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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
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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
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Handicapped
ave carried the
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