Show WALTER WINCHELL j I Copyright 1933 Dally Mirror Inc The Love Letters of V. V W W. W v vEd Ed Edward ard P. P Esq Albany N. N Y My Dear Commissioner Im Im I'm glad youre you're still a kosher to commissioner for it wouldn't seem address you by any other tag Youve You've stood for all that a real Police Commissioner should mean to a community and youve you've done it with witha a modesty and self effacement that is rare in public life As one of ot the local police departments department s staunchest admirers I I want to add these jottings jottings jot jot jot- tings as tes testimony that New York has had less crime and violence since since you governed the finest and and and all of us felt a lot safer with you ou down dO in la Center street But beyond the good I things weve we've heard all about there are so many heart that never reached type From my own experience I know dozens of cases where you sent wayward wayward way way- ward vard lasses and lads on the route back to clean living living living-in in a way that their kin might have been proud And while I know that the real ureal story isn't ready for telling tolling yet I 1 happen to know this much nuch That your best men have been toiling day and night on the greatest crime of our times I 1 hear that practically all the progress made on the ease case case has come from headquarters and that youVe you've questioned scores scores of people one of whom actually remembered the description of the theman theman theman man who gave him 5 of the hottest currency on on earth So when the New York ork gendarmes solve that Lindy ki snatching kid puzzle well we'll take off oU our lids to you more willingly than ever I hope your flawless record of service to the city wont won't make it to too tough for your successor and that you miss us all a little Good-bye Good sir and su sugary ary luck to a cops cop cop and and a man who certainly knows what to do with a glass of lager William H H. Woodin Treasury Dept Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington D. D C. C My Dear lm Im I'm memo memo- ing you on behalf of the fortunate depositors who can give thanks to you for getting back one hundred centimes on the dollar from the Harriman Hamman bank With the clearing house re refusing refusing refusing re- re fusing to accept its moral obligation to make good the losses of the bank it looked as though the suckers would never get back more more than 8 or 10 per cent of their lucre It was one of those frequent banking tangles in which John Chump usually finds finds' himself in inthe inthe the middle I was almost among them sir but butI I got my out in time time because because Mr Woodin it it would be most embarrassing if a bank closed in which I had some pennies pennies and and people went around saying Ha liRa Hes He's supposed to know in m advance yet yeW e George Bernard Shaw now arrived back in old England My Dear Mr Shaw Shaw- Shaw Shaw-I I see that too many of my more gullible contemporaries are panning you for nothing really important therefore I feel like raising my laryngitis in your defense After all the barbaric Americans Americans Amer Amer- jeans have been trying every trick they could think of to get you to come here for decades and decades So now you can say to all aU your You asked me to come so goodbye I 1 liked some of your pithy comments and your criticism of our constitution When you said ours wasn't a constitution because we kept amending i it that was the first time I 1 realized it itI I pre prefer er it that way though Imagine having to obey all those blue laws in places where they never change their minds But best of all I liked Bernard Shaw the business man and Bernard Shaw the publicity expert As the former you probably increased your book sales several hundred per cent by your brief visit and as the latter you won ad ad- ad by by hitting the front pages constantly even when y you u hit p people ople who weren't your size All in m all that twenty hour visit was a sharp bitter little tonic that the so-called so intelligentsia needed Come again |