The Washington times., 1931-03-24
COMMISSION
ENDS WORK
On JULY
Present Indications Are Some
of Money Appropriated
Will Remain Unexpended

President Hoover's law enforce
ment commission has completed
another of it's reports, that deal
ing with crime statistics, and will
submit the document to the Presi-
dent shortly after it's April / meet
ing, it was learned today.
Behind in Work
Doomed to pass out Of existence
at the end of the present fiscal
year, July l, the law enforcement
body is working under forced
draught to. bring its work as near
completion as possible.
Under the present working
schedule, all work will be complete
on June 80, except the report on
juvenile delinquency and that
dealing with the Federal court
structure.
Juvenile delinquency work will
continue after the commission
dies, under the auspices of the
White House child welfare confer
ence, which will then foot the bills.
What will happen to the two
thirds completed study on cri1ni-
nal court structure and procedure
is matter of doubt George w.
Wickersham, commission chair
man; declared another year would
be needed for completion of this
study. No "angel" has been
found for the work as yet, and
no hope of Federal aid remains,
as Congress is in adjournment.
To Have Money Left
approximately $4,000 will re-
main in the commission treasury
when it goes out of existence
July 1, according to present esti-
mates, although heavy overtime
printing bills may take more of
this than is expected. Expenses
ut present run about $4,000 a
month. There is approximately
$125,O0O in the treasury.
The crime statistics, collected
under the direction Of Dean Ros-
coe Pound of the Harvard Law
School, have been considered
second in Importance only to the
paramount prohibition study
recently completed and published.
The report embraces, in addi-
ton to a general survey pre-
pared by Pound, detailed studies
on State criminal statistics by
Prof. Sam Boss Warner, Of Har-
ward Law School, and a critique
on Federal criminal statistics by
Morris Ploscowe, commission in
veStigator.
Second of IL Jobs
The statistics report will mark
completion of the second of the
II jobs the commission set itself
to when it divided into II divi-
sionS shortly after formation. 1t
will be followed, in order, by re-
ports dealing with prosecutions,
police activities, lawlessness among
Government authorities, crime
among the foreign born, penal
institutions, probation and parole,
and the cost and causes Of crime.
Commissioners are depending
on. the data compiled under the
statistics report to fill a wide gap
in American crime records. These,
official declared at the inception
of the law enforcement body in
1929. were too sketchy to furnish
any valuable information on
which to begin work Of a correc-
tive nature. They hoped to use
the crime statistics report as the
basis for the building of an
American crime record similar to
that in use by British authorities.
Board Glad It's Over
Most of the compilation work
has been completed except that
embraced in the juvenile delin-
uuency and court structure re-
ports.
Three months hence the green
leather chairs in the commodlous
office of the commission will be
moved to the Government supply
depot here, to be sold or supplied
to some other office. Closing Of
the commission will throw about
a dozen regularly employed work
ers out of jobs, as well as nearly
a hundred who have been en-
gagged in research and study for
the law enforcement body.
The commissioners, for their
part, privately expressed pleasure
at the approaching end of their
two-year job.