Show It I Is S Easy as to Sympathize Two murderers were refused paroles by the state board of pardons at their last monthly meeting One had killed a neighbor neighbor neigh neigh- bor bar as the climax of a long feud The other had killed the parents and the grandmother of his estranged wife The first murderer is 71 years old He has served about three years in prison According to news accounts he sobbed as ashe ashe ashe he asked for release promising to harm hann no noDe De if the board permitted him to spend his declining years outside prison walls waIls The second murderer 48 years old had served 10 years He told the pardons board that he was suffering from tuberculosis and he wished freedom so that he could try to regain his health It is easy to sympathize with these unfortunate men They undoubtedly both have learned a lesson They may both be heartily sorry for their crimes crime against society It isn't pleasant to think of a man 71 years old in prison or to think of a man suffering from tuberculosis being condemned to stay in the generally generally generally gen gen- unhealthful surroundings of a prison Yet one cannot forget their victims either The man who was killed by his neighbor would also have liked to spend his declining years in peace and comfort comfort alive alive rather than in the impenetrable and inescapable dungeon that is death The mother and father and grandmother who were killed by the estranged husband would like very much to have not just their health but their very life The he plain truth is that tha there is no way to atone for murder Hard though imprisonment may be it is not as hard as an untimely untimely un un- time timely end of life If imprisonment were worse than death there vl would ld be fewer murderers fighting so hard bard to escape capital punishment It isn't pleasant to serve a long term in prison But it isn't meant to be pleasant It is meant to b be and band and it must be be sufficiently onerous to deter human beings from wantonly killing others And it is well before we wc sympathize too much with the a admittedly unfortunate persons who are serving prison sentences for murder to think that unpleasant nt though their lot may be bc it is no less unpleasant at least than the fate they deliberately meted out to their victims t In the great political arenas there seems to be slight sense of trust trost in the hopes of humanity Rev Dr Arthur Lee Kinsolving of Princeton N. N J. J r F j A sick man served by you will make you strong In such ways y you u can make yourself blessed for the services you give others Rev Karl H H. Ehlers of Cleveland q Many a woman con considers iders he her husband the salt of the earth Maybe a be that's why so many wives are always trying to shake tl their I n lr husbands d down wn 1 r rr I i r l 1 |