CHIME CliE IN IX CHICAGO S Some Interest is awakened ned in Chicago Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago over the report of the tile city st statistician sia- sia on time the past years year's record of ot crime Nearly seventy thousand perSons persons Ier- Ier per per- sons were arrested for crime in the the- twelve-month twelve and they are scattered throughout twenty different national national- ties tes Larceny was the offense most commonly committed but there were one ono hundred an and two seventy mur- mur dors i itt JM t Id t J r JW That hat Is time the most most appalling gf anything anything any nn- thing tHins h imm the report X Nearly rl halt half of oC oCth th these se were t by by p persons calling calling calIng call call- cal cal- ing themselves Americans but th the probability Is they vere were of oC all al nationalities na na- rma- rma so far as extraction Is con COn- cerne Negroes wore charged with almost three times as man nanny many murders murder as an any other race ex cx except cp the American American Ameri Ameri- can but there Is little value in the comparison for time the report does not state time the ratio rato of or the black to lo th time the dl different rent white nationalities and ard it i ima ma may be the number of oC individuals In the time cl class s Is large enough to balance balance balance bal bal- bal bal- ance the time preponderance of rime crime Ime Burglary BUrglary stands second s ond In Jim the time catalogue of crimes committed an ana and amid anda amida a number of these thee law violations were wel effected b by One lone woman committed the time crime of or highway lb rob lob ber bery iery and l is now serving serving- a sentence in n punishment But the one significant detail in the time report Is that amazing number of oC murders murders Even in a city approaching two tio million of inhabitants it Is a frightful destruction of life And Anti those who have followed the stor story of Chicago as i It I comes to the time public from Crom day to day In lii the time prints ts cannot but find finel a n still sti more forbidding condition In that temper which time the crimes are accepted So many of I tho Ime murdered persons were women that a wave of ot Indignation rose against the time Inadequate police pro- pro afforded ed and amid one one of the time papers announced that women of that city should know better betler than to venture ven ture upon time the streets at night unal- unal tended The Time spirit which could have Inspired such an utterance Is time tho test lest of moral status S Why women should b be m safe In Chicago o streets day or night It I Is Isa Isa iSa a confession of or enormity out of which such wholesale slaughter might be expected And tho the question queston beCore before before be be- fore Core the time of that Jr great at city S Is not v what hal proportion of negroes ant antof and of ot Germans and of or Americans com corn milled the time crimes but buth h what hat Is nee needed need e ed to make male these streets ts safe saC for v wo- wo o men It Is tile the testing of ot the time city's uprightness time the trial of f her her herc c lion ton Probably no other othel city in the time nation nallon has so deeply sinned ably none could coul bo bu MJ so 1 harshly characterized char char- For the time comm comment nt uttered uttered utter utter- uter- uter ed eel by br Its own people people is Js hopelesslY compromising And Auth it I Is not sufficient Perhaps Per Per- imps haps tho time murder mUrler of Mrs Holster the tire theone theone one which Illustrated to the tIre last lat degl degree de de- he- he gl gree the dark ark condition of the tho city's s moral grade stands alone alon In tho lImo annals annals an an- nals nials of Chicago crimes And nd yet that I woman was mur murdered murdered or o or at least t ize seized and captured capture itt captured In In daytime a The Time report of offenses distributed among twenty races of ot men may be interesting But But the time problem of or ChIcago Chicago Chi ChI- cago cage Is not nol statistical It I Is cal cal That blot thrown into hc he calcium calcium cal cal- cum light b by tte earning to women that hal they may ma not safely fel venture unattended un un- attended upon the time public streets be wiped out The most wo wonderful of all Am American cities clUes must bo be redeem re re rc-I rc deem deemed ed S SS I o f S S 55 5 S 5 S SS S 5 5 5 ir