Show I j t Grim C B Busy Buty y I LIbary B Bein Bring r I Form Formed S S Sc Jc Enforcement t Fac l. l 4 Ex rb E i By RO RODNEY NEY W WASHINGTON A it the Die ii f l slon on law JaW bb- bb i b servance and enforcement m nt has hs left lof the front page pao ein jt ent b by l' l President Hoover oh l its its' first firs me meetings s last month It It has han actually b beert en n hard hardat at Work ork b believing that I It ha Iu hu a s tremendous o Job t to I. I rel relatively U brief p I At tills thIs n none non n of t le leven in in Washington but bu there I Is R lL staff of ofa a dozen doen persons at ot its It offices herb heN busily and nd working to organize this great t st study t crime and nd crim inal justice r And A 1 nearly alt all th the members member ar are keeping In almost dally communication caU catl cation th n with t te offices tsa r here her for or they Are buzzing or being buzzed by all 11 and nd sundry in th their thur lr various s sections sections' Who might be exp expected ted to have 6 interesting interesting- Ideas idea on th the sub j tit nt it Thus Thus' 4 n J suggestions Aro are arc drawn wn first h hand d from rpm th the map map the u are from Seattle rda hos I Angeloe Angelee Iowa Ioa 4 10 Chicago 0 Clove Cleve land Jand Now Orleans Orlenn Atlanta Vir ginia l Kew w Y York rk and aid chU- chU sett ett SET u A Sta Already y a a. a library of f i a nd at h volumes h iia has b n Installed In In- stalled d d ate at h headquarters r tt a a. couple ou of cd books books' o od d in a R. rId raid on on the tho library oi of f ft as t many r reports ports on oil strita chite and municipal crime orime Investigations fl nS u the c commission hat has Mean n able Abl td find Th lh The plan palL of t the tho g l t study has not yet yol t b hem been f 1 ill i d j but bur it is is Jc known own tHAt there gre t ten n main divisions lons of inquiry t to f be ul d. d One ot ol th these s e i ls Is Pr Uon The Th r rest arc nr all cori ri ti tf with crime a and q ct criminal Justice justic Tha 1 commission sl n has hait h hold held ld Miree sets t b the tJ It Itt hilt t of lut lasted d f four ur days l t. t 1 Jy rU l into to early ev g. g At t the o oUt t t t th the Commissioner c cerit went erit through the th process ot of t setting getting tUnE a ac- ac q with M abi H other They then considered d three thre ques sU s- s U tion nit your our corr i ift li In In in- formed rJ 1 What at are u. u the facts facts- What d do thy vt What are le o we 0 to 51 do about them t. t THe commissions on I o first bi big lg jo is to tc fret et f he IQ act on Oft io and law ment Arid And this thi f lar ri iio no mean l th task k r. r tUdy of criminals h In In- tit th mass over tU the country t will t lt ire 5 a I. Jo Yog I g. g time tini Carried t to ft a a- a logical conclusion n a it study of ot the nua causes s of ot r require Ct n l p pay pay- y- y c Ii att s and nd h. h thorough thor- thor oU ough 1 study ot of facts tac which m may Y not be ob t. t ANy AMY F CS NE E I I T The e com Islon wa wants vait 1 to know I lint Jus just just- how ni mUch ch crime there ther really Is It Jt wan wants hi the cown low which h is III a difficult lt thing to obtain It may tie lm plu i J g tithe time try th fn to 4 what whar f c facts s there are will try t to fco economize mize nUon on time money and nd publicity A Anything Ith it has to announce will con consist lI solely J ly of dt bare f Two experts already have have b be been C engaged to pursue lp investigations In- In Th The first Was as Alfred Mfred Bettman BeUman a in Cincinnati lawyer r with experience In tho Cleveland arid and Boston crime surveys sur and an ex expert ex- ex pert pett in J th the tho field of ot criminal ci prose rose The Tho second Bas Bass Ban Warner of ot the tho University ot of Syracuse another criminologist of ot wide Th commission Is trying ot pick pick- c three thre rate rat men pen slowly and carefully upon whose hose f facts facts' jt It an can an safely IY depend te Leonard nard V. V Harrison lit air expert on on police c came me down to e the outset outlet and has hu been t the most important figures in th the vork rk to dat date datt In lri the absence of or th the commission cot mission ers era fr from frol m M Max x ven Lowen- thal secretary tary of ot th the commission bIn is b In active charge 0 of f coordinating Ung the tho ork arid in out out the tho commissions commission's Jo plans NOT A POLITICAL POLITIC L GROUP One ne of ot tho tho- m most st facts about this title c Is the thit fr freedom free free- e dom dam of t nearly all Jt Its members from tromp p political entanglements Chairman G cf W V Wickersham t former attorney attorney at at- torney turner general who could I long ions ng since ha b been b en a. a a supreme court Justice h had d he been willing willing- willingto to ac ac- ac capt Is le In in hL his severities seventies The work vork of ot his c commission lon represents the crowning achievement of oC his hia career I None of or tho the members m likely to use It as ns stone Such men men menas menas' as JI as' Newton NC D. D Baker Daker Judge I. I Grubb Judge William Wil WI- liam ham 8 Kenyon Jud Judge c Paul J. J Mc- Mc w who o. o wrote the tho d decision n throwing out the Doheny oil 1 leases D. D t Frank J. J Lo Loesch Losch ch n old year head of ot th the Chicago Crime commission n whose only ambition is Js to clean up uTI Chicago r and the world famous orId- orId mou D Dean an Roscol Pound of Harvard are extremely mel unlikely to ail allow w political nl considerations t to influence ce them theD h hany an any way wily Th The name of goes gOts fon Ad Ada L. L Comstock Comet c of Radcliffe the only woman on the commission ol v. v In fact its It It non political non complexIon complex complex- Ion on Js Is p perhaps th the life commissIons commissIon's m most t notable aspect |