Show THE PAROLE abena CE after attending the annual con ferance of governors held last week in atlantic cutyne city new w jersey governor henry H blood stated that the groundwork for an all embracing interstate accord was laid at the conference utah he said with its torn four new laws covering the supervision of parolees and treatment of fugitives and escaped convicts is in the forefront of the movement which will eventually make a material reduction in crime the great need for regulation of parolees is well illustrated by a report carried recently in the salt lake papers of one clarence lowe 30 who was lodged in the weber jail one night paroled in illi hii ty jail one night paroled in illinois in 1928 from burglary charges he left lef t the state without permission and was vas picked up in sacramento california he resisted arrest allegedly took the officers gun and shot him the officer was not fatally injured and the youth was 9 sentenced to 14 years in som prison he was paroled fro from m there recently and was being tak jan cn back to chicago by the parole board supervisor when they pass led through utah upon release from illinois parole he was to be returned to california to appear before the parole board there probably on charges of parole violation modern society has established agencies such as the parole and probationary systems intended to rehabilitate the criminal minded to normal behavior with the increasing complexity of our modern society and the difficulty that many have in adjusting themselves in this rapidly chhn changing ging world no serious minded person would deny the defender the fullest consideration 1 of all evidence nor would he abolish the parole and probation ary systems though he may at times b become acome ve decd ed at what he sees going on about him in the criminal world J edgar hoover director of the federal bureau of investigations investigation has frequently pointed to the abuse of the parole systems as one cause of the increase in crime throughout the country his article in the august 1937 issue of 1 itan on the menace in parole discusses at length the seriousness of the parole conditions mr air H hoover would not have society cretu return M to the cruelty of former days in I 1 dealing with criminals he reco 1 amends as do sanford bates former director federal prisons professor sheldon tri ui of harvard law school and others versed in criminology that the parole I 1 and probation boards be freed fro from political influence an and d that career men carefully trained be placed on such boards I 1 with an annual crime bill which has been estimated at about one fourth of the total wealth created in the U S in 1936 it behooves every earnest citizen to do his utmost to correct the menace in parole |