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PHILADELPHIA AIR RACES OFF TODAY SR Rain Makes Field Too Muddy. Spectators Thrilled at Show Yesterday. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., September 7.—~Because of the swampy condition of the field, making the takeoff almost impossible, today’s air races were called off. Heavy rain last night left many pools of water on the field.- A relay race for low-powered com- mercial airplanes, a “Jenney” race with national pilots competing, and a series of mishaps thrilled the more than 7,000 spectators who_gathered at city-owned model flying fleld yes- terday for the second day of the na- tional races. The accidents, none of which re- sulted seriously, were due to the wet field. The mud in many places was 6 inches deep, making landing and taxiing difficult. The team of three planes, headed by Rasil L. Rowe, Keyport, N. J.. von the relay race for the B B T” trophy and a cash prize of $500. C. S. “'Casey” Jones of Garden City, N. Y., and A. H. Krelder of ‘Hagerstown, Md., were the gther two pilots op the team. In this race the passenger was required to race 200 vards carrving a pennant and tie it on the strut of the plane in the team which was to fly. the next lap. The Ludington exhibition team of Philadelphia_was an easy second. The Travel Air Manufacturing team of Wichita, Kans., made up of Fred Day Hoyt, Eureka, Calif., winner of the “On to the Sesqui” race; E. P. Lott, Kansas City, and R. H. Depew, New York City, who flew a Fairchild mono- plane, was third. The Pitcairn avia- tion team was disqualified after the off pilot, James G. Ray, “beat the the start. The “Jenny” race brought out 10 entries from the New York, Pennsyl- vania and Maryland National Guard fiying units. The New York pilots won the first three places after a spir- ited contest. Two Planes Collide. Farlier {n the day Capt. Victor Dal 1in, while landing In his Waco, had the entire top of his ship wrecked when a TUnited States mail Dehaviland plane, piloted by J. D. Hill, found difficulty in getting off in the mud. The undercar- riage of the Dehaviland struck the Waco and cut halfway through the wing within a foot of Dallin’s head. Shortly afterward, “Casey” Jones and Lieut. George E. Decoursey of Phila- delphia, while taxiing thelr planes across a field, nosed over when their running gear stuck in the mud. Sergt. James Plerson of Mitchel Field, N. Y., brought the spectators to their feet when he jumped from a Martin bomber from a height of 2.000 feet and fell nearly 500 feet in a free drop before opening his parachute. He was competing in a landing-to-a-mark contest. The contest was won by Serst. Walter Henders, attached to the Army squadron at the Sesquicenten- nfal exhibition. q E— STORM IN CALIFORNIA DOES HEAVY DAMAGE Calexico and Imperial Valley Feel Full Severity of Wind and Rain. 2 By the Aseociated Preses. . CALEXICO, Calif., September 17— t storm in more than 10 ept Calexico and the Imperial vesterday with rain accom- panied hy a gale which blew down a number of buildings in Calexico and the vicinity and interrupted telephone service. Roads were flooded and hundreds of trees blown over, in many instances blocking the highways. Hundreds of automobiles were mired hubdeep in the mud throughout the valley. It is feared that the cotton fields are seri- ously damaged. Hel:l on Assault Charge. Special Dispatch to The Star L HBURG, Va., September 7.— J. Whitney Evans, a married man \vith a wife and several children, was held Saturday at Rustburg on a charge minally assaulting a 14-year-old wirl who lives near Naruna. 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SAILING TOMORROW pregident Roosevelt—Bremen San Juan—La Guayra Martinique—Cartagens Tivives—Sants Marta Faul © Luckenbach—C; R T | criminal may_esoape. | holes of the law have to date proven | | Wa$ recently made as the result of crime commiss | killer and bandit continues to ply 3= ERZAREREED Fort St. George—Hamilton Cambrai—Canal Zobé.. (Continued from First Page.) marked by the use of machine guns and the development of agencies sup- ported by paid allles in the official | service and among members of the generally -honorable profession of legal jurisprudence. __Soclety, through reform of the crim- inal laws in various parts of the coun- try and the setting up of independent anti-crime organizations, is now pre- paring to meet this counter offensive of organized crime. That Mr. Taft's characterization of the criminal situation ip the country was and is wholly justified by existing conditions is clearly revealed by facts | and figures easily obtainable. It is the purpose of the writer to present these facts and figures in the most concrete form. Cost Proves Truth. The money cost of crime alone ! shows that Mr. Taft is right. It is the largest single bill paid by the peo- Dle of the country at the present time. The loss of life resulting from acts of violence and predatory aggressions | also is annually greater in the United States than it is in England, France, Germany, the Scandinavian countries, Italy and Canada combined. | That Mr. Taft is right is further established by the fact that a very large percentage of hardened criminals escapes the meshes of the law as now administered. The present chronicle will reveal in specific terms the reasons that pre- sumably prompted Mr. Taft to make | so scathing a criticism of the legal | system of the country as it touches crimes of violence and fraud. Officials Are Questioned. | To secure the fullest and most ac- curate information regarding criminal conditions throughout the country, three questions were submitted to police, prosecuting, judicial, penal welfare and administrative = officials and recognized independent author- ities conversant with the subject. These three ques:ions wert g o) What are the b auses for e recent unparalleled s crime In this country? SRR (2) What individual or legal agencies are responsible for the failure of the present system of curbing it? 3 at perma 2 ) What permanent correctives are Almost without exception the re- plies to these questions and informa- tion_collected from official agencies established beyond cavil the existence of widespread and abnormal crime conditions. Marked _differences of opinion were reflected, however, by the comments of authorities regard- ing cause, responsibility and reforms admitted to be vitally needed. In this and other articles to be pre- sented a comprehensive and impartial analysis will be made of police and prosecuting officials’ methods in deal- ing with professicnal killers, burglars, pickpockets, fences, swindlers, forgers, narcotic peddlers and drug addicts. Politics Is Factor. Examples of the manner in which the representatives of the law deal with professional criminals and of the extent to which politics and favorit- jsm are practiced will be cited to show that the Chief Justice of the United States is correct. The faults of the criminal laws as revealed to persons not directly con- nected with the administration of them, technical evasions, the tricks of resourceful lawyers, defects and abuses of the bail system and appeal privilege will be described and com- mented on by public officials or rec- ognized authoritles whose views have been obtained. Concerning the causes for the in- crease of professional and orgamized criminal activities. there is a wide di- vision of opinion. Attempts to fix re- sponsibility for the license enjoved by predatory and murderous felons re- veal acute points of-controversy. The reforms proposed cover the entire range of administrative activities from the police to the final court of ap- peals. Each separate official agency dealing with crime conditions defends the methods it employs, and seeks to place the responsibility elsewhere. Controversy Concerning Blame. The police blame the man who is robbed. The magistrate blames the police for inadequacy of the evidence offered. The grand jury blames the district attorney fow insufficient or uncon- vincing information. The trial court blames the police, the magistrate, the grand jury and the prosecutor. The district ~ attorney puts the blame on the police, the jury system and tricky lawvers. The appeal tribunals blame the Jower courts for errors in procedure that are actually only technical. The prison officials blame the judges for indefiniteness, favoritism and un- warranted indulgence of the criminal. The welfare workers, soclologists, psychiatrists and criminologists dis- cern faults in almost every cog of the legal machine. . In the end, almost every official from the patrolman to the appeals judge blames Congress and State jecisiatures for passing too many bad or conflicting laws and leaving so many loopholes through which the Sporadic efforts made by Congress | and legislatures to plug up the loop- | nerally ineffective. Some progress popular demand in New York and a few other States. Judges also have displaved a tendency to pose heavier sentences on professional | eriminals for acts of violence which | ged the entire country. action with prevailing con- as inspired the creation of ons of National, State scope dn various parts of the country. These organizations are now conducting a systematic inquiry into criminal activities and| devising means for checking them. ! In some respects these volunt crime commissions resemble the lante organizations which suces iy | battied with the criminal elements be- | fore the law came to the undeveloped West. In the meantime the professional | ol and muncipal trade with a minimum risk of ever| paying the penalty provided by the | criminal law. The armored car even found necessary to frustrate audacious bandits who shoot down and coerce merchants of the great} city. The facts and statistics collected by | the writer_show conclusively that the | the writer show conclusive y I 52 Clhe Best Oil in the World/ That can absorb great heat and not break down. ¢ - Beware of Substitutes. At Good Dealers Everywhere. is | S SR TS ey : THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 19%. FAULTY ADMINISTRATION OF LAW BLAMED FOR CRIME INCREASE electric chair, the rope. the lethal chamber—the lagal means of execut- ing the death sentence—do not stop crimes of violence. Long sentences of imprisonment have likewise proved Ineffective. The value of various projects for correcting criminal conditions by | methods less drastic than these is| still to be determined. That some | more effective means than those now | in use are needed to prevent or check | present-day activities of the profes-i* sional criminal is shown by the in- formation to be presented in this series of articles and the judgments of students of the criminal law. The annual crime bill of the United States approximates $10,000,000,000. This is almost three times the yearly cost of administering the United States Government. It approximates the sum loaned by this country to all | foreign powers during the World War. Te represents one-thirty-fifth of the total wealtn of the nephews and' nieces of Uncle Sant, and 25 per cent of the value of all property in the State of w York. Cost Totals $10,000,000,000. Of the total cost of crime every vear to the 115,000,000 inhabitants of the country, $3,500,000,000 represents the value of property stolen through acts of violence or fraud. The remain- ing $6,500,000,000 is accounted for by the cost of protective and punitive ac- tivities, both official and volunteer, and the loss of productive power through diversion to criminal pur- suits. This is the dollar cost of crime. On the human side, the average yearly record of crime is even more appalling. Last year, for instance, 12,000 persons in the United States lost their lives through acts of vio- lence committed by others. €ompe- tent analysts attribute more than 70y per cent of this total to violence com- mitted by professional criminals in cold blood for personal gain. Istimates furnished to the writer show 1,500,000 persons in the Nation engage in criminal pursuits, and grow- ing numbers of young rien in lirge cities who adopt a life of crime as a omparatively safe way of getting “‘easy money. Penalties Easily Escaped. The ease with which professional criminals escape paying the penalty for their crimes is established by rec- ords covering 1,000 average cases. These records show that 700 out ot 1,000 guilty criminals escape punish ment. The estimate is accepted at conservative' by statisticians of bur- glary insurance companies and stu- dents of criminal conditions. Police Commissioner McLaughlin of New York City thinks the percentage of criminals who escape through various loopholes in the law is even higher. Politics, although less brazenly em- ployed than in other days, undoubtedly continues to play an important part in the war the professional criminal is conducting against society. Corrup- tion, inadequate and doctored evidence, favoritism and lax prosecution are declared by some authorities to make it comparatively easy for the crim- inal with sufficient money or backing 10 beat the law. Laws make it a felony to possess re- volvers and other accessories of crim- inal pursuits, but evasions are the rule rather than exception. The police records and other investigators' re- ports show that it is almost as easy for a New York crook to buy a pistol as it is for him to purchase a pocket- handkerchief. It is merely a matter of using the mails between one State | and another. Motor Cars Assist. The pistol and the motor car are generally regarded by students of crime to be responsible for the increas- ing percentage of murders growing out of robberies and other crimes of violence. Reliable figures confirm this belief. On only two phases of the crime situation is there anything like con- sensus of opinion. The first is that crime has been steadily increasing in the United States for the last 35 years, far beyond the normal proportions due to growth of population; the secdnd is that the criminal laws of the country are archaic, have broken down or become ineffective. | In discussing the efficacy of the legal system Dean Pound of the Har- vard Law School recently said: “A highly developed system of sub- stantive law and a specialized machin- ery of prosecution, administration, judicial organization, legal procedure and penal treatment, devised and shaped for pioneer, rural agricultural America of the first half of the nine- teenth century are struggling with | the wholly different conditions of the | urban, industrial society of today. In the huge cities which have grown up all over the country in a generation the {1l adaptation of the machinery to the task is acute.” Expert opinion is divided regarding the importance of prohibition in the crime situation. Wet and dry statis- tics are generally unreliable. Figures collected by the Prudential Life In- surance Co. indicate that the volume | of homicide has increased markedly | since the passage of the eighteenth | amendment in 1919. Court records show that the Federal and State tri- bunals are largely occupied with liquor law violations. In many of the larger cities congested court calendars are overtaking the facilities provided for handling these cases, and are de-| ving the prosecution of other crlmi~' nal charges. i Chapter II. As a complement to his investiga- tion of criminal conditions, the writer invited a number of distinguished au- thorities on the subject of crime to! contribute to a symposium reflecting | individual views. | Below will be found a comparative s of conditions and of the ad- ministration of criminal laws in the | United States and Canada by the Hon. William Renwick Riddell, chief justice of the Supreme Court of the Province of rio. ice Riddell is recognized as one greatest living authorities on legal questions. He has been a con- nt observer of conditions on both es of the border, and in this inter- w has given his views on the crimi- nal code. The criminal law of Canada was es- tablished by the British North Amer- ica_act of 1867. a_criminal $3.50 Philadelphia $3.25 Chester $3.00 Wilmington AND RETURN -SUNDAY September 12 Special Train Eastern Standard Time Leaves Washington (Union Station) Ar. Wilmington 10:05 ‘A M. Chester 10:25 A M. Phil ia, Rethné ieaves By "::,;I:q: s::::: R o HlE Wilmington 8:19 P.M. et Tickets on sale two days preeed Excarsion - Pennsylvania Railroad code was passed by the Dominion Par- liament, which recodified the law of the entire Dominion. “In this code,” Justice Riddell said, “there is given a definition of the vari- ous crimes, in plain language devoid of technicality and archaism. The distinction of felony and misdemeanor is abolished. Even our lawyers were practical enough to drop distinctions between perjury and stealing as dif- ferent kinds of crimes.” Few Escape in Canada. Canada classifies crimes as indict- able or non-indictable. Each province of the Dominion administers the crim- inal law for itself, although the law is the same in all provinces. “Every city, town and county has its own police force,” Justice Riddell said, “but most of the provinces have their provincial police, who co-operate with each other. Occasionally there arises a puzzling mystery, but the au- thors of a crime rarely escape arrest in Canada.” Justice Riddell drew a picture of the Canadian attitude toward crim- inal prosecutions which contrasted vividly with the popular attitude in many parts of the United States. ““We are a poor and busy people,” he said, “and have no time or money to waste on frills and sensation. We view a criminal prosecution as a =olemn investigation by the State to determine whether the accused has been guilty of a crime against it. It is never a game at which the smart- est man wins and the newspapers get lots of interesting copy.” According to Justice Riddell, trials in general are much more speedy in Canadian courts than they are in the American tribunals. Whenever any one s committed to Jail for trial by a police magistrate or justice of the peace the sheriff must, thin 24 hours, notify the county judge, and the judge must cause the prisoner to be brought before him at once. Immediate Trial Optional. “The prisoner receives the option of an immediate trial by the county judge,” Justice Riddell explained. “On the other hand, he may choose to re- main in custody or under bail and be tried by the ordinary court of jurls- diction. If a non-jury trial is chosen the county crown attorney prosecutes th'e case at once.” n reply to a question by the writer, Justice Riddell sald politios plays a very small part in criminal prosecutions as compared to parel- leled conditions in the United States. “The prosecutor is a member of a political party and is appofnted by the party in power,” Justice Riddell said. ‘But he is not a political officer, takes no part in politics after his appoint- ment and does not go out of office when his party is beaten. He repre- sents ‘the crown,’ that is to say, ‘the people.’ and his office affords no means for political advancement. Financlally it is not a rich plum, and many capa- ble attorneys resign the office to re- turn to private practice.” According to Justice Riddell, speed and_simplicity characterize all steps in Canadian judicial procedure as it touches on violations of the law. The county crown attorney draws up a single charge, the prisoner s ar- raigned, and if he pleads guilty the indge passes sentence at once, as though there had been a formal trial. If he pleads not guilty the trial pro- ceeds at once or at an early day. A great majority of cases brought to the county judges are disposed of by them within a few days. “If the accused elects a jury trial” Justice Riddell said,-“he is remanded to jail to await the sitting of the Court of General Sessions or Supreme Court. The attorney general may re- quire a trial by jury even though the prisoner elects a spbedy trial by the judge alone, If there is to be a jury trial, bail is sometimes admitted. 1In serious cases it i3 almost invariably refused. Trials Are Dispassionate. “The accused is tried at the next court of competent jurisdiction if a jury is to be impaneled. In neither General Sessions nor the Supreme Court does the office of prosecutor bring glory to its incumbent. The task is humdrum and consists of bringing in all the evidence which should be believed, no matter how it may tell, and of summing up fairly and dispassionately to the jury. “No lawyer acquires a reputation by securing convictions or loses one by failing to do so. We look upon a criminal trial as a solemn inquiry by the state, and any crown counsel who should in the heat of advocacy en- | deavor to bring about a conviction by n appeal to the sentiment or preju- dices of the jury or by unfair com- { ment on the evidence would earn the | reprobation of his fellows, if not a stern rebuke from the judge.” The crown counsel prepares an in- dictment to lay before the grand jury, just as the district attorney does in New York. The grand jury receives the indictment and a list of witnesses to be called, and is instructed to see whether it seems so probable that the accused has committed the offense that a trial should be held. ~After i they bring a true bill an open inquiry is held. Juries Quickly Obtained. Justice Riddell's discussion of the jury situation in Canada indicated a state of affairs generally more satis- factory than is found in American tri- bunals. “Fvery person interested may ob- tain 2 copy of the jury panel for a few cents at a convenient time before the court sits,” he said. “A certain num- ber of peremptory challenges is al- lowed, 4, 12, or 40, according to the seriousness of the crime. The number of challenges for cause is unlimited, but in over 40 vears' experience I have known only one. “I have never known it to take half an hour to obtain a jury. A unani- mous verdict is required of the 12 DIAMONDS FINE, perfect diamonds have been the honest boast of our stock in trade these many, many years. We have made it our business invari- ably to safeguard the safety and the profit of every diamond invest- ment made at the sug- gestion of our expert counsel. 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The petition declares that the Catholic Church only asks liberty and nothing more—"only liberty for all religion, recognizing the rights of civil soclety to dictate the laws in its domain, without invading the re- liglous domain.” 2 “We ask for religious liberty,” says the petition, “including the liberty of teaching, without which liberty of thought and speech are myths; liberty of religious associations; liberty of cults, including a guarantee for the independent organization of an eccle- siastical hierarchy and church gov- ernment and fulfillment of their reli- glous rites without legal restrictions or oppressions, and liberty of possess. ing at least what is indispensable for the fulfillment of the religious work of the church.” The general effect of the' petition is for the elimination of all features of the existing religious regulations to which the episcopate already has expressed opposition. 5 The episcopate asks for the return of church property by the state; per- mission for churches and religious as- soclations to own and administer real estate and other property indispens- able to their requirements, and the granting of legal recognition to church organizations, but declaring church and state separate. jurors. If they disagree there is a new trial, just as in America. The judge can and generally does comment on the evidence, but he must make it clear to the jury that they must exer- cise their own judgement and that they are judges of the facts, not he. They must take the law from him, but not the facts.” Expert Testimony Curbesd. Justice Ridell's experience at the bar and on the bench covers many murder cases, but he told the writer that he had never seen,one which lasted more than a day and a half. Where a case was once streched out, due to the calling of a great many ex- pert witnesses, a new law was passed limiting the number of experts to five on a side. “A person convicted on an indict- ment,” Justice Riddel continued, “nmfay appeal to the Court of Appeal on any grounds of law, on mixed fact and law, or any other acceptable grounds. The court has been very liberal in granting leave to appeal on any fairly arguable ground. An ap- peal may also be taken by leave of the court by the convicted person, or by the attorney general from the sen- tence unless that be fixed by law. More appeals succeed in respect of the sentence than in respect of conviction. “The court may dismiss an appeal if it is of the opinion that no sub- stantial wrong or miscarriage of justice has actually occurred. In other words, the court is to use common sense and not trouble about the ir- regularities or minor mistakes if sub- stantial justice has been done. If all the judges do mnot concur, appeal, in rare cases, is made to the Supreme Court. The pardoning power is vested in the central executive at Ottawa, and is used very sparingly.” (Copyright. 1926.) (Continued Tomorrow.) By Science Service. BERLIN, September 7.—Milk has been used to cure insanity, but it gets in its beneficial effects on the pa- tlent’s system through injections with the hypodermic needle rather than by the more usual route of the mouth, according to just advices received here. Dr. Julius Schuster, formerly a member of the faculty at the Univer- sity of Budapest and authority on psychic diseases, observed that many of the insane patients who lost weight even to the point of emaciation de- cidedly improved in mental conditions. He accordingly resolved to try the effect of speeding up this process by Injection of Milk as Cure for Insanity Called Success by Hungarian Expert the injection of foreign proteins into the system in the form of milk. This procedure has been used before with considerable success, it is said, in the treatment of certain infectious dis- eases, but has seldom been tried with maladies not of infectious origin. By carefully regulating the milk injections, six out of 16 of his patients were completely cured, Dr. Schuster declares. Several types of insanity were represented in the group, includ- ing dementia praecox, one of the most prevalent mental disorders. The cura- tive effect is explained as due to ana- phylactic shock, which influénces re- actions of the thyroid gland and the liver. CAPT. THEODORE POWELL DIES HERE AT AGE OF 57 Finance Department Officer Suc- cumbs at Hospital Following an Operation. Capt. Theodore Terry Powell, Fi- nance Department, United States Army, of 1011 Maryland avenue north- east dled yesterday at Walter Reed Hospital, where he had been confined for some time following an operation for appendicitis. He was 57 years old. Funeral services, at which officers attached to the Finance Department will act as pallbearers, will be held to- morrow afternoon at Arlington Ceme- tery, at an hour to be announced later. The officer was born at Fort Ar- buckle, Indian Territory, a son of the late Col. J. W. Powell, and before en- tering the Government service was a division claim agent of the Erle Rail- road. Capt. Powell came to Washing- ton in 1916, where he was employed as a transportation expert in the De- partment of Agriculture before enter- ing the Army in 1917. He was appointed a temporary cap- tain in the Quartermaster Corps, and promoted to the temporary rank of major in 1918. He was transferred to the Finance Department with the per- manent rank of captain in 1920. Capt. Powell was a_member of the Loval Legion and Iowa State Traveling Men's ,Association. Capt. Powell is survived by his widow, Mrs. Bertha Fenner Powell, whom he married August 14 while in the hos- pital; a daughter by his first marriage, Miss Julia Evelyn Powell; his mother, Mrs. Angelina C. Powell of San Fran- cisco; two brothers, Graham H. Powell, an editor of the Infantry Journal, and Lieut. Leighton Powell, U. S. 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