Show GETTING NOWHERE CHICAGO is in arrears in pay pay- C CHICAGO J ment o ot of school teachers' teachers salaries The pedagogues marshal five thousand of ot their number numb r for a a parade winding up in riot and violent speech General Charles G. G Dawes bank chief shakes his fist at the mob and shouts To o hell bell with the trouble makers Thus it is obvious that neither side is getting getting get get- ting anywhere re The trouble makers demanded that the purchase tax anticipation notes note banks anks more J making pos possible i le payment of part of the thc money moncy due them When banks closed tem tein- to avoid imminent destruction of their quarters the thc teachers had stormed the lobbies lobbies lob lob- bies walked over OYer tables overturned waste wastebaskets wastebaskets baskets n and d booed the officials Then the they threatened to do the tim same thing every da day until their salar salaries es should be bc paid Somehow one expects better deportment in ln a teacher Supposedly sedly they are arc better grounded in history civics and cultural l niceties nice nice- tics ties than the thc average run of the citizenry They should know the orderly procedure to obtain redress of grievances It is id c evident nt officials effort effort effort ef ef- ef- ef that Chicago's ll are ac c making every fort to meet their obligations On the other hand on one cannot am ot muster a particle of admiration for the remarks of the doughty general Sympathy rath rather r flows to Mayor Maor Edw Edward rd Kelly in the post vacated by Mayor 1 Cermak k victim of a a bullet fired by by- byan an apostle of anarchy Chicago is suffering from the effects of political wickedness For years ears the thc city has has' been plundered by political opportunists An tn intelligent electorate has learned earned much in the past few years If it en endures lures corrupt government govern govern- mont ment it cannot place the blame upon igno igno- ignorance rance neither rance-neither neither in Chicago no nor elsewhere The plight of these school teachers and other city is pitiable They a are e victims vic vie ti tims tirns s of ridden graft-ridden politics Nevertheless Ne their outlawry cannot be countenanced There is is a w way y out for them and their intelligence and e character should have led them to it I |