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Show WHO AIDS THE CRIMINAL? "All honest as well as dishonest men know that the machinery of law enforcement is defective and out of date," says the Saturday Evening Post in an editorial on crime. Here is a problem not in politics or academic theory or dialectics, but in practical crganizaton, which is supposed to be just the field in which the typical American citizen is best. "It is the job and the conditions which surround the job that need attention. at-tention. If as a people we are incapable incap-able of improving the judicial and ,'jury systems, of doing away with i frivolous appeals, lessening the grant of continuances, expediting trials, simplifying indictments and making the other necessary improvements in th e actual technic of the job, then we ha ve lost the art of self government. . ' 'The people may have become more law less or they may not; that is a moo t point. In any case, respect for law will not be established by rhetoric. rhe-toric. Why not concentrate first on what everybody knows is inadequate and i sutwom, the institutional machinery mach-inery for doing the job?" Exjrressed in a nutshell, what we need iis lees laws and better enforcement, enforce-ment, n tore rationalism and less emotion emo-tion in the handling of crime. More laws re stricting the law-abiding on the thp ry that the criminal will thereby be curbed, merely encourag-3 crime B d increase law-breaking. |