| Show Marine Official Debunks All AllIn AllIn In Crime Talk Smedley Butler Sees No Reason For U. U S. S War Scare Debunking everything from parole parole parole pa pa- role boards to national and international international international inter inter- national politics Major General Smedley D. D Butler retired officer of the U. U S. S Marines gave the Capacity capacity capacity ca ca- crowd which attended his lecture Wednesday night in Kingsbury Kingsbury Kingsbury Kings- Kings bury hall a a. lined laugh-lined account of his experiences as director of public public public pub pub- lic safety of Philadelphia Major General Butler whose experiments experiments experiments ex ex- in city government attracted attracted attracted at at- th the attention of every major major ma ma- jor newspaper in the country countr a few vears v- v years ears ago spoke under the auspices of the university extension division Famous for his vibrant voice and striking stage personality the marine official discussed Blowing the Lid Off Crime which characteristically characteristically characteristically char char- smacked of sarcasm at the expense of every public safety movement in to the country It is useless conversation to say that we should try to divorce politics politics politics poli poli- tics from the police the general said I once had the peculiar idea ideatha that tha t the laws of America were written for everybody he added but now I know they apply to people too weak or too poor to to resist The energetic speaker then at attempted attempted attempted at- at tempted to disprove the common belief that all cops in America are crooks He affirmed that 90 per cent of the country's country s policemen are upstanding citizens while only five per cent are willed weak-willed and the remaining five per cent are really crooked There are three ways of beating crime the general asserted asserted- through the home church and school We must educate the children children children chil chil- dren against murders and felonies which reduce their respect for our democratic tic institutions tu Butler stressed the appalling necessity of eradicating the Ute crime wave by saying that four million persons in the U. U S. S are criminals that 10 40 per cent of this group is under voting age and and- that i Americans are parolees with criminal criminal criminal crim crim- inal records In reference to the European state of affairs the officer was optimistic Powers have been di dividing dividing di- di viding up Europe every so often for or the last 1000 years he said and there is no cause for Americans Americans Americans Ameri Ameri- cans to get excited about it if we determine to defend our homes at home The whole war is one big game of international crime he as as- There are two groups of empires making faces at t each other and they dont don't dare fight lest Stalin walk in and gather up the pieces |
