Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-06

whistle kept handy, IN an IN
side coat pocket or a skirt
pocket, might give even a
felled. breathless victim a
chance to blow for life.
Where can we buy police
whistles? I'll purchase one.
Eva Scott.
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The papers are much con-
cerned over violence on the
street." here and elsewhere.
Everyone is Mortified, yet they
disclaim knowledge of any
reason for such unorthodox
behavior.
What about the movie
menu for Maryland, the Dist
riot and nearby Virginia? One
Offering is 81 Was a Teen
Age Frankenstein." The ads
illustration is gruesome be-
You'd belief. The other is
equally wholesome: Blood
of Dracula." This is fetch
ingly illustrated by a female
vampire. in a low-cut what
ever it is vampires wear, +,
strangling a young victim.
Some judgment day we
are going to have to stand up
and account for every
thought and every deed of
our lives. How are the per-
sons who make and display
these bestial and soul-de-
strcying films going to stand
up and explain away the
harvest they are sowing and
society is reaping?
Alice Buxbaum.
4 X 4 x
While accompanying out
of-town guests to dinner, via
No. / Precinct, where IS was
forfeited for neglecting to-
reduce hi-beam lights after
coming on a dark parkway.
the solution to cur local crime
wave suddenly struck me.
While this brawny, helmeted
policeman riding his chrome
spoked charger had caught a
visitor in a minor traffic vio-
lation, my children were be-
ing protected at home by a
German police dog. So why
not turn the Police Depart
nent over to the dogs with
the BRAIN, and the traffic
problems could be aptly han,
died by the men with the
brawn?
Mrs. f. w. ]. s.
Assault and robbery on the
streets of Washington will
continue as long as the GRIM
inals, young or old, go free.
To do them justice. the
police do catch some of them.
take them into court, and
then what happens? So
called welfare workers"
hover over the thugs protec-
lively so that not even the
judges dare speak a cross
word to the defiant law
breakers. Consequently, they
are Immediately released be-
cause they are Juveniles"
and allowed again to roam
the streets in search Of their
prey. They literally thumb
their noses at the courts and
the law. Why not? They are
always permitted to "get
away with it,"
Women of Washington are
practically prisoners in their
own h o m les after dark;
women who are decent cit
liens. who pay taxes suppos-
edly for ordinary civic pro-
lection. That is a deplorable
and disgraceful condition.
If these young hoodlums
are strong enough to knock
down a woman, they are
strong enough to be put to
work on a farm where labor
will use up some Of that ram
pant energy in productive
results and atonement for
crime. because assault and
robbery, no matter at what
age, is certainly crime and
should be punished as such.
T. J. Burke.
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Equal Justice Under Law"
what does 1t mean? Under
current court procedure in
the District, certainly the
criminal is favored and the
law-abiding citizen is sadly
neglected. One can hardly
conceive of such a situation
in the Capital Of the leading
nation on earth, Yet it OBJ
tains and worse1s. Even an
aroused citizenrys can't do
much. What then to do?
NJ. w.
Baltimore's successful ex-
pertinent with dogs might
help solve Washington's
crime problem. What greater
deterrent to hoodlums than
a big, furry. sharp-fanged.
housekeeping Splinter that
never heard Of our political