Arizona republican., 1921-09-27
CHIEF BURNS WILL MAKE UNITED STATES SECRET SERVICE BEST IN WORLD.
NEW SECRET SERVICE HEAD TO ESTAB- LlSH CENTRAL BUREAU OF IDENTI- FICATION; WILL MAKE ESCAPE OF CRIMINALS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE

friends who know him as W. d. But if you have been really intimate with him of late years-if you know what this square built, friendly. clear-eyed little Irishman has been doing-you call him Governor" That's the mark of caste. It shows you belong.
 Attorney Generals Opinion
 In recognition of the existence of another body of thought, it should be added here that a lot of other people do not call MT Burns any of the pet names hereinbefore set forth. They have made up lot of pet names all their own. There are people who can call him pet names for hours not only without repeating themselves but without actually getting into their strides. Anyhow, Billy Burns was put at the head of the United States secret service by Attorney General Daugherty because Daugherty has known Burns and his work during a good part of his life. The attorney general thinks he has pretty fair idea of what Burns can do.
 Down here in Washington they say that Burns's first meeting with the local lodge of secret service operatives was instructive and entertaining. They had been getting along perfect ly all right with ex-Chief Flynn and with various other chiefs whose friends now fear they are tsetering on the brink of vast abyss. That didn't incline them toward fondness for the new chief. Burns had been a perniciousty active private detective, too. and that is no recommendation to a U. S s. S. man. They say he calied the local lodge to order-about 3o of them-and they turned the sar- etsnic eye or. him. They win'.rl at each other. One or two even ven tured on a witty side rena K.
 Note There has been no sar- donicking done about the lodge since then. Not only has no one wiliked. but no enc has even battcd an eye. There hasn't been a witicisnl h..ai d about headquarters since
 No Place for Badge -Flashers
 Theyssay that Burns told them that badge -flasherss and mouth shooters had to go. He had had enough of detectives who parked at citizens. He had a complete monopoly of the barking privileges about H. O., end he would be pleased to show samples. In visits to headquarters he had noted that U s. operatives had a habit of parking themselves in the corridors. He wouldn't say they should not use the corridors. but they must understand the corridors were only intended to afford ingress and egress. The theory that crime could be presented and detected by sleuths tilting back on office chairs and pull ing at nerve-wrecking black cigars had never met with his complete SUD- port. he said. He thought a little more travel and thought would bring in a bigger bag.
 Some of them didn't believe it. So 10 or dozen or such a matter are nowA at liberty and persons wanting good, strong detectives can find such by applying at their boarding houses. Burns's office door is open. No when he wants to talk business, and not one of them ever comes in to talk anything else Gossip is as far below par as is Grand Trunk common. A large and elaborate stock of self-im- portance has been all shot to the dickens, too One dignified detective came into Burns's office not long ago
 Idont think you want me-ME- to handle this case" said he, fixing Burns with hard eye.
 No" said Burns. giving the case ohe look and the detective another No. I'll say I don't Go back te 1 your office and wait for orders'' The orders were, in effect, to leave 1 the key of his desk on the way out 1 Another detective came in the othel day with a complaint concerning some poor geezer who had been violating law It was sure enough violation all right, but no crime had been com mitted. It was a sheer tecnicality But the detective wanted to hun down the citizen.
 Dealing With Detectives
 No said Burns. 'I'll admit h. violated the law But he didn't know it. There are plenty of real crimi nals for us to go after without load
 ing up an expensive shotgun to sldoo cooties .with.''
 He has been carrying on wha might be called an intimate core spondence with senators and repre-
 sentatives and prominent citizens ol | horseback and the like ever since h. got into, the job. Every time he fire 1 a detective friends gather about tn l remains and make sad noises. Bu
 it doesn't do any good. Burns want
 good detectives, and only good detec
 tives, in the United States secret ser ! vice. The man who can make goo
 is on the way to promotion and pub
 lie mention and all that sort of thini
 as fast as Burns can fix it. No in
 fluence can save the man who doe
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