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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1950
The Editorial Page Underworld Monopolies
In Kansas City, Mo., police enforcement on gambling and racketeering is good, say the authorities—but the only person who would need more than 10 minutes to place a bet on a race or find a place to lose some money via gambling would be a naive newcomer who had never seen or heard of Kansas City.
Kansas City police officials also said the city was rid of "bad" criminals—yet it took a Senate investigating committee little time to establish evidence that the Mafia, a notorious Sicilian criminal organization, was well entrenched there as in other cities.
In Chicago, Mayor Kennelly said last week that bookie joints were nowhere to be found—yet a newspaper reporter had only to walk across the street from the courthouse to place a $3 daily double bet on a race.
A former Chicago police lieutenant who "knew too much" was murdered before he could release certain information to the investigating group. Experts said his murder was committed by a criminal organization about which he had information—a criminal organization which Chicago officials said had been dissolved for many years.
These and other pertinent facts about two of the Middle West's leading cities were focused in the spotlight of the Senate crime investigating committee's hearings the past week. Under the chairmanship of Sen. Estes Kefauver Kansas City and Chicago have been split open by the committee and the brutal and ugly interiors of those two cities have been exposed to the public.
Either the citizens of these two cities purposefully elect corrupt officials or they prefer lax law enforcement, according to the evidence shown by Senator Kefauver's committee. Neither city had a savory reputation prior to the investigation but now their civic pride is nearing extinction.
their civic pride is hearing The question is: what will these cities do about their degraded conditions? What will civic leaders and citizens accomplish after the committee's revealing work is totaled? They can either hang their heads and accept the fact that gangsters run the cities—or fight them and clean up their surroundings.
What Kansas City and Chicago do in the immediate future has a double significance. Not only will the actions of their citizens in a "clean up" raise the downtrodden reputations they now carry to a proud level, but they will show other cities scheduled for the Kefauver committee's investigations what must be done. If they accept their smeared reputations, other American cities will lose the spark of improvement that Kansas City and Chicago could and should supply.
America looks to the citizens of Kansas City and Chicago, as in ensuing weeks they will look to other American cities along the committee's tour, to see what is being done about the conditions exposed there. These two metropolitan centers taking the lead in restoring civic pride and reputation will not only guarantee their safety and future, but will also give a much needed boost to their reputations. John Hill
'Show Up' In The 'Show Me State'
Inexperienced Thief Learns The Hard Way
Chicago ((U,P))—One of three young thieves who snatched $27 from the till of James Christ's grocery found that crime does not pay. In his haste to depart, he abandoned a bicycle which police said was worth much more than the youth's cut of the $27.
Strange Hobby For Athlete
Memphis, Teen. (U.P.) - Clyde Rains is a 33-year-old taxicab driver, strong and six feet tall. In younger days he captained a basketball team. Then when he broke his leg, he startled everyone by taking up embroidery as a hobby. Good, too.
Dream Leads To Body
Bath, Me. (U.P.)—Forty-eight hours after dreaming that he found a body in the Kennebec river, Richard Morse went out on the river and found the body of Frank Plumber, 47, who had drowned a week previously.
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