Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-07-06


ence recommended the Kiwanis clubs
cooperate in community law observ-
ance and enforcement:
1. Creation of respect for law
among all citizens. Acquaint people
with the actual cost of crime and the
problem confronting the United
States. Overcome Indifference by Gre
ating sound public sentiment for en-
forcement.
2. Close up public nuisances such as
roadhouses, gambling joints and
houses of prostitution.
8. Seek the elimination of delays in
criminal court procedure.
a. Help secure for prisons and other
institutions officials who are penolog-
lists so these reformatories will be
conducted in a scientific and humani-
tartan manner, yet not with over-em-
phasis on sentimentalism.
5. Defeat politicians who tamper
with criminal proceedings and there
fore breaking up the politico-c crime
influences.
6. Create public demands for stop
ping paroles for desperate criminals.
Too many enemies of society are Sc
curing politically controlled pardons.
Traffic Programs
A series of speakers describing
traffic deaths all agreed that there
were better automobiles, safer high
ways, increased insurance protection,
volumes of traffic ordinances and bet
ter handling of traffic! Yet the ire
mendous death rate continues
annually!
Traffic precautions of all kinds have
been taken but the greatest hazards
remaining are the imperfections of
the drivers themselves, speakers ex-
planned. The conference agreed that
this human element can only be con-
trolled by education and punishment.
Kiwanis clubs were urged to study
local enforcement of traffic ordinances
Police must be made responsible for
arrests and the court equally respons-
ible for Furnishing violators, the con-
ference suggested, as the first step
in community control. The cause of a
community unwillingness to advocate
rigid enforcement. Kiwanians admit
ted, was due to public opinion being
sensitive to punishment of violators.
There are at present 1,15O Kiwanis
clubs in the United States and Canada
now engaged in safety programs.
Night traffic still continues to be
the most hazardous and fatal, the
conference reported. It is still four
times more dangerous to drive after
dark, when only 25 per cent of the
traffic is on the roads, than in the
daytime.
Marijuana
1.-THE use of marijuana is on the in
crease and thousands of free lance
peddlers are selling it to youths at
any price they can get for the drug
declared DR.. Charles B. Holman, of
st. Louis, Mo. Because of the illegal
increased use of marijuana and all
other narcotics a special conference
was called to cambat the drug evil.
He told Kiwanians that Furnishing
addicts is merely treating the effect
and important too! But it is not the
main attack! "Our source of attack
must be upon the grower and ped
der" he said. "The peddling of cigar
cites to young people, usually reaches
them through either the grower OF
peddler, whether he be a school en-
ployee, proprietor of a refreshment
stand or dealer in school supplies.
"Our investigations have revealed
that the marijuana weed is growing
in all parts of America. Oftentimes
within a few blocks of police head.
quarters, within the shadows of great
universities, alongside railroad tracks
and beside negro shacks we have
found it," he said.
Organized medicine is spreading
the warning of the increased use OF
narcotics by all strata of society
Progress is being made in the United
States in the suppression of illegal
narcotics. But these still represent a
national menace" he said.
The annual world production OF
morphine was estimated at 81 tons,
"Less than 80 tons are used for legi-
innate needs" DIR. Holman said
Therefore a great over-production
and illegal selling are going on!"