Show 1 L- L f ii the United States DIstinctly J Sn On n the Wane ORD RD BATES T pe President American Prison A vr f fT We P c 1 general volume of crime is on th downward trend in ID the th j UnIted States s though the crime dealing of today toda lk w hould should b be lI to meet tile the changed conditions of modern J- J R 1 life Tho Tho so eo o called d crime wave e a has ha not increased pd in to the Tact Jact la t ten years year There are certain spectacular crimes crime such tuch l as us bank blink holdups but the th general volume is decreasing There has been a 1 diminution lon of vagrancy and drunkenness During the last fifteen en years rears the number r of automobiles has increased In increased creased many times and the revolver rt oh-er oh has been bt en circulated d widely This is JI no DO reason son for the public to become t Terrorized because there then therea r are a great reat number of oC law lav abiding ens citi The TIle freedom fredom granted the th youth of tolIa today and the liberties allowed by new inventions are blamed for crime conditions I ew cw ew inventions are breeders of crime Intelligence and disere mn with the American public keeping its feet fret on the ground n will ill aidin aid ud in m corn com bating In lawlessness Comparing the criminal of oC the past and present there are arc bold in JD the United States today today toda but hut none nODe come up with Ith Jcsse Je e Tanu fames The characters are different and methods today are di dl dissimilar to those employed by old notorious criminal 1 |