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through the history of the country, even before
Prohibition. There have been other wars which
have caused ten times a greater demoralizing
effect on people than the recent one did on the
American people, and criminal statistics advanced
higher in the ten years following these wars than
during normal times. But none of the percentages
can compare with the figures in America since the
War. It has been estimated that crime has in-
creased anywhere from. 5o to 75 per cent over
normal figures since the war. Surely this is not
merely a result of people trying to adjust them-
selves to norn al conditions after only 18 months
of abnormal activity.
The criminal courts of the United States have
never been so congested as they are now. Prisons
have never had so many inmates. The increase,
it has been proven, is due to the effect of prohibi-
tion.
People in the large cities all over the country
every day read of gang wars, street shootings,
innocent children killed by stray bullets, property
damaged by racketeers in the bootlegging game.
In short, conditions have come to such a state that
something must be done to crime if there is to
be any safety or normal life at all.
Our judges, in many instances, are corrupt-
sheriffs, policemen, and other enforcing agencies
accept bribes, politics are filled with the vermin
who prey upon humanity. In March 1923, 75 cit-
izens of Gary, Indiana, including the mayor, City
court judge, a former prosecuting attorney, police
officers and deputy -sheriffs were tried and con-
victed for corruption in relation to the Eighteenth
Amendment. Hundreds of similar instances could'
be cited.
It is time the outrage that we are tolerating
now should go. Prohibition, the sheltering angel
for crime, is the cause and it is through the elim-
ination of the cause that the result can be changed.
We do not claim that all crime will be eliminated
with the abolishing of prohibition. It is foolish1
to even think that. It is evident, however, that
crime and the number of criminals can be mater-
ially reduced withthe abolishing of the act.
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We thougn, that all this balmy
winter weather would come to a
close someday, and sure enough
it did. Yesterday. We got pretty
cold and snowed on besides, and
this morning while we are deliver-
ing this paper to your doorstep it
is even colder. Much colder. So
much for that.
Everybody who has walked along
South University Avenue past the
lawyers club recently has wondered
about the lawn situation. Every-
body except the lawyers, who nev-
er wonder about anything. It was
about two weeks ag that a whole
rmy of B. & G. Boys swooped upon
that lovely expanse of greensward
and scraped all the grass off of
half of it, hauled the grass away
and smoothed over the bare spots.
It is all beyond our simple way of
living but we suspect that they are
trying to be modern. That's prob-
ably it. Somebody must have told
them that the automobile is re-
placing the horse.
We have made it one of our
fixed habits while proceeding
to our 10 o'clock (MWF) to
walk through that little alcove
between Angell Hall and Uni-
versity Hall. You know, where
you look through a window in-
to the women's smoking room?
Sure you do. Well, one bright
morning last week we came
hurrying by at our usual pace
and stole a glance (yes, we may
as well admit it) over our
| shoulder and found ourselves
looking at a pair of overalls on
a step-ladder painting the ceil-
ing. We were so shocked we
forgot to open the door as we
entered the building.
Last night we w e r e looking
through a wonderful little book,
(The Week-End Book if you are
particular about such things) and
we fcund a very succinct verse
about-well, here it is:
I know two things about the
horse,
And one of them is rather
coarse.
And there you are.
The world is just full of
startling things. We learned
the other day that cyclones in
the northern, hemisphere whorl
in. a counter-clockwise direc-
tCon, and cyclones in the south-
crn hemisphere, on the con-
trary. whorl in a clockwise di-
rection, or vice versa to north-
ern cyclones, get it? If a cy-
clone got to flying around near
the equator it would get all
confused, we betcha. People tell
us all this is due to the rotation
of the earth, and at that its as
good an answer as that one
about mirrors a n d hidden
strings.
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NIGHT.EDITOR-FRANK GILBRETH
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1931
ohibition as
plated to Crime: I1
'IXTEEN thousand million dollars a year for
crime in the United States-enough to keep up
e Army and Navy and four departments in our
deral government-a per capita expense of $5.47
r every person in the country, and of this amount
per cent is spent on the fruitless attempt to.
force the Volstead Act!.
Astounding figures like these cannot be dis-
ited, Commissions of every kind have compiled
;ures on the cost of crime in the United States
id the percentage enforcement of Prohibition
kes. The above statistics are said to be con-
rvative at that.
Superior Judge Marcus Kavanagh of Chicago
is said in his book "The Criminal and His Allies"
at 350,000 people make their living by crime in-1
e United States. And to these people we arei
lying enough money to run the federal govern-
ent for three years.
Up to September 20, 1930, there had been.,286
lings by federal enforcement agents and the.
imber has increased in the. last year. Of 35,849
iminal cases brought up in federal courts in 1930,
,671 dealt with violations of the Eighteenth
mendment.
In 1926, incomplete statistics show that there.
ere i i8,ooo murderers living in the country, 18,-
o of which were convicted. Prohibition was, in
me way or another, responsible for a good many
the killings.
Never before in the history of civilization has
ime been so rampant as it has been in the pastI
years. The figures above are almost unbeliev-
>le but yet they are true. Ever since the Eigh-
enth Amendment was ratified, the citizens of the
nited States have had to fight against the crime
enace and have been steadily losing ground.
:ate jurisdiction has proven of no value. Crim-
als engaged in bootlegging and associate pur-
its have easily foiled justice in this manner with
Irewd lawyers, corrupt judges, and bribed jurors.
rith the ease with which these parasites of mod-
n civilization "got ,off" as an inducement, youn-
r men in great numbers have entered the field
id crime continues on its wanton path.
Federal justice is proving a little more of an
stacle to prohibition-violators but it will never
able to fight the whole system with- its income
x weapon. Something radical must be done to
iminato the gangsteir entirely. He is a product of
.e last decade and flourishes under the willingness
citizens to disobey a law. Frank J. Loesch, one
Sthe members of the now famous Wickersham
nforcernent Commission said in his statement
cluded in that report "criminal organization can
e destroyed only when bootleg profits are taken
om them." This is true. People, however, can-
>t have their whole natures changed-they can-
>t be coerced into obeying a law when they don't
ant to. There is only one alternative, the re-
oking of the law which is, in this case, the Vol-
ead Act. l
Proponents of prohibition may answer that
-ime would be just as large if there were no pro-
.bition, that conditions evolving from the World
Var have caused the sudden rise in crime, that
program Prices?
EXORBITANT prices for football programs
were noticed and unfavorably commented on
two weeks ago at the Ohio game. A comparatively
small thing perhaps to become aroused about are
football programs, but the fact remains that even
such a large and powerful organization as the uni-
versity athletic association can suffer from the un-
fortunate results of allowing the opportunity for
such a racket to exist. Prices charged for the
programs at the last game ranged all the way from,
the official price of twenty-five cents to seventy-
five cents which was charged by some of the pro-
gram bootleggers.
The simple and expedient remedy for this sit-
uation seems to be to print the official, price right
on the cover of the publication. This has been
dene often in past years and should purify th4'
distribution of programs this year, if it is put into
effect.
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Politics
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or Politicians
HE present deluge of class elections brings
inevitably to the fore the old and much mooted
question of campus politics. After all what is the
purpose of all of this flood of campaigning and.
class:and party propaganda which annually floods
the campus for the first half of the first semester.
The. purpose, it is the reply of the campus politi-
cians, is to place in the positions of responsibility
in the class the candidates of their party.
Here arises the fundamental question at the
back of the whole controversy, what is the good
of the party? The party organization on the cam-
pus has corrupted the political viewpoint of many
of the students until they have no conception of
honest political ethics and consider any methods
of bargaining for, and buying, votes perfectly
legitimate. The spoils system is such a well-known
feature of the campaigns in the classes that no
thought of its inherent dishonesty to the class.
even enters the heads' of most of the embryo ward
bosses.
Originally it was intended that the officers of
the classes should be nominated at a public meet-
ing of the class and then immediately elected by
those students assembled. This election rested
solely on the qualifications and popularity of the
candidates.
Let us look at how far we have come from
those simple methods. Now, at least a month
before the election is to be held, meetings are held
and the candidates from each of the two parties
on the campus for the class positions are chosen.
In the interim betwen this first meeting and the
election other meetings are held and an extensive,
and sometimes expensive, campaign is held. Rep-
resentatives from the parties visit the borderline
fraternities and sororities promising them class
appointments and committee positions if they will
turn their vote to the party represented. Placards
are printed and distributed around the campus
advertising the nominees of the parties and pledges
to vote are distributed among the students.
It may be and has been argued that this toy
campaign is good experience for later life when
actual politics are facing the graduate. However,
if anything, campus politics are even worse than
no preparation at all for national politics because
This column is getting to be fa-
mous, and in addition to fame it
has intellect. A fellow called us .up
about midnight the other night
and wanted to use a poem about
"politicians and a fine world after
all" that appeared in this column.
He wanted to put it in a paper he
was ,writing. (He didn't say what
the paper was about). This fellow
asked permission, and then he ask-
ed us for the poem, which was go-
ing a bit too far. We told him that
we didn't know the poem, that it
had been written by that old frow-
sy, Dan Baxter who was asleep.
Well would you believe it nothing
would do but that we go upstairs
and wake up Baxter and ask him,
and sure enough, when Baxter
came to life he couldn't remember
the poem either, and we had to tell
that to the enterprising young au-
thor. What can he ever think of
us now? We don't know how it all
turned out (about the paper, we
mean) but if we ever find out we'll
let you know.
Yesterday afternoon, along
with a lot of other people, we
went over to Natural Science
Auditorium to hear Dr. Morley
about Maya Archaeology, and
we were glad we went. Dr.
Morley, besides being enter-
taining, had a lot of pretty
good stories (and information)
to present. One thing we take
exception to, however. Accord-
ing to Dr. Morley Maya culture
is an instance of pure racial
development because Yucatan
is bordered on three sides by
water and on the other side by
an impenetrable jungle. This
made it possible for the Mayas
to develop without outside in-
fluence because outsiders could-
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