The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 21, 1936, Page 7

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, JAN. 21, 1936.” Bv BILLIE DE BECK 5 TOO BAD YOU WEREN'T AT THE OPENING, BUD--IT WAS THE MOST OUTRAGEQUS THING I'VE EVER SEEN-+-SAIRY HOPKINS--THE POOR :KID -- HER WHOLE HEART AND SOUL WAS IN THE PLAY- AND THEY THQUGHT SHE TZ‘EOPS*-J%S' ONE OF E THINGS, BOYS | SAIRY HOPKINS VERY BODAC(OUS" 'S A WONDER, JOHN ---SHE ROLLS EM NTO TH' PODDEN, SIR-- MR_GOOGLE CALLING-- JOHN HOLOEN'S OFFICE-~~ SORRY, MR.DE CASSY, 1 CANT MAKE ANY APPQNT MENTS FOR mss HOPKING --, | | her marriage boré the title of Lady { SIPS ‘ Elizabeth - Bowes-Lyon: | There are numbers of well-in- | formed people in England who be- SEEK wIFE FUR lieve that the Prince has no inten- tion whatever of getting matried. WE GOTTA HAND | It is significant, in this connection, W T TO YOU. JOHN-- 1hat no accommetation for a bride | was provided in Marlborough House, | which was partially reconstructed TH' SHIF'LESS B8UT-- RONNIE-- HOW COME You SKONK" 1S TH BIGGEST HIT IN TWENTY YEARS..THAT SECOND SCENE- AISLES-== | GOT MI\XED WAS TRYING T0 BE FUNNY !! R T HAD To LEAVE- BUO \T TORE ME TO PIECES -~ YOUILL: HAVE TO %55 'BPWC DINNER | DRAWS LARGE | ATTENDANCE -’Uudge Alexander Speaks on “The Importance of An Honest Judlcxary (Oom\uued fiom . Fage One) | Judge Alexander in his talk on “Fhe Importance of an Honest Ju- diciary,” said: “To you people who are familiar with your Bibles it will be no surprise when I say that the fundamentals of the duties of courts and of an honest, efficient judiciary are found in that great Book. For instance, in the Book of Deuteronomy. we find this early admonition, supposediy from Moses, the great Jewish law- . giver: ““And I charged you judges at that time, saying: Hear the causes be- tween your brethren and judge righ- teously between every man and his brother and the stranger that is with him. Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God’s; and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it; thou shalt not rest judgment; thou shalt _ not respect persons; neither take a f gift; for a gift doth blind the eye ' of the wise and pervert the words of | the righteous ...’ “Chancellor Kent said: ‘Nothing contributes so much to the glory ! and happiness of a nation as the pure administration of justice. i “And Chief Justice Marshall, in speaking of the direful results that may follow from the lack of such a judiciary, says: ‘I have always thought, from my earliest youth un- | >d on both reason and justice. But til now, that the greatest scourge an angry Heaven ever inflicted upon an ungrateful and a sinning people was an ignorant, a corrupt, or a depend- ent judiciary.’ Bitter Complaint “Also, one of the bitterest com- + plaints found in the Declaration of ! Independence is that: ‘He (the king) has obstructed the administration of . Justice, refusing his assent to laws r for establishing judiciary powers. Hz ! has made judges dependent on his will alone for the tenure of their of- fice and the amount and payment of | their salaries and deprived us in many cases of the benefits of a trial ! by jury.’ “And that brings me to my sub- Jject of an ‘Honest, Efficient Judici- ¢ ary’ with particular reference as to ! how it may best be obtamed and per- | petuated. “Two of the prime requ)sxtes of the i ideal judiciary are: { “First: That they be honest. A“And this doesn’t mean merely + that they be honest in matters of money, in that they will not accept bribes or be influenced by money & considerations, but . that they be' / mentally honest; that they act hon- § estly and impartially in all matters. “Secondly: That they be efficient. § “The third cardinal requisite of ! a judiciary which we have a right to , look for and to expect is that they ) be impartial: that they neither [ 'know’ or favor the high or the low, ' the rich or the poor, the great or ' the humble; in other words, that justice be administered openly and 4 without price, completely without de- 7 lay, in order that the objects of the / Constitution oe fully carried out— * ‘That no man be deprived of life, liberty or property without aue pro- § cess of law. . .’ To Achieve Justiee ? “I think we can all agreé¢ that ‘what we fundamentally seek is 2, ! proper and efficient administration :‘ pf" justice; and to effectuate "this | »n that fact . .. ground, learning, morals and smnd-l ing of every proposed appointee | 2% should be thoroughiy m\esugated | “I further believe that the com- pensation of our judges should be| commensurate with their responsi- bility, so as to attract the best quali- | fied to that field, and keep them ! there after they are appointed . . The Duties of Jurors “And while we are on the subject. I want to call your attention to fact that jurors are judicial officers ' and as such a part of our judicial system, and that much that we hear in these days about the ‘miscarriage | of justice’ and the ‘failure of justice’ is not due to the courts or the flaws or weaknesses of the law, but to the | failure of jurors to do their duty un- | der the law. “I have no patience with people who sit on the sidelines and cry about the miscarriages of justice and | yet who, when summoned as jurors, | fry to avoid jury service or, after | having accepted it, fail in their duty or flagrantly violate their oaths as jurors, or both. “These things happen all the time | in every court of the land, and will | continue to happen until the aver- age citizens, both men and women, who are called upon to sit as jurors, learn their obligations and have the ntestinal fortitude to perform their | duties. “My experience has been that in nine-tenths of the cases where peo- | ple complain of the inefficiency or | he courts and the weakness of the law, as the cause of the miscarriage of justice, that the fault is neither with the courts nor the law, but with he jurors who haven't the courage to do their duty, and in many in stances violate the oaths they have taken as jurors. Inherent Weakness In Law “We also have some inherent weaknesses in the law itself that should be corercted, both in our civil and criminal laws. .. . “We have for instance 2 law that provides that no defendent shall be sompelled to give testimony against rimself; and this is right and found- IIIIIIIIIIImflflImHlIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIHHMMMMHHIWM' our courts have gone further and have declared that a defendant not >nly does not have to take the stand sut that no comment can be made “Another inherent weakness is the alibi racket . . . Unanimous Jury “And another is the unanimous jury verdict. “Since before I began the pnctlce of law three-fourths of nine jurors could bring in a verdict in eivil cases in many states, and since that time several states have amended their laws so as to permit 11 and in some instances 10 jurors to return a verdict in all criminal cases, where capital punishment was not involved, ' thus eliminating the so-called “An- chor Man’ on the jury who, alone and unaided, and contrary to all the evi- deénce, often hung the jury of forced it to sybmit to his views, for no bet- ter reason (never disclosed) than that he was protecting a.friend or others and sometimes for a consid- eration, from just punishment . . . Educate the Public “Let your organization think on these things which I have been dis- cussing. Strive to educate your mem- | bers and through them the public at large as to their duties as jurors and citizens. Consider the reforms need- ed in the law itself; and when the Legislature meets make it your busi- ness to impress your views on the Legislators and work, as every good A citizen should work, for better laws and for -a saner, better and more effective administration.” s LR FAIRBANKS PLANE com HERE ON "' ' FLIGHT TO SOUTH pnuu Joe Crosson and Walter Han left Fairbanks at 10:47 o'clock this morning %t the controls of a PAA Electra enroute to the ’& 3 i /system and the only system that I|ternoon and is to remain overnight. that the most important link in the |States where the plane will undergo ghaln is the judges who preside over |2 general factory overhaul, according, ' sour courts; and in order to secure|to a radio message received this } the best material for that purpose I | morning by Bob Ellis, local PAA rep- think our judges, of all degrees, |representative, ‘should be appointed for life or during | The Electra was scheduled to ar- behaviour. This is the English [rive here at about 3 o'clock this af- \ know of that has ever been devised that will insure an absolutely inde- # pendent judiciary . . . I spent most ‘of my life in states where they have ! an elective judiciary, and I say to you candidly and honestly that the 4 popular election of judges does not iproduce the best judiciary . .. “I think, too, that in the appoint- R VALENTINE LUNCHEON Martha Society gnnounces a Val- entine Luncheon in the church parlors, Friday, Fel! 14. —adv. TOUSSAINT ILL J. G. K. Toussaint, in the Ter- |, Hot be considered . . . ment of our judges politics should | ritorial Treasurer’s office, is ill with. |a severe cold in his suite in the “I think further that the appoint- | Seaview Apartments. ing power.should be lodged in the re- le headiof the government.| gHOPIN JUNEAU! believe also that in making such T — appointments the educational back- SPEND WHERE YOU MAKE IT! . ml|mmmm|mmm|||||||||||||||mi cedents for such a move are not in 1928 as a home for the Prince. There are precedents in English histery of kings who married after they reached the throne, or who re- married following upon the death of their spouss. The most notable | is that of Henry VIIL (Continued from Page One) | DL LM " L B Rumor Links Prince of Wales with Many Royal Houses' of Lu rope e ATTENTION DEMOLAYS | should confine his matrimonial R | survey to a narrower circle and Regular business meeting at the Scottish Rite Temple Wednesday night at 7:30. —adv. 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