Show TO DEAL WITH DESPERATE CRIMINALS How to de deal l with criminals is now a vital subject in France Fiance A man named was convicted of murdering a little girl gir under atrocious circumstances circumstances circumstances circum circum- stances but President Fallieres commuted his sentence sentence sentence sen sen- tence to life imprisonment taking pains to say that he had found no mitigating circumstances in the criminals criminal's favor but that in commuting his bis sentence he ic had acted upon convictions of thirty years' years thought hought Of course excitable Paris is wild and is crying Death to Down with Fallieres 1 But the president is undisturbed He did what he thought was right and is not worrying over himself It all raises anew the question What should bedone be bedone done one with criminals whose acts show that they have havo no moral conception of right and wrong Our belief is that their punishment should be bc solitary soli- soli tary ary confinement conf or transportation to a penal colony A great many parents never should hould have been parents and their offspring are perverted from birth rhe They hey arc are about as irresponsible as wild beasts but they hey have intellects that possibly might be trained At the same time tho the public should be protected I against them Either they should be placed where instruction could be given or they should be locked in in n a six sit by seven cell fed through a narrow orifice and nd left until called |