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THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1981
EDITORIAL
BLIND MAN’S BUFF
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THURSDAY, MARCH M. 1931
“Give light and the people will find their own way”
A Thought for Today
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THIS IS LIFE •
inal ambitioni of
inal orders. All the
For one thing, the poor
those of moderate means
now paying perhaps not
will say that we find enough of
good In our written constitu-
tion of government to hold In
check to some extent the crim-
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status would be a more efficient method of
tovernment technically than the present meth-
Id but whether the Porto Ricans would be
island by the mayor of Ponce who welcomed
him.
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aterial prosperity. Therefore, the problem of
horals always will be crucial.
Considered as a matter of morals, the ques-
ton is not whether the demanded free-state
EARL J. GAINES
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and prove ourselves inadequate and pitiful crea-
KITE TOURNAMETtures. The royalists in France contended that
monarchs must forever reign until they were
TT seemed that this was the Savoy Ball Room
1 and that a national tourney was in session
to select the prise winner of the Lindy Hop,
latest erase of Manhattan’s vast black belt.
Thousands packed a huge room. Two
bands alternated in keeping that itching feeling
in nimble feet It was quite another Africa in
quite another scene but, still, with something
of the walling of flutes and the beating of
drums that, not so long ago, had come thru
open windows as an echo of the Ramadan.
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COMMONE nudged my elbow.
D “Well, what do you think now!" asked
Cecil and other authorities agree,
will depend entirely upon public
opinion. • — us urd 0 .
The deleger with demonstrations of a l’Give Us
will go aserty or Give Us Death" character. There-
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many employesSinren enklnewus fad. He said .e the paypsolute independence. They want to remain
-Mre not only hadmerican citizens. But they want statehood.
urgent for words to express.
EDWIN D. MINTEER
Editor
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Advertising Manager
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THE OTHER WORLD
Editor The Press:
PERHAPS if we all thought
I this is the only life there is
we might be more willing to
help a poor fellow to a short
period of happiness here.
We might even be as kind to
the under dog as is Mr. Darrow.
Given only so much time on a
vessel that is bound t6 founder
and go down forever in the end.
we might note be so prone to
throw chunks at our fellow pas-
sengers.
It seems a pity that the as-
surance of eternal life only
seems to make us more uppish
toward the poor fellow sailing
alongside in a leaky boat. But
of course, being Christians as
we all are except Mr. Darrow,
we have to provide as much
Hell as possible for the un-
righteous here and leave the
Lord to reward the righteous
hereafter.
Can it be that we cultivate
Heaven too much and so neglect
the cheerful possibilities of
earth
Heaven's all right in its place
and when we gets round to it,
but how any of us can expect
special excursion rates to an-
other world after making so lit-
tle of this is purely a question
of how much waste and torn
foolery the Lord is going to put
up with.—MRS. SPARKS.
A THIRD PARTY
Editor The Press:
CHOULD we organise another
political party—a party to
be in the interest of the com-
mon people and those of mod-
erate means, or should we not?
In such a contingency as that
of having the leadership of
either the Republican or the
Democratic Party renouncing
all allegiance to the plutocratic
power and In such terms as to
incur the enmity of that power
in full measure, there might be
no need for the organization of
another party. But imagining
By GILBERT SWAN ---—
NEW YORK.—The phone rang, and a voice
I said:
“Say, I've been reading some of your pieces
about the North African dancers. What’s the
big idea? . . . Have you forgotten that Har-
lem is still on the map? Drop up tonight and
I’ll show you some real stepping.”
And so the habit of starting for some-
where after midnight seemed to return with-
out much effort.
And so, too, I found myself far uptown
in a huge hall where elastic bodies were twist-
ing themselves into corkscrew postures such
as the primitives of the Atlas mountains and
the Arab lands have never learned, and prob-
‘ably never will.
The discipline of hips and shoulders had
somehow been lost in a forest of contortions,
where feet, ankles and legs, hands, necks and
heads all came into syratig—life.--------------
Greased and glistening black hair mirrored
tricky lights, and ladies and gents in evening
gowns sat with the fascinated eyes of groups
ringed around the snake charmers and story
tellers of old Moorish towns.
| sist that I be reinstated 1m-
| mediately.
So far I have been unable
to determine why I was oust-
ed. The only reason the broth-
ers give is that it was "for
the good of the order."
That’s a! mighty slim ex-
cuse and I want more detailed
information.
Some of the brothers are
jealous because they get a big-
ger kick out of my brew than
they get out of theirs.
It’s not my fault because
they do not use as much sugar
to the gallon as 1 do.
To prove my case today I
am going to take with me into
the court of inquiry one case
of my famous compound, and I
shall expect the brothers to
do likewise.
If necessary I shall turn this
whole affair into a sampling
contest and make it one of
those survival of the fittest
events. ,
DR. B. U. L. CONNER.
that the leaders of those parties
. are joined to their Idol, (pluto-
cratic power), Which now seems
most probable! It is very need-
ful' that another party be or-
ganized. This, because of the
very rich are directly antago-
nistic to the real interests of
the common people. And again,
when we reflect that it is not
the very rich as a class that
control our lives by controlling
our government, the urgency of
this need should become widely
apparent.
It is asked how that criminal
element exercises Its control?
Our answer, briefly stated, is
that it does so thru its control
of the policies of the so-called
Republican and Democratic Par-
ties.
It follows that as that ele-
ment controls the policies of
both, this control of policies
means that, for the service of
the plutocracy, the two are
merged into the one. Hence the
deduction is that it is a mere
fiction to suppose that the peo-
ple have the two parties or even
. the one party. The first Is that
under present conditions 11
must be unwise for the people
to have even the one except
that its leaders are of a mind
to incur all the ill will that the
plutocracy is capacitated to ar-
ray against them. Anything less
than complete deliverance from
the plutocracy is only a com-
promise. And what a shame for
a whole people to want to com-
promise with the most criminal
element among them—an ele-
ment .composed of that very
few.
Now notwithstanding all we
have said in the above about the
way we are being governed, we
To sort the visitors, day in
and day out, and see that no
one of importance Is disap-
pointed, is almost impossible,
but the president must be pro-
tected and his time is valu-
able.
• ••
TO some extent Hoover’s sec-
. retaries are also his advis-
ers. Lawrence Richey is the
most trusted and has a more
confidential and personal re-
lationship to the president and
his affairs than any of the
others. Walter Newton, the
nesota, has most to do with
politics, patronage and depart-
mental matters. French Stro-
ther is the president’s literary
secretary and is supposed to
write most of his speeches.
As In any appointment,
there Is considerable guessing
as to the political Implications
of Joslin's appointment and the
moet common guess is that
Hoover didn't forget Joslin’s
long association with Repub-
lican politicians In New Eng-
land, who will be expected to
deliver plenty of Hoover dele-
gates at the next GOP con-
vention.
• • • .,
PUT Joslin’s most important
D job, whether or. not the
satisfied with their political status.
It is true that the Sentiment toward the
United States has improved since the Porto
Rican legislature gave the Patrick Henry mes-
sage to Lindbergh to carry to President Cool-
idge. For that improved relationship the en-
lightened policy of President Hoover and Gov-
ernor Roosevelt is largely responsible.
But the Porto Ricans would be less than
human if they had suddenly ceased to want
self government. That they still want it was
told to Hoover the moment he .set foot on the
seems important. So here is a
story on the situation by Wil-
liam Philip Simins.
By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS
Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor
A rift has appeared in the
threatening clouds which for so
long have overhung the war-
weary, Job-hungry world.
Thirty days ago every Indica-
tion seemed to point in the di-
rection of eventual war, as rest-
less nations snapped and snarled
at each other and competition in
armaments proceeded with in-
creasing momentum.
Today something seems to be
happening. The key nations of
Europe, the cockpit of wars for
centuries, apparently are begin-
ning to see a light. Wonder of
wonders, Italy and France, aided
by Britain, have now buried the
hatchet after a decade of bicker-
ing and promised to be friends.
The economic depression, there-
fore, has done some good. It has
brought grim realization to hard-
hit Europe that prosperity and
steady jobs for Tom, Dick and
Harry depend not merely on
world peace but also on a world
freed from the constant fear of
war.
“End War Talk."
"There are two services 1931
can render the world,” Lloyd
George, former British premier,
declared. "It can thaw credit and
it can put an end to all this silly
talk about war.”
For, he warned, fear of war Is
almost as bad as war itself. "It
rattles business. There Is no con-
fidence. The trader will not buy
except from hand to mouth.”
So Europe has learned, or Is
learning. Fear of war is killing
trade, slowing down industry, in-
creasing unemployment and re-
ducing buying demand.
Europe, therefore, and by the
same token, the world, has
reached a cross roads—the most
important turning-point, perhaps,
in modern times.
For the first time in history,
too—and this is important—the
world's destiny has virtually been
taken out of the hands of pro-
fessional diplomats and placed
in the hands of the so-called
common people.
Here is how it works:
Ten months from now prac-
tically every nation in the world,
-big and little, will meet at
Geneva "to put an end to all
this silly talk about war."
Limit Armaments.
The avowed purpose of that
gathering will be to limit arma-
ments, of land, sea and air. But
what it will really do, if it suc-
ceeds. will be to lay the founda-
tion for a long period of peace
and security upon which our fu-
ture prosperity depends.
It will be the most important
parley since Versailles, and yet.
its success or failure, Viscount
By JACK MAXWELL
RECENTLY I pulled an after-
dinner talk at a luncheon
given by the Retail Credit
Men’s Association of Fort
Worth, Texas. I was their
"guest,” and responded to an
invitation received some days
before, to "come over and do
my stuff” . . . and STUFF it
WAS. As usual, my effort was
a FLOP. As an after-dinner
speech producer, I am the
world's WORST. If I try to pre-
pare something to say, I forget
it when the time comes to belch
- —IOUT. Therefore. I just sweat.
and stew along until my times
up... and fall back in my
chair.
Now, here's what It’s all
about: Never before, in any
man's town, have I been treat-
ed more kindly than 1 was han-
dled by the men and women
making up that particular gath-
ering. I am glad I made the
SUPREME effort, met them
and hung onto the ropes until
it was all OVER ..tho the di-
gestion of my LUNCH did not
begin until four hours after-
ward; I was that flabbergasted
as the result of my oratorical
effort in their behalf. And,
even now, I bust out in an
ESKIMO sweat at the thought
of the trying ordeal % ea to all
4 concerned, -
AMATEUR IN POLITICS
Editor, The Press:
TN the East Democrats consid-
x ering Owen D. Young as
President-elect in 1932 observe
that he would be the first U. S,
President who never previously
held, a political office, elective
or appointive, and who “disap-
proves of polities."
Got about that sort now, and
just look at us! Some on the
corners peddling unemployment
apples. Multitudes in bread
lines. Pullman Co. offering pre-
miums to single gents who can
sleep in two berths at a time.
Wall Street, meaning “high fi-
nance," the gloomtest spot on
earth. Liquor making in the
home, as desired, arid the rags
of other parts of the constitu-
tion fluttering in the winds of
politics.
President Hoover had held
but one political Job and has
been disapproving of politics as
a habit. Imagine a President In
1932 with no experience in po-
litical jobs and issuing disap-
provals of politics for Congress'
study: Might just as well issue
By HARRY ELMER BARNES, Ph. D.
WHEN public authorities pay
any attention at all to
prisons they are usually think-
ing of walls, cells, steel bars
and the like. The jailor’s
complex dominates. Interest is
all centered in safe custody of
convicts.
This would be all right if
we kept all prisoners shut up
forever and never released
them. But, aside from some
lifers, all prisoners will soon-
er or later be released. Hence,
we ought to do a little think-
ing about what will happen
when these men get out. Thus
far prisons have discharged
them more degenerate human
beings than they were upon ad-
mission. .
thought of it figured in his
selection, will be to keep "sell-
ing" Hoover to the country in
anticipation of the 1932 elec-
tion.
The new secretary Is 41
years old, short, stocky and
pleasant. He graduated from
his home town high school at
Leominster, Mass., in 1908 and
at once went to work as a copy
boy at the Associated Press
bureau in Boston, rising into
editorial work and later cov-
ering some of the big New
England stories of the period.
In 1913 he joined the star
of the Boston Transcript,
sometimes called "the New
England Bible.”
In 1916 Joslin was assigned
to Washington and in 1921
he found his old friend Cool-
idge vice-president of the Unit-
ed States and president of a
more important senate. Few
other correspondents paid
much attention to Coolidge
then and after Harding died
Joslin had a readier entree to
the White House than almost
any other Washington report-
er. He became more and more
closely acquainted with Hoo-
ver, so the entree has been
maintained in ths last two
, years.
TINT TXT A C ITT TINT C TON • H oover’s n ew secre ta ry faces task of
• W ABIINOION: “selling” Hoover to country.
jarred from that attitude by the revolution.
We have repeatedly told ourselves that it is
not possible for a people to overthrow private
ownership for profit, yet they are today doing
that very thing in Russia, according to Eugene
Lyons, United Press correspondent.
Half the majesty of man lies In the fact
that he does not recognize the impossible. We
are not cows, resigned to the visit of the
butcher. We are men and women, endowed,
presumably with brains, and if we used them
we could abolish many of the evils from which
we now suffer. We have in the past sur-
mounted difficulties. We have overcome dis-
ease. We have navigated oceans and explored
jungles. Are we, after that, going to accept
war—the greatest of all disasters - as inevi-
table? If so, we are indeed bovines.
By M. E. TRACY
COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 26.
U Like many other states,
Ohio faces the problem of
prison congestion. The neces-
sity of providing relief, either
thru a costly program of con-
struction, or revision of the
penal code, cannot be side-
stepped much longer.
The state prison at Colum-
bus now contains 4769 con-
victs. That is only a few less
than it contained at the time
of the great fire in which 320
lost their lives.
But for that fire, the pris-
on’s population would show an
increase of six or seven per.
cent during the last 11 months.
A policy of imposing longer
’ sentences for the same offense
largely accounts for this con-
dition.
Some 10 years ago, Ohio
decided to try severity as a
crims curs. The only result
anyone seems sure of ta a
greater number of convicts for
the taxpayers to house, feed
and clothe.
If crime has diminished, the
people have yet to be con-
vinced of it.
A Comparison
OHIO’S prison situation is
U typical of that prevailing
thruout the country.
Where the average prison
sentence In England, is four
months, the average here is
five years.
' Other, things being equal,
that one item alone would pro-
duce a prison population for
the United States 15 times as
great as for England in pro-
portion to their size.
That one item alone is suf-
ficient to explain why Eng-
land finds it possible to scrap
three of her once Important
prisons, while we face the ne-
cessity of expanding ours fast-
er than architects can draw
plans.
The general effect on crime,
however, shows that that one
Item doesn't amount to very
much.
England has been able to
do far more than we have In
discouraging crime of all de-
scriptions, tho only exerting
one-fifteenth as much prison
pressure.
The difference is that Eng-
land catches the majority of
her offenders while we are
rough on a few.
As every peace officer, or
prison guard will tell you, the
would-be criminal is much
more likely to be deterred by
the certainty of punishment
than by its uncertain severity.
"WELL then, since you’ve decided to put
VY your feet back into New York, let me
tell you a little Manhattan yarn.
"See all this show . . . all these people
. . . all this excitement ... all this tricky
dancing . . .
"It all started with a bootblack—as a lot
of things do around here. He was a fellow
named George Gangway, and he’s one of the
trickiest dancers you're likely to watch on this
or any other floor. I stopped to have my shoes
shined one night in a little place next to the
Knights of Columbus Hotel. While he whanged
away with the brushes, he also tapped off a
few-nifty-stopa-and-whistled a jazz tune._____
"For no particular reason I asked him why
he didn't go in for dancing. He snapped me
right up. - .
"‘Salh thah boss, mebbe you thinks ah
cain’t dance,' he challenged. So again, for no
particular reason, I invited him to do his stuff.
I happened to be on my way to a show that
the Young Men's Advertising Club was putting
on and told him to drop up. That’s the last I
expected to see of him. But along came Gana-
way and he put on an act that stepped every-
thing flat. It was the craziest sort of. dance
anyone had seen.
"And now they’re all doing It up here-
just because 1 happened to stop for a shine,
in a certain place.”
After which I knew I was back in New
York where, somehow, things do manage to
happen that way.
_______appier with more freedom and responsibility.
County long as the morale of the Porto Ricans re-
UIHLldl Day ains as low Bs at present their political in-
May Be Working Htutions can not be evaluated solely or even
J a iefly by mechanical efficiency.
Fear for his life kept Certainly no American can argue logically
Richardson from giving ainst t^e Inalienable right of the Porto
formation about the kieans to home rule lf ‘^^Y want it. And why
of J. B. Jordan, auto dearuld any American want to deny them that
sistant District Attorney l'”? Should we not rather want them to.
Wade said Wednesday re as much as possible in the attempted
Wade questioned Richition of their own problems?
Tuesday, in the Wise ( ---------------------
jail, where Richardson is WRITER wants to know what has become
on a charge of robbery il of all the dime novels. They’re probably
Jordan with the kidnapining as serial stories in some of the 29-
Wade said Richardson t monthlies.
but refused to make a ________VIEW POINT____________
statement. Richardson A woman 5
blame on another man a WTA, NTAF Tneviki
“master mind” in the kidn W ar IS InCviIaDic
Wade said. __._________
Kidnaping of Mrs. F. E._
son, robbed of a $2,500 dii By MRS. WALTER FERGU SON
and some cash in Cobb RAINING of no training war will be, so
early Monday, may be why not have a fighting chance?" writes
with the robbery of Jveteran" in a letter to the New York World-
Wade said after quesegram.
Richardson, Wade believ Suppose the scientists of the nineteenth
a gang may be operating 1 . . . L
he learned from Richardshtury had said the same thing about malaria,
kidnaping of a South Side disease, that has had a higher sickness
an, said to have owned rd death rate than any other ever known to
worth about $3,000, haan. What would have been the result of
planned. Mrs. Simpson ich a mental attitude? Undoubtedly, we
Sir Hickman Hotel, Welould still have malaria. A good many na-
‘ Richardson told Wade 0ns might have perished of it, the white
did not know a new law aces would have been sadly depleted, and the
to kidnaping had been Panama Canal would not exist.
by the Legislature be Suppose, further, that doctors had listened
robbery of Jordan, o such reasoning about the bubonic plague
. The new bill was prebr smallpox? Suppose they had taken diabetes
then grand "WTnManonor diphtheria for granted?
Wade said that if an We would consider that a very unintelligent
ment is returned, Rattitude, I presume. To take war for granted
will be brought to Tarrseems to me, to be just as stupid.
ty and tried. Five yea ♦ ••
minimum sentence tha Tp we argue that because wars have always
assessed or k ' nap ng ′ been they must necessarily continue to be,
new IaW
we ignore all the great things we have done
By RODNEY DUTCHER
NEA Service Writer
WASHINGTON—There is no
secretarial job as big as
that of being secretary to the
president of the United States.
There le so much importance
and responsibility to tbe work
that Hoover has made four
secretaryships out of It, the
most conspicuous one being
that soon to be taken over by
Theodore G. Joslin, correspond-
ent of the Boston Transcript.
Joslin falls heir to the big
main outside office vacated
when George Akerson left to
join a motion picture concern.
And to a huge monogrammed
limousine.
DUr he will also find grief,
D for he will have to handle
at the same time the great
numbers, of people who are al-
ways trying to get in to, see
the president and the squad of
correspondents which parks at
the White House, always de-
manding news.
He will have to tell a lot
of callers why they can’t see
Hoover and he will have to
tell the reporters what his
chief is doing and thinking.
Both tasks are very important,
call for a great deal of tact-
ful skill and often turn out to
be thankless jobs.
THE FORT WORTH PRESS
REFORMATION is nothing
u more or less than effective
education.
We welcome, therefore, Aus-
tin H. MacCormick’s "The Ed-
ucation of Adult Prisoners,”
just published by the National
Society of Penal Information.
This book is the first—indeed,
the only—thorough study of
the prison education situation
in the United States.
Present conditions, well
known to students of penal in-
stitutions, are appalling. There
are no prison schools worth
mentioning in more than 10
out of the 60 state prisons in
our country. There are none
at all in 13 of these prisons.
In not one is there any ade-
quate provision for vocational
education.
T AM going before the Amal-
A gamated Association of
Home Brewers and Brother-
hood of Bottle Cappers today
and demand
an explanation
as to why I
have been
ousted as
president.
MacCOR MICK outlines a
A comprehensive program
which includes rudimentary
academic, vocational, health,
social and cultural education.
Further, he outlines the fun--
damental principles which must
prevail: (1) adoption of indi-
vidualized Instruction-: (-2)
avoidance of reliance on mere
stereotyped programs and rou-
tine; (3) recognition that con-
vict education is adult educa-.
tion and not the feeding of
juvenile instruction to grown-
ups; (4) a broad and inclu-
sive curriculum designed to
meet all needs; and (5) mak-
ing interest rather than com-
pulsion the psychological basis
of the system.
In the goal of making better ।
citizens out of prisoners an ex- 1
pansive conception of citizen-
Ship must prevail.
than $20,000,000 daily in excess
charges on their purchases, all
of which goes to keep up the
present system of robbery we
are subjected to. On the one
hand that robbery goes for the
degradation of the great mass
of the people and on the other
it serves as an exhibition of such
splendor as it is only possible to
build upon a Golgotha of hu-
man misery. — FREEM AN
Sentimentality
THE American attiture to-
1 ward crime and its treat-
ment is, and always has been,
a hodge-podge of Irrationali-
ties and inconsistencies.
First, we have a spasm of
harshness, and then a spasm
of maudlin sentimentality or
vice versa, each leading to the
other as inevitably as night
leads to day.
One moment we are for put-
ting all criminals in prison
and keeping them there, while
the next we are for letting
them all out on one pretext
or another.
At no time have we done a
very good Job of checking
them up, either before or af-
terward.
Our administration of jus-
tire Is about as vague and
capricious as a roulette wheel,
and that very fact has attract-
ed more than one vacillating
youth to embark on a career
of crime.
One chance in two of not
getting caught, one chance in
two of not being convicted, one
chance in two of getting a
parole — how could the law
offer a better inducement to
step out and gamble with it?
Reform
• THAT can society hope to
W gain by keeping a man in
prison 10 years and then let-
ting him out?
Where is the justice of lock-
ing up a petty thief and mak-
ing it impossible for him to
work, when justice could be
satisfied by the restoration of
what he stole ? \
A hopelessly insane murder-
er is obviously a greater men-
ace than the normal man who
kills because of some over-
powering emotion.
Also, there is no possibility
that he will ever be any good
to himself, or society.
Capital punishment, how-
ever, is reserved for the nor-
mal killer, never for the hope-
lessly insane.
The conclusion is Inescap-
able that we are for inflict-
- —ing death—onlywhen-it hurts,
only when the victim realizes
what it means, but can’t bear
the thought of inflicting it to
relieve suffering.
We admit that environment
plays a big part in moulding
character, yet we throw youth-
ful offenders In among a lot
of hard criminals with the Idea
that they can be reformed
by it. 1
The time for reform is be-
fore we have scarred their
souls with the branding iron <
of social contempt. The time
to find out whether they can
be made useful citizens is
before we have made the task
harder both for them and our-
selves, *
disapproval of congressional
pay envelopes!
The last President we had
who had held no political job
and who disapproved of politics
largely because he didn't know
it as played In Washington, was
U. S, Grant. The politicians who
did know all about It put him
on the brink of financial and
political bankruptcy and he
was, probably, glad to die and
get out of it. ' . .
Verily. 1932 will need a Pres-
ident who is not merely a spe-
cialist in engineering, finance,,
cattle raising, or anything else.
Better a Coolidge, with experi-
ence in getting and holding bo-
liticki-jobs almost ever since his
weaning, than a President de-
void of finesse in politics and
attempting to get somewhere
with Congress indifferent to
pretty much all except polities.
—R. F. P.
ORGANIZED
CRIME J
Lee Posner, the "unofficial mayor of Harlem."
who won his title by advertising, this section
to a larger place on the map.
“I know I’m back home ..." And I'm
afraid I sighed.
1 i VAThe power to elect their own governor, and all
kA" other privileges that go with home rule.
That desire is not unreasonable. Nor is It
\anpracticable. In his speeches the President
-0. properly stressed the economic rather
the political problems of the island. The
-----."onomie issues are more important to the
A ell-being of the people. But it would be poor
------- - atesmanship to overlook the psychological
Step right up, gentctors inherent in the political issue. Because
your money on the line • , , .
sky’s the limit, and th the basic problem of over-population. Porto
won’t interfere. The abcico probably never will attain a high level of
Unless the
brothers can
produce evi-
dence I am
going to in-
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Minteer, Edwin D. & Schulz, Herbert D. The Fort Worth Press (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 154, Ed. 2 Thursday, March 26, 1931, newspaper, March 26, 1931; Fort Worth, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1638933/m1/4/: accessed June 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Fort Worth Public Library.