Evening star., 1934-06-04

Congress, and having done so. take
up regulation in the several States.
"'(D) Attempt to add. automatic
ally, 10 years to any sentence where
the malefactor has been carrying
weapon when arrested
"(E) Agitate for State police.
Buck Passing Attacked.
"'(F) Refuse to let the local COM
munity pass the crime buck to the
State, and the State to Washington.
"(G) Watch the procedure in local
criminal courts and fight for quick
action.
"'(H Watch the press and motion
pictures Do the pictures emphasize
either the romance or the ease of
protest with your local management.
"'G Contact and encourage the
local police See that they are prop
erly equipped.
"'(J If outside a city or town,
contact the county sheriff He, too,
needs public encouragement and
equipment. Bandits escape through
county roads. Men are taken for a
ride and kidnapers race their victim
through country roads and hide them
in remote districts. Never before has
the county sheriff faced such con-
dition.
"'(K) Report any failure on the
part of the police force, and follow
this report up.
I'D Serve on juries and be will
ing to take the witness stand against
any lawbreaker.
"'CM) And form your own secret
sixr
1T is this last phase which has the
most appeal to women, think. and
certainly its success in San Diego
since I made the suggestion shows
what can be done. But some of the
other points are very important, also.
1t is the delays of the law, as every
one realizes. But so few seek to
eliminate, which abet the criminal.
Political Corruption Root.
at is the fact that the criminals
are equipped with machine guns,
bombs and every modern facility,
while so many of our police forces
are operating without proper weapons,
without radios in patrol cars and that
sort of thing, which makes successful
elimination of so many crimes pos
sible
"The root, Of course is political
corruption. Women can take care of
that, once they go running down the
facts in secret six fashion. With that
cesspool cleaned up, cooperation with
the local police, organization or eff
fective State police forces. and filing
of all necessary information with the
! national agency, will make the re-
wards of crime so slight and the GER
tainty of punishment so great, that
venal professional crime will disap-
pear from the land.
"Of course, we are not hoping to
eliminate all crime. We cannot hope
to prevent murders resulting from
passion, jealousy, or other primeval
causes. Nor can we altogether check
petty pilfering by the hungry or the
naturally dishonest. But we can make
crime mighty unattractive as means
of gaining an easy living.
And women can do the job. An
army of women, aided by a militant
minority of men. can accomplish this
thing. They just need to be en-
couraged. Police chiefs tell me the
number Of kidnapings in this country
is perfectly appalling. Very few of
them are recorded in the newspapers,
especially for little ones-cases where
a ransom of hundred dollars. or
three hundred dollars. is demanded.
The frightened parents are told if
they notify the police or the papers
their child will be killed. They have
the few hundred dollars demanded,
and they pay it over.
Surely, if men will not stop this,
women must"
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