Show the national crime commission r THROUGH the agency of the hearst chain of newspapers publicity is being given to the process of f forming a motional co 1 lon to co ef nelder insider tho the eo so called hearst iichi st plan of dealing with crime through education instead of punishment nearly all alo who have so I 1 it 4 r signified their acceptance of membership on the commission bave stressed the their ir belief that our present system which has prevailed since time immemorial I 1 M is ineffective in cither either preventing crime or er correcting criminal inal minda minds its inspiration is 13 revenge and its method is what prim primitive ithe man di dil I for himself in avenging ins his wrongs society diw does for him but in the sime spirit of punishment rather than of correction and protection while it Is perfectly clear that rhan a man commits a crime it is the man himself who Is a menace to so biety and not his past arts acts yet wo re try the act and not the mar mati and ho he is punished more or less beverly in an assumed proportion of hia his deed and the matter of ills its future potential menace to society receives small consideration one who would be a yet doiy y emall future menace goes to jail for a long term teim while another alse 4 whole life is is i menace is locked up for a ahoi t time what the proposed commis commission is ex existed 1 to do is to sec see whal what might be done to prevent the commission 0 of f crime through better education of the young in right principles of conduct the principle of punishing a nan man for some specific wrong act hi la to be succeeded by the principle of so educating him in 3 auth that he lie would not corn com mit such ad act that might bo be undertaken and the putative pu native priti ciple still be left in our dealings with actual crimin criminals alq one might think yet as a matter of pure psychology vo can not expect tc to exemplify he spirit of revenge at the top and inculcate tho the op spirit at the bottom it is too much like the man who smokes advis ing bos not to smoke or the alcoholic drinker telling boys of evils 0 alcohol character is not built on pi plo titu deg but the acceptance of principles as a guide to life this comm commission may bo be able to tell us how bow we me are to inculcate the principles of the christian religion ui the minds of auth with out teaching the religion itself as the anchor for those I 1 so 0 o far we seem tt to be making a failure along this line apparently crime and irresponsibility are increasing in just the proportion thai that religious belief is decreasing the world needs the christian ethics hao hai e them if it is to live whether those ethics can be made to stand after their foundation has been knocked from under them is problem this commission must face it if it should decide that this ibis is impossible then the still greater problem of restoration religious elig ious training and belief would arise |