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Show THE WARRENSVILLE FARM EXPERIMENT l.;st month, thirty-nine prisoner rs-caped rs-caped from the Warrensville farm. Thev went at the rate of one a dav and eight over. If the exodus con-tlnued con-tlnued throughout the year at the same average It would mean 46S violations vio-lations of the law by prisoners sent to Warrensville to learn respect for the laws, and every one of these of-. fenses would be committed at the "school of good citizenship.' Tnose who are responsible for the system of coddling crime and pettinc lawbreakers which is in vogue In Cleveland carefully keep In the background back-ground the fact that every man who runs away or perhaps they only walk from the Warrensville farm breaks the law In doing so They have nothing to say about this feature of the scan dalou.6 situation there which encourages encour-ages lawlessness among those whom the city authorities say they are win ning by centleness to upright ways When and where weakness and laxity lax-ity in handling lawbreakers is carried car-ried far enough in reformatory and penal institutions they become schools ' I of crimo instead of correction Cleve- H land Leader. i I |