GLOOMY CHICAGO.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12535, 29 December 1933, Page 2

GLOOMY CHICAGO.

If you don’t pay your rates in Chicago they 4 ‘tell the world.” By law* a schedule of unpaid rat* must be published annuallv in tli<_- * newspapers. On October *2l this year, when the schedule was published, the Chicago Examiner, normally of 34 pages, contained 426 pages. This sidelight on affairs hi the United States was given to-day by Dr. Stanley Wilkinson, orthodontist, oi Collins Street, Melbourne, who returned recently after a visit to America. He told also of a policeman who, in a Chicago street, was standing beneath an enormous moving sign urging citizens to “buy freely at this time as a prudent use* of money.” “How can I buy. when the city owes me five months’ wages, and they can’t collect the taxes to pay me?” asked the policeman. “Chicago is a city of gloom.'* said Dr. Wilkinson. “One hears of the most amazing reversals of fortune. Everyone seems anxious, and the talk is not of the stock market, but of the N.R.A. Propaganda is everywhere—in the newspai>ers, on the screen, over the radio.”