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Show LAWS AND CRIME. Governor Roosevelt of New York who, according to the New York Times, "may go down in history as the prison reform governor" has . suggested an investigation into th,i probation system for prisoners. This follows his work in reorganizing the parole system, and in making the punishment pun-ishment fit the criminal as well as the crime. Our crime reformers would do well to emulate the example of Governor Roosevelt and turn their attention to improving the existing legal and criminal crim-inal system, instead of seeking to inflict in-flict more restrictive laws on an already al-ready over-legislated people. Crime and punishment have been given little lit-tle scientific study, and there has never been any endeavor, on a national nation-al scale, to adjust parole and probation proba-tion to modern conditions. Our laws have become steadily more technical and personally restrictive with amazing amaz-ing increase in organized criminality as the result. ' We seem to have lost sight of the fact that it should be the purpose of law to protect the rights and liberties liber-ties of law-abiding citizens, not to abrogate or cancel them on the dubious dub-ious theory that by giving the criminal crimin-al or the honest citizen more laws to break, lawlessness will be lessened. |