The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 14, 1929, Page 12

is of timely interest because of its similarity to that to be under- taken by President Hoover's law enforcement commission. ae et BY RODNEY DUTCHER (NEA Service Writer) Washington, June 14.—The largest number of criminal cases ever studied , intensively by a single group—44.000 —was examined by the Pennsylvania | crime ‘commission, which recently | concluded its work. Every significant fact of recorded information concern- ing each one, from the time of arrest | to the final disposition, was card- | indexed by field agents. ‘The commission made no attempt to delve into the problem of the re- lation of prohibition to crime, ex- plaining that it was too |. sub- | Ject to be studied in a shot But | it discovered that of the total num- ber of cases held for the grand jury in Pennsylvania state courts, viola- tion of liquor laws led with a per- centage of 17. The next highest were non-support and family neg larceny and embezzlement and f 8 per cent Urges Study of Subject “In our opinion,” 5 the commis- sion, “It would certainly be worth while to look more deeply into this class of crime ‘hiqu violations), which numerically now the most important with which grand juries | have to deal. | Astonishment smote the commis-! gion when it discovered that four cit where the s Studied, 74 per eliminated in the prelimina ing. Either the police we on totally énsufficient evidence, it de- cided, or the lower courts were failing in their duty through inefficiency or Political expediency. The c study w grand jury hearings ought not to be dispensed with cept for inquisitorial purposes. It | found that grand jurors eliminated 16 per cent of cases coming before them and that district attorneys had nolle prossed 16 per cent of cases passed on to them by grand juries. It 4 a 4 “ 2 6 ? e 1 * a 4 8 * ? 1 % ir In spite of his warning, Harry Blaine deliberately added fuel to the den, inevitable love for Colin Grant. For that Monday evening he brough her a copy of the “newspaper hobo’ volume of short. stori cantly entitled, “On My was so impatient for Harry to be gone, so that she might read undis- turbed, that he courteously came to her rescue by inventing a “previous engagement” for the evening. “I'm afraid you were rude to Harry, dear,” Faith reproved her mtly when the city editor had eft. “I’m sure he brought the book as an excuse to call. He's awfully nice, and has been such a good friend to you.” “Yes, he and hasn't he Crystal conceded both points ab- sently, as she clasped the precious book to her heart and turned toward the privacy of her own room. At the very first she was disap- pointed. The so bare, so} austere, so £1 ly_ realist Colin! Grant seemed to feel that words ‘were so precious that he could not bear to waste the smallest of them. But by the time she had read three of the stories—if they could be called storie: ‘olin Grant, the writer, had a new convert. She had; belonged to Colin Grant, the man,/| since the first moment their eyes | had met and clung, but for some! obscure reason she had been pre- pated to hold out against the writer. Perhaps because she alm: he was not really a geniu she would be more rcar to h But once she had though surrender to is genius might mean the death of hope, fc her, she became passionately excited. | The missionary spirit was born in her. She wanted to rush out upon the streets, mount a IN NEW YORK { New York, June 14—In June time, | month of brides and orange blossoms, the Little Church Around the Cor- ner “plays to standing room,” as they on Broadway. tiny green yard, with its ro- strewn pathways, seems as far itt Z as some sequestered lover's the countryside. taxicabs which drive up de- pokes gh self-conscious pairs— ‘ EE i | factor | need not be only 12 per cent efficient, flame of Crystal Hathaway's sud.|™ .|ing to her. the great city in which it j ; THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE YES~ YES— 1 SAID - COME our! ) CAN USE YOU FOR SOMETHING — THE LERO HOUR IS NEARING — ‘AN! i> BOY = You HAVE A BATTLE ) vee Time ‘To GET UP Time Yo GET “ey DON'T YOU HEAR CHESTER'S AND GOLIATH'S took an average of 56 days to try and PEEK A BOO- convict a person accused, of which NET — om NN YOUR HMANOS=— 46 were spent waiting for grand juries FOULING MOSQUITO S$ — Wet ae K SEE You WE BUGLE aA HE ewe OUT-NUMBERS You to meet and act. WELEIND A WAT - CALLING —— 4 ONE MILLION To ONE = “It is certain,” the commission says, ‘that a large proportion of those who Youre Noy GOING pleaded ‘not guilty’ would have benett OVER THE TOR ~ entirely satisfied to have been t . ON. without a jury. ‘This has been the ex- ‘fou'RE San i perience in other states where the ac: N= cused has been given the right to be DOW! tried before a jury or before the court alone.” Dela DOWN - it is pointed out, is a prime n the obstruction of justice. Fifty per cent of major crimes in which criminals were sentenced took 56 days or more from arrest to final disposition. Cases where defendants waived 18 days and cases tried and acquitted took 80 days. Many indicted persons must stay in jail until the final verdict, it is made clear, and bet- ter organization of the courts’ working time probably could cut down the period of waiting one half, reducing hardships of innocent people and probably increasing the number of convictions. Throughout Pennsylvania only 31 per cent of cases reaching the grand jury were punished, compared with per cent in Chicago, 38 per cent in lew York City and 44 per cent in ilwaukee. The commission believes the total number of arrests is but a small fraction of the crimes known to the police and in the four cities studied most intensively only 12 per cent of arrest cases reached the stage where guilt was either acknowledged or proven. es an Economic Waste “We are entirely too much con- cerned with those whom we do catch id convict,” the commission says. ‘he machinery of criminal justice 8 74, v MNELL TAG, WHAT DO {BUT YoU ARENT YOU THINK OF MY 7.2 A BEGINNER, RIDING? PRETTY 660d ) FREcuLES.-sou FoR A BEGINNER, OU, SURE! SURE! 2 FORGOT... GEE=How WAS LINDY BUT HE SEEMED Lanna . BLUE WHEN 2 WENT ANAYo“*2 LATED TAG“ NKEN HANE 2 BER RIDDEN ANY 7 HORSES BEFORE \wny, You Rope My Pony ‘Linpy! DIDNT * | even when measured only by number of arrests.” In each 100 arrests for 29 major criminal offenses only eight persons were finally imprisoned or fined— nachinery for apprehension and trial for major crimes began action against 12 persons whom it did not AONE Tate eee punish for every one whom it did pun- ish.” All of which the commission de- scribes as a “huge social and economic waste” and a condition tending to create contempt for lay WAS IT BUTTER OR EGGS-OR MILK OR COFFEE ? WAS IT SOMETHING WA CAN? MAYBE SOME VEGETABLE— POTATOES - CORN OR STRAWBERRIES-DEAS- ONIONS -RADISHES OR BEETS? WELL,1 DON'T INTEND To STAND WERE ALL DAY WHILE THAT STUPID CHILD COLLECTS HER WITS. ¢ passersby into conversion new apostle of American There were no clear-cut beginnings and endings to his short vignettes of life. He told, with re- raint and fierce understanding, what he had seen on his short way through life. The last moments of a condemned man, getting a violent, eleventh-hour attack of religion in the death house, then repudiatin; God with his last breath mild, plain, pleasant-faced wo! 's calm recital of how and why she had killed her husband. A “shot; vedi in Tennessee. The funeral of a Chi- cago gangster. A juror’s story of the ball in a murder trial. A chorus cirl’s slangy, unadorned ac- count of how she had defended her virtue and why. How an illiterate farm woman had sent her boy to college, and her amazing reward. The story of a side-show freak. Stories without beginning and with- out end, so that Crystal’s cheeks burned with a fever to know more about each life of which Colin Grant had given a glimpse. ii LETS STOP AT “HIS Farm, AL, AN’ SEE (F WE CAN BORROW - “= SOME Fooo! =.» SOMETHIN’ TH EAT, HUH? |) THATS WELL, I'LL Give You a Piece ¥} OKAY BY OF MAY HOME-MADE PIE-AND “7 ME, Lacy! ACTER You've EATEN (T, » ‘YOU CAN Sali SOME WOOD TS P- I can only tell you some of the things I've seen ‘on my They are neither pretty nor sad or happy. They are life, nd if you don’t like them I don’t give a hang. His book had made her love Colin Grant more fiercely than ever. . She knew that if she did not marry him, she would never mi anyone. And ” The very title to his book was another warn- The next mornin; at The Tress offices at half seven, 50 that she might not miss seeing him. N Colin Grant asks Crys- tal's hel (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) blushes and tittering and a sudden Scramble for automobiles. The world and his wife walks by, hurrying into the great buildings just across the way. The world and his wife sometimes stop to glance at the varying scenes. Small boys gather just outside the outer stare. Hour after hour similar scenes are staged with different actors. Nerv- she bit too erect; just a Bel too stiffly. They are trying too rd to seem unaffected and properly dignified. have seen young men stand like aul In almost every part of earth. For in June time, of bri ind orange Heatly Be ee HY iely fi tt Fl i iE tH i i ry 4 bride's Nor does tunity to if