Show fr for medo meditation citation a i by LEONARD A BARRETT barretta Tr r WHO IS responsible statistics inform us that about S statistics a quarter ot of a million persons in this country last year endeavored to uva live by methods which society lecog as a criminal of 01 this large number about were murderers whether criminals constitute a normal percentage ot of a count rya rys population given over to crime or whether it la Is abnormal la Is not the most important question crime should not be countenanced on oil any percentage basis which would seem to justify it that Is a wrong philosophy whdeh argues that out of every 1000 persons a certain number are ara bound to go wrong and that society la Is not in danger it if the percentage gie Is kept within those bounds Is ig not the serious situation which confronts us today courts may dispense justice but public opinion has a great deal to do in creating IL a popular demand that the punishment for crime be both sufficiently severe and actually executed public indifference makes it easier for much of the th crime of today to be treated lightly and la in some cases to go actually unpunished when the public mind tolerates and partly justifies crime it reaps the result of its own sowing and the criminal accepts the benefit with an increased disregard for the power and sanctity ot of law it if public opinion would demand through the tha personal expression of eve every ry citizen and also through the most powerful medium the public press more strenuous methods for the na unveiling velling of crime emd and a more severe evera punishment even to the use of the lasi iasi as Is done in european countries perhaps we would have a better ordered social system and democracy could pride itself on an other achievement ft 1928 Wea al 11 ca Kewa paper union |