New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 17, 1927, Page 4

4 LAWS ENACTED AS CHECKS ON CRIME Ninetoen States Declare War on! Habitnal Criminals New York, June 17 (#—Measures | Gesigned to check crimes have been | passed by 19 state legislatures thus ar in 1927, a survey revealed. Thirteen other states adopted incasures, such as those altering | tae penal codes to make former misdemeanors felontes, which were considered gereral anti-crime legis- jation, but not specific checks on me. The mecasures adopted in the .9 tates generally tended toward an ner of sentence, with a tight- ning of the legal net about the abitual criminal, the gangster, unman and holdup man. A significant feature of the anti- crime legislation was the tendency to follow New York's pattern in curbing the activities of habitual criminals and the operations of lands of organized criminals. A umber of states enacted laws com- rable to New York's Baumes act, . piece of anti-crime legislation 1assed in 1926. It provides a man- latory life sentence for fourth of- snders and generally tightens up the criminal code. The measures enacted in the 13 ‘ates range from Montana's ban- ning of the chewing of mescal nuts \v Mexican laborers. a practice Ore- zon's new measure making it un- lawfhl to skin dead stock without he owner's consent. The last mens- ure 1s a check on cattle rustling. Oregon has also one of the 19 states «depting legislation to check crime. A numer of legislatures discussed the carrying and use of fire arms. Many states had already provided themaselves with checks against this practice, and several followed suit in 1227. Measures providing for ~riminal identifications were passed \v several legislatures. ion Taken. ce action towards curbing erime was taken in Califor- nia, South Daketa] North Dakota, fowa and New York. + New York's legislature passed 17 of 41 anti-crime oills submitted by the Baumes crime commission. head ~d by Senator Caleb H. Baumes, an- thor of the Baumes act. Those fail- ing of passage were considered the most important by the Baumes commission. Most of the 17 laws snacted are virtually amendments ‘0 the penal law and code of crim- inal procedure One provides that in all cases where appeal may b taken by the defendant. the prose- cution also may appeal. Tawa's legislature passed a score of bills designed to make more thorny the path tread by the feet of criminals, Most of the measures vest greater authority in peace of- ficers and increase the functional eapacity of rprosecutors. The ma- ehine gun and automatic rifle were outlawed, a ecriminal identification neasure was adopted and there was 4 ganeral tightening of laws regard- mobile thefts and jury com- issions, An habitual criminal law, - . during trial, terned atter New York's Baumes | act, was the outstanding anti-crime measure in South Dakota. The measure deviates from fts pattern, however, in that it makes discre- tionary instead of mandatory the | imposition of life sentence on fourth offenders. A bill permitting | the prosecution to comment on a | defendant’s failuré to testify also was passed. North Dakota added nine bills to | the anti-crime legislation of the year. Three of these are considered | of prime importance. They are the | habitual eriminai act, comparable { to the Baumes act, the uniform mo- tor vehlcle theft act and the law eliminating the affidavit of preju- dice in criminal cases. Other laws | speed up appeals and clarify and amend details of criminal procedure Minnesota passed legislation es- tablishing a state bureau of crim- inal identification and record, pass- od a modified copy of the Baumes act and raised to five years the penalty for use of firearms in com- mission of felony. As was done in s al other states, a law was en- | acted making it compulsory for the district attorney to file reasons f dismissals. Revised Penal Code. The California legislature, having completely revised the penal code, adopted measures for speedier triz always considersd a crime deter- rent. Laws were passed abolishing | the raising of the plea of insanity making 1t more haz- ardous to usa firearms in the com- m n of crim and adopting an habitual criminal act, with life sentence for fourth offenders. Third offenders are to get 12 vears with- out parole. Insanity must be a part of the initial plea, elss parate trial | will be made of this {ssue, subse- quent to trial for offence. Nebraska adopted a law much like New York’s Baumes law. New Jersey provideq for life sertence for fourth offonders. Tndfana's gencral assembly passed bills providing for establishment of a burean of crim- inal identfication, codification of its penal code and measures expected to sped up trials, Wyoming's legis- latures ®=ssed two bilis to check the still prevalent ecattle thief and New Mexico's lawmakers adopted meas- ures to speed up trials and raising the penalty for embezzlement. Kansas. going most states one better, will now impose life sentence on third offenders. A second sent- enca for falony will be twice the length of the first, the legislators decided. Embezzlements by bank officors will bring them a 50 instead of a 15 year sentence under one new law. In Texas the embezzlement sonstnes was reduced from a mini- mum of five years to two years be- canse of a zeneral belief that the nre to obtain eonvictions was to a “too harsh' sentence such on entailed. ington solons passed a bill z it a gross misdemeanor to v tear hombs or similiar de- Orecon legisiators adopied a resolution providing for speading up which goes to popular vote Register Criminale. logislature pasced sau for the and date and e d the xtradition law sponsored American Bar Association Nevada now will be no place conneet a crime to be commi clsewhere, for the legislature meas- iform v the SPECIAL FLAVOR FROM OLD VIRGINIA {is a thief NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 1927, passed a law making any crime planned in Nevada punishable there no matter where committed. First degree robbery with a fire- arm or other deadly weapon may bring the death penalty in Missouri under provisions of a bill passed by the 1927 legislature. Arizona's ef- fort at checking crime was limited to passage of a bill making it a fel- ony to steal an automobile or any part thereof. Idaho's legislature made an appropriation for the use of the state board of eugenics in puting into operation the 1923 sterilzation law. The sterilization is for the feeble of mind, the insane. the epileptic, moral degenerates re- garded as a social menace and habitual criminals. The Maryland legislature enacted two statutes tightening the crime One provides sentence of 20 vears for robbery with a deadly weapon. The other provides ten year additional sentence for convicts attempting to break jail. C00DY-G00DY BOOKS N0 LONGER APPEAL Children Demand Excitement and Refuse to Read Books Ex- pounding Stuffy Teachings. Asheville, N. C., June 17.—P— The days of the ‘“goody-goody’ books are gone. No longer are “morals” heaped up and fed to the vounger generation. Even the best bred children refuse to read the books their mothers choose for them unless this literature is as alive as the trend of modern life by which even boys and girls in their teens are influenced. Plots for children's stories have completly changed in the last few years. All this is the nssertion of Ruth Campbell. author of modern stories for little folks, who has made a study of the types of tales boys and girls like and dislike. “The average child wishes to romp happily through the pages of a book and not be dragged by the arms through endless mires of stuffy teachings,” she explains. “To write for them is to write ‘for the most severe and gifted of critics. Th nt their literature straight. They demand plot and excitement. ‘Mischief, one page beyond;’ ‘Run- away Field, to the right; urning of Schools, next chapter;® ‘Parents Sent on a Holiday, page 103'—these are the choice of the children. “They demand =oap bubbles of thought that colorfully burst into gem-like atoms of interest. When they get it the response is immedi~ ate and overwhciming. And when they don't they turn up their noses at the author, who, in their opinion, who has stolen their time,” e When you're thristy, a glass of sparkling, home made root beer is n satisfying. Your grocer carries Williams' Root Beer Extract. CuticuraSoap Is Pure and Sweet deal for Children tmeat. Tateon frew. | ore T T ap e Sl VIRGINIA GLOW! SKETCHING MATERIALS | .conianis’c: n. ” ~ THEIR ONLY BAGGAGE ! insshit Siee o e purely amer- ican arts of the negro and the In- dian compare with them,” Mrs. Gore British Couple - to Tramp About don added. . ! The Gordons are authors, lectur. United States in Search of | ers and musicians, as well as art- Our Native Arts. | ists. They play on native instru- nents the folk-music they have New York, June 17.—UP—Carry- | Bathered from all the world. | ing as baggage only sketching ma- | . 5 |teriats and some quaint musical in- British Artists Eager |struments, Jan and Cora Gordon, To Exhibit at Show noted English painters, on their first London, June 17.—(®—More than visit to the United States, are setting | 3,000 younger British artists have ou on an expedition to discover the | made application to exhibit pictures folk-arts of America. Mr. and Mrs. | at the Young British Artists’ Exhibi- Gordon have just completed 20 ex- | tion being held this month by the hibitions of their paintings in the | Daily Express. All have agreed to leading capitols of Europe. place low prices on their work to “Traveling on foot in the out-of- | encourage the purchase of pictures the-way countries of Europe,” says | by art lovers of limited meansa, Mrs. Gordon, “we saw the Ameri- Mrs. Dod-Proctor's Morning,” can influence brought back by for-| representing a sleeping girl, one of mer immigrants. We are anxious K the most discussed works in this to see how the cultures of the old | year's British Academy, was pur- world have changed American life.” | chased by the Dally Malil for $1,600 In Sweden and Lapland, ehe said. | and will be offered to the Tate nearly every peasant home is dec- | Gallery. The price was far below orated with art objects of hom hat which prominent pictures | | manufacture. They also found art | brought in pre-war times and is in- | young. . | and | dicative of the difficulties southern Spain iamstu now face. treasures in Jugo-Slav! 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