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Henry Barrett Chamberlin of Chica.
go. The commission has been inves-
ugating for nine months and has con
cluded there is no panacea for crime
but that application of remedies rests
with individual states and individual
citizens. Administration Of justice, 1t
finds, is the most pressing question.
WHILE Mayor Dever Of Chicago
w and District Attorney Olson
were still quarreling about the respon-
Sibility for crime conditions in and
about the city, the criminals demon
strated their contempt for the law
. and it's officers by assassinating an
active assistant states attorney and
two other men with whom he was sit
ting in all automobile, one being q
member Of liquor gang. The muir
derers used Thompson machine gun,
new weapon that seems likely to
Supplant the sawed-off shotgun. AS
has been the case each time the gang
sters have murdered policeman In
Chicago, the killing created a great
furor and brought forth official as
sertions that the criminals would be
caught and hanged and the city
cleaned of all their ilk. But that job
needs something more. Everyone con-
versant with the facts knows well
that at the root of crime coQditions
In Chicago lie these things:
Corrupt politics.
Difficulty In getting convictions Of
criminals, due to the timidity and
dishonesty of juries and to the hest
fancy of judges who fear reversals
by an appellate court that pays too
much attention to technicaities and
petty legal bubbles.
The ease with which the thugs,
when convicted, get out of prison by
the aid Of a cOmplaisant board of par
dons and paroles.
OF the enemies of the Vol
stead act blame it for much Of the
lawlessness. That view is taken by
the Chicago city council in a memo
randum submitted by it to the senate
last week, asking for modification of
the prohibition laws to permit the
sale of beer and wines.
xXIITH only four votes In the mega
w tive, the house passed the treas
ury reorganization bill written by
General Andrews, federal prohibition
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hibition unit and the customs service
to the status of bureaus headed by
commissioners appointed by the sec
retary Of the treasury. These bu-
reaus. with the coast guard, would be
grouped under the direction of a
single assistant secretary charged
with supervision of prohibition en-
forcement. The measure also carries
an amendment to place all except the
highest prohibition officials under
civil service regulations
FRANCE made a new offer for the
funding Of her debt to the Unit
ed States Thursday which was en-
tirely satisfactory to the American
debt commission and to President
Coolidge. 1t was promptly signed by
Secretary Mellon and Ambassador
Berenger. How soon It will be rau,
fed by the American and French
senates is problematical.
The agreement provides for a pay
ment over sixty-twO years Of grand
total of $6,S47, ,674 ,1O4, beginning with
annual payments of $30, 100000 dur
ing each of the first two years and
running up to maximum beginning
with the seventeenth year Of $125,-
OOO,O0O This is an increase Of $627,-
100000 over the total payments off
cred in the Caillaux negotiations last
September The interest over the
sixty-two year period amounts to an
average of slightly more than 1h
per cent.
nEBT funding arrangements with
~ Belgium, Latvia, Rumania, Es-
thonia and Czechoslovakia all were
ratified by the senate, and the Presi
dent signed the Italian debtfunding
bill passed the previous week.
From London comes a story that
leading International bankers are con
sidering a colossal plan for "the liqui
dation In one great ensemble Of the
problems of German reparations and
the war debt--in other words, the
whole question of the intergovern
mental Indebtedness loft to tho vuorld
as one Of the aftermaths Of the World
war" The plan is somewhat hazy
but 1t is based on the idea that the
European debts to the United States
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