Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-11-27

The Pawnshop Squad not only
checks all the money-lenders' pledges
in search of stolen property, but also
regains lost articles, the finders OF
which have pawned them. Does your
conception of a policeman in his rela-
ton to the public fit in with the facts!
Do you imagine him merely forbid
ding embodiment of the eternal Thou
Shalt Notp or do you see him a Big
Brother with Already friendship for
those who need him, but with touch
of parental sternness for those to
whom that is best fitted. This latter is
the correct picture of the modern po-
1iceman-of New York, at least. The
human side of the Police is often on
exhibition.
Kind-hearted Cops
The poor mother of Joey is case
in point.
Four mr. nths before Joey had been
born his father had deserted dis
traught wife. After Joey was born she
found work, and for two years she and
Joey Jared, if not WE'LL at least talrly
well.
Then came n1isfortune-no work,
no money. Starvation followed. :,
When Joey had been without food
three days, she staggered to the Morl-
SANTA Police Court with him.
She left her baby, warmly wrapped,
on the court steps. She walked away
that was desperation. =,
She couldn't drive the thought OF
Joey from her mind.
Mother love was stronger than even
desperation.
In twenty minutes she was back at
the court house steps. Seeking Joey!
The policeman who had been set to
watch for her possible return had to
arrest her Vagrancy was the least
charge they could make. The law is
the law.
Joev and his mother were reunited.
And here comes the thing that sur
prisesd. The very policemen who had
arrested her came to her IN the STATION
house with a gift of $29 that had been
subscribed by themselves and their
fellows in the station. The law IS the
law-but humanity is something else
again. In describing this one incident
| have told the story of hundreds.
Warm hearts beat beneath the blue
coats and the shining shields. -. /
There are thousands of men in TINS
country who will testify that when
thew were down-and-outers they re-
ceiyed their fresh upward starts at the
hands of men in blue. Big Brothers!
yes, big-hearted brothers!
Many Departments at Work
The variegated character OF the
things the police do, from utilizing
airpfanes in several services, to keep
ing their men in the ranks of the ac-
tive Anarchist organization, furnishes
a whole series of interesting stores
There is, for instance, the tale OF the
Narcotic Bureau, which under DR..
Carleton Simon, the only white man
who has been admitted to the great
Chinese secret society. the Hip oing
Tong, is constantly at war with the
drug habit, whether Chinese or whites
practice it. This is dangerous duty, tor
the drug fend, reckless Of all conse.. !
quences and with his slight moral
sense completely blunted by the mar
cotics, is often armed, and is as IRE
sponsible as an insane person.
1t was the Homicide Bureau, whose |
specialists turn the 1in1elight OF their |
expert knowledge on every murder,
that solved the Guldensuppe murder |
one of the strangest clues ever devel-
oped.
So thoro was the detective work in
that case that one of our men noticed
awhile duck waddling up from pond
with wide splotch of red on its
breast The red was human blood, and
part of the body, together with the
clues that solved the mystery, was
found in the duck pond.
Every heartstring must respond to
the work of the Missing Person Blu
reau. The story of the runaway girl
who is found just in time to save her
from a lifetime of sorrow; the story
of the victims of aphasia who is recog-
nized and restored to waiting loved
ones; the story of the Wandering