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Chicago 111. Association Building.
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New York 850 Madison Avenuo-
New York Blamed for Chicago’s
Crimes
The Betimes law which is rapidly eliminating the
criminal elements in New York is responsible for the
Increased number of crimes in Chicago according to
Chicago police who claim that the exodus of crim-
inals from New York City has resulted in a great in-
crease in the criminal population of Chicago. “Thous-
ands of criminals from New York are now in Chicago”
a police captain is uoted as stating “and they feel
secure in the knowledge that under the Illinois law
they have the opportunity to pursue their criminal
practices without danger of serious punishment.”
On July 1 1926. an amended criminal code came
into force in New York State. It had long gleaming
wicked fangs. It raised the penalty for robbery to a
minimum of fifteen years and prohibited parole be-
fore the twelfth year; if the criminal was armed while
committing a felony the new law added from five to
twenty-five years to his sentence; habitual criminals
those committing four or more felonies were given
life sentences—and the new law compelled th • Judges
to pronounce the sentences. Nor can parole boards re-
duce a life sentence under the new law. In New York
State the criminal today can’t leave prison in eight
months despite a five-year sentence. He's got to pay
for his misdeeds and he knows it.
The day before the new law became effective
thirty habitual criminals out on hail rushed into
court and begged to be allowed to plead guilty! After
the law was In force major crimes dropped H per
cent chain-store cigar-store restaurant and jewelry
hold-ups decreased from 70 to 95 per cent. On a
Monday in September not one crime was reported to
the New York City police in twenty-four hours the
first time in eighty years that a total crimeless day
had occurred.
It wasn’t the severity of the new scale of punish-
ment that did it. The real effect was produced by
the criminal’s knowledge that pull and delay could no
longed keep him out or get him out of the peniten-
tiary. He knew he would ha\> to pay therefore he
left the State or quit the hold-up business.
It’s time for the Western snd Southern States to
qpact similar legislation if they do not want a swarm
of New Yonc gunmen to find hospitable asylum in the
wide open spaces.
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Economy With Progress
More than 11.120000000 will be spent for Amer-
ican roads this year. This will include the building of
£6841 miles of standard highways many large bridges
and a constantly growing system of market and aux-
iliary roads. Eight states will build more than 1.000
miles each; Kansas leading with t.RM miles and Wis-
consin second with 1.564 miles.
The people deride whether their road taxes shall
be high or low—first by the amount of money they
vote; second by its businesslike expenditure for road
building purposes.
Probably in no section of the United State* have
taxpayers received mot? for their money than in
Marion County Oregon. This county ha* maintained
a businesslike road policy for years with the result
that nractically every mile of road is paxed or rocked.
*’ The modern tractor and road building machinery have
made road work r0!*>ble which would have been out
of the question under the old-fashioned horse and hand
methods.
In paving roads. Marion County ha* utilized prac-
tically every mile of its old rock road base by covering
It with a suitable wearing course of asphaltic con-
crete. Permanent concrete culverts and bridges have
been installed and the taxpayers have been given a
practical road system built on a business basis at a
fraction of what the cost would have been in the
same roads had been built on an experimental political
' basis. The result has been progress with tax economy
instead of progress with tax wastefulness.
Oftk®ir Pamirs
NEW8PAPER9 AND CRIME
(Hartford Courant!
A subcommittee of the New York State Crime
’ Commission has made public a finding on “The Re-
lation of the Daily Dress to Crime and the Adminis-
tiation of Justice.” As miVht be expected it reaches
rc definite conclusion as to whether crime Is pro-
motes! by the lavish publication of the detail* of
crime: It says though:
“Even the moat ardent lover of freedom will ques-
tion the lengths to which New York newspaper* have
gone in publishing such cases as the Browning di-
vorce suit and the Hall-Mills trial. 1 his is a pla.n
case of public morals and approaches only indirectly
the responsibilities of the New Tork * rime < ommis-
aion.”
It also criticises and rightfully we think the im-
pression created by borne newspapers that Gerald
i Chapman was a super-bandit and possessed an intel-
ligence superior to that of the average person- Yet
It might be pleaded by the newspaper* that counsel
on both aide* aided in fostering that impression; ths
state guarding him a* if armed legion* might appear
at any moment to carry him away and the defense
by its effort* on .the one hand to call attention to
* the guard and. on the other to foster the impression
that Chapman was wonderfully intelligent.
The Browning case was one for the psychologists
•ad we think little of it should have been printed
but the Hall-Mills esse was human. was dramatic
and warranted what space the papers ga\e it TTsrdly
more than a fortnight ago a bishop told a congrega-
tion in thio city that though he rarely read the de-
tails of a murder trial he read those in the Hall-
Vill* case bocause he knew the principal*. He might
have added that the case involved much the same
motives as are found in the dealings of King David
with Uriah the Hittite
W# have ns to gleai tfeg caufi of t£e MS
^ork tabloids but we see no reason why newspapers
should not give uncolorcd particulars of crime when
it becomes necessary. That we conceive is a part
of the day's work for any newspaper.
By FRANK O. LOWDEN.
Former Governor of Illinois.
/Frank Orren Lowden was born at Sunrise City
Minn. January 26 1861. He was elected to the
fifty-rinth Congress for an unexpired term from
the thirteenth Illinois district in 1906 and was re-
elected to the sixtieth and sixty-first Congresses.
In 1917 he became governor of the state of Illi-
nois leaving office in 1921. In 1926 was elected
president of the International Press Foundation.
He is a member of the National Crime Commission.
During the Spanish-American war Lowden served
as Lieutenant-Colonel of the First Infantry Illi-
nois National Gunrd )
There is no other part of the American machinery i
for criminal justice on which there are such varying 1
opinions in different parts of the country as the
vexed question of pardons probation penal laws and i
institutional correction which is
the subject assigned to my com-
mittee by the National Crime
Commission and on no other
subject connected with the reduc-
tion of crime will a thorough im-
partial investigation and analysis
of the widely varying laws and
their results as worked out in ac-
tual prace be more useful in
clarifying the problem.
It is evident that the methods
which have been tried have not
brought the results that were ex
S=-—- — -J peeled. Whether this is due to in-
O herent fault in the method or to
evils of administration in particular instances can only
be determined by a nation-wide study by men peculiar-
ly competent to deal with the question. To what ex-
tent and under what conditions the “repeater” can be
made a useful citizen can only be determined by nde
quate knowledge of the facts not in any one stale but
in all the states.
The “repeater” forms a large fraction of the num-
ber who commit climes of violence in the United
States each year. Wide attention has been attracted
to the new laws of the state of New York which af-
ter giving him an opportunity to reform finally sen-
tences him to life imprisonment as an incorrigible
offender. The wisdom and justice of this measure
has been the subject of fierce and bitter debate in al-
most every state legislatur this past winter.
Ctf/7£/ss £ Pje/scaeJL.
EXPENSIVE DEPENDENTS
You didn't get exemption for all of your depend-
ents when you paid your income tax. And whether
you pay tax directly or not you have to contribute
to the support of some very expensive and extrava-
gant dependents. If you work eight hours a day four
hours of your labor is given to the rats. These tire-
less sneaking rodents are the most unreasonable de-
pendents that we have. They produce nothing hut
they destroy half of what we produce.
For n thousand years at least rats have seriously
interfered with the labors of men. Many of the folk
tales that come down to Us from the early races of
n en are concerned with the people’s fear of rats. And
in later times we have the story of the Pied Piper who
cculd charm away the rats of Hamelin with his won-
derful music. There is also the story of Dick Whit-
tington whose cat transported to a land overrun
with rats made a fortune for his poor but honest
master.
• . • .
Does it not seem strange that men who have learn-
ed to fly through the air like meteors and can talk
aiound the earth without raising their voices above an
oidinary tone should submit with apparent meekness
to a humiliating slavery to a nasty little animal that
nobody likes? Indeed this tragedy is one of the
most mysterious of all the incomprehensible features
of the wonderful story of the rise of man.
Rats are not like disease germs too small to see.
They are just about the right sue to be easily seen
and effectively coped with. They are stupid animals
not strong not cunning not wise and almost every-
one knows their habits their hiding places and their
weaknesses. They are easy to kill. They can be
shot drowned poisoned gassed trapped and starved
without the exercise of great ingenuity. Yet they
continue to devour by day and by night the food for
which millions of humans are always hungry.
The only reason why the human race has toler-
ated the rats until now is that mankind never has
taken it into its head seriously to ccoperate in well-
planned warfare against the rodents.
Dimmer Stories
AN EASY WAY OUT
During an exnminntion Jimmy came across a
question that absolutely floored him.
“If one horse” it ran. “can run a mile in a min-
ute and a half and another is able to do the same
distance in two minutes how far ahead would the first
herse he if the two horses ran a race of two miles at
their respective speeds?”
At last a bright ;dea struck him. He returned the
paper with the query unanswered but with the fol-
lowing comment:
”! refuse to have anything to do with horse-rac-
ing.”
THAT DEPENDS!
“What is the rent of this room including the use
of the piano?' inquired the long-haired one.
"Well." suggested the landlady “perhaps you’d
be so good as to play me something first."
KNOWS HIS TAVERNS
“There’s a wonderful echo about here” said the i
guide to the man who was walking m the Lake Dist-
rict “but you ha.-e to shout very loud. Now. you just
yell. ‘Two pint* of beer!* ”
"I hear no echo.” said he.
“Oh. well.” said the guide “here comes the inn- j
j keeper with our beer anyway."
CONSERVATIVE
I “Isn’t Bessie a sweet old-fashtoned girl?*’
“Yes. indeed! She won’t have anything to do
with these new dances.”
“No. indeed! She told me. ‘The ( ftarleston was
good enough for mv mother «n 1 g«e«« it’« poo-i 1
enough fnr m?’-”
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__B/ CMAPLES P STEWABT_
NEW LIFE FOR SEN \TE PROBERS
A RESULT OF DAWES’ DECISION
Exclusive Central Press Dispatch to
The Brownsville Herald.
WASHINGTON. A| r. It. Now that
\ ice-President Charles G. Dawes has
breathed the breath of what may
prove to be eternal life into Senator
Jim Reed's slush fund investigating
committee. Reed's expected back in
Washington as soon as he can get
away from the Ford-Sapiro trial to
begin making the most of his oppor-
tunity.
The way Reed fought to keep that
committee alive just before congress
adjourned and the corres: ending fury
with which the other side fought to
chloroform it. suggest that its subse-
quent activities promise -or threat-
en still worse revelations than its
past ones.
The committee has raised Cain thus
far mainly in connection with the
lyin'. Republican senatorial primaries
and the subsequent elections in Illi-
nois and Pennsylvania.
However there are plenty of other
states to be delved into and earlier
elections too and it may be later
ones.
• • •
The committee literally the way
Dawes has fixed it is in a position
to trn on forever if it chooses.
It was a creation of the fifth con-
gre- which ended last March and
promptly proceeded to devote itself
principal!} to ripping Senator-elect
Frank I.. Smith of Illinois up his po-
litical back and to lifting the politico!
scalp of Senator-elect William S
Yare of Pennsylvania.
It’s pertty generally agreed that
Reed accomplished these two objects
though the final verdict won't be an-
nounced until the senate hn< held an
by .
Mas <
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ViNCtAT; V*
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THE WIND BE\KS \ WARNING
chipmunk was quite as all-of-a*
sudden c hap as any of the other folks
of the field and forest whom tha
boy had met and without another
word away he started. Darting
down th-s fence post he frisked over
the ground so fast that Peter who
had crawled through the fence
found it altogether impossible to
keep up with him. But Peter re*
iremb»red Chipmunk's advice “keep
your eye on ray tail" So running af-
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ter him as quickly as he could with-
out getting out of breath he man-
aged to keep Mr. Taniiaa tn fight.
Suddenly Chipmunk halted and sat
seif upright turning his head first
thi* day then that. Peter never slop-
ped however but hurried straight on
and when he had come up to where
his friend was. the little red elf
was running about in circles. h:«
sharp nose to the ground.
“What in the a. rid e you d irur.
Chipmunk? Looking for food? The
earth * |»erfertly bare here and I
don’t >ee a th.ng. Hid you think you
scented a berry or an. apple or
something? Shall i help you look?"
Peter would have gotten down on
hi# hand# und knee# to aid in the
search for food but C hipmunk stop-
1 ped him.
“t-mf! Snif! Snif I smell old
I Cutie Fo!" cried < hipmunk and Pe-
! ter could hear the red elf# teeth
' chattering with fright. “I wish it
was food that I scented—nothing to
worry about then- but the odor is
far different- I can feel the fur
rising on my back. Unless I am
very much mistaken Fox but recent-
ly passed thi# way and there is no
telling when he may be back. Ugh!
The scent growing stronger. Fox
must be hunting down-wind.” *.
Ju#t what Chipmunk meant the
boy had no id n but he didn't think
this way any time to ask questions
so he held his tongue. Then Chip-
munt sat up. his nose pointed sky-
ward. hi# small ear# erect and al-
though Peter could see his body
shaking the brave little red elf re-
mained in that position for almost
a minute.
‘•Just as 1 thought.” chattered
Chipmunk at last. “C'utie Fox i# on
my tt^il. but he is stalking me from
the wrong direction. The wind i#
bringing his scent to me instead of
carrying it away. There is no mis-
taking it! Hear old wind. Many's the
time it has proved my best friend!
Follow me. boy and run for your
life. If Fox spies you he will not
take time to see that you have but
tw o leg* instead of four. He w ill
fall upon you. W<- have time to
escape but no moment* to waste. I
am head.ng for my home. Fox is
too big to pursue me through the
door and once in the burrow we
•hall be safe. Were it Willy Wea-
sel. now I would fool him and go
another way. Run as you never ran
before.”
All four feet left the ground and
with a leap that earn'd him many
feet Chipmur.g was off on the home
-tfetrh. bounding over the ground
at a spe d that amazed the boy.
Mow Peter might have grown up to
boy’* size in the twinkling of an
eye had he wished to. bue he thought
\^hat a chance for an adventure was
this and h< decided to remain small
and to seek safety in the Chip-
munk’* home- A- fast a* he could
tear Peter raced after Chipmunk
Good gracious where had the fel-
low got**! Ah. there he was on the
other ride of that fallen log. He
must be near home. Why had he
't©o*»ed? What was he saving?
“Hurry! Hurrv! Two-legs. Thi«
way in’ Cqtie Fox is almost upon
vow’” eviprnunk cned his warning
as shnllv as h» could and frantically
ws ed hi* bushy fa.! a: Peter.
Next: “Mr. Fox Is Foiled." 1
inquest over Smith's and Vare'n re-
mains if any next December.
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Unfortunately as Reed viewed it
he and his fellow committeemen were
kept so busy with the Smith and
Vare cases up to the time that the 1
fifth congress expired that they
hadn’t had much chance to deal with
other eligibles.
“Therefore" said Reed “the com-
mittee will have to go on with it'
work after adjournment. Several1
more backs arc marked for the rip-i
ping up process and several more1
scalps are ripe to be lifted."
And he introduced a resolution ex- J
tending the committee's lift* indefi-1
nitely.
“Oh no." rejoined a group of sen-
ators who were getting sick of it
and they filibustered the Reed resolu-
tion to death. That i they didn’t
allow it ’ > come to a vote and it went
into the discard with the fifth con-
gress.
• • •
’’Veil” said Reed " a senate com-
mittee’:- a permanent in>t tut'on any-
way. That resolution would have
been nice but it wasn't necessary.”
"It was. too” in. i led the success-
ful filihusu "Y<»ur committee;
extinct. A Committee quits when
congress does.
This is trie of a house of repre-
sentatives’ committee f» r an entir -
ly fresh lower house is olecte:! for
each succeeding rur.grt s. The rep-
resentatives’ terms all begin togeth-
er and end together and w hen their
terms end naturally their committees
end.
But the senate’s what's known as
a "continuing body.” Only a third
of it;- members* terms expire at a
clatter. The others hold over. Con-
sequently the senate never dies.
Query: What then becomes of its
committees ?
• • •
It was a point for Dawes to decide
as presiding officer of the senate.
After thinking the mutter over
carefully Dave has ruled for Reed
let the senate once create a com-
mittee. and until that committee gets
ready the senate can’t get rid of it.
It's personnel may change—Senator
fluff did in fact resign from the
j slush fund committee and Dawes
[ named Senator Fens in his place but
: scnatonally speaking. It's the same
old committee.
Behold a senate Frankenstein!
WOMAN SMOKER SO y EARS
N'l XKATON. Eng.- Mrs. Virtue
Wilson who died at the age of »6.
I had smoked a pipe for 50 years
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W m. I’enn—3 cents—A tood Cigar
Eastman Kodaks
and moving picture
cina Kodaks and
films.
R. L. LACKNER
Jeweler
1103 Elizabeth
Phone 641
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by
Mr*. Ruby Hurd of San Antonio
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But dignity is not authority—nor is it akin to
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