Milford chronicle., 1928-06-29
MAKING 1T UNPLEASANT FOR
CRIMINALS


CRIMINALS
New York State leads the way il
Y taking definite action to reduc
5 crime. Instead of passing new law
and regulations to encroach upol
the rights and privileges of law
abiding citizens, it passed tn
, Baumes law in 1926, which automati
cally sentences a man convicted fo
the fourth time of committing fel
ony, to life Imprisonment.
Naturally, there have been objec
tions to this law because it ha!
teeth" in it, but if crime is to b.
reduced the number of criminal!
and potential criminals must alsC
be reduced. There is no excuse fol
: a man committing four crimes of {
character to involve a penitentiary
sentence. Why should the public be
subjected to the danger of meeting
habitual criminals?
New York has taken a step in the
right direction. 1t should be upheld
in its program to catch the crook,
keep him caught, hand him a fitting
sentence, and see that he serves it.
Sentimental individuals claim that
severe punishment does not deter
the criminal, but makes him hate
society. This apparently has not
been the case in New York. The
certainty of life Imprisonment for a
fourth felony has stayed the hand of
the hardened criminal. He thinks
twice before sentencing himself un-
der such a law.
What New York has done the rest
of the country must do if it actually
desires to overcome the criminal
elements; make crime not only un-
profitable but highly inconvenient
and dangerous for the perpetrator.
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CONFIDENCE AND CONCETT
Efficiency experts and practition-
ers in the art of super-salesmanship
lay stress on what is casually term
ed 'self-confidence." To sell ones
product or to sell ones self, they
say, one must have confidence in
)ne's products or in ones ability and
alents.
But there is a wide difference be-
ween legitimate self-confidence and
stupid conceit. The latter quality,
Unfortunately, is to be found in many
'ersons, in many different walks of
ife, and when displayed to any no
iceable degree at all, is insufferable.
beautiful women, that is, those who
re naturally beautiful and do not
ave to depend upon artificial aids,
ften take on the air of having been
together responsible for Lheir pull {
hritude. They forget that fate just :
) easily might have made them hid
JUS. And the same thing is true of T
le handsome youth who, realizing e
IS handsomeness, affects the role of G
aving been altogether responsible d
r his good looks. Fate might just il
easily have marred him, too.
Conceit, however, takes it's worst a
rm in those human frames which "
y claim to more than the average v
aims or intellectually, and this n
plies particularly to professional II
llks of life. Even in the matter of &c
aims or intellect, whatever gods III
ere be obviously are as capable of l.
morons as they are of 81
intellectual giants. The &c
st beautiful woman, of course, is g.,
1t woman who, although quite ~
ely, seems unconscious of it. And i.
wisest man is he who realizes -
It mortal wisdom, and especially e.
own endowment of it, has many 70
itations. -.
confidence is a quality of strength re,
ability; conceit is the attribute at,
The incUrably silly.
De@ gel
low DOES the school and college Iul
duate of today differ from the drl
S our schools and colleges sent 'ah
rs years ago? If we can ans ieJ
that question, we shall get quite 10
ne on what the progress of Am
a for the next 25 years will be. oO, o
hose whose memory runs back
ears and more, will say that the ]
cal graduate of that period had mai
h idealistic aspiration. Those Am
wrote essays were apt to select pen
les that suggested a great long aro1
for the finer things of life, a KEN
ose to be of service to the wbo
d. They would often select alb ever
It subjects like knowledge is foib-
IT." or the Benefits of Educa- Scri
One imaginative subject of Ii
b had quite run for sometime spiri
called "Over the Alps Lies Tc
; ana the writers thereon unar
upon Cne crossing OF the Alps gene
apoleon, as a symbol Of the idea Deel