LATLANTICA'SOBSERVATORYA RLCENT rrc\\s tlisuatt'h ,,iA th. Unile,l Prcss. i,-r'SLeurr:Brown ot' the l{ome office of thatnews agencv, declalerl that, accoldingto a recent cr"ime report, murde:,blackmail anrl :rll major crimes areon the decline in ltaly. With thenumber of lirst-class crimes in 1930about 501 lcss tlran ir pre-rr a r'days, the "C.orriere del1a Sera" ofI{ilan cornmerrted editorially that"the Italian people are in a perio(1of moral restoration." While thetotal number of crimes, accordingto the Central Statistical Offiec, hasincreased, u,hen one takes into considerationthe population increases.the average number of major crimesper 100,000 persons shorvs a markeddecline. Before the war the percentageof major crimes per 100,-000 was 12.58, a figure which wasreduced last year to 5.98.To quote f rom the neu,s clispatch:"From a geographical angle.the report discloses some interestingconclusions. While southern Italiansare often accused of being$rarmer bloocled than their northernbrothers, the study reveals thatwhile the number of crimes is distinctlyless in southern Ita11', includingNaples, northern and centralItaly provide slight increases."stricter Fascist penal codes anclspeeclier justice are claimed respollsiblefor decreasing crime in Italy."J-T] OR lears the Italians arrd othe r'tt racial gloups in the L'niterlStates have chafed under the frequentchargc that they are resporrsiblefol a large proportion of crinre:;committed in this cotintry In vair-rhave facts and statistics been marshaledto disprove this theory; theprejudiced viervpoint remains. Itis passing strange that r,vhen someoner'vith an American name colnmitsa major crime, attention isfastened upon the crime : but rvherrsomeone rvith a f oreign name(though he may be, and ver1, ofterris, an American citizen) does thesame, the outstanding point of interestto some is the fact that another"foreigner" has committed acrimc. This, in large part. probabllleacls to the conviction, otherr.r'iserurriourrderl. that ther are resporsiblefor more crimes than their nunrerciaiexpectation.No less authoritative a bcdy thanthe Wickersham Con-rmission, in itstenth report suhmitted to the \\-hiteHouse earlv in August, has knockecltl-re props from uncler this reasoning.In flaying the American sl-stemof cleportation, u,hich " proiongsand deepens the immigrant'sinsecurity and delays 1-ris mentaland moral stabilization in the countq.which he is seel
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