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Show CRIME IN SALT LAKE. In its issue of Oct. 3", the Salt Lake Herald thus summarizes the principal criminal events of ihe week: From Wednesday, Oct. 5, to midnight yesterday, yester-day, about an even week, the following hold-ups have taken place: Wednesday, Oct. o August Moyer, bartender at Pullman bar, Third West and First North, compelled com-pelled to hand over $30 at pistol point. One arrest, ar-rest, John O'Brien. Wrong man. Tuesday, Oct. 33 John Ferguson, Rio Grande Western employe, held up, beaten into unconsciousness unconscious-ness and relieved of $50, at First North and Fourth West streets. No arrests. Wednesday, Oct. 32. Bartender John Fowles made target for hold-up's pistol at Valley bar, West Temple and South Temple streets. No arrests. ar-rests. Wednesday, Oct. 32, 9:30 p. m. John Beck-stead, Beck-stead, clerk at Union store, 674 South State street, held up at pistol point by two men who tapped till. In the case of Miss Leon Baker, the hold-up scorned to use force, Tuesday night, but grabbed J her- purse, containing $6, and made off down Main street. , The hold-up last night took place immediately after Mr. Beckstcad had closed and locked the front door, after making a sale to George Maycock. This is a catalogue of ''hold-ups'' alone. In addition ad-dition to the criminal record, mention elsewhere is made of an assault -upon the life of a young lady, -a-High school student, in the busiest part of Main street, in broad, daylight, by an unknown person, 'a man. The girl did not see the fellow, who made a lunge from behind at her throat, with a knife, neither can any one who passed up or down oa the sidewalk at the time identify the would-be assassin. The police are up in the .air, and so is everybody, over what is set down and dismissed as a mystery. Again, the speetace of four youth?, two boys and two girls, children in years, arraigned in the police court for drunkenness, is one to arouse indignation against the licensed dealer in intoxicants intoxi-cants responsible for their condition. The presence . of children before the court for various offenses is becoming astonishingly frequent. Old-timers view with alarm tlic future of the. rising generation. Scientists and philosophers who have spent jmueh time in analyzing crime and iis causes, insist that a large percentage conies by inheritance, proceeding, pro-ceeding, from father to sonlhe same as scrofula is transmitted fronl one ; generation to another. Many examples are given to substantiate this claim. In making up criminal statistics, however, no attention at-tention is paid to the genealogical feature in public pub-lic reports, and we are at a loss to account for the source of information. But any rational observer of man' and his habits must perceive that the largest percentage of criminals is recruited from the class who 'owe their downfall primarily to youthful folly and the laxity of parental restraint. In the first place the criminal seed was planted in the evil soil which produced irreverence of God and the teachings of religion, unhappily excluded I from popular education. Next come evil associations, associ-ations, and the final fall into crime and felony. While we are astonished at , the precociousness of youngsters -of the present da y, who know more wickedness at the age of 30 than old-timers picked up at 20, we find a reason for it all. It is the result of crime thrust in their faces at every, step, most of all through yellow -newspapers and poisoned juvenile novels. . One local newspaper, which boats of a larger circulation than all the other dailies combined, undoubtedly attained that number through the industry it exhibits in making criminal news its principal feature, under advanced ad-vanced telegraphic dates. It is humiliating to confess con-fess that the majority of newspaper readers look for such stuff rather than seek for knowledge of something that is clean and wholesome. What a shame it is to send a paper outside the town with a heading clear across the page, "Jack the Slasher in Salt Lake!1' What answer will the father give his child to the question, "Who is Jack the ! Slasher .'?' Unless the city is moved to better things through individual conscience, our children, suffer. We dare not hope that they can" be better than ourselves. miI ').' " mmmTmim. TilHr iHm mimm. " i"i |