The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-08-12


From our mistakes of that
other war, we learned In the
years between the wars we we're
gradually building up the eff
cheney of our police methods.
Instead of some 20 police or
CARNATIONS of federal and local
governments, the task of proVid-
ing for our internal security was
conferred in three principal or
CARNATIONS. CO. or the Intelli-
gence division OF the Army;
ONI or the Office Of Naval In
telligece, and the FBI, the Fed
eral Bureau Of Investigation.
The latter was designated by the
President at the outbreak of the
war as the coordinating agency
for law enforcement. working
with those other excellent fed
cral agencies.
HAD POLICE AID
Between the wars. too. the FBI
gradually had built up It's Mob
ilIzation Plan whereby state.
county and city police officers
had the opportunity to learn
FBl methods and coordinate
Their work with that OF the fed
eral goVernmcnts-not al a Ges-
tapo. but as a democratic force
for law and order When the
second war broke out, we were
prepared.
Whereas. on the first DAY of
war IN 1917, only So enemy Sus-
poets were arrested on the first
day of the present war, we ar
rested more than 1000
And while only 1000 had been
detained in the first week Of the
first war. in the first week of
the second war We had taken in
10 custody over 1000
So well have the law enforce
mcnt organizations Of the United
States been prepared for this
emergency that we have had no
need for a volunteer police
army such as the old American
Protective League
True we have our volunteers
today who give us ineStImable
ald In reporting every suspicious
ac, But these volunteers are
not limited TO any $50 600 In
stead We count them ny the mil
tons-the- loyal Americans who
have rallied TO every patriotic
Impulse % watch for the spy,
the sabo;eur 20 guard the Sc
Cre,S Of our war plants. our
troop and ship movements. 10
protect Us from the enemy with
IN
Two hundred reports have
come 20 Us for instance. Of para
chutis,S having landed on our
shores All have been run
down They ranged on inveSti-
cation from a little boy flying a
kite 90 a man carrying a sack of
flour on his shoulder. All these
reports. even when proved
eroundleSS have been OF value
20 as The, have helped US to
hold our enemy outside our
country
And We have kept our enemy
from dong great harm We
have had no Black Tom diSas-
ter no KingSland fire, no at
tempt 20 blow. up the Interna-
tiOnal Bridge In the last three
and half wears there have been
some 10000 cases Of sabotage
scpartoG Technical sabotage
was present in some form in
fewer than 1000 cases and there
have been fewer than 500 con
victionS In the past year there
have been only 90 convictions
for sabotage But the important
thing in all this is that in not
one OF these 10000 cases has
there been any evidence Of for
eign-directed sabotage The ma
jority Of these cases are from
causes normally found in peace
tim e-the SplteWork Of diSgrun-
tied employees.
WRECKED SPY SYSTEM
The increase in the effective
ness of our police methods has
been directly reflected in the
fact that our enemies have had
10 change entirely their methods
OF espionage, Today we are
driving the spy so far under
ground that We are freed from
the plottingS OF a Capt Won
Rintelin We broke the back
Of foreign espionage in the New
York case IN which 33 enemy
agents were taken into custody.
and in the Ludwig case which
Welded nine.
BY our detention Of some IA
600 enemy aliens in this war.
as against only $500 in the first
World Mar We have saved cur
country countless millions. SO
thoroughly has the enemy been
thwartcd that he was finally
forced to land eight saboteurS
from a submarine. The detec-
ton. trial and conviction of those