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LEWIS Parlor Phone Wilmette 3552 | SMALL BEGS CLABAUGH TO ACCEPT PAROLE JOB Purpose Is to Serve Illinois; Cla- baugh Has Served Sixteen Years With Government By LESTER B. COLBY (Illinois Chamber of Commerce) Hinton G. Clabaugh of Winnetka is very jealous of two things that have gone into his life's record. One is that he has always "toted fair." The other is that he has never taken an off-color dime. I know that one time when a powerful organization brought pressure upon him to gain official fa- vors he replied: "Money dosen't have to pass; there are other forms of graft." And it wasn't done. I know that Hinton G. Clabaugh, the new head of the Illinois Prison pa- role board, sighed a sigh of relief when he stepped out of government service. I know he didn't want to go back to anything like it. I know that Gover- nor Small had to do some powerful pleading to get him into this sort of work again. There is no politics in this series of articles. I would not write them if I thought politics might be suspected. The Illinois Chamber of Commerce is not in politics. Mr. Clabaugh is not in politics. If when this article is done any readed can judge, by reading, whether I am for or against Len Small, it will be my belief that I have failed in my motive. But one purpose enters here--to serve Illinois. When Governor Small and Mr. Clabaugh sat down to discuss the posi- tion, the latter told the governor that under no conditions would he consider the post. They talked for three hours. I do not know all they said and the following may be considered only a brief summary of the conversation. Dosen't Want Post Though I use quotations I do not mean that what I present is verbatim. It is merely the meat in the nut, a skeleton of what they said. "Please don't ask me to do this," said Mr. Clabaugh. "I've served my time, sixteen years with the govern- ment. They were hard years; years of sacrifice. The pay was little, not enough to get along on. I'm just get- ting on my feet. I owe something to my family. Get someone else." "But you know the business. You understand. I've looked everywhere and all the trails lead to you. You are the man," was the governor's re- ply. And then Governor Small went into the charges that had been made against his office, the bitterness, the heartbreak of it and he ended up with: "There may be reasons why some were afraid to make the facts known in some cases for which IT was blamed. I'm no longer young. I need help. Illinois needs help. The situation is critical. My enemies howl and my friends are afraid. I have come to realize that after all, I am responsible for the acts of my appointees." And then the governor uttered the classic plea that brought action from Clabaugh. It was: "People hold me accountable for the evils that have grown up. If I go to men like you, who could help me remedy them, men I can trust, and vou all turn me down, one after the other, then can vou hold me, the governor, to blame?" "That is the only argument you have given me that makes me stop and think," replied Mr. -Clabaugh. "I'll consider it." Clabaugh advised with his friends. Almost with one accord, they pointed out the grief, the unending grief. "I've been through grief before," he replied. The newspapers got hold of the story. They pointed out that it was a hard and difficult job but not one of them in any way cast doubt upon Clabaugh's integrity. Governor Makes Pledge "If one of them had, I think Td have turned the job down," he told me. "I wouldn't think of taking it if rocks were thrown in my path. I wouldn't touch it if politics entered. I told Governor Small, plainly, that I knew none of his political friends; that I would have nothing to do with any- thing political." "This is not a political job," said Governor Small. And right there he made his pledge that any political office holder in the state who inter- fered would be discharged if it is in the governor's power to discharge him. He said this is a job involving the lib- erty of huma=z beings and the pro- tection of society. "I will not em- barrass you by even asking you your politics," he added. Governor Small went to Mr. Sam- uel Insull, M3. Clabaugh's employer. They held conference. Mr. Insull called Mr. Clabaugh in and they went over it together. They talked of the trouble and grief it would bring. "What is your re-action to it?" asked Mr. Insull. "All worth-while jobs bring grief," said Mr. Clabaugh. "I've had plenty of it. IT know what it is." Then Mr. Insull shook his hand and told him to go to it and God bless him. 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