Chicago Unpeglerized

One of Westbrook Pegler's sponsors as a national columnist was Secretary Frank Knox's Chicago Daily News (until three years ago it shared Pegler's basic syndicate contract with Scripps-Howard's New York World-Telegram). Recently the Daily News has omitted many Pegler columns. Last week Editor Paul Scott Mowrer explained (but not to his readers) why the Daily News had stopped printing them altogether: "We find that our own columnists are much more popular."

Pegler columns (before his vacation in March) had deeply embarrassed the News. They had: 1) blasted at Marshall Field HI, whose Chicago Sun is an important client of the Daily News Building; 2) given left-handed praise to the News's and the Sun's mighty adversary, Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick.

The News replaced Pegler with Phil S. Hanna, ousted by Marshall Field two months ago after he had opposed the Sun's (and the Administration's) view on the soldier-vote issue. The News continued to pay for Pegler's columns, thus left him without a stage in the nation's second city.

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