MERMAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 10 November 1925, Page 3

MERMAN CABLE NEWS

[Reuter Telegrams.]

GRIM I'j JN U S.A. (Received this day at 11.25 a.in.) NEW YORK, Nov. 9. Couiissioncr Burdette of the New .Jersey State Institutions, addressing the National Conference ot Juvenile Agencies at Jackson, .Mississippi outlined thirteen major causes of crime in the United States, namely: The better organisation and leadership of the criminal element in the merchandised cities; the breaking up of American homes; the great variety of races in the- cities; the decline of fear of eternal punishment; modern materialism; the complexity of modern governmental machinery; the absolute laws and procedure;' poor pay- for judges; the prosecutors lack of adventure in ordinary living; the improper use ot firearms, automobiles, narcotics; the lack of a comprehensive moral and social programme; congested police courts and penal institutions. Lewis’s remedial proposals include the simplification of Government and the elimination of obsolete laws, international and national control of firearms, automobiles and narcotics. I-ewis declared the United States’ annual crime cost between four and ten thousand million dollars.

RADIO COMMUNICATION'S. WASHINGTON, Nov. 10. Mr Hoover declared that within a year. United States will have systematic radio telegraphic communication with nearly every important country in the world, which was a matter of vast importance, as it increases the movement of ideas as well ns business. Ho told live hundred radio industry loaders assembled at' the fourth annual national conference, that the Government ownership of air channels, allowing open competition, has given freedom of development in a service otherwise lost under private monopolies. Mr Hoover, proposed national and local regulations of broadcasting, suggesting the department be given police powers, and tho establishment of radio zones, irrespective of State lines, to convert service area stations, wherein local interest would determine the choice of broadcasting matter. He declared that, such a. regulation was uopessary, due to>, air congestion, from United States’ six hundred broadcasting stations.