationwide na na- na- na wide tion-wide interest is the fact that Chicago simply magnifies conditions that are present in nearly every American city Chicago has done what most of the rest of us have done done done- only on a bigger scale Political rule is almost inseparable from the fix The fix is in evidence In almost every department of most city governments That is what happened in Chicago Tax assessment assessment as assessment as- as rolls were fixed and fixed and fixed year after year year until until finally the courts threw them out and ordered the job done over again Politics interfered with the new assessment and now that has been thrown out likewise and Chicago's finances are in a adire adire dire plight There isn't anything surprising in all o of this Politics played playe fast and loose with Chicago's Chicago's Chi CM- cagos cago's city government and Chicago today is paying the price Fad freak and fashion especially when I reacted into law Jaw bring most of our trou- trou trou-I trou |