Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 August 1936 — Page 16

OF CHARACTER WITHIN HOMES

McCabe Says Probation of First Offenders Is Needed.

Crime prevention should begin at the bottom with character building in the home, carry on through courses of ethics in the schools, and include revision of the penal code so that punishment may be made to fit the crime, Dr. Francis D. McCabe, stale probation director, said today following his radio speech on * eriminal problems last night. ‘Dr. McCabe spoke from Station WFBM during the time usually alloted to Gov. McNutt, who is in the East. “In every criminal case, the environment, education and personality of the accused needs to be considered as well as the sort of crime the individual has committed and ‘the punishment the law provides for Phat particular offense,” Dr. McCabe said. ‘Each case needs individual treatment.”

Need Better Treatment “There is practically a unanimous opinion among those in a position * to judge that our penal machinery is one of the chief promoters of the very conditions it

seeks to prevent or cure,” the probation. director declared. “Much of our stupid practice in dealing with first offenders tends to fix the criminal habit in many delinquents whose first offense might well be the last if good probation treatment were accorded them.” Questioning the protective :value of ' prisons, Dr. McCabe estimated that “at any given time our prisons contain only one-tenth of our crimfinals Abandonment of a career of crime, he asserted, “is usually in spite of ‘punishment and not by virtue of it.” Correction must be substituted for punishment, the director said, citing the alarming drop of the aver-

age age of a from 21 to 19 in the last ears. “It is highly probable,” he said,

“that the percentage of first offenders who return to honest lives after . serving a term in prison would be as great or greater if they had not been imprisoned.”

Advocates Probation

Df. McCabe advocated probation as a correctional measure, declaring . that probation is not a mollycoddling process adopted only to get a man out of a jail but a “scientific analysis of the causal factors which led to the commission of the offense and a plan to aid the offender in becoming readjusted to society. “As no two individuals are alike, “the wise probation officer adapts his “treatment to the individual needs of the probationer,” the director said. Dr. McCabe excepted four classes

: "of offenders who should not be

placed on probation—the hardened criminal, the drug addict, the confirmed inebriate and the feebleminded.

.Cites Lower Costs

Stressing the economic value of probation, . the director said that if the 12,268 persons on probation in Indiana in 1935 had been committed to penal and correctional institutions the cost to the state would have been $3,178,638, or more than a million dollars more than the annual operating cost of all our state in- | stitutions. It costs the state $272.78 a year to keep a man in prison, Dr. McCabe said, while the annual per capita cost of probation work is $2.02. ‘“The state is rich enough to spend more than $200 a year to _erush out the manhood of a man in prison,” the director concluded, “but ‘is is too poor to pay $2.02 a year to build him up into a law abiding and useful citizen outside prison walis.”

BOY SCOUTS START FINAL CAMP PERIOD

More than 150 Boy Scouts from - 47 ‘city troops were enrolled for the final two-week camping period which opened at Camp Chank-tun-un-gi ‘today. - Marion Disborough, Butler University student and president of Alpha Phi Omega, scouting frater- ‘ nity, was named to assist Hubert F. Vits, in charge of the camp nature study department. * Marksmanship is to be conducted Charles Miller, member of the In- ] University marksmanship team. Charles Payne Jr. Cincinnati Conservatory of Music student, is to direct the band.

"WESTERN FRIENDS

‘IN YEARLY PARLEY

. PLAINFIELD, Ind. Aug. 17.—The Western Yearly Meeting of Friends

If you are contemplating any crimes, take warming. State police (above) are sharpening up their marksmanship with recently purchased sub-machine

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10 STATE CONVICTS REFUSED PAROLES

Freedom Recommended for Two: Others.

The state Clemency Commission has recommended to Gov. McNutt that he deny 10 petitions for clemency, grant two paroles and commute one sentence. The commission recommended denial of clemency to five petitioners sentenced from Marion County. They were: Burford Endsley, convicted in| Criminal Court of grand: larceny and sentenced to 1 to 10 years Dec. 3, 1935. Roy Lacey, convicted in Criminal Court of petit larceny, and. sentenced to 1 to 5 years in the state prison Feb. 7, 1936. William Greene, convicted in Criminal Court of robbery and sentenced to 10 years in the state prison April 7, 1931. Shellburn Beddow, convicted ine Criminal Court of second Segree burglary and sentenced July 8, 1935, to 3 to 10 years in the state prison. Virgil McAnelly, convicted in Criminal Court of perjury and sentenced to 1 to 10 years in the rete prison Sept. 27, 1935. The- board recommended the parole of Mrs. Anna Skabo, Michigan City, sentenced Oct. 19, 1925, to life imprisonment for the murder of her husband. She is the mother of 12) children. -

reese eee eseesemememsmn ! WINS FLOWER AWARD | ANDERSON, Ind. Aug. 17.—C. E|. Troyer, LaFontaine, international corn king several years ago, also knows how to grow flowers. Yesterday he won the perpetual. silver.cup for outstanding individual flowers which was awarded by the Indiana Gladiolus Society at its seventh annual exhibition here.

Harrison Wher all “State. Police ‘liputenants and

were practicing. The rest of the patrolmen are to be brought in for practice later, according to- Don F. Stiver, state police superintendent.

2 INJURED IN FIGHT: | BOTH ARE ARRESTED

Steve Kostio, 48, of 50 S. West-st, today was held on charges of assault and battery and vagrancy, and Steve Lescu, 749 W. New York-st, was charged with violating the state liquor law after an alleged fight at the Lescu home last night. Kostio told police he had gone to Lescu’s home to buy beer and that Lescu had short-changed him and ordered him from the house. When he got outside, Kostio said he hit Lescu with ‘a brick and the latter struck him on the head with a poker, police said. Both were treated at City Hospital for cuts and bruises.

TOWNSEND TO SPEAK AT LA PORTE AUG. 27

Times Special LA PORTE, Ind. Aug. 17.—Lieut. Gov. M. Clifford Townsend, Democratic Governor candidate, and Henry F. Schricker, Democratic Lieutenant Governor candidate, are to speak ‘at the La Porte County Fair Aug. 27. Raymond S. Springer, Connersville, Republican candidate for Governor, is to speak Saturday night, Aug. 29. The fair is to open Aug. 22 and close Aug. 2%

ROOSEVELT TO GET BROOKHART BACKING

By Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, Aug. 17—Former Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart, Iowa's Republican insurgent, returned to the political wars today with a declaration of support for President Roosevelt and a promise to stump the Farm Belt for Mr. eventh annual exhibition here. Roosevelt, ~~

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