Show Incredible No Nonchalance chalance Ic spending is deemed sufficiently sufficient sufficient- i. i RoOSEVELT ly alarming to be made a campaign issue by the party on the outside We will never recover from the depression until the budget is in balance say the the opp opposition tion an and busin business groups c It causes doubt doubt- as to whether 1 ether or not it is IS the money or something else that is stirring up the rumpus More doubt vc c comes mes into int t tie the e picture if l the he morality of of it- it t all U li v is s wHat has aroused ar sed the outcry I This is b b. because c use both with regard to economic loss and tak it from Harold Nathan cl r of the federal bureau of in- in of of the department of of justice justic the country manifests incredible dible nonchalance nce in re- re spec f f the pro prospering crime indu industry try Mr Nathan tells a group a-group of educators in In Cleveland that we are getting elting more ore and better law en enforcement en- en than than we we des deserve erv though admitting admitting admit- admit ting that Eur European e ei enforcement orce ent js is generally better than ours What hat J. J Edgar JEdgar Edgar H Hoovers Hoover's overs over's aide w was s s saying ying was th that t until we we can look looks the facts in the face and deal witH them as they must be ain dealt with ith crime will wiltsee see no setback in iIi the United United Unit Unit- ed States I Our n bill bIn is i in round numbers a year Co Compare pare it with the Roose Roosevelt elt deficit or any ny ot other er vast sums that t ome to the mind mind total value of our Cur imports t and exports of merchandise diseI in 1934 for example These stood in that year at less less' than third one third of our crime cost for that year Theres There's s enc enough gh money and morals to stir up public pu sentiment for you There here is of course public sentiment that sentiment that is people p ople are amazed ast astounded indignant and al alarmed But this public public- sentiment has not crystallized into a natio nationwide wide demand that hat ef eff effective ef- ef f tive meas measures s be adopted f opted to obtain complete com com- te cooperation between state and andla la al enforcement ment agencies Unless a move is made to effect st state te compacts as the west vest has done in in the Colorado river matter and d bring Jabout about further compacts by y groups of st states tes with Bother other groups the likelihood is that we will continue continue continue con- con to mark time with 1 m makeshift sh t arr arrangements s such ch as we now have Som Something thing will have tobO to tobe be bO done wipe to-wipe out state lines in the crime war J i The Rev Edmund A. A Walsh vice president of ot Georgetown university has put some figures together tog to give an idea of our crime crim problem Every very year persons are murdered in the United Sta States es Three tho thousand and ar are ZOne hundred thousand are are arc assaulted Fifty thousand are robbed The annual murder rate s 's since 1890 has increased three and one half times Incendiary ry fires fir s annually burn homes the loss amounting to more than Illicit cit narcotic traffic costs the people i more ore than a year Racketeering and its corruption of of politics all alliances ances with J oil crooked lawyers and levies on dc decent ent business cost the American people a year There are listed individuals engaged ng g d in Brackets There are sets sets o of f cr criminal jj fingerprints in the department of ot justice Ten thousand are regarded as desperate ch characters eby b the department of justice malefactors rs who Jean can only be captured by armed men f J The effectiveness of the G men a acting ting under wider un- un der new laws should point the way Sway for fort al a vastly enlarged program for relentless war on on I the underworld and its allies es The initiative ls l's s' s with with the pe people If they will win demand i it loudly jand Ind insistently Silt enough the fe federal er department r. r Sot justice may be relie relied 1 on to start star the wheels turning t to touring bring It f k 1 |