Show r POVERTY CRIME CRIMi AH ARE fAR APARt I HAll Oregon U Head Says Sex SexI Is Becoming Factor I I in Lawlessness t FACTS ARE STUDIED Science Not Hunch in Politics Sought Poverty and crime are not as closely related as man many persons believe be- be lieve according to to- Dr Arnold Arnod Bennett Bennett Ben Ben- nett hall president ot of the sity of Ore Oregon on and founder and president of the National Conference Confer Confer- nee ence on the Science of Politics who delivered an address Thursday j i night at the Assembly hall hail on the subject vs The ot of time the national conference conference con con- ference Dr Hall said is to studY the facts or of our political life and andI I political system to study the reI re- re between crime on the one I hand hald a 1 politics religion education tion race disease and special menI mental men men- I tal aptitudes on time the other Another purpOse of the organization is t secure quicker and certain certai I pr Pl for crimes of violence I SEX HELD HELD FACTOR It may have been true in bygone d days ys that crime resulted mostly from roam poverty said Dr Hall but it is not true today Continued overemphasis ot of sex has developed a sex complex whIch is very widespread wide wide- spread and 11 conditIon together with ever greater laxness in the rearing of children has long since I become a greater factor In the comI cons com I mission of crime than is poverty I This is especially true because time the conveniences of modI mod mod- cnn ern automobile life screen stage I and nd other forms ot of entertainment entertainment- all tend to Intensify development of tIme tho sex mentality to time the pOint or of breaking down the barriers of restraint restraint re- re Dr hall declared that in a general general gen gen- eral way the whole problem or of crime in its major phases is on that must taken betaken hold of by parents patents pat par in the home that if nece sary parents must by law be held accountable for the acts ot of their offspring if the training of the lat lat- ter r- r Aside from the study of crime and its causes which is carried on through its social science research council the national conference has Imas for its principal work the compilation tion of a curate accurate data political problems with which the the- public is dally daily confronted DIRECT PRIMARY We Ve have for years beers been t tAlking about direct primaries as against the old convention s system stem Dr Hall Hail said but we areas much at sea on oms this subject today as we were ten tenor tenor or more years rears ago This Is true for forthe time the reason reason- that no one until our national co conference f rence was organized appears to have bothered to gather precise and accurate facts concern concern- lag ing the workings of the rival teams It is this work we are arc doing We Ve are doing this in connection with time the city manager plan of municipal for instance as well as with many other public public- matters matter We Ve are trying to subStitute substitute sub sub- scientific precision and ac curacy for the old hunch lm in politics Take time the city manager plan folan for fol foran an example The wa way to obtaIn a. a Jin o on Its merit Ot or lack of merit is to select two cities as nearly alike in every every respect as possible Then compare tIme the fire departments of these cities time the Rolice departments depart depart- ments the health departments the street departments etc not merely in the matter of costs but in the matter maUer of actual actual results Our purpose is to get at atthe atthe the hare facts and them to the for their intelligent guld- guld ance |