Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-02
FAIR
ENOUGH
--Bu stbrook
PeqIer


TIME is a great healer and
l. that old chlseler, Harold
Ickes, seems 20 have forgotten
what happened TO his Snoot
when he got fresh during the
Willkie campaign
As | wrote then, every man.
no matter how bad fighter he
is. sometime in his life tlndS
some one he can lick.
II Is a nice arrangement that
nature has made for US, and
IckeS is my man.
In fact, ! am twice-favorcd.
I can take that LaGuardla, too,
any time. because ne is bull
doing four-nusher and he Will
tln-can il and back away,
SquealinG like pig under a
gate, if YOU carry it right TO him
and never let him get set.
Old IckeS forgot and over
spoke himself IN an Grafton IN
Pittsburgh the ether day and
proposed me for secretary of
labor under President Thomas
f.. Dewey He was trying 10 be
funny but what is funny about
that?
LEY IckeS! Tell US how you
II got rich
listen nov. ftte-nifii hotter
Foul Keep your punches up
He doesn't tell people how he
got rich
You know what would do As
secretary of labor. don't YOU
| would turn the heat on VIII
Green, the president Of the AFL
and steam him right out Of that
job As an enemy of labor
Green is President RooSevcit'S
particular friend, every election
year, Mr.. Big threw him a big.
fat political nod last Saturday
night when he chose the team
SterS' old home week in Wash
ington as an occasion for a loud
speech.
Green endorsed the petition
OF George ScatTse, an agent Of
the Capone mob and president
of the building service union for
restoration of his civil rights
which had been lost when he
went 10 prison for taking
l6-year-old girl on tour, trail
ing a carnival troupe.
He was the girls bargaining
agent Green knew all about this
conviction and so did Joe Pad
way, the general counsel of
the AL. a prosperous mouth
piece for underworld union
GangsterS who also poses as
friend and spokesman Of Ameri-
can labor.
LEY, lckeS' | read your book
about yourself and what a
wonder-man you made yourself
out 10 be. But you never did
tell us how you happened TO
become rich.
You know something else 7
would do as secretary of labor?
/ would holler until Congress
amended the Wagner Act, that
lying fraud that the Roosevelt
crowd put over in the gulSe of
gain for labor. so that. here in
1914. millions Of Americans
can, work TO produce guns and
ammunition for their own sons
in the war, unless they JON
RooSeveltS unions and pay
blaCkmail 10 the fourth term
campaign funds
How do you like that Don't
tell me Roosevelt didn't plan it
that way
Listen. IckeS. YOU always said
he was a very smart man
SO don't tell mo he WASH I
smart enough 10 foreSec that.
And if he thinks it IS wrong
10 shake down the whole work
ing community of the United
States for his campaign fund,
why doesn't he stop It?
4 ND I would make certain
n too, that a bunch OF union
highbinderS with prison records
or with traltorouS personal his
tories in the Communist con-
SpiraCy wouldn't be allowed 10
sit as kangaroo courts. and
blackball an American workman
out Of his occupation all over
the country on charges OF 'un-
union activity" for fighting
thieves and Communists.
Did you marry into the chips,
Ickes? You didn't mention that
in your book, did you? But don't
be bashful. Tell US your lnspr-
ing success story.
| understand you are a great
pal of the common man. Is that
why you live on street so eX-
elusive that you call II in Who's
Who Private Road, lckcS?
You like repartee, don't you.
ICkes? You like 1t kind OF
rough. don't you?
You are my man
Copyright 1914. by Kins Features