Bishop Buddy Scrapbook 1937 (3)

lUUS. WOU The 1937 bill for new battleships tops all records. Even the poorest of the poor nations plan construction of mon- ster fighting ships. It seems no nation is ever too poor to forge weapons of ,destruction. * * * * If Uncle Sam were to lop off two battleships from his costly prepared- ness program and use the money for building jails and penitentiaries, we might then have sufficient prison ca- pacity for our needs. The Federal Bureau of Investigation puts the total criminal army in this country at 3,500,000. Crime of all kinds is flourishing. Murder is still a favorite form of crime. Americans annually kill one another at the rate of 1,000 a month! Police Lieutenant George Schattle of Cincinnati declares that "murder is the easiest crime in the United States to get away with." We need more prison capai::ity. For one of the reasons why so many thou- BUt