Evening star., 1941-07-06
Civic Problems, Civic Bodies
Broad Study of Factors Lying Behind
d. G.. Crime Is Recommended
By JESSE C. SUTER.

committee
but blacked interest other
interesting reading reports inquiry they
appear in the but there reluctance predict definite
results
appropriation bill been signed by
the President and the local continued operate
legal basis the bill passed the
Senate were lost in conference
requirement payment presidents
In the public schools inserted by the House dropped in
ference In the the authority for the operation OF
the District testing laboratory the lost
These two items of disagreement between House and Senate WI"
continue the District of about $500 900 annually
Wednesday
for the fiscal will continue
per Board of Public
welfare and the District Commissioners have been unable to agree
appointment public welfare succeed Robert
Bondy resigned American Red Cross
board nominated Ray L. Huff at present director
Of penal institutions rejected the first nomna
better qualified for
his position which he is filling efficiently The board
his and the Commissioners are deferrng
action
other week deeply
h the retirement of Senator overton from the carmanshp
the Committee Appropriations
Senator chairman the Subcommittee the Naval
Civic leaders are gratfd that Senator
member the District Subcommittee well as
Committee the District of Columbia.
Oahoney Wyoming who succeeds Senator Over
familiar with District affairs highly regarded locally
with the local community almost entities him to be
old resident.
and neighborhood COM
sections The day closed with mammoth
general celebration the foot of the Washington Monument IN
cuding an elaborate display of fireworks
District Crime Wave Problem Requires Broad Study
community alarmed the increasing number
local of both major and minor degree The large num-
gone unsolved has prompted the House District
Committee to engage in an investigation OF the Ponce
expected that the evidence will disclose weaknesses which may
remeed both personnel equipment and nWaaned IN
reference from the outside.
suspicion extant influx of idlers
be handled through rigid enforcement OF
the vagrancy police OF the
overtime seeps parks will bear looking over In the
found be fuges from other
been identified readily when fngerprned
at headquarters. ..,
, IN yaerans who are unable to give good account
selves the unpopular place OF soourn
In the departure of this type it is expected that there
reduction the number OF petty thefts ana also some
felones .,.. ),
This phase problem of the crime wave it is thought de-
serves thorough determine to what extent 1t Is spo-
be Another inquiry of the civic leaders are IN
teresed is of the extensive sale and use OF aconohc
This has been considered at various times ana
tn divers places, to be fruitful source of crime 49,
The size training adapabiy and equipment OF the Ponce
Denarment are probably the problem but many oeVe
that other factors deserving equal study
District Payment Toward Every Billion Dollars Spent
How Billion Dollars is the subject OF an article
bv Senator H Vandenberg Republican OF Michigan epuo-
shed In the Public Service Magazine Every time
Uncle Sam spends dollars he tells the reader it finally
each State Territory and District IN taxes the amounts
In the appended table -oooooo
oecunes 27th place This means supplying the
billion and exceeds the share OF % States
and Alaska and Hawaii ...
less and the payments of 10 OF these are each less
than In several entire groups of three and four
States less than oneha the amount
Districts share toward every one OF uncle SANS oo-
dollar expenditures.
At the present expenditures of high degree for
the national lendlea salaries OF Senators
and judiciary national officials generally
The unrepresend people of the District hand
soey mounting billions but unlike the people
regarding the imposition OF taxes or the
expenditures of the billions of dollars involved.
tenabe for making any deence between ne
political participation of the people of the States
of Government of the United States is
supposedly national interest District citizens defy anyone
national interest would be endan-
by of the Nation represented in
the Senators of their
choosing They challenge to show plausible reason
endangeng national interest for the exclusion from the eec-
college President and Vice President from the
District OF Columbia
Action Laas on Proposed Merger of Two Courts
pretty we'll sold the idea of the
merger Municipal Police Courts and the creation OF an
appellate court The District Bar Association on
the plan principle However few dsenters
legal profession desire to delay action
Under the plan would be unified into single i
having civil criminal Jurisdiction The consolidated
chief judge There would be nine
would exclusive jurisdiction in
civil all claims up to $4,000.
chief judge would assign associate judges to the several
required by the volume OF business He
would supervision the court and its records and pro-
would provide fexbity and adapab1y to
lacking entirely in the two separate courts
in the several branches OF the
uniform than present The uniform
imposition penalties regarded strong point for
the system.
clearing up shortcomings of the Municipal Court
raising of the jurisdiction to claims up to
expected to give substantial relief to
of the United States for the District OF Columbia
The creation of the intermediate appellate court would
right appeal exist Appeal at present to the
Court Appeals entirely the discretion of that court
problems involved in this question
that hoped the bill will be perfected and passed.