Show lights of new york BY 1 L STEVENSON again I 1 im m franl frank to say I 1 wouldn t I 1 be le to be a pol ceman there were jobless men they had assem assern bled in anest est side court to hear the case of an employment agent who had collected from them 10 to 12 eich where do jobless men get money they pay to gyp employment agents on the assurance that they would be given work they got neither the work nor their money back the employment agent pleaded gu ity and was fined 25 ahat vis all the magistrate could do the law setting a aim I 1 in tation on the punishment for an offense of that na every enery policeman that took part in that combat wished that for a minute or so at least he could forget all about duty along those same ines I 1 nes though ohp police had no work to do was the case of that man a respected busl business ns man for 20 years who was accuse I 1 of swindling charwomen scrubwomen maids chauffeurs and others out of their life savings a total that may reach a million dollars I 1 didn dian t see that court room scene but a friend told me about it the room was crowded with men and women who had laid away their savings penny by bv penny and then I 1 ad invested them with the prisoner in the hope of pro viding for old age humble people they were all of them my friend said humble and grief laden because of the betrayal of their trust in this instance the prisoner was in no physical danger but the feel ings of those present were expressed when the court set the alleged swin diers s ball at cheers and clapping of hands followed I 1 I 1 wonder what swindlers do with money they obtain from charwomen scrub women omen and others of the humble and lowly new york s greed for minutes Is always being exhibited in the subway rushes for trains cause mob scenes and there Is continual pushing and jostling in order to get to the forefront but what I 1 started to say was that the other morning at ninety sixth street most of the passengers pis corn com fort ably seated in a local train got off and forced their way into an over crowded express train in the hope of caving three or four minutes on the lourney journey to times square some way or other it gave me a slight feeling of superiority when the express train delayed by line congestion pulled into the station several seconds after tho the local C 1933 bell syndicate service |