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BY DR. KENNETH J. FOREMAN
SCRIPTURE: Gensis 11:27—13:18.
DEVOTIONAL READING: Hebrews
11:1-10.
Wanted: Pioneers!
Lesson for October 7, 1951
Dr. Foreman
TT IS on record that a Virginian in
* the 18th century wrote to his fam
ily that he was moving “to the far
west,” meaning the neighborhood of
what is now Bull
Run, Va., not far
from Washington,
D. C. Well, the “far
west” moved and
moved, till it
reached the Pacific
Beyond that ocean
is the Orient,
crowded past be
lief. Where now can
the pioneer go? For
pioneering is al
ways in the blood of man. Not in
•very one’s, to be sure; there al
ways are contented stay-behinds;
but also there always are the rest
less souls, not content with what
has been or is. How shall pioneering
instincts have their way when all
frontiers are closed?
* • *
Un-Traveling Pioneers
*pH£ traveling pioneer has about
^ had his day; what we now need
is the un-traveling pioneer.
Such explorers are of various
sorts. One is the mental pioneer,
moving to new frontiers of the
mind. These can be found break
ing out new trails in various
directions.
In science there are the men
whose minds produced X-rays and
plastics, the men and women who
did the brainwork that lay behind
the splitting of the atom; in govern
ment the men on the judge’s bench,
in lawyer’s offices or in professors’
chairs, who have been and are still
thinking out the undiscovered mean
ings of democracy; in education the
men and women who have pio
neered in new ways of teaching,
such as Dr. Laubach, great scholar
and missionary, who has led the
way in teaching the “silent billion”
to read and write; these are all pio
neers of the mind. God send us
more!
* * *
.Moral Pioneers
W E need also pioneers of the
moral life. “Time,’'* says a line
In a poem by J. R. Lowell which
has made its way into most hymn-
books, “makes ancient good un
couth.”
For instance: once upon a time,
practically all Christian people sup
posed that slavery was not only a
good thing, but that God had com
manded it for all time, Whitfield, a
famous evangelist, said that what
America needed for its development
was more slaves imported from
Africa, and more home-brewing of
liquor. Today this sounds so ridicu
lous that it is hard to believe that
a Christian could have said it.
Time has made ancient good
uncouth. But time -alone will
not do this. There must always
>e some moral pioneer, some
one who will run the risk of be
ing called “bad” by going out
in front of popular opinion.
Between Whitfield’s time and ours
there have been moral pioneers,
notably a Quaker named John Wool-
man on whose mind and heart God
laid the message: Slavery Is a
wrong.
* * •
Pioneers of God
x*TE need also spiritual pioneers,
persons who will move forward
to new discoveries of God. For
most persons, God is still an “un
discovered country”; and no man
can discover God for another,
though he may testify to his own
discoveries. So in the realm of the
spirit each must be his own pioneer;
and some men and women, even
from sickbeds, unable to walk as
far as the door, have made great
discoveries of God.
The man who is honored as a
saint by three religions—Christian
ity, Judaism and Mohammedanism
—Abraham, is sometimes known for
the wrong thing. He may be thought
of as a traveling pioneer because he
moved several hundred miles diming
his lifetime. But he was not a pio
neer in the “old Americas!” mean
ing of that word, for the Canaan to
which he went was no unsettled
wilderness but a well-populated
eivilized country, and he never
owned the land he lived on.
Abraham’s pioneering was in
the realm of the spirit. We
know from Joshua 24:2 that
even- Abraham’s father was an
idolater; Abraham moved out
from the pagan religion of his
father and his people, to the dis
covery of the One True God. No
more important journey was
ever taken.
The traveling of Abraham’s feet
was of little importance by com
parison. It was the traveling of
Abraham's spirit that has most
blessed us all.
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| Crime in America
By ESTES KEFAUVER
United States Senator
Font «f a Series
Greasy Thumb and Chicago Politicians
Two Chicago hoodlums la whom the Senate Crime Committee
had particular interest were Jacob Gnzik and Anthony Accardo.
We felt these infamous, rather strangely assorted partners might
hold a key to the whole question of organized interstate crime, so
widely dispersed were their nefarious activities.
Accardo, back when he was a strong-arm man in Chicago’s
underworld and reputedly a bodyguard for the late “Machine-Gun
Jack” McGum, used an appropriate alias—“Joe Batters.”
Guzik is a pouchy-eyed little man of 64, with a ravaged face
that looks as if it were made of wax left too long near a hot fire.
The warrant for his arrest as a missing witness was not served on
him until the final weak of our
scheduled public hearings.
Guzik is a manipulator rather than
a muscle man; he acquired Ms
nickname—Greasy Thumb— from
the fact that he was business man
ager and pay-off man for A1 Ca
pone.
It is a strange quirk of gangdom
that these two men should be part
ners and joint leaders of the Ca
pone syndicate. Police records show
that Accardo was picked up in 1945
lor questioning about a gang style
kidnaping of Guzik, who reputedly
had to pay $75,000 to regain his
freedom. Nothing ever came of
this episode, for Guzik stoutly in
sisted it was just a misunderstand
ing over a “business transaction.”
We didn’t learn much directly
from either. Accardo answered only
a few elementary questions refusing
even to tell about things already
part of police and court records.
The gray-visaged Guzik was
worse. When we asked him his age,
he refused to answer on the grounds
that it might “incriminate me or
tend to incriminate me.” After he
tiad parroted this monotonous phrase
some 80 times, Senator Wiley asked
(f he had consulted a lawyer; Gu-
rfk answered that he had not
“Where did you get this phrase
you have been using all the time?”
asked Senator Wiley.
“I have heard it on television,”
Guzik replied.
la Chicago’s teeming Negro dis
trict “policy wheels”—a variety of
the “numbers” racket in which are
daily drawings for combinations of
winning numbers—have come to be
big business. An estimated $1.5 bll-
tion has been played on them in
the past five years. Operations of
this magnitude, of course, could
dot exist without graft being paid
to dishonest police for protection.
There Is a melancholy moral in
Ibis when one considers that the
staggering sum is amassed from the
nickels, dimes and quarters of the
Inhabitants of some of the worst
slums in America. There are num
erous wheels operating—with fanci
ful names such as the “Roman
Silver,” the “Calcutta-Green Drag-
pn,” the “Jack-Pot WMrlaway-Ala-
bama-Georgia.”
One witness we summoned was
Edward Jones, a one-time Pull
man porter. He was a partner with
his wife, mother, brother and two
other men in a policy wheel known
as “The Maine, Idaho and Ohio.”
Its net profits, 1946 through 1949,
came to $3,656,968.22.
In 1946, Ed Jones was kidnaped
and held until his family paid $100,-
D00 ransom. Even though five years
had elapsed since the kidnaping at
the time we questioned him, the ex
porter, who wore a huge starsap-
phire ring, was exceedingly tim
orous. He insisted he did not even
know whether Ms abductors were
wMte persons or Negroes because
they were “blind-folded” at the
time.
Whether Jones was kidnaped sole
ly for ransom, or whether it waa a
“muscle” operation whereby gang-
•ters took over part of the business,
never has been established. Jones
himself denies that the “Main-Ida-
ho-Ohio” has been “muscled.” How
ever, Ed Jones and his brother,
George—though each continues to
draw a 20 per cent share of the
profits—have lived in Mexico City
since the kidnaping.
• • •
Our Chicago hearings also pro
vided a case Mstory of how a
one-time hoodlum can establish bim-
eelf in a legitimate business and
become enormously wealthy. The
case was that of Joseph Charles
(Joe) Fusco, 48, now the operating
vice-president of Gold Seal Liquors,
Inc. (wholesale distributors), a
stockholder in four other liquor
distributing companies and part-
owner of a brewery.
From a sales volume standpoint,
Fusco boasted Gold Seal was Chi
cago’s “No. 1” dealer. His own net
worth was possibly $1,000,000 and
the book value of Gold Seal alone,
of wMch he owns 25 per cent, was
$2,200,0C3, he told us.
Virgil Peterson of the Chicago
crime commission gave us this
thumbnail report: “Joe Fusco des
ignated several years ago as a pub-
lie enemy, during the prohibition
era, was a principal lieutenant in
the Capone syndicate, handling the
manufacture and distribution of
illicit beer. He is presently suspect
ed of being the respectable front
in the liquor industry for the syndi
cate ... It has been stated that
the syndicate owns or controls at
least 17 per cent of the retail liquor
stores in Chicago . . ”
Peterson also identified Rocco De
Stefano, with whom Fusco admitted
doing business, as an “important
syndicate man.”
* • •
Painfully, with the witness making
long speeches at almost every ques
tion, Committee Counsel Rudolph
Halley extracted from Fusco some
details of how he gave away 20 to
25 cases of whiskey as Christmas
gifts to public officials and other
friends. Practically every cop in the
district came around at Christmas
time for*a bottle or two, Fusco said.
He became belligerent when asked
who received Ms Christmas liquor.
“If you were in Chicago,” he barked
at Halley, “maybe I would send
you a case, too.”
Halley retorted: “Maybe I would
return it to you.”
“I don’t know,” said Fusco, ar
rogantly. “I have never got any
back.”
There was an ugly aftermath to
Fusco’s appearance. Apparently the
mob got the idea that he had
“talked.” Ten days later a black
powder bomb went off in the door
way of Ms Gold Seal warehouse.
The newspapers captioned a picture
of Fusco inspecting the damage:
“He Talked to Kefauver.’’
Everywhere we went, the com
mittee found political immorality,
but in Chicago the rawness was par
ticularly shocking. I previously men
tioned Dan Serritella, simultaneous
ly a state senator, scratch sheet
operator, and business partner with
Greasy Thumb Guzik. We accumu
lated evidence that proved the con
nections of the Capone gang with
politicians of both major parties.
The mobsters played politics strict
ly for their own interests. When we
asked ex-Caponeite Philip D’Andrea
whether Capone had been a Republi
can or Democrat, D’Andrea replied:
“He was a Republican when it fitted
Ms clothes, I guess, and a Democrat
otherwise.”
The pro-Capone bloc in the legis
lature included Democrats and Re
publicans alike. For instance, Virgil
Peterson testified that Sen. Roland
Libonati, a Democrat, “has been
pictured with A1 Capone and with
‘Machine-Gun Jack’ McGum.”
Another bloc member was James
J. Adduce!, a Republican and for
18 years a member of the Illinois
legislature. Mr. Adduce! appeared
before us and outlined his political
philosophy and certain facets of
his career. He has been a friend
and consort of numerous notorious
Capone gangsters, and admitted
having been arrested frequently
htniMflf on numerous charges—in
cluding kidnaping—but never con
victed.
For eight years, according to Ad
duce!, he has been getting a com
mission of “between $5,000 and $6,-
000 or $6,500” by selling stationery
nnH envelopes to the state. He also
boasted of having control of about
40 patronage jobs, including 10 men
on the staff of the sheriff of Cook
county, and ’’a couple of Highway
police.” Adduce! cynically told us
that “my conscience made me” op
pose the crime commission bilL
Asked if he ever had studied the
bill. Adduce! roughly answered:
“Hell, no, I didn’t study it!”
“I come from a very funny dis
trict,” he also told us. “I have
every element there is in the world,
I guess, in my district, I have the
pimp, the pack-roller, the safe-blow
er, the dope fiend and every other
damned thing in there. I mean, I
come from the West Side of Chica
go, a very poor district. All those
elements are in there. Skid Row,
you may have heard of Skid Row.”
The chairman: “You never have
any trouble getting elected, do
you?"
Adduce!: “No, I don’t. Senator.”
Next Week: Corruption of » Small
Town: A Case Study.
Condensed £rinn the book, “Crime la
America,” by Cetes Kefauver. Cpr. 1951.
Pub. by Doubleday, Inc. Diet. General
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Protecflvt Painting Drives
That Ogre, Rust, Far Away
Rust is a sort of ogre that de
vours both iron and steel. When we
were very young, . we shuddered
over tales of fabled ogres that de
voured human beings. Now that we
are grown, we’re often bedeviled by
real ogres that devour the metal in
important structures—yet we sel
dom turn a hair. Strangely enough,
we often neglect to take the sim
plest measures that would elimi
nate the danger and save us, as
a nation, millions of dollars in
property loss.
Sometimes the metal surface
that rust attacks is huge—like the
hull of a sMp. More often it’s small
as a roof gutter, a fence, lawn fur
niture or a garden tool No matter
what its size, the way to protect it
against destruction is the same.
The surface must be completely
covered with a protective shield of
paint that keeps out moisture. If
that protective sMeld cracks off or
wears thin—if rust gains a foot
hold at any point, every speck of
it must be completely removed be
fore a new coating is applied.
Otherwise, it will continue its dirty
work—just as overlooked decay will
continue in a filled tooth.
As in any painting job, proper
and complete pre-painting prepa
ration is of tremendous impor
tance. In preparing ornamental iron
work, iron gutters, fences, steel
sashes and similar surfaces, begin
by washing away any grease that
Is present with a paint thinner.
Next, remove all dirt, loose paint
and loose rust. For thi* essential
step, use a wire brush, a scraper,
emery cloth or sandpaper. After
removing every sign of rust, touch
up these vulnerable spots with a
regular metal primer, such as red
lead, zinc yellow or zinc dust.
In the presence of severe mois
ture conditions, two coats of primer
and two coats of finish are ad
visable. Each coat should be of a
distinctly different color to insure
complete coverage during the appli
cation of each coat. Following thi«
practice will also promote rust pre
vention in the future by revealing
any abrasions or weathering before
the deterioration reaches the first
primer coat. When two coats of
primer are used, you can color the
second one with a touch of lamp
black.
Construction Material
Has Own Sprinkler System
Gypsum is widely used in build
ing construction 'because it is one
of the rare materials wMch possess
the insulating qualities necessary
to restrain rapid and excessive flow
of heat. A rock, which is fasMoned
into sheathing, lath, plaster, par
tition tile, roof decks and wallboard,
gypsum is not only fireproof, but
it posseses a phenomenal charac
teristic wMch literally repels fire;
it provides its own “sprinkler sys
tem.” When attacked by fire gyp
sum releases water to about one-
half of its volume. The water re
leased as steam repels the fire
dissipates heafe
The “magic mineral” serves as
a fire-protection for wood end steel
in building construction. Wood will
ignite and burn at temperatures
from 350 to 450 degrees, F. While
steel will not burn, it begins to lose
strength at 850 degrees, F. A two-
inch thickness of gypsum plaster
protects a steel column for a 4-hour
, fire-resistive classification; simi
larly a %-inch thickness of gypeum
protects wood studs with a 1-hour
fire-resistive rating. Thus, gyp
sum, protecting structural mem
bers of the building until the blaze
is brought under control, can min
imize direct fire damage and struc
tural collapse.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1951
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Allergy Strong Factor
Research is disclosing that al
lergy ig a factor in many infectious
diseases and in other disease states.
This statement is made by Dr.
Samuel M. Feinberg, chief of the
Division of Allergy at Northwest
ern University’s Medical School, In
a new book. Allergy: Faete
Fancies. According to Dr. Fein
berg, associate professor of medi
cine at Northwestern, ten million
or more persons in this country
suffer from some form of allergic
reaction. Of these, there are
probably 5 to 7 million hay fever
sufferers and 1 to 2 million per
sons who have asthma. While re
search is contributing much to the
knowledge of allergy, Dr. Feinberg
reports that “the greatest imme
diate benefit to the allergic miiHn nt
would be the common sense util
ization of the present end avail
able methods of diagnosis end
treatment.” He points out that
only about 10 per cent of the allergy
sufferers have taken advantage d
such therapy.
Lack of Sloop
Because of insomnia, the United
States was able to acquire the
Louisiana Purchase. Napoleon, at
the time the French held the terri
tory, sen. 30,000 troops over to pro
tect it. However, the canney Tous-
saint L’Ouverture and his *m«H
band made surprise attacks on
French at nights and Napoleon's;
army went sleepless. Out of the
original 30,000, only 5,000 lived te
see their native Franoe again.
Napoleon believed then that it was
futile to waste so many men and
consequently sold the territory so
cheaply to the United States.
Never underestimate the value ol
sleep or the advisability of a good
bed to sleep on! .
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