Show HASI ML thELL pt RAISING GENERAL HASI HAS HASi 1 i i I t i CLEANED UP PHILADELPHIA A i iise Wise ise Townspeople Laughed at Him First Ii IiI t ti i I Iz z Holding Politicians Would Curb Him But They Have Changed Their Minds i By Br I I S Copyright 1924 1 H bv by The Th Consolidated Conoll 5 t dated Pren Association 3 S PHILADELPHIA Jan For 12 12 For for reix lic days day now Smedley D Butler marine VIce vie has haa been careening around Philadelphia In a a a bit bill automobIle swaggering It a lit lit lit- lit tle tle tl a little tittle cajoling ca a lit lit- tte and threatening a little and In ht that time wise 01 old 1 Philadelphia has 8 d to change It Its ts mind Ind about him f thres times 1 When Wilen Butler Dutler first tInt came cam to town from his hia job on n 12 months month leave ot of to clean up the tho city saloon aloon gambling houses land and places place of or fame I and the bandits bandit away win wlee Philadel- Philadel Philadelphia phia politics politic had It a smile behind It Its hand and id aid aid- MIL Maib be he be b was wa all hilt hell like they Mid they waid In mopping up upi I i Haiti Halti and San and the rest st ot or those thos tricky republics republic down south south But wait walt until he h tuna runs up uD against against the tho lh puw power In Philadel- Philadel Philadelphia SoL phia The Th man down don t live IIvo that can clean clan up this town wn it BAWLS WI EI OUT r rs s Then Hells Hall a Des Dei II 11 Butler as ashi E g his marine marlnee call him went Into ac- ac ac action lion tion lie He H got ot ot up bet before botor ore a mas mass 4 meeting of ot Philadelphia cop cops and andain tn a speech bristling with hell hell s e t and and damns damns their own language ho he h gate car them theom 46 4 hours hour to make mako mak good Ho H talked to so 0 cops until his hla vole voice became a croak H He toured toure l the th police pollee districts bv by midnight most moat brass bras administer administer- administer ln bawl outs or commendation as a 1 be be thought the tho cues cases warranted 4 e lie Ho H set et an armored flies er one on I pot ot of his six lx bandit chasers chaser out In InI I city i-city city hall hail and nd posted aA a A cop cep at the wheel ready wheel ready at t a ft mol moments mo- mo l ij ment ments s notice nolle to dash ort oft In pure pur pur- pur e suit of ot bandit He H made speeches speech's a halt half r B dozen organizations tiling them what what h he was going to do In th the way Mot I ot cleaning up the tho th city 5 The Th newspapers with f sensational en stories The fhe Th echo cho went all around the th world Butler haa ha ha become becom the tb most molt talked about manin man In the th nation Wise Philadelphia could constrain itself to polite I mil no longer loner Thie was wu rich It was wu K a regular comic opra opera clean olean- cleanup I up It guffawed and yelled y Il d tour four tour rl I BI me nr oI Gins Gin's fR RESULTS I But all this publicity was get tier ft-tier ting Butler th the results r ull so 80 h ho didn't care The Th cops cop reading the th col- col column col columns I of hot stuff from Butler biting tongue were seared cared tiff They put the th lid on Philadelphia's In ln with mith a clang elaDA that made Its denizens shiver They Thy began mopping up saloons which had bd run vide Ide open ever vr since Inc prohibition They and nd d wielded l the Le LeBut axe ax on paraphernalia tl The Th 1110 n is didn t 80 o loudly t But alt thy they counselled led The The politicians will get ctt busy bury and It will all blow over When the th hour U-hour period ot of grace drew drw toward Its Ita end Thun Thurs Thursday day afternoon rumors flew thick and fast tut tha that Mayor Freeland Fr Hendrick Had sad boon been reached And that Butler was to be b told to take In In his hll hi horna horn The Th result Promptly at I 8 80 30 oe o'clock the th end Ind nd of the tho th 4 hour H-hour hour per per- perIod pr-lod Iod Butler called In eight district police commanders end and gave them the axe ax POI POLITICS poi InCa FORGOTTEN Nobody Is going oln to command a district In thi this city cUy who dos does not enforce all of ot the th laws law all nil of ot the time hs be h announced curtly MayOr Hendrick hasn't said s any any- anything a y thing to mo m about bout politics politico and I 1 haven't said anything to him 1110 about politics What a more more-be mor h wont won't and I wont won't It was then that wis t I Philadel Philadelphia phia Its It mind again aln This This ety Butler Dutler ii 11 sure ur raising hell with Ith It growled Somebody ought to ride rid him out of town ona on onn ona n a rail which Is 19 pretty fair praise from whore where Dutler Buller sits Bite It Seventy five per rent relit Improve Improve- Improvement Improvement Improvement ment Is I Butlers and the tho th mayor appraisal of ot the tho lh first week drive And Butler starts a 0 new nw ono one Monday It If he h goe goes ro u a he hs been b g and going and It if Mayor Kendrick can keep the th politicians oft ott his hia hi back baek he h hould should make mak Philadelphia painful painful- In I a a month c |