THE CENTRE REPO Calla Cop » By Charles Francis Coe Eminent Criminologist and Author of “Mr. %* # Gangster,” “Swag,” Votes” + + + and other startling crime stories. THE REMEDY FOR IT ALL ARTICLE No. 3 N A recent notorious case three grand juries were conducting sep- arate investigations of the same crime. Three prosecutors were seek- ing solution of the crime and convie- tion of the same eriminal. Three state governments were trying to find what they ought to do about it. During this time the criminal was Hving a riotous life on the proceeds of his endeavors. That is not unusual, but it is ridiculous. The cost is be yond all sense and reason. It is as criminal as the crime under investi- gation, A man shot a man in New York. He dragged the body to New Jersey and dumped it there. Then he dashed to Delaware to hide out. They found him there. Three investigations were begun to determine what to do with him and where to do it. Two extra- ditions were necessary to bring the killer to trial. Mounting taxes and in- finite delay for offended society! That is a simple case. Take any three states and counties. and the same would be true, All this abets the criminal. He runs to another state solely to accomplish the very delay that accrues. While juries meditate what to do shyster lawyers produce a habeas corpus and the criminal has flown the coop before there is any legal instru- ment to hold him. This was all too frequently true when the killi was & gang one and the habeas financed by millions in bootleg money. It is equally all too true that the prosperity and safety of the criminal have been predicated upon his money and its eorruptive power. Legal technicalities have served to liberate many a killer, and those technicalities have been discovered and allowed only because of influence. The connection between the poliee and the criminal Is the most disas trons faced by society. Perfect it and society Is utterly defenseless. It has come to its greatest fruition under prohibition because of lack of 8ym- pathy for the law and the ease with which millions have trickled into un- worthy palms. The always has it on the police who have taken bribes. They have it on prosecutors seeking re-election and Judges de pendent upon the same thing. It has made a vicious circle, Well-planned murder is almost im- possible and convict. This is due to the planning and the appar ent lack of motive In people who had opportunity to kill. We know the and the source murder but we cannot prove them in court. So murder becomes easy. It was easy be cause of this connection between the law the law-breaker. Such con nections are Inevitable In great cities with laws like prohibition battering at the foundations of honest enforce ment, Now how break up that connection? With box turned racketeers and kidnapers, how handle them? The kidnaping will nway because no n protect it long. The rack. eteering will continue because busi- ness finds it cheaper to pay tribute thao to risk life and property fight. ing. Yet we must break up the rack- ets, It Is my Judgment that federal ac tion is the only solution. Uncle Sam with his arm can reach over extraditions. He ean batter down al lance between law and erime. He can step into a city and demand the facts. He can do that because he will not long remain In any one city. Not long enough for his officers to get tangled In the web of dirty money that flows In the urban streets of America. The federal officer may not be more honest inherently than the local ene. But he has an esprit de corps which only passing contact with local con- ditions never can shatter. I favor a national police force for eriminal Investigation and prosecu- tion. 1 feel that the people of the country soon will be forced to demand it. America’s great cities have dou. bled police forces in the last 30 years, and the crime rates have Increased twice as much as the police! I see no need of county govern. ments. They are an expense, a cum- bersome method of maintaining po- litical patronage, and generally a hindrance to direct and economical government. Why the city or village should arrest a man for crime, only to have him tried by the county and imprisoned by the state, I shall never understand. If I rely upon political surveys by purveyors of political patronage, of course I might see a good reason for such round-about methods. But I do not rely upon those, That Is a political chicanery which long since has perished in the minds of a tax-burdened, ecrime-rid- den people, If every city In the United States did away with its criminal fnvestiga- tion police and turned that function over to the federal government, I be lleve crime would be reduced to its minimum in very brief time. If cities handled traffic, protected life and property and policed as the uniformed force generally does, there would be no Important corruption. If, when major criminal offenses were recorded in any city, the federal government gave that city three days to appre criminal to detect nay cause of and tleggers die one ca lane IONE hend the criminal, then, that falling, took over the investigation itself, there could be no corruption that would revert to destruction af honest Investigation and expeditious solution of crime, What is more, I believe that day will come. on President | orders from Washington. have at thelr fingertips a complete international = identification tillon measurements. Use, In fact, ev- tion. tasks of solution laid And more than vidual their shoulders. a wisp of smoke. Crime will be against soclety, a politically-controlled organization dependent for a living upon the votes of a few communities. Crime will be a high menace to the decency of life, the administration of business and the sanctity of the home. It will be treated as such. Then solution will be sure in the vast majority of cases. Then prosecution will be genuine and speedy and efficacious. Then a change of will temper justice with mercy and “mercenary” with justice. Until then the country will stagger along under. ever-increasing police and prosecution costs. It will carry the endless burden of county bonds and county taxes. And by every indieca- tion, crime will constantly increase. How many of America's great cities are solvent today? Why? America, the most outrageous murder rate ever known to a civilized land, Is in my judgment, the most law- ion on earth. This is true Se America stands for more ridie venue with abiding ns becan ulous and polit} any mde laws than other hnleal legal legalized ex lized to such Xpressions are the fruit of ox law-maker stifyir weir own istence. They hb an extent that their co SUCCESS is the rout of common equity and av erage Strictly speak- in free ve Dec] ive i ste comprehension. in not a American is from the taint of criminal activity. He may speed In his motor ear. A crime! He may not sound his horn. At nay run a wire to light his chicken coop and forget that he for a permit. A erime! I could go on forever. A ns of and the greatest of have not slightest idea of most of them, nor their import. A favorite court procedure is to face a gitoation requiring adjudication, then cast back as far as necessary for a by which to judge it. In this when the machine and sclence altered the course of human life, legal lights fre quently back for precedent to the of men who never dreamed of a horseless carriage, who read by the lig of a tallow bathed in an iron tub, let their teeth decay as the years passed, and because it traveled 25 miles an hour damned the railroad train as a the for the single should laws govern Americans f the legal minds the precedent age, and invention have whole cast Judgment rht candle, device of of man. This must pass. America will throw off this yoke of archale habit. The people, fed up with Main street mur- ders, {di legal subterfuges and outright corruption, will assert them- selves. They will put a direct ques tlon. They will want and they wii! get a direct answer You be entirely safe in prognostication that when they get it it will come from one no less than Uncle Sam himself, beard of that gentleman bristles with indignation and his biceps writhe for a whack at the desperado who Is the national problem and the International disgrace, things will hap- pen. Not until then! Scotland Yard offers a lot America can learn. Half as efficient as the New York police, it is twice as effec tive. Mussolini offers a ponderable thought to Americans. Undertaking government when his country was devil destruction ntl ingiie the will mighty deliverance, he has cleaned it up, pols ished it, renewed its publie pride. He offers it as a sample of what cen- tralized power can do when It comes to decapitating a In Ignorance, nurtured of murder, trained on the milk to the tened upon the lethargic and some- of their local governing functions. uratively, wear striped trousers, a cop who will American business and home life, will be Uncle Sam, (©. 1831, by North American Newspaper Alliance, Ine~WNU Service.) Short-Term Senator The membership of the senate is vided into thirds so that one-third ex- pires every two years. When a sen ator dies or resigns leaving an unex- pired term, his successor is appointed or elected only for the remainder of the term. This Is referred to as a short term. Sometimes it may happen that at the November election a can- didate Is running for election for the short term which would have lasted until Inauguration day, and either he or some other eandidate would be run. ning for the long term which would last for six years beginning with the following term. Nearly two centurles ago, July 14, 1750, there was born In Ireland nl hoy destined to become a big busi- | ness man, to represent two of onr | states in congress and to cast the deciding vote for a President of the | then unthought-of United States of | America, Mary Gilbert Smith writes. in the Boston Globe, His father, a member of a prom. | inent family, was executed for his | part In the White Boys’ Insurree. | tion. His mother married again. | Young Matthew Lyon, studious and | enterprising, was well treated by his | stepfather, who was proud and fond of the boy, But he had heard of the strange | new land beyond the seas nnd longed to try his fortunes there, One morn. | ing when he was fourteen he har. | gained with a sea captain to carry him to the province of Connect] i icut In return for his services as cabin boy. He had a guinea which he had saved from his pocket money, and he gave this to the eapinin for safe keeping. | The captain hid him in the hold. sn | that no one would find him hefore the vessel sailed, and took the precaution Had he not done so, adventure to Inck him in voung Matthew's would ied that stepfather came gee have en mornin When him, and ealled to him effecting same his the Iad wonld have responded a had locked door, When they reached strayed the bov's trust he not heen restrained Connecticut into service as who naid ¥ world hy serving ’ f R number of ns ng-servyants for year Fortunatels services were secured by Jaher Ba for young Matthew, his : con, one of the wealthles merchants In Connecticut; he was worth half a million when he died—a vast sum for those early days. His example and precepts did much to set the ambi- tious boy on his way. Trade at that time was largely by barter, Jacon Rave a yoke of oxen for Lyon's serv. In after years when the young Irishman was a eandidate for office this Iovecldent was distorted by his political opponents to show that he was of low origin and unfit to he n representative In congress Lyon never apologized for the manner of of the deception that had been prac ticed upon him. of. deemed me” and he did, to beat his opponents— a book published in London ‘in 1707, says in part: “Fair Haven foins Whitehall, N. flourishing state, It its on Skenesbor ough (now the most the to Ww he Ki town in its con Colonel OWES sequence Lyon, founder, and and enterprise perge promoting carrying ifactories has been of Inf kinds of ho ex, a slit can be more qualified to do $0, as his knowledge of the finances and sit- uation of the country lg scarcely to be equaled, nor does his integrity ever suffer him to lose sizhi of the real good of the people. His friend- ship and gererosity are as great as his ambition. His passions snd ali his pursuits are exerted for the ben. efit of mankind.” Zenas H. Ellis of Fair Haven, who lives in the old Matthew Lyon home, has gathered a notable collection of Colonial relies, including a copy of the above-mentioned book and one of Franklin's autobiography. “Together with Essays Humorous, Moral and Literary, chiefly in the manner of the Spectator. Printed and sold by J. Lyon, Fair Haven, Vt, 1708." James Lyon was the eldest son of Col. Matthew Lyon. The book is printed on paper made in Colonel Lyon's mill’ and bound In It was James Lyon who nublished Falr Haven the paper in John Lyons’ arrest President which caused Colonel Imprisonment jall at election, but at Vergennes He was in congressional bis a major con stituents rolled ity for him that wns released to return to The Iargest crowd assembled in Vermont up so large he CONEreRs, He ar ve vote fdays sped him on his way rived in time to cast the decisi ade Thomas Jefferson and from he ned to congress, sranilp— in Pest Extermination Several years ago the writer made some preliminary tests on small quantities of Infested wheat with a view to determining If radio methods could be effectively used to extermi- nate the eggs and larval forms which may be concealed within the mate- rial, as well as the adult insects, Thirty and six-meter waves were used, the former of low capacity and the latter of high capacity. The 30 meter low-capncity waves were effec. tive In exterminating adult insects in small quantities of wheat within a period of about 90 seconds, but the eggs later hatched out. With the 20- kilowatt, 6-meter waves. an exposure of six seconds was sufficlent to ex. terminate eggs, larvae and adults The testing plant has been in oper- ation for a year and many kinds of flower and garden seeds. spices, nuts, heans, peas, cocon beans, tobacco, 80 on, Results of the work indi in all from eggs minated ger. ng properties of grain, or ap- affecting the moisture econ. tent, 3 ithout adversely the od value, are atine writer's } that research weevils dey elopment, adults, ean stages of their to be exter. without injury to the affecting There gern ir und other seeds treated indica- tions proper. ties of whent may be enhance Worms nites and ther infesta- ices, tobacco, 180 on, can injury to Where the Handicapped ave carried the iers, but he it neve going on there Ln - MILEAGE because eV Pm OA oy 4 ty Bi J 4 4 Las 3 | a.50.21. $6.30 47519. 8.70 5.00.19. 7.20 — SIZE PRICE SIZE | 4.75.19 | 5.00.19 | 5.25.18 . $8.40 6.00.18 . . . 6.00-19 H.D, 6.50-19 H. D. Firestone has tractors which instant] perfected a makes them pneumatic tire for farm an all ! machine, purpose increase the drawbar TIRES - TUBES be changed over. LL NAME and EE — - SEN 5.25.18. 5.50.18 8.1 9. 4.75-19 5.00.19. $.48)5.50.18_ Other Sires Pruportionsiely Low Quality and 1 TT Yet Priced a LOW as Ad LEY COURIER TYPE | i 23%. $3.45 4.5021. $4.28 : 4.40.21. 3.60{4.75-19. 4.05 BRAKE LINING SI§°
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