Show it if you have an item of news do the reaper office a favor by reporting it to official headquarters few sensible persons persona will be b a ur aur posed to learn that a recent sur surgical gica operation performed in the hope ol of malting making a decent man out of a crim inal has resulted in failure says the philadelphia inquirer it la 19 always possible that the weakness or the dull ness of a boy or girl may be due to some curable physical or mental all ail ment but to presume that mere waywardness ward ness can be reformed by use ot 0 the surgeons knife is to presume too much on the of human nature the truth of tho the matter is that these thes stray lambs need moral training in their youth and their failure to get it Is a handicap that Is only too apt to remain with them through life noth ing ingis Is more discouraging than the yeli yel low streak that appears in ili some per sons and nothing seems more difficult to eradicate their cases should have haqq tho attention of the experts but wo we feel sure that they stand in need of the punishment that fits the crime rather than sentimental experiments on oil the part of 0 philanthropists who mean well but who only encourage crime by their foolish toleration of wrongdoing |