Show 11 1 Burglars ls al and d the Police II it I The he burglar Is IA so hus busy burgling those tl flays days 8 that ho lie has no notime time dOe to lie 1 basking In the tho SU sun Ills His I 1 time the One b business whose prosperity hla lias tas been Increased b by th the hard times er ani and anI ho o is pushing Jt so energetically that that tho the companies which Insure you ou against loss from front his depredations aro are going to raise their rates f Those burglar insurance comp companies report that tho thu Increase of or robberies which has entailed loss upon th them m mIU U I as occurred within time the last CO lays days Tho Time ra reason on of that Increase at this time tnie Is ob lols obvious Wo We Vo havo- havo hind have had a n hl big bank bahk a l panic and anil thousands of or people have removed I deposits They must ke keep them and If I the if-the the burglar Is industrious his chance of or finding time the homo home substitute for tho ho hmo savings s h bank nl I r. r excellent x lou Ob Obviously h that la lE tm the t 1 w o of It It because bai ba bave r been heen worl working n ICe s since the tho J Knickerbocker Trust frust closed ls d doors Oh Jou Obviously IS' IS too they thoy have beUn rewarded ed t for r th limO tho Insurance o companies com corn panle report that that more robberies have havo l boon oen oen committed during durin the last fortnight fort fort- night nigh t nW Mian n in fn any any any- other period That ThatIs ha t tf f Is ill the time Hist r l burglars who went after tho thin domestic hoards have ha been so eo successful suc Muc- uc- uc that that thoy have drawn other criminals Into line of or work and ore creating g something like an epidemic mc m- m ic c of oC robbery T TIme e companies blame for this out outbreak rek of or crime cline the time police pOl policy C of oC cOl concealment ne c. 11 They Insist th that If the police should houLl return to tu the tho tho old ohl Brooklyn Brook Drool ln lyn 11 practice of ot giving to tu the the- re reporters all 1 complaints complaint of tC crimes made to them theta that tho resulting publicity would make pE people pElle lle tou cA and time the burglars r hauls would be smaller Whether It ther tho time police accept the te sug- sug I or 01 not hot however there Is omm one n obvious oh t n Let ever every ever one oue who has huts token taen money edt tt of at the time savings savings' banks or who carries large arRe sums sum In hi his hi house ol housa or ock l l t j promptly that mon money into th the th tl banks bank The burglars hung burg lars cant can't get get- it It there an and the Indications Indi are tint that those directors who were to walk off ot with It without l the tle formality of R asking leave Jen havo uno b been n and removed c from th the sphere of Dr thi t Jr Jr dangerous act lef Thin return to o prudence on omm time the part df citizens however ld be beno beno beno no reason 1 why the lie police should 1 not r rd- rd ume the practice of ot reporting robber robber- ies which worked voU weH In fn Brooklyn i n from the time this city olty elt- elt had police down to the tho da dayH of H consolidation The Tho To po police po- po lice theor theory Is I that publicity would bin bin- dor tor the tho capture of or the tio rob robbers Thereal Tho The real reason for 01 their may bo be In that publicity would give f c such p proofs of ot police Incompetence as to raise ralso a n storm of or public indignation But Dut oven even then the publicity would old nd el th limo pollen polen department c because it Would create a n demand for tor the time additional men which tho force 10 so urgently ne needs The h number of ot robberies and tho the losses h by them are arc tar far greater than the tho dreams In one year er tho the fire fro losses In tho the city verA score while In tho the same mo time tho the robb robberies rh amounted to The Tho fires Ires that year yer numbered num nuni- II re and the the- the burglaries ies l 1000 It I Is high time that the tho police wake up hut but it Is also Io high time that householders householders house house- holders hoMers stop trusting bureau drawers or or mattresses with their resources |