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ftECATUR HERALD SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 21. 1929 DECATUR A HERALD'S PAGE OF INTERPRETATION AND OPINION i i a You can't pleaae everyone, as we reflected sadly again yesterday, whon we happened to team that the most busy, competent, helpful and advanced-thinking woman of our neighborhood is by some members of her family Mussolini." Speaking of mergers, havo you seen a High school fraternity dance, lately? A BOOTLEGGER'S VALUABLE SERVICE It remained for Ed Tumey. bootlegger of North College Hill. Ohio, to raise a senoa, doubt as to ihe legality of the justice of ihe peace syilem in his own state and ten others including Illinois. The fact ts that the supreme court without dissent, speaking through Chief Justice Tafl agreed with Mr.

Turoey a judicial officer who hts financial mtereit in Ihe outcome of ewe, such a caae unconstitutionally. of that opinion are being heard today Ue- catut where the justices of the peace want the city to pay the justice fees ID eases where there is no conviction. I he justices natuially do not want to work for nothing. They want alto to be relieved of ihe necessity of finding de- guilty order to get their pay for dispensing juttice. On liquor charge Mr.

Tumey was brought up in Ihe local court of North College Hill presided over by Mayor Pugh. Under ihe ihe mayor was privileged 10 retain ihe amount of in each in addition to hit regular salary, as his compensation for hearing the case. Properly enough, as Chief Justice Taft said many month) later, Mr. Tumey ob)eeled to having case decided by a judge who had a pecuniary interest in the outcome. And white Mr.

Tumey convicted--ihe judge pocketing $12 in and caie finally found its way to the highest court in the land. That court in a study of the justice of the peace tyrtem went back in British history lo the reign of Richard lit whom Mr. Tumey probably never heard of. All was, Iht court eould not find that there was any precedent for paying fees to judicial officers on condition that they convicted the defendant. The fact that in certain states of the union this prac- toe prevailed and was defended by the state courts did with 'he supreme couit.

To Chief Justice Taft it appealed that it violated an underlying principle of law. Under the federal constitution no person can be deprived of his life, liberty and property without due process of law, and when Mr. Tumey was deprived of $100 by a judge whose financial interest it was to convict, the supreme court held that "due process" had not prevailed in Mr. case. The judgment of the Ohio cowla affirming Judge Pugh's decision accordingly was Mr.

Tumey is not the first man to object lo the fee ayatem. In Ihe higher courts, of course, it would not be tolerated by public opinion. County, circuit and supreme court judges received a flat ulary for their services and whether a defendant is convicted or goes free is nothing to Inert, in a pecuniary way. It it in what are called the "poor man's courts" that the fee system prevails. There en be.

no moral defense of it, and as to the constitutional question involved the supreme couit has spoken in a way Ml to be misunderstood. "No matter." said Chief Justice Tafl, "what the evidence was attioit him (Tumey) he had the right to have an impartial judge and was entitled to halt the trial because of the disqualification of the judge which eiiited because of direct pecuniary interest in the outcome." It will hardly be denied that in bringing about that Enunciation of the fee system, Mr. Tumey performed a servke. Wow that one of our busy and authoritative scientists has discovered that mere handshaking may carry disease, another of our arguments with tha younger generation of wide kissing acquaintance la badly dented, not to soy wrecked. A SERIOUS DEFECTION Senator Borah has declared war upon the Hawley- Saaoot tariff, and members of the old guard who framed bill have reason for the darkest pessimism orer the prospect of jamming it through Congress.

There hat been grumbling enough against the proposed tariff increases throughout the country before ihis. High duties never are particularly popular among consumers. Consumers, however, are unorganized and mostly un- wcal, A tariff is a complicated thing, little understood by most of those who pay the taxes it layt upon them, and the natural impulse is lo leave the Usuj with the congressmen. A leadership like Borah's in opposition changes the liluation. Borah no Democrat, no free-trader, but an unmistakable Republican, having no quarrel with the general policy of protection but being unable to stomach the new duties, increasing rather than diminishing ihe advantage held by industry at the expense of farmers.

It was Mr. Borah, more than anybody else, who forced a special session of Congress lo act upon farm relief and tariff legislation. Now that Mr. Borah denounces the bill drafted by Ihe committee, and enters upon determined campaign lo defeat it, the latent opposition already felt will be consolidated behmd him. Mr.

Borah, of coune, and his fellow independents not be numerous enough lo vote down the committee in its entirety. What we shall see probably is a succession of battles for amendments, until in the end ihe redrafted measure will be so little lo the taste of Senator Smoot (sugar). Senator Btngham (sleet) and others of the Old guard that we may see them trying to kill the bill they nurtured. Boston now has suppressed Eugene "Strange Interlude" on account, we suppose nothing ought to be considered strange If It happens In Boston SAPS Peter PuliMi was not a gangster, nor a bad man. ago detectives, making a searching investigation of his could not find that he had ever been charged with a wane.

had associated with bad i U1 young fellow who had hit hand at the ckjitcclionery but couldn't a to of and therj. urgent need of money lo keep kit family clothed and fed, turned to boot-legging on a small scale. Probably he had observed that Chicago and carried plenty of money, rode in big cart, aod teemed to have an easy time of it, Pulizzi's lack of acquaintanceship with these was fatal. The tangs have emphatic ways in dealing with competition, and as soon it that young Pulitzi was soliciting busmen in the territory of an established merchant, his body was picked up from the street in a badly perforated condition. The story not unusual in this day.

Thirty-seven other young men. members of gangs or imprudent competitors of gangs, have been killed in Chicago within the present year. Each of them probably thought, like Pulnii, that the criminal life was the soft life. Their mutdereri will follow (hem, to the same ends. It is the common fate, inevitable in the nature of the game.

One may fee) sorry for these swagger, deluded young fellows, in a reflective moment. The principal trouble with them is, they are not real bright. The good women of the W. C. we read with Interest (n our favorite morning and evening newspaper, aie now going to try to promote the greater use of the pure and wholesome fruit which Is another Inspiring example of loyal support of our government nnd specially that bureau which haa Juel made a big to the California grape growers Modern children no longei learn their A C's In school Teachers think employers ought to have something to do.

i a a HUMAN LIFE Sad is ovr youth, for It la ever going, Crumbling away beneath our very feet: Sad la our life, for onward It Is flowing. In current unpercelved because so flcel: Sad are our for they were sweet In sowing, But tares, self-sown, have overtopped the -wheat; Sad arc our Joys, for they were sweet In blowing; And still, still, their dlng, la sweet; And sweet Is youth, although It hath bereft us Of that which made our childhood sweeter (till, And our life's decline, for it hath left us A nearer Good to cure an older III; And sweet aro alt things, when we learn to pi-lie them Not for their sake, but His who grants them or denies them. --AUBRET T. DE VERB. A CHALLENGE TO SOUTHERN LEADERSHIP --New York "Vorld The troubles which are now afflicting Gastonla, C.

are symptoms of an Industrial readjustment which sooner or later is bound to take place throughout the manufacturing districts of tbe South. For many years Southern communities have been seeking to attract new enterprises by advertising an abundant supply of cheap and manageable labor. This has had appeal, especially to the cotton-textile industry, and the South Atlantic States hava now far outstripped New England In the production of cheaper grades of cotton goods Labor In tbe Southern mills has been drawn from the hHI sections, where the poor folk were barely able to keep body and soul together. Their migration to the mill towns meant some Improvement In their living conditions, despite the prevailing low wages and long hours. It has been only a question of time, however, before this situation would change.

The mill workers In the course of years have been slowly breaking away from their agricultural background, and they are now beginning to realize that their status Is before ihe accepted standards of other it duBtrlal sections. Against their growing aspirations for bettor things stands a management obsessed with the Idea that this labor must cheap; that It must not he allowed to organize, and that the Introduction of Northern scales and working hours would be ruloous. The clash of those opposing forces has made possible what ts happening at QastonU. Southern Industry now faces the same sort of situation which Eastern Industry faced half a century ago. Of the ultimate outcome there can be no doubt Southern labor eventually will win the same right to decent wages, reasonable and collective bargaining which has been won by labor elsewhere utter a long struggle, and the sooner that Southern employers perceive the hopelessness of fighting progress the better for all conceincd To point the right way out to strive to ease Uw pains of readjustment, Is the peculiar task of Southern leadership As I View the Thing BY W.

F. HARDY: NEWS OF 25 YEARS AGO REPRINTED FROM THE HERALD OF 1904 Some tlm- during the next month the members of the association of this city will visit the world fair In a body. Leslie Dlllehunt lias taken the local agency for ths lighting incandescent gaa mantle, known as Ignlto. The new mantle has many strong points and he axpecta to push It Into popular favor. The A Sucoess club had a hay tide last nlgtit, gUng to the.

Fletcher faim to take In the chicken Four teen young men were in the party and they had an enjoyable evening, though the weather was chilly, A collision of uncommon Interest, because of persons involved, was seen on ths sidewalk at the north of the Pugh school lot yesterday when a young lady, aomo- what unskilled Jn turning, ran her straight into Mr. Dills, the poet, and his eon Sidney, the boy speaker well known to Decatur audiences Mr. Dills, with great of mind, gripped tho bicycle firmly, thereby saving tbe young lady a Molent fait. She struck, the sod on foot, uninjured, Sidney was slightly bruieed on the shoulder. Crane has sold his bicycle repair shop In ths Central block to O.

G. Peabody and W. I. Lundy, who have been connected with the establishment and will continue to run ft. Work on the new First Methodist church building Is progressing so welt that by the middle of October the roas- corner stone will be swung Into place.

The house built In 1012 West Macon street by T. B. Jack arid H. Roby, has been sold to Darden of Latham for $3 800. It la an eight-room modern house.

ONLY 53,000 CASES IN JULY --Outlook, With a thousand dry agents straining to hold back hordes of border-runners In the Detroit river sector, all's notoy on the Northern front. The Treasury Department is formally "pleased" with the Federal defensive; It rejoices to think that only 53,892 cases of whisky and beer were consigned to the United States from five Ontario communities In July, OVR OWN not PEPYS Sept. 8 'Lord's Day) --Slept late with great content, and with my wife to church, noting tbe great number of cars lining Eldorado street on account o. the United Brethren conference. Home and redd, and after luncheon with my wife and boy to -he lake and though there waa u.

great crowd of cars, found a place near the Lake drive where we could command a good view, But lord, to see the roughness of the water, and the difficulty with which the racers launched their speed boats. And while It made a pretty spectacle I observed that there could be no fast time, what with propellers constantly being thrown out of water by the waves. So saw only one race, and where I read and practised my music, and wrote somewhat, sending my boy to take my writings to tho office. Sept 6--Down early to the office where I found excellent Alrd, returned from his vacation, and I mightily glad to see him. Comes Dean O'Hara of Mllllkln whom I aaw but few weeks since In Minneapolis, and he tells me that since I saw him he has a son and and greatly rejoiced.

So busy at my work, Sam Tucker leaving In the afternoon for St. Louis. And at night I with my wife and boy to Sousa conceit. And I recalled that I tIU the ilret time I heard him, and then thought that could be no better mualc than that by fine band, and later I thought that Creators excelled all conductors. And though my taste has changed I nevertheless enjoyed the concert, Sept.

the office and busy with a heaped up desk all morning. And at luncheon H. D. Orelder, the restaurateur me that laai week he waa a United Brethren and thfa week he la a Methodist, while In October when Baptist convention Is held here, he will be a member of that persuasion, seslng that all church meetings bring crowds to hla places. Ana I am minded to tell the treasurers of the several churches not to overlook Mr.

Orelder In the every member can-ass. And going to the library I learn from Miss Wayne that Ulas Uayne's "Life of Lady Byron" has arrived and that I may have Int, and at this am greatly pleased In that this book Is of all the nearest approach to truth In a controversy that has run for a hundred years, and knowing nothing about ft, I shall approach It with an open mind, though I never doubted but that Lady Byron did not lie when told Harriet Beecher Stowe what she did about Byron and bis sister, Mrs. Leigh. So home to my practise and pasted the evening reading. Wednesday.

Sept 11--At luncheon today met Wllna Moffott who tells me that she Is lost without an organ, she playing this year at Westminster church, and fall to discussing choirs and anthems and music gen. erally. And tells me that church congregations In Decatur do not come out well on tbe and It Is a common falling. So to my work with many interruptions and home Made a good etart on the Ufa of Lady Byron and am quickly convinced that she wae the innocent character In that tragedy, though I think that if she talked In the language which she used in writing letters, she mint havo bored her husband to death. And I have heard that In England it is the -women that do the courting, though according -to some accounts, they do everywhere for that matter, and I ant amused at the cleverness with which Annabel)a Ulllbanke snared Lord Byron Into proposing a second time This evening comeerMlts Meredith of Minikin who telle ua that we were through her home on our travels In Wisconsin this summer.

Thursday, SepL 12--A ohltl, dismal day. And I to tho bank and thence to the Methodist conference where I heard the debate on the question of equalizing transportation costs for delegates, And I am convinced that a group of In the present day dress styles Is most uncterlcal looking for I saw but one Prince Albert coat, and that worn by Bishop Du Bate. And the members rose to greet their distinguished speakers, but whether this custom Is borrowed from the luncheon clubs or originated with the other gatherings I am not able to say, nor. for that matter, why it should be done. Browsed among the beoke In tbe vestry and came across the library of the late Dr.

Daniel 3. Turney. mode up mainly of books 40 to 60 years old. which I recognized bis handwriting with which I used to be familiar. So back to the office and to my work, and finishing early went home to my practise and a lesson from Stewart.

And I greatly humiliated to have forgotten to work on a piece of sheet music that she gave me last month, but am resolved to go at it and learn It well. And this day we turned on our oil heat, having used a coal fire (n the grate heretofore. Our little dog today haa twice stolen a slipper from my bedroom and burled It In some In the basement. And Warren Gratlan calls me up and tells me he 10 at work on the Mlllikln organ, and wishes to know whether he shall work on our organ In the church. And It ought to be attended to, but we are eo poor that It may be that wu cannot have extensive repairs made.

And at dinner my boy regaled us with stories about college to which he haa returned. Friday, Sept 13--Early down town and took suit lo the tailor to be repaired. So about my work and busy with telephone calls and persons coming in so that 1 nearly forgot to go after my wife and take her and aome friends to a sorority luncheon And she tells me that the wife of a cousin Is coming over (or dinner Sunday, from Urbana and bringing with her her hostess and her husband, who Is a professor of geology In the University And I am resolved that the professor ehall pay for dinner by telling me about the' formations along the Sangamon vhlch I have long been desirous to know about, for while there may be those who know the geology of this region I never have encountered them. THAT PERSISTENT CASE OF ELEPHANTIASIS THREE BULL'S EYES --St Louis Post-Dispatch. Several popular myths were shattered at Memphis convention of the body formidably known as American Association of Obstetricians, Gynecologists' and Abdominal Surgeons, A chlld'i parentage may not determined by blood tests.

Science yet to evolve a method lor that purpobe superior to the employed by King Solomon. Will It be a girl or boyT Science, fond parents, can only gueae forecasting sex in certain species of lower a til mala has been done with fair success, but the humtn cell has yet to reveal thte interesting secret. Strawberries, (plders and snakes, no matter how Ihey may Impress tbe mind of an expectant mother, have no effect on the Infant Diet, thinks Dr. Haden of California, may affect unborn children, but no casual external influences. There are approximately other on this general subject waiting to be exploded; this, however, IB a.

good beginning. HAD CHAR6E OF THIS CASET AHP IT KBSPff GJVESOMEONE E15CACHAWCfi grnSc soujkwiA i nfr me-i ITWHI prSiMTM-W K-W wraM "St. 4 WPO WHA9 WfOX WU tun's orcbi WTMJ Mrs, 'WOK mi-4ii; HIM. wen, tnt'H WON WLW UM-MI Ottaa. on won Wet-Drinking, Dry Congressmen Not Hypocrites, logic Proves --New Voik Times.

Socrates. Ho, there, young Lyslas What urgent affair of stats bring you thus hot-foot across the traffic Lyslaa; But now I was looking fo you, HaVe you beard, Socrates have jou heart! ths extraordinary statement of the president of th New York State W. C. T. on th subject of wet congressmen who vot dry? Soc Tell me.

too severe Severe? I trust she was no She said that It ts mistake to speak of such legislators as hypocrites. They are not They merely vote to satisfy their constitu ents. Far from being an Incubus on prohibition, these dry-voting wet practising legislators are cloquen testimony to the strength of prohi bit Ion sentiment. Soc In other words, they know not only where their cocktails are mixed but where their bread Is but teredT Lys Even so. Some view for W.

C. T. president, Soc My own opinion Lyslas. is that the lady had said a mouthful. Lys And you an ethical teacher? Mow tell me this.

Lyslas. Is Kot a hypocrite one who professes one thing In open and' practises another In secret? Yes. Socrates. Soc And again- Is not a hypocrite one who pays public homage to virtue and privately Indulges In vice? Lye True. Socrates But caH It be Justly said that drinking bv diy lawmakers Is a secret practise? Lys No.

Socrates, not If yon put It that way. There are very few more widely circularized phenomena In the United States. Soc And again- Does not a lawmaker live up moat faithfully to the eighteenth amendment when be ad- vocateu In publla the prohibition of the manufacture, sale and transportation of liquor, which -the amend- ng what It a $10 ment prohlbjts, and practises In prMnet to be sniffed the consumption of liquor, whleh tba amendment permltaT I aiippon so. Than they are not No, Indeed. Bay.

rather, they are nartyra on altore of taatr constituency; to the extent, I mean, of voting against their own personal Inclination. What finer of civic conscience could aak fort But wait a. minute. They don't have be martyrs, do they' No one asked them to sacrifice themselves on the altar of tha congressional districts, did they? What's to prevent them from step- pint; down and letting their dry district be represented by a practising dry? Soc Tou speak like a young man, Lysias. who still haa to team how painfully complex the world Ive In Tel) me, there nnt'many problems before the American commonwealth other than prohibition? Lye I suppose so, though one would never ao when you go out to dinner.

Soc: Indeed, there are: such a riff, and parltv. and farm relief, and what not. Suppose now that Congressman Cteon's soul to erve his country bv shoving up the on Ivory to where Senator Nlktaa 111 perish sooner than permit American navy to take second Guatemala. Shall Clean and urn their backs on duty byWedlesa- antagonising their dry constltu nts? A thousand times nc! Duty first' So they drank wet and rv and shove Ivory up 00 per cent ad valorem and uard the country against Guatemt- an ambltiona and la happy. uch In the first argument why must not wet legislators, from rv dletriets to Lyi- Oh, there another arfu- tent? Well, tho price of Scotch Job I La Gar bo Looks Shabby, Gam OfftheSi Greta Garbo, tbe away from tbe aema It taunt antlt youmg ply almost shabbily Wayna In eumtt of "Pictorial hava never that.

lenged life with touch from which all meaataa; had drained," this writer. WOUM with ft body. has i within hermit, with her fraim KTW wt-rt (IM-Mi WMAQ taOOt-T KTW (ItM-MI against lUetf. yst with beauty. 8ha flltod Wl albr beautiful boaauM Student May Have Head Cut Off For Sake of Experiment Further corroboratlon comes from abroad of the amating experiment performed by Russian scientists, whereby a dog's bead, severed from the body, was brought back, to life and made to function normally by an artificial heart.

First news of the experiment waa received in this country with wonder and some Incredulity. Rebecca West, noted English novelist and critic, writing In the September issue of The Bookman, recounts a conversation with a. Journalist who witnessed experiment in Paris, told me he had been over to the Institute of Science In Paris to see the demonstration of an experiment by one of Pavlov's pupils," Miss West "A wolf hound had been brought In and chloroformed. It's head cut and put on plate, where It remained for half an hour. Then the large veins of the head were Joined by tubing to an artificial heart in a tank.

"Lo, the bead that had dead, lived again. Offered food. It accepted It. Ottered an acid. It rejected It.

Its ayes, Ita tongue, IU jtM such patterns of communication "as It had done In Ufa. And when tha tubea were cut, it died a. second time." Who Will Volunteer The moat Interesting part of Miss West's conversation In The Bookman, however, -was tha conviction expressed the Journalist that of the foreign scientific students, in the. tntetreaU of actertca, would offer themservea for the experiment. Whsnr she remarked that tha experiment could hava no real psychological Interest until It done on a.

human subject, who can apeak, her Informant replied: "Tou. can be sure that thoae Bus- elans have thought of that will be one at least of those men making up hla mine) to offer himself for the experiment" "We both silent" the writer, "as wa meditated on strange and terrible situation In which, without doubt, of our fellow creatures found himself at the moment. If one felt It one's Job In the world to asm working out of physiology of the brain, then one would It duty to dive down Into death, 'corns up again for Just that hopeless and no longer, and then go back." power, nor OU( on In until what woman of but that funett ttuwt aJiovt. with no outward amall. coram.oltr, gold braid or raaft world to this girl, with nincMt disregard for flat, low-haalMl, black aboet, though had ehusroom in youni; the fearfully over acetntad "In ft amall, provteelal nuded of that traaA, of eelnbrity wlL, mlng end WWJ WtU DE MUSK may ftlone, i never SAW so unpoeeMMd Dy aaw ao flttln, to I In It A traH wMen from $100 For a Shaving man pars fretsT for a shaving brush wbleh him from to flv.

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