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CHICAGO SUIIURBAN QUALAIY GROUP Chicago Offices - ioi6-ioiS WiLiouGEY TowEit Tel ePhose CFNTnRL 315 5 SuBSCkRaPIoN: $2 PER YAR SlNCLaE' CÔPIES çCENTs Ail comimuhications -and contributons n tended for publi- cation muet bear the namne'and address of tbe a,ûihor, fpot uecessariy for publication, but for Our files. Sucb mùaterinl1 muet reach the editor by Tuesdiy noon to be. in timne for the curreût issue. CRIME AND. GOVERNMENT' The nation-1wide ýcampaign against crime nolv under way was, not instituted ailv too S.01. on - ditions had beco me so bad that soanething hiad to be done.: America Was'fast becoming 1 like the countries of southern Europe -anld the. Orient, where. brigands held sway and pilîaged witlott fear of interference, espe.cially upon hiapless -tray- elers who might be passing throughinstdec tionis. It liad become a question. as ,to qwhether crime or governmfent was to survive., This is a matter thiat concerns everv citizen, and should einist the attenion and -assistanice of all. There is an analogy betweeni crime and good gov-. ernment in that l)othi start fromn the býottomi and work uipward. The petty crirninal who sneaks ina- to à home and pilfers, things of litile value; tlie, purse ,snatchier who considers a $5 haul a good day's work; the dishon est fellow who works .a confidence gaine tpon "a poor liouse servant, are ail potential holdupp men -and bandits, ready to kili, to escape capture or because the victlmi didii flt yield a sufficient amiount of cash. They are also potential vîolators of innocent childhood and. throughi kidnaping, of wonianhood. That crime is highly organîzed and efficiently m~anaged, as well as adequately- financed, is, a lcnown fact. It can be combatted only by forces * stronger and more efficient than it can muster. organized with the firm determination of ex- terminatingdangerous criminals and driving les- ser ones out of the nefariotas business. While neighborhoods like ours are not, so seri- ouslythreatened by the forces of lawlessnesg as the larger population centers, there is alwaysthe possibility that some major crime may bc coi- mitted within our borders. For th is reason, just as we cooperate to maintain good local goverfi- taxp.yers, who mnust supply it, and prompt tnern ta inguire as to how the monéy is tW be spent. 'i'hat relief is now.being administered ina manner at once wasteful and unbusinesslike' is generally IaMown. Uner our carelesa system of checking (or which is take relii desired- CH rve to to be politics, a result' course, by the p( iLD, LABOR AmE'NDMENT Directing attention to the possibility that witb- in thée net few months, the nation may bec alled taponl to décide whether the governm.ent is to'be given power which may eventuallv becomie fed- eral control of: its youth, the. National Republic (Washi'gton, D.. C.), states. that while such legis- lation has been held by the, suprene court to be. unconstitutional, an effort is to be made to change the consti tution in order to make the legisilation possible. It says: a ItU 1.Th'is>d a)nvic1nieflt fqii *hild î ,r~iîresult, aif jr be- cornes tire fundanental'laî of, tlhe and, in a federal tontrol of ehildren broaider than the publie ni(w realizes. if, for exanpla>K iiiiinot- ito.,be reéfused 1,errnùis-on to %work until he is of age, Mihat ;~tobeo (e)f the youth wocantfinance a colluge educeation7 Iis lie to walk the streets, 1:iw a~ vioLitaon anoîçI ecoiie( a public charge, or ivili o>]> gov'ernineflt in, <ilfl'ofted w tihthe p b&n(1 reýgiînellaiig Wn ii ';i on fenft rationf 't , igovernlfit oti<lldClub or other lee a nStitutlon? >WîlI the futuire of ()Ur youth la t- eii1 to vontrol 1)v the' govvrnniieflt as hlui liipp,-iied ii Rssija, (orwiIl our (hiltiren renain 4111je(.t totht eo tot>fthie individual farnily? -The developiiieIit of the chlld in Anierica, undei fainily infl uetce ind controi, has' been satis atrgiving us su iemna Lnon Edi.sou îanti Ford. Lincoin cid flot l'ail becausÉe heo had te) woik on] bis fathers f;1rmi as a boy1 Edsndid miot lose a-il chace f bis fuiture 1jec.iuse hie .isct>nipolled to o in his ymith .1S a nevvsbriy onin asegrtin. Ai Smith as eintynone the worse off fier hziving been at filih 1eddler iihis vouth. It ib> înteresting to seuiteon what inighit have happenied to thesu great mninds had tlièy been placed pnider. gover-t) mient control and reginientation in their yotjth, to have been the subjeet of goverrninental social experinenters miost of whoni lhad never taken the trouble to raise n faniily of thieir oi%ýn. If the v(>uth of the land is tot to be ipermitted to work until it arrives at the agýe of iaturity, wha.t is to, becomne of the thousands of students *fro an- nually work their way through school? il they be better off ind their chances foi, the future trighteiied if they are to depend on sorne goverimental Santa Claus for support? "No sound and patriotie Anerican wants oui* .boysIàdgir-ls for-ced into what is Ikflown as childt labor. We ail want them .to go to school as long *as they are able, or at ieast as long as is good for thern. But that is another thing fromi insisting that they shalh spend iheir spare tamie in idleness, or in the control of federal experirnenteres, some of whom seeni more anxiofls to break up the idea of the faimly unit than to assist in the futuare *of the South." yond its cost, Four inmates of a North Carolina asylum sawed, their way to liberty and have flot been recaptured. Not so crazy, at that. Mr. Mussolini's contribution to the "peace on1 earth good wiIl to men" season as advice to al Italian Christmlas shoppers to buy gas masks, which Ieads to the thought that he does flot take miuch stock in the "peace on earth and good will to me1 n" spir it. * *> A 4"25 vear plan". for remaking America- has been .submitted to the president. It.is to cost oaily 105, billion dollars. Ail riglit, 'go ahead. W\ho cares for ,expenses? For no telliaig (so far as %ve are concerrned) how many winters and summers, we have nurtured and cultivated a sort of patriotic love. for this laand of the so-caIled free. Or, may- be, it bas beeai spontaneous, Or even anherited. Anyway, we have, considered it the best courinvon toi> of earth, and ý-tiIlldo.' We 1have nleyer- Iost faitli in the spirit of Amierica, or i the stréaigth. courage and4 resourcefuatesof lier people.. \"e (Io aot l)elievle thiere are anY better people anyhee.or anv with more ýSoun1d,. colmmion,,senise. 0f .z course, thie% sometimnes go'off on some sillI tang.eit,but they al.wavNIs regain their senses, in time t(> avert serionas coisequences. Aand so respect for them has he very great.. off and on. But .wheil we see themi *putting up with a sorrv poltroon like H-uey Long,. *we wonder whv it Itakes so long for themn to corne to their senses.. Faili is soinetimes shaken, aand a doubt creeps in. And then somffething ha ppen- to boister it up. Like the incident of Saturdav, for instance, 'when Coach Jones of' the Louisiana State university football team took Huey by the left ear and led him out of the squad quarters. telling hini that bis chatter had become irritating and might, lead to something rough. The coach is probably outof a job, but let everybody give the boy a great l)ig hand.* To get out of going to school a Missouri girl aged 13 got married. And then a heartless judge totd lier that being married didn't. count, and she would have to go. baek to her classe s. That is ~A nd the crisp air snappier- If we to you should Say, In the good old-fashioned way-- ( .94OMrtiwaw! TuE PHANTOM REPORTER.