Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1912-05-04

nave uOIe. UCuSHL CdIFIlS hHlle
al 81 arr eIed it, and asked her to
walk with me to the park, and |
would have killed her had not the
police prevented me. Wherefore, o
GIUDICI! / pray you to recall her
and permit ne to kill her, or decree
that she be hung"
Joseph PetrC sine, the able and
fearless officer of the New York
police who was murdered in Palermo
while in the service of the country
OF his adoption, was, while he lived,
our greatest guaranty of protection
against tie Italian criminal. But Pc
trcsino is gone. The fear cf him will
10 longer deter Italian ex-conyicts
from seeking asylum in the United
States He once told the writer that
there were five thousand Italian ex-
convicts in New York City alone, of
whom he knew large proportion by
sight and name. Signor Ferrero, the
noted historian, is reported to have
stated. en- his recent visit to Ameri-
"a, that there We're thirty thousand
crimil ais in New York City What
ever their actual number, there are
quite enough, at all events.
BY far the greater portion of
these criminals, whether ex-convicts
cr novices, are the products or by
products of the influence of the two
great secret societies of Southern It.
ally. These societies, and the unor
ganized criminal propensity and at
mcsphere which they generate are
known as the "Mala Vita" 4
Mr.. Train then enters upon a very
fine description of the great Italian
criminal organizations "The Malta"
and 'Camorra.
In the American" we have anoth-
er article by Miss Ida M. Tarbell,
entitled "The irresponsible Woman
and the Friendless Child"
Varieties of Feminine Irresponsible
ity"-Thus there are great numbers
CT women of moderate means, who
by little daily effort can keep com
Portable and attractive homes for
then selves and thir respective fam
lilies, and yet who are utterly regard
less of outside responsibility, who
are practically isolated from the
community. They pass their lives in
a little round of house hold activi-
lies, summing and preening them
selves in their long hours of leisure
like so many sleek cats.
There is still another division of
this irresponsible class, who build up
frenZied existence for themselves in
all sorts of outside activities. They
plunge headlong into each new pro-
position for pleasure or social SER
sioe Gully to desert it as something
more novel and exciting for the in
slant popular, appears. Steady, in
teligent, standing-by an undertaking
through its ups and downs, it's dull
seasons and it's unpopular phases,
they are incapable Of Their efforts
have no relation to an intelligently
conceived purpose. With them may
lie GROUPED those women who by
tier canonization OF the unimpc rtant,
construct heavily burdened but utter
There are others who seek soporific.
oelesse from hearty tackling of
their individual situations, in absorb
ing work, work which perhaps fills
their minds but which is mere occu-
patton.
These women are not peculiar to
tdty or country. They are scattered
n ation-Wide. You find them ON
farms ard in mansions, in offices
and in academic halls. In startling
contrast there exists almost under
tie very caves of the roofs which
shelter them vast and pitiful group
of friendless children-the deserted
tabe, the little mother" the boys
and eills running wild on side
streets din every village in our land
ard in every slum in the cities, the
factory child, the shop girl who has
no home. Nevertheless
this mass Of youth dis on the whole
in an unnatural position-an anti
social relation.
Society can never run rightfully
until all its members are performing
,Leir natural functions. No woman
whatever her condition can escape
her Obligations to youth without
youth suffering, and without suffer
ing herself. One of the crying needs |
IF today is a crusade, a jar, which |
will force upon our irresponsible
women the friendless children of the
country, give them some sense of the
uGdeniable relation they bear them,
show them that thew are in a sense