The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-02
Dealer in Mental Bunting
Trapped While Rushing
to Aid "Pals."
POLICE STALK OILERS
Scores Of Loafers Taken in
Roundup-3,000 Ask Z. s.
to Furnish Jobs.

that until the termination Of the war
every able bodied male person between
the ages of IS and 80, inclusive, shall
engage in some lawful and useful DC
oupation, Is in contraveption OF the Bill
Of Rights. Magma Charta, the United
States Constitution and tho Const'tu-
ton of the State OF New York and
void as against public policy.
For Sam was pinched at Police Head
quarters Yesterday while emulating the
example OF the Samaritan In Holy writ
The bulls had gathered In three OF ms
closest pals. Nick Disco. frankie VIII
son and Phil McManus. Now Sam VIII
20 any distance for pal, and wnen
his friends teiephoned him that they
had been picked UP under the new law
and were about to be musged and print
ed downtown Sam replied that he would
80 right out. hire a swell mouthpiece
and would himself come right down ana
spring them out on bail.
And In twenty minutes he was as
good as his word. He came breezing in.
and with nod Of encouragement to the
boys. walked right up to the desk and
inquired what tho charge was and
whether there had been any decision
reached as to the amount of bail.
He had not observed that q half dozen
detectives had followed him along the
halls from the moment he came into the
building and when ono Of them brought
up alongside him and told him that he
was under arrest along with the others
It took all the wind out Of Sam. He pro-
tested that he was business man. not
only that but a patriot and was actively
engaged in the flag business at an ad-
dress which-now that the cops insisted
fal
mind. But he was a business man and
could prove It.
- No Flags on Person.
No, he hadn't any flags on his person.
Did the gentlemen imagine that full
powered merchant carried his samples
around like a push car man? Oh. well.
what was the use of being patriot
anyway He had his flags all right up
to a week ago. when he gave them to a
friend because the people in New York
haven't any patriotism and amt buying
flags like at the beginning Of the war.
And so when the mouthpiece arrived he
found four defendants to take care OF
instead OF only three.
Sam and his three pals were the frst
fruit of the police net for gentlemen
idlers which was thrown out over the
five boroughs 6f the city yesterday. By
pightfall there were about twenty more
at headquarters and few score in the
various precinct station houses OF Man
haitian. a dozen or so apiece in Brooklyn
and The Bronx and eleven in Queens.
Five Of the Queens quota were negroes
who we're picked up at the Aqueduct
1acetrack
About half the prisoners subsequently
were turned over to the Federal authori-
HOY ipO visfe In
the draft or for not having flied ques.
tionnaircs. The rest will be kept for
trial at Special Sessions unless they
can show that they have a job of some
kind somewhere and that the work is
'lawful and useful"
The $50 young and middle aged men
who were given subp9nas by Jim Smith
and his raiders during Mr.. Smiths Broad
way raid in the early hours of yesterday
came down to the District Attorneys
Office during the course OF yesterday and
submitted themselves TO extended in
qulry as to their means of support,
visible and invisible. Three were held
as draft slsckers and turned over TO
Marshal Mccarthy. The rest were let
20 on their promise to find work and
find Il right away.
Swami 10 show Mercy.
District Attorney Swami in a discus
sion of the new law yesterday said that
he will do his best to avoid hardship in
iss enforcement and will probably allow
grace OF a few days before sending
Nj Smith on another raid.
There are two or three points TO be
c'eared up" he said. "and l trust thai
within the naxt few days the public
VIII take the trouble to get them in
mind
''In the frst place I would like al
men within the age to understand that
there are two laws enforceable from to.
day, one a Federal law and the other the
law OF the State. The Federal law say:
that men within the army draft age
must work or fight that II they do not
find themselves useful work they will b;
sent Immediately to draft camps. The
State law says that all men within The
ages from Is TO so shall, TO- the dura
tion Of the war, be habitually and reg
ularly engaged in some lawful, usefu
and recognized business, profession. &C
cupation, trade or employment
Now neither law requires that mer
who are at work shall give up theil
Places before they have found something
better to do. No law will be so enforced
as to create unemployment. And sine,
IN this State the liquor trade is a trad,
licensed by law. the law requiring mar
- be lawfully employed ipso facto eX
empts bartenGers from prosecution. Tn,
same is true of chauffeurs, walters. ant
go on. What we are after is the fellow
who either does not work at all o.
whose occupation Is parasitic. In tina
class ! place Wallets, ticket spectators
coach door openers, coat rack tender!
end particularly the fraternity which
lfves by following the races. These meI
and their kind have got TO go to work.
There is another reason why this of
fce will be lenient for the next few
DAYS. and that is so that the judges
callirgs are not recognized as usefu
and lawful After a few convictions o.
acduttals, as the case may be, we will
know better how TO proceed The law il
new, and like every statutory enactmen
fag to have the Interpretation OF tn
courts.
Women on Idiers' Trail.
Meantime a number of subppnas
ser, ed otherwise than by the hands o
Jim Smith and his raiders. will brinI
their recipients to the Criminal Court
Building this morning, One was givei
ton Young man who las four city ad
dresses, no occupation and whose mothe
gives him an allowance. Others wer
gubpenaed whose names were turned Il
b. Young women of good social standing
yho thought the youths they name,
would look we'll in the ranks at Cam
Upton.
At the Federal Employment Bureau il
Vast TWenty-second street yesterda