Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-03-10

finds its business to be rather profit
able and he characterizes their collec-
tons as easy money"
The so-called State Police Book
could obtain second class mailing pri-
vileges without being required to sub
nit a subscription list If Mather and
his associates could prove TO the
United States Government that he
and his associates were not issuing
the publication for profit, provided, of
course, they could also prove that
they represented a real organization.
1t is remarkable indeed, as Olander
stated, that staid solid business men
of Illinois can so easily be led around
have styled themselves the State Po-
lice Auxiliary Committee.
We can not close without answer
ing another point raised by Mr.. Mat
her. 1t is not on record in the an
nails of the History of the State Of
Pennsylvania that its state constabul-
airy ever pursued any criminal for
thirteen years as alleged by Mather.
The facts in the case he referred to
are that the police of another state
apprehended the criminal in question,
the constabulary had nothing to do
with the capture whatsoever, except
that couple of its members took a
Joy ride to bring the captive back in
to the state after the regular police
had made the capture. This was then
heralded as a great achievement OF
the >constabulary system and OF
course counted in the miles of pa
troln duty performed by the Pennsyl-
vania cossacks.
Mr.. Mather's letter follows:
To the Editor
Victor A. Olander's address at
Champaign, Wednesday, February 10,
is before us. We find nothing radical
about it, far less so than is true in
talks given by other labor leaders. 1t
is interesting to hear Mr. Olander
talk, but we find little of educational
value in what he said. He admits
that the system of State Police pro-
posed for Illinois is patterned after
the Pennsylvania State Police system,
then intimates that they would not
patrol the highways. He neglected to
say that in 1921 the Pennsylvania
State Police force patrolled highways
of that state to the extent of 1,S08,094
miles; that it recovered stolen prop
erty to the estimated value of S601,-
$50 was represented in automobiles,
considerable portion of which was
stolen from farmers and residents of
small communities. He neglected TO
say that on the second day of Febru-
airy, 1922, the State Police arrested
murderer after chase of IL years;
that murder occurred near small
Pennsylvania town and in a county
with little other than State Police
protection and without funds suffici-
ent to keep up the chase. He neg
lected to say that the New York
State Troopers patrolled highways to
the extent of 1908, 264 miles in 1921,
recovered 257 stolen automobiles and
stolen property to the value of $685.
116. This would have been informa-
ton had he told the facts.
He jumps on the State Police Aux
iliary Committee because it collects
its funds from Illinois interests and
citizens, then admits it spends the
money; quite different from some
time ago, when it was insinuated that
John ID. and the Carnegie Foundation
were back of the movement in Illinois.
He is gradually gathering facts, thus
removing things imaginary from his
mind. He nearly curses because the
State Police Book is not entered as
Second-class matter; when every
printers 'deviP knows that second
class is a special privilege, the rules
requiring a paid subscription list and
a published subscription price. The
State Police Book has neither; it is
for free circulation, therefore, not
subject to second-clasS privileges. He
could have instructed his auditors on
that point, but preferred insinuations
and false charges. The conspicuous
part of his talk was what he did not
say.
State Police Auxiliary Committee.
f. l.. Mather.