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Show Wl OF CRIME JIM US TIDE KANSAS CITV. Mo Ket. -. .--With Hi.- i ejculurit of t!if tides, rather th;m an occasional wAve, crime has shraed over Kansas City In a ust volume of rniurders, robberies ani lesser acts of i rlm'tnapty during the last few months, according to Ward Qlfford, executive secretary of the '-' Enforcement association. as-sociation. formeJ here for the purpose, not f 1 1 iu suppression crime, hut to ascertuln :unl i o; iv et conditions which foster it. J "Crime in Kansas City Is a highly organised business and those who ar directing crime use t:. efficient methods meth-ods as any successful person docs In conducting legitimate enterprise." Mr. ;itford declared. "1 public can-not can-not hope io i-ombat organized crime vittiout organised apposltllon," Mr. Glfiord declared tht it was be-cuu.-.. criminals found refuge and entertainment en-tertainment m Kansas ''m that they mad, their operations u continuous performance here. With this In mind, tns Daw Enforcement association plans .' Censorship of motion picture theaters, thea-ters, pool und dance halls, gambling and the social evil. To root out crime ho said, the city mu.si he cleaned up morally. Unemployment, ho said, van not considered to be factor In law-brcaknjr law-brcaknjr as yet. Ue pointed out that pr-" ti.-:ill all of th. iohh.-ri.-s we re committed by youths of from 17 to 25 years of age. a period v.hl.-h ho explained, ex-plained, sociologists considered as the most dangerous for tne development of criminal tendencies. Thc tw Enforcement association made up of COO citizens, he said Is .-vt of modernization of the old" time j Igilancs committee, only that it works .entirely In co-oper,il ion with the lu-thorities. lu-thorities. An outlne of its purposes include advocacy of mor.. itrlnnd Criminal laws- following Up of arrests and seeing that the law-breakers are prose, Ml rr) : arising with off,, ,,., "'r' s "nd paroles and keeplna corps of Investigators constantly ,t Srttielv Uectln da,a on Ior1 Iwegu- Whtie the association Is conioari "veil young Mr uiffoM 1ulllt,., ; thai automobile thefts had been reduced re-duced fifty per cent. A number of re-1 wards also have been paid for . , eaptnr.. of criminals, including $ 'o for th. taking of Dense ChSteV ? hargod with the murder of tfiss i; ,,," r:;:,-,v-;:,t:- -pShSe ,".d hv mi llDWna -hc nsatioi re nted n h fattn' death which ' re.siiited In the formation of the en-1 forcemcnt association Kr Oiord admitted however tl ii |