Show crime prevention through education continued from last week public sentiment and social environment viron ment as a whole must be regarded as the largest factors which bear upon the problem of crime we ve mut mu mm t bar ar from the mind of the youth AN or im HEROISM which ap all pears in the papers of today such as Illa baby ltv race nelson is a clever kill never take him alive suell sucu it is said was the expression of his sister and his friends the spirit ot of thi bad gang must be broken up our children should be taught to abhor the desperado records at the county jail reveal the facts that more than 00 90 per cent of the prison prisoners eng have no father ur or mother or else parents that are 1 divorced I of the 29 prisoners placid in tile the county jail during the six months erding ending oct 9 1034 1934 CO 66 per put cent have had no school privileges privilege 43 1 per cent have had work in only gendes grades one to eight have never attended high seli school ool and the sad thing about it is that per cent of these inmates are 25 years s of age or younger besides this it is held that a t one out of every hundred boys theoli throughout hout the country of a still younger inger age is is brought before the juvenile courts A prominent attorney ney who has had much experience in dealing with lawlessness loss ness says 1 I wonder if the public is conscious of the che seriousness of the situation complain about the large group of citizens is who are unwilling to assume th the e obligations of citizenship it makes no difference bow aggressive and energetic our state and local officers are arc if the pub lie does docs not cooperate with them they are helpless to cope with lawlessness during 1933 J there were 1114 finger print records made in he salt lake munty jail alone one needs only to stand by and listen to questions and answers as the law breakers line up afore the of officers to be moved by the S sadness of the whole matter As he looks into the young faces of the prisoners his inner self exclaims with un till controllable contro lable expression sometime somewhere in the lives of these young people a kind devoted parent teacher or companion lins has been absent the utah state council on prevention of crime through ed education CatiOn is a new organization of tile the citizen n which is loading leading in ili a kenern general movement for the er aeration of parents teachers social and industrial workers arid alid citizen rc in Eci cr 1 I to ta raiko maho a dve drive against crime it desires sires to promote a 1 knowledge of the origin of crimo and the ty type po of education in the horn 9 sw jn in 4 the LG tm calica CaU ia iCA f 2 sat 11 1 p 1 14 JL in all social activities which lia ains the highest respect for law iw and order it ae I 1 eap that eliat through 11 the proper en Ional guidance the astoundingly wg hz number of criminals innis can phe lie maivri nelv alv reduced it beems seems the country is in ill the s of a terrible crime wave find and all good r 1 I P ire to do 10 their part in a 1 ear careful corruptive eon con way v to diminish the sources of crime |