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September 24, i926 WILMETTE LIFE CLABAUGH ASKS FOR SllPPORT OF PEOPLE Also Wants Help of Newspapers in Drive on Parole Abuses; Tells of Plans By LESTER B. COLBY (Illinois Chamber of Commerce) . Political criminals, gun.men and expert . profes~ional murderers going hand-In-hand on their rol1icking way are due for. a tougher time if Hinton G. Clabaugh, new h~ad of the I11inois prison parole board; and Winnetka resident, stkceeds in his plans without being "stopp~d." I have just had another . interview with Mr. Clabaugh. He sa1d: "I've got to have the support of the newspapers. I've got to have the support of .the public in general. I know the power and influence or those I've got to fight. "I am going .to ask the Illinois Chamber of Commerce ·to aid me in reaching every local chamber of commerce in Iilinois. I want in every one of these towns an honest, reliable willing committee that can and will' work with me. "These men must be willing to set aside all thought of politics. ·I want men to \vhom I can turn for help. Before any man is released on parole to go back to a.!!Y of these towns, I want to he able to satisfy myself on several points: "l~I want a complete, honest, human report on him. I want to know if, itom his -record, he \viii go to work when he gets out or whether he will buy a [.{ \:11 and go to holding people up. . 't2-T wa11t to know if some n;an <,r some company will gi\·e him employment and help him. I want to kno\v if there i:; a d~ance that he will become a tisef ul .t:itizct~. "3-T kno\\' that · mistakes " ·ill he r.1ade l>t1t I w~nt to make as few as possible. If I- c·m get some sort of o~ g;u1 ization, and it must he voluntarv. at work in even· communitv we -,,·ill have as frw regrets as possfhle." ~fr. Clabaugh turn ~ d ove-r a few papers Gn hi s de sk. He continued: "Here's a case of one man who committed thirtv -o ne holdups with a gun. Through influence he was permitted to plead guilty to larcen\'. \Vhat do von think ot a state's attorney that would permit that? That .:; ort of a deal is pretty close to conspiracy. Don't you think that that s tate's attorney should be impeached? t'Here's a signed letter, signed by a judge, trlling how he requeskcl a holdup man, caught redhanded holding up a hotel, caught gut, in hand, to plead guilty o he could . he given a lighter sentence. The judge writes, aad it's signed, how he told him-promised him, in fact-that he could ~et out in a year if he'd plead guilty. "\Vhat do you think of that judge? Rotten, isn't it? Do you helieve me when I say I'm going to need help? "Don't think that I am not going to release men from prisons on parole. I am. But I'm going to try to pick men who will make good. TJ1e majority of prisoners paroled to rural communities make good. The majority paroled to the big cities don't. "Well-meaning organizations directed by inexperienced persons arc bringing convicts into Chicago in wholesale lots . They not only take them from the Tllinois prisons hut from the prisons of other states. That's a big problem. And Chicago is a very bad place for them. "Chicago originates eighty per cent of Illinois' criminals and ninety-eight per cent of the grief of the parole hbarcl. Chicago and vicinity is the seat of almost all of our criminal trouble s in ·Illinois. · · · · ·······························o············· ~(.)IRlliDID EVANSTON SHOP OPEN TUESDAY, l'HURSDAY AND SATURDAY EVENINGS ........ ··II · · · · · · · 'If ' e l · · · · ·· I · · · Henrg C.Lytton I Sons State and Jackson -Chicago · · · · · Orrington and Church-Evanston ., · · I ·· · · · · e· l ·' :I · · · · · · I · l · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · Gray Tones and Browns in the :v :I New Fall Suits .. · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · ~ · : I · I · IN OUR NEW . EVANSTON SHOJ-> ,. . ~ · · · · · ·· · · · · · With One and Two Trousers~They Are Not to :Be Equaled at This Price · · · · · · . 4 4 ~ · · · · ~!·I:· ···.;--;;-~· ~-; ;;;;;········-;···· ···-;;-.-;;;;······ ·.·········EI · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · $ B ECAUSE our Main Store sells more / t ne Clothing than . does any other one store in the world, it is only natural that our .Evanston Shop enjoys many economies and advantages. That accounts, then, for the extraordinary merit of our $50 selection of Gray Tones and Browns for Fall. You will not find anything like the variety or values elsewhere. One look \\"ill convince you. Others from $35 to $85. · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · ·· · ' · ·i ~ Fall Topcoats $35 $45 $50