The New York herald., 1922-09-13
POLICE ASK HALT
In ARMY GUN SALES
Chiefs Criticize Government
for Disposing of Weapons
to the Public.
SAY 1T MAKES LAW JOKE
Speaker Declares More People
Carry Pistols in U. S. A.
Than in All Europe.

Police chiefs OF American cities who
are delegates to the national confer
cnce now in session here registered COM
splaint yesterday that while the Ameri-
can Bar Association and other conserva-
tive bodies are striving TO keep deadly
Uncle Sam himself is offering such
weapons wholesale in many parts OF the
country at cut rates.
The convention. which held its open
Ing sessions In the hall GO The Chamber
OF Commerce. adopted unanimously. and
sent to It's resolutions committee. with
every prospect OF approval a resolution
the sense of which was that the police
chiefs OF the country support and ap-
prove the attitude OF the American Bar
Association IN declaring for the legal re-
stricton of tho manufacture and sale
OF firearms TO military and peace Of
ficers. including persons exercising
fiduciary functions. such as bank Of
ficials and messengers. mail clerks and
tho like.
This brought to his fec; Chief French
OF Columbus. Ohio. who said he hoped
the resolution would be so framed rs
to discourage the attitude of tho
Federal Government in offering for sale
promiscuousy from old army stores
trench knives. bayonets and other
weapons left over from the world war"
The Ohio chief added that the whole
Middle West lis flooded With circulars
Offering for sale at IS each six shooter
revovers of the type that was standard
In the service just before the war"
William McAdoo. Chief City Magis-
trate. who had read paper earlier in
the afternoon on Crime and the Law"
had scored the pistol as .'the curse of
America" The Sullivan law was a
joke. he said. so long as any crook
could go across the river and get all
the guns he wanted. District Attorney
Banton also spoke on The Prosecutor
and the Police"
At the opening of the morning session
Irving t. Bush. president Of the Cham
Der of Commerce of the State of New
York, welcomed the attending dele
gates. including especially the repre-
sentatives from Great Britain. Belgium
Denmark, Canada and South America
Commissioner Enright, in his address
as president Of the conference. reported
that the police departments of 7o0 cities
OF the United States are now enrolled
in the organization.
After a luncheon rendered by the
Chamber of Commerce, Augustus o.
Stanley. United States Senator from
Kentucky, delivered an address on the
theme: Industrial Confiicts-the I'm
derlying Causes-the Powers and Duties
OF Government in Relation Thereto"
"The vital question confronting the
governments of the world to-day" the
speaker asserted. lis not the further
regulation. but the liberation OF man
kind just how one again to leave men
and women alone in the working out Of
fhair AMI industrial galyafinn
50 long as In so doing they do not in
fringe upon the tangible and ascertain
able rights of another"
The delgates then were taken by
motor cars to the steamship Adriatic,
lying at West Seventeenth street, where
tHey were the dinner guests Of the
White Star Line. p. A. S. Franklin.
president of the line. presided and
Captain Hugh David OF the Adriatic. as
sisted him in receiving.
At the evening session in the ballroom
Of the Waldorf-Astoria Commissioner
Enright brought up the subject OF ex-
tradition and after much discussion
motion was adopted to the effect that
the committee on resolutions draft
resolution to be referred to the proper
authorities requesting them to adopt
legislation standardizing extradition laws
not only between the States but also
Governments. The resolution also is to
ask that the United States place a police
attache in each of its embassies and
legations abroad and that this Govern
ment ask foreign Governments to recip-
rocate by placing police attaches In
Washington for the facilitating Of extra
dition and of police information.
The chief paper of the evening was
one read by DIR. Carleton Simon. Spe-
cial Deputy Police Commissioner of New
York. on Criminal Narcotic Drug Ad-
diction." To point the moral that you
cannot catch narcotic addcts by the
use of Uniformed policemen or of stool
pigeons Commissioner Simon, after
reading his paper. staged a little com
edy which for time comnleteiy de-
ceived the visiting police chiefs Sew.
eral of his narcotic squad detectives ar
rived at the hotel with a batch Of rner
whom Or: Simon designated as "typicai
drug addicts..