Show S 'S i A C Case se in in Point UE TELEGRAM times has called many atI attention attention at- at I to the work of organizations launching launch launch- ing campaigns to fight crime by giving iving needed attention to potential criminals among the very young The nation needs this sorely if it is to tos escape s ape unending depredations c carried on by successive suc suc- generations of malefactors We have ex- ex of new bandit gangs springing up as S. S soon soon as the forces of law and order clean up the theS S ones Ina In In-an In an Indiana jai jailbreak break of only a few days clays ago the nation learned of th the existence of a anew anew new rew gang whose vas bo t. t as that it was tougher than Dillinger's mob The he makeup of its membership membership membership mem mem- and arid the list of their past crimes gave substance sub sub- stance to the boast a But it was yesterdays yesterday's news from Memphis furnishes a case in point to plead eloquently eloquently eloquently elo elo- elo- elo for nationwide reco recognition of ot the We urgent and immediate necessity for organization andS and S action in every sizeable community in the country country country coun coun- try for crime prevention activity among chil chil- dren The appeal has been sent to every quarter quarterS S bf f the nation and should be receiving earnest earnet consideration by state and local officials whose responsibilities inc include ude initiation o of such a pro- pro gram ram Unquestionably there will be a willing re- re from all aU equipped to carry it ft forward S i The Memphis story records the killing o of one ember of a teen-aged teen bandit gang the jailing S f l two two- others and the escape of a fourth A A. ii y en-y old year old ar-old girl from Wisconsin was indicated police as the leader of the group But the thee e killed twenty years ol old was a paroled cont con- con t t from Chicago Convicted of robbery and tm empted jUl tt empted murder he had served one year of o so an a year i year en-year term term when turned tuned loose on s society ay aya fra a d his career of crime f fa fae hen farej en the damnable misuse of the parole 1 to vlis o j is stopped and the parole power is exercised exercised'S S 'S some lome measure of ot intelligence e and when potential criminals are taken in hand before they take their first tep step in lawlessness lawlessness we may approach approach approach ap ap- ap- ap a reduction in the annual crime bill of the nation save society from mounting losses in property life and bodily injury in injury injury in- in jury and conserve an uncounted number of children from becom becoming ng recruits for the under under- world It does not seem likely that any other approach to the solution of the crime problem problemS S holds promise of attainment |