The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-03-08
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. PEOPLE GROW
MORE EvAS|vE
Disrespsct for Prohibition
Amendment Also Increasing,
William Hard Finds.

Crime In the United States has
passed its PEAK and IL declining.
The United States is returning to
normalcy In crinie."
That 10 what am told by Mr..
William j. Burns. super-detective
and head Of the Bureau Of Investiga-
ton In the Department Of Justice.
On the other hand q member Of
the Federal Reserve Board tells me
that Treasury officials are quite
unanimous In believing that Ameri-
can income tax payers are evadtng
their taxes much more than they
used to. Income tax dodging-
which In certainly q crime---is i'm
creasing. In fact It is increasing
very rapidly. BY some people here
the theory IL advanced that while
crime in general may be about to 60
down. the disrespect of the country
for the Federal Government is go
ing up.
Senator Walsh of Montana has
just succeeded In getting u new
step forward for his report on the
unlawful actions Of the Federal
Government In the Department OF
Justice under Mitchell PalmSr. This
report by Senator Walsh was In
subcommittee Of the Senate's
Judiciary Committee. 1t is now
advanced to the consideration Of
the full Judiciary Committee. 1t
reveals o long tale Of unlawful
searches. unlawful arrests. and un-
lawful acts of violence by the De-
partment Of Justice in its enforce
ment Of Federal law.
A member of the United States
Supreme Court while Mr.. Palmer
was Attorney General once said:
| off the Department Of Justice
the law. the people 1t is pursuing
might have more respect for the
law"
Mr.. Burns claims that he has
restored lawful and constitutional
normally now in the Bureau Of In
vestigations Of the Department OF
Justice and that the agents of the
bureau are no longer permitted to
search people and arrest people and
otherwise modest and harass the
citizenry Of the country at their
own free will without warrants
from a court. Inquiry seems to
substantiate Mr.. Burns statement.
The Department of Justice seems
to have come back to live within
the Constitution.
The motor-cars of boot-leggers in
Washington are nevertheless get
ting grander all the time. The
Federal Government is not making
much progress in getting respect
for its prohibition amendment In
it, own Capital.
Nor il It making much progress
IN getting respect for its sincerity
in urging the business community
of this country TO bring back good
times by reducing the number of
the unemployed.
Col. Arthur Woods, who IN I'm
charge of the Federal Governments
clearing house of information re-
garding unemployment and who is
carrying on the work left behind by
Mr.. Hoover's Federal conference on
| unemployment. went out recently to
hold a meeting on the subject of I'M
employment up somewhere in the
neighborhood of New York.
1t was admitted at the meeting
that Colonel Woods was doing his
work we'll, but just about every
local speaker took q swing at the
Federal Government for telling pri-
vate business to find employment
for the unemployed while the Fed.
eral Government was turning off
large numbers Of navy yard workers
without any previous plans whatso-
NJ L.
anywhere else.
At the gate of one OF the federal
buildings in Washington there was
recently a young Waterman. He Is
there no longer. He was at one time
marine. He enlisted in the ma
rines young. He fought in France.
At the end Of the war he was de-
modified. He then went to work
for the Federal Government as a
Waterman. His only employer has
been the Federal Government. The
other day some appropriation gave
(put and instantly he ceased to have
an employer. He was without
job. Now he Is looking for one in
company with the discharged en-
ployes from the local navy yard.
They observe that the. firm of
Krupp in Germany was able to turn
Its machinery from making weapons
of war to making the commodities
Of peace almost over night. They
conclude that Krupp's could re-
verse the process and turn from
peace-time work to wartime work
with similar speed. They propose
accordingly that the Federal Gov.
eminent should use the navy yards
for making various peace-time COM
modities and 30 keep the navy
yards In operation continuously.
Then the Federal Government
would have those yards immedi.
ately in its own hands for instant
warship work in case Of war.
The merit claimed for this sug.
gestion is that the Government had
great difficulties with the private
shipyards when II began to take
control of them at the beginning
of the late war. 1t would be an
advantage to the Government al.
ways to have as many yards of its
own as possible. 1t is also claimed
and In large part proved-that