South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-06-06
ONE BRUTE .WHITEWASHES" ANOTHER


Any the of Chief Kline to Justify
Patroman Lee his assault upon Leo lie Blanc. ap-
pretended a suspect OF the Peter Tryco murders-f
he really was suspected,-pUs the chief in the
with the patrolman. and menace to the COM
mun.ty We are much wont in these days TO eriticse
brutality of the Huns despite their inherent ferocity
and the excitement with which surrounds them
society in which Chief Kline his 'whitewashed'
baby very evidently belongs
chief says. according to the administration or
gan, that ne has investigated the lie Blanc and
hnds within his rights perhaps brutal rights
conferred upon him by brutal chief, but one
else ~m say from the evidence available that they
were either legal human rights. An American police
force not a wing of the German mlitary-not yet.
Americans. when accused suspected of crime,
have some rights which police forces are bound
TO respect surprising indeed, a lad
10 years young of any offence and suddenly
accused or the horrible crime of murder with the
ferocious roar Of a smile to a mad bull did draw
back assert his innocence. Yet because he did
Chief Kline says Patrolman Lee within his rights,
what else you TO expect of "a ALFRED
cheap his quest OF job accept the title and
form breastworks for Bill Cassidy, who his ad-
vertsed assistant really directing his operations?
ANY pretense the part of Patrolman Lee the
other officers with him. that arrest,
to the extent of determined protest be i'm
peached by a score of witnesses. For Mayor Carson
and his board of safety accept Chief Klines nvest
cation. finding be nauEht else than fullest
confirmation Of what have already limited viz
that our "reorganized police system" from mayor
down is so rotten rIn-eaten with vice-regent
chcane and preferences that no part Of dare take
any other part Of it task.
Naturally enough PatroImsn II wise the cuss-
edness OF the department trought with orders from
'higher-ups" this bawdy house and that; and
this gambling house and that, this eN-saloon and
present "bind-tiger" and that-shau be molested
while all others shall be brought strictly task.-if
he is such ttings say. he going
be aggravated into telling about it, self preserva-
ton is a first law of re. and nowhere so
than police onciss and boards OF public safety.
The place fov Parolman Lee and FOL Chief Kline II
the latter would excuse the formers misconduct Of
Sunday night, is the official junk heap and, if the
board OF safety would uphold them Mayor Carson
should consign it's members the same place.
South Bend getting sick tired these unnec-
essary "strong-arm" methods the egotsm of official
whose uniforms and brass buttons are accepted
by them license 20 assume the role OF Prussan mill
ary bigots with The civil population their pleasure
prey. In Gerards book he tells OF the civil
population Of Germany has rights which the mil
itary bound respect and wonder il that
is what Chief Kline means OF Patrolman Lees rights
However is America. not Germany, and II chief
Kline likes the German methods much Better than
ne the American. let him migrate Germany and
his beloved Patroman Lee with him