Show I COURT CORT REFORM Continued from page 1 1 convicted is still pending There is no way of determining how many crimes he had committed for which he was not apprehended Multiply this case by hundreds and apply it to all class classes s of crime and y you ou u have located the sour source soure e of most of of th the crime in Detroit If Miller 1 and other criminals of his type knew that swift and sure punishment would foIl follow ow his apprehension Detroit would soon be befree befree befree free of professional criminals most would not come here and if they did they would soon be bo behind prison bars But a large percentage of 01 so called criminals criminals' are mentally or physically defective Some are curable and some are not The government Investigations Investigations investigations during the war in the attempt to o suppress vice In the neighborhood of army c camps disclosed that approximately ap approximately ap- ap p- p proximately 75 per cent of prostitutes are feeble minded to a greater or less degre degree If we weare are to send such persons perSons persons persons' per per- sons Sons- to prison for a stated term we might as well displace our our hospitals with prisons Society can only be be- protected against crime committed by this class by ly giving medical treatment to the curable coupled us usually ally with punish punishment ment merit for discipline or close supervision supervision supervision super super- vision for such period as m may y be bc necessary necessary and by Isolating permanently permanently permanently per per- from society those who arc aro Incurable The full realization of the he latter will necessarily mean the enlargement of such institutions as ashe the he home for feeble minded at Lapeer Lapeer La- La peer eer the establishment o of prison farms arms etc Finally Let Finally Let us keep in mind all the he time that the object of administering adminis- adminis ering criminal law should always al be e. e First To To protect the lives and property of the law abiding Second Second To To restore if possible to toa toa toa a place In n society those who have forfeIted temporarily the confidence of f their fellow men by the commission of f some criminal act The The new motor vehicle act of ot Ontario puts the ban upon the spotlight Americans Amen Amerl cans ans who are planning a Canadian tourIng touring tour tour- Ing ng Invasion during the coming season would do well to remember that it shall hall beu to carry carryon on any motor vehicle operated on a highway any light which revolves upon a pivot or other device evice so that rays of such suh light ma may maybe maybe be projected in different directions |