Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-03-20
sRALD, BEN HILL co, GEORGIA, MARCH
PAULk, DORlLNEY and HORTON ARE VICTORS in PRIMARY
All In The Days Work---PoLicing
1000 Miles Ne1u York Streets
Protecting Seven Million Souls Is
Richard Enright's Daily Job

What would you do if you had sew
en- million people to protect, keep in
order and please? What would You do
If you had battle front of four thou
sand miles of streets,-further than
the distance between New York and
San Francisco-and the biggest treas
ure houses of the world to guard?
What would you do with this army
of people-rnore than three times the
size of Pershing's forces in France
and fifteenth the population of the
United States-and all canped within
a few square miles?
This is the job conferred upon Rich
ard E. Enright by the City of New
York some six years ago and his has
proved such a master-hand in organ
ization, protection. law and order that
he has become recognized information
ally as the greatest policeman of all
days.
His title is Commissioner of Po-
lice. His active force numbers twelve
thousand four hundred, picked, trained
and highly specialized fighting men.
Twenty-eight years ago he started as
a patrolman and has climbed from the
bottom to the top. He knows his bus
mess. That is why he has been Com
missioner of Police for six years. His
office has always been a political storm
center, and that he has administered
his office twice as long as any prede-
cessor proves that Enright is strong
man, handling a strong mans job.
He renders this protection against
the greatest of all obstacles, for re-
member, that thirty-nine per cent of
the population of New York is for
eign born. Many of the fueds and
quarrels of Europe are fought out
there.
He has driven the professional gam
bier from the scenes of his operations.
He maintains an active crusade against
vice conditions in a city once Ia...oaa
the bodetn Babylon, until it is now
the cleanest large city in the world.
He has dealt with the criminal with
such efficiency and dispatch that the
lawless seek safer and more healthful
climates. There are now thirtyfive per
cent less inmates in Sing Sing from
! New York City than ever before.
He has established the only detec-
tive school in the world. He has i'm
proved the conditions of the police
| 1OGCe by IlIulIS lllilC W ldIoC d lSISi
| fund of more than million dollars for
the welfare and relief of retired. po-
lice members, their family, widows
orphans and dependents.
He has provided summer police
/ camp in the Catskill Mountains for
the recreation and recuperation o.
members of the force. He has en-
listed the interest and cooperation in
police affairs of number of New
York's most influential citizens such
as Rodman Wannamaker Barron Col
| 1ier, Coleman DUPONT, Edmond Gug,
genheimer, DIR. John A. Harriss,. and
Rhinelander Waldo adding greatly r.
the prestige of the Police Department
He has dealt with the enforcement
of prohibition with an iron hand. Pref
erment of charges against thirteen in
spectors for laxity and the final re-
moval of prohibition enforcement to
his own reorganized special service
division has provided the most drastic
courageous and positive advance in
law enforcement of any city in Amer
lea. These are some of the things
to be credited to his organizing gen
ius. He always has done his job well
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