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The Huron Expositor, 1932-04-01, Page 304, .4 je sk •1 0 • II Albert Boner NO.. d $ pr, ill! Pink PlM , `f1 wa"s terribly Worktog bothered witch a weak hack and Every' Day rheumatism fru rdy Neal. shoulders,"writesfl= beet Berger, Whiffle; �. Onts "fl got o bad ... 1 had yeetoss working end stay iii the shouse, I Wes • tWo' weeks in bed, vheq a • itrrind advrsed`me,to•ley ;13x. Wr11 3s' ` Piiiik .Fills. I gave the Pills a fair trial, and they relieved, meright away. My back is;,geed and strong now, and I am working every day. I have never been `bothered with rheumatism since. I xecoaumpd thein for anyone suffering from Rheumatism, Laine Back, Sciatica." Rheumatism and kindred ailments thin -the blood very rapidly. Dr. Williams' 'Pink Pills enrich the blood.stream and -create, new "red blood cells, which is the reason they are se successful in combat- -- thig-such-salnieatse-Equalle good-Am-WI ombat---thigsuc-h-ar7niegtse-Equally.•good.for.Wl • _. rundown or nervously exhausted people. -Try them. At your druggist's, SOc. 273 'Tammany Commissioner Ruined A Competitor - hi all the sordid stories of graft 'and lawlessness' brought to light' in the past year by`investigators of the; magistrates' courts and various mun- icipal departments in New York, none Iraq equalled, in pathos the one most recently told. ;It was the story of Louis II. Willard„who lied been quiet- ly and cold-bloodedly ruined by Wil- Iiam J. Flynn.," Bronx rPublic Works Oomenissioner. Every dollar he own- ed had been lost and his wife driven to take her own life, In despair Willard himself had "attempted sui- cide. He went unwillingly sir the .stand to tell his pitiful tale to Judge Seabury, one of whose investigators had accidentally' conte across a story of somebody having ceimtmitted sui- zcide in consequence of Tammany favoritism. He :finally traced Willard and subpoenaed him. We should not 'be surprised if the story. of Willard stung New Yorkers as no other stor- ies of graft have stung them: In the machinations of Flynn there is nothing that even the most perverted amine/ could recognize as slick, as was thud case in some of the large grafters like Farley, for instance, or similar genial scNtundrels, whose frank use -morality is .almost disarining. The story of Willard's •misfortunes began in 1923 when he bought a, piece of, land from the Astor estate. 'The land was same three blocks north of the Yankee Stadium and he bad the idea of building public 'gar -- ages on it. According to ,the New York definition a ptabli garage is one which can %house. five. cars or more. 'The land was in a district where the ,:approval of the Board .of Standards and Appeals was required for the building of public garages. In fact, the purpose of the board is to use discretionary powers, and if neces- sary to make exceptions to general •by-Iaws if special circumstances de- mand it. But Flynn wrote to the board ,protesting against public gar- ages being ,erected on this land, and to •Wlillard's astonishment his request was refused. Flynn said later that 'his protest was that of a taxpayer, but it was miade on the official paper •vf his office, and, no doubt, carried 'sufficient weight. ,At a loss to know what to do with the property Willard then built on it what he called a "taxpayer," namely fifteen stores and a hall. All Of them were 'emipty for five years but one of the shores. Then still 'having vacant property , he thought he might utilize it as a parking place for cars, because of its proximity to the .Yankee Stadium. So he,went to .Oornimissiomer Flynn and asked for permission to make a curb eat so that the cars Might cross the sidewalk: This Flynn refused him, despite the fact that there were other parking spaces in the neighborhood which had curb cuts. He explained to Com- enissioner Flynn that he had spent between $4,000 and $5000 on his land in expectation of having the curb cuts granted as a matter of routine. But Flynn said frankly:. "You will not get anything from me now or -ever." ' Another firm wanted to take ;the vacant land and also rent one of Willard's stores as an ofliee. It ap- plied to Flynn and ,he said that if any cars were parked on the land he would have those ;responsible ar- rested. Having lost this prospective tenant Willard looked about for another, and having found him, once.., more ap- peared before Flynn, to apply for the cueb cuts, but in vain. For seven years the property remained idle on his hands except for.; the one store. Then the mortgage was foreclosed and Wi.11ard's savings of $126,000 -were wiped out. ;Disheartened, his wife committed suicide and he also tried .to end his life. But before Wil- lard was cornpleitely ruined he learn- ed that Flynn himself had bought property across tire street upon which lie had erected el public garages for five ears , each. • He had all tihe euro .cuts 'he n!ted made. The plain fact is, of 'Coir sue, that Willard was a com- petitor, or a potential competitor, of the wealthy Mr. Flynn, and he ,Used has .political influence to drive him in- 1703tcYi 23 aaa !, lie, +Vly auali d-$i&ttb.12' thinra exliedietrey:.. Under Oreeshesiesittinatien Conianis+ siotiiei riMns admitted :boat .be was, wealthy. lie s -ice of one .apai tment louse he owed es bpi* worth Vele 000, and he has, Several .ethers" as well as °bus gera.;es and other Prop- erties. • las. defter a -Wee that ereles e 'thing he did was 'wry hurl . tthe law It is rather amusing to read one of the argwuee tts be presented 1n,..order to keep Willard fromi building the gar- ages. He said it iwould imrroee the value -of adjacent property. owned by the Asttor ess'tabe and would direc't'ly benNS11.11Pen WUlderf .Attars who had' r'enduziced bis Amerieam citizen- ship.. 'Nevertheless it was Prot a the ,A,s'ter estate than Flynn, through a di m ny, had bought, the property opposite and erected his"profitable garages. Hae admitted "that he, had issued semne, 400,000 permits for curb cuts, although he ,had, !been unable to spare one for the luckless Willard. Thus its revealed not in terms of stolen money but in human suffering tee workings of Taiiiernany Hall and similar..-gratftigarpizati1.o is'-- {ere_ is blood -on the hands of Comenis- sioner Flynn, long 'unaccustomed to toil. • Better seed pays big dividends in crop improvement. Production may be increased from 10 to 14 pounds per bushel and from 10 to 14 bushels per acre by sowing only large, plump seed. The farmer will find it a pay- ing proposition to get the old fanning mill out of the store -house, fit it up properly with screens and make a genuine clean-up of seed this spring. Ontario farmers annually lose hun- dreds of dollars from parasites in sheep and.•hogs. Dr. L. S. Stevenson has made a special study of this prob- lem and has written several bulletins, eopies of which can be obtained from your local Department of Agricul- ture. • • STANLEY . (Too late for last week) 'Mrs. Alex. McConnell, of Varna, and her sister, Miss Esler, have re- turned to Varna after a pleasant trip to Bermuda. • Mr. Edgar Smith is spending a few weeks with his aunt,- Mrs. Hindes• o'f near Chatham. 'Mr. and Mrs. Leri Talbot, of .'Bay- field, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Dowson. On Friday evening a service was held in Goshen United- Church. The theme was in keeping with the day. The Goshen W.M:S..held their reg- ular monthly meeting at the herne of Mrs Thomas Robinson on Tuesday. The regular meeting of Goshen and -Blake -Young People's Society took the form of a St. Patrick's social on, Friday evening, • March 18th. About forty-five young people were delight- fully entertained by Rev. and '11irs. Poulter. The manse was beautifully decorated in Irish colors of green and white with streamers, shamrocks and harps, which added rmnch to the. enjoyment of the evening. The meet- epg was opened by singing the hymn, "Come, Let Us Sing of a Wonderful Love." Prayer was offered and the hymn, "Oh, • Master, Let Me Wilk With Thee" was sung, folowed by community singing led by the presi- dent, Mr. Will Robinson. The pro- gramiree committee, . Miss ,Margaret ,Douglass, convenor, Alberta Finley, Margaret Rgbinson and Bill Clarke, had charge of the games and con-, tests for the evening, which were very. much enjoyed. A dainty lunch was - served and everyone went home feel- ing that they had enjoyed the even- ing. Miss Margaret Robinson spent the week end with her friend, Miss Mar- garet Chuter, of Varna.. ZURICH (Too late for last week) Jubilee Band ffeorganieed. — A meeting°of the Members of aur brass band was held -lase Thursday; evening for the purpose of reorganizing for the present year. The attendance was good and the boys • hvere all anxious to join and help along. Of- ficers were elected and a leader chos- en and the first practice .will be held on Thursday of this week. The Zur- ich Jubilee Brass Band has always had a good reputation for rendering ,fine band music and no doubt will give a good account of itself agate this sumimer. A meeting of the officers and direc- tors of the Hay Township Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Company was held here on ;Saturday, when a num- ber of claims were adjusted and new applications passed. A sitting of the Tenth Division Court was held here last Fridaywith Judge T. M. Costello presiding. ' A number of cases Were disposed of. Mr. Jakob 'Hlalberer attended a meeting of the 'Beekeepers,'. Co-opera- tive Association, held at Toronto last week. Quarterly services were conducted in the 'Evangelical Church last Sun- day with Rev. J. P. Hauch, presiding elder for this 'vicinity, in charge. Rev. E. Turkheim conducted the Oonfir (ration services in the Lutheran church on Sunday evening, when ten young people were cortfirn ed. The church was filled and the sermon we''s greatly enjoyed by all, present. A nwmber from town attended the Ohaii'tau'qua concert held at Hensall on 'Monday evening. The blizzard, which get in during the evening, made the return trip home difficult; as the roads were heavy with snow and the visibility -poor. One of the cars took to the ditch a short distance out of Hensall, but luckily no one was in- jured. 'Word was .received here the &thee day of the death of Mr. Martin Schweitzer, which Rook place et his home in San Antonio,. Texas. The deceased was well known here, hav- ing heed here ,'for some years before he Moved to ''texas. His Wife, who before' her marriage„ was Dolly Mierite, for-rnerly of Zurich, prede- eaased him about. a year ago. Moses Geiger' has sold a por- tion of bis g Wien lot on iHain Street Sf SCOT Wali -`w �.,, - - � • - ppaer Store, 2iidti Especii1y -Attractive Patterns:offered at -Low Prices in a Special 7 -Day Selling. Event. You are well advised to Decorate NOW. Three price groups featured at 25c, 30c and _ 35c, i south, to Mi. Jacob Haberer, who in- tends having a modern dwelling er- ected thereon this summer. Owing to the condition of the roads the pupils from this village attend- ing exeter High 'School, were unable to make the daily trip by auto and had to stay at home. Mr. and !Mrs. H. G. Hess spent 'Monday at London. The stoilm on Monday evening blocked the roads and auto' traffic has been brought to a standstill foi. the first time this winter. Wholesale Plundering Has Ruined Chicago If anyone is curious to know how la city of Chicago's great iweaith can be on the brink of bankruptcy we recomImend a reading of an article entitled, The Plunder of Chicago, by Walter W. Liggett, in The American Mercury. if he has' not the trine and wishes to go no further with this article we can tell him in a sentence; Chicago is bankrupt because for years Chicago spas been plundered by lier ellianee of-..po'liticians, and a corrupt public utility -banking, construction - paving combine. Mayor Cei mak is drfven almost to desperation because Here's an event that requir- ed months of planning, and close co-operation between pus and the ,manufacturers. 'We contracted to take an es- pecially large quantity of the newest patterns, but,in sisted that, in return, the price be brought away down. The result is that, for Sun - worthy Wallpaper Week, our wallpaper stocks are fresh, new and varied, and the prices are low. If you have beenplanning to re -decorate one or more rooms when a favorable op- portunity presented itself, decide to DO IT NOW. Glance' at the patterns il- lustrated. Then come in to our store and see the attrac- �,.tite, new combinations of color. ; HOW LITTLE IT COSTS With prices of excellent quality Wall- papers so low during Sunworthy Wallpaper Week why not decide now to have: the satisfaction of freshly papered rooms this Spring? Many paperhangers are . now quoting 'ex- ceptionally low prices for the work of hanging. For room 12 x 12 x 8 feet the cost for sidewall paper and borders will be: • . Using paper at 25 cents a roll. . $3.69 • Using paper at '30 cents a roll.. 4.36 Using paper at 35 cents a roll.. 4.86 Bring your room measurements. are You Move Your Pictures ? It doesn't pay to hang papers which fade readily. SUNWORTHY Wallpaper isprinted in fast col- ors which resist the action of the sun. It doesn't cost a cent more to hang, Sunworthy Wallpaper - than to hang ordinary papers. , Be•sure that your ceiling and border papers are Sunworthy too, So that they will stay new -looking as long as the walls. Scott's Wallpaper Store SEAFORTH the political machine, of which he is the head, and the political machine of which William Hale Thompson was the head, had a secret alliance. As a University of.. Chicago professor once described it, "The Democratic and •Republican pareiea"fiert are" mere- ly the two wings of the same bird of .;prey." Ultimate power lines where the money is to be found and back of the grafting politicians are the public utility corporations. The first great ,plunderer in this group was Charles T. Yerkes, immortalized in Dreiser's The Titan. He sought to combine all the trolley lines, in the city. To -day the electric light and power and gas companies are under the same ownership as the street cars and buses. Chicago /nay be ruined, but these Hoax rich.• It has been estimated that muni- cipal; graft amounts to $75,•000,000 a year. This is irrespective of the graft of gangsters, and other open law breakers who are,however, a part of the political machine, called upon tit critical elections to do their lethal or 'intimidating stuff. There are 55,000 'civic employees and these are the shock troops of the grafting army, and are believed to waste, more than they steal. By no means all of theme are dishonest. We suppose that perhaps the same pereent,age of hon- esty exists among them as in the d'�Y cSt7fi'VSiin , police force. What this percentage is may be inferred from the state- ment of one chief of police speak- ing of his fifty captains, "There are only ten of them 'who are honest and most of theme would steal a red- hot stove." Police reporters thought this a conservative estimate. But the so-called big dough is net what the police or the petty civic employees lay their hands on. The city of Chicago could afford to let them pil- fer as they will and yet have plenty of money to pay its bills, even if the bills would be necessarily higher. It is the various tax -raising and tax - remitting bodies which do the import- ant plundering. The whole system would appear to be one devised particularly in the in- terests of crooks. Even with hon- est admrinisrtratien it would prove shoekingly 'wasteful, ' For' instance, there are in Chicago and Cook County 415 local governing bodies, each with its own tax levying and borrowing powers. In the City of Chicago itself there are 31 independ- ent governments and six semi-inde- pendent tax levying boards. Within the 'whole county there are 450 tax levies. The citizens of North Vil- lage pay 87 di rent assessments The local govern , • nts inside Oook County are now .h ding approxi- mately $350,000,001- a r, of which `.d S.�(.'b�L4:1Y dVx•..,n tae ¢V¢fd .Lau,.uL..rx. t.,...w... �iu,v�.wlxt, �� J, .A $120,000,000 is 'in salaries. Their combined funded and floating debt is about $750,000,000. Says our auth- or: "These enormous sums are dis- bursed without the slightest regard for elemental business pbinciples. There is no standardization of pur- chases; few budgets are properly balanced; costly equipment which mak be used for only a few weeks a year is duplicated by neighboring units; sanitation and police services are not co-ordinated; and the complete lack of central authority or responsibility enormously, multiplies the opportuni- ties for graft." Odie of the great seandals which rs directly responsible for the fact that Chicago is now broke is dishonest assessment. Until recently assess- ment returns were not mtade public. One man miight pay three or four time the taxes of his next door neighbor living in the same kin of house. One mlillionaire philan- thropist 'testified that he had paid $42,000 to have his taxes reduced. Petty clerks have had the authority by the mere stroke of a pen to cut $10,000 or $100,000 from an assess- ment. The assessment or,tax re- mission graft followed a regular mancourse. A an would ' be grossly over -assessed. He would appeal to brig lawyer., 'His lawyer then would consult with a recognized assessment 'Sleet yid.,, A'.w J,S e expert, in other words, a man con- nected with the political machine. The taxes then would be reduced, the beneficiary paying from a quar- ter to a half the amount saved to the expert who/ in turn would divide it --with the other members of the machine. Thus in the course of years scores of millions of dolIars.. have been diverted from , the civic. treasury. The assessment scandals provoked a public revolt. Judges declared''the assessment rolls fraudu- lent. .There were no other rolls. So there was no. real means of col- lecting takes. The city. has hen-, deeds of mullions of dollars outstand- ing which it will have no way of getting until there is a proper assess- jment made. The grafting of some of the municipal bodies is literally staggering. The Sanitary District trustees paid a visit to Weshing-to-i and sent in a bill„ which. was paid, for $ 72,000 to cover the coatts of the junket. Among the items were : "Five women, $13+0." Damages done to a hotel in their orgies en,/ amounting to $6,900 were paid by the city. Graft of $5,000,000 was traced' to six trustees of a single park board. ,(inhere was only one conviction and this wtis because one of the grafters had not reported his • share in hia-in- eo7na ter returns. SeS ,:u?.v t.vhd 1 6d•ndfF �e 11J� T,!