Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-08-28 | Page 6 | 'Now be a Good Boy'

1 Now Be a Good Boy IN IN Wednesdays Wednesday's Telegram there were four stories involving the arrest on new crime charges of oC parolees or individuals already facing fac- fac fac-f fac ing ng crime charges but released pending trials At Mt Pleasant Uta Utah a man twice paroled from irom Utah state prison was captured in a wild chase chate after alter an alleged service station liquor store robbery Two youths 16 and 18 18 both paroled from irom the Utah Utah- State Industrial school face charges under the federal Dyer act of ot stealing an automobile in hi Oakland CaL and driving it to Delta Utah A Los Angeles boy of 14 released from the state reformatory after serving a sentence for petty theft and malicious s mischief confesses to the murder of a year old playmate A boy of or 15 arrested in Salt Lake City two tyro months ago on house burglary charges and released pending action on the charge was arrested in Bountiful and admitted according to 19 police home burglaries there Those four cases emphasize the fact that reform of the criminal is no easy matter It cant can't be done by simply releasing him from jail jall reform school or prison patting him on the back and saying Now be a good boy There are too many just such cases as those above bove in which released criminals go right back to their old tricks trick until at last they are caught again There is need for more careful study of each cach individual case physical and mental examination cic- cic and an attempt to correct or eliminate eliminate nate irate those factors that have made the individual S. S criminal before release Parole and the rehabilitation of criminals 4 Js sound but it must be handled carefully and I. I more expertly expertly more carefully and expertly than iari it itI 1 I has been handled generally in Utah and the J I ration or nation or it is a distinct menace to society I