Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 98, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 July 1926 — Page 9

JULY 30, 1926

■CHICAGO TRIBUNE MOONS SMITH IN SENATE RACE ‘ V • Powerful G. 0. P. Organ Brands Insuil Gift Brazen and Callous. Timet Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, July 30.—The situation Senator Reed's committee is trying to develop involves more than a mere expenditure of large sums of money in political primaries. What amounts to a political scandal has been developed in the liberal contributions of Samuel Insuil. Roy O. West, secretary of the Republican national committee, says Insuil is the biggest public utlity operator in the world. Already the investment of nearly $160,000 by Insull in the nomination of Frank L. Smith for Senator on the Republican ticket has resulted in the Chicago Tribune bolting him. Says Editorial The Tribune is by all odds the most influential Republican newspaper in the Middle West, Insult's financial backing of Smith as ex kposed by the Reed committee resulted in a leading editorial in the Tribune which says: “The aceptance by Mr. Smith of any contribution .whatsoever from Mr. Insuil or any other citizen whose business interests were subject to the regulation of Mr. Smith in his official capacity would be improper. The amount accepted from Mr. Insult raises his offense above the level of improper conduct; it is one of the most callous a,\d brazen offenses against common decency and political integrity in the history of American politics. To the mind of every right thinking citizen it proves Mr. Smith unfit not only for the Senatorship, but also for the responsible office he now holds." The only alternate to Frank Smith is George Brennan, the Democratic nominee, and Insuil gave him $15,000 and apologized because the amount was so small. However, Brennan had little opposition ,in the Demo cratic primary. It is yet to be determined whether Insuil, the big public utility operator, will finance both Smith and Brennan at the election, or will place all his money on one candiate. Another Expose ♦n the meantime Senator Reed has developed the fact that Smith is now and has been for six years, chairman of the Illinois Commerce Commission which not only controls the rates of public utilities in this State, but also determines' whether competition will be permitted with existing gas, telephone, electric and traction companies. ( Reed, by putting former Senator Brookhart on the stand, had shown the difference between nominating a- Senator In lowa and in Pennsylvania and Illinois, so far as spending money is concerned. If any big sum of money was given the Crowe-Barrett organization in Chicago and Cook County, it will probably not be revealed any further than both Crowe and Barrett have seen fit to testify. The big thing revealed was the connection between public utilities and politics.

SEPARATE CRIME AND VICE, SAYS CRIMINOLOGIST Curb Lawlessness With Adoption of Double System of Laws, Is Plea. Bu Times Special BERKELEY, July 30—A double system of laws must be adopted by America to save her from the wave of lawlessnes and the “religion of hypocrisy.” In one code should be gvritten liquor violations, traffic infractions, sex irregularities and other vices; in the other, serious crimes against persons and property. This is the solution offered by one of America’s leading penologists, Dr. Herman M. Alder, Illinois State Criminologist, now lecturing here at the University of California summer school. Dr. Adler says the separation of vice from crime has been accomplished in Germany. He wants us' to copy this from the German system, to adopt the English system of enforcing laws against major crimes, and to imitate the Scandinavian countries in handling the liquor problem. "Lack of statistics leaves us In the dark as to the ‘mounting crime wave,’ but we do know that law violations are multiplying and that we’re becoming a nation of hypocrites by refusing to acknowledge that we are wholesale law-violators,” he said. "Two things we can do. We can adopt the German system of dividing law violations into two classes—vice and crime—and- thus reduce crime. Next we can adopt the English method of meeting major crime. This means, not more severe laws, but swift, certain and efficient Justice. Dr. Adler thinks that prohibition In America has accomplished temperance, but that it has worked disastrous other results on the national conscience. "Prohibition has done two things,” Jie said. “It has made law-breaking

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MANYAREGIVEN - ROBBERY TERMS Death Sentences Passed on Two in Last Six Months. Thirty-nine persons were given ten to twent-one year terms in the

Indiana State Prison or the Indiana State Reformatory for robbery during the last six months, Judge James A. Collins of Criminal Court announced today. In addition, eight minors were sentenced to the Indiana State Farm for the same offense. Three were sentenced ten to twenty years for first degree burglary and forty-four given siqjilar' sentences for seconddegree burglary. Os thpse charged with murder, two were sentenced to death, eight for

life and thirteen given two to twenty-one years for manslaughter. *For the six-month period. 749 cases were filed in Criminal Court, as follows: Three hundred and *ighty-eight Indictments, 40 affiidavies, 313 municipal court appeals, 3 juvenile court appeals, 5 Justice of the peace appeals. During the term, 357 persons were committed to penal institutions, as folllows: Indiana State Prison, 44: Indiana Reformatory. 56; Indiana State Farm, 139; jail, 87. Two hun-

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