The departure of Colonel Lindbergh and his family for England
is not a good advertisememt for
this country, its police and its
system of justice; but it is the advertisement that the country de-
If, like Colonel Lindbergh, you <
had a small boy constantly threat-
iened with kidnaping in anonymous
letters, and had already lost your
only other child, kidnaped and
murdered, and if, then, conditions
iwere made worse by much pouring out of sympathy with delayed justice for a man convicted
cf the crime, you also might move
to some other country.
And you might select England,
•where they never have a kidnaping. Consider that since 1900
there have been altogether in
England and Wales 7,000 murders,
against 350,000 in the same period
in the United States. Ours is the
ichampion crime country.
No public statement has come
from Colonel Lindbergh. Perhaps
he will interest himself abroad in
helping the British to establish a
real flying service between
Europe and the United States.
That would he a public service,
Since this nation seems incapable
|Df doing it.
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