Show CRIME AND punishment THE MOST frequent comment we ne hear bear about the kidnapping ot of the lindbergh I 1 baby aby Is that hanging Is iq too good for the perpetrators ot of this be artless brutal rime crime we are inclined to agree not only la 13 this instance but in general that our present methods of punishment tor for crime are too good lor for the criminals we have bave tried being tenderhearted tender hearted with criminals for a good many ears in III most aarts farts of 0 the country the net result Is an enormous increase in crime overcrowded fricsons conducted at heavy cot cost to the tipers ti eipers pers ers and the belief of every smart i rook that he can beat the rap if lie only gets a lawyer smart mart elough 1 and t ro booked 0 ked enough to find the like loopholes in tile law we hair carried to the limit of absurdity the principle that it 1 Is better for or a thousand guilty men t to escape punishment titan than for one innocent titan man to I 1 a convicted d certain facts seem to us fl cle le one Is that the death penalty Is no deterrent of murder where it Is not promptly and certainly enforced another Is that does not reform criminals nor the fear of it frighten tica other methods of punishment alier means mean of preventing crime must ie be discolored and applied applied let sociologists deal v w it ath it the causes of crime the influences that make criminals out of boys but let us all take a I 1 rac radical common sense bew of the pun I aliment for crime at all costs let us lack up our law enforcement agencies le let ift t us clear the statute books book of the laws laus which protect the criminal let us speed up our criminal trials and place iaea men on the bench who to will all show no mercy to those who deserve none and then let us i 4 consider it nether hether the old fashioned w filp ring r ing post the stocks and the pillory which mitch held the convicted er criminal up to public disgrace and shame may not be as 84 effective deterrents of crime as the 91 gallows lows the electric chair or the penitentiary the outstanding characteristic of tile the modern criminal gangster Is his vanity destroy that and oa have des destroyed dc troed hil ahli chief incentive to crime tilo gun i Croley crow ley went ment to the electric chair a hero I 1 in his own eyes and in those of till big chud minded admirers gerald chapman mur mar laderer Is a figure of greatness among I 1 mouthful crooks because lie smiled when i the trap was sprung prune would crime seem beem i heroic criminals heroes it if crouley crow icy had bad heen been flogged in public and chapman exo ei posed to public contempt in III tile the stocks we lie think not we tl think ank that punishments to be effective should be so 50 shame tul ful that dread of their disgrace will deter een the most hardened |