MINORITIES IN NEW YORK

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23703, 10 January 1939, Page 16

MINORITIES IN NEW YORK

"It would be a mistake of interpretation,” said Mr Alistair Cooke, in a recent 8.8. C. broadcast, “to say New York has its minorities. So it has. But the majority of New York is made from these mingled minorities. The minority districts spill over and give their best and worst to every street in town. Ten days ago the winning New York team of baseball plavers, who won the national championship and who are to-day the heroes of the country, was composed as follows; Crosetti. Rolfe, Heinrich, DiMaggio. Gehrig. Dickey. Selkirk, Gordon. Gomez. A brilliant American from the poorest street of Little Italy recently went to the poll for the office of Lieu-tenant-governor of New York. He is an American—and his name is Poletti. Fifty yards from my frorlt door is a cheerful man who keeps a stationery store. He is American in his thoughts, his voice, his ways of living. His name is Mr O’Byrne De Witt. It is fairly safe to say that if New Yorkers believed you could only live in peace with your own kind. New York would collapse at midnight in blood and anarchy.”__