Show WHY DO 00 WE DO 00 IT 11 1 tire are we degenerating to a point where here we can wink at theft burglar y vandalism and other crimes and law violations have we all got something on each other to the extent that we are afraid to punish the violator are we a set bet of moral cowards or have all of us an over devel aped bump of sympathy which prevents our demanding punishment for the wrong doer those questions present themselves to the thinking citizen of tle the community whenever it transpires transpire tran spir es that someone has been caught with the goods confessed to the crime and is i divested of his plunder as the only punishment we are inclined to the opinion that sympathy more than either ot of the other conditions accounts for our shortcomings at least we hope that esthe is the motive which prompts the fail failure to punish offenders because sympathy is a commendable attribute under nearly all circumstances but sympathy like patience ceisel to be a virtus virtue when the recipient ceases to appreciate it and when vice a id crime continue in the aicer ashers dancy in plain words the TIMES whose bounden duty it is regardless of which of the influences mentioned may restrain those connected with it to challenge the wrong as well as to laud the good maintains that when it is proved that the law has been repeatedly violated by the same person when kids have confessed tr taj stealing as it is reported that a couple did recently and when they are known to be old offenders more inore drastic measures that merely taking the plunder from them should be applied so long as boys can enter our mercantile establishments repeatedly peat edly by removing window panes or otherwise and being caught go unpunished respect for law and its en enforcement f ement officers is not likely to increase increase nor crime diminish ab |