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Show UTAH LEHI FRESS PRESS. LEHI. Hill "Sit Point99 aiil Fran!: Ilaaue ... Ask Me Q Another q WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK AND ROOSEVELT SAT DOWN! Lemuel F. By P-rt- on With AnL! Off. Infor Various Subject! out ice at the ratp rf i . What representation does hour. This is shaved by States United the Alaska have in ery into snow. congress? 7. The atmosDhere astro--r the We:pt in zenith 2. What is the 3 pounds to the square inch 2 l By JOSEPH W. New Yorkers are LaBINE JEW casting worried glances across the Hudson these days. Those who will brave the "outer world" that lies over the river may some -j - f X Today Frank Hague's political machine depends on such unique implements as the $25,000,-00- 0 medical center (third largest in the United States and far too imposing for such a small city) and a government that is really etlicient, albeit expensive. To understand this amazing situation one must examine the background, from the time young Frank Hague was an aspiring Democratic boss in Jersey City's second ward. That was in well-oile- d 1908. for the it is a i"..e :.. I . ; - Harrison fo:sh fatt- -, iT rhicaco. lor.g . Bu the fragrance of sad ii W. r... white-bearde- intellectual real. ' lljj'.- - : iHf-',.- -; d T: y y.,.ud cn.oua.s new books and started t! way tr.e about them, arguments c,.un ha:l crowds at the hi? tc,,l box scores m the street grabbed the the late sporting extras. Swea.si.opa workers used to throng m after nnrl t'ct in on the i seminar. . m- Wrinkled, merry, m;sr:t:evous was Russia from Bisno tie Abraham the Erasmus of the sweatsaop , HIS HONOR THE MAYOR . . . Frank Hague, the C. I. O. baiting chief executive of Jersey City, N. J., virtual dictator over a city in the shadows of Manhattan. "I am the law," he once said. penn by throwing tremendous and unexpected support to the league and being elected to the first Jersey City commission. He was named commissioner of e situapublic safety, a tion for the smart politician. Hague, as head of the police and fire departments, acquired a foundation on which to build his personal political organization. To his credit, he transformed Jersey City's police from a corrupt lot of deadwood into an orpurposeganization of ful young men. Whether his aim was sincere is beside the point; the new police and fire departments awakened civic pride, and all hands pointed at Frank Hague as the man who had accomplished it. Eventually he was elected mayor and the Hague star ascended rapidly. Next step, in cementing his political foundation was the Jersey City medical center. Behind this institution is splendid a story of the mayor's babyhood, of the days when he was so weak and delicate that his mother took him each day to St. Francis' hospital. There she received sympathy the future politician's life was saved. Hague never forgot the stories his mother told him of those daily trips. Today's medical center has been a arnbition, a humanitarian tailor-mad- clear-heade- nine-buildin- life-lon- g g institution which nevertheless reeks of politics. Let the Mayor Pay! Any resident of Jersey City may enter this hospital and receive the benefit of every medical treatment known to modern science. Providing, of course, that the patient says he is poor. But rich and poor take advantage of this unique enterprise which costs taxpayers about $900,000 a year. Of 108 "discharged patients investigated recently, 30 were said to have been treated at public expense when they were able to pay for hospitalization. "Have your baby on the mayor." is popular advice to expectant mothers since the Margaret Hague ma ternity hospital was opened. Yes, and ,iave 'our tonsils out. or take a luii-- . mil nun i lorgei now to vote next time an election rolls 2,000-be- d Started as Custodian. ITnimnortant. but ascrndini? Hague's first job was custodian of the city hall at $2,D0O a year under Mayor Otto H. Wittpenn. Later, as around commissioner of the street and waElections are an important event, ter board, he made friends both with administration forces and the too. Every hour all the votes cast Commission Government in each district are telephoned to lusty league. In 1913 Hague admittedly Hague, who compares returns with on Witt- - a table showing hourly votes in the played a "double-crossii-.i- l ! " r sav- - sank and creek ebbed and iih book-sta- d a there was of tno.e the Jewish Algonquin was overrun wit.i and osoph'ers, some and young venerated, scire contentious, all stirred ty a fever-Is- h ateartlMlHWH-- organizers in the city T:? s, before BRAINS OK l'UrrilTS? . . . John Milton, new United States senator from New Jersey appointed to replace the new governor, A. Harry Moore (right), is a ringleader in the Hague machine and personal banker to the mayor. Moore also owes all his political success to Frank Hague. I. O. e in rg. . last election. He pounces on weak spots with ferocity, calling responsible leaders to task. Last November, when Senator Moore (a Hague puppet) was elected governor, it is alleged that votes were cast for babies and dead people, illegally listed in the registration books. Such allegations have been made after previous elections, too, but legislative investigations come to naught. Small Salary, Big Fortune. Not the least puzzling feature of Hague's success is his ability to get rich on $6,200 yearly salary. He refuses to answer questions on this subject on the ground his privacy would be invaded. One investiga- tor claimed Hague made $600,000 on certain real estate- transactions at the expense of taxpayers. The mayor lives in a fine apartment suite in Jersey City, keeps an elaborate summer estate at Deal and (it is claimed) maintains elaborate quarters in Manhattan. Personal banker and attorney for the mayor is John Milton, the new United States senator who succeeded Harry Moore. Himself a subject of considerable investigation, Milton admits having paid for Deal estate. $125,000 Hague's Hague, in turn, reimbursed him in cash. This trick has popped up before federal income tax agents several times but the mayor, bland as usual, refuses to have his privacy invaded. Milton is equally suave. When investigators began nosing in his direction, he calmly announced that a few days ago he'd decided to retire and so sorry but all his records had unfortunately been destroyed. What will eventually happen to this dictatorship? Undeniably, the Hague machine has a hold on its constituents that can be compared only to Huey Long's Louisiana regime a few years back. Recently, when 26 congressmen wrote Hague in protest over "wholesale arrest and deportation" of labor organizers, they received a reply that "ev. and erything is under control don't worry." "I Am the Law!" A few days later, irked, Mayor Hague sponsored a mass meeting attended by thousands of the faithful, one of the largest gatherings Jersey City has ever seen. There a select roster of speakers the community's faith in the man who says, "I am the law." No moral can be drawn from the career of Frank Hague, because it is not yet ended. The strange feature is that boss control over Jersey City and New Jersey in general has been the vogue many years, yet it took a handful of C. I. O. organizers to bring it into the public eye. Equally strange is the seeming efliciency with which Jersey City is governed. High taxes seem to be the only objection, and even that item is sometimes forgotten by zealous Hague henchmen. The mayor himself sums up the conditions prevailing in his unusual city with the following typical speech: "Taxes are higher here because we had to pay for progress. We were just about bankrupt 20 years ago. The city is a city now and business is beginning to pick up. But let me point out one thing about the town. The burden of taxation is being borne not by the householder and the small business man as in other cities, but by corporations whose shoulders are broad!" That makes 'em smile. Next time there's an election, they'll vote foi Hague! - . ing C. cooler. so A multi-colore- on land- end happy .( n asRA news suspense before tr.e souls lying within eyeshot of Manhattan's towers. Frank Hague is a smart polid tician. Behind his exploits lies a genius lor grasping votes and power by methods that are exasperating but isfactory reason for his presence this du-erc- . V, from San. Lu .,. that ihp Taeue o Nations, unexpect- c thir.e in the line 315,000 Jersey City streets, thereby - f. Has Kick at the End fade-out- years, probably more. He made A. Harry Moore a United States senator, later a governor. More recently he sent his personal attorney, John Milton, to the upper house in Washington. Since 1913 he has been in absolute control of Jersey City, an overgrown community of - u .v. ctorv eiv.rter there have Uen 10 I.- spu-c- s they say ui the paper sr.ops. inaz Sfory i teen - til the lead," day visit Jersey City and see for themselves. Jersey City, they allege, is in the grips of a tyrant, a dictator, a reborn Huey P. Long. His name is Frank Hague. Mayor Hague has undoubtedly ruled all New Jersey at least legal. When a legislative committee recently tried to seize Hudson county vote records (on a charge of election fraud), Hague packed off on a Florida vacation and his assistant in charge of the books was reported ill. This prompted a New York newspaper reporter to comment that the official "has been indisposed on other occasions when investigations involving his office were in progress." At another time, in 1928, Hague "testified" before a legislative committee investigating Jersey City by replying, "I decline to answer" to practically every question fired at him. And lie Sat Down! The height of Hague's impudence arrived one night in 1932 when Franklin D. Roosevelt, campaigning for the presidency, was being escorted by the mayor from gathering to gathering. Mr. Roosevelt was Just warming up to a large outdoor crowd when Hague, pulling at his coat, snapped: "That's enough. Sit down." The future President of the United States sat down. Currently Frank Hague is in the headlines as a C. I. O. baiter. He has refused to open the civic doors to John Lewis' organizers. They cannot hire a hall; Hague's efficient police simply run them out of town. The mayor, who once thoughtlessly boasted that "I am the law," has arranged convenient legal weapons to best the C. I. O. One law prohibits distribution of noncommercial literature, like C. I. O. pamphlets. Another enables police to arrest anyone who can't give sat- - a good news YOPK.-Ma- r,y. Western Newspaper t'nlon. . He used to circulate a lot around this and other Maxwell street book shops, and many Erasmus of times the state of Illinois was saved Sweatshops expense of Makes Peace the calline out the militia because Bisno happened along to referee an argument. He was a sweatshop worker, a man of amazing erudition, but of saltv. colloquial speech, never en- meshed in the tangle of print lan guage around him. He used to tease his friend, Jane Addams, of nearby Hull house, by calling her settlement workers "the paid neighbors of the poor." He liked to deflate the Utopians, boiling things down to Gresham's law of money, the law of diminishing returns, weighted averages or something like that. He was the first of a multitude of sweatshop economists who spread light and learning through Chicago's Ghetto. clever Bisno had a bright-eyelittle daughter named Beatrice, one of several chu- The Bisnos dren. Old sages, Pass Beyond up and down Maxwell street, used Our Ken to say the world would hear from Beatrice some day. But the world went to war, regardless of Sir Norman Angell and all the other philosophers, and the Bisnos passed beyond the ken of this writer. About twelve years ago, I had a visit from Francis Oppenheimer, a New York journalist. Beatrice Bisno was his wife. She was going to write a book, and did I know of a where she could write quiet hide-ou- t it? I sent them to the old Hotel Helvetia, No. 23 Rue de Tournon, in Paris. She sat in the nearby garden and wrote her book. They came home and the book made endless round trips to publishers' ofTices. The smash of 1929 took the last of their savings. Today I had a letter from Francis Oppen- ! sense? ...j.i phere weigh? 3 Were Nelly Custis and her Washbrother adopted by George ington? ;i. If a centigrade thermometer re asters 20 degrees wnai wouia a h'renheit thermometer register at the same temperature? in. How did Sir Walter Scott hear of the American Jewess, Rebecca Gratz, who is believed to have the Rebecca in "Ivanhoe"? Tlif March. Ice-maki- G .'r Wtn Big Prize With Novel morrow's Bread," by Beatrice Bisno, winning the $2,500 prize award, the judges being Canfield Dorothy Fisher and Fannie Hurst. That was the news that Mr. Oppenheimer picked up from the floor when his wife was too ill to road it. Dorothy Canfield Fisher says of the book: "A scarchingly realistic portrait of an idealist. What or, idealist does to the world and what me wona does to an idealist is here set down with pover and sincer- ity." Winsome little Bisno is gone. One wishes he could be carrying the news down to the old Maxwell book stall, if it's still there. s'reet e Consohrl .tnl News Features WNU Service. Where Yale Is Buried round the Welsh village of writes II. V. Morton in In Search of Wales," lies property which once belonged to the Yale family, one of whom, Elihu did so much toward founding Yale university. Elihu lies buried, however not in the Yale chapel attached to the church of s, but at Wrexham. 10 miles away. All Bryn-Eglwy- s, Brvn-Eglwy- GIRLS WITH PEP If you ire peppy and - full c! fun, . ra cross, UMna and t:red, mra For three generations another how to r .r t..JS? fix-- . 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Mgr. aiu.imjun!Wni.ifU'umM ERNEST Shadows Hold a Bit Every flower, even the fairest, has its shadow beneath it as it is the greatest Delay swings in the sunlight. Anon. for anger. Seneca. heimer. "We finally threw the book in an old clothes basket," he said. "Then, acting on impulse, we used our dinner money to give it one more ride. Weeks passed. Beatrice fell ill. There came a letter from Live-righ- t, the publisher. I knew it was another rejection and didn't want to show it to Beatrice. But I tore open the envelope and handed it to her. Her eyes were glazed. fche could not read the letter. It slipped from her fingers and fell to the floor." And in the same mail today, there came to this desk a copy" of the new book, "To- i at set level. the slogan 8. 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