YMCA Night Law School - Triangle Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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ci 5 X ' - ' 1 1 Q-170 Yer? fv.. themselves, then and then only are we on the right track toward minimizing crime. We hear broadcast from public rostra people who prate about 'lcharacterv and other esoteric terms, till thoughtful folks who otherwise had a wellfconceived idea of what character really should be, have the doubt raised as to where to find genuine character, surely not in a three shell game! Punishment, character, raise the requirements! Crandiloquent ideas all of them -but who pays the rent? Reverting to that thought hereinbefore, about giving our people a fighting chance to improve themselves, now we are going to require men and women who aspire to study and finally practice law to show a college diploma in each instance, and all that silly rot-as if that were a guarantee of what is in the heart and mind of the individual! We are going to ignore that these for whom we bespeak are prompted by an ambition to carry on while working for a living. We are going to ignore, no doubt, the fact that such peculiarly inspired requirements are Unconstitutional! VJe're going to assure the public that hereafter we'll have none but good, characterful lawyers- we are, not! If it's in the cradle, yes, if not, no schools of higher learning will fill the embryonic void. How inconsistent in this very respect are the very kind of people that promote such perversive ideas and foist them upon an unsuspecting common' wealth-with all these contemplated regulations, they select people who serve utility interests for the purpose of securing repeated rate increases to head their bar associaf tions and other sofcalled civic welfare organizations!-Yet, among those chosen are found men of only common school education, no law school attendance, but admitted to the bar and practicing-and how! Who's going to do our thinking for us? Regulations, stringent laws, miore vindictive punishments-cursed are a people that must be saved by legislation! And withal, we stand meekly by to see little children unhealthfully nourished in the slums, learning deceit and hypocrisy, disf covering petit larceny, graduating into robbery, burglarywtoo many finally taking postfgraduate courses in the various degrees of murder! In talking so much of higher education we can better afford to concern ourselves with the lower education in our midst. Cincinnati gives most generously to Art and the Classics and to the Community Chest. Much of these funds are better spent in cleaning out the slums, in providing homes and environments, in enforcing regulations that will insure places reasonably it for human habitation and development. No one will deny that the Community Chest and other Charities fill an emergent need-they are Christflike expressions and tremendously worthfwhile. Examination, however, exposes the fact that too many of the employees of some of our sofcalled hleading industries are finding it necessary to avail themselves of such charitable funds, for bare existence-30? in one striking instance! Then too, a utility repref senting a national monoply proposes to erect a new 32,000,000 building, as a further XV sp, A was l iw X F1 .. fx ,. 9 1. ft V i 1 i . XijkiggEv.X jj--ig ., J K - Q., 5,7 -T 7.3 l I K J ,yflqjf-vg,11,1,.?,i ,,y1.?p.:-:i?,T- --Z: 1 ,X l u ai J his .. ' ' -rafts Jfisviitlrs' U'i3-'Q L. ' l X5-Lfxw,-gf

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my-fJ'c?f..J S322 1'iIl'lC7S S C110 011101186 EFCRE the Cincinnatus Association and guests, on Tuesday evening, April 10, 1928, Mr, Alfred Bettman delivered an illustrated talk on Crime Conf ditions in Hamilton County and applicable elsewhere. In the course of his discussion, Mr. Bettman made public some worthfwhile rem-edies, particularly toward expediting and rendering more eihcient the technical prosecution of crime. Among his best recommendations were more thorough preliminary trials in the courts of first instance and elimination entirely of the antiquated grand jury system. In some of the photographic slides projected by the Bureau of Municipal Research were depicted 'scenes that really emphasize the true breeding ground of the crime germ. Specifically, we refer to those photos typical of conditions in Cincinnati's slums and tenements. Some folks tell us we have no slums, no tenements in Cin' cinnati. One might as well look only to the North and say there is no South. If we live on the the hilltops, we only know what the lowlands hold by entering and seeing what is there. Personally, we have seen these very conditions of filth and squalor, as they obtain today, not over ten minutes walk from Fountain Square, yards of rubbish, garbage and whatfnot, pitchfdark hallways, unlighted, ilretraps-playgrounds of tuberculosis, and worse! Past comment upon these things seems to have fallen upon too many deafened ears. So soon as we determine to make our slum districts impossible of existence, that soon will we have stopped most of the culture of crime at its very source. Cccasionally, we are amused to observe this individual or that group rise on stilts of righteous indignation because of some recent atrocious criminal act. What a hue and cry about the police, the courts, the juries, the lawyers and the crime statutes! Brethern, we must stiffen the punishment, put down the screws-so to speak! Why not a little noise about prevention? You can't expect to hatch pheasants if you try to fool the hen with doorknobs! We hear talk about the underworld Beauty and love and ability and worth are to be found wherever we choose to look for it, if we look for the sofcalled scum of society, we'll probably find it, regardless of geography-scum is not all at the bottom of the pot! Those retardant spirits whose will is set against improving living conditions among the lowly, in the Cincinnati slums, should be quite frankly and publicly exposed-to the end that we may sooner realize the greater community good certainly to follow a general cleanfup and clearfout campaign. least of our people among us are, in truth, provided with a fighting chance to improve When even the v V 5' e , a Q. 9,19 . 1' E ! gt K V 'N - aid fa 41 'Q' Gviil X 2 Y 'Cf' jg get E1 misss gg J-as ' LE

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fx MFJQQLEQBS WEE N' f'?Q1 f?-E XT Y mf Q 'X 'A Q ii- f'4', 5 V 8 Q Ii i no E s t T realty venture, while smugly content to pay most of its thousands of girl employees the munincent sum total of S355 per month! Has anyone explained just how any human being can live in Cmcinnati on S5 5 per month? Anything demanding human hands and human nervous energy in the doing is deserving at least enough remunerf ation to provide a fair existence, up to and thru olcl age, according to what we like to call k'American Standardsfl When the newer generation, infested with far less hypocrisy, does in fact insist on removal of the slums condition in this onwardfforward City, and begins to approve publicly, establishments that pay a living wage for honest work, we will very happily have less need for charity and even less concern over local crime charts, graphs, statistics, etc, ad nauseam. YVe will then have gone well ahead toward achieving what the Lord in his wisdom intended, the right of the individual to live! --George A. Shives, 130 qfll'-NP T .U EJQ Nt r v4 nes-4'.Q X 6 , J V -v- f N Q50 get .gg gf.- yva XJ x r -sa e if an f , ,