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...Chicago Public Library officials also rebuked the Mayor during the week. He had accused them of tolerating "pro-British unAmerican" books upon their shelves. They wrote: "Even taking passages quoted at their worst, we believe these books should be supplied to the library patrons that they may be acquainted with every shade of opinion. In this the Chicago Public Library is like all other libraries in the world, a depository of human thought; consequently much of its contents are contradictory. "This exchange and freedom of thought we consider the primary function of a library, and in keeping with the American...
...Anglomania of School Superintendent William McAndrew of Chicago (TIME, Oct. 17 EDUCATION) dragged on. The Mayor's censor of history books, Urbine J. ("Sport") Herrman, heavy-jowled theatre owner and yachtsman, continued to examine the contents of the Chicago Public Library (which Queen Victoria helped build) for pro-British propaganda. Public Librarian Carl B. Boden, President of the American Library Association, quailed before the mayoral authority, fearing for his $11,000 per annum job. But citizens forestalled by injunction a public burning of the books Mr. Herrman "suspected." The press ridiculed "Chicago's Dayton" and called Mayor Thompson...
Replied Beloit, Wis.: "Wisconsin's pro-British Conservation Commission protects English pheasants introduced into this State to make our loyal Germans dissatisfied with their spareribs and sauerkraut. In the name of 100% Americans, can't you do something about it? Under your starry banner we will fight for the complete extermination of English pheasants, English sparrows and English bulldogs. Don't let King George...
...vexed the Mayor. He had interfered with the easy-going manner of awarding contracts for school buildings. He had taught that the U. S. Army retreated before the advance of the British on Washington, D. C., in the War of 1812. Roared Mayor Thompson: "I will run that whiskered pro-British stool pigeon of King George out of town!" To do that His Honor replaced the members of the Board of Education with citizens upon whom he could rely. Soon the Board suspended Mr. McAndrew...
...service clerks) and unpatriotism. Evidence adduced to prove the latter charge: "He refused to recommend to the School Board that the school children be permitted to donate small amounts of money for the purpose of reconditioning-the famous American battleship Old Ironsides. . . . He recommended history text books which contained pro-British propaganda and which omitted the name and exploits of many foreign and native-born heroes of the American Revolutionary War." There were other charges-insolence, poisoning the minds of U. S. children against the government...