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Show BURLESON BLAMES COURTSFOR CRIME Says Light Sentences Encourage En-courage Lawbreaking WASHINGTON, Match Ascrib-Injr Ascrib-Injr the increase In mall robberies to general unrest and Intensified criminal tendencies. Postmaster General Burleson, Burle-son, In a lMter read last nlxht In the house, declared enactment of laws unsupported un-supported by public opinion provoked breaches of the peace and contempt for the courts. The letter was addrenned to and read by Representative Black ( rm ), Texas, and denounced as an Important factor In the development of crime the disposition on the part of certain judicial officers, notably In New York, Wanhlngton ' and Chicago, to Impone nominal punishments when criminals are apprehended." Read ins of the letter raised a storm of objections, several members interrupt inter-rupt Ins; Representative Black with objections ob-jections to its entrance Into the record. The letter went Into the record, however. The postmaster general declared criminals were encouraged by the ! sued by a commercialised press. The power of sufrpreation, as outlined by newspaper accounts of crimes, encouraged en-couraged others to break the law, he said. "Such newnpapers. he added, "have not only become a menace to society, but are becoming a danger to government. |