| Show 1 Prevailing Pre V ai I i n g 0 Opinions pin ion s I Comment of the tha American Pra Press r I The Enemy Within Where eleven murders are arc committed committed com corn In America only one is committed in England Where 27 murders occur in America only one occurs In Hol HoI land Compared to the whole of ot Europe Europe Europe Eu Eu- rope wo we have seven murders to that entire continents continent's one Wo We must take this stigma off oft of ot our social life the life the stigma of at being the most lawless of ot all an civilized civilized civi civi- used countries The files of tho the bureau of investigation in investigation in- in show there are actually actually Sc- Sc ac ac- convicted crimi crImi- nals This Is Js larger than any actual standing army in the world J. J Edgar Hoover goes goeson on to put these facts be- be before foro fore every American concerned with the fate of oC his country We are really at war There are today In America murderers murderers' murderers murderers murderers' mur mur- mur- mur roaming at large Statistics Statis tics show that persons now living will commit murder before they die and more than persons will be bo murdered As Mr Hoover points out you may be the next next or or one of your family The causes of this incredible state stale of ot affairs ar are arb exposed by Mr Hoover without mincing words He a Fhe The he political alliance with crime exists in state after state municipality after municipality It halts the policeman It halts the law It stalks In our courts Besides this alliance of crimo crime and politics which poisons the very springs of ot our social life the sincere law enforcing agencies agen agen- des cies are hampered by to quote Mr Hoover Theorists pseudo g ts criminal criminal criminal crim crim- inal coddlers lovers convict-lovers and fiddle faced reformers We Ve have had concrete evidence of this in some recent murder trials still fresh in the tho public mind Coming from murder to lesser crimes Mr Hoover laid these thes staggering ing figures figure for tor ono one year before beCore the American public Burglaries larcenies and automobile thefts Most of ot the perpetrators of these crimes are aro either or are on parole that parole that is free to continue their careers of crime Those on parole according to Mr rr Hoover Include gangsters robbers highwaymen professional professional professional housebreakers ravIshers of young children patricides and matricides Twenty per cent of ot our crime is committed by youths under voting age More Moro attention says Mr Hoover Is given to the breeding of ot horseflesh a arid and d dogs hogs and chickens than is given to some of ot our humans New humans New York American The Future of Suez The British government is re reported reported reported re- re ported to be seriously studying the question of abandoning the Mediterranean Mediterranean Medi Medi- route to India and Australia Australia Aus Aus- and reestablishing the old all route around Capo Cape Town The reason given Is the peril created by tho the Italian success sue suc cess in North Africa As Asar Jar far b back ck as 1928 Commander Kenworthy author and former officer in the British navy stated that one ono school chool of oC naval strategists seriously doubted If Great Britain could keep the Suez canal open In a war with a strong Mediterranean Mediterranean Mediterranean country The Mediterranean sea is so shallow In places that the most powerful British naval vessels would be at a disadvantage in maneuvering In It Add to that the advantage which aircraft and give to a nation nation situated as Italy is for example and it is not hard tomake to tomake tomake make out a case against the Suez route as the line life of ot the BrItish British Brit BrIt- ish empire The distance from England to Melbourne around the Cape of Good Hope is only 10 per cent greater than the distance through the Suez canal alt although ough the distance distance dis dis- tance from England to Bom Bombay ay 1 is 15 I 77 per cent greater by the Cape than by the canal route The Tho greatest beneficiary from tho the revival of ot the cape route would be Cape Town which languished languished lan lan- after the Suez canal was opened but which if iC the canal route loses its popularity can look forward to a brI brighter future as a naval base and port of Jt call caU for merchant shipping Detroit Detroit Free Freo Press Talking Too Much The fact tact is Js that Mr Farley Is talking too much for the good of the party His reference recently to Kansas as a typical prairie state state may not have been in intended intended in- in Intended tended as a sl slur r but in any event it was taken as one Resentment whether bogus or genuine swept the middle west Republican after after after af af- af- af ter Republican casting the vote of his delegation at Cleveland announced announced an an- that his state a typical typical typical cal prairie state stood foursquare foursquare four tour square behind the Kansan And we have havo not heard the last Jast of oC that remark from the lips of ot Mr Farley Fancy It will be echoed and reechoed re reechoed reechoed re- re echoed throughout the campaign probably with damaging effect Richmond Times Consider the Waistline Potatoes are arc scarce and the price is high while the department department depart depart- department ment of agriculture studies the weather map and hopes favorable weather may Increase the output soon Meanwhile the American housewife and her favorite husband husband hus bus band see the plebeian spuds edging edging edging edg edg- edg- edg ing toward the luxury class and may emulate a Republican n keynoter keynoter key key- rioter in viewing with alarm But there is the cheerful side to this tuber emergency Many have been absorbing too much starch in a land where potatoes were plentiful and from the French fried and hashed brown might make mako for more graceful lines and some slight slump In the girdle Industry San San Francisco News |
