Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-24

and their offense does not cali for H
II 1t could be applied" The Times re-
meets A matter of general regret that
the states laws are such that the conn
monEealth cannot be purged with 6naI-
ity." The Danbury Evening News holds
that, while ordinarily the ends of JUS
tice are best met by life imprisonment
as punishment for murder. 1t Is hard
not to feel that the earth would be a
far sweeter, more beautiful place were
the three fiends who robbed, assaulted,
murdered these four young people. and
then set hfe to their bodies. to be
destroyed" The Buffalo Evening News
asks: What are the influences that
can make any animal In human form
capable OF such deeds?" The Provi-
dence Journal finds spontaneous and
nearly Endorsement of that emotions
charged declaration by Judge Sample:
Society has no place for them. II they
should live 1000 years, they would not
be Mt to come back. T"
x ~
Condemnation of attempts to sub
stitute baptisms of unwanted and re-
jected laws for moral instruction and
example" is voiced by the Akron
Beacon Journal with the further COM
ment: The harvest we reap from this
Grant endeavor is a wave of degener-
acy, along with a rising contempt for
all law. human or divine. and this to
no greater degree than that which SUBJ
sists In the Nations youth, frankly in
rebellion against anything in the line
OF compulsory regulation of its acts,
and in this rebellion resorting to thrills
and excesses that make the very angels
weep"
fragrant abuse of the parole sys-
tenn" is emphasized by the Philadel-
phia Evening Bulletin, which declares
that the 22-year-old convict who was
charged with instigsting the quadruple
murder should have been in confine-
ment at the time OF the crime, and
would have been II parole systems were
adequate. The Newark Evening News
contends that three human menaces
were caught too late" observing that
we nave not yet found q definite way
TO classify mentalities and separate
hopeless degenerates." The Charles
ton Daily Mail points to "a refreshing
feature OF the case-that no individual
or organization made an attempt to
make martyrs out of these criminals,
as they have done in other cases which,
while not quite so heinous. are still of
nature that deserves condign punish
ment"
when murder or other crime "a
committed in Michigan" RECORDS the
Bristol Herald Courier. 1.-THE legal ma
cnlnery usually moves swiftly and
surely. Probably that explains why
there Is as little, If not less, crime in
Michigan, where life imprisonment Is
the extreme penalty, than in States
that still have capital punishment
The scranton Times comments on the
agitation in Michigan a few months
ago for the adoption OF the death PEN
atty, stating: THE situation in other
States where capital punishment is the
law was cited and it was pointed out
that In many instances jurors hesitate
TO impose the death penalty and fire.
quently slayers escape with compare
lively light sentences"
1t Is time to strike terror into the
souls OF heartless criminals and to make
the punishment At the act" demands
the Lexington Leader, while the Rock
ford Register Republic AYERS that
there is deep-seated feeling that this
atrocious crime warranted hanging or
electrocution as quickly as 1t could be
brought about" The Charlotte OBJ
server thinks 1T is a pretty good prob
ability that, when the next Legislature
OF Michigan assemblies. agitation win
project itself for reconstruction OF the
criminal. CODE" The Observer ranks
the murder as without parallel In the
annals Of the Nation"