Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-03-19 | Page 7 | Roses for Thugs

J Roses for Thugs 1 1 r FORTY ORTY high school you youths hs in Detroit form forma It a band of automobile thieves thieves Survey Survey reveals that one of the favorite pastimes of oft t p Chicago go school boys is imitating bootleggers f d gunmen with the aid of toy cap pistols t Those those are two of the tit bits in the days day's Jt n news ws There is some great food for the f Y i rious associations for the prevention of i crime tim t to try t to digest Of course cours the crime a associations will caucus and deliver to the ff world plenty of antidotes All sorts of i ous nostrums will be advanced by groups of 0 t really earnest earliest men and women who think they doing their best to to cope with the situation situ situ- are re e fV t 1 B But t there is only one way to to correct thes the s- s k tendencies of youth and as aside de from fromI j I this his single remedy all talk is so much soap tast ast upon the ocean There is one way in j. j which youths of the freshman age can be taught beauties of truth and hon hon- esty sty There is one unfailing way to t teach a ch h that violation of the law is punishable It i ithe is the way to the woodshed For there is an age when you yon cannot talk to youth a day when swift punitive action is required And just as a 1 few hang- hang it f ings in ill Chicago would help to cau cause e the gun- gun toting gentry there to pause and ponder so soa soa soa a bit o of of strap oil appropriately delivered would be the most humane treatment that could be given to errant Johnny A couple of Chicago boys held up a mother on her herway herway herway way to the grocery All the orations of Demosthenes couldn't have stopped them But a good smacking might do do a world of good Let Lets Let's quit quit giving thugs roses and pr prayers I