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Show educated levels. The exceptions are so few as to be conspicuous. Education is the inspiration of reason and reason rea-son inspires respect for order. There can be no liberty without law. If we are to become more of a law-abiding nation we will first recognize re-cognize the necessity of having our educational institutions organized as training camps for citizenship and second, making provisions that our young people come under their influence. No Liberty Without Law On this, the 13ttth Anniversary of the framing and signing of the Constitution Con-stitution of the United States, we are called on to take note of the document that gave this nation a new birth and placed in the records those ideals and aspirations which have made us great. The Constitution crystallized into basic law a government by the people and established a ' republic with a guarantee of quality before the law. We deem it important, therefore, to read in its pages not only the privileges privi-leges but the obligations of citizenship citizen-ship as well. To many thinking people a period has arison that is putting our Constitution Con-stitution through a severe test. They contend that human forces are at work undermining American ideals. They hold before us such "agencies of despair" as lawlessness, radicalism, radical-ism, policital favoritism, class hatred, illegal trafficing, jury-fixing, loose application of pardoning power, all of which have become a menace to constitutional con-stitutional foundations. nr. 1 t. 1 1 J ...1 iT vtK nave lauen uu uaya wuere uieie is a laxity in respect for law and order, a defiance of the sanctity of person and property. Since all forms of human behavior are more or less contageous it is important that we consider the conditions and the re. medy. In the penal institutions of the United States there are today 200,000 persons convicted of crime. This does not tell the whole story when we consider con-sider thoee who go unpunished or undetected. un-detected. Recent figures show the cost of the crime to be about 84 per cent of the nation's income, a startling start-ling sum to expend on a destructive force. Unfortunately this does not represent re-present the total outlay. It is but necessary nec-essary by way of illustration to note the cost of burglary insurance and contrast the rate with some other hazard haz-ard as fire. On the other hand, education, edu-cation, our greatest constructive force costs an amount approximating V per cent of our income. This comparative compar-ative cost is the more significant when we consider that we have in our grade and secondary schools alone 125 times as many American youth as there are inmates of our pwal in- stiiuuons. There is reason to feel that when this conflict clears the vision of the Constitution's founders will be vindicated vin-dicated that this will be proved a fraternal nation. We have "Agencies of hope" that lead us to this conclusion. con-clusion. They are such institutions as the social welfare and service organizations; organ-izations; the press and radio; the church, the home, and the school. Educators are already at the task. They sensed the situation and for some time in conference groups the subject of character development and citizenship training has received their attention. It is a program not of talk but of action. Already many have translated their thinking into courses cours-es of study for definite instruction. Others are following. Education is the greatest single foe of crime. The mass of the vicious destructive des-tructive and criminal are from less |