Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 293, Decatur, Adams County, 10 December 1924 — Page 4

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H. Heller, Pres, and Gen. Mgr. E. W. Kampe, Vice-Pres. & Adv. Mgr. A. R. Holtbouse, Sec'y. & Bus. Mgr. Entered at the Postofliee at Decatur. Indiana, as second class matter. f Subscription Rates: Single copies 2 cents One week, by carrier 10 cents One Year, by carrier $5-00 One month, by mail 35 cents Three Months, by mail 3100 Six Months, by mail $1.75 One Yearly mail $3 00 One Year, at office $3.00 (Prices quoted are withn first and second zones. Additional postage added outside those zones.) Advertising Rates Made Known by Application. Foreign Representative Carpenter & Company. 123 Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Fifth Avenue Bldg., New York City, N. Y. Life Bldg., Kansas City, Mo. WHY MURDER THRIVES: A resident of the United States runs about seventeen times more risk of being murdered in cold bloo I than i les’dent of England or Wales. In 1906 there were as many murders in the United States as in all Europe, excepting Russia. In that year there were in Germany four murders per million of inhabitants: in the British Isles, eight per million: in the United States. 118 per million. That comparison set ms like passing from civilization to barbarism. The year taken\ was before the' Great War which we are told brutal-j ized humanity, but in 1919 there \vere: nine murders per million in Great j Britain, thirteen per million in Can ada. and in the city of Chicago 110, per million. Chicago has a high' crime record, but we have already | quoted the national ratio between these countries as a whole. What does it mean? Are Americans, compared to Germans. Eng-1 lishmen. or even our near neighbors, the Canadians, a cruel an.l violent race? No one who knows the United States and its people would asierl that. There is no more kindly, generous. and humane people on earth than the American. Violence is some-' times the results of misery, suffering, oppression, despair. But th se' are not the conditions of American' life. Why then our discreditable record of serious crime, especially I murder? “The great deterrent to the taking of life in England," says an investigator, “is swiftness and sureties- of justice and the gallows as a maxi-' mum penalty." In the United States! punishment is slow, often evaded. 1 often mild in proportion to the offense committed. The machinery of criminal justice is too slow, too slack, too weak. That prevents justice from being feared, but it is an effect rather than a cause. The cause of ineffective law lies in lack of a pubyc opinion which sternly deprecates violence and unflinchingly demands punishment for crime. We lack that opinion. We show an extraordinary complaisance toward the prevalence of murder end other forms of criminal violence while at the same time we are constantly multiplying laws which declare some, act or conduct which is not violent and not in a moral sense crime, to be crime. We are defining new crimes in business, in normal private < oudait, and we are directing far more energy to this legislation and to it.J enforcement than we do to grappling l with real crimes, with offenses of violence inherently evil. In the city: of Chicaco, whose high murder record we have cited, there arb several law eu'ore-ment organizations, but only one which concerns itself with crimes of violence. The rest do nothing against this over-shadowing evil.' They are interested in social misdeuieanors, in liquor law enforcements J or gambling J'e are getting so busy regulating one another’s habits which we disapprove that we nave no interest in the security of human life. We are' busy making crimes of one another’s habits, and crime is becoming a national habit. The homicide rate lias doubled in ivagtv ysars.—Liberty Magazine.

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Unless someone weakens, a young fellow named Mosley, who with an, accomplice, killed several people at South Bend, Saturday night, when they were battled in an attempt to rob a soft drink house, will be speed I ily and sufficiently punished to teach others who may be so inclined, a I lesson. He was captured, has been i hldklau, »<u> admitted his guiil and I efforts will be made to send him to i the death chair. It may seem hard i hearted to many but things have i reached a crisis in this country when nothing but the severest punishment will avail. With a lot of reckless, | desperate, careless and besotted men | permitted to carry loaded revolvers.' | rob and steal and plunder, the crime | wave will go on. If men are con- • victed ami really punished and their I trials in court heard without delay, then the terrible crime wave will lessen and quickly. The trouble is they get away too easily and that breeds more. Janies H. Fry, a leader among the democrats of Indiana and who served as deputy state auditor, collector of customs, held several important places at Washington during the war and had an acquaintanceship which extended over all of Indiana died at the Indianapolis hospital Monday night after an illness of but a few days. Jim, as the boys knew him, was one of the cleanest men ever in Indiana 1 politics. He believed in a fair deal 'and fought for it always whether the results favored him and his party or not. In all his public career, never a word of criticism was offered, sure | proof of his ability, his integrity and I his honesty. He had a wonderful personality and his death will shock I the thousands who knew and respectled him. He was born in Delphi, resided in Fort Wayne twenty-eight years during which time he was em--1 ployed at the offices of the Pennsyl- 1 'vania. railroad, served on the school I , board there and went to Indianapolis] '■ in 1909. since which time he has I I been a resident there. There ir> the ususl talk now that' the legislature will hurry through the! program aud adjourn. It usually' Comes kfitfc.tiAe of year but watch ' and si s' it they don't meet, dilly dally, i 1 qiiarri f timl adjourn late the last night t y -of th days with nothing much It they really Jcirry jtat the advance plans aud do

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a few worth-while things and go | I home we are sure everybody will I praise them and be happy. These are shopping days ami the I time when you should be hiving a i good time getting ready for the big events which surround Christinas. Its two weeks from tomorrow. If you start today, vou still have time to* plan every thing, make your selec-| tions, do a lot of the work that will keep you from getting exercised when you to be visiting with the family and enjoying yourself. Have you been a good enough felI low to remember that you owe a snipll amount to the fund for tie poor children on Christmas Day? The movement is called the “Good Eel- . lows" club and is well named for only those with goodness in their heart, care whether every child in the community has a visit from Santa or not. _ This was a tine old day with enough pep in the air to make you feel good, a clear sky overhead, just cool enough for a healthy condition and everything ought to be about right. o GLIMPSE OF HIS GLORY (The Boy' Jesus) i I have sen the boy Jesus. Otte I morning in June. — I Ole soft Sabbath morn when the world w'as in tune, ‘’jin a house of worship I found a bright youth Who loved the old church -who'e lips spake the truth. He was ringing the bell and I knew by his joy I saw the Cbrist-cpirit. agufli. in a boyc —A. D. Burkett. , j — -o— —- (Big Features Os ) RADIO | Programs Today ) . ****^-* -^<^^>^^ u . WEDNESDAY’S RADIO PROGRAM j (Copyright 1924 by United Press) I KHJ, Lot, Ange leu, (395 m) 7:80 p. 1 in. (P. C. S. T.)— ► University of South-

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