Show S t r. r Fighting With Popguns 1 fI THIS THIS' lS is is si an age of specialization and effii effi- effi i Q Quick ick disaster overtakes theman the man an who does not keep himself strictly breast abreast ast of bf all aU the most modern developments developments' It isn't surprising therefore to read that i the lie he Chicago gangsters have taken over a desolate desolate deso deso- l late te wooded island in the Rock river below Rockford and made it into it a proving ground for foi their machine gun shock troops 5 Press r dispatches hes indi indicate ate that the gangsters went vent about their work S In 10 a highly systematic Way way The island was a lonely onely place not lot apt to tobe tobe tobe I be spied upon by outsiders So the gangsters f fixed up uI a sort of tar target et range on it To the island they sent their machine gunners t to spend several days popping away way at targets study studying g the use of their new weapons with all ll th the earnestness of a battalion of doughboys preparing for service service on the the battle line Jine line The machine gun spraying bul bullets ets as a ag ak k g garden hose sprays water is one of those weapons with which you can hardly miss what youre you're shooting at anyway if you hold ih trigger r do down don n lo long g But the gang gang- evidently would not be satisfied with any slipshod methods Good marksmanship ip they felt was n necessary even if the day of the sharpshooter is ended Hence th the island proving ground where the business of murder can be p put t in line with other up to practices es This mechanized age has wrought c changes anges i in n every line of endeavor No one however has las been quite so so affected as the crook S S From a a. a dis disorganized mass of drifting maladjusted plug who realized that tha the S odds were always against th them m the criminals of a major American city have become a cohesive well organized amply financed and nd shrewdly led band that has the odds all U in its favor The new age age- has put splendid new weapons weapon into the criminals criminals' hands and they know how to use them Automobiles machine gun gunS proof bullet vests and such things are in their arsenal Clever lawyers are in their councils Vast f sums s ms from the liquor traffic are in their war warrn I i chests They have alliances with politicians politician I and police officials S Yet in in the in-the th the face of all this we continue to fi fight ht them with the same weapons we we used in Civil war days I t 5 S Our law enforcement I machinery has has' practically ti ally st stood od still Naturally it has bogged down so that crimes of violence are are commonplace common place rarely punished You cant can't subdue the underworld with out date methods methods not not in a a day when the underworld maintains its private target range for ts machine gunners I |