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“ RE: FROM: Xe Memphis Has Fine Record Are We Satisfied With Ht? | There Are Still Problems Remai ining: | What Have Citizens Done About It?’ -: “ “Are you Istied with record?" then asked Ex- changeites, iS Peaking jat Hotel King (Cotton in ‘cone |Rection “with ; National “Crime | [Prevention ‘Week's * observ- ance change homes and: with each: ome, the: church; the the playground, .law. and forcement are Keys... “I believe crime can be reduced Clubs things: in the uv. §. “1. Encourage in all a desire to Rep. Gor a do right, creating a Christian con Praised Mem- G ‘science against wrong. his for a good’ Rep. ‘ore “2. Remove, insofar as Possible, = ime prevention record, but point: !the temptation: for crime. out that crime’ is everybody's “3. Minimize the Probability of! lusiness requiring individual con Successful reward for crime. i fern before ican be reduced to Make. as -certain, as Possible ' cap. | that. retribution. will foley ..¢o minimum, ‘asthe thuka ince known‘ as'the murder cap- mission of crime. fame’, (RE, Ration, “Memphis ‘nac| at Have tee ¢ome a long way in erasing that [Wha 've “You Done? ‘ record,” he said, “According tothe} “T ask you to look at your city's FBI, you had 72 Tecord—what have you done te i ;|make it better? — “What about ‘schools. ‘They are Sood, I am sure—but are they good enough? i What about your housing con: ditions, playgrounds, parks, amare ment centers? 7 a What percentage tf your peo- eularly, your young Citi- “ymurder and non-negligent attend “Sunday. manslaughter. figures h? : '” Memphis, 15, ‘ “What have you, as individuals, Birmingham, 29, done, are ‘now doing, or intend ts Atlanta, 41, do-about it?” vt New Orleans, 34, Special’ guests at the speaker’ Nashville, 20, table included D.'s, Hostetter: spi Memphis burglary, robbéry, auto clal ‘agent in charge of the Mens Napility insurance rates are ¥s'} phis FBI office; GC. Gearty, PEt Tete, te be. found. in any city ‘ofl inspector from_”Washington,’ and ‘lige size. This. speaks ‘well tora Commissioner: Claude Armour. C piblic-spirited citizenship coiek 4 Ais. not only insisted’ on havinge|D- Bratton, ‘Memphis Jumberm ini has actually had a policy sone Ralph Grocyely oietd, sae ractory by compara-| “ missioner.’ Armour. . z|the - Public—especially’, Boy "7 "AS.a Tennessean I am proud of : [Memphis, ‘proud of its riers of Girt Scouts civic “improvement, law’ enforce ment and clean living; that you have as citizens and a city. °°" ‘Problems Remain © eet, even. with this good recora,| !Memphis,’ too, has its ‘prosins’| News jAccording to FBI statistics, thers was in Memphis. in the first siclthe months of 1950; Bott aggri one per lo hae thei act ute thefts—almost tig pet hi lay. 2 1, OF tg ai, 48 housebreakings rorienthring! burglaries—more thang fous? per| | 341 thetts or larcpniey: ithan ‘nearly two pena, eve {er B08, larcentes of less than ¢50-- imote ‘than five per day. first six months of 1950.,~ "Good, By ‘Comparison’ aged as he ‘left: . It was‘un- Gore ‘called ell him’ that ughter, Nancy,’ 13, rgency, appen-. by . Ex. s if we can. succeed’ in doing four - ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED ~ HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED DATE GAULLE sy, eittLiesfose/y