The State Herald

Speaking of youthful offenders, a Kansas City justice says: "I have had nine boys publicly whipped with a rawhide by their lawful guardians. Not one of them has ever been back in court for an offense, and every one of the nine is now leading an exemplary life. On the other hand, boys whom I sent to jail six years ago for petit larceny are now men serving terms in the penitentiary for serious crimes." The justice concludes that a jail sentence transforms a hoodlum into a hero,—to other hoodlums, of course,—and in jail he acquires new knowledge of vice, so that he is better prepared and more determined, when he comes out, to follow criminal courses. But the boy who is whipped is ridiculed and disowned by his "gang," and there is nothing for him to do but to be good and go to work.