| Show I I Pre V I ing Opinions ion s l Comment me 1 ot of the Am American Press Press- s Baltimore Looks at Crime Crime no longer pays the dividends divi dividends dividends divi divi- it once did in Baltimore Md Nor would it bleed the United United United Unit Unit- ed States of billions of dollars If more cities had a criminal jus justice justice jus- jus tice commission as effective as Baltimore's has been the past 15 years Yet this commission operates operates op op- op- op crates on the the amount of ofa a sized medium-sized bank robbery robbery- according to Frank Brock and Frederick Tisdale authors of Justice on the Job In the current current cur cur- rent Rotarian magazine In 1932 when when-it it began its work there was one chance In six that thata a a criminal would be caught and punished Now the odds are SOSO 50 SO- 50 SO they report Formerly criminal criminal criminal crim crim- inal court dockets were clogged with untried cases now they are clear Ninety out of every cases are indicted tried and disposed disposed dis die posed of within three weeks of the arrest Between 1924 and 1937 reported burglaries fell from 2521 to 2252 embezzlements to 70 larcenies of 50 and over 1739 to manslaughter 37 to 15 Proud of their city's improved record Baltimore's courts police and prosecutors cooperate with this privately financed organization tion and its managing director James M. M Hepbron M.-Hepbron internationally known criminologist according to the article Annually the criminal criminal crim crim- crim inal justice commission makes a study of some such problem as the parole system juvenile delinquency delinquency delinquency delin delin- quency penalties for drunken driving Perhaps the most important function of an alert crime commission commis commis- sion slon is case watching the wrIters writers writ wrIt- ers declare The laws law's delays aid the guilty Criminal lawyers say Three continuances equal an ac ac- ac- ac In Baltimore felonies re reported reported reported re- re ported to the police are listed daily in the criminal justice commissions commission's commissions commission's commissions commission's com com- missions mission's office A A. docket book an exact duplicate of the criminal court docket is kept indictment trial and disposition of each case t i are followed Lagging ones are promptly spotted The national crime commission Brock and Tisdale state hopes to synchronize the work of groups such as are found in Baltimore other cities and some states Such action is imperative they insist for figures of New York City's citizens' citizens committee on control of crime indicate that there are 3 million convicted criminals In the United States that murderers murderers mur mur- are at large that at the present rate of the present present present pres pres- ent generation are fated to commit commit com corn mit murder and to be killed by murderers Rotarian Magazine I Easy Recipes Every now and then somebody c comes mes forward with a panacea for all American ills The latest is Colonel Henry B. B Fairbanks president of the New York c chapter chapter chap chap- apter ap- ap apI I ter Sons of the American Revolution Revolution Revolution Revo Revo- I lution and his remedy is to bar all immigration for half a century That in his opinion is the only way to breed a national spirit There are strange mixtures Inthe in inthe inthe the American melting pot to be be sure but cut hav haven't nt there always been It It would occur to nobody to question Colonel Fairbanks' Fairbanks sincerity but how strangely different different dif dif- di- di ferent this country would be from that of his Revolutionary forebears forebears forebears fore fore- bears If it were not asylum to the worlds world's oppressed at least to the extent permitted by the quotas The Americans of that day were far from being homogeneous they represented variants of European stock and thought and the contributions contributions contributions con con- to the cause of the patriots patriots patriots pa pa- by men not born American-born like Lafayette and Alexander Hamilton and Tom Paine to mention mention mention men men- tion but three are famous Today in fields of science med med- medIcine medicine government and letters there are a host of nonnative- nonnative born who are rendering distinguished distinguished distinguished distin distin- service And the same has been true of every decade in the living man The roster is long and honorable and the quality of ones one's Americanism is by no means determined by the theland theland theland land of ones one's nativity By European European Eu Eu- rope an standards though our frontier is gone we are by no means overcrowded Who knows but that some man or woman yet yetto yetto yetto to reach our shores will make a great and lasting contribution to the vast and perplexing problem of distribution and activity and wealth in a land of almost limitless limitless limitless limit limit- less riches Newark Newark Evening News j |
