Arizona republican., 1921-09-27
TWO Important Points
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 Two important Points
 He has a big idea. That's what l began to talk about some thousands of words back, before began to talk about Billy Burns himself. He wants to make the secret service the great est agency for the prevention and detection of crime the world has ever known. To do so he hopes to get two things. The first is the working CO., operation of the chiefs of police and the sheriffs and the other police of ficers of the United States. The sec ond is the creation of a great bureau of identification. In the past, as any police officer will certify. the secret service got the lions share of the headlines in any case into which they were called. Sometimes they were entitled to it. for the secret service operatives have ben almighty good mn as class. Sometimes they were not.
 T am going to make 1t plain to the police said the governor, that we are here to aid them, and not to try to boss them or rob them of the credit that is their due. The secret service will cooperate to the best of our ability, but it will be co-opera- ton. I've seen secret service men get off train and every man at the depot knew it. The conductor had been told. The brakeman waved on the glad tidings. Small boys run ming backward, mouths at half cock, escorted them to their hotel. We're not going to advertise. Why, I used to get off the train up the line and walk into a town. That way you tective who talks had best be look ing about for 8 good job as sales man.
 Crooks Were Comparatively Safe In addition to a al,whole- hearted l fair-play cooperation with local po- 1 lice officers. Burns hopes to estab- l lish great central bureau of iden- tification. In the past the esaepe of criminals has been fairly easy 1 That sthe truth. even if it doesn't check up with the fairy stories. Nine criminals out of ten fell because they were fatheads and told about them l selves. There was no broadcast net I to catch them in. The country was checkerboarded, so to say, with safe and dangerous areas. As soon as the offender got out of the area 1T which he had pulled his trick he feli
 himself comparatively safe.
 l Some cities had police forces man aged by alert detectives which ht
 
 made other cities unsafe. But un- less the criminal were an old of sl fender and known to the detectives l he felt himself fairly saef as soor
 as he was out of the town in whicl \ he had broken the law. He nigh
 have to hopssotch a little in avoidins
 danger spots, but not too much
 There were not many danger spots
 Every spot will be a danger spot i
 Burns has his way.
 He proposes to furnish every polic'
 chief with fingerprints, descriptions
 etc, of offenders who are wanted. H,
 hopes to get the same courtesy iron
 the chiefs in return, and these de
 scriptions he will multigraph ant
 pass on. The European detectiy agencies will cooperate. The tim will come if this plan goes througl as planned. that when a known crim ina1 makes a mistake he will fee that wherever he goes an eye is oi him. Burns thinks there is psychol ogy in it.
 How Banks Are Made Safe "The bank that is protected by tin sign stating that So-and Sos de tective agency is watching it is safe, said he, nine times out of ten" hWen the bill for the reorganiza ton of the government services be comes a law-assuming that it vii l become law-Burns will be at tn head of the entire secret service 0 the United States. Then the poo nut who thinks he can safely tea into a bank or postoffice will be talk ing desperate chances. In the frs