Evening Star Newspaper, September 25, 1928, Page 4

A BERNSTORFF DENIE - REICK IS ARMING Germany Bitter Over Criti- cism of Disarmament, League Is Told. B the Associated Press. GENEVA, September 25.—Germany is bitter because there has been so much belittlement of the sincerity of her fulfillment of the disarmament provisions of the treaty of Versailles, Count Von Bernstoff, German delegate and former Ambassador at Washington, told the Assembly of the League of Nations today. He ridiculed the idea that Germany | could quickly transform her peace in- dustries into war industries, saying that her armed neighbors could overwhelm her before she would have any chance for self defense. Attacks Resolution. The German representative attacked a resolution presented to the Assembly by the disarmament committee by which the preparatory disarmament commis- sion would be conveaed early in 1929 at the latest, declaring that it failed to fix a definite date for disarmament conference and left the League sitting with folded hands in the face of its st task. He said, however, that he would not vote against the resolution, but would merely abstain from voting because he wished the Assembly to approve unani- mously the positive parts of the reso- lution. Alluding to the Franco-British naval accord, which has been the center of such keen interest, Godfrey Locker- Lampson, British undersecretary of state for foreign afTairs, said that if the agreement were accepted there was every reason to suppose that the pre- paratory commission could meet with every chance of success. If it were not accepted, he said, it would be face to face with the same problems as before. Efforts Jeopardized. “The efforts of the governments to ascertain what concessions might be fruitful might be jeopardized by an im- mediate confession of failure before the preparatory commission,” he said. “For | that reason the British preferred to have the commission convened when there seemed good prospects of framing | trudged side by side with some of thisl‘ & draft convention on disarmament.” Joseph Paul-Boncour, the French del- egate, expressed the opinion that the first conference on disarmament would merely call a halt to the construction of armaments, but declared that this ‘was a vital step because if the arma- .ment race were not stopped it would lead to new wars. WARMER TONIGHT, FORECASTER SAYS Temperature of 41 Degrees Regis- tered This Morning—Cold Spell to Continue Until Thursday. Shivering residents of the Capital City who were driven from their beds last night to search for an extra blanket by the unseasonably cold weather received little encouragemenit from the Weather Bureau today, when Forecaster Charles L. Mitchell announced that the near- est warm weather is two or three days removed from Washington. Mr. Mitchell accepts “full responsi- bility” for the unwelcome temperature, declaring that its arrival is nothing more than the fulfillment of a predic- tion he made last week. Early this morning the thermometer at the Weather Bureau registered 41 degrees, which is 10 or 15 degrees be- low normal temperature at this season. It will be a little warmer tonight, but the subnormal weather is expected to stay on at least until Thursday. Comparatively speaking, however, Washington has little ground for com- plaint, Mr. Mitchell said. The cold weather is general over the entire coun- try east of the Rockies, and at one spot in Northeasiern Canada the residents #at down to breakfast this morning with oppetites stimulated by a temiperature of 10 degrees above zero. . Mr. Mitchell said reports of crop dam- age as a result of frost in the farming | sections probably have been exaggerated. ‘The present cold weather, Mr. Mitchell said, came down from. the North and Northwest, traveling toward the South | and Southeast. ASSAULT CHARGE DROPPED BY GIRL —_ = | Denies Friend Forced Her to Take | Poison Tablet After Quar- rel at Party. Special Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., September 25.— Charges of assault pending against B. Joseplt Bateman, 25 years old, 4301 “Thirty-ninth street, Washington, will be dropped, it was indicated today by | State’'s Attorney Robert B. Peter, who | announced that such action had been | requested by Miss Mary Ball of Amer- | ican University Park, Md., the com- | plaining witness. Miss Ball told him, Peter said tosay, | that, while Bateman had struck her, they have since patched up their dif- ferences. She denied the charge made | by police on September 9, the day the | attack was said to have taken place, | that Bateman had forced her to take | a poison tablet after a quarrel at a | party. Bateman has been free on bond rince September 10. Women's Legion Group to Seek | New Members in October. Special Dispatch to The Star. | CLARENDON, Va., September 25— Plans for a membership drive during| th> month of October were made last night by the Womsan's Auxiliary of Arlington Post, American Legion, at a | meeting at the home of Mrs. L. C. Lad- | son. A special committee appointed fcr this purpose consists of Mrs. S. Mitchell Mrs. H. W. Beattie, Mrs. [rza Mrs. Laura Maycock, Mrs. €. H. Yorkdale, Mrs. L. C. Ladson, Mrs. Gertrude A. Dawson and Mrs. Laura Ethier. | Mrs. Frank Sherwood was elected | ¢hairman of the rehabilitation commi- | tee to succeed Mrs. A. J. Porter, re- ‘gigned. | Red Cross Takes Charge. SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, September 25 (#).—Gov. Horace Towner today is- sued a proclamation designating the American Red Cross as an official re- lief agent. The proclamation empowers the Red Cross to take charge of all re- lief and rehabilitation work in the island. . ‘With Paris radio stores broadcasting THE EVENING TAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. “ TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25. POLICEMEN THEMSELVES BLAMED FOR CRITICISMS Officer Says 5 Per Cent, or Rough Element, Should Be Ousted. Scores Members of Force Who Beat Prisoners—De- fends Maj. Hesse. NOTE—What is the matter with the Police Department? During the recent weeks fire has been directed against almost every phase of poiice activities. The aflairs of the depart- ‘ment have been the subject of wide- spread discussion both in and out. One of the most noteworthy state- ‘ments issued during the height of the bitter attack was that of Robert J. Allen, a policeman attached to No. 3, who, at a Policemen’s Asso- ciation meeting, rose and declared departmental ills were largely due to a small percentage of patrolmen themselves, who failed to live up to the high standards set by the officers of the department. He cited cases in which policemen unwarrantedly had beaten prisoners. He bitterly denounced such a proce- dure, and declared that police activ- ity in this regard had done much to undermine the morale of the police- men themselves, and to disgrace the department in the eyes of the public. He urged that the department rid itself of those who cannot live up to its high principles. Policeman Allen, who is a veteran of the United States Marine Corps and an_ aviator in the World War, joined the force in 1925, and since that time has jought for the high- est standards of the Police Depart- ment. His observations in regard to the present police situation are in- teresting, and are printed purcly as a reflection_and viewpoint of many policemen who desire that the depart- ment rid itself of elements which prejudice it in the eyes of the public. BY ROBERT J. ALLEN, Private. Metropolitan Police Force. Never for one moment forget, good citizen, that about 95 per cent of this local Police Department are good, hon- est and decent men, as well as loyal public servants. In the bitter cold of Winter, in the sweltering heat of Sum- mer—Ilong nights and days—I have 95 per cent, as well as some of the other 5 per cent. We have talked whole hours away, and our subjects were legion; dis- cussed old times and new times, shared exciting days and nights as well, in a fashion which men in other walks of life never come to know. The very things which go to make up a policeman’s life tend to draw him close to his brother officer. The dan- gers and joys, the hardships and tri- umphs tend to promote a bond between them which is rarely understood by civilians, but which is as strong as life itself. He walks his beat in the still of the night alene, and lonely. Suddenly the darknegs is pierced by a shrill scream, he Dcags maybe the sudden, startling nois® of the explosion of a firearm, or the crash of glass, the pounding of feet in sudden flight. He never hesitates, does your true officer, but dashes to the scene of whatever it may be. He never knows when he may be called upon to lay down his life. He daily risks injury (and frequently suf- fers it, too), and more often than not is criticized for his pains, and very quickly learns that the one place where he may surely find understanding and sympathy is from his brother ofiicers, his lieutenant, his captain or, as a last court of appeal, his chief. Were a po- liceman to come along the street and see an officer embroiled with a crowd of civilians, would he hesitate? Would he stop to meditate on what should be his probable course of action? Would he say to himself, “Here, I wonder who is right in this controversy, that police- man or all those civilians?” He would not. He would unhesitatingly and blindly come to the aid in any fashion possible of his beleaguered brother of- ficer. Now we come to the crux of the matter. I have tried to show you something of what goes to make up the spirit and the attitude of a good police- man. The French would in a very few words have described the entire fore- going; they would have called it the “esprit de corps,” and there to my mind lies the explanation of the entire police OF D. C. FORCE ROBERT J. ALL problem. Now I approve heartily of | this said “esprit de corps.” Must Have Morale. No organization can function properly | without a well developed morale and an adhesiveness and loyalty-to-each-other | spirit prevailing among the men, but unfortunately a certain type of men, recognizing this power—discerning this spirit among their brother officers and being totally without conscience and re- gard for themselves or the honor of their department, and being men who undoubtedly were never destined to be| policemen, and seeing only in this spirit, this morale, a protection for tHemselves in certain reprehensible acts | which they desire to commit, knowing full well that if they were caught their| comrades, as is their immemorable cus- tom, would stand by them and protect them under the theory that a brother| officer can be guilty of no wrong until a | preponderance of evidence has been presented to the contrary. And my firm conviction is that if the 95 per cent of good, honest and decent officers of this department were to make up their minds that from now on and henceforth they would do every- thing possible to rid the department of such men in order that we may safe- guard the honor of our department. the regard in which we all are held by the | general public would be greater. These men, the 5 per cent, should realize that | they alone are not concerned, but that | the entire department shares in some degree the credit or blame of their, every act, especially any act which may attain publicity. And let us further re- solve that every time, in the future, that we chance to observe a brother officer committing some serious offense (now | when I say offense, I do not mean vio-, lations of the marmual; the manual, by the way, is a policeman’s rule book con- | cerning interdepartmental rules), let us forget that he is a brother officer, let us just consider him in the guise of the; lawbreaker he really is. and take the| action we would take in the case of any other offender. Clean Own Department. ! Let us clean our own depariment from the inside out ourselves, and ren- der it unnecessary for the citizenry to | consider taking some action designed to | accomplish the same result. Let us have it so that in the future when we| chance to walk along the street, all| who may see us in our proud uniforms may feel entitled to say, “Here comes a good man, & decent man, a sober man, a man to whom we might turn in any emergency, or for most any advice.” Let the very fact that he is in uniform bespeak the fact that he is phy- sically, mentally and morally fit to be| a law enforcement officer. And I can- not be too emphatic in declaring that only & man who possesses the above| enumerated traits of character is quali-| fied to be a Fo]lceman, So let each and | every one of us take individual resolve | to do everything in our power to earn the friendly regard of all good citizens. Much publicity has been given_ the fact that over 400 cases have been brought against policemen at_the Trial | Board curing the past year. While this is admittedly a fact, nevertheless a ref- erence to the records proves that a great many of these cases the officers were found not guilty as charged, and others were what is known as repeaters; some policemen being brought time after time, even as high as 25 and 30 times. These men are what are known as perennial offenders and another thing concerning this 5 per cent, undoubtedly, the intelli- gence and fitness of some of them might very well be questioned. During certain periods in the past, the Police Department was greatly in e Washtub. . . n the streets at night. only about half Ia dozen groups of street singers still falian thair trada, is no beauly bath Youth and Beauty cannot long withstand the devastating effects of worrying washday. For a good, in- expensive service that will relieve vou of both Washing and ironing, try our Everything Ironed at 12c a pound. The ironing is done by ma- 12 a pound chine. Only fancy pieces need touching up. 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Vv 4 -~ eny ted two very defi- nite =nA undoubted evils vhich confront the present head of the local police force. So, let us see what he has rec- ommended should be done about these two very specific so-called evils. Many months ago, Maj. Hesse from the ac- cumulated wisdom and experience of his score and ten and over years in the serv- ice of the Police Department, made the following recommendations in regard to the aforementioned evils. ‘Would Oust Offenders. Taking up the first one, he said ap- proximately: “It is my firm conviction that a man who has been convicted on numerous occasions of petty derelictions of the Police Department’s rules and regulations, sometimes referred to as violations of the manual, that such a man has shown that he is fitted neither mentally nor morally for the proper pursuance of his duty as a good police~ man. The unescapable theory is that if he has been detected in such a num- ber of small violations, then the suppo- sition must be that he has committed many others, in_view of the natural law of averages, in which he has never been detected. No successful civilian concern would continue a man in any capacity if he displayed a like charac- ter. So my recommendation is that a man be dropped when he has reached such a footing. In view of the many excellent men whom we can secure, there are no reasonable grounds for us to continue such men in the employ of the Police Department, and I further recommend and implore your most earnest consideration to the fol- lowing recommendation, which is, to wit, that to my mind there is entirely too much leniency shown men who have committed crimes against the Commonwealth and the rules of the Police Department. I am firmly con- vinced that when a man is convicted of such an offense as drunkenness on duty, maltreatment of prisoners—to wit, brutally beating them without justi- fiable cause—and the telling of mali- cious falsehoods designed to injure some person or persons, that it should be mandatory that such men be dismissed upon conviction of the aforementioned crimes. What reasonable person, what good citizen, what man of any sort or walk in life or organization of men could warrant or approve of a man guilty of one of these offenses being maintained as a policeman? If dis- missal is made mandatory upon con- viction of such offenses, I earnestly be- ligve that it would go far toward re- straining policemen who are already in the employ of the Government from committing outrages upon the citi- zenry.” Outrages of Police. Now the writer would like to pause here and cite a few actual instances of where policemen were convicted of such offenses and retained as policemen. Not long ago in Police Court, I believe, Judge Mattingly observed that & pris- oner seemed to be in pain and appar- ently suffering from head wounds and and he seemed to have difficulty in re- plying to the judge, so the judge asked this man what was the matter. The prisoner seemed to be a little more in- telligent than the ordinary Monday morning offender, and he replied thusly: “Your honor, if I speak with effort, please forgive me, because the police- man who arrested me last night beat me over the head and knocked out all my front teeth,” and when the judge asked him why all of this had taken place, he replied: “Your honor, as God is my judge, I know of no reason.” Whereupon, Judge Mattingly recom- mended that the policeman be tried and the trial board listeni to the evidence came to the conclusion that the policeman was guilty as judged and fined him a certain sum of money. I wish to give it as my personal opin- ion for whatever it might be worth that it is high time something ‘vas done about instantly dismissing a man who is found guilty of such an act as that, without justifiable cause. To cite still another instance: Not long ago n the Southwest section of our city two policemen went into a man's front yard, who was sitting in a chair peace- fully, conducting himself, as it was afterward proven, as a godd citizen, and these two men, according to the evi- dence, set upon this man and beat him severely, necessitating his being in- capacitated for a considerable length of time. These men were subsequently tried and convicted of entering that that his lips were swollen enormously | man’s yard and beating him as charged and without justification. One was fined $75 and the other $25. Could you very well imagine a man committing & worse outrage on the peace of a neighborhood and the rights of a citizen as to come into his front yard for no good reason and brutally beat him? I submit that it certainly is time that Maj. Hesse's recommenda tions in regard to the mandatory dis- missal of such offenders were put into execution. Hardboiled Type Passes. The day of the so-called hardboiled bullying type of officer is past. A new era is here and in truth, has been here for sometime, and one of the greatest forces, which has operated to bring about this new era has been the “news- papers. There is probably no greater force working toward the general welfare of humanity than the well managed news- papers of today. They bring education and truth and under their pitiless glare of publicity dishonest public officials are soon exposed and banished. And it is certain no other agency has con- tributed so much to the advancement of the Washington Police Department. They are quick to condemn dishonesty and brutality and equally alert to com- mend ability and heroism and frequent- ly do both. Newspapers are a great moral force towards good. Rarely is it necessary these days for a man to have to subdue a prisoner with purely physical force. Cases of re- sistance to arrest on the street or other places are rapidly becoming rare, d no doubt, to more congestion in sitie: especially, and also due to some ex tent to a great deal more general edu- cation on the part of all citizenry of the present time. Especially is this true here in Washington, probably posses- sing the most enlightened population of any city on the globe today. It requires but little thousht to readily understand that an officer coming in practically daily contact with people of the high caliber of Washington peo- ple must be a somewhat unusual type of man. He must be intelligent, and he must be courteous. He must be one who can acquit himself in ofttimes diffi- cult situations. The great of the world pass him every day. Through the entire criticism of Maj. Hesse there runs hardly one note of purely personal criticism. And I sub- mit to your consideration the assertion that Maj. Hesse is being criticised and martyred, so to speak, on account of the actions of the undesirable 5 per cent minority of the Police Department. I further submit to your consideration that he has done everything that he possibly can or could to abate the bad conduct that has become a public scan- dal recently, and I further declare that he is better fitted for the job than any possible successor that I can think of right now. Also, it is my conviction that if the various recommendations which he has made had been put into execution long ago, the department and the city as well would be better off. He never ceases his efforts to try and improve the Police Department and the condi- tions under which the city is governed. Our chief has time and again had to desert important work pertaining to the Police Department and go and defend himself or the department against the ofttimes ridiculous charges of some pub- licity seeker or some one trying to sat- isfy a personal grudge of some sort. Should Reflect Credit. | I take the opportunity of pleading with any of my brother officers who may peruse these lines to -so govern their actions in the future that we may henceforth reflect such credit on our- selves and the department, and in turn Maj. Hesse's command of it, that we will insure his remaining at his oresent post. To my mind the Police Department needs a veteran of Maj. Hesse's calm, cool management, which by the very fact of his long service is tempered with wisdom and ability. Once upon & time (and not so very long ago) when I was what is termed a rookie policeman, and while walking my beat one morning, I received a mes- sage over our police signal _system, which is a form of telephone, that the chief of police wanted to see me im- mediately in his office at the District Building about a certain matter in- volving my having had some police business to do with a prominent citizen who afterwards had made bitter com- plaint to Maj. Hesse. I felt I was right and that I had acquitted myself with the prominent citizen in the only way compatible with my duty as I knew it to be. Would the chief hear my side of it? Would he belleve me? Later I was ushered into his presence. I advanced toward the desk and as I drew closer, the details of the chief’s appearance began to impress them- selves on my consclousness one by one. | I saw seated before me an elderly man, | with slightly stooped shoulders and the | kindest and most understanding eyes, and about his expression a faint, elu- sive, but persistent melancholy. He mo-l tioned me to a seat and spoke a few words designed to put me at my ease and then he said, “Now, officer, in re- gard to this little matter, I want to hear your version of it, and I wish to assure you in advance that I have a very open mind in this matter and am not at all convinced that you were in any way wrong before you start, but I shall pursue the investigation and will make my recommendations strictly ac- cording to the facts, you may depend upon that, Now you may get on with your version of this occurrence.” I told him what I had to say. He lis- | tened very quietly and after I had fin ished he considered in silence for a few | moments and then indicated that the audience was over. I arose and started ! toward the door, but just prior to my leaving the room, halting me im the doorway, in fact, he said: Ready to Back Men. “Officer, I see you are to a certain ex- tent concerned over this matter. You! should not feel that way about it at all. | Try to do your duty in the way deemed proper at all times and never forget one thing, that if you do this, this office and | myself in particular will back you one hundred per cent.” Some way or other when I reached the street again, with- out just being exactly conscious of (hei why and wherefore, I felt just a little better, a little more kindly toward even the chance passerby. My whole job seemed a little more desirable and there has abided with me from that day to this a warm feeling of regard for that quiet, kindly, essentially human man be- hind the d in that large room, and we, the majority on this police force— we like our jobs, we are just a trifle foolish about” Inspector Shelby, but we are plumb crazy about our chief. I share, together with about 95 per cent of my brother officers, an unbound- ed admiration for Maj. Hesse as a public official, as a man and as one who is admirably fitted for his present posi- tion. The task of a man charged with the responsibility of a large command is never an easy one. Were he the most perfect man and executive that the world ever knew, he would still invoke criticism from certain people, and one of the unfortunate traits of human nature seems to be an inclination to oftentimes believe ill rather than good. Thirty-five years ago Maj. Hesse entered the service of the present Metropolitan police force. Thirty-five years! Think of it—a lifetime in itself —he has been a public servant and to quote from a recent newspaper article: “Hesse's ability and integrity and de- votion and loyalty to the Government and the police service have never been questioned. During the many years that he served as chief clerk and property clerk of the department, he handled millions of dollars in money and many more millions of dollars worth of prop- erty without an error in his accounts,” and even now, in the face of the most caustic criticism that has ever been leveled at the police force in a good many years, there has been practically | no personal criticism leveled at Maj. | Hesse, for thirty-five years a decent man and an honest valued employe of this | United States Government. CHISHOLM CAPTURED AFTER YEAR'S SEARCH Will Face Trial Here for Thelt‘ From Home of Father-in-Law, Comdr. O'Leary. The arrest yesterday in San Fran- cisco, Calif., of Robert D. Chisholm, 32 years old, son-in-law of Comdr. Charles H. O'Leary of the Naval Proving Grounds, Indian Head, Md., brought to an end a search that has been in progress for more than a year. He| was apprehended as he was preparing to leave for Honolulu, police say. Chisholm is wanted in _connection with the theft from the Wushlngton‘ home of his father-in-law, 2869 Twenty-eighth street, silverware worth $1,000, a $200 dinner ring and a watch. ‘The articles were located in a nearby pawnshop and returned to the owner. According to Headquarters Detective H. K. Wilson, who has conducted the | investigation, Chisholm married Miss Carol O'Leary about seven years ago. They now have a child 18 months old. About a year ago the family silver- ware disappeared, Chisholm leaving at the same time. He was traced to Phila- delphia, New York, Atlanta, Lansing, ! Chicago, Seattle, British Columbia and finally to San Francisco. 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