| Show I STAE STAT sawn CRIME The wrIter of a recent article de the deplorable crime con conn conditions that exist evist e st in Chicago o ago ted stated that th in 1920 and 1927 murders had been in that city city to the tho number of and the only only 10 perI per I eons ons hid paid the supreme pen for their crimes Further that cox COil were sere ere obtained in only 22 per percent percent percent cent of the cases and ind these for crImes of lesser degree decree than murder It IS probable that thit the murder crop in that city this year will equal if not exceed that of the thc past Nor is Ch sago caco alone in m its came record In all of the large cities and andin andin m in the tir countr country as a whole the num number her ber of murders robberies and lesser crimes committed is I large Every L dry diy upon ul on the front pages of the duly dilly pipers there are seen accounts of or deeds unbelievably atrocious and brutal even the de- de descriptions descriptions de descriptions of or which are arc enough to cause cauce the avenge person to shudder wIth horror and yet in man mans cases the perpetrators go I I I I Why Vh in J a comp comparatively el prosperous nation where here poverty could hardly be named is s the stimulus does there e ev st such a large amount of fullness They ha e been advanced numerous numerous reasons Before the eighteenth those who ho wanted anted prohibition blamed the saloons loons since the eighteenth amendment prohibition Lion comes conies in for a large part of the blame Others lay Iny the fault at the doors of our legal s system stem Doubtless Doubtlessly there therein therein mIles in lies in an important contributing fac- fac factor factor fac factor tor From t a da day das when hen a suspect of crime crune wis sus s meted out s swift t pUnish men menn without reasonable deliberation or investigation In it seems that there has s oen i a switch to the almost opposite op ext extreme em The accused IS safe s guarded guarded on every ery side Innocence IS assumed until the gUilt is proven to the satisfaction action of twelve h men The fallu e a of or the court to observe the rues moc i n technicality technicality gives es ec i to i ne new trial trl The decIsion ma may be appealed to the hl higher her courts id J ers h find many mans man loop holes of c e cape cIpe in the Its liw besides the calendars of the courts arc are over filled and nd is 15 is a result it is often many months and even years vears before the case is us decided or comes up for or trial In many instances with the lap hI lapP p of time the baseness of the crime crune is forgotten and ind public sent senti sentiment ment is entirely In n fa favor or of the Grim mal coal which undoubtedly undoubted I his S in an of ef efI I feet upon the decision of or the JUlY Too often hardened criminals re reset set free or given ghen en short terms and nd then gain freedom to continue theIr depredations upon society Another factor that adds to the th nation s high percentage of crime Is the alien element I- I Foreigners come cometo cometo cometo to this country with visions of grin Ing wealth Health quickly They join Jom theIr own groups mil o e little effort to be become become become come Americanized and anel often 1 remain wholly estranged estran eel from American Id ideals ho hond nd Ind customs Soon the med dreamed of or fortune is 1 not so easily obtained and often resort to CrIme as i a means of 11 livelihood Then also the of oC our tion border patrols troll makes it to prevent the seeping in m of undesirable and criminal characters This particular phase of the situation could be greatly aided by larger up Ip and an nn increase In n the size of the immigration forces Of or course courle the vision ISlon of a nation nahon entirely free from crime is utopian m in its conception let ct the percent percent- percentage percentage percent ace age of crime that eXists costs in the United States Slates could be greatly reduced The problems that it presents is of oC vital importance and is well ell worth orth the stud study of e every cry citizen especially since It IS l e The quickest paths pathe to the reduction reduction reduction tion of crime lie he most likely through a speeding up of our lege legal leg e getting rid of superfluous laws laves and unimportant technicalities restricting immigration and finally and most important education An education tint that will give gle gl e the students and e citizens of this nation not only i broad concept of the tha II aits ts and Ind suen ces but will tend towards to the streng of their characters and Im- Im im bue imbue them with Ith the ideals and prin principles of American citizenship |
