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cs % Propeses the Novel Experiment: ef Entercing the Laws We Have oo «Killing @ Man Is Safer Here than Anywhere Conspicnons Criminal Ye at Large, ¥t Te Because Getting Loose, tall. « You'll Be Reminded of What + we oy crime, as in industry, overproduction has unpleasant - sovsequences, and from them we now suffer in the United States. Juat how many criminals are roving the country ing whom they may snateh, atick up, oF _ “bump off, I do not know and neither does any one else; "bat eertainly the number goes far beyond « sufficiency. The front. pages of the newapapers are black with their felonious capers, and inside, on the editorial pages, there ie a constant béiling of the subject. Nor ig our native press alone in giving it ink, All over the world the news | that people get from America today has to da mainiy with murders, robberies, and kidnapings. A few years ago. it waa Henry Ford that. they thought of whenever their fancy turned this way, and when they got tired of Ford | they thought of the gods and goddesses of Hollywood, bat now they think of Machine-Gun Kelly, the Tuohys, Pretty Boy Floyd, and Dilinger.. «- te gat aatie At home thia pest has naturally brought forth = great ' food of remedies. Virtually every publiciat in practice. among us hag taken a hand. from presidents an . nors down to the editors of little country weeklies pastors of run-down churches behind the rail he Brain Trust, led by the gifted Professor Raymond « Moley, has grappled with d man- ner, and out of the ric + and tin a brave and free-han g of a universal expertne if , Hs af Least Tewieer as Easy. sa Staying. He Mea “Gng it over to federal agents, criminals Cif, when, and as they “gre eNOW TOU HAVE SEEN Tins McTUAE | BEFORE, BUT PIBASE LOOK AT IT AGAIN . Kader the Grotesque: es Bye LES aah al Ae tt PERO ws ges. ne bg « Glance at the Pictu tae ‘aod * 3 ae + to fail into a few sim of taking from the states and hand-°» ; apparently on the theory | that they are more-enterprising and intelligent thaa the focal cops, and not ao much hampered by political en- tangiements and state Hnes. Another proposes that af are caught) be exponed for psychoanalysis, and that thoae f ond | ‘be quartered in comfortable hospitals . A third urges that all Americana he reg one at . "The remedies have tended elaanes, Ome class has the and prosecution of crime away and reediica istered, fingerprinted, and maybe even Heensed, ao the cops will be able to put their hands om any _ A fourth see s distinguish between prof criminals and chance amateurs, and urges that the latter“ be kept away from the former, to prevent them really Sle learning their trade. A fifth favors reviving the whip- ts ing post; a sizth argues for deportafion to Alaska, the. in Istands, or Guam; 8 seventh calls for a revival of 7 > ght advoesteg prohibiting the dale of Aré*-: a for sterilization; « tenth fs for lynching. fear that my own remedy. wilt € involves but one ch in the Seog cag