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For the six chief cities of the United States
Homicides
Percentage for every 100,000 inhabitants
Detroit 228 16.5
Chicago 498 15.8
Cleveland 134 . . 13.3
Philadelphia .... 182 8.8
New York .... 401 6.7
Los Angeles ... 70 4.7
For the 10 chief cities of the south.
Memphis ....
115
Birmingham . .
122
Jacksonville . . .
74
Atlanta
115
Little Rock . . .
30
Macon
22
Savannah . . .
3i
Nashville
39
Houston. ....
72
New Orleans . .
in
60.5
54-9 52.6
45-i 37-9 35-9 31.0 27.9 26.2 25.9
Roger W. Babson proceeds to point out that the statistics clearly indicate the progressive development of disregard for law especially as regards the younger generation.
« Statistics clearly show » writes the author, « that something is developing a disregard for law and order throughout the wrorld today. This is especially true among the youth. Some say this is due to prohibition, under which so many respectable people are defying the Constitution, the bulwark of American life and property. If these crime waves were limited to the United States, one might seriously consider this as a plausible reason. As, however, this disregard for law is world-wide, it cannot logically be laid to prohibition. It is much more logical to consider it a natural aftermath of the great world war, which necessarily taught men to shoot, steal and deceive.
« Twenty years ago, we would have been justified in believing immigration to be the cause of this bad situation. In fact, it was primarily to prevent such lawless conditions that the present immigration restrictions where enacted. Yet, although we had but little crime twenty years ago, when nearly a million immigrants entered the country annually, we are having much crime today when less than 200,000 are entering annually.
« Statistics even show that crime has increased as immigration has decreased. Hence, immigration cannot be blamed as the cause of our
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