Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-11-14 | Page 13 | How to Check Crime

T I How to Check Crime I 9 By DR FRANK CRANE Mr III N Netley Lucas a young oung British says that fear alone can give society a sate safeguard t and that toot the best wa way to cure the crime wave i Inthe in inthe r the Un United ted States is to resort to corporal punish punish- m ment en t. t This Is a restatement of ot an ol old point of ot view e that happily is is' dying out Physical pain as a d deterrent to crime used ti to tobe D 1 be e resol resorted ted to as a matter of ot In the middle S Sages ages the they used th the thi rack and the boot hung them then I un u-i by their thum thumps thumbs s and busily plied piled the o cat nine tall tails Thus by bv throwing the fear of of God Into the e offenders It was cs-as thought they would be deterred l from crime The result however was quite the opposite Tb The Themore Themore e more hanging torture rind and mutilations were Indulged in indulged indulged In- In in by the authorities th the greeter greater r was wa the tb e increase of crime And since the abolition of ot torture torture tor ton ture tune and anel the diminution of of- capital punishment crime has lessened It Is il a truth that is tot not apparent on the su sur- tac face but If Lf Is nevertheless one of ot the great truths about human conduct that thai violence does not cure violence Punishment when re resorted ported to as a ama ma matteL mattery of vengeance is not effective Pu Punishment should be sure and swift but to tomake tomake tomake make it cruel and inhuman i I Is to defeat its purpose The criminal should should- be segregated and treated by those thoe experts who und understand the psych psychology logy of ot human nature The da day dav is past pa-at when we can farm criminals out to inhuman taskmasters or subject them to brutal wardens and expect them to be cured The indiscriminate use of force and the inhuman application of ot pain does does' n not t cure cire the criminal but arouse in m 1 the spirit of ot ven vengeance It remains true that they who take the sword shall perish by the sword I Intelligence and not violence is the best cure I for crime Copyright by McClure by-McClure y McClure Newspaper S Syndicate dl te