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HONG KONG. THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1932. 建拜禮 日捌拾弍月柒年式卅玖仟登英 Price

CHICAGO FACES ITS FATE.

“A BATTERED GIANT, BUT STILL

f_y_FIGHTING."

MAYOR'S WAR ON GRAFT AND BOOTLEGGERS.

BY MARY BORDEN.

land felt about this American prob lern, and I dida's mince matters. didn't have to. When I said bluntly that it looked to us in Lon-

DIARY OF LOCAL

EVENTS.

TODAY.

(July 28.)

Weekly Meeting of the Hong Kong Theosophical Society, 8 p.m.

Whist Drive at Police Recreation Club, Happy Valley, 8.30 p.m.

Orchestral Concert at Ropulse Bay Hotel, B p.m.

Portuguese Artists at Club de Recreio.

It was a man of substance the other day, though not even himself knows what remains of that sub stance to-day, who broke into the conversation with this frank confes-don as it it were no longer a matter Competition: Kowloon Docka sion:

"We're bankrupt. Chicago has got $300,000,000 of back taxes to pay. We've no money to pay them with. What does it mean? It. means, for one thing, that we're blacklisted by the Federal Govern ment for ten years, and ears look for no help in that quarter."..

What are you going to do about

ic 1"

"Well, we've got a pretty good mayor. He's forced a reorgaudea tion of the city government, and we're all backing him. Yes, Tong Cermak's a pretty good mayor."

He's a politician, but he's not hog. A big, husky, two-fisted brute, Bohemian born, brought up in a little country town of Illinois. He's a fighter and a Liberal, always ms been He was president of the Board of County Commissioners all during the time Bill Thompson was Mayor, and he kept the County Board soivent while Big Bill was looting the city. He's fighting reckets and the old political gang.”

"Square-Shooting " Mayor. "What do you mean by his not being a hog1"

"I mean money wasn't his only object. He's a politician, knows the game; but getting rich never was bis amin object, and he's shrewd enough to see that it's to his advantage now to be a thorough, square-shooting, Mayor."

"But, what is he doing? You any he's foreing a new organisation of the city,"

"Well, he's cut the city budget by fifty million dollars. He's sacked the old gang, and he's forced ail the city employees to work seventy- eight days in the year, that's two and a half months, without pay, That'll save another three millions. Ho's trying to save ten more, and I guess he'll do it."

We were interrupted. A woman, whom I will call Put, for we all call her that, got up and came round to me.

Lawn Bowls:--Spey Royal Cup

of drinking or not drinking, but Hong Kong Electric (Police Recrea simply a question as to who was tian Club green), 4.30 p.m. going to rule America, the boot-

Central Theatre: "Fifty Fathoms leggers or the Government. Pat,

Deep:" Ginevra, and the reporters broke in, excitedls, "That's the stuff, King's Theatre: "Husband's that's what we want. Give us some Holiday." more," and I gave them some more,

Put it as strong as you like," I said, "You can't put it too strong- ly for me."

Queon's Theatra : "Condemned To Death:”

Star Theatre: "On Approval."' World Theatre: "Dance Fools, Dance,"

Garden Theatre; "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde."

We talked about Congress after that, and about the unemployed, and it was not wild talk. It was

Majestic Theatre: "Good Sport," shrage, so savage that I felt sud- denly exhilarated. Just why it is Tea Dance at King's Restaurant; } difficult to explain, for the facts Dinner Dances at Peninsula Hotel, not exhilarating, they are Hong Kong Hotel and King's Res- grim.

aro

Unemployment in Chiengo is un- doubtedly worse than in New York, The situation couldn't be more das- perate. On the other hand, the effort being made to deal with it is astonishing.

taurant.

Tides-High at 4.42; Lów' at

19.35.

FRIDAY.

(July 20.)

Anzoc Dance, Peninsula Hotel. Meeting of Shareholders, Chinese Estates, Ltd., noon.

Whist Drive on board H.M.S.

Agony of the Workless. Out of a population which now 'numbers three millions and a half (within the city limita), seven Tamar, 8.45 p.m. hundred thousand are on public) relief, and five hundred thousand are being supported by their rela tions. Or, put differently, out of a total number of normally employ ed men and women, two out of five

are without jobs. To meet the

eiergency all funds have been pool

ed and all relief organisations cen. tralised under å'joint relief fund.

The women at the dinner party gave me a good many facts that work. I learned more the next day. night. They were all doing relief

A

newspaper man took me round. "I don't know anybody," he told e," who's got a job who isn't supporting, at lehet, one, more often The two families beside, his own, Emergenty Relief Fund given twenty cents a day por person, or about five dollars a week per family."

The allowance, I noticed, was about a third of what the Emer gency, Work Bureau has been giving in New York....

"There's a reporter, from the Tribune outside,” she said. "He "That's for food," he went on, wants to know if you will make a and they can live on it, and each statement about the anti-Prohibition family is told how to live on it. Each "campaign.· ́`·It would be such a help | gets a diet sheet every week tell-

if you would,"

ing them what's beat and cheapest to buy. They are distributed by the nowspapers and the relief centres."

Of course." I put down my knife and fork. But what's it got to do with you, Pat I ask ed, for I remembered her as a frivolous scatter-brain,

That leaves nothing," I said, "for rent, clothes and so on. What do they do when they can't pay rent 1"

Amateur Billiards and Snooker Championships.

Committee Meeting, Hong Kong Lawn Bowls Association, South China Morning l'ont Board Room, 5.30 p.m.

Orchestral Concert at Repulse Bay Hotel, 8 p.m.

King'e Theatre: Holiday,"

"Husband's

Queen's Theatre: "Condemned To Death."

Desp."

Central Theatre: "Fifty Eathoma

Star Theatre: "On Approval." World Theatre: "Dance Fools, Dance."

Garden Theatre: "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.".

Tea Dance at King's Restaurant; Dinner Dances at Hong Kong Hotel, Peninsula Hotel and King's Restaurant.

Tides:-High at 5-10; Low, at

13.30.

Home Mail: Inward from America by Pres. Cleveland; Out- ward for America by Empress of Canada, 10 am.; for Australia by Kamo Maru, 12.30 p.m.

the early winter. That was ex dollars in private subscriptions in

hausted the first of February. The twenty millions. Ive paid out of State of Illtools appropriated

the gas. tax. That will be gone by the first of August. Then it will-appropriate another twenty Who Shall Bule America?

millions that will last till January "There are special agencies for 1. It's the dole, that's what it "Oh, Ginevra and I are organis ing it. Wo begin four days ago.

distributing clother When they amounts to. Only it's not an in. Burance scheme. Qur working For repent of the Eighteenth can't pay their rent they double people didn't insure, you see, Amendment, We've got 190,000 up. There are 25,000 flats in this against this." signatures in four days; not bad, is town, housing from two to four it? I thought, maybe, you wouldn't familles, of decent, well-educated mind making a statement for the people, people of my class. Then

Prees, if you're for us, wet, Mary, or dry?”

Sunking wet," I said.

Are you

Come on, then, that's grand.

So I told the Tribune, and after-

wards every other newspaper in

there are shelters."!

It whe the case of New York's homeless men and homeless women over again.

What about funds † ?? "Well, we raised two million the city, what the people of Eng---(Continued at foot of neat column

What's Happening to Chicago? He made a wide gesture. It took in a city that included ten cities, from Gary, Illinois, to the south, that dead city of the U.8. Steel Company, to Lake Forest, that country town of the once rich, twenty miles to the north; it took in the Lake Shore Drive, the most beautiful street in the world (bar ring, Princess street, Edinburgh), and Mjohigan-avenue) with its sky, (Continued on Page il).

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