In Chicago

Chicagoans awoke one morning last week to find that 512,740 of their number had elected William Hale Thompson as Mayor.

Said the liberal New York World: "The majority which voted for Thompson are not intelligent, free, self-governing citizens of a republic. "They are suckers. They are not the only suckers in the land, but at the moment they are the most conspicuous ones."

The Chicago Tribune, which had fought against Mr. Thompson, sold 909,448 copies (its high water mark for the daily edition) and soon boasted, the fact with figures five inches high, meanwhile trimming its political sails with a weak-kneed editorial hoping that Mr. Thompson would turn over a new leaf.

At his headquarters, the Mayor-elect regaled reporters and press agents: he would establish an America First Association in every state in the Union; he would "show King George V where to get off"; he would be "Big Bill the Builder"; he would run the gangsters out of Chicago and let them go to St. Louis, Detroit, New York; he would "make the streets safe so that women and children can go to the movies at night"; he would not let the police go "sniffing around for home brew"; he might go after the presidency of the U. S. in 1928.

Paunchy Mr. Thompson was scheduled to be inaugurated with pomp on April 18. He was reported to have offered the job of press agent of his administration to Maurine Watkins, authoress of the sensational, successful murder play, Chicago, now playing in Manhattan.