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...that gives the U. S. the highest crime temperature in the civilized world. In the report of its chairman, Richard Washburn Child, "the most important things" listed for discussion and improvement were: 1) Laws against traffic in stolen goods. 2) Compiling of crime statistics by all the states. 3) Prison labor problems. 4) The pardon & parole system...
...mildest delegates was onetime (1916-21) Secretary of War Newton D. Baker (see POLITICAL NOTES below), who spoke of the U. S. prison population as "just a part of our common citizenship that has been found wanting and taken away." Convicts, he said, are "part of ourselves" and in evolving methods for their rehabilitation "we are dealing with a long procession of men and women who at present are babes in arms; who, as the revolving years come on, are quite certain, under the deadly percentages which the criminologists are beginning to establish ... to lead lives of crime." Mr. Baker...
...Parliament last week reassembled. Its first act was to free four Communist Deputies - MM. Cachin, Duclos, Marty, Doriot-who were imprisoned during the summer for sedition. It was made clear to the four that as soon as the Chamber of Deputies ended its session they must go back to prison and "spend their vacations there." Deputy Franklin-Bouillon and a small party of his friends resigned from the Socialist party and formed the Radical Unionist party, the eleventh in French politics. The session continued...
There is a new citizen in Oklahoma City. He has been twice sentenced to prison. He shot a man. Despite these facts, he will undoubtedly become an Oklahoma City leader...
...East Las Vegas, N. M., tried to separate two fighting men. One of the fighters shot; hit the peacemaker, by mistake, in the throat. The shooter was Carl C. Magee, Scripps Howard newspaper editor, his opponent David D. Leahy, a former judge who had thrice sentenced Magee to prison-once for libel and twice for contempt of court. The libel was published in Magee's Albuquerque newspaper in exposures of state government corruption. Two pardons and a habeas corpus proceedings kept Mr. Magee at large. Magee's testimony of recent prosperity of Albert Bacon Fall was important evidence...