Show e probation is defended THERE items temi to be aade confusion in the minds mind of muni nina on oil the subject of the pro probation batron system and auld the parole s stem they are tire quite alst nilar yet we find mid arguments based upon the probation practices of the courts elised to bolster up the administration af oftie parol paroh law as applied thour to our penitentiaries tho the are fe the same in tit purpose which is 14 to restore to honest citizenship nals who have havo committed crimes and who in the judgment of the court pr the paroling authorities would be likely to go straight in tho the furuie e if not subject to the influences of prison life atiat it is far more desirable to make a good citizen of one who sho has lias started on the tile toad tord to become a perpetual menace to society than it is to keel him bim in jail und and confirm him iiii iiii career eare eras a malefactor male fattor ought to be plain as ag a matter of 01 Nocial economics therefore courts have bee been endowed tn dowed with the power to free on oil probation such convicted person persons ns as in their judgment turn froni from their first step into crime to the pith of rectitude mistaken in judgment have been made by courts al also alio io acre has been some laxness ss 1 I vi 11 1 surrounding those mose on probation with the supervisory mid regulatory influences lences necessary to nature proper conduct but on 01 the whole judges of the courts in which first and especially youthful offenders are tire tried are in a great reat majority in the opinion that the probation of a considerable lumber of those convicted of offenses va w for the welfare of the state ine meaning aning the people but camle of convicts from penitentiary sentences is something som thing diff different ereLt jn in the tho first place the tile fact that the tho trial judge did not see fit to suspend sentence or tr could not automatically places them in a different class from those on probation in the strond place the effect of prison life upon them must bo be considered in the third place is the clement element of outside pressure some of it political and some not iven u respectable as that that parole ar a few feir very spec specific ifie cases should be based upon a fa real honor system honestly and intelli ll gently administered i 8 dived by experience in in many state states when not no so based und and when a 4 paroled convict ii not kept under proper supervision an and d restraint as to his conduct and place of residence abuses are certain to creep in Paro paroling luig for the chief pUr purpose of making a jail delivery in order to make room for new convass 11 14 a violation of its spirit and purpose it would be more u to build more jails |