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"It is difficult to write intelligently of a friend, more difficult to write of a friend who is as straightforward as is Davison, for his character, like that of most strong men, is clear and without picturesqueness, except such picturesqueness as always results when a man is ready to fight a clean fight well. Like his father, he has a keen sense of humor and a love of human beings. His understanding of their foibles and difficulties is extraordinary, and his assumption of many duties has been his only danger. He likes to aid whenever he can, and night and day devotes himself to the study and disentanglement of the important problems that confront him.
"If there is any young man now working for the good of the American people with like abilities and inspiration, he is not apparent."
Chairman F. Trubee Davison of the Crime Commission prompty set his organization in motion, secured the cooperation of prominent men throughout the country.
Mr. Davison, settling down to work, declared:
"We shall first get an expert crime statistician and provide him with an adequate staff. ... It seems to me personally that murder should be our first consideration. We should find out all we can about murders in this country—not only how many there were, but wherein justice and the punitive agencies fell down, if they did."