Show There Is a growing trend among newspapermen to abol h a a. custom cue cus tom which Is to apparently becoming become becom ing outmoded refusal to print saes of ot young oung people who get in tr trouble ublE with the law There Thero la II not a great amount of delinquency In 10 communities ties lies as small mall as 61 ours our But Dut there Is too much There Is to more than Is le mado known And we know about bout a lot of it It that parents and officials think is le being kept secret ee se trot cret What Is ii gained by withholding withhold withhold- b big ing g the names of ot boys and girls und uM r 18 You do not mortify the parents prents Nor the kids kid What Ore rt I h accomplished 7 A great deal more is le gained by bringing them out Into the open s according to newspapermen who bare done Bono just that You must n we are not noC discussing carnal misdeeds Were We're talking abl at lads who are frequently Intro in tro trouble and unless headed hooded off ott are ir are steering straight for tor the pen San San San- Marino Calif had a problem probe lem Iem em all aU its own It was solved by P Publisher er Herbert H H. McCormick 4 I bt of the San Marino Tribune He Ire was AS a typical hometown who th there have hav publisher admits admit ro tau e been time when we turned ou out our hoods heads because we Wo bale haye boon been think log Leg of ot families We have bue been thinking ot of ot kids kid who we hoped would eee ee the error of ot their ways a and turn over a new leaf Jut Dut But there developed In San Marino A series serle of ot Incident which led McCormick to change his big policy Now were ere through he sa says Now the Tribune la le naming namo names And McCormick said lAId he never nev nov nover er eI anticipated the response would reach such luth proportions proportion The series eerie of ot Incidents IncidentAl which led to the Ute Tribunes Tribune's change of policy began In mid Juno when a group of 30 San Marino high hIP school students student formed on campus came cam pus draped the tho campus trees with paper then marched to the nearby nearby near near- by home of vice principal Norman Frost and used Frosts Frost home as the tho target for a barrage of rotten garbage Frost was oble to loam learn the tho Identity of the gang and the he school board surprised a bunch of boys bos will be boys bos thinking parents by out some reasonably severe a vere punish ment mont T The e seniors In the group were vw e allowed to take part In the graduation activities but their diplomas diplomas' were blank bloke They were told diplomas would wO bo be awaiting them after they had bad apologized fn writing to the faculty taco fac students and administration written a word composition com and put in 40 hours boure of labor Five juniors with records 4 Y tog Ing similar escapades In tn th past pail ut were four tour others put on suspension with the same apol ogy essay oMay and labor sentence given glnn the seniors Many parents parente objected some i me e doubting the boards board's authority to mete out such punishment The bo board rd stood pat I Dut But even as this was waa transpiring ing lag at a school board meeting which lasted acted past midnight Frosts Frosta home bome again was waa attacked this time his hI front picture WIndow window win dow the target for lor a well thrown rock tock McCormick through these thesa espia espi espi- a Bodes des was sticking to his fak long life policy thinking of the families III 00 of the whom he hoped would woula turn Over ver a new leaf lie reported thoroughly the boards board's actions ac ac- ac- ac Lions but left out names namos Hut But the wayward children ot of otso so 10 many of ot McCormIck McCormick's prominent prominent prominent pro pro- neighbors were giving him thought ammunition and another Incident two weeks week later lat er lit the fuse I Another San Mar Marinan nan suggested to his hla teenage daughter that she ahe shouldn't associate with a particular parti cular boy because he wasn't of the best beat character The boy quickly proved the tho Fathers Father's point by bl getting four friends friend to lend moral support to march on the girls girl's home where one of the boys hoys drove an axe through the front door A police sergeant rge nt sent aunt to apprehend ap ape apo d the b boys ya overhead them agreeing on mutual alibis but not soon enough He lIe arrested three 18 year old end And nd a year 17 17 year old Another 18 year old was arrested arrested arrested ar ar- ar- ar rested a week later Three of the youths lived In InI San I Marino This WM was when as McCormick McCormack in an editorial later he decided he be was through lie He printed the names and addresses held his hi breath aad and sat eat back to wait walt reaction can cancellations criticism und castigation tion from outraged parents parenti Degot lie De got reaction but not what he expected In to addition to a number of ot letters the paper received 60 phone calls calla soon after the story was printed Two callers objected 48 were moat most emphatic and laudatory In their comments In a follow up editorial McCorNick Nick said cald he was prompted into a a change of long long- long standing policy because he knew that not only did naming names clear other youths whose neighbors always alway suspected them them when such Weh Incidents incidents In in- happen but the guilty hellions came right back brag brag- Dragging bragging bragging ging because the they got cot away ayay with It ft It- It He De said that from now on OD hed he'd print names of or ill alt youths 18 or r over and those thOle under If they have a prior record with San Ban SanH H Ili police pollee This charged applies applied to those with malicious destruction of ot private vate rate or r public property properly or those accused of ot Impairing the life Ute and health of our residents From here on If It aberrant perdo per per- eons BOM do not wish to see aee their names on the he wrong aide of the ledger they thoy should watch what they theT arc are doing After all all law enforcement enforcement en on officers are ato paid to do their duty and be the police poUce blotter fa 16 open to the press prell That California community of course Ls 1 n great deal deai larger than ours But Dut wo we know and you oU know that discipline Is slipping sUpping hereabouts What do you 1011 think Can you suggest a better way to head oft off future trouble trouble Mac |