Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-03-07

aggregating $412,5s1 and sentences
Between October. 1919, and July I.
lsZ5. the secret service recovered i,4ec
s46s6.79S20. ueu 7'
Anere VIII soon be organized In con-
nectlon with Washington headousr-
ters central office for filing ali An
s pr, prints ana other means Of identi-
lowing criminals will be centraIixsd
and available instantly throuehout
the world. through wireless photoe-
rspny' by which finger prints and
even portraits can be transmitted,
America. Many veterans Of the world
war are being rehabilitated by a,
ton.
Crime Is increasing in America-es.
pecial1y radicalism and treason. There
exist no reliable statistics covering
the entire country as to crime, but
certain great cities have local data.
and the law Of averages Is known TO
be SO reliable that even from such a
cross-section Of facts it is recosnized
that crime is growing formidable.
The radical propaganda inspired by
the third tnternationale, centering in
Russia, is SO dangerous In America
that 1t requires close watching. The
alleged organ published In this coun-
try used to appear weekly, but II
Is now published daily and its cir
culation is increasing. The third In
ternationale seeks the overthrow of
all government and the upbuildiug
OF communistic soviet control.
The following excerpt is from the
program of the communists:
THE fourth world congress (f922)
calls upon the proletarians Of the as
yet capitalist countries. inspired by
the example OF soviet Russia, to
strike a death blow against capital
world revolution"
Another excerpt:
Should the entire capitalism of
Europe give way under the hammer
would still remain the capitalism of
Asia, headed by the robbers of Japan,
and the capitalism Of America, head
ed by the enormous robbers league
10 The program Of the COM
munist party is not only a program
for the liberation Of the proletariat
of one country-it Is a program for
s the absr a1s Of 'h' peoples Of the
method of supporting the interna-
tional revolution of the whole world,
the method of supporting uprsings
in the colonies of these peoples"
From the above it is evident that
the fundamental intent OF the social
lists and communists is to- foment IN
rest and crimes ofs violence. These
are watched by agents Of the secret
service, who often become members
Of the organizations for the purpose
OF keeping in touch with their plans.
According to Sir Basil Thompson,
head of Scotland Yard, London, one
American out of every 10000 is muir
dered, while In England only one out
OF $4,000 is SO killed. Americans are
the most violent people in the civil
ICED world, as shown by crimes of
violence, but they are more honest
than the English-there are fewer
cases Of fraud and forgery per hun
dred Thousand in America than in
England, as Sir Basil testifies.
One Of the most experienced war
dens Of a penitentiary told the prss-
ent writer that there Is one crime of
which the perpetrator never reforms.
It. Is forgery. The forger always at
tributes HIS detection to bit Of his
own acarelessness and he always I'm
time. a crime of violence may be
temptation, hut q crime Of mental
acuteness is more likely to be per-
sistent.
Copyright. 1924, by Paul V. Collins.i