The Phoenix index. (Phoenix, Ariz.) 193?-19??, 1939-08-12
Reaching Criminal Classes

A CHURCH GROUP recently declared It's intention OF
presenting united front, of making attack
crime Its pointed phrases borrowed from the communists
may sound all right but their resolution thus to attack
crime, is probably biting off than they chew
Crime begins simply but it rises into the complexities
of human society with unbelievable rapdity Nor on4
fix crime on any class" of people, There criminals
in all The poorer only to be GRIM
na than other classes because they have little
troll publicity and appearances
There beliefs about Negroes for instance,
which absolutely false For instance Negroes work in
certain stores saspeope but often not allowed to
ring the cash register The only implication of this that
Negroes be watched but while they being thus
checked many shipping clerk and employee other than
Negroes getting away with the goods
But regardless of these shorsghted things the breed
ing of criminals long story The rush to industrial jobs
during the World War; the creation of abnormal appetes
and the struggle to satisfy hem the peo
pe in small areas in the large cities the exploiting of
these by politicians, gangsters loan sharks
further exploiting poor Negro people by their
called eaders-these and more abnormalltes are the
breeders of crime
Someone is always waxing enthusiastic Frontal
attack on our ills patient readers will please CON-
tinue to remain repeat for the thousandh tme
there is royal road to the solution of problems.
sporadic shallow preachment against crime is only
surface treatment You may re gangsters agansx
you and stir up crime but the surface will not have
been scratched until recognize the causes of crime and
attack them at their sources
Whv did Negroes leave the farms and pour into the
cities? Answer because they could not make living
there because conditions there otherwise ntoler
able and because being human they had ambitions for
Why do Negroes herd into ghettos in the cities! An
they do first because they poor secondly be-
they Jim crowed and thirdly because they have
the habit sticking the lines of least resistance which
with their colored people.
Why are Negroes such easy victims for so many alb
normaties? Answer because this socaled education Ne
roes getting emphasize the fact that he must
protect himself The majority of his expoiters are allied
with the group that holds the steering wheel of publicity
and in of Schools both public and private, ele-
mentary and college, the atmosphere is charged with in
uences the expoter rather than the exploited
When the young Negro goes to churchill he ever
doeshe hears about the busite the sraetes and the
Htttes, but the problems of the Atantaes the Macon
ties the plain country people that surround those Clues
or who have them crowded out because OF
some temporary idea represented by OF lnfut
ence' *4NtR
These people, because of these conditions crowd the
despicabe police thru fault of their own
little organized effort to keep them out
court find all possible fault with organza-
tons like the NAACP which does make feeble effort
this direction and this writer believes that often this
against the NAACP started because 1t asks
us to pay miserable dollar year for liberty!
There is but way to make mass attack on
crime do voting! We must register and vote
We must pay poll taxes long the despsed thing
STAYS on the statute books But whatever the cost we
must vote There other out of the obligation we
owe those who have fallen into criminal tendencies.
We must remember that criminal people once as
valuable as anyone else. Very few people are born with
criminal tendencies Many people develop criminal tenden-
because of low resisting power to an favoraDe en-
vironment 1t the environment that must YETI
of afraid of the seriousness OF the social o
ration necessary to change that environment.
The attack need to make crime is to amass
enough votes appeal to otherwise deaf ears WheeA
hear.