Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-01-25
WAVE Of CRIME
IS ON INCREASE
IN METROPOLIS
Unless the Police Act, New
Workers Threaten to Rise
Against the Feeble ProteC-
ton Being Given.

| Especial Correspondence to The JournalO
New York, Jan. 14.-While six
million men, women and children
throughout this town sleep or walk
| the streets after dark in real dan
| ger of murder or robbery by ban
dts, the most unbridled carnival of
crime every experienced here is to-
day increasing in energy and ex-
tent, according to expert criminol-
ogists. UnleJs 1he panic-stricken
police, disaffeeted by muddled
mayor and an unpopular commits
sioner, can impose some slight
check upon this murderous
menace, New Workers. now declare
that they will rise in revolt against
the feeble protection of their lives,
homes and property. That the re-
moval of the heads of both munich
| pality and police force will be re-
quired before Greater New York
begins to become at all safe again,
Is the expressed belief of most OF
the people of this city.
Frugal Fertilization.
That America may save billions
Of dollars by arming herself in the
most effective way or squander
billions by proceeding in the wrong
way, has just been pointed out to
naval and military men here who
have studied the most modern
preparedness programs for the ma
tons future. Every cent of the
! taxpayers money that may be in
vested in more and bigger battle
ships must be sunk as surely as
these ships themselves will become
the easy prey of chemical attack
by airships conveyed by subma-
rines, they assert, while the same
controlling chemical arm of future
attack must be reckoned with as a
multiplying force against such ar
| rays of guns and men as might be
! maintained or raised at great ex-
pense. Since all authorities agree
| that the country that can COM
pound the most deadly projections
will be last to be attacked by other
nations, it is argued that the peo-
pie of the United States must hold
and push their vital chemical sci
ence and industry or fare i'll in the
| future.
Bracing Buildings.
While winter still enforces wait
ing for the start of new construc-
| ton projects all over town, tre-
mendous increase in remodeling
and reinforcing of old buildings
has just begun. Thousands Of loft,
dwelling and even tenement struc-
lures of the older order are being
| touched up with new stills, cornices
and ornamental fronts, to be re-
rented at vastly increased figures.
If conditions should not permit of
/ the maximum construction next
spring it seems certain that New
! Workers. would turn to the removal
| ton of their old buildings to meet
| the pressing demand for more and
! better quarters.
! Cleaning Cinch.
Though whole batteries of new
snow plows and sweepers are lined
up read to charge down upon the
| first heavy snowfall, the town has
! yet to witness them in action on
account of the remarkable alb
sence of snow storms this season.
Kindly rains have washed away
| the few falls of snow that seemed
10 threaten lle-up W tldAllC dnu
nothing stronger than good
broom has been needed to keep the
! pavements of the city clean and
dry. No one is curious enough for
a sight of the storm brigade at
work to wish that this great run
of fair weather luck should
! change. .
ConductorIess Cars.
Absolutely unnamed on all
their platforms except one, huge
trains of subway cars are now be-
ing run experirnentally through
the tubes. With one man operating
all the doors and no man to call
stations, these lengthy lines of cars
are strangely silent and unruffled
at entrance and exit points Perhaps
| the unseen hand at the door awes
the passengers, who loved to fight
the man whom they could see
shutting them out.
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