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EDITORIAL
THE FORT WORTH PRESS
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14,1981
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“Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way"
A Thought for Today
TT IS BETTER to dwell in the wilderness
I then with a contentious and an angry wom-
an.- Proverbs 21:19. •
** * •
Most of their faults women owe to us,
whilst we are indebted to them for most of
our better qualities.—Charles Lemesle.
A Bigger Navy
"NJAVAL CUT of $59,000,000 Announced By
IV President.". So run the headlines. "One .
Year Naval Building Truce Announced By Sec-
rotary Stimson." So.run other headlines. And
- "Navy League Charges Hoover Ruins Navy;
Pacifists Defend Hoover's Naval Economy.'r
From these and similar headlines, doubtless
the average citizen has the idea that the Amer
ican navy is being reduced, if indeed it is not |
already on ita last legs.
To keep the record straight, we beg to re-
and navy resented profoundly that some men
should be made to die for a dollar a day, or
live on, crippled, with even less, while other
men reaped a harvest of gold from the ground
fertilized with their blood.
Today we still talk of taking profit out of
war, but listlessly, without conviction.
A committee of Congress recommended In
1921, while war was still real to us, that it be
made treasonable— therefore punishable by
death—to profit from war.
Now another committee of Congress and
cabinet members has completed a study of war
profits which presents a strikingly different
picture. It concerned itself principallywith
the extent of possible profits—limiting them
to six or perhaps seven per cent. It exhibits
deep respect for the due compensation clause
of the constitution. *
Will it take another war to make us feel
deeply on this question again? Must we wait
till we sit, despairingly, in a sea of blood and
death before we will grow angry enough, de-
termined enough, to really end war profits?
It is not that the matter is so difficult of
solution. The railroads made no profits during
the war. They did perform our war demands
efficiently,1
We know how to take profit out of war.
We know, and if we care enough we can.
The War Policies Commission should recom-
mend to Congress adequate, wholehearted ac-
tion to take the profits out of war.
Another Dry Reform
WHILE THE country flows with bootleg
TV liquor which the government Is powerless
to stop, and while the Washington administra-
tion adds to the liquor flow by subsidizing wine
products, the government announces that It will
dry up at least one source of alcohol.
No reader could guess what this latest con-
tribution to prohibition enforcement is. Let
the official order describe the reform in its
own words:
—On and after December 31, 1931, no fur-
ther withdrawals of intoxicating liquors will
be authorized for use In the manufacture of
I candy ... All new applications for permits
to use intoxicating liquors in candy and con-
| fectionery should be disapproved, and the
reason therefor given as above."
We have long since given up prophecies re.
. port that such is not the case. On the con-
trary, the navy is large and growing. ' The |
naval personnel is not being reduced. And
far from stopping naval construction for econ-
omy purposes, the new Hoover budget calls
for an increase.
That much advertised cut of $59,000,000
represents nothing more serious than juggling
with figures. It is merely the difference be-
tween what the Navy Department originally
proposed to ask for next year and what it
actually asks. Since it always puts Its original
garding any phase of prohibition—the results
are always so much worse than we fear, that
our prophecies look silly. But in this case
we are sorely tempted to prophesy that the
crime wave will not be greatly reduced by de-
•priving candy addicts of one-hundredth of one
per cent of a thimble full of liquor, and that
the morals of the nation will not be appre
clably improved by removing the drop of
brandy from the holiday plum pudding.
RELIEF
The situation is like
the weather, in that
■ everybody is talking
about it and nobody do-
ing anything of perma-
nent significance.
A Good Beginning!
TRACY
SAYS—
There are no irrevoc-
able standards by which
to measure crime, much
less its treatment. We
make them as we go
along.
SATU
IF
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Sin
proposals high, like every other department,
those bargaining figures mean nothing.
After publicity was given to that juggling
of figures, the government issued a new figure
which lowered the alleged saving from $59,-
000,009 to $17,000,000, That $17,000,000 is
the difference between this year's appropriation
and the new budget request of $343,000,000
for next year.
In boasting of. this alleged economy, how-
ever, the administration forgot to mention that
convenient thing known as "the deficiency ap-
propriation bill." Each year the navy usually
has two. Last year the total deficiency naval
appropriations above the budget was $17,400,-
000.
Based upon that experience, the total navy .
appropriations next year therefore will not be
less than this year but at least $400,000 more
than this year.
Fowl Fordization
THE PROSPECTIVE Increase is even larger
1 than the figures indicate, because the drop
in the cost of materials and in the cost of food
and clothing for personnel will leave many
millions of dollars more to spend, a
There were two places in which Hoover had
been expected to save naval appropriations to
meet the federal deficit. One was the closing
of certain so-called political' navy yards—as at
Boston and Charleston—which naval officers
have long agreed are not needed, but which
survive thru political pressure. The President
has now succumbed to that political pressure,
and the useless navy yards will continue to in-
crease the federal deficit.
i The other expected economy was in new
ships. In view of the deficit, the alleged In-
ternational naval building truce and the Feb-
ruary disarmament conference, it was supposed
that Hoover would postpone until after Rebru-
THE DROWSY cackle of contented hens soon
1 may be heard no more thruout the land.
| The scientific age has decreed an end to the
afternoon siesta in languid dust-bath, to beauty
naps and gossip fests, to feathered flirting and
strutting and loafing. The great American
speed-up system has hit the egg-laying indus-
try with a bang. ,
According to the U. S. Department of Agri-
| culture, American hens and pullets, altho fewer
in number by 6.2 per cent than a year ago,
yet produce more eggs. On Oct. 1, 26.2 eggs
were being laid by every 100 of these Ford-
factory lady chickens as compared with 24.8
eggs on the same date a year ago and with
1 25.8 eggs on that date for the average of five
years. Even the luxury of motherhood Is be-
ing withdrawn from our hard-worked hens.
There are 5.J per cent fewer chicks now
than a year ago.
What becomes of the technologically unem-
ployed of the nation's barnyards? You've
guessed it. They are going the way of all
the gallinaceous—into the pot.
A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT
■ Napoleon As a Hero
By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON .
THE CHIEF thing wrong with the world is
1 that men have made Napoleon Bonaparte
their hero.
And an unworthy hero is worse for a na-
tion than none at all. e
ary some of his requests for a bigger navy, 1
Instead, his new budget, as announced yester- —
day, calls for exneendifurcs for "Increases In
the navy" of $57,000,000 next year -compared
with $38,000,000 in 1931.
The male loves power, altho he, is not
always able to define it In intelligent terms.
Therefore, men have always admired the per-
son who had qualities of leadership regardless
of whither,his footsteps might lake them, So
THUS THE President proposes a naval in-
I crease for next year; despite the cumulative
prospective deficit of three billion dollars. 1
■ More will be spent on the navy under the
Hoover proposal than was spent in any of the
prosperity years of 1926, 1027, 1928,
The President himself is authority for the
statement that
"The tonnage of combatant ships actually
in construction by the United States today is
nearly double that of Great Britain, and in
addition we are engaged in the modernization
of three battleships. '
Despite the protests of the Navy League
and the cheers of certain peace organizations
over alleged naval reduction, the fact is that
naval economy has not yet hit the navy and
seems not apt to do 40.*
War Profits
THIRTEEN _years ago, when war's blood and
* ter rift had deeply marked us, our whole
thought was concerned with finding a means
to end war..
With the lessons of 1917 and 1918 fresh
in our-minds. we saw clearly the relation be-
tween war and war profits and -accepted the
fact that as long as war profits are possible
war will recur, ,
The conscripted men who served in the army
since that day when the Little Corporal urged
ven the ragged hosts of France to new, brief
victories, men of every nation have joined to-
gether to laud his name and emulate his deeds.
. * • *
THE STRANGE, sad thing Is that they seem
1 to have forgotten his dark trail to St.
Helena, or that his Empire, built out of the
bones of his worshippers, stood for but a few
troublous years.
For it is only Napoleon whom they see.
Beneath his feet writhe millions of his coun-
trymen, prematurely slain that his name might
survive. Behind hint lie desolation and ruin.
At his side stalk the twin ogres of ambition
and greed. The ghosts of empty-bellied men
and emaciated children flaunt his banners and
cry his name. These they do not see.
* * *
A ND BECAUSE we have been blind to them.
A the Arche de Triomphe in Paris stands, a
lasting monument to a warrior who left France,
this country, hated by all the world. Men
living today are still reaping the bitter harvest
of that hatred.
Living, Napoleon laid Europe waste; dead,
his shadow darkens the earth. He personifies
war His emblem Is the sword. So long as
we give hero worship to his kind we shall have
strife between nations. Now there has Joined
him, to sleep In the lap of time, an American
hero, a man of peace, who conferred only
benefits upon humankind. The fate of the
world hangs upon which of the two it will
follow. Edison the builder or Bonaparte the
destroyer.
By HARRY E. BARNES, Ph.D
THE two chief topics of public
1 discussion right now are how
to end the depression and how
we may relieve unemployment.
They hung together and the lat-
ter is the more immediate is-
sue. The situation is like the
weather, in that everybody is
talking about it and nobody do-
ing anything of permanent sig-
nificance. We huddle about in
a welter of words about charity,
the dole, unemployment insur-
ance and the like,
In an article on “The Security
Wage" in The Forum, the able
and active economist, John T.
Flynn, gives us a new slant un-
der, the caption of what he calls
the "security wage."
Mr. Flynn points to the utter
Inadequacy of all present meth-
ods of handling unemployment
relief in the United States.
* * *
PRIVATE charity is unequal to
I a temporary crisis and is to-
tally unadapted to meeting un-
employment as a permanent phe-
nomenon in our industrial civil-
ization. Individual corporate in-
surance plans touch only 80,000
laborers even in casual fashion.
Labor union relief schemes pro-
vide for only about 35,000.
Joint union and employers' funds,
chiefly in the clothing industry,
reach perhaps 100,000.
Less than 300,000 are touched
at all—not one per cent of able-
bodied workers. Even the much
praised General Electric plan pro-
vides a maximum unemployment
payment of only ten weeks, and
it applies only to lay-offs in the
plants of this particular industry,
* * *
MR. FLYNN holds that the
greatest obstacle to some
significant action in regard to
unemployment relief lies in the
belief of both business and its
critics that it is a job which
business must shoulder. He pro-
ceeds to prove quite clearly that
this conviction is a dangerous Il-
lusion of confused thinking.
"Business as a whole" cannot
do anything because it is only
an Incoherent fiction of our pop-
ular phraseology:
"Business as a whole la noth-
ing more or less than the com-
munity aa a whole engaged in
the job of making a living. It
Is the total producers, distribu-
tors and consumers looked at in
their ordinary daily activities of
producing, distributing and buy-
ing. No machine has ever been
devised for these people to get
together and act as a unit. . . .
The state is the only organiza-
tion which comprises all the ele-
ments in business. It Is the
only one which is capable of
adequate action."
• »•
INDIVIDUAL business units can-
1 not operate a socially adequate
unemployment relief system.
They do not touch all the work-
ers. Only the great corporations
could do anything along this line,
and even these are not eternal.
Mr. Flynn believes that we must
turn from business to the state
for action. But he does not ad-
vocate even the tried systems of
state unemployment insurance
which have worked well in
Europe.
He proposes what he calls a
"security wage." This would be
a certain designated sum in addi-
tion to the wage actually paid—
the so-called "living wage." The
payment of this security wage
would be made compulsory by
the state' and it would be dis-
tributed by the state in times
and cases of unemployment. It
would be put aside In a great
unemployment relief fund out of
the immediate reach of the work-
er when employed.
Mr. Flynn believes that this
scheme has definite advantages
over conventional unemployment
insurance. It relieves us of the
fictional "dole" nightmare, of the
employers and encourages the
self-respect of the workers:
"This, it may be objected, is
merely a fiction to disguise the
payment made by the employer.
It is something, more than a fic-
tion. It insists on classifying the
payment properly. It marks It,
identifies it at the outset as a
| sum earned by the employe and
not handed over to him out of
j the kindness of his boss."
CALu ke
THIS WEEK’S NEWS IN REVIEW
THE sparring match between China and
1 Japan, with the League of Nations as ref-
eree growns warmer and warmer. And the
League seems unable, to keep up with the
fighters.
While the Council sends notes, aided by the
state departments of various other nations,
Japanese and Chinese troops are fighting
fiercely in the region of the Nonni River, in
Manchuria, with strong indications that Tsitsi-
har, center of the Russian sphere of influence
and headquarters for the Chinese army of Gen.
Ma Chan-shan, will fall to the Japanese within
a day or two. "
Japan's announcement it might withdraw be-
fore Monday was followed by fresh artillery
attacks on Nonni, together with rioting in
Tientsin, allegedly Japanese inspired, to give
the Japanese an opportunity to seize that Im-
portant seaport. American schools and mis-
sions were shelled by the Japanese, who were
firing at' the rioters.
Seven bank employes were kidnaped and
something more than $50,000 was taken. Posses
are still looking for clues.
Winnie Ruth Judd, alleged trunk slayer of
two women at Phoenix, Ariz., will go to trial
early in December. Harry Powers, West Vir-
ginia Bluebeard, was indicted for the murder
of five persons, allegedly slain by him to cover
thefts from women he had promised to marry,
Ralph Capone went to Leavenworth after Su-
preme Court refused to review his tax fraud
conviction.
THEY SAY
1 EVERYBODY lets part of the
E bill run over. W. S. Lucas,
Kansas City financier.
. " DAILY HEALTH TALK .
Liver and Iron Given to Overcome Deficiency In Blood
By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor. Journal of American Medical
"Aletion and of Hygeia. the
. V Health Magazine
ANFECTION of the human body
from any cause indeed any
/ or wasting or so-called de
Mutating disease, in likely to be
followed promptly by a deteriora-
tion in the quality of the blood.
This deterioration takes the form
of anemia. It may follow hemor-
rhage malnutrition, pregnancy,
infestation with hookworm, ma
laria, Bright’s disease, tubereulo-
•Is,’ cancer, or .any one of a
, number of similar causes.
a so much has been learned
■ about anemia since the discovery
* Of the value of liver In pernici-
our anemia that the person with
this type of disorder can now he
treated successfully in the vast
majority of cases. It la rec-
Denized that anemias represent »
deficiency in the hemoglobin or
the red coloring matter of the
blood, a deficiency in the format
tion of the red blood cells, or an
increased rate of destruction of
the red blood cells.
It.Is known that Iron Is neces-
sary for the development of the
product called hemoglobin, that
liver contains some factor which
is of importance in stimulating
the formation of the red blood
cells and that the vitamins are
frequently of value In aiding
such formation. There seems to
be no doubt that liver Is most
effective in the type of anemia
called pernicious anemia, when
the difficulty probably lies in
the formation of the red blood
cells In the bone marrow.
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MANY infections cause
AE creased destruction of red
blood cells and at the same time
interfere with ’ the formation of
blood. Obviously therefore it til
of the greatest importance to
control the infection rather than
to stimulate the formation of any
blood cells. If the Infection Is
brought under control and the
Increased destruction stopped,
the tissue will probably arrange
to supply the blood cells rapidly.
Investigators in China, Doctors
Keefer and Yang, recently stu-
died the various methods for
stimulating the formation of
blood cells in various types of
anemia. They find that recov-
ery from anemia due to chronic
loss of blood Is accelerated fol-
lowing the giving of liver and of
Iron. If the anemia is very se-
vere, it is frequently desirable
to give large injections of blood
by transfusion to overcome the
anemia emergency. Anemias re-
sulting from malnutrition are
frequently controlled by giving
well-balance diets with plenty of
vitamins and an .Increased amount
of Iron so as to accelerate the
formation of hemoglobin. Ane-
mia due to hookworm infesta-
tion is helped by iron or liver,
but It is desirable to get rid of
the hookworm as soon as possi-
ble.
We are fortunate In having a
i navy with long, high-spirited tra-
ditions.- President: Hoover.
* * *
Much in Russia that we shud-
der at is merely Russian, or
merely human. Prof. Frank
Jewill Mather of Princeton.
* * *
Is there not danger in a gov-
Ternment to which we are taught
to look for stock market tips?
James Truslow Adams, his-
torian.
ASK THE PRESS
You can set ar answer to any an-
swer ble question of tact or informa-
tion by writing to Frederick M. Kerby,
Question Editor, Tha Fort Worth
Press Washington Bureau. 1323 New
York Avenue. Washington. D. C.. en-
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EDITOR
Q. How many federal and state
penitentiaries are there In the
United States?
A. Ninety-six.
Q. What is the total number of
counties in the United States?
A. There are 3080, not including the
independent cities of Baltimore, Md., and
St. Louis, Mo., and 20 independent cities
in Virginia, each with the status of a
county.
Q. How much electricity does
the average electric iron con-
sume?
A. About 550 watts or approximately
.1 kilowatts per hour.
Rumors of Russian interference, emanating
from Toklo, were laughed off by Klementi
Voroshilov, Soviet war commissar, who said
Russia was highly peaceful and had no designs
on Manchuria nor on the Japanese.
Toklo still insists that Chinese troops are
being armed by Russia and that Russians are
fighting in the armies. Reports, also have been
received that Soviet troops from the borders
were engaged In some of the Nonni River
fighting.
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Watching New Congress •
At home, primary Interest is centering In
the approaching opening of Congress, with the
battle for control of the House. The Demo-
crats now seem to have that cinched. The ar-
rival of Dino Grandi, Mussolini's representa-
tive, for conversations with President Hoover
next week, also is occasioning much thought.
Jack Garner, Texan who probably will be
Speaker, of the House In December, has laid
at rest all reports that GOP and Democrats
would declare a truce. There will be no ob-
structionism. he declared, but Democrats cer-
tainly will not abandon any plans they have
which may seem better for the good of the
nation than those proposed by Republicans.
* * *
Death of Sentaor Caraway of Arkansas and
Representative Wurzbach of Texas is not ex-
pected to change the political line-up in either
house to any extent, except that Wurzbach’s
successor may be a Democrat, which would
make that party's control more definite, Mrs."
Caraway was appointed yesterday by Gov. Par-
nell to fill her husband's term. -
Two Democrats already have announced for
the Wurzbach post. Republicans still were un-
decided yesterday as to their action.
Oil, Wheat and Cotton
011, wheat and cotton took the limelight
during the week for various reasons. Wheat
is holding much of its phenomenal gain of the
week before, but is settling gradually. Cotton
holds up well In spite of persistent selling,
and oil came to the fore thru the convention
of the American Petroleum Institute,in Chi-
cago and suits filed by Attorney General Allred
of Texas.
The API elected Amos Beaty as its first
paid president and established him as a sort
of Judge Landis of the oil Industry The API
voted strongly for an oil tariff and endorsed
the report of Secretary Wilbur's committee ad-
vocating a reduction “in imports. It also fav-
ored a world meeting to discuss problems of
the industry. „
• • •
Oil Companies Sued
Allred filed suits against 15 oil companies,
the API and the Petroleum Marketers Asso-
ciation charging that by signing the "code of
ethics" they were violating the state anti-trust
laws. He will seek tremendous fines and re-
vocations of charters. Oil men appeared little
worried by the suits.
Investment bankers, meeting at White Sur
phur Springs, advocated that public utilities,
to avert possible federal interference, adopt a
policy of complete frankness In their dealings
with consumers and municipalities.
Wave of Bank Robberies
A wave of bank robberies broke loose Thurs-
day. Six raids were made. One robber was
killed, another ‘critically shot by a banker.
Railroad executives yesterday approved the
plan of the Interstate Commerce Commission
for pooling profits from increased freight rates,
except that instead of dividing the extra money
among weaker roads, the “money would be
loaned thru a pool, to be paid later.
A Navy minesweeper made a thrilling rescue
of 11 seamen, shipwrecked in the Caribbean
Sea from the steamer Baden Baden, first of
i the "rotor" vessels, later transformed. The 11
j had been sighted by a passenger plane.
Some six days after the wreck they were picked.
up by the Navy Ship, little worse for their
experience.
Lower Gas Rates
- Any hopes Fort Worth citizens may have
entertained concerning lower gas rates this
Winter were given a setback this week when
City Council voted to Indefinitely postpone
setting up a new rate, schedule.
I Council took this action In view of the hear-
ing.Dec. 14 on the injunction suit of the Lone
Star, -which seeks to prevent the city from
putting in operation the municipal gas owner-
ship plan voted July 21. Council also agreed
that between $50,000 and $100,000 would he
needed to carry on a fight for lower rates.
The money is not available now.
Memories of 1918 Revived
Memories of Nov. 11, 1918 were revived
Wednesday when thousands joined in the cele-
bration of Armistice Day. A parade as gala
as any ever held here passed thru the streets,
halting at 11 a. m. in respect to World War
dead.
The Board of Education employed Dr. H. B.
Bruner of Columbia University as consultant
on curriculum. Dr. Bruner is due here Dec. 5
to aid In setting up a new curriculum for pub-
lic schools.
County Commissioners Court agreed to hear
proposals for construction of new highways
from a $500,000 surplus fund from the $4,-
920,000 bond Issue voted In 1928. The Com-
missioners set Nov. 24 as a date for hearing
the proposals, after being urged to carry on
a building program this Winter by the Cham-
ber of Commerce highway committee.
Community Chest worksrs swung into ac-
tion this week with the solicitation of employes.
Early reports from 100 per cent firms Indi-
cated a satisfactory increase over subscriptions
last year. The 1931-32 subscription campaign
will get going Monday.
Methodists Sift Problems
Methodists from Central Texas meeting here
gave approval to the General Conference plan
for creating a Judicial Council, approved finan-
cing plans of the denomination’s hospital In
Fort Worth, heard departmental reports and
awaited appointments to he announced Monday.
The dove of peace which hovered over the
Tarrant County Humane Society for a short
period, flew away as warring factions split
over plans to hold an election to choose new
directors.
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Gasoline Prices Advanced
7 .—-
Gasoline prices advanced one cent during
the past week, independent oil and gas men
of the state met and pledged themselves to the
conservation for Texas' natural resources and
elected Charles F. Roeser as president.
Murder or suicide? Law enforcement offi-
cers pondered this question as they sought a
motive for the death of W. L. Ray, filling sta-
tion manager, whose garroted body was found
in a clump of bushes east of the Conner Ave-
nue underpass.
By M. E. TRACT
NEW YORK; Nov. 14.—Dapper
I bandits, showing great fa
millarity with the lay-out of the
premises, as well as exact knowl-
edge of the time at which the
postoffice would deliver a large
quantity of cash, entered a New
Jersey bank right after it opened
for business and relieved it of
$82,000 in the space of five min-
utes.
If Dr. Louis Berman of New
York is right, those bandits are
probably suffering from gland
trouble and need nothing out an
operation.
Having studied the subject for
three years, Dr. Berman la con-
vinced that certain crimes corres-
pond to certain glandular disor-
ders.
Not pausing to argue the mer-
its of such a theory, the hardest
job would be selling it not only to
the public, but to the criminals.
Take these particular bandits,
for instance, and do you suppose
it would be possible to convince
them that they are suffering from
anything but unusual talent right
now?
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What Is Crime?
TF crime were a fixed commodity.
I It would be far easier to con-
nect It with fixed conditions,
whether physiological or psycho-
logical. 1
The great trouble is that crime
continually changes.
It was no crime to sell liquor
in this country, or some parts of
it at least, 20 years ago. Neither
was ft a crime for King Alfonso
to run Spain as he pleased until
the recent revolution.
But now opr prisons and jails
are being overcrowded with those
who have sold liquor, while the
Spanish cortes warns the former
sovereign that he will risk being
tried and sentenced to death if he
comes back. -
What is crime, anyway? Is it 1
something we inherited, or that ‘
I we manufacture as a by-product
| of progress?
There have been times and
places in which murder was not
regarded as a serious crime, and
in which it could be atoned for
with a little money, or avenged by
the Immediate family.
Where will you find the time
or place, however, in which some
act was not regarded as suffi-
clently offensive to merit death?
• » •
No Set Standard
THERE are no irrevocable
1 standards by which to.meas-
ure crime, much less its treat-
ment. We make them as we go 5
along. If a certain practice in- ’
terferes with our moral concep-
tlohs, religious beliefs, or eco-
nomic theories, we prohibit it. If
we can make the prohibition
stick, well and good. If not, we
begin over again and try some- '
thing else.
Men have been wrestling with 1
the crime problem since the dawn 1
of consciousness. They have nev-
er solved it, and they never will.
One reason is that every step for-
ward develops a whole new cat-
egory of rules and regulations
which necessarily Involve crime
Anti-Social Complex
TTERE Is Al Capone, sentenced
• to imprisonment for 17 years
after being convicted of violating
the Income tax law. There wasn't
any income tax law 40 years age,
nor any Volstead Act, which was
the real bug under the chip.
There wasn’t any wrong left
turn, or passing up red lights, un-
til the automobile came late
being, or any dope traffic until 1
England compelled China to take
opium.
No doubt, all crime has a ger-
tain degree of anti-social com ex
back of it, but it is often har to
tell when that complex r ore- •
sents pure cussedness, or Ligher,
Intelligence, *.
According to the accepte *
nition of it under English
the time, John Hancock w ,
ty of smuggling, but we J
him as a patriot, and so
Englishman of the present!
According to the code 1
ing in other lands, the 3
student who precipitated the
World War by shooting Archduke
Franz Ferdinand was a murderer,
but Serbia has adopted him as one
of her national heroes.
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