New Britain herald., 1929-07-03
CANON CHASE ASKS REFORM MOVEMENT
 AS CHECK ON CRIME
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{Continued From First Page) figures of annual losses by thieves in the United States:
 Burglary ......'....''s- s-VV'VoV'oOo Dishonest merchandise 5OO,OOu,ooo Embezzlement ....... 2OO,UUo,Ouo Fake bankruptcies ... 500,000,000 Forgery .... 2O0,000,00 Insurance frauds ...... 200, 5,000, 900 Real estate frauds ..... lOO,OOO,c0o Worthless stocks and
 bonds .......-.... 500,Oo0,o0 Financial frauds ..,.$I500,0O0'0oo
 "The gamblers of America moi only cost us vast sums of money but threaten to undermine all business honesty We have become the great est gamblers on earth. More than 160 firms are manufacturers and jobbers of gambling devices, and more than 14O.000 persons are en- gagged in gambling as gainful oc- cupation. The annual volume Of gaming is about $2,0O0, 100000, but some authorities affirm that horse race gambling alone amounts 10 two billions of dollars. Business is in creasingly operated on 8 gambling basis, and Senator Capper recently scored the banks which send money to New York to play in Wall streets gigantic poker game The cpl demic of bank failures in the last ten years is largely due to banI officials playing the stock market to make private fortunes. George Washington said; It (gaming) is the child of avarice, the brother of in iquity, and the father of mischief.
 Those who commercialize the sex appeal not only cost untold billions in money in impure literature and immoral plays. but seriously threat en the home life of our land upon which our civilization is builded.
 Babson Blames Movies
 "Ninety-four of our magazines are excluded from entrance into Canada and about 55 of these magazines are banned from the newsstands of most cities. and excluded from the United States mails. From New York and Wilmington come 79 coarse, licen- tious periodicals. with an aggregate monthly circulation of about 15,0O0,- GOO copies.
 For a generation we have per mitted our greatest visual educa- tional agency which might be our greatest moral educational influence to become the school of crime. not only of the country, but of the whole world. Roger Babson has re- gently said Such studies as I have made lead directly to the movies as the basic cause of the crime waves Of today
 "President Roosevelt, after his brilliant experience in the Spanish American war, after his hunting of wild beasts in Africa, after his ex- ploration of South America, and his travels in four continents with en- thusiasm announced. Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords
 But the war against crime ap- peals to us not merely as business men, and as good sports, but as pa triots, especially on our great na- tional holiday, the birthday of our nation. If our forefathers and wom- en ancestors were great in bringing our nation to the birth. of much greater honor shall they be worthy who deliver her from her greatest peril, the lawlessiess and crime which imperils our civilization.
 Plan of Campaign
 May I suggest plan of cam- pagn in the war against crime. There should be one outstanding ob- jective in the war. Our fighting should be so much against criminals or crime itself as for the/removal of the causes of crime. An ounce of The destruction of the causes of crime is wiser far than the severer penalties for the criminals.
 Tn our war for the right in our national life we need three divisions of our forces, corresponding to the army and navy and the airships. These three divisions of our forces. we shall consider as the new edu- cation, the new artillery. th~ aev politics.
 The New Education
 We need to mobilize all the der effectively to remove the erron- eous ideas and the lawless motives which are producing criminals. The prosperity of our land was built upon the public school systems which is controlled by our local and state governments, That system should continue undisturbed but perhaps stipulated to add to it's stud ies courses in private and public practical morals. Why it is wrong to steal, 10 gamble. to use narcot- ics and to violate the law should be more emphasized than at present in the public schools.
 But in our war against crime We need to create new educational de partment of our federal government in order to meet the new evils O. modern times.
 The ideal method would be 10 create a new department of public welfare, with it's head having a seat in the cabinet, directly responsible 10 the president. There is more need of department 10 defend the public from widespread lawlessness than there was of a department of agriculture, labor or of commerce. when they were created.
 Tn the department Of public vel fare should be placed the prohibit tion unit. the coast guard a legal bureau, the burea of public informa- ton as well as Of education anl whatever would promote obedience to law, especially the prohibition law, as well as the public health service, the narcotic unit. and the care of disasters and epidemiCs.
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