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AN ADVANTAGEOUS MOVE.
The appointment of Justice Ferdinand Pecora by Governor
Lehman to aid in the investigation of the so-called “industrial
rackets” in the city of New York, is certainly an advanced step
in this important probe which is now swinging under way. To
assist Justice Phillip B. McCook in the trial and general routine
of the investigation of the organized forms of racketeering which
so predominate the every-day life of the metropolis, Pecora en
ters into a picture with which he is absolutely familiar, having
served in similiar capacities.
In 1934, Pecora was appointed the director of the Senate
stock market nvestigation in which role he pursued a probe
which eventually turned the country into praising him to the
house-tops for the fearless and efficient way in which the diminu
tive lawyer handled the investigation against some of the lead
ing lights of the nation with their battery of conflicting evidence
and astute maneuvering gained through long years of practice
in leading courts of the country. Pecora handled the probe to the
very end, and brought to light a set of circumstances which left
the nation at large gasping with the sheer audacity of the trans
actions which were veiled under many guises calculated to off
set the trusting souls who were merely acting m the roles of
suckers to the schemes as formulated.
The dark-skinned investigator with his vitriolic manner of
questioning witnesses is counted on by Governor Lehman to
make a thorough investigation of the various and sundry man
ners of racketeering which is gradually bleeding the small pro
ducer of his life earnings. Having been broken loose from the
various pre-prohibition rackets whch made their exit at the re
call of the Eighteenth Amendment, th modern mobsmen, turned
to new fields, and as a result the various industrial commodities
are taking the brunt of the vicious attack of organized crime.
Certainly it is not to be doubted that New York is the fore
most field for the start of a drive to wipe out this type of crime.
The metropolis with its huge mass of citizens of cosmopolitan
types has always been and always will be a fertile area for the
exploitation of the unwary. The big city can be counted on to
form a hot-bed for America’s criminal'school, and any attempt
to probe into the affairs of the crime syndicate will be welcomed.
It is believed that the recent investigation o fth artichoke rack
ets which was prompted on the insistence of Mayor La Guardia,
is the prime reason for the general clean-up and investigation
of the rackets which so predominate. Whatever be the real
causes of the crime wave which has turned from one field to
another, the untiring efforts of Ferdinand Pecora will trace them
to their sources.
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Editor, The Savannah Daily Times:
I am writing the following for your
Readers Forum.
In a recent Walter Winchell Col
imn Dick Hyman, publicist, writer
ind author of the reoent book “It’s
(he Law,” was guest contributor and
this Is what he says about a freak
law in Georgia:
“The law says that every bathing
beach guard must wear a “bright
»olid red” bathing suit —with a har-
Sess around his neck, attached to a
fe line 200 ft. long. It is illegal to
Hap a man on the back.”
Wbll, about slapping the man on
Hie back, that makes no difference
lo me, but about the life guard, I
tike that part about him wearing a
Wit that will distinguish him from
>ther men on the beach and if it
Is a law, well it’s a good one.
On July 4, I was down at Tybee
ALL or US
UNDER PRESSURE
I PRAISED a man I know and a
Iriend said, “Yes, as far as I know,
le’s all right. But you can’t ever tell
vbout a human being till you see him
inder pressure
That sounded like common sense,
but the more I thought about it. the
less important it seemed . . . Because,
after all. nearly everybody I know is
ander pressure all the time.
There aren’t many big surprises in
life. Almost every man meets death,
borrow, humiliation disappointment,
monotony fairly often and endures
them well enough . . . Very few men
achieve eminence, victory, power,
great wealth without training for it
and developing ability to meet these
responsibilities.
So life, for most of us, holds no
and stood in a crowd of people, watch
ing a man out in the water, that
looked as if he would drown any min
ute. I couldn’t swim, and evidently
no one around could, or would, for
there the crowd stood, taking deep
breaths every time r breaker would
sweep over the poor man, and fi
nally through an act of God, he
reached shore exhausted. We never
did find a life guard, but late in the
afternoon, one was pointed out to me
and he bore no signs of being a life
guard, with the exception of a thor
ough coat of tan, showing that he
had been in the sun many days. At
this time he was playing ball on the
beach.
Where is the life guard of yester
day, who wore a marker on his suit
“LIFE GUARD” and where, oh where,
are the boats that used to patrol the
water and refuse to let people go
swimming beyond a certain distance.
I would say the law isn't so funny,
but a real necessity at Savananh
Beach and I’m for the red suit, and
if necessary, the harness would be
alright with me.
Something should be done about
this matter, and I am taking the lib
ertyof writing this letter to you, hop
ing that if you publish it, in some
way, the matter may be remedied and
possibly save a life, mine or yours,
who knows?
ANXIOUS ONE.
great and overwhelming encounters
for which we are not prepared. All
day, nearly every day, we live in a
certain amount of pressure. We have
tasks to do, obligations to fulfill, prob
lems to solve ... and those with whom
we work and live have a reasonably
accurate idea of what we are and
what we may become . . . Whether a
man works at a desk or builds a
bridge or farms a piece of land, his
neighbors know what he is and what
he will do.
They form their Judgments by what
they see him do every day, by the
promises he makes and keeps or
breaks, by the strength he shows, or
the weakness he betrays ... He tells
his story in little ways and few men
are clever enough to confuse their
close companions
So I tell you you need not wait for
“Big Pressure” to know a man or a
woman . . . The little pressures of
our little living, that follow each oth
er from day to day, make a human
being what he is and prophesy his
future.
HEY!
-WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE
OLD PARTIES WORRIED
Because of New Three-Way Trend
OVER LABOR SPLITS
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer
WASHINGTON. July 10—Labor is
as bewildered as anyone by the mix
up of alignments of the two major
political parties. The managements
of the major political parties are
equally bewildered by the mixup of
labor alignments.
Progressive Republicans are flock
ing over to the Roosevelt group.
Conservative Democrats are enlist
ing under the Landon banner.
The Republican elephant and the
Democatic donkey don’t know which
is which. Neither does labor.
But politicians also are at a loss
how to choose between labor factions.
* * •
The Lewis Movement
The prospects of a finish fight be
tween employers in the steel industry
and the forces behind President John
L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers,
which are trying to organize the
steel, automotive, rubber and other
big trades on the industrial or “ver
tical” plan, is bad enough from the
politicians’ standpoint.
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Still, that is the old conflict be
tween capital and labor; the parties
have had much experience in strad
dling it more or less deftly. •
The split between the industrial
unionists and the old-time craft or
“horizontal” unionists under the lead
ership of President William Green of
the A. F. of L., is not so simple a
question to deal with.
* * *
Parties Puzzled
What shall a political party do?
Favor employer against employe, or
vice versa?
That is an issue for a clean-cut
decision. Os course, no party ever
explicitly announces that it has de
cided either way, but it has been pos
sible to guess at their respective pre
ferences.
Now, however?
If a party is pro-employer it has all
labor against it.
Employer-dom’s financial influence,
which is important, always has been
predominant but the employes have
done the bulk of the voting.
These potencies could be weighed,
the one against the other.
This year the estimate is triangular.
1. The employers’ influence.
2. The A. F. of L.’s influence.
3. The Lewis, or industrial union
ists’ influence.
Three ways of betting isn’t as sim
ple as two ways.
Other considerations enter into the
computation—the Lemke ticket’s pos
sibilities, for example. Ido not think
that Lemke will count materially but
the Lewis-Green split is significant.
Yet the other factors are confusing.
They may count in closely balanced
areas. .
Your’e Telling
Me?
Now that all Europe appears to
have turned him down Haile Selassie
might appeal to Wilhelm II for sym
pathy. At least the ex-kiser, only
other emperor in exile, knows how
Haile feels.
• • *
The ex-kiser has spent his lonely
years chopping trees and sawing
wood. But, like the ex-emperor of
Ethiopia, in his plea to the League
of Nations, he cut no ice.
* • •
Haile has nothing to lose by drop
ping into Holland for a visit with
Mr. Hohenaollern. He's in Dutch,
anyway.
* • *
They might compare beards since
both of them sport a full crop of
chin spinach. Or they could talk
over their own hairraising adven
tures.
—WORLD AT A GLANCE—
ROOSEVELT CAMPAIGN
Interpreting His Acts in Light of Past
BASED ON JEFFERSON?
By LESLIE EICHEL
(Central Press Staff Writer)
President Roosevelt is setting the
tenor of his campaign. He will try to
prove by the past that the real guard
ian of the people’s rights is one who
breaks the bonds of tradition and en
larges the scope of administrative ac
tion.
That is in answer to the Republic
ans and their states’ rights’ cam
paign.
In his speech on Thomas Jefferson
at Monticello, President Roosevelt
spring his keynote, to wit:
“He was a great gentleman. He was
a great commoner. The two are not
incompatible.
“He applied the culture of the past
to the needs and life of the America
of his day. His knowledge of history
spurred him to inquire into the rea
son and justice of laws, habits and
institutions. His passion for liberty
led him to interpret and adapt them
in order to better the lot of man
kind.
“Shortly before taking office as
president of the United States he
wrote to a friend, ‘I have sworn on
the altar of pod eternal hostility
against every form of tyranny over
the mind of man.’ His life served that
consecration. Constantly he labored
to enlarge the freedom of the human
mind and to destroy the bondage im
posed on it by inorance, poverty and
political and religious intolerance.”
• * 4
Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson, in his own age,
was attacked as no other American
has been attacked for his ideas and
ideals, now looked upon as the basis
of democracy. President Roosevelt
may desire, by quoting Jefferson, to
draw an analogy.
A revealing paragraph on Jeffer
son is contained in “The Rise of
MyNew York
By
James Aswell
NEW YORK, July 10—The other
day it was my privilege to meet the
sort of New Yorker that swarms here
in uncounted thousands and yet Is
very, very seldom written about. She
was a little girl, possibly eighteen,
with a grave, trustful face and only
the haziest conception of what New
York is all about.
She lives, you see. in a “tenement”
in the neighborhood of Hester and
Allen Streets—where the population
density is about ten to the square
foot and where the poverty is so great
that it transcends mere lack of money
and becomes away of life, a char
acter element, a sort of faith.
Her boy friend, who is a waited in
a restaurant where I occassionally
dine when my family is out of town,
produced her proudly and suddenly
one evening when business was slow.
She will not see this, for she is mag
nificently innocent of the babble or
professional chatterists, so I can set
it down without danger of puzzling
her even more about tbe town and ts
curious dwellers.
I took them that evening for a
round of the various glittery places:
the night clubs which had only been
a rumor before. Indeed, I don’t think
she had ever been north of 14th
Street more than a couple of times in
her life.- for she wanted to see the
Rockefeller Center of which she had
heard, and Times Square at night and
she asked where the zoo was and
seemed disappointed when I told her
it was several miles cptown.
She was the perfect Cindella. She
remained awake valiantl yand loaded
up with the various toys the night
clubs dispense: noise-makers and
swizzel sticks and stuffed dogs. She
wanted to play Santa to her numer
ous brothers and sisters.
At the end of it all she professed
to be deliriously happy. I asked her
what the lesson of it had been. For
a moment she frowned. And then
she said:
“Well, I always wanted to be a
chorus girl. Now I dont think I’d like
to be one. It seems they have to take
off more of their clothes in public
than I had imagined.”
I was pleased to see that Broadway
could even be a Good Influence.
Her face clouded then. “The trou
ble is.” she added, “although I had
such a wonderful, wonderful time,
none of my friends at home will be
lieve it when I tell them I actually
saw Rudy Vallee in the flesh. That’s
something that hadn’t occurred to
me. What can I d oabout that? It’ll
be terrible to have them not believe
me. if I’d thought ahead of time, I
could have got you to have our pic
tures taken together—mine and
Rudy’s—or something, for It’ll be
tough not to be believed.”
But by then I could see that she
didn’t more than half believe it her
self. Which was just as well.
* * •
Odds and end-pieces: New York
has her mama’s boys—who wouldn’t
thin kof attending a first night, go
ing to a new restaurant or turning up
at a cocktail party without their par
ents . . . Richard Watt’s, Jr., Beraie
Sobel and Clifton Webb are three of
these, almost as celebrated for their
devotion to their mothers as for their
other accomplishments . . . Eleanor
Holm Jarrett, the swimming star,
never “trains” for her splashing . . !
She eats what she likes, goes to bed
when she pleases and between cross
country rambling with her husband’s
band, movie and radio engagements,
she scarcely ever gets a chance to
practice . . . But she manages to stay
in the top flight of lady swimmers
. . . And come to think, the swimming
division is the only one of the ath- •
letic departments which consistently
turns out lookers among its female
stars. <
American Civilization,” by Charles A.
and Mary R. Beard:
“If reason was to he the guide m
politics, religion and education, it fol
lowed that freedom of press and
speech must be an essential element
in the human scheme of things. This
theory Jefferson also carried to Its
logical conclusion; utterly rejecting
the tyrant’s plea thatliberty can be
best protected by ‘beating down licen
tiousness,’ he went the whole length
in asserting that the government
should not interfere with the expres
sion of opinion until it merged into
an overt act. Even open resistance
to government, which logic forced
him to face, was not so dreadful in
his eyes. When he heard of Shay’s
uprising in Massachusetts, he ex
claimed: ‘God forbid that we should
ever be for 20 years without such a
rebellion.’ ”
It was no wonder that when Jef
ferson first was elected to the presi
dency, in 1800, Alexander Hamilton,
as the leader of the defeated Fed
eralists, sought by a legal gerryman
der in New York state, to prevent the
presidential electors from voting ac
cording to the popular will. But Gov
ernor John Jay, listening to public
opinion, refused to permit this dis
graceful act.
» * •
Another Clue?
Another “clue” to the Democratic
campaign may be gathered from these
words, delivered by Attorney General
Homer S. Cummings before Tam
many in New York:
“The theory of our government has
not changed, but the times have
changed and invention has altered
the scope and tempo of our life. There
are many influential and intelligent
citizens who are disturbed by these
things and indulge in fears, largely
artificial, that something terrible is
happening in America.
“They seek to interpret the law and
constitution in such fashion that they
will check rather than guide the
stream of life. They fling themselves
athwart the currents of existence and
order them to pause. These futile
gestures bring only disappointment
and bitterness to those who indulge
in them.
“Nothing is going to happen to
America, except that it is growing
and that it is insisting that it shall
not lose its freedom in the process/
* * *
Increase All Around
Bus traffic has not dropped because
■ of lower rail fares. Instead both bus
■ and rail traffic have increased.
This bears out Henry Ford’s belief
that a constantly decreasing price
will broaden markets and increase
business and earnings.
Many economists also hold to that
belief, but the world has been tend
! ing in the other direction since the
war. The constant effort has been
to force prices up.
Senator James Ccuzena of Michi
gan. who once was a Henry Ford part
ner, told this writer a few months
; ago that in casual conversation with
a steel corporation president he had
suggested that a lowering of steel
prices, not an increase, would open
’ wide new markets for the industry.
1 It would make unnecessary, too, the
1 high “protective” tariff. But the steel
chieftain would not be convinced.
Not In the News
ONE OF THE better syndicate edit
ors has a mother-in-law who makes
regular trips to fortune tellers and
mediums. Recently she was told by
one of them that her daughter would
be the mother of twins.
Since then the editor has been
scouring New York City for insurance
against the possibility of a double
blessing!
• * *
LEARNING OF our pet peeve
socthing campaign, a Cleveland, 0.,
mail carrier, who doesn’t want his
name published, responded quickly
with his favorite aggravations. He
says he didn’t have to sit down and
figure out the things that irk him;
they have bothered him for years.
He writes:
“I am a mail carrier, and, be
lieve me, my job gives me plenty to
‘beef’ about. A lot of people think
that all we postmen have to worry
about is to get the right mail to the
right people. I wish that were so.
‘The thing that bothers me most
is how some people regard us as ma
chines instead of human beings. On
my route there are some who think
I ought to be at their houses every
day at the same minute. There’s one
old lady who bawls me out regularly
every time I am as much as five
minutes late. She wants her mail
at 10:45 sharp, and if she doesn’t get
it she rants and raves and threatens
to notify Washington about me.
“Another woman has been trying j
for years to use me as an alarm clock.
I reach her house about nine o’clock
in the morning, and she wants me
to ring the doorbell so she’ll know it’s
time to get up. Well, if i have any
mail for her, I ring the doorbell, but
if I haven’t, I let her sleep. After
all, my job is to carry mail— not to
rout lazy women out of bed!
“Another thing that burns me up
is being asked to charge postage-due
on letters and packages, it seldom
amounts to more than a few cents,
but there are some people who have
the nerve to ask you to put it on
the cuff. The funny thing is that I
have to tell the same people, time
after time, that it’s against the rules.
And why don’t people keep their
dogs tied up when they know it’s
time for the mail man? I like dogs,
but I don t like to be bitten. My legs i
are covered with scars from dog bites '
that might haw been avoided if peo- ]
pie had been a little more consider- i
ate. j
'I guess there never was a man 1
carrier who wasn’t called nosey at one 1
Today is the Day
By CLARK KINNAIBD
Copyright, 1936, for this Newspa
per by Central Press Association
Friday, July 10. Morning stars:
Mercury, Saturn, Uranus, Mars. Eve.
ning stars: Venus, Neptune, Jupiter.
Moon: last quarter tomorrow.
* * *
NOTABLE NATIVITIES
Rexford Guy Tugwell, b. 1891, No.
1 “Brain-Truster” and director p 1
the Resettlement Administration ...
Nicola Telsa, b. 1857, discoverer of I
alternating current and 700 other *
notable inventions . . . Liliaue Carre
Flynn, known as Lili Damita, b.
1906, cinemactress . . . Graham
McNamee, b. 1889, radio announcer
. . . Joan Marsh, b. 1911, cinemac-’
tress.
* * *
TODAY’S YESTERDAYS
July 10, 1777—William Barton, 29-
year-old Rhode Islander, abducted a
British general from his own head
quarters.
Robert Prescott, commander at
Newport, had made himself especially
obnoxious to local patriots, and Bar
ton revolved to capture him With
38 men in four whale-boats, he
crossed Narrangansett Bay, slipped
past three British warships, to land
near Newport. He surprised tha
guards on duty in the sleeping Mmp
used a negro’s head as a battering
ram to break down the general’s door
and carried him, undressed, to the
American lines, to be presented to
George Washington.
Congress rewarded Barton a sword
for his exploit, yet after the Revolu
tion allowed him to remain in jail 14
years because of debt.
* * *
July io, 1780—The military find
imval force sent by Louis XVI to aid
the American Revolutionists, arrived
at Newport, R. 1., in command, of
Lieut. Gen. Jean Baptiste de Vim
our, Comte de Rochambeau, A few
days later the 8,000 soldiers joined
Washington’s army on the Hudson,
above New York, and began to play
a vital part in the defeat of thd *
British.
Revolutionists cut off Louis’ head
a few years later, and the aid he
gave American revolutionists was a
reason. The expense entailed com
pleted the bankruptcy of his govern
ment.
!'* * *
July 10, 1863—The United states
■ went to war with Japan, without the
knowledge or authority of Congress!
When deaths of four Britons led
Britain to make demands on Japan
1 a nd cause all foreigners to be order- i
i ed to leave the country, the Ameri
can minister refused to leave, and his
: legation at Nagasaki was destroyed
< by a mob. Simultaneously, an Amerl
i can steamer was attacked by twq
Jpanese ships.
> The American minister on his
■ own initiative ordered the nearby U.
> S. S. Wyoming to attack the city. It
i did, blowing up the two Japanese at
tacking-ships and silencing six lord
batteries. The U. S. s. Jamestown x ‘
. was sent against Yokohama, and tha
; minister, Robert Hewson Pruyn, 48,
i of Albany, N. Y., chartered and armed ;
l a Chinese ship, Ta-Kiang, to join
[ French and British shps in a fur*
L ther attack.
There were no cable facilities, and
> mails were months in transit between
[ Japan and Washington. Thus while
the Union battled the Confederacy,
the U. S. was engaged in another •
war, with a foreign country, unbe
, knownst to the government! By the
> time Washington did know of tha
war, Pruyn had forced Japan to pay
heavy indemnities and established ' >
peace. «|
i* * *
July 10 Among State Histories:
1790—Three Carmelite nuns and a
sub-prioress, arrived at Port Tobacco,
Md„ from Belgium to establish the
first convent in the U. s.—the moth
er house of all religious houses for
women in the country . . . 1865-
First rail of the first railroad be
tween the Missouri river and the
Pacific and Union Pacific, was laid
at Council Bluffs, lowa . . . 1925
Dayton, Tenn., was the center of the
world’s attention, with the opening
of the trial of John T. Scopes for
teaching high school students “evolu
tion.”
* * *
FIRST WORLD WAR DAY BY DAY!
20 Years Ago Today—ln one day,
July 1, Sir Douglas Haig’s Somme
offensive had broken through the
German third line for six miles east
of Fricourt and one mile west. For
the next 12 days he gained only
yards, clearing the way to the sec
ond line. A number of outer bas
tians, island fortresses, had to be
taken before there oould be a gen
eral attack on the second line.
Here a complete picture of the pow
er of modem weapons of destruction
was drawn. Before the Somme there
had been havoc beyond anything oth
er wars had. known, but never so
complete.
Picardy’s smiling countryside with
rolling hills and deep valleys cut by
chalk streams—a land of prosperous
farms ,sown with small villages—was •*
smitten by a storm which did not I s
pas away but endured for weeks and
for months. Over an area 10 miles
wide by 20 long the whole face of * j
the earth was changed beyond recog.
nition, the heart ox the hills was
blown out, the smoothly rounding
slopes of other elevations were
splotched with craters, like volcanoes:
and everything in between was like f
an ancient Pompeii or Messina
through which had flowed streams •
of lava and burning ashes not only to
engulf but to endure.
Gone was all there was of human
habitation and the fields of human :
effort, and the earth was sowed with *
steel and deadly gases, and overturn
ed with the sterile understrata, as t
if there was never to be any return
to of life here till the end of time.
(To be continued)
tune or another. I hate to deliver tj
postcards because of the ‘I hope you
liked what you read on the back’
looks that I get. As if I would b«
interested in the trips that people
write on postcards!”