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Show Problem Not With che Accidental But With the Professional Criminal By EDWIN SIMS, P resident Chicago Crime Commission Our problem today is riot wil h the quarrelsome person, or with the accidental or occasional cri orirml. It is with the professional criminal, the man who deliberately ac)ry',ts crime as a business. It is with those who are represented by five milK on dollar's worth of forfeited bonds in the criminal court ; with those w ho levy tribute on the whole community. We shall never solVj 'that pro-Slerts until we quit temporizing with professional criminals.. TJ ie prevalerve of crime in Chicago is the result of years of mollyep.ddlinj j and laxity. .There are too many loopholes through which the eriniirn.1 may escap? punishment. A violationof natural laws brings ?wif and inevitable punishment. If the punishment followi ng a violation of the criminal laws were nearly as swift and luxe as the jbum which follows contact with something hot, t e ghould?yiave jeTy littl : crime. J |