| Show United States Mobilizes for War Jar on Crime By fly WILLIAM C. C UTLEY V r l 1111 United States Slats has declared Tm I war on crime Federal agents I got John They got Pretty Boy Bop 1 Floyd And at atthe atthe atthe the cost of two of ot the most promising young oung men In the Department of ot Justice Justice Justice Jus Jus- tice secret service Samuel A. A Cowley and Herman 1 11 II they got Baby flaby race Face Nelson Now Noil with Federal bullets bul lets 1118 stilled forever the heartbeats heartbeats heart heart- beats and destroyed for all time the brains of ot these criminal arch big shots ahoU and with federal bars securely crippling the one time power of the biggest shot of Mr Scarface AI 1 Capone America feels that the time Is ripe for an nn organized and concerted concerted con con- mobilization of ot all of the forces torel's of ot society In an nn Irresistible drive not only to tr track down nil all of the murderers murder ers Es and criminals In III the land but to mike at their very nry br breeding places and cauterize the open sores of society where the criminal pestilence is born This Tills was the reason for tor the recent national crime conference called by the President and Attorney General Homer 8 8 S. Cumming President Roosevelt himself addressing the conference at Its opening declared that two things were rere Immediately necessary In girding the land for the opening battles of nt the Iwar war First I 1 ask you to plan and to con con- with scientific care a constantly Improving administrative structure structure-n a structure which will tie together every crime preventing crime preventing law enforcing agency of of every I branch of the government government- the the federal government the 48 state governments and all the local go governments govern govern- ern- ern ments Including counties cities and towns towns said the President Your second task of ot Is equal tance An administrative structure that Is perfect will still be Ineffective In Ia results unless the people of the United Unit ed ad States understand the larger purposes pur poses and operate co with these pur poses Inadequate organization of police forces was blamed by the President for conditions that have existed He lie I declared declared that In many Instances we weI Imay I may as well frankly admit bandits have been equipped and better organized organ organ- Ired than the officials who are supposed Ito to keep klep them In check Cut Col Henry L. L Stimson secretary of state tate under the Hoover administration who by his very presence gave the conference con con- ference an air of political nonpartisan ship made the other keynote address lie plea pleaded lied that crime be robbed of the sensationalism that has been given gh-en lit It In many stories newspaper accounts and moving pictures advising that a sincere campaign to expose crime and rob It of Its In the public prints and the theaters could be of all ail taut value In waging this kind of a war Colonel Stimson also scored the tardy and uncertain Justice that prevails pre pre- vails vane alls In this country citing by comparison com corn parison the speed and dispatch of British Brit ish fah trials which are snore more than ours but more efficient and reminding reminding re- re minding the conference that the United States has has' hasa a homicide rate rata twenty tinges as high as ns that of England lIe He QUOted i-QUOted statistics to show that in one oner r of Americas America's f largest cities you can commit com com- mit a burglary and your chances for escaping any sort of penalty may beas be beas beas as high as to 1 1 The lawyer who uses his position t as a member of the state legislature to tInker tinker up the criminal code of his state 1 In favor of the criminal class which lie be makes a business of defending In Inthe Inthe Inthe the courts Is Just as os responsible for forthe forthe forthe the breakdown of Justice as Is the corrupt corrupt corrupt cor cor- rupt Jury fixer or ball broker de- de Glared Colonel The first definite step In the campaign campaign cam cam- as suggested by Attorney Gen Gen- oral 1 Cummings would be the establishment of a great national and scientIfic scientific training center for training law enforcement officials This would make for tor our national police forces a sort of ot rr t d Nr Herman E E. E HollI West Nest Point r or Annapolis for tor the training of policemen founded on the f premise that we have lIne these world leading Institutions Institution for tor the trainIng training train train- ing lag of ot those men who are to protect i the nation from onslaughts by foreign powers there Is to nothing resembling such euch an nn Institution for tor the training of I the men who are every day protecting the same nation against equally equall Serious serl Seri ous and Important Invasions against the social order within the nations nation's 1 borders Such Sub a school would undoubtedly fur fur- furnIsh wish nIsh highly trained and skilled police police- I bt g gs s w sue J J. J E. E Hoover I men for cities cHits towns and states tates who needed them Need Specialized Training With more universities and colleges and more opportunity for tor a young man to acquire an education than any other nation on earth we still have no school which specializes In the trainIng trainIng train- train Ing log of ot police yet thousands of or young men Join the ranks of some sort lort of police organization every day Only In Ina Ina ina a few schools have courses In criminology criminology criminology crimi crimi- or 01 police administration been developed to any great extent The most notable of these Is the scientific crime detection laboratory of Northwestern Northwestern Northwestern North North- i western university at Chicago Almost halt half of ot the others ar are confined to one one area In the country the Pacific coast Both the University of Southern California Call Cali forma fornia and the University of California at Berkeley have highly developed schools of ot ponce police administration the latter under Prof August Vollmer who also started a police administration department department department de de- at th the University of Chicago o and their construction In many cases after they thel have been exploded we can determine the identity of the maker makr If It he Is a known bomber There are ar few tew limits limit to where the science of crime detection may mal carry the experimenter Here lIere Is a process known as mO lla which Mr Keeler and his hI associates have han developed to toan toan toan an amazing degree of perfection It Is the art of ot making casts of any object from the entire head had or fir torso of a dead body to small mall tool marks In In- In Inwood wood or metal This Thill can enn preserve the evidence for an Indefinite period Experts In Ballistics Ballistic The are especially adept In their study of ot ballistics bul bul bullets l lets ls and firearms They can make Identification Identification Iden Iden- of any caliber or type of bullet bul bul- bullet let tell what kind of powder fired t tand It and what kind of ot a weapon we It was fired from In the case of a d suspected weapon weep on they can determine whether or not It fired the bullets submitted In evi evl dence But it is in the art of discovering deception de do- in a suspected witness that the laboratory excels any Similar bureau Inthe in inthe inthe the world This Is done through Mr Keeler's own development of the tho polygraph poly poly- polygraph graph or as It ft Is popularly and somewhat somewhat somewhat some some- what erroneously termed the lie de The polygraph registers the subjects subject's pressure blood-pressure and respiration over a period of time when he is being ques ques- He lie is asked a great many questions a large part of ot them entirely entire entire- ly Irrelevant to the crime of which heis he heIs Is III suspected Whenever a relevant question Is slipped In It is noticed from the blood pressure and respiration respiration tion charts that th these se will fluctuate distinctly when he be attempts attempt to practice practice practice tice an Intentional deception While ThUe the machine has never been admitted in court as evidence it has baa been especially especially especially espe espe- useful in breaking down a sus sus- suspects suspect's pests peels resistance and facilitating con con- It eliminates plenty plent of useless useless useless use use- less questioning and saves time by weeding out the suspects Its use has been employed to secure confessions in n a number of cases Win A 5 f i L a r s d ia a tins rs I Leonardo Leonards Keeler Left of Northwestern University Using His HI Polygraph Lie Lla- Lle-I Lle Detector on a Suspect i later abandoned Other courses are available a IJ San Jose In California Columbia In New York city the University of ot Wichita Kan the University of Cincinnati and the Medi Medi- institute of Paterson N. N J. J Northwestern's laboratory has bas accomplished accomplished ac ac- accomplished much In the field of scientific scientific tide crime detection Its services are frequently sought by the Chicago police police po po- po- po lice department whom It serves without without without with with- out charge and other police departments departments depart depart- ments to whom It makes a charge commensurate commensurate com corn with the work carried on Bright star of the school Is its Leonarde Leonardo Leon Leon- arde ardo Keeler director of psychology who has hns developed much of Its labora labora- tory A pleasant young man lUan who looks hardly thirty but must be more than thirty five Mr Keeler Is thoroughly thorough thorough- ly In do sympathy with the suggestion of ot ofa ota a West Point for tor police and more more than obliging If you OU ask him to show sho you through the Northwestern laboratory N N. N U. U Well Equipped This Itself Is a combination of ot schoolroom schoolroom school school- room business office and exhibit The first thing you encounter Is the fingerprint fingerprint fingerprint finger finger- print exhibition worked up to a perfection perfection perfection per per- attained by few organizations Here lIere Mr lIr Keeler Feeler explains the men are shown all of the little tricks of enlarging lag ing finger prints by photography to to a point where every little tittle detail may be carefully studied Tile The laboratory has solved several cases In n this manner Next Mr Reefers Reefer's pointer leads you OU to the cabinet devoted to secret and rode code messages mt showing the various means in which violet ultra-violet light and arid chemicals are used nied to detect hidden bidden messages written n Into seemingly harmless harmless harm harm- less notes with milk mUk or other substance the Photomicrography the art of photographing photographing pho pho- and studying objects as tiny as a section cross of hair hair Is Is the next exhibit By means of this ad- ad science science ence hair left on cm the tho person of an attacked victim for Instance may be examined to discover Its nature and anti source as may fingernail scrapings or dust deposits Now hero her are a few bombs and high explosives res th that t have been confiscated In n bombings nod and fires firl's says Mr Me Keeler Keeler Kee Kee- Keeter ler ter laying his pipe on a shelf next to toa toa toa a few bottles and tubes marked High Explosive or Dangerous while you ou squirm and hope to heaven beaven he knows knowl his business By studying these bombs I What may be accomplished If a comprehensive comprehensive com com- school and larger laboratory laboratory laboratory labora labora- I tory are set up for the Department the o of f Justice bureau of identification was hinted at by J. J Edgar Edger Hoover young youn g head of the bureau and one of the leadIng leading lead lead- Ing spirits of the crime conference when he revealed the fact that the e bureau has on hand fingerprints fingerprints fingerprints finger finger- prints of known criminals or more e than ten times as 81 many ny as the famed fame d Scotland Yard The department ha haa has hasa s a record of ot 04 M convictions out of ever every y arrests The main difficulty in administration administration ad ad- ministration seems to be that It Is not t making enough arrests and because o of f lack of ot operation co-operation and ordination co with local bodies not nearly enough h social work and education Is 18 being con con- W 1 Samuel Samue I A A. Cowley ducted to stop the early development t of criminals and criminal orga dons Perhaps the national school Ii is one o othe ot t the most Important immediate step Certainly it Is II one of tho the most Imag 1 native Can you picture the sport t writers writer's glee at being assigned to co coer cover cover cov v er a football game gome between the tea team p of the West Point for police and th tb tho e excellent eleven ellven from Sing Slug Sing t C C. W WI t ra U |
