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Fullerton men's Editor ..........................Margaret M. Thompson stant News Editor............r................Robert L. Pierce B. Gilbretbh Goodman Earl Seiffert NIGHT EDITO J. ('utic Kenrn RS edy James Inglis Jerry E. Rosenthal George A. Stauter J. Myers flea Sports Assistants John W. Thomas 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. ley w., sou E. p nas Conn uel G. l- til L. 1' B. Ga thy Bro m Carw rice Coll e CJram] REPORTERS Arnheim Fred A. lTuber Hecker Norman Kraft inar Ia Io] nd Martin ,']]is 11e31y'v Meyer inkle Aarion A. Milezewksi scoigne Albet 1. Newman E. .Jerome Pettit Ecknan C orgia Geisman er ice Gilbert ins Martha Littleton lrll Eliztabth song in F'rances alnchester ster' Elizabeth Mann John S. Townsend Charles A. Sanford John W. Pritehard ,Joseph Rcnihan 0. Hart Schaaf lirackley Shtaw Pa:ker I. Snyder G. R. Winters Margaret O'Brien llillary Rardlen D~orothy Rundell Birma Wadsworth Josephine woodhams BUSTNESS STAFF Telephone 21214 I-S ". JONS .......................Assistant "anager Department Managers tising........................................Vernon Bishop -rising, Contracts.................... ....... .Robert Callahan tising Seivices...... .. ...............Byron C. Vedder ations....................................William '. Brown ation .....................................Harry R. Begley nts .....................................Richard Stratemir n's Business Manager........................Ann V. Verner Assistants 'SriROL ALL 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. * ** I Telephone 7 1 SAND I [12 f KILLINS GRAVEL COMPl A NW This Should Interest You! $1.00 FINERY HOSE at 85c, Regular Stock THE LAURA BELLE SHOP State and Liberty t - Food Shop 'i T e ichigan League Building IS TO BUY YOUR PARTY REFRESHMENTS The Next Best Thin To- Entertaining. at ,, Telephone 23251 STODDARD BEAUTY SHOP Come in and enjoy the exclusive- ness of our work at a reasonable cost. Our Aim is to Please I Aronson rt 1".l'ursley n Clark rt Finn na Becker ha Jane Cissel nvieve Field ine Fischgrund Gallmeyer, y larrirnan at John Keysee Arthur F. "Kohn James Lowe Bernard k. Schnacke AnneIflarsha ]atharine Jackson Dorothy Layin Virginia Mcomb Garolin Mosher Hec &.icn Olsen Grafton W. Sharp D~onald Johnson Don Lyon Bernard I1. 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Helen Schmeede 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. a. .2.. I A Wear a gorgeous, glowing "Mum" to the game and con- tribute your bit toward the success of your team. Besides it's spexquisitely becoming. Flowerday's Flowers Phone 7014 609 East William Street IIi Musica1t I i Second Floor-Phone 4161 Politics 00"2 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- In't zet in. 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