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Show tics and its unexplained murders. j The pitiful inadequacy of the means used to prevent "these" outrages is apparent. We even pass laws which ! practice permit only the criminal to .hear arms. Professional reformers make mar- tyrs of the principals in sesation-.il cases, and, assisted by pardon, parole and commutation of sentence laws, help them get '"another chance." In the majority of the cases, these ; 'chances" come to the thief or the murderer as golden opportunities to :ontinue his criminal career. j Through legal technicalities, cr.ses are dragged out over interminable '. periods of time, often resulting in the ircumvention of justice. And, after convictions punishment is delayed through the avenue of appeals. Crime repression will come when in awakened and active public consciousness con-sciousness causes changes in our legal rout'ne that will permit the free, unhampered un-hampered machinery of justice to "unction, and not until then. We do not need more laws, but less. Through our own incompetence, '.ve have given modern criminal a contempt for law and authority and society. When this contempt is changed chang-ed to respect, we will have solved our 3rime problem. CHANGE CONTEMPT FOR LAW TO RESPECT. During 1926 and .1927, 760 murders mur-ders w'ere recorded in one American metropolis. Of these, 130 were gang killings. Yet not a single man responsible respon-sible for any of the gang murders was punished, and in 104 of the cases, cas-es, no arrests were made. In the same city, s'nee 1922, a so-called so-called "beer-war" has taken 375 lives in addition to the deaths of 160 gangsters by the police. This would seem to be a record, but other American Am-erican cities are not far behind. Practically Prac-tically every great center of population popula-tion has its frequent gang war casual- |