Show BIG BILL AIMS GUNS AT BOOKS Mayor 1 Thompson Orders Scrutiny of Histories for Propaganda CHICAGO Oct 21 By 21 By The As- As Press Mayor Mayor Thompson to- to today to to- today today day trained his bin big guns on another sector of his war against I King n i r George e of England He aimed at a British Lion crouched upon the shelves of the Chicago public library Tho The first offensive In the cam cam- campaign campaign was directed toward removing William McAndrew fro tendency of public v because he was a stool pigeon of George e Superintendent I McAndrew r is now on trial before the school board charged with insubordination The mayor major ha has commissioned d U U. J. J J Hermann well known n sportsman a M his lieutenant In the latest drive A Along Along Along long letter of Instructions was sent sAnt to Mr Hermann In which the mayor ex- ex expressed expressed pressed the fear that the the Chicago reading rending public Is being served liberal doses of pro-British pro propaganda Her ller- Hermann Hermann mann was Instructed to scrutinize every history book in the Chicago 11 ii- bruy and Its H branches for tor traces of the British taint My election pre pledge Is a sacred thing to me me wrote the mayor I will not rest r t until Ive I've purged d this entire city cUy of the poison polson that's being Injected Into the heart of American youth to eulogize England at the ex ex- expense expense pense of their own t country countr Mr Hr Hermann a trustee t e of the li library iI- iI brar arranged to Confer conCer today with Carl B D. Roden Koden librarian and president president dent of the American Library asso asso- association elation Mr Roden succeeded George GeorgeR TI R Locke of Toronto Canada who wh was ns Assailed a by former Judge Frederick Bausman Dau man of Washington in testimony at the trial of Superintendent McAndrew McAndrew McAndrew drew Wednesday The western Judge declared that Mr Me Locke was In l clear a of the British propaganda ga bureau ur t during during ur g the heD world war and that soon toon after he became head of the library association an edict was Issued suggesting that Librarians li librarians Li- Li recommend th the reading of six particular books Most Meat of them the witness said were designed to pro pro- promote promote promote mote pro-British pro sentiment |