European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 03, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Continued from Page w the ghetto districts have been a major deterrent to unrest to the streets. Lind say was vice chairman of the National advisory commission on civil disorders and has been credited with playing big part in shaping the final tone and substance of its Kerner  City government observer says it s Correct to say he has established rapport with the Man in the ghetto if you Don t overplay it. He does t claim he prevented riots last summer. He says we had a lot of Luck and it was tas hot a summer As some " at the time of the Martin Luther King assassination some of the so called negro extremists co operated in keeping things quiet. The mayor walked Down a Harlem Avenue  in  with Charle Kenyatta Leader of the Black nationalist Mau Mau group to a Central Par memorial service. And on gov. Nelson a. Rockefeller splane in route to the King funeral in Atlanta Lindsay instead of hobnobbing with official bigwigs sat most of the ride talking earnestly with  feels he la in no danger on his walks and he does feel he is giving lot of poor people the feeling that somebody cares about them people whenever would get a Chance otherwise to see a mayor or even realize there Isone. _ a Harlem sidewalk an elderly Zirian grabbed his  and pointed across the Street to an abandoned Tene ment. Every window was broken. The gaping empty doorways were just inviting neighbourhood children. This House is killing us she  want it boarded  i hear you talking Lindsay  she had left he told an aide let s see if we can get some action on that real  a cliche about new York City the allegedly ungovernable Burg is that no body can run it. The ultimate twist was Given the other Day by an observer who Dapper Jimmy Walter his name was James j. Walker but everybody from speakeasy owner to City Hall janitor fondly called him Dapper  he presided Over new York City in those roaring 20s," period seemingly made for his grand sense of style. He was a magnificent showman. He led parades opened the baseball season was or. First Nighter led the crowd to boxing matches Natty in a morning coat and striped trousers and on that All important new York Holiday led the St. Patrick s Day Parade in a silk Topper. Dapper Jimmy took office in 1925 after a stint in Testate legislature. He loved his Public and forced through a measure to Force Sheku flux klan to unmask. He fought censorship and beat Down a move Toban obscene material with a simple re Mark no girl was Ever ruined by  in his second race he swamped Laguardia with the greatest plurality Ever Given a mayoralty candidate. But Jimmy was heading for trouble. Graft and corruption grew around City Hall with his Backer tammany Hall in the Middle. But Jimmy continued with a Happy social spin dancing with the400, watching the horse shows at Madi son Square Garden. Then gov. Franklind. Roosevelt appointed an investigating committee to look into crime and Cit Ball in new York. Jimmy was the obvious target and the headlines blare with his name not in the same Happy Light of old however. In 1932 be resigned is Job and went abroad. Seven months after be quit be wed Broadway Sta Betty Compton in Cannes France. That marriage ended in divorce and Dapper Jimmy returned to Manhattan appointed by successor Laguardia As chairman of the cloak and suit Industry. He died in 1946, loved and admired by millions of fellow citizens Page 12 Aid not even Mcnamara could run in any event Lindsay certainly tries with a mental and physical output that lasts about is hours a Day much of Itin Public. Lindsay turns his own laughter on taunts that he san actor. Although he sometimes appears on a platform wit Little Index cards of jokes on his hand he can be very witty and fast Oft his feet. One Day Jack Benny appeared with him at a City Hall press conference and according to witnesses the mayor was so much funnier with quips than the funnyman that Benny might just As Well have stayed at  mayor is a  Mem Ber of the friars the How a club and when it came his turn to be the Brunt of a roasting he same but Allright even with such constr mate Needles As Jack e. Leonard. Whit campaigning once ill the Cut Ikles it seemed natural to him to get up and do a due with Singer Jane Morgan so he did. While be was a congressman be Wasin an off Broadway play As an offstage voice doing narration. Last month 1,000persons, including Lindsay gathered in Bryant Park for a Reading by the poet Marianne Moore. She read three poems. So did the  night he Cal de striking say actors in bargaining Atanson. At f am. He emerge and wan and announced a settlement. Vosky Day speaking a  he 8g9 with a big grim i had t even known Thuc actors Whereon strike. After All i was still work ing. Laughter swelled at his accenting of the  later Public events that Day include Dan inspection with archbishop Terence j. Cooke of a pioneering project to pro vide rehabilitation to bowery alcoholics. Besides taking part in a panel discus Sion Lindsay went to the deck and Shook hands and talked fervently with drunks just arrived and As yet unde  Gonna Pray for you one said and another we want you for presi up url showcase Mayo ands taping of to show produced of improve lot of Harlem ghetto dwellers. Of a i \  Lindsay told him you re no Gonna get rid of me that easily " recently when Lindsay visited Milwaukee s year ago riot site in Garfield Park Young negroes mobbed him Anda bearded one shouted you come be our mayor Man i prom the drunks Lindsay went to the speaker s podium in an open Street ground breaking of a Greenwich Village artists studio housing project and As he spoke a lady walked Down the aisle and handed him a Glass of Champagne. Of thank you my dear he said sipping away. Nothing unusual Hap pens every time i speak a Glass of Champagne  a Lindsay s Workhorse daily schedule begins with arising at 6 45 . I always prefer not to eat dinner until my work schedule is completed in the evening he says so we eat a about 9 or 10." after that he customarily works the phones on City business until Midnight or 1 . Sometimes things step up a bit. On a recent sunday he helicopter to City Hal from Long Island at noon and his round lasted till after Midnight monday with out a break. He opened three Vest pocket vacant lot Parks attended a band con Cert in Queens k helicopter to a Harlem cultural festival where a mob of 5 000 swarmed All Over him taped his regular sunday night half hour television show went into All night City Hall bargaining in a strike at City hospitals emerged unshaven and red eyed to announce settlement at 7.-30 . He went Home shaved change clothes went to police Headquarters to dedicate a Swift response electronic sys tem helicopter 40 Miles to new City n.y., for the annual City Council outings am flew Back had private meetings in late afternoon walked two evening hours in Harlem had another private appointment and still without sleep went at 11 30 . For a live radio net work show answering Public phone questions about the Kerner report. Lindsay has an Urban task Force of Ooi it boys whose Job is to keep the City Calm including a squad of trouble shooters who move into newly tense spots but often have to Call in the mayor that s our last resort the mayor. But How Long can he keep Lindsay critics often Call him arro Gant As Well As inept with labor Deal Ings. One of them said when he took Over the Job he considered he had a mandate despite his plurality of Only 102,400. You can t fault him too much after All he was the first so called fusion mayor in Over 20years. But he thought everybody had to go along and As far As the rest of the City government was concerned he came in with the personality of a cobra an the bedside manner of a Svengali but he s  in a recent news conference he was asked to comment on the criticism of a Republican councilman that nobody Ever wins an argument by being arro Gant abusive and  who s he talking about Lindsay asked All actor curiosity. Apparently about  of i can t believe that he said smiling. Out around the country the Lind say style and manner have caught some Public fancy that is too new to be assessed but too real not to be noticed. He has spoken to 14 colleges and universities in 14 months to generally warm receptions. He has campaigned for Rockefeller for president in 14 states. In tvo of these in Oregon Street Sig Sand a newspaper editorial in May and a front Page Madison wis., newspaper editorial there appeared the same intriguing question Why Don t Vou speak for yourself John Ine tilde Flower to i Ken magnificent showman Lindsay relishes Job called second toughest in  much Thi stars and stripes of Lind so Al and physical output which lasts about 18 hours a Day it spent in Public tuesday. Ber 3,1968 they called him the Littie Flower because of his first name Fiorello. They also called him the hat because head an affection for big wide brimmed headgear. The Crooks called him Lotsof other things As he tirelessly fought against crime in his beloved new Yor City where he ruled As mayor from 1932 to 1945. He had a hair newsmen loved him because he always had some thing to say that was funny and would give them a Good Story. Before becom ing mayor he was a congressman i world War i he fought in Italy. He was a dumpy Little Guy who rolled As he prowled the streets of his big town. He was a gifted speaker turning a neat i Folksy phrase with effortless ease. The Little people of the City loved him and he loved them and fought for them against graft tammany criminals. Beloved to show up at the scene at fires riots murders fashion shows. Re Wenton the radio regularly to talk about the Price of eggs or pork chops and to read the sunday comics to kids who could t afford a paper or during newspaper strikes. He loved a Parade and marched in hundreds of them. He fought for slum clearance and knew hell s Kitchen As Well As the cop on the beat whom heals knew. He knew City building codes and fire alarm codes he knew the num Bers game codes and the bookies codes. He knew his City and he almost broke himself fighting for it. He loved kids and so in 1945 when he thought he had been around new York City Long enough and it was time for new blood he move Dover to head the new United nations Relief and rehabilitation administration. He died in 1947 of cancer. He left the world a better place. Laguardia the  the stars and stripes up 13