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Show lilUKSUA), Aim PMiE ISm! Should We Jail Young Dillingers? By (c) PAI L llAltYKY 1978, Los Angeles Times If a boy commits a man's crime should he be.subject-e- d to a mans punishment? More and more, jurists and lawmen are saying yes. To paraphrase the familiar quip, Mere boys and girls are not nearly so mere as they used to be." Some are young Dillingers. ORLANDO, FLORIDIANS have been divided over the recent jailing of two young boys, ages six and eight. They were taken to jail, photographed, fingerprinted and honked lor vandalizing a school. Youth service officials howled with indignation. "It's uncivilized." they cried. But sheriff's police said they had no other option. The parents would not indeed the parents .had to be arrested for resisting the arrest. The boys had done hundreds of dollars' damage to the school and it was not the first time. Arrest and detention of juveniles is a logical reaction to permissiveness. In Meriden, Conn. .last November a manslaughterer was set free because he was only 17." Even the defense attorney admittedly was stunned by the judicial leniency! (lilt of Clcmiulc, Calif., in early January a highway patrolman picked up a hitchhiker and the boy 13 pulled a ed by a group of boys ranging in age from 10 to 14! Dr. Lowell Levine of the New York City Medical Examiner's office policeman! IN (iOl.DKN, Colo., they have Ronald Peters in Jef- many more murders than the public realizes. under ferson County Jail. He's only 13 but he's been thumbing his nose at the law three offenses in three years. A county judge said, Before somebody gets killed I've got to lock this boy up. And in this case the boy's father agreed. In Dyersburg, Tenn.. a extortion plot involving a threat to blow up a Sears store" was hatch r million-dolla- are committing 11 Fabric 204.000 IN PROVIDENCE Teen-ager- s comprise 16 per cent of our nation's population but commit 33 per cent of all crimes. They're growing up before theyre growing wise. It is perhaps an oversimplification to blame legal leniency entirely, but the courts are beginning now to get tough. Frank Dickson wryly writes: "Never mind, children, if you never hear the Bible read in school; once you get to jail therell be one in every cell." Police, courts and the news media have in keeping the youngsters out of courts, their names out of the papers. Chicago coroner Ralph Bailey says. We don't even keep track of murders by children." YET LAST YEAR Ameri- are can school children rapes and aggravated ussaults against teachers and against one another. Arrests of persons under 18 increased nine' per cent last year. says we've been covering up for the juveniles, that children pistol and kidnapped the 9.(HH) 3 known to have committed 100 muders. 12.000 robberies. FABRIC SALE This Week's Special See the Special AD EFFECTIVE MAY 13r 14, 15 DELIDIOUS RATH SLICED LUNCH 5 OZ PKGS YOUNG Table BEEF Awom FR SLICED Jt 4 TOU. F0ir CURED EMM! 0 W.F. AL SUGAR v5)(o)C only! ONLY LOCAL' SHANK PEICE BEET SUGAR Tricot Pieces -, ' 4 Approx. (18 STICK 1 yd. JB PAK) 'rW2 Men's Nice Summer MARSH PEANUTS LG AM MALLOW REG REG 4 PKGS 79 III Group 69 12 QZ. PKG MONTE 4 MONTE 4 SPINACH CANS 89C HERBAL Heat Transfers ESSENCE SHAMPOO REG. 105 Emlnt br M" Wide CANS LYNDEN Wur, lHWiCIl 2 LB no" Yd. Spring & Summer Cottons Over 200 Pcs. 1 Orielnol "G Price a White is White FIRM Excellent Group of Mixed Whites, Doubleknits, RIPE TOMATOES LONG LB. 29 GREEN Wovens, Brocades, etc.- Vi - Gauze Iron) & Pfaln&Stripes, etc. n'jiniiiiiiii IKMMfqM SMimmo PRESTON Originel Price Xrte'des St.98 to $3.98 Yd. CUKES stunnoD Decorator $ U 99 Some 40 Different Pieces Sports Weight Prints, Cotton Crepes Also Includes Sportswear in Poplins, Duck, Denim Stripes, etc. values from SI .79 to S2.49 W.F. mmm 2 . Values to $4.98 Prieto H BROWNS OR mi SwMtr Mntair Sprint liHODl CIO FARMS HASH 100 ... CRISP T.T. CflDITtfDInljgjs $1 TOWN. HOUSE CRACKERS SAUERKRANT DEL MAC & CHEESE BAG D0RIT0S DEL m 6y BEAUTY bthirviqj)i V Original Price On Sale Now At FABRIC MANOR ' touth of Loggn ln Providence Stere H9urM0 p.m. to p.iOflosed Sunday 2 mlles |