CHICAGO, Nov. 2 (AP)—With the cry "give me liberty or put me on the W. P. A.," Mayor Maury Maverick of San Antonio, Tex., propounded a bill of rights for harried American Mayors tonight.
In a prepared address before the American Municipal Association, he outlined these articles of his Magna Carta:
1—The people shall realize that if they never let the Mayor work, the Mayor can never do any.
2—That if no work is done, the government will surely cease.
3—The people shall make or establish no habit, custom or practice which will prohibit a Mayor from the right to petition the people not to take his whole salary in contributions, to prevent him from peaceful assemblage with his family and to stay home on week ends.
4—The right of the Mayor to enjoy social occasions and to go shopping without having his whole time ruined by being jabbed in the ribs with constant requests for private conferences. . . . Shall not be infringed.
5—The Mayor . . . shall not be seized, pawed, pulled by the lapels nor put in jeopardy of life and limb.
6—No Mayor shall meet any train whatsoever, no matter if the visitor is a great movie actor who might reward the Mayor with an autograph; nor shall he meet even great prize fighters or golfers, but will stay at the City Hall and do his work.
Maverick also urged urban executives to "tell labor leaders that you will protect their civil liberties but that is all" and advised them to "fear not Rotarians, Kiwanians and the Sons of the American Revolution."
He suggested, furthermore:
"The next man who slaps you on the back, sock him one back."
Daily Boston Globe, Nov 3, 1939, p. 32
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