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BROOKLYN EAGLE, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1952 Hard-Hitting Waterfront Probe Can Revitalize Industry Here RAY TUCKER'S COLUMN Temper of Voters Faces Genuine Test Stevenson-Eisenhower repudiations of powerful pressure groups on and off Capitol Hill will provide a Nov. 1 lest of whether the American people possess more independence and I vese and Albert Anastasia are notable examples. And there is Joe Adonis, gambler and racketeer, who for years has had intimate relationships with highly placed politicians. tlenovese walked out of a first-degree murder trial In this borough when a key witness died of poison in Raymond St. Jail.

Anastasia. long identified with the waterfront here and in New Jersey, riggled loose from the death house and left unanswered the statement of former Mayor O'Dvwet, now Ambassador to Mexico, who once admitted to a grand jury there was a perfect murder case against him. We believe that the Crime Commission, fully empowered to dig deep, is making a frontal assault on a situation far more serious to the good health of the community than what has been uncovered in the investigation of police corruption. We hope this body will dig deep and spare no one. We cannot afford to sacrifice Brooklyn's most important industry, but we can afford to rid the air of the stench of the guiltv no matter how highly placed thev are It is merely a coincidence that on Sunday this newspaper will start to publish a hard-hitting series of articles by Howard S.

Cullman, chairman of the Port of New York Authority, about Waterfront, conditions. It is heing done for public enlightenment and in th" same spirit as the Slate group is showing a determination to expose the rark-pts and punish the malefactors. fiespite premature publicity on its plan to subpena the bank files of 300 perrons, the State Crime Commission needs to make ao apology for its direct methods in dealing ith do kslde water-front unheal th, which has been a public scandal for nianv yean. Criminality on the docks, particular!) In Brooklyn, has stunted even the normal progress of one of this borough's greatest assets and we have seen many occasions when underworld influences have threatened the very existence of the greatest port in the world. In all investigations, no matter what Is involved, manj persons have to be subjected to searching scrutiny if any progress is to be made.

The published list of the la no evidence of guilt on the part of anyone. But certainly it Includes names of hoodlums and other lhady characters whose contempt for the law has been treated lightly by law-enforcement agencies. Outraged cries of persecution on the part of politicians or anyone involved in the conduct of the waterfront probe should be ignored on the basis of the general welfare. There is a spreading cancer ti5 be dealt with and half measures will contribute nothing toward penetrating the curtain of apathy that has endured for so long. Included on the list are main known criminals who at various times havp made Brooklyn Ihe headquarters nf thpir nefarious enterprises VitO GenO- intelligence than the politicians have credited theni with in ihe last 20 years.

In of f-iherecord statements, both candidates indorse this analysis of their strategy. The election will furnish an answer, perhaps, to ihe still undetermined question of whether the total adult elecoiate fifty or sixty millions will vote for the national good as against the interests of small and selfish but vocal, well organized and financed lobbies at Washington. The two men, in effect, are asking whether the American people are citizens of the United Slates or -captives" of self-seeking and divisive blocs. Although the Democratic nominee has raised this issue in more dramatic form than General Eisenhower, the latter has pitched his appeal on the same high level Indeed, his refusal to descend to a lower plane underlies his adv isers' criticism of his strategy. They insist that he tailor his campaign to the labor, racial and farm vote.

Ik Sun lo His Own Judgment Moreover, as European commander during World War It, Ike resisted personal, political and military demands as demagogic and insistent as those to which a Presidential candidate Is subjected. Only when he was overruled by the hile House, HI Downing St, and the Pentagon did he subordinate his own judgments. Finally, even if Eisenhower wanted to make the usual play to these voting groups which he says he does not his opponent's frank warnings to the veterans, to organized labor and to Slate tideland oil interests make inadvisable a contrary strategy. With both candidates telling off the pressure boys, how they will fare on election day may depend on other and more nationally important factors. Although there remain many other grave national problems to be resolved on Nov.

4, it la doubtful if any other single action or attitude by the two men seeking the Presidency In these difficult days has twanged a more thankful chord with the general public. It is their best interests, so Ike and Adlai seem to feel, which have been endangered and short-changed by the favoritism shown during the last 20 years, largely for partisan, vote-getting purposes, to such segments of the population as lahor, rarial minorities, farmers and party cronies. In a larger sense, loo, Stevenson's hands-off notice to bloc-minded voters constitutes his most severe indictment of the man he has mentioned only once since he obtained the nomination Harry S. Truman. Koth Candidates Show Sincerity Although there was some justification for Franklin Roose-velt's favoritism to these elements of ihe electorate, since labor, farmers and the colored race suffered most severely from the depression and a laissez-faire economic system, Truman has pteserved the pressure process solely to win elections.

He has demanded Taft-Hartley repeal and civil rights legislation, although he knew that Congressional compliance was hopeless. And he has never lifted a finger to secure their enactment. His behavior during the steel strike was designed to compensate for his futility on Capitol Hill. At the Chicago convention, relying on Truman's successful use of these tactics in the 1948 campaign, the Moody-Williams-Harriman-Roosevelt radicals tried to reorganize the Democratic party on the basis of political blocs. That they were rebuffed and discredited by the party elders suggests that their methods are outworn.

In this connection, it Is noteworthy that Stevenson, in his Labor Day address at Detroit, gave no plug to Senator Blair Moody, although he faces a hard fight for re-election. In view of the Roosevelt-Truman surrender to these lobbies, it is natural that the voters show some skepticism toward present-flay Presidential pledges. Rut Ihe comforting fart is that holh candidates' records indicate their sincerity. THE KEYHOLE Reds' Criminal Duplicity Shown Anew in Korea ONE MAN SAYS By Ro fa rt Grannis I Don't Like to Be Crowded, Even by Marilyn First we had Russell and now It's Marilyn Monroe, and, frankly, I'd rather have a snappy game of chess, a hot nddv lite The criminal duplicity of Ihe Reds and the utter futility of any attempt to reach an honest accord with them on even the most simple issues is made crystal clear in two news dispatches from the Far East The Red-controlled I'eiping radio calls for the indictment of Mai. C.en.

Haydon L. Boatner, former commander of the prisoner-of-war stockades in South Korea, as a war criminal. Ii refers to him as a hangman and butcher. The charges come as the truce negotiations are about to be resumed and are clearly designed to divert attention from the issues involved. Boatner's record is one of a job well done.

He was assigned to quell a rebellion of prisoners on Koje where the former commander was captured and held for ransom, It has been clearly established that hp completed the task with a minimum of Woodshed and what casualties there Were on both sides could not have been avoided. There arc French in ancestry and a 1 1-lurned gam (Editor's note a leg i and a compelling chassis fail to e-cape my attention are beautiful I don't want to have my arm twisted to admit it. I want to he able to form my own conclusions. The movie industry, which is considei ing sex as a last resort, tell- me thai ihe Monroe has goi it all over acting and is a sort of poor man's peek at feminine infinity, Bui I'd rather buy bubble gum or dwell on the apparent virtues of my immediate neighbors, some of whom are pretty classy without the aid of publicity and arty photographs. I believe hat when the Army, or whatever branch of service was that used Marilyn in Ihe hope of attracting lady recruits for Uncle Sam, showed damn bad judgment and deserves to be embarrassed.

Did the top brass expect this greater than -Venus Kal was going to show up in a Mother Hubbard and running a sewing machine, or baking a cake? The punishment they got fitted the crime Beauty, kids, is abundant in America, Brooklyn is loaded with it. But the genuine stuff isn't displayed on a pedestal and labeled 'This is it," There is no need. Sex is a lousy ca reer anyway, unless the individual so characterized has the good fortune to disappear he-fore it is even too late for plastic surgery. It Is the same with a lot of other highly touted performers today. Johnny Ray is a good example.

His tears are as phony as a three-dollar bill, and when 1 am told that he must, be excused when he gets drunk in public on account of his great talent, my reaction is "throw- the jerk out" and bring on the professionals. Great talent needs no press agent to emphasize human eccentricities and the minute the same are exaggerated 1 begin to have a suspicion that the inspiration is run-of-the-mine stuff and it is time for me to yawn. Ro, to Marilyn I say: Have fun, dear girl, and maybe some day you can marry Tommy Manville. But at the moment, when 1 spend a nickel for a newspaper and see you in allegedly provocative poses. 1 deplore my profligate ways and rush madly toward the main stem of my town, where beauty doesn't carry a blackjack as a gentle hint attention should be paid.

ev en when I look a i the calendar and observe, "Brother nine is Ihe time to suck to your petunias." The magnlfieenl Marilyn is supposed to make me swoon because of what I will describe as her symmetry and, while 1 am aware of the same. I ain't moved and feel that In her pre-adolescence she should have been upturned mote frequently and walloped like a hunk of leather thai Is no good for a long run unless it is cured. It is like when I walk in my neighbor's garden I don't want lo be prompted. If the roses While the Commies are raising this spurious case of "inhumanity" Americans learn with horror that Communist ground troops have shot and killed American airmen parachuting from their disabled planes. Thus the Kremlin pattern of treachery, barbaric practices and lies remains intact as every reasonable, effort is being made to end the fighting in Korea.

The attack on General Boatner and the vilification of the difficult job he did so well that he was decorated by the Government is as fraudulent as the charges of germ warfare which have been used to incite the East against the West. The true nature of our Red adversaries stands out in bold relief when these two stories are placed side by side. They should be remembered whenever the phony Red peace offensives appear lo suggest the 1'nited Nations is the obstacle to cessation of fighting. -especially for a party which professes to believe in democracy in action. The Liberals have frequently lashed out at the Democratic and Republican organizations for being boss-ridden," yet there has never been any attempt to prevent the public from knowing what goes on at conventions of those parties.

As far as we can see, there is little difference anyway between the Liberals and the older parties as far as they conduct their affairs. The baby cf the parties has bosses, just like the others, and they make deals" for judges, just, like the other, and they even have the effrontery to try to force the bosses of another partv io change their candidate lor Senator, rorsooth, because it does not please the Liberals The making of deals would lend to belie their pretensions to heing great idealists and reformers. Potomac Fever CONST ANTINE BROWN'S COLUMN British Trade Unions Boost NATO's Stock The NATO received a shot in the arm thi week when the British Trade Unions Congress defeated by overwhelming majorities the attempts of its Communists and lefl wingers to Letters to the Editor of the Eagle slow down Britain's defense program considerably. Three resolutions Were offered by the Communists and Revanites for approval by the delegates, representing 10,000.000 British workers, in favor of their plan to pay more atten- Lynch Defends Condition Of Cortelyou Road Surface To the Editor of the Eagle: This is in reference to clipping from S. Weisberg to the Kditor of the Brooklyn Eagle, relative to condition on roadway of Cortelyou Road from Coney Island Ave.

to Flatbush Avenue. An examination made by this office on Aug. 21, disclosed that, the asphalt pavement in Cortelyou Road, between the limits given, is in good condition and requires no attention at this time, the pavement, where opened for the installation of a water main, having been restored by the Cranford Paving Co. on Aug. 14, 1952.

JOHN I. LYNCH Commissioner of Public Works. They come from all walks of life, including ihe illiterate and the untutored. They read papers, they talk among themselves. So understaffed are these courts that not a single attendant Is assigned, in Brooklyn, to any Magistrates court, for the purpose of preserving order I have found the magistrates of our court able, s.v m-pathetic and courteous.

Bather than criticize our courts and its personnel, the F.agle can perform a great pub-lie service by campaigning for better-housed courts, increased and higher-salaried attaches and clerks and a word of praise for the fine judges who lahor tinder these unbelievable conditions. FRANCIS M. CONUW. Bundles for Adlai Fred Elliott, a Republican and a shoe dealer in Flint, interrupts the complacency of the we-never-had-it-so-good Democratic campaign to offer tor free a pair of size S-C shoes for Governor Stevenson, who publicly displayed one of his own the other day with a hole in ihe sole. Of course.

Mr. Elliott's humanitarian motives are clearly suspect because Adlai of Illinois is well removed from the need clearly evident among persons who, for instance, look for the light in the window of the Salvation Arm; But we think he has made his point at a time when Americans regardless of partisan beliefs need to hang on to their sense of humor. The hole in Adlai shoe may be remembered long after the rhythm of his flawless pre-election diction has i-eased lo tickle the reflexes of the populace. Now if the Governor would only plug the hole with Truman dollars, perhaps much cheaper than pood shoe leather, we predict an Eisenhower landslide. The Liberal Party's Apology The Eagle was delighted to find that the State office of the Liberal party in New York had 'he common sense and Recency to apologize to this paper for its local organization action in barring our reporter from the Liberals' judicial convention here 'he other day.

It was certainly a high-handed performance when the Brooklyn officials Of that party decided to conduct the deliberations of ihe convention In secret Favors Draft Call For Morried Father! To the Editor of the Eagle: Because of the shortage of military manpower, it has been suggested from lime to time that married men be drafted. Many mothers are amazed at ihe injustice in the administration of the Draft Act in favoring young married fathers, Having seen their own sons enlist of he drafted, these mothers resent the exemption afforded other young men who, having hurried into marriage and fatherhood, have received exemption from military service. Undoubtedly the manpower nerd, could be partially met and greater justice done if the draft boards would all these men to assume their rightful obligation. A. T.

Attorney Defends Magistrates Court To the Editor oi Ihe Eagle' The unfairness of our re- GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty worse on tooay man tiermany and countries which were ravaged by war far worse than the British Isles the fault does not he with this country. The vast loan was squandered in all kinds of social experiments. And regardless how good those appeared in theory, the net result is that, the British people from the factory workers and miners to the so-called upper class are still tightening their belts ami going hungry. The currencj had to be devalued in 1349 40 percent and it is still far from stable. But Mr.

Attlee and his excep tionally able foreign secretary, the late Ernest Bevin, realized the international responsibilities of their country and indorsed full-heartedly not onlv the Marshall Plan but. also the which placed Britain under the obligation of raising defense forces compatible with her past position in the world. Neutralism Appears Aneurin Bevan did not op pose these measures when ins party was in power. But as soon as Winston Churchill and his Conservatives were returned lo office he raised the standard of rebellion against the foreign policies of the La-borites and initiated what has become a rapidly growing movement throughout Western Europe neutralism. In this country, until Pearl Harbor, we used lo call it isolationism.

But while that has become a smear political word here, in Britain and Western Europe ii represents the fond hopes of the masses that through it the.v may be spared the horrors of another war. lion to social improvements, better housing and higher-wages than lo rearmament. It is possible that the recollection that the Labor party was in office when Britain made commitments to rearm may have had something to do with the defeat of ths left-wing motions. For ths time being former Prime Minister Clement Attlee, who is traveling in Africa, must have taken heart that he may not be removed from the party's leadership at its next convention in October. For several months the fiery left-winger Aneurin Bevan seemed to be favored as the next chief of the strongest party in the Cnited Kingdom.

A Change of Front. Mr. Attlee, a somewhat pale and uninspiring figure, had followed in Ramsay MacDonald's footsteps. He, too, was a pacifist. But when he became "His Majesty's First Minister" he felt that the continuity of Britain's foreign policy must he upheld, regardless of the feelings of the party rank and file.

This decision should have paid rich dividends, as far as Britain's economic recovery is concerned. Mr. Attlee obtained in 1946 a loan of $3,570,000,000 from the United States for economic reconstruction. If Britain is QUATRAINS By EDGAR A. OfJMT On Vote To think one vote will little count, To serious results may mount; For evil long unchecked would May If everybody thought that way.

A Right A led of phlox of pink and while. A few gay dehlna straight and tall, A h't of beauty and delight Which liberty allows to all. of th Brook- sent an hat hap- cent editorial rrit Magistrates Court l.v impels me accurate ptctu i pens daily in (hi It is poor lugii general coftclusio too few incident- rial was inspired I I each a based on our edito-a letter Ike charges the Truman Administration ha: "bungled us" close to World War 111, ere sure in an awful mess and Moscow is getting madder and madder for being denied a fair share of the credit for it. Governor Stevenson hits the road on his big Western tour. Adlai believes in policies to make the country grow so his jukes won always go over its head.

General Ike. who Uyi a boiled egg has 100 hidden taxes, eats four eggs for breakfast This fellow's the worlds economv champ in three minute tie did away with 4(10 taxes Governor Stevenson is charted with working Illinois Slate employes on his Presidential campaign. Well, that's progress hi- Republican predecessor never worked them on anything. Senator Long of Louisiana iwiflM ihp Bosporus from Europe lo Asia. Long swam swittly without even taking time Out float so anxious was be to get home and campaign fot S'evenson.

Philadelphia crowds hail Ki-enbowrr as he rides through the ritv to touch the Liberty Belt Philadelphia ns prize their Liberty Bell mors highly every year. It's about the onlv thing of ValUS around the city that ths old Republican machine forgot to run off uh Senator BtiCSUN of Ohio rashes the paid TV talkathon of Ml Demon atK- rival Mikp Disalle qualifying teitVistOtS'l firt free loader. FLETCHER K.NEBKI. criticism evidently written by a parson oi limited experience in the- tirts, I am an attorney wnh many years of experience in all Ihe Criminal Courts oi out State My work In inn- me into Ihe Magistrate Courts almost dailj I haVC found I he elei ks and attaches of ihe court courteous, competent and cooperative. They Hie polite de-pile the fact that the courts are understaffed and in Increased burden is pla Bd upon them.

I'sually the court is located in a noisy, industrial area. It is impossible to shut out the blatant Mare of horns, trains ad traffic in general wtthtoi ths court are hundreds of complainant and defendaata. BROOKLYN ZACU FKNK SCHHOTH. Bdiim "Comrade wifa i so busy informing on neighbors she is having no time to cook is what comes of marrying career woman A 'New' Five Year Plan.