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Show jeeiTand Heard lound the Town Uy EDGAR vis much ado recently WL need for better super-of super-of our juveniles. A meet-& meet-& " held and a large crowd j out and discussed the prob- oil angles. The result 'Tit was agreed that bet-s bet-s L rt should be given the :ir ind that the parents should 09 ore responsibility unto Xs and help educate and 'op their children. Thts was 'Pid Sut a doubt consider consid-er good came of airing the and bringing it home to Slem ,' On the other Sere have 'found this to be rase that let a. parent's "L it into trouble and they Jktely take the child's side jSdtack of him even to tate of threatening the offi-Lj offi-Lj the Washington County fJiec printing the information , the delinquency of the child. e Ve have learned at the office that invariably after publish the rulings of the Hr that we will either have , mother or a wrathy U n the other end of ,the Vohone - For tne lnfor" of our readers we will 4 the policy of this paper (as rilished before) that if a person Carrested and brought before the y a public record is made j 5ie case and it then becomes blic information. That informa-& informa-& is then released to us by Sheriff Antone B. Prince, the , District Attorney or City At-! At-! ,oMy or by the State Patrolmen, Blj We publish it in the News. Only the facts of the case are relished and it is not the intent i this paper to editorialize ex-cegt ex-cegt in rare cases. ... It has been found by the newspapers of the country that some definite policy must be adopted and then altered to. The general one is tot if a case comes into the public courts of the land it is fen public information and is published. Studies made of cases tee proven that in most instances, in-stances, this helps to deter crime. Of course, there are the rare cases that thrive on the publicity, but these are few. .' . . Sometimes i? are not able to contact Sheriff Prince on Thursday morning and a the cases that he has handled it week are not reported, but J is the policy of this paper to sport them the following week. . . . Every so often someone will tall us or the Sheriff and ask iiat the information about them be left out of the paper. The inly answer we can have to this s that if they are brought into public courts and charged, it is information and we can-it can-it publish one and leave another tut |