MAYOR DANIEL W. HOAN OF MILWAUKEE
Harris, Joseph P.
MAYOR DANIEL W. HOAN OF MILWAUKS The Record Of the Socialist Mayor Of A Great American City, As Seen By A Non-Socialist Expert On City Affairs With municipal campaigns being waged in hundreds of...
...The co-operative laundry rooms, nurseries, and kindergartens help to make it possible for workers to support large' families...
...Another part oi the harbor development has been the building of a lake-front park...
...involving members et «fl council, are being oversees B whitewashed...
...Fifty-seven per cent of the people of Strasbourg live in small apartments, with an average of 1.46 persona per room...
...Small balconies gay with geraniums and petunias modify the austerity of the architecture...
...The same issue was used in the election of 1920, and the result again was close...
...Many- of the trade unionists are Socialists...
...Hoan, Socialist, in the city of Milwaukee...
...Hoan made a remarkable record...
...Although Hoan was first elected mavor in 1916, it was not until 1923 that he was able to secure confirmation for a single mayoral appointment, except that of chief of police...
...Everywhere they say to me: 'Jim, give the government a little time...
...There is no bluff or bluster about him...
...tts cost of materials was abnortmSj high, and private enterprise was not only unable to decrease Use old housing shortage, but could Scst even keep pace with each pear's demand for new homes...
...One of the problems of harbor development was that of acquiring riparian rights to the land bordering on the lake...
...April J, 19J6...
...Vain attempts had been made to evmdswm them...
...With all their external beauty, they did not provide sufficient light, heat, or air...
...While a isjsfl attempt will be made to esssfl the mayor, it seems ojultt.asfl that he will be stronger sfl end of the investigation tanfl the start...
...iB At the present time aetata...
...They are bleak tenement-like building with long rows of windows, generally with broken panes...
...Tans, when the Socialist adSssssstration came into power, it .ease faced by an acute and ever steercaslng shortage...
...In therl928 election no opposing candidate of any considerable strength anounced himself against Hoan...
...He forced down the utility rates, forced the street car company to pave and sprinkle between its tracks, and brought action successfully against the railroads to abolish many grade crossings in the city...
...Ah, my friends, we know the pain, we know the losses, we know the privation, and therefore we are moved in our hearts and souls by the romance of sacrifice...
...They want "Socialism in our Time...
...In 1924 he was opposed by Dave Rose, a former mayor of the city who had served five terms, and who was a seasoned campaigner with a flamboyant style of oratory...
...is a question often asked af Socialist candidates and campaigners...
...During the period before 1922 the council kept the incumbents in office by refusing to confirm the new appointments sent in by the mayor...
...When it comes to a real showdown," one member of the government told me, "the back benches can always be depended on...
...A fourth block housing 275 families will be ready for occupancy this October...
...Will, you, as you have done in the past two years, bar it against the Red Flag, and send out word to the people of these United States —yea, even to the world—that Milwaukee will never again allow the Red Flag to replace the Stars and Stripes on the flag pole of the City Hall.i The slogans of the Nonpartisans (coalition of the Democrats and Republicans against the Socialists) included the following: Either Socialism or the American government must perish.' Join the nearest anti-Red club, young man.s It is up to you, young man, to recall the spirit of '76 and retire ail the Iteds.i Candidate Hoan...
...The conclusion of his report is that every citizen in Strasbourg is entitled, on the basis of health requisites alone, to one room...
...MAYOR DANIEL W. HOAN OF MILWAUKS The Record Of the Socialist Mayor Of A Great American City, As Seen By A Non-Socialist Expert On City Affairs With municipal campaigns being waged in hundreds of Ameriom cities, the Socialist Party it doing its best to turn the voters to their platform and candidates...
...Among the Socialists there are the proverbial right and left wings...
...In this election Hoan was criticized for failure to invite the King of Belgium to visit the city...
...As city attorney of Milwaukee...
...And they have the same feeling that Ramsay MacDonald had in 1921 when he said to me that it would be a sad day for the Labor party if the I. L. P. disappeared...
...It appeared at first that Rose would he a formidable candidate, and in the primary he polled more votes than Hoan, but before the election was held his record was exposed, the women voters were aroused against him, and Hoan was reelected by a majority of over 17,000 votes...
...He secured the support of the state League of Municipalities and was by far the most influential person backing the amendment before the state legislative sessions at which the matter came up...
...He dared to tell audiences of wealthy citizens that they, and not the radicals, were the real enemies of the city, for they would cripple the city's activities by shouting about high taxes...
...His First Campaign In 1910, when Hoan was only twenty-nine years of age^ and had been admitted to the bar only twe years, he was put on the Socialist ticket as candidate for city attorney...
...Socialists and careerists...
...Within recent years his interests in state legislation have centered largely in the 30-called power bills...
...At Che last election the Socialists lost Ave members in the council, last "Van" Hoan was elected by ths largest majority he ever retostffjd...
...During his last term Rose spent much of the time making anti-prohibition speeches throughout the country for the brewery interests...
...By chance a Socialist landslide of that year carried the entire ticket, headed by Emll Beidel for mayor, into office...
...The great Strasbourg Consumers' Co-operative has opened a branch in each one of the new apartment blocks, where members can buy food and clothing at considerable saving...
...I saw what most spoke to my soul as the green grass watered by the tears of affection of your national grief...
...The corporations must be composed of three appointees of the French government, three from the city administration, and three elected at large...
...Harris is not a Socialist...
...19J...
...For ten years this committee carried on, but made no progress...
...While rh<« vast reconstruction is going on, the old city will gradually be transferred from a tenement to a business district...
...The election of 1918 turned largly upon the loyalty true...
...Legally a Weak Mayor In announcing his candidacy in 1928...
...He was reportd to have replied during the campaign: "To hell with the King...
...Another bill would permit the cities with municipally-owned utilities to form a utility district, merging the utilities of the various cities so that the economies of large scale production would be possible...
...After graduating in 1905, he went to Chicago and started a restaurant of his own...
...March 29...
...The day nurseries in each block care for the children up to three years of age...
...Thirty-six of the 288 Laborites elected in May were sponsored by the I. L. P. It is claimed that about 140 members of Parliament regard themselves as members of this Socialist group, with its total membership of 30.000...
...The barracks were probably as unsanitary as the worst of the old houses but their utilization as dwellings saved the situation and gave the city breathing space to embark on its well-planned building program...
...Bernard Shaw described those elements as consisting of trade unionists...
...A number of its members, including Benn, Ponsonby...
...it had resolved to transform the old city from a tenement to a business district, and to construct blocks of new dwellings for the workers forced to abandon their old homes...
...A large propos-tksn of the Strasbourg workers Vera homeless, and with the exsrhttant building costs, had no ^prospects of ever obtaining homes...
...From Scullery to Mayor's Chair Use history of Dan Hoan reads ¦he that of the typical eulogistic campaign biography (though Hoan has never exploited his career to -capture votes...
...Even with a rent varying from $2.80 to $5.20 a month for one to four room apartments, the project has proved self-supporting...
...Hoan not only looked after the routine legal business of the city in an efficient and energetic manner, but he also attracted a great deal of attention by bringing suits asrainst the local gas and electric companies and winning them...
...When he pros elected mayor of Milwaukee, la 2914, one of the local newspapers carried a feature story about the boy who had risen from the sMBery to the mayor's office...
...Mosley, Lees-Smith and William Graham, are active members of the government and many of the rank and file are in general agreement with 'the policy outlined by the Labor party...
...Therefore, whilst the generation of the romance of sacrifice lives let it take upon it the responsibility of so settling in detail, in practical detail, the problems of peace that the next generation will never be deluded and allured into the frame of mind which is awakened by conceptions of the romance of war...
...Sot the public confidence in his annuel j. ability, and zeal for the pubtic welfare is so great that no Ssststsnrlliiy person in public life sssss to oppose him...
...Two years later the Socialists were swept out of power, but the office of city attorney had been given a four-year term, and so Hoan remained in office...
...fB In many other mjmsv|"^M Mayor Hoan has takes » portant part in protecting^ lie interest and pUsBjagjHB future...
...he would have restored relations with Russia, admitted Trotsky, seen that every unemployed man or woman secured an adequate allowance, raised the school age immediately, and mmediately restored the housing subsidy...
...Before I was there I had been at some of the graveyards on the Continent of Europe, and there I saw, just as I saw here, how the dead were being kept in reverent honor and the recollection of the romance of sacrifice was their custodian...
...Finally the mayor took the initiative to see what he could do...
...When this program was submitted to the league there was little or no opposition...
...At the summer school of the Independent Labor Party, in sarly August, Maxton declared that, if he had been Premier instead of MacDonald...
...In short, he does not maintain his popularity with the people of the city by any of the usual arts of the politician, but rather by his rugged honesty, his constant fight for the public interest, find his far-sighted judgment and vision of a greater and better city...
...A waiting list of five thousand families attests the success of the scheme...
...This act of the French government provides that any municipality in France, in case of a housing shortage, may create a public corporation to build inexpensive homes...
...but they "are not prepared," as Maxton put it, "to wade through slaughter for the better social order...
...Mayor Bading, his opponent, charged the Socialists with being "liars, indecent, un-American, redflaggers, not fit for office, anarchists and political pirates...
...It is always easy to see the mayor, and his office is not infested with politicians...
...In a a typical speech, he said: vThe fang of the viper is ready to suck Milwaukee's life blood...
...He was re-elected by a majority of 18,000 in an extremely light election...
...gation is being conducted sytsj cial committee of the esssa which competent observes mM designed to embarrass ths aam One part of the investsfstslfl to do with a fund of SiO,QfiC»*a the mayor has from tat sal government surplus gooaj ttsl ing the war...
...Two of his assistants have since been candidates against him...
...At present the protestors are not particularly numerous...
...Hoan declared that the city of Milwaukee had developed from one of the worst governed cities in the country in 1910 to one of the best governed cities...
...The destruction of any home, however unsanitary, was out of the question with thousands of homeless on the streets...
...Prof...
...with the exception of one term, the opposition of the city council...
...He broached the matter to some of the wealthiest citizens who owned land along the lake front, and was soon able to get the landowners to donate the riparian rights along the lake front to the city, and now the city owns the entire lake front One large tract was purchased for park purposes at an extremely favorable price...
...Communist Stock Low The stock of the Communists in England was never lower than it is at present...
...They had been the homes of the workers for generations...
...He secured employment in a law firm at six dollars a week—the lowest wage which he had received since he started as a kitchen helper at the age of fourteen...
...Some years ago tat EM of real estate agent vat ^9 to protect the city egassstfcass...
...1 The Evening Wisconsin...
...In fact Maxton bitterly complained at the I. L. P. school that he and a few others were lonely pioneers...
...With the election of eleven Socialist councilmen in 1920, and the support of two other members, Hoan secured a majority of the council, and proceeded to clean up the city departments by appointing men of outstanding ability to head them...
...This is an actual record of achievement, and one that is remarkable in view of the limited legal powers of the mayor and...
...Remember it hasn't the majority.' You would in fact think from the attitude of our comrades that every one of them had the direct responsibility of the Prime Minister on their shoulders...
...This dramatic step saved the city from the worst dangers of the housing shortage...
...When Mayor Hoan first began to talk about the development of a lake-front park, of securing riparian land rights, and of developing the harbor, he was looked upon as a visionary and was opposed by selfish real estate interests...
...At that time he was offered an attractive position with a prosperous law firm which had a large corporation practice, but he refused and started into business for himself...
...1 British Labor is movisgaB march during the next lee fssa may not be spectacular, it sajB slower than some would UtK sfl its direction is toward sasssj freedom, and few can stsS/B steady advance toward poavssfl the organization of the Lassrpdl in 1900 without a profound that here is a force that S s«B to go forward ;rre*tist*ilj-*B spite mistakes and bluadirt-eB Great Britain becomes is rslftl "merry England" for tht a**B man...
...When Dan was abartesn years of age his father died, and he was forced to stop scssxkl to support the family...
...He is not a silver-tongued orator, though an effective speaker...
...In the old days when Rose was mayor of the city, prior to 1910, It was wide open to every sort of vice, gambling and prostitution, and to corruption in the city hall...
...Many, while not opposed to Socialism, have not thought so far In advance...
...In this he was successful, but after a year gave it up because he was unable to read law in his spare time, as he had planned...
...However, before the problem could even be discussed, the housing shortage had to be met...
...I saw the care bestowed upon them...
...In 1926 the council voted an amendment to the zoning law to permit the building of two-story flats over stores...
...Mayor Hoan took the bold stand that there could be no reduction in the taxes without sacrificing the schools, the park system, the public health work, or other essential work of the city...
...1916...
...Legally, the cities of the state may acquire their utilities and operate them, but practically they have a very limited power because of the narrow debt limit of cities, which in most cases has been practically used up...
...He replied to the charge of radicalism, red flag, and "save Milwaukee," as follows: "The main Issue of this campaign is whether the flag of the street car company will float over the Qity Hall instead of the Stars and Stripes left there by Emil Setdel, former Socialist mayor...
...When peace came, the situation was made Worse by the steady increase in the birth rate and the rapid industrial expansion...
...March 37...
...The present homerule amendment to the state constitution, which is one of the broadest grants in any of the states, was drafted by Hoan...
...The decrease in morehsstv sMii—immiii with ths obliteration of overcrowded and unsanitary apartments...
...He organized the first Socialist club among the students, and was elected president oi the senior class in his last year...
...Since tht dt)M not have the power to uatvtsa the sale of the army surpbsfsl the mayor undertook it is uM pacity as a private ciUsts, anal ing for the sale in the paint sB ket...
...But a young generation is growing up round about us that did not go through the war...
...The workers of Strasbourg were jammed into these unhealthy dwellings for which they paid the city a rental of four cents a year...
...Several hudred 'tinnissl J lars 'worth of goods were aM.il a profit of $10,000 wss NShsJ This the mayor has is sa si name in a special fund...
...The leaders of the party had confidence in him, and there were none too many attorneys within the ranks of the party to choose from...
...In the center of each is a small courtyard...
...The rear of the houses look out upon a combination playground for the children and neatly kept garden with shady trees, walks and benches...
...For example, a former building commissioner permitted the building code to be violated at the request of members of the council, and administered the duties of the office in a way which the mayor disapproved, but it was not until finally a coalition could be formed between the Socialists and several Polish Nonpartisan members of the council that a new commissioner, a Polish architect, could be confirmed...
...B A City Transformed The Strasbourg Socialists Daring Housing Program By Nathaniel Weyl *N Strasbourg, capital of Alsace, ^ncer part of France, a unique (socialist experiment in housing involving the conscious replanning Of a city, and the providing of I nail IJ thousand of that city's ejsMtanan with decent homes...
...Fenner Brockway M. P. and Brailsford, former editor of The New Leader, are likewise most critical...
...A number of offices were mismanaged and for years the mayor tried to clean them up, but to no avail until he secured a sympathetic council...
...The Need For Homes ' 'As a result of the war, StrasSjSKsrg found itself faced by an paste housing shortage...
...despite obstructions and opposition of the city council...
...A Vivision of the Future At present, the most acute needs of the housing situation have been met, but that is not the end of the prc~ram...
...His vigorous prosecution of the duties of the office and defense of the rights of the public earned for him the public approval and confidence which made him mayor...
...He entered Kent Law School was graduated and admitted to the bar in 1908...
...The Communists made a vital mistake, declared Bernard Shaw, when they decided to accept money from Russia, The oVsisss nf s Qessassassaal by a Laborite in a recent kr«sl tion in a working class dsSStfl a vote of 12.0i»1 to 500, ortflfl of over 20 to 1. is mdieatiw **¦ Communist's lack of psfsstfl with the British workers...
...I The Milwaukee Sentinel, March 31...
...Other cssal and rumors of a more series e| ture...
...The Lovalty Issue When the election was over, Hoan had won by a narrow majority, but the council was against him, and the other city offices were filled by Nonpartisans...
...Maxton and Brailsford On the other hand, there is the militant group, led by James Maxton, David Kirkwood and Rev...
...Hoan has been ptrtsX ly active in promoting ssssssssl often making speeches iatsstsl ing sections, explaining ta* aZa tages of coming lots tfcafl Mayor Hoan was one of persons to urge the staUSsal suit against the city of Catsa...
...Mayor Hoan has 'realized for years the importance of the harbor and has supported plans for its development...
...He went on to say...
...Homes Beautiful It was this law which the Socialist administration called to its aid...
...By Joseph P. Harris •fi^ATE cannot afford to turn Milwaukee over to the Social»» ist* again," said Mayor Bading in the 1916 mayoralty campaign, when he opposed the youthful Socialist candidate, Daniel W. Hoan...
...March 29...
...It would paralyze the world...
...The powers of the mayor of Milwaukee are weak...
...feeHng that the government cannot "go the whole hog" now, are still convinced that a left wing group should constantly bring pressure to bear from the radical side so as to counteract the tremendous pressure that is bound to come from the right...
...Long line3 of empty barracks enclose the Strasbourg drill grounds...
...But in the I. L. P. too there are right and left wing elements...
...Another bill related to the taxing of utilities, and so on...
...a young generation is growing up round about us whose eyes were never moistened by the tears of sorrow on account of war, and the reverence that we show to our dead runs the grave danger of becoming not the romance of sacrifice but the romance of war itself...
...To realize this dream, the public corporation will erect four hundred two hundred additional apartments within the next four years...
...Three solid blocks 07 six story apartment houses have been built by the public corporation and are already occupied by Strasbourg workers...
...Shortly afterwards he was persuaded to return to Milwaukee...
...excessive diversion of wpf J Lake Michigan...
...British Labor Cross-Current Party Unified Despite A Vigorus Left Win By Harry W. Laidler rpHERE are various elements in the British Labor party...
...however, was a doughty campaigner...
...One bill would permit the cities to issue utility bonds which would be a charge against the utility, and would not become a part of the indebtedness of the city...
...1916 Campaign Warm In 1916 Hoan was chosen by the Socialists to run for mayor...
...He Started work In one of the resort hotels in Waukesha as a helper in ths kitchen By the time he was twenty-one years of age he had became a chef, and had worked in sons of the finest hotels in Milwaukee and Chicago...
...Joseph P. Harris of the University of Wis«hum tells of the several administrations of Daniel IV...
...He was born in TTiiismIii, Wisconsin, a small city stssr ths outskirts of Milwaukee, ha 1881- His father was the village btai.simlta and town radical, who was not looked upon with favor by Ma fellow townsmen because of kit sBjdicalism...
...During the last twenty years the motto of the Labor party has been "unity in diversity," and the Labor party, despite its differences of opinion, is likely to remain a unified movement for many years to come...
...The French government then makes an initial gift, and further finances the project by loans at low rates...
...There he WOrked his way as a cook for a fraternity, but his work did not prevent him from being active in arfviAftnt Ufa...
...I am for the common man...
...In 1928 the League of Municipalities adopted a legislative program to make it possible for the cities to own and operate their utilities...
...I refuse to believe that it is necessary to sell oat the City Hall to the street car company and its black flag of monopolistic piracy in order to be American citizens.*" 1 The Ullwtukw Journal...
...In his last report to the French government, M. Peiretes, head of the housing corporation, and former Socialist mayor, has made an exhaustive investigation of the relationship between health and housing...
...The Independent Labor party, formed in 1S93 by Keir Hardie and joined later by MacDonald, represents in general the left wing of the movement...
...they were Impossible dwellings, unsanitary, overcrowded and in every way inadequate...
...To this criticism the middle of the roaders have a number of replies...
...Campbell Stephen—the Clyde group —who are exceedingly critical of the government's policy...
...Years ago a committee of the council was created to see what could be done toward securing one large strip along the lake front which was still privately owned...
...Mayor Hoan is now serving his fflh term, end in 1932, at the end sg the present term, he will have been mayor of the city of Milwaukee for sixteen years...
...to the insistence by the majority of the House of certain guarantees from Russia...
...It would mean that the city would be isolated, it would be shunned...
...In Ms article Prof...
...Various persons explained and defended the program, but no one opposed it...
...The unused barracks were turned over to the poorest workers as dwellings...
...A Friend of City Planning Mayor Hoan has taken a leading part in all the large projects for the development of Milwaukee...
...ing of exorbitant prkss estate...
...He was elected by a narrow majority...
...The old chief of police he was able to force out by evidence of corruption and graft which he secured...
...Socialism, with all its heresies and un-American ideas, is knocking at the door...
...In 1914 he was re-elected city attorney by a small majority...
...M. Peitetes' statistics on mortality and the small apartment have already been cited in part earlier in this bulletin...
...After that the youngsters attend the municipal kindergarten...
...Unitv in Diversity'* Many...
...The houses rise to six stories of grey concrete...
...The Socialist platform of that year contained a plank opposing the entrance of the United States into the World War, and the patrioteers whooped it up against Hoan...
...In fact, his opponents now jMTr*1'" that they cannot get a good candidate to run against him...
...Strasbourg's city sttiwirrtstrations of the past had inIttstsf sweeping plans for their SSSBssSsn nation, which almost always stopped short when it actually cams to destroying those picfcnresque houses...
...Hoan vetoed the ordinance...
...Nowhere do the members of the I. L. P. branches come to me and encourage me to criticize the government,'' he declared...
...In 1909 he married Agnes Manger, whom he had met in Chicago in 1905...
...Led Fight For Home Rule Mayor Hoan led the fight for home rule in the state...
...His opponent in the final election, Charles Shallitz, while strong enough to capture the Republican nomination and be elected sheriff two years earlier, had no chance of election, and Hoan made no campaign whatever...
...In the few periods when programs of this ¦fad were actually carried out, the ssfect upon health had been strikasgry beneflclaL With the marked fsereass in the percentage of one Sad two zoom apartments between 1*06 and 1921 had come a 275 per Seat decrease in the deaths from prsrhSlna, whooping cough and fcttssts...
...The recovery of the building trades stftBf the war was painfully slow...
...Hoan arose and urged that no vote be takes ssSLJ member was fully SsrsrsrffS the program meant, asda5?B to advance every srgsssS* would be made agtiast s discuss each...
...In order to make his charges against the utilities more effective, he took to his public meetings a piece of water pipe taken from the city mains, which had holes in it eaten by electrolysis from the escaping current of the utility company...
...The Socialists resolved to appropriate these unused military quarters for the workers as a temporary expedient...
...At the age of twenty-one Daniel Hoan returned to school, entering ths University of Wisconsin...
...Hoan Promises Higher Taxes In this campaign Rose ran on a platform of economy and reduced taxes, aa well as the old standby— the bogy of Socialism...
...HiB offered it to the council ia sB times, with the stipulates, sfl ever, that it be used in cosmoS with the development of i ssB market...
...Mirny important djj ments have been mass j| should be credited in IsamI him...
...This fight, too, was an uphill and discouraging affair...
...After retiring from the office of mayor, Rose became connected with several questionable financial ventures, became bankrupt, later tried to establish himself in China, New York City, and other places, and finally returned to Milwaukee to save the city from Socialism...
...Maxton, chairman of the I. L. P., one of the most popular propagandists in British Labor, is the leader of this group...
...1916 2 The Milwaukee Sentinel...
...A Bold Housing Program The new Socialist administration had resolved to make more than a half-way measure out - of this condemnatiton program...
...The first step was a sensational one...
...Now that the land has been secured, and at practically no cost, the lakefront park built, and harbor plans land, the whole development is looked upon as one of the largest achievements of the city...
...what have Socialists accomplished...
...The mayor, however, defended his war record and support of the national government, and, vdfaile he lost many votes because of tne war hysteria, he undoubtedly gained other votes from racial groups opposed to the war, particularly the Germans, and was returned to office by a narrow majority...
...He appoints the heads of the principal departments, but his appointments are subject to confirmation by the council, and he does not have the power of removal...
...The Deception of the Romance of War By J. Ramsay MacDonald (rrom the Address to the Foreign Policy Association) rj'HE other day I went out to Arlington and I "saw those solemn acres where your military dead lie...
...The city, on its side, provides free land on which to erect homes, and guarantees the corporation against bankruptcy...
...With Bernard Shaw, however, they believe that the furlctlon of the left wing is not to grumble and abuse the leadership, but to suggest possible constructive legislation which the leaders have neglected to make...
...It must not be thought that the left wing are communistic...
...He went on to point out that the various municipal departments had been reorganized and cleaned up...
...Milwaukee a mJM the only city in the C0Ustrj3 has a commissioner of ssssssl whose business it is to sail the annexation of outlrat I burbs...
...This Sjseort is all the more remarkable sb view of the fact that Milwaukee fa apt • Socialist city, despite the sjpt—son impression to the contrary, and the Socialists have not sssasismUi 1 a majority in the counsjD at any time during these terms...
...The one Communist member, the Indian, Saklatvala, was defeated overwhelmingly by a Laborite at the last election...
...Hoan charged that his opponents were the tools of the utilities...
...Once the voters of the state voted down the referendum proposition...
...The homes are deluged on all sides by sunlight...
...In the medium and large apartments, the averages are .85 and .75 respectively...
...They feel that in some activities too great caution had been displayed and that more boldness would reap better results...
...He won also an important case concerning the power of the city to regulate billboards...
...5 The Milwaukee Leader...
...There was another side to the jp"*Amt The crooked and ancient StrasSs of the old city, with high peeked houses, so dear to the medievalist and esthetically inclined tourist, were breeding places for tuberculosis...
...to the financial obstacles In the way of the immediate guarantee of a living wage for employed and unemployed and to the fact that in the party meeitng, following the adjournment of Parliament, no one of th* protesting group confronted MacDonald or the meeting with their objections...
...They point to the increased iifficulties with the Russian govsrnment to which the admittance if Trotsky would probably have led...
...The second step of the Socialist administration was to avail itself of the Ribot Law...
...The council bat HDsfl to accept it under the term sfl now is investigating tat «| known fact that there h sal fund in existence...
...He selected as subordinates capable young attorneys who have since risen to the top of the profession...
...For years he had been a strong advocate of city planning, and has backed up the public land commission (the city planning board ) with vigorous vetoes when the council has attempted to break down the zoning law...
...During ths five years of hostilities no new Issues had been built in the city...
...His popularity is not due to a magnetic personality, though he is democratic, approachable and tactful...
Vol. 9 • October 1929 • No. 11
