Show 1 l B DY I READY TO SI START ARI S WASHINGTON May 29 CAP Alb P Al'- b Called por by President Hoover tb perform one lone of th the greatest serIce services ser str- I vices Ice e to our gener generation the the- nation a Slaw enforcement commission toay to to- to day ay stood at the threshold of its tremendous t me dous task ask o of ot finding out the thefts I facts o. o ts and causes of public I of law In general and formulating formu formu- lating I Ung re recommendations looking to Improvement that prohibition Is only one oha angle of our work Chairman George Ceorge W. W WIckersham Wickershain asserted art after r the Initial meeting of the commission corn com om- om omI I mission yesterday that we will not avoid roid anything and that If It found any federal law unenforceable It would so report Tho The members of ot the commission commission- ten jurists and lawyers and one wotan wo- wo tan toan educator plan educator plan to continue I their sessions for the remainder of ot week to lay the he for tor torI I their undertaking They devoted their time yesterday to receiving their mandate from President Hoover er er getting acquainted and ex exchanging exchanging ex- ex changing views to bring out the I various angles of or their task In which I Ithe the various members were particularly Interested tTO TO SURVEY REPORTS They hey are expected to begin with fe t. survey of reports and other data already available through the work of f federal derat state stale and civilian investigators and then to proceed with i their own Investigation n toy Iby dividing into groups committed commUted to specific tasks Special investigators also may maybe be employed from time to time timeS timet timeto t to assist the commissioners out of or orthe S the the 25 fund th they ey have available available avail avan- able for their work S Pressed for a n. statement as to whether the scope of ot the commissions commission's commissions commission's commis commis- sion's lons authority was was' broad enough to enable It to find the prohibition I laws Jaws aws enforceable Chairman Wicker Wicker- I sham r attorney general de de- de K tt was Intellectually possible but I might add improbable Th The attitude attitude- of the American people toward law Is is- not Is-not not bounded by y prohibition r he said OPE MI MIND D He emphasized that the commis commis- non ion w would not act as arbiter be be- wets and drys At the same time timeS he s said ld it would consider on oh their merits such reports and data dataS S as 55 a any any- organization which has studied One of the problems before It may submit It It starts he delare de- de dared lare with Uh minds peri to on en their merits merits Intelligent all all suggestions sug sug- from unprejudiced sources Recalling that the th president had Charged the commission with finding find find- 1 ing ii g out the causes of or the AmerIcan peoples people's present attitude toward all he I. observed that the very v- v ery of this Is the most difficult of jail l i p pi problems S 'S H Estimated that the work would require re a year and maybe two Vh J r its program will Include open pen hearings remains romaine to b be ibe oed but bit Mr Wickersham's en enc WIth public hearings Is tha thaY that Y you flo do o not get very far with them S My Idea he remarked is to have a. a the organization of or law such that It if will make it inu impossible for fora a p p person r reon on to violate the law without speedily brought to book I HOOVER ADDRESSES S S S Hoover In a brief address adI adress ad- ad I I dress ress t told ld the commission that the American people are deeply concerned concerned concerned con con- over the alarming d disobedience obedi- obedi ence of ot law the abuses in law lay enI enforcement en en- for ement and the growth of ot organized organiZed organ organ- I fred crime crime- which crime which has spread to toI I every field fJeld of ot evil doing and in every part of ot the country cOUntr S The problem he said Is not confined confined confined con- con fined to the enforcement and obedience obedience obedience obedi obedi- ence of ot one law or the laws of ot the theS S federal and state governments separately separately sepa sepa- ratel but Is partly the attitude Joward oward all all all' law that S It is my hope he declared the c commission shall secure an ac accurate accurate ac- ac curate determination of ot fact and cause following them with coni constructive con con- i courageous conclusions conclusions' S which will bring public understanding understand understand- ing and command p public bUc support of I its solutions S The chairman n suggested afterward afterward after after- I ward vard th that t from time to time Urns we i nay ma make ea a statement or i on one particular subject subject subject sub- sub rather than waiting to comI complete com corn I Its Its' whole program before adI advancing ad ad- I any conclusions Replying I to Mr Ir Rooter Hoover he said I S We are under no Illusions as to toI the tho difficulty of ot our task We know knowS S there is no short cut to the I S urn Um But we have hae confidence in the honesty and rightS right right- mindedness of ot the American people peopleS S S I and their readiness sl to support sound m methods of ot reform when the exist exist- of evils is exposed and practical practical pra I methods for their eradication submitted to popular judgment |