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Show A FORGOTTEN I'L KLIC Jn Ohio recently two women, convicts of a reformatory, escaped and remained in hiding- for over a month before their capture. During this period the newspapers of the state made 1'ront-pae news of the cases. As is usual, a certain cer-tain amount of sentiment was aroused in favor of the culprits cul-prits and many letters were sent the superintendent of the reformatory. She was advised to use leniency and forgiveness forgive-ness upon the return of the prisoners. There were so many sympathetic notes that the superintendent says she was hounded to death. The reason for the sympathy was through the publicity and propaganda during the period of the escape. There were even offers of marriage made the two women while they were in hiding. Did the letter-writers realize that one of these women had murdered her husband because he would not go to a bridge party after a day of hard work? They had probably felt a former horror when the deed had appeared on the front page of their paper. Should such women be dealt with lightly, forgiven for their break and treated as heroines? The superintendent asks why pin a rose on these two when she had 300 Women who are doing the right thing. Too often there are not such level-headed "pow ers that be". The Ohio tax-payers sleep sounder when they know that competent hands are at the heads of public institutions. This case brings to our minds in Milford that the public is very forgetful sometimes, when they should be more reasonable than sympathetic. AT |