Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 31, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 June 1922 — Page 12
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CODDLING OF CRIMINALS IS HELDATFAULT IV. H. Ellis of Bar Association’s Inquiry Committee Finds Law Disrespected. HE URGES PUNISHMENT LEXINGTON'. Va., June 16.—The "coddling of criminals" rather than y the nervous reaction from the World War was blamed for the crime ware all orer the -ountry by Wade H.yEllis. a member of the American Bar Association committee investigating the increase in crime, who spoke at Washington and Lee University of which he is a graduate. The findings of the crime committee, disclosed in part for the first time by Mr. Ellis, will be made known in detail when the report of the committee is filed next month. Mr. Ellis said that in the period from 19X0 to 1921, the number of murders in cities like New York. Chicago. St. Louis. Los Angeles and practically iall the large centers of population increased nearly 150 per cent, and he asserted that this increase, when compared with that of England and France, was both "humilating and appalling." Referring to conditions in New York City, Mr. Ellis said: DAYLIGHT CRIMES SHOW INCREASE. “Crimes of highway robbery on the streets and in the stores in broad daylight hare increased in startling proportion. In that city, for example, one out of every thirty registered automobiles is stolen every year. The American Bankers' Association reports show that in 1917 there were 115 burglaries and eighty hold-ups of banks throughout the country, and in 1921 there were 319 burglaries and 136 hold-ups. The losses paid by the burglary Insurance companies grew from $1,686,105 In 1915 to $lO,389.833 in 1920, an increase of 513 per cent.” Mr. Ellis .hen asserts that this condition is not entirely due to "shellshock from the war" nor to unemployment, nor to the great influx of aliens. He adds: "All these instances combined do not answer the question. The real causes lie deeper. They inhere in the widespread and growing disrespect for all law. The delay in punishment, the inadequacy of the penalty, the codding of criminals, the ease with which they escape, the technicalities surrounding the indictment, the trials, the appeals, the probation, the suspended sentence, the commutation and the pardon have more to do than anything else with the breakdown of our criminal Jurisprudence. PEELING THA I lOi KTB ARE LUXI RY FOR FEW. "And deeper still is the lamentable fact that In the hearts of thousands, perhaps millions, of the submerged In our population—the poor, the unfortunate, the Ignorant and the envious—there Is a feeling that the courts of America are a luxury for the few. that in both civil and criminal cases the expense of litigation is beyond the means of the great masses of the people; that these courts are not their courts; that this country is not their country, and that by a sort of exclusiveness in the attitude of organized society they are put beyond the pale of law. "This produces a hostile mind toward American institutions and gives to. the down-and-outer. dark thinking, muddlebrained, a kind of savage justification for taking the law into his own hands." Among the remedies proposed by Mr. Ellis are these: Establishment of a Federal bureau to gather and analyze statistics on crime, swift punishment of offenders, prohibition of the manufacture of firearms, and the placing of Justice within reach of the poor. Mr. Ellis also advocated stricter regulation of the admission of immigrants and the enactment of a Federal law making it a criminal offense for native born or naturalized citizens to teach or incite the overthrow of the Government. The speaker called attention to "a certain fashion—silly, detestable, but none the less vicious—among a small class of notoriety seeking professors.” who believe themselves liberal when they teach “contempt for the established institutions of America." He cited the college student who turned radical because he was victim of a fad. These, he said, were in a very small minority, but they were the "most effective enemies of peace.”
Columbus Host to Four Kiwanis Clubs COLfMBUS. Ind.. June —Members of the Kiwanis clubs of N>w Albany, Franklin, Bloominpton and Connresvil'e ■e ere guests lat night of the Kiwanis Club of Columbus. Franklin members "ere awarded a silver cup for the largest delegation, sixty-five in all. Charles E. j Watkins. former governor of the Indiana Kiwanis Clubs, delivered an ad- I dress on "Interoity Cooperation." John Brommar. Indianapolis, State president, also spoke on the affairs of the clubs. A feature of the meeting was a banquet at the Chamber of Commerce. WHITE A>'C RED FROCKS. At New York's most fashionable hofel recently a dinner dance revealed that nearly every woman present was dressed In all-white frocks or bright red. It Is easy to figure which was the choice of the blond and which of the brunette. FOR SALE Electric Ceiling Fans 1 Your Guarantee, Bargain. Service Electric Shop 119 IV. Maryland. Main 0194.
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HAMMER SAYS HE HAS GRANT FROM SOVIETS Traveler Declares He Has 20Year Concession to Big Asbestos Tract. NEW YORK. June 16.—Dr. Armand Hammer, who gave his address as the Hotel Ansonia, arrived here from Russia on the Majestic of the White Star Line with the announcement that Premier Lenin had granted him a mining concession in the section near Ekaterinburg on the Asiatic side of the Ural Mountains equal In extent to the State of Rhode Island. V*st deposits of asbestos. which he already has begun to work, as well as platinum and other minerals, abounded In the tract, Dr. Hammer declared. He said he went to Soviet Russia a few months ago as 'secretary of the Allied American Corporation of 165 Zroadway to negotiate for the concession. Through a prominent American business man. who had become impressed with the story told at seat by Dr. Hammer, reporters learned of Dr. Hammer's Identity of the man and the nature of his business in Russia. He said: CONFERS WITH OFFICIALS. “When I conferred with officials of the government I told them that I was a capitalist; that I was out to make money; but entertained no idea of grabbing _tbeir land or their empire. They said, in effect: ‘We understand you didn't come her for love. As long as you do not mix In our polities we will give you any help.’ "And that Is the basis on which I conducted negotiations. Premier Lenin granted me the Ekaterinburg concession for twenty years, the terms providing that I should pay the Government 10 per cent of the profits. Ekaterinburg, you will recall, is the place where the Czar is reported to have met his death. We began ope.atlons’ In mining asbestos on May 1, using American machinery. The first shipment to this country wih be made at the end of August, I am informed today by cable.” Dr. Hammer exhibited a letter from
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Lenin dated May 10 and written in Eng lish. The writer, * apologizing for his imperfect English, said he had been very ill, but at the moment was "much, much better," and added: "You have my best wishes for the success of your first concession, as it is one of the utmost importance for the future trade relations between our republic -end the United States." Dr. Hammer declined to disclose the identity of those who were financing the project, but said that they were Americans seeking business opportunities in Soviet Russia and not interested in pollt ics. WITHHOLDS IDENTITY l OF FINANCIAL BACKERS. A dispatch from Moscow, under date of Nov. 3, 1921. announced that the Soviet government had awarded the Ekaterinburg asbestos tract to the Allied Chemical and Dye Corporation of New Y'ork and New Jersey. Dr. Armand Hammer was mentioned as having conducted the negotiations, and was said to have Inspected the tract with Ludwig C. A. K. Martens, member of the All-Russian executive committee and former unofficial ambassador of the Soviet government here. The Allied Chemical and Dye Corporation was formed in December. 1920, through the merger of the General Chemical Company, the Semet-Solvay Company, the Rarrett Company and the National Aniline Company. The directors are William H. Nichols. Jr.; Dr. William H. Nichols, E. L. Pierce, 11. H. S. Handy, -Jversley Childs. William Ham lin Childs, Orlando F. Weber, William ,T. Mathewson, Rowland Hazard. Armand Solvay, Doscoe Brunner and Emmanuel Janasen. The Allied American Corporation, which Dr. Hammer says he represents, is not listed in the current corporation directories.
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Mother and 9 Call for His Return ELOPES WITH MUSIC TEACHER, 18 Preacher- Husband Deserts family
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Lasso Champ Is Roped in by Court NORTHAMPTON, Mass., June 15. Allen Damon, a 16-year-old schoolboy, was so adept with a lasso that he landed In court. Allen, the court alleged, used poor Judgment in selecting Miss Edith E. Snyder, a pretty teacher, as the subject for his lariat activities, and placed him under bonds for a year to Insure his good behavior. Pickpocket ‘Slicks’ Michigan Detective TOLEDO, June 16.—“1 was three years a policeman and nine years a detective In Grand Rapids, Mich., and after being in Toledo five minutes some slicker picked *"y pocket for s4o,"’ said Edgar A. Clark of South Bend, Ind.