The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-05-18
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Another serious handicap OF
law enforcement is the lnolne
ence on the part of the average
citizen A court is as helpless %
IA polished stone in graveyaaLLo
without the cooperation OF tns
citizenship in the en1oree nnIv trv
the law. The court can o..y The
such cases as come before i'' s, r
sofiritor can prosecute only sucn
cases as are brought to his atten-
ease easee o 90 tho evidence of witnesses
sufficient to make out a cas-,
Other law enforcement oHlSia,s s
cannot do much to bring ABOUT
tba enforcement Of law unless
~ .he have the cooperation ann
t .he' wholehearted support at all
limos t,r of the citizenship OF the
community comm, There Is error com
mitted on the part OF the average
citizen in leaving to the servants
emnloyed by the people the en-
tire problem of. enforcing the law.
The people of any community
| have about the kind of law en-
forcement that they want. If they
want better law enforcement they
| alone can bring it about. If they
are not satisfied with the services
of their law enforcement servants
they hire them and they can
fire them. Then. whether we like
! it or not, the responsibility of
law enforcement rests squarely
upon the shoulders of the citizens
of the community. The stream
cannot rise any higher than it's
source. The power behind all law
enforcement is the people of the
community.
PROTECTION WON THROUGH
LONG STRUGGLE
Man, after long, weary strug-
giles, wrung from his fellowman
/ his rights of citizenship. This was
weary struggle through CEN
, turtles. Today every child born in
the United States is citizen of
the United States and of the state
wherein he or she was born, with
the rights and privileges of
citizen. The state or nation will
| call out it's troops 10 protect a
single citizen. The privileges ard
| opportunities of citizenship do
| not just come about. Every priv
ilege and opportunity of life is
| measured with corresponding
| responsibility in equal portion.
The citizen who is entitled to and
freceives so much from society
| must also be ready and willing at
all times to lend whatever coop
Grafton and assistance that is
within his power to see to it that
| every other citizen has the same
equal opportunity and immediate
protection which he wishes for
himself, No man can protect his
person, his home, his property, or
anything that is near and dear to
him by himself. 1t takes the un.
divided support and protection OF
law-abiding citizens to do it.
Therefore he must take his right
full share of the burden in assul-
ing for himself, his neighbors and
his children the protection of the
law to which every man is en-
J titled.
| 1t has sadly come to our atten-
ton that where fathers and moth
ers are convicted in the criminal
courts and sent to the jails, the
roads and penitentiaries, they
often leave stranded, adrift, with
out home, cut off from a single
chance in life, several children
who are in no way responsible for
their misfortune or the conduct
of their parents. Recently it be-
came necessary to use the evil
dence of little girl. II years of
age, to convict her mother of acts
of adultery committed during the
absence of her father from home,
, leaving a family of four children
aged 5, 7, 8, and II years. These
children would have had better
opportunity in life had they never
seen or heard of their mother.
The county has seen fit to build
place known as the county home
to take care of the aged and de-
crepit of our society, having
lived their natural lives, crossed
over the top CT the hill of life
and gone down on the other side,
now to have the physical comforts
of life for the few remaining
years, with practically all of life's
activities behind them. Is it not
possible for us to have chill
dren's home to take care Of the
stranded, drifting, underprivileged