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Show A MaUncfioty Sight TUESDAY midnight a ipecial car left lh Union Pacific ttat Ion In thia city carrying twelve priannert thackled In palrt bound for th federal penitentiary at McNeil to land. Lately a (rand Jury bad tndictad them for a variety of crime. Prompt triala followed In th federal diauirt court bar, tentancaa war mated to them and by new they ar la durance. Thla may bold th laaann that crtm doe not pay. that federal enforcement of law I ralenUaat, Impartial and efficient and that Justice It rwtft and tur whan ltaited Statea rtatute ar dlaregardad. Thar ar othar thought atirred, though, which pertain to thlngt behind til thla. It wat a melancholy tight, for tnetance, to aa In thla drab group only two faloa la eniddl agar-All th othar war young men only two war thirty year old, en waa a lad In hla teen and tha o liven war in their twentiea. All told, their entence run to a few month and dayt over S4 yean. Thar la an vrag of about thre year taken out of th life of each of thaa aorta of a dozen unhappy mother aad It It not alone tuna that It taken from them, Aa each flnlahet bit aentenc, h will leave th prieoa gate to travel on of two way. If he la minded honeatly to try to go ttraight. It will b with Uv handicap of a prlaon record, with th handicap of having loot noma thing vital that make for manhood and with th handicap of needing to ttart again from acratch. K goat forth to a world more ut thaa cruel to mak bit way, but never without fear, regret, doubt, tham and temptation dogging bit ttepa. Than , there ara haunting memoriae that ha will never acape. Trying hit beat to win againrt hi weak-er weak-er aeUf, b will ba reminded endlecely that "th way of th tranagreaeor It hard." Thoa who do not cbooe th honorable way will return ta their deviou way, tchooled In priaon to b mora crafty, reeentment In tham urging tham to b lea wary of danger, to ba mora deaparat on their forayt, not to weigh human life, theirt or otheri'. It la th youth of lawbreaker, though, that give rla to thought weighing heavy with hopeleaancaa. Moat offender! taken by city police po-lice and iherlftt and peace officer In tha tmaller ' cornmunluea are minor or lees than M year ' of age boy and girl alike. Th fact presents ; th entlr nation with. lt matt perplexing social i problem. Almost counties agencies attack. It but th growth of crime among th young eon tin ur to Increase. Strengthening of enforcement agencies Implements Im-plements them to gather In evildoers, but progress prog-ress In crime prevention la stalled, and th young pay no bead to th prlca of their misdeeds. Cauaa usually are mor easily dealt with than effects. In facing th trim problem th situs sit-us lion 1 reversed. No mechanism of government govern-ment haa manifested capacity to meet It Th need la for a marshaling of th nation's tpiritual and social force to being about radical departure la education, to family living and In faulty economic structures. Mor than any real fear of aa overthrow af th American form of government by external Influence or pressure, there la ground for fear and doubt of it tur vivsl If each successive generation increasingly flout law and order and make substantial addition ad-dition to unmoral force In th population undermining under-mining th only foundation upon which good government ran rest |