LAW ENFORCEMENT.

Grey River Argus, 29 April 1929, Page 5

LAW ENFORCEMENT.

Hoover’s Anxiety. IS IT THE 18th AMENDMENT? NEW YORK, April 22. President Hoover, addressing the annual luncheon of the Associated Press, to-day, declared that life and properly in the United States were relatively more unsafe than fa any other civilised country of the world. Twenty times as many people, in proportion to population, wore lawlessly killed in the United States as in Britain. “lu many of- our cities murder can apparently be committed with impunity,” he said. ‘‘l wonder whether the limo has siot come to realise Wl . arc confronted with a national necessity of the first degree, that we are not suffering from an ephemeral crime wave, but from subsidence of our foundations. No individual has the right t 0 determine what law shall be obeyed, and what law shall not b„ enforced. If the law is wrong, r>g- • d enforcemc-At is the surest, guarantee of its repeal. If it is right, enforcement is the. quickest method ox ...gaping respect. It is the purpose of the Administration to strength n he law enforcement agencies by steady ,„ Pf . are and steady weeding out of a l apatite, negligent officials. The is almost final in its potency to ’ r „use the interest ami conscience of liie people. U can destroy then fin er sensibilities, or can mvigorate

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