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Police methods can cope with stray children, but the sources of stray bullets seem still beyond control. The New York police are efficient, as far as any police group can be. Despite such elements of graft that cannot fail to be present, there must be some men who do their jobs honestly and thoroughly. To those men is due the doubtful credit of this record...
Shipping men, John T. Flynn explains, have a special word for graft-"Cumshaw." When a captain, after being entertained lavishly by a chandler, gives an order to him, it is "Cumshaw...
...Cumshaw" is not of course limited to the sea. Big graft and little graft run through the entire commercial structure. In Graft in Business, published last week by Vanguard Press ($3), Author Flynn goes into the matter. Part of the book deals with petty graft by corporation officials, tells of no practices one does not know or suspect to exist. Typical example : a Victor Talking Machine Co. superintendent who changed glue brands when offered a 5% commission...
...Detroit is Gracie Hall Roosevelt, cousin and brother-in-law of New York's Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt.* In active charge of the city's relief, he said: "If we had all this to do over, it would be done far more efficiently. There has been graft and negligence. . . . Industry in Detroit has unloaded more than 110,000 men on the taxpayer and the industrial leaders should take up their share of the burden...
Samuel Seabury, New York City graft...