Resolution in Honor of Eugene Meyer, President, The Washington Criminal Justice Association

Mr. Eugene Meyer has made many important contributions to the civic betterment of Washington. Among the most significant has been hie keen interest and intelligent support of all measures looking to the improvement of law enforcement and the control and prevention of delinquency. He has constantly striven to make the Nation's Capital a model for the rest of the Nation. To him this means something more than beautiful buildings and inspiring vistas. It means efficient lav enforcement, intelligently administered institutions, a broad program of better housing, lessening racial and religious tensiona, and improving all of those community resources we have come to consider as the American way. Mr. Meyer firet became interested in crime conditions back in 1935 when an investigation of the District's delinquency record showed that it was far from a model area. At a mass meeting in 1936 a criminal justice association similar to the crime commissions that had operated successfully in Cleveland, Philadelphia, Baltimore and other large cities was recomcended for Washington. Mr. Meyer aç- septed the chairmanship of the association and he has ever since been the guiding hand behind its many, worthwhile activities. He has not only actively participated in the prograns of this association for community crine prevention, repression and control but be has is RUUSLAN NARA