NYC Mayor John Hylan announces his bid for re-election for a third term. He is currently resisting the state government and indeed state law in attempting to dig a Staten Island tunnel that can accommodate freight cars; the state insists it be used only for passenger train service. Although ground was broken in 1923, that dispute will have halted work by the end of the year. The incomplete tunnel is still down there. Other Hylan issues are also mostly public transportation things, which he expresses in slogan form as the five-cent fare, the traction trust, the billion-dollar prize, and the subsidized press. The “billion-dollar conspiracy” consists of “the traction ring” scheming to replace the current Board of Estimate so it can increase fares, take over the transit system and profit from giving out bus routes.
Bulgaria outlaws Communists, who are being hunted and killed, and killing government forces in return.
Washington Gov. Roland H. Hartley (R) refuses to name a delegate to a national conference on child welfare, saying children are “being made to pay the penalty for an overabundance of altruistic twaddle.” We should “stop a lot of this uplift gush. ... Can we wonder that our children go wrong? Petted, pampered, educated at the expense of the State, robbed of self-reliance and independence, we send them forth as weaklings to take up the rugged path of life for themselves.” Probably best not to google “uplift gush.” I mean I don’t know that for sure, taking my own advice, but you do you.
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