The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-11-22
Attorney Faulkner
 Gives Discussion,
 Crime Prevention
Cites Figures Comparing United States with Italy
 New York, London

Attorney H l.. Faulkner speak ing over KINY Sunday in the Crime Prevention" broadcast spon- | sOred by the Juneau Woman's Club,
 taking for his subject Character Education vs Crime" gave reasons why there is so much current dis cussion of crime and lawlessness. While not citing any detailed sta- tisticS he gave a few easy to re- member such as there are three times as many crimes per 1000 pop ulation in the United States as in Italy; that there have been four and a half as many men and women killed through homicide in this country since the armistice was signed as were killed in our mili- tary and naval forces by the army and navy of Germany during the war"
 Comparing the records of London and New York, the two largest cities in the world, it was pointed out that while London had a larger popula- ton and twice the area, for every 19 murders committed in London there were more than 300 in New York; and that ' out of every 10 convicted for murder in London were executed, whereas the pro- portion in New York was in every 160. 'ifi
 This, MT. Faulkner said, is due in part to more efficient administra- ton of the laws, but in far larger part to a greater respect for the laws; and that both these factors reflected a higher average intelli-. gence in the people of Great Britain as a whole. Therefore the problem of crime was directly connected with educa tion." -t'''i
 He agreed with Mrs. R. B. Lesher in her address a previous Sunday that the schools alone could not properly educate child It is a CO., operative undertaking of the home, the church and the school If any enc of these agencies fails in it's part the other two are intellectual; and the general tendency is to place the whole burden on one-the school. "
 The strengthening of these three agencies, necessary to the task of real education, is the responsibility of every adult person whether par ent or not, the speaker said.
 MT. Faulkner further said. "Mul- titudes of individuals in the nation feel that they may stand apart and place the blame for all the ills of society on the school, the church CT perhaps some branch of the government or on some government tai policy, while escaping all indi- vidual responsibility themselves un- mindful of the fact that there is no social wrong whose central respon- sibility is not inside individuals rather than in institutions. A great dOdl Ol IlOIlOCllot 10 days about social wrong, as though society were kind of organism or personality that could be of itself moral or immoral, apart from the persons who compose it; whereas the fact is that all goodness and badness are first of all inside indi- viduals and only secondarily in their relationships. Social wrongs are only the outcome of the way in which these same multitudes of individuals, and other individuals behave.
 Our primary dependence, there fore, must be on personal intelli- gence and personal character and net on organizations as such, or on laws or on codes or on systems; for here in us, and here alone, are all the ideas and attitudes and immor- alities that, pooled and massed to- gether, make every social wrong there is.