THE MACHINE AGE
APPLIED TO CRIME
Methods Employed by Crim
inals Demand New Police
Methods, Bankers Asso
ciation Official
Declares.
'J TSE by Criminals or modern tech
nole:;1ea! developments such
as automobiles, machine guns and.
airplanes have given them , advan
tages which old-fashioned local and
iitsconnecfeij poli e syst.eflis are
'powerless t" combat arid the situa
tlon d. :■..! , th< bro..der . modern
protection of St a;/; p dice systems.
K. I iviu.’Ti .. -LHity manager.
American It.:'’ i> Association in
charge (if its 'Tine investigating
department. de. ‘s.
••Til.. A ; m> I’rat• ctive
Committee i. repeatedly - urged
the advaiit >f .Mending shite
p,.,liee s; si -ns V v.md thh nine,
eastei'h States. wV it have enjoyed
this protection r many years."
Mr. Batitn says. "The time has
passed when we can safely rely
upon .tiie eisc ... and. otten
times iitefioctive. rset hods of local
ami county police. Tap advent of
automobiles and better roads, to
say tiothing of machine guns and
airplanes, demands the same wide
latitude in Author,;y and field of,
operation he given the police no
less than the criminal."
Stai • -> Poliw Plans Best
He qi! i . a » Kansas judge ms
saying ;i:tu ur syistein. of sheriffs
anil .!es was not Unsigned
to' me t piv,lorn-day conditions."
“Ev. rv nr tit " robbery experi
ence of banks in the nine States
having St; • p dice proves ths
merits atul urc.-nt need of State
wide police protection." says Mr.
Baum. "Uisi year, for example,
thero were 15 S bank holdups in
Connecticut, Maine, Maryland.
Massachusetts, New jersey, New
York, Pennsylvania. Rhode Island
ami West Virginia, where State
police forces are operated,” he con
tlnues. "Although this total is ex
ceptional!)' high due to an unpre
cedented number of robberies in
New Jersey and Pennsylvania, it is
little more than half the number
of daylight hank.robberies suffered
in 19150 in ill trioa-s alone. Further
more, tjji-; total of 38 robberies in
:the nine eastern States was ex
ceeded in cc. l.'ornia, where there
were 42 lank holdups, ami in Ohio
where banks suffered 40 attacks.
Holdups Fewer Under New Plan
“If we extend the comparison of
tue robbery experience in these
States enjoying State-wide police
protection to the record in eight
central and far western States, we
find a total of 304 bank holdups in
the latter group. The odds, there
fore, continue to be not less than
8 to 1 flgainst the bankH in these
western States, Where they are de
nied the sp cdy, coordinated action
of Staje police and their modern
means of transportation and com
munication. The me comparison
holds true oi :iia. .armors’ losses
through robberies of livestock.
"Moreover, these State police
forces invariably yield an operating
profit in the amount of fines col
lee toil and the value of stolen prop
erty recovered'. Bankers interested
in cutting down the cost of rob
bery insurr me might well consider
this job of extending. State police
systems as a service to he under
taken alongside the farmers."
BANK EMPLOYEES
SENT TO SCHOOL
Modern Scientific Financial
and Management Methods
Taught/Throughout
Country.
THE American Institute of Bank
in? Section of the American
Bankers Association conducts 223
chapters, or local banking schools
in as many cities throughout the
country. One large city chapter
has a'most 6,000 students, who are
combining formal theoretical and
practical hanking studies with their
daily working experience and other
places have these schools with a
Lhousand to,two thousand students
.In addition there are fifty study
groups in small communities with
■tome 6.000 enrollments. All told
over 42.000 bank people are taking
these courses-—not only clerks, but
junior officers and even senior offi
cers in mor*1 advanced work.
The work of the institute has
been declared to he “a dynamic
economic force, pouring into bank
ing a broadening, deepening stream
of better qualified hankers than
could be d veloped merely by the
daily workings of banking itself,"
and it has been suggested thal
every hank worker should be com
pelled to combine institute courses
with his work. A good many banks
now make It part of the contract of
employment that an employee shall
undertake to render himself pro
ficient and trustworthy in banking
by taking institute work and others
make successful progress in this
educational aspect of banking a
pre-requisite to promotion. Plans
are being developed to make the
'benefits of banking education
through this organization more
generally available in the rural
districts.
HOME EDUCATION
“The Child’s First School is the Family.’’—Froebel
Issued by the National Kindergarten Association, 8 West
40th Street, New Work City. These articles are appearing week
ly in ouj columns. '
THEY NEED HELP
Mary Stack Kerr
“It' 1 want to get him to do
any work I have to help him,
said a mother speaking of her
ten-vear-old son.
“You have found out one of
the most important things in
child training, if you have dis
covered that,” said her elder
sister.-who had hean a stu
dent of child psychology. “Chil
dren need help in forming any
good habit, and the sooner their
parents discover it, the better
it is for them as well as for
the children. We know they
need help in learning to talk,
and walk, and to read and write
but so many times we forget
that they need it just as much
in learning habits of obedience,
order, industry and thought
fulness. We forget that they
come into the world with every
thing to learn, and because
they are so apt in imitating
that they learn much without
any special effort on our part,
we sometimes make the mistake
of crediting them with more
knowledge and ability than
they really possess.”
‘ Yes, said tne motner, 1
used to think that I could just
tell Carl what to do, and then
he would go ahead and do it
without further instruction or
supervision, and then 1 would
scold him because he didn’t do
so. Now. when I have something
for him to do,unless it is some
thing he has been used to do
ing for some time, I go and
start the work with him, and
go and look every once in a
while to see how he is getting
along and to encourage him to
persevere until he has finished
it.”
"A little help and encourage
ment will do a great deal more
than scolding, 1 am sure,” said
the sister. “You will solve
many of your problems through
that discovery. You know now
where the trouble with practic
ing music lessons, and in obey
ing promptly lies. Until right
habits are formed in anything,
no matter what it is, we ought
to help a child in carrying out
bur instructions.
“And this method is in per
fect accord with the oft repeat
er precept that too much help
is often ruinous to children.
' Parents do indeed need to be
‘wise as serpents’ as well as
‘harmless as doves’. They
need to study to understand
when a child needs help and
the kind of help he needs. The
mental attitude is always a
better index than the achieve
ment, isn’t it?‘ And a smile or
word of encouragement is often
the very best help that can be
given.”
“In. the training of children
nothing is so important as the
development of good habits—
habits of discipline, study, and
all of the other factors in the
; education of youth which build
! character. The habits a child
forms in his early years determ
ine to a large extent the devel
; opment of his mind and char
acter. It is, therefore, mighty
[desirable to begi,n the training
j of th< child in these early hab
! informing years, and the kin
j (iergarten offers the most prac
WHEN BABIES
■■ q ■■ mr THERE are times
f I when a baby is too
fretful or feverish to
be sung to sleep. There are some
pains a mother cannot pat away. But
there’s quick comfort in Castorial
For diarrhea, and other infantile
ills, give this pure vegetable prepara
tion. Whenever coated tongues tell
of constipation; whenever there’s any
sign of sluggishness. Castoria has a
goodrtaste; children love to take it.
Buy the genuine—with Chas. H.
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A
CASTORI
ticable, effective, and demo
cratic method of accomplishing
j this.”—H. W. Chase, President,
| University, of Illinois, Urbana.
The National Kindergarten
I Association. 8 West Fortieth
j Street, New York, is always
ready to help anyone wishing
to work to get a kindergarten
opened. Write for information
and advice.
REPORT RAIMI) GROWTH
OF WALNUT TREES
Black walnut seedlings plant
ed by 4-H club members as a
new project in the last two
years are making rapid growth,
according to reports made to R
W. Graeher. extension forester
at State College.
Mr. Graeher says the trees
are about 10 to 12 inches in
height when sent to the club
member. For the last two
years a number of these mem
bers have been keeping accu
rate records of the rate of
growth. Where the boy used
good judgment in selecting
places to plant the trees and
gave them reasonable care and
attention, 'he now has a well
developed group of trees. The
walnuts began to bear nuts
within a few years after set
ting.
One of the best records so far
reported has been made by W.
R. Rogers of Oxford, route 3,
in Vance county. Young Rog
ers planted 25 trees two years
ago. Twenty-two are living
and the highest is 74 inches
tall. The average of all 22 is
33.1 inches. Louise Cress of
Rowan reports one of her wal
nut trees to I)!- til inches tall in
two years and Walter Jarvis of
Surry reports his to be 48
inches.; tall. These trees plant
ed only one year are from 14 to
Jo inches tall. This is very
good considering the dry weath
er of last year, says Mr. Grae
ber.
lie- finds that, about (>0 per
cent of all the trees furnished
cl ill) members last year are
living. This, he says, is high
for beginners in tree planting.
Many of the hoys and girls who
have been planting black wal
j nut seedlings during the past
! two years have become ceeply
interested in the project and
! write that they feel well re
j paid where they have a few
j thrifty trees.
IN MEMORIUJW
_
; Qn Saturday night, November
fourteenth, at thirty minutes
past ten,
Mr. Sam Peter Martin’s life on
this earth came to an end.
The life he lived here was so
complete, _
That kings and nobles must
ever strive to beat,
lie was a dear companion to
his wife for nearly sixty
years,
But now he is with the angels
where there are no tears,
lie was the father of five girls
’ and seven boys,
And he cherished them as a
child does his toys.
All thfpugh life he walked the
narrow pathway,
He set examples, trying to keep
them from going astray.
He used no whiskey nor tobacco
in any why,
Neither did he deal with per
sons that would cause his
character to sway.
He never spoke farmful of any
one, I’ve been told,
And his words and deeds led
him on to his goal.
It is hard to give up the ones
we love so, —
But God knows best and calls
them to the land free from
toil and woe.
—Mrs. Frances Sharp Martin.
i
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to thank our friend*
for the many kindnesses shown
during the illness and after
the death of our husband and
father, S. A. Allen, also for the
beautiful iloral designs—Mrs.
S-. a. Allen and family.
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