Show Editor Record I see in it your youri I i issue of the a very cry rea readable able article against capital capita pun punishment t. t A tide of s sentimentalism senti- senti may sweep California California Cali Call fornia as fiS it o once wept swept Colorado Colora Colora- do to her sorrow The article might pass without without without with with- out serious criticism but for forthe forthe forthe the fact the writer app appealed nl d to the scriptures in vindication of his s position and then theu sought to belittle any state tate for the thc infliction infliction tion of capital punishment He Ie says say's Long long h ago ngo h there lere came the command from the distant shores of pf Galilee Thou not kill kill and he might have added that thousands of years before there came rolling down clown from the heights of Sinai Thou not kill and then he right might have made one one- m more re quotation from the same divine tY t record of long long long- ago tb that t. t Y whoso whoso th mans man's blood J d' d i h bv I Iman man shall his Ins blood be sl shed shed- ed 1 dh I The fh ver very commandment he cites fi farts i m the Great Teacher while on blue Galilee constitutes sti ti tuteR i tc i the states state's moral obliga obliga- obligation Lion tion to inflict the death for murder r Then for him to ch charge rge the state that administers capital punishment t with sm small ll mind lUiu and weak heart is to b betray tray the mental and moral status of his own cause That pow power power ris r- r is puny that quails before the infliction of punishment commensurate commensurate commensurate com com- with the crime com com- O 0 But capital punishment does not keep nien rom killing their fellows if will pardon the dig Ve 4 t We 1 a submit submit submit sub sub- mit that the infliction of the q l lt l till kee J he fel- fel lo I. I Iii killing re y 1 J. J rol t ih M tel n s I Irol pa y means H h ye e would 1 1 H OV j Fi Ra l j lie j C t fl J 4 etc o tr tres es tc or y d t r te 1 ne Pe dg l lf s tt I if tI n a ho hb e a n Ut U- U w t h r f cat ri I t- t M r J y |