Show Hungry School Tei Teacher Teach 4 The Story of Chicago's Bankruptcy c 4 f I Exceed Hungry Hobo Hoboes Editors Editor's note Second In a series of ot articles Hoboes stand on Loop street corners in Chicago asking for dimes They want only enough for fora fora a a doughnut and a cup of o coffee coHee Yet there are more hungry school teachers teach teach- ers era than hungry hoboes In Chicago This second of a series of ot stories about the city's financial crisis attempts attempts at at- tempts to tell why Tomorrows Tomorrow's story will deal In fri detail with plans for relic re re- lic lief By RAY BAY BLACK United Press Staff Correspondent Copyright 1932 by y United Press CHICAGO Jan 13 Seven 13 Seven thousand thousand thou thou- S sand ind Chicago school teachers went without lun lunch h today That Is half halt the men and women women women wo wo- wo- wo men who teach in the city schools The estimate is by board of ot education education education tion officials They base it Jt on answers answers an an- to a questionnaire and knowledge knowledge knowledge knowl knowl- edge of or bitter facts that require no questionnaire The teachers went hungry at lunch lunchtime lunchtime lunchtime time because they could not afford aford even soup and a roll roU They have been paid for only six weeks in the thelast thelast thelast last seven months they have taught Many of them will vili have scanty dinners din din- nero ners tonight Thousands of policemen firemen librarians truck drivers Inspectors clerks and other municipal are arc in equally precarious plight All Allwork Allwork Allwork work for the fourth largest probably probably ably the third richest city In fn the world It cannot afford to pay their salaries Why HUNTING BUNTING FOR FOIL THE ANSWER For a week a United Press writer has been on the trail of the answer to that question The quest has led through bulky municipal records through interviews with officials through conferences with bankers through talks with bewildered school and speaking slow-speaking policemen policemen policemen police police- men fathers o of large families All agree there has been grave error error error er er- er- er somewhere None knows just where Its the taxes explained a school schoolteacher schoolteacher schoolteacher teacher graduate of the University of Illinois who made an A in an economics course there The city cannot collect taxes and there is no money to pay us w. It was because of ot the greed of ot them that sat in the saddle before as should never have been there said a ruddy cheeked haired gray-haired traffic policeman whose five children children children chil chil- dren probably know to whom he re re- re fers fern There are many reasons Perhaps there has been executive mismanagement mismanage mismAnage- ment meat waste Inefficiency It is hard I to say cautioned a banker And there the problem reato Wit of assessed va luaU On with of bl wealth Chicago is penniless Mayor Anton J. J Cermak predict anarchy martial law cha o unless relief relic is Immediate The special s session sion of the stal staL legislature convened to solve c Chi cagos cago's money problem divides lit Chicago and state down gro Unless Cook county legislators ag to the state income tax that the do down want it looks d dark for C Chi Chicago Lm cago relief bills bUls CITES ACTUAL CASES Meantime misery reigns in Cj go Here are listed actual cases case In hi stand for names of those wi who wh pride survives adversity their name narre are arc on board of education records records- Mrs J. J B. B is an elderly elgh eighth g grad erad teacher eligible to retire in fou foi years Her husband has been an ir is valid for five ive years Mrs MIS B. B had pal off half of she owed or on thel I home when salary checks stop stepPe She borrowed money from a loan oj ci fice flee at 42 per cent to meet the PI pa ments Later she had to borrow troi two other loan sharks shark Now s st owes all three three- All the mone money si zi has is 3 She probably will wili j lo b her home Mrs A. A L. L is a widow Her b hi hu band died of tuberculosis leaving h bl three children to support The he yo youn est eat Is two months old She has 1 1 care for a niece who is ilL She Sha hi h kept on teaching but sh shE has h b hs to accept charity to feed find clot clott her children Mrs S. S M. M Mt a high school supported her mother and father ar at contributed to support of her linen UDen brothers brother's family of five Hi H savings were lost in a bank bonk Her father sickened and died H illness and funeral took all that cou be borrowed A woman truant officer tried keep up her home but found it itis IB possible because three tenant fam fain lies were penniless I have families who owe two years rent she said Now the coal deal deall threatens to sue me for his bill bUt |