6. of it was necessary to prevent him from running away. Even though most of his punishment was earned, he felt that he had been treated unfairly and considered his oversears to be hypercritical and insincere tyrants. According to him, the only constructive thing he had on his mind during his internment were plans of escape. The attitude that he formed while in school was carried with him throughout his life, and was one of the real reasons that James Martin never reformed. Many of the crimes he committed were actually in the attempt to compensate, and to get even with the officers of the law, who had denied him a decent life. James performed five unsuccessful escapes from the school, before he was released from the clutch of the Juvenile Court as a hopeless case. He was sent way from the institution with the farewell speech; "Get out and stay out, you'll be in prison soon enough!" ringing in his ears. Upon his return home, Jim received his first pair of long pants "and," he says, "it took me a couple of days parading before the mirror, until I lost sufficient self -consciousness to go out in public. This might sound strange, but after a boy is placed in an institution of the nature that I was incarcerated, a feeling-of inferiority weaves its tentacles firmly, and the complex is very seldom, if ever, completely broken." In spite of this inferiority feeling he was delighted to be home. "I was very happy to be home again. I was very young in years, being 15, but old in experience. I did not think that I would ever do anything that would necessitate my being returned to that school again. My father was overwhelmed with joy at my return home, he, like myself, thought that I had learned a lesson, never to be forgotten, and that I would fulfill to the most minute detail, my good intentions. But intentions, are as nothing, unless accompanied by continuous and arduous actions toward their fulfillment." It must be supposed 7. that Jim did not incorporate his intentions with enough actions, because it was not long until, James had a lengthy record in the Utah State Prisons, much of which was earned while in the bad company of alcohol. Jim was consequently spending many, long intervals in jail. But James had enough time to give some sound advice resulting from experience, to other youths through his lectures at Weber College. James Martin never overcame his inferiority complex, nor did he ever learn to respect property rights any more than he did when he was at the reform school. He wasted his keen brain rotting in jail. Finally his record was compiled to a maximum under the law, which read that if he was ever convicted of any other crime he would receive a life-sentence. He did not actually want, to commit another crime, and swore that if he did, he would kill himself before being committed to jail forever. Consequently, when he broke into a pay tele -phone booth, and stole enough money for more liquor, he committed suicide before the police could catch up with him. Thus, instead of living a profitable life, James N. Martin dies, a habitual criminal, drunk, dope addict, and syphilitic. THE EARLIEST MEANS The assignment to fourteen-year-old Pat, and his class was to appear the following day with a poster depicting one of the early means of transportation. Pat went home that night and thought the situation over. After considerable meditation, he arrived at a solution, and galloped down town for a large sheet of poster paper. With this and some crayons, he busily set to work. The next morning Pat carefully rolled his masterpiece, and embarked for school. At noon he returned with a note from his teacher that after all of the students had shown their work there was an excellent variety of posters, showing covered wagons, sailing ships, horses, and oxen. But when Pat's turn came he held up a large technicolor portrait of a pair of ungainly man's feet. In explanation, the teacher stated that Pat was smart enough in class, but that he was not trying hard enough. -Kent Foutz -