Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1933-08-24
This Week
by ARTHUR BRIsBANR
About Crime.
u. S. Intervention.
Curious Sugar Deal.
Time for Ice Cream.

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Governor Lehman of New York says
professional gang elements preyins
upon lawful industry have grown tt
such proportions that drastic measures
are Immediately needed"
Mr.. Mulrooney, formerly Police Com
missioner of New York. wants "an
American DEVILS Island" to discourage
racketeers, and advocates the use Of
the lash.
General Smedley D. Butler has a plan
that would discourage racketeering
and gangsters. but nobody pays atten
ton to 1t.
No terrified witnesses under his plan
no need to prove anything. 1t would
be the gangster's duty to answer ques.
tions and prove that he had been earn.
ing living otherwise than in crime,
with Jail as the alternative.
A Grand Jury official tells Senator
Copeland that witnesses against gang.
sters stand before US terrified, per.
spiration standing out. upon them,
afraid to speak out"
Racketeers, 1t seems, keep spies
around the Grand Jury room and who
ever talks Is quickly punished.
Agents Of the United States Govern
ment are showing regular policemen"
how to catch criminals and make kid
naping and murder unsafe. The most
important capture is that of Harvey
Bailey, accused of the wholesale mas
sacre of four police officers and one
prisoner in Kansas City.
Mr.. Bailey had said: 81 shall never
be taken alive" But when waking
from sound sleep, he looked into the
barrel of machine gun, he said: "Well.
it looks like it's just too bad, doesn't
it?" and offered his wrists to the hand
cuffs.
For him 1t may be much zoo bad as
he is wanted for murder, connected
with kidnapping in Missouri. There the
penalty for either crime is death, and
they infiict 1t.
Mr.. Lawes, warden Of Sing Sing Pris-
on. says OF crime conditions, eff we
don't declare martial law, conditions
will lead to lynch law, then we must
declare martial law"
He says racketeers can be sup
pressed in sixty days and "if were a
Mussolini, could do it in thirty days"
He might have said Fifteen days."
But where Is the Mussolini?
No American will say that Cubans
are not "up to date" When Machado
left, and news wires and sources were
reopened, the able Havana newspaper,
Ell Mundo, demanded first of all "the
complete baseball scores for several
days back"
Cubans, driving out Machado, en-
phasized their desire to avoid "the
shame of United States Intervention"
The United States is as glad as any
Cuban can be that Intervention has
been made unnecessary. But there was
one case of Intervention by the United
States that was not considered shame
full" That was the Intervention by
Uncle Sam that put Spain out of Cuba
and gave Cuba to the Cuban people.
1t is to be hoped that this country
will be able to help Cuba with her diff
cult sugar problem, although we have
crop problems of our own, more than
enough.
Sugar is a complicated crop. For in
stance, our navy buys sugar for war
ships in the Pacific and has just given
huge order to Japanese sugar traders,
because they can undersell growers
that produce sugar In the American
Philippines. Japanese buy sugar from
Java, sell it at profit, for half the cost
price in Manila. and pay no United
States tarff. Labor in Java is paid very
little; there is no NRA there.
Why could not the navy buy sugar
from Southern cane growers, or beet
sugar growers near Salt Lake City?
All very puzzling.
One thing is certain, manufactured
sugar used in this country, in our naval
ships or anywhere, on American terri
tory, should be refined In this country.
We should at least keep the work Of