The administration of justice would be facilitated greatly by including in the Bureau of Investigation of the Department of Justice a Division of Criminal Identification, where there would be collected this information which is now indispensable in the suppression of crime.

PROHIBITION

The prohibition amendment to the Constitution requires the Congress. and the President to provide adequate laws to prevent its violation.  It is my duty to enforce such laws.  For that purpose a treaty is being negotiated with Great Britain with respect to the right of search of hovering vessels.  To prevent smuggling, the Coast Card should be greatly strengthened, and a supply of swift power boats should be provided.  The major sources of production should be rigidly regulated, and every effort should be made to suppress interstate traffic.  With this action on the part of the National Government, and the cooperation which is usually rendered by municipal and State authorities, prohibition should be made effective.  Free government has no greater menace than disrespect for authority and continual violation of law.  It is the duty of a citizen not only to observe the law but to let it be known that he is opposed to its violation.

THE NEGRO

Numbered among our population are some 12,000,000 colored people.  Under our Constitution their rights are just as sacred as those of any other citizen.  It is both a public and a private duty to protect those rights.  The Congress ought to exercise all its powers of prevention and punishment against the hideous crime of lynching, of which the negroes are by no means the sole sufferers, but for which they furnish a majority of the victims.

Already a considerable sum is appropriated to give the negroes vocational training in agriculture.  About half a million dollars is recommended for medical courses at Howard University to help contribute to the education of 500 colored doctors needed each year.  On account of the integration of large numbers into industrial centers, it has been proposed that a commission be created, composed of members from both races, to formulate a better policy for mutual understanding and confidence.  Such an effort is to be commended.  Everyone would rejoice in the accomplishment of the results which it seeks.  But it is well to recognize that these difficulties are to a large extent local problems which must be worked out by the mutual forbearance and human kindness of each community.  Such a method gives much more promise of a real remedy than outside interference.

CIVIL SERVICE