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Show COMMUNICATION j (Leltxis printed under tliic column are not intended intend-ed to express the views of this newspaper, but are intended in-tended to give the readers a chance to express their views. No letters will 1)0 printed unless they bear the writer's signature, but where request is made the name will not be published.) Dear Editor and Readers: I was surprised and disappointed disap-pointed when I read an article in the Washington County News of March 10 regarding five men contributing to the delinquency of a girl. Each man was fined $35. The girl was sent to a school of correction. Do I hear you say "law and justice"? Don't tell me any town or city of high ideals could call it justice. The part of the human hu-man family called the "stronger" and supposed to be a protector, contributing to the delinquency of a girl and getting a paltry fine of $35 while the girl, the weaker one, is stamped and sent to a school of correction. How are we to judge our law-makers and law-enforcers? They are husbands and fathers, and we hope honorable ones, but for one I fail to see the justice in the punishments. Such "justice" never will stop such crime. The so-called men only laugh and are happy while the world knows of a delinquent girl. Men of our county should be men of high type and stamp the "sbou'd-be-man" rather than the poor, misguided girl. Even if she should belong to the "bad kind" the men are certainly no better, especially when they sail under the name of honorable, and are left to repeat their "protection." "pro-tection." I have little sympathy for a wilfully bad girl and I have less for a bad man. Both should be stamped and shunned, but not a lone girl at the hands of five equally bad men. A disgrace dis-grace to our town and county. I don't know who the offenders are, nor do I want to know. This I do know: It's the people who make the slums, not the slums that make the people. EDNA C. DENNETT |