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Show COURT RUN ON CAFETERIA IDEA Offenders Allowed to Choose Own Sentences Zt ' I By WlOtv Servtew. I rOVXOTOWN, Ohio, Aug. II Cafeteria atyls juat.ee! Police Jude;e ioaeph L, Heffamsa hsa originated It hare. He permits prlaeners to aeatenes themselves aad their eUow offenders, offend-ers, too. - And why T ' "" weilf he'a ' aald 3ood morning. Judge." no leae than a doaen tlmea hlmaelf. Ha knows how U goea with the "erring brother.' Some folka don't put much stock In sll thte talk o( environment be Ina; the Influencing factor la crime, Heffernan does, . f', CET1 mw VIEW. . That'a why he lets the men from the lineup take hla place, fie wants to know how they trest their fellow fel-low a la mlafortune. The experiment has proved euc-! euc-! ceaaful. Theae prtaonr-Judgea have been fair to their fellow offender!. of-fender!. And they've Judiciously upheld the law. When aentenceo ' sre necesasry, they recommend I them. Then the court officially 1m-1 1m-1 poaea them. "We re too much Inclined to classify clas-sify offenders as outcsata." Heffernan Heffer-nan mueee. "We view them aa atlg-matlaed atlg-matlaed beings, apart from and antagonistic an-tagonistic to alcety. They're not. Society ought to have a sympathise lntereat In them. "Maybe I feel thla more than soms Judges, because I've been In Jail IS tlmea myself, sly offenaea. thank koodneaa, were minor ones. IKKI MERCY NEED. "But did' any Judge ever ear to me: My boy, what le that h 1.1 Jen Impulse that takea you away from a good home and a loving mother to roam over the face of the earth T "Not one. I waa an offender, almoly berauae I did not chooae to atay In a rut a leaa edventuroua so clety prescribed for me. "When a man appears before me. I slways aak him about hlmaelf, hla 0 home and hla ramlly, but abore ell about hla work. What doea he de for a llvintr That sivea me line on htm. "So tar I hare found few whose work I did not understand. I have worked In the ateel mills. In re I Inroad In-road and conat ruction vampe 1st Dive Una end ehovel gang a. in the (alleya of Ohio river ateamboats, la hotela from Atlantifl City to Loa An galea. -I heva keen 'rouga-neok' 'rouga-neok' In the ell fielda of llllnole and Oklahoma, and have aweated in the, Mo Java deaert and on t he water front In Man aTranclaoo. 1'va been a bookkeeper and accountant, a newe-paper newe-paper man and a free lanre la JCu rope. 'Jvow I'm called upon to sit as judge aver my ! I low man. And I'm thankful for the experience that has led me to under at and their problems." prob-lems." i |