Evening Star Newspaper, March 15, 1925, Page 7

W 2 JUDGES PLEDGE LAW ENFORCEMENT Appointment of Hitt and Macdonald to New Posts Is Widely Acclaimed. Promises of earnest efforts to en- force the the District were made in statements last night by George H. Macdonald and Isaac R Hitt, nominated yesterday to be the two new Police Cqurt judges pro- vided for in the District bill Mr. Macdonald voiced his intention of making the for pede; careful motorists and wli law-ablding eitizens. Judge Maddona tever in c “The law will be seldom invoked, said, “when drivers are able to put themselves in the other fellow’s place. A driver will at times fail to vield to the other feilow in some unimportant particuar, and thereby force & motor- ist into & perilous position. Let us learn to yield. Let the other fellow ‘hog it' if he wants to. Learn to law in motorists fonal Capital safe| a is zlso a firm be- | New Police Judges glve up the right of way even if vou | think it is yours. playing it safe.” Hits at Bootleggers. Speaking of prohibition and its en- forcement, Judge cdonald “The bootleg undesirable. Sometimes he tive, and again he is not. 1 tive one is bad enough, ha man who openly and notoricusly flaunts the law is beyond the pale. The man who boastfully breaks the law is an enemy of government. He craves the protection of law and at the same time seeks to destroy it. He cries for constitutional immunity and at the same time flaunts th under the efghteenth “He defies the Go United s and we ¢ t of the ot_surren- When it g case must be consid separ. The cudgel is an obselete betonging to a past age. At the same time per- suasion is often Firmness without anger or cruelty is needed Kindness without maudlin sentiment is needed in a situation like the present one.” Hitt Is Appreciative. Former United States Commis- sioner Hitt made the following state- ment “I deeply appreciate the confidence of my friends as expressed by the recommendation to the President and ferred in making the en- to do my full share in reliev- aation which necessitated ent of tw o judges nd hope all appointment :d by in my Telephones of the newly appointed judges were kept bu calls of f many personal frien: they were also the recipients many messages of congratulation from those interested In law enforce- ment. phoned Judges Find Favor. uded in these calls were Wayne Wheeler, loon of the on and pu Episcopal d Serszt. board of te lic morals of t Church, and | Davis McQuade of the vice squad. In a statement last night Mr. Plek- ett sald as follows: “The church people of the District of Columbla should spend a happy Sunday tomorrow. The naming of Isaac R. Hitt and George Macdonald as Police Court judges to fill the places recently established by Con- gress should mean the dawn of a bet- ter day in Washington. Both of these men are able, clean and disposed administer their courts in such a wi that bootlegging and similar criminal activities shall be discouraged. Pres- tdent Coolidge deserves the thanks of all good citizens of the District and of those many people throughout the Nation who have been distressed by the reputation of the Capital for non-observance of the prohibition and similar 1 Tusks of a mammoth, found in Si- berian glaciers and said to be 50,000 years old, are being made into bill- iard balls in England. A Lady’s or Man’s Diamond Ring Ordinarily “pin money” is spent and nothing is ever thought of it, but here is an opportunity to make your “pin y” work to advantage. 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AUDIENCE DIVIDED | ON DEATH PENALTY Darrcw and Stanley Debate Capital Punishment Issue at/New Auditorium. For more than two night, in the presence of an | ence t cked the new Audito- rium nator A. O. Stanley lor K d Clarence Darrow of Chicas: defense counsel in the famous J1d-Loeb murder trial, debated the subject, “Capital Punish- ment The hour: Kentucki hment K with e the Chica Each b . but the debate res ned unsettled except in the mind ousand men and women it, as there were no sion built his case described as the ‘nt righ* of men to self-defense 1d that organized society and civill- ation Wemand that the State all | punish the guilty, and that in the case of murder it shall be death. He de- clared ihat extreme punishment has a4 reduc me and that in countries where capital punish- is prohib murders prevail pt than in those must pay with icted of his erime ded that capital his opinion the proper rimi- wyer full Mr. Darro . punishment & not land never w In car of the nocse does not stop a | killer from carrying out his inten- tion. According to him the onl v to crime is to find its cause and to cure it He would start first ehildren. It is In the young of the poor and uneducated— that criminals start their careers. | Bring about better 2] conditions and invoke m kindliness and hu- manity and there be better cit- and the law will b rved and respe lesse among the young—the ow recalled the al and punishments cted for wor crimes in the past age which accomplished mothi And he cited butchering xecuting those convicted and burning petty tians, witcheraft theiv Murdering Christians by the Rom- did not preven the Christlan from growing.” Mr. Darrow de- ared. *“Man hasn't changed any and capital punigshment, made pain- ful by bigots, is not go to keep criminals from increasi ‘There is a cause for every crime,” he continued. “There is a cause for every murder, Each of us humans has the same qualities. The only dif- is a difference of balance. All| of are potentially thieves. All of us are potentially murderers. 1 have never killed any one yet, but I mu |confess that many a time I have |rather enjoyed reading certain obitu- aries.” In defin aid: “Th in most ng criminals Mr. Darrow criminal, first of all, and ases, is poor. He is ignorant. The majority of them are subnormal. The know less than the average. Rarely does a man commit his first criminal offense after he has become | mature. Crime starts with the chil- dren of the slums, but soclety does nothing to them.” He sald that heredi contributes much toward the Increase in crime | and that since the civilized world got | its taste of killing in the recent World War there has been a wholesale and rampant ‘increase in murdering. This condition always follows wars. :+ | Senator Stanley declared reference as an insult to the Am: can who fought for his country Turning to Mr. Darrow, he described | him as a faddist. He said It was | folly to suppose that murderers will | be checked by glving them sugar and kindly words and freedom, instead of the noose or the electric chair. Col. Edward Clifford, local attorney ded, and Dean William C. Van k, of George Washington Uni- versity Law School was moderator. Among those upon the platform were Senator Reed of Missouri, former | Senator Gore of ‘Oklahoma, and ’Jus(r‘h P. Tumulty, secretary to the |1ate President Wiison, DARROW GUEST OF LAWYERS. th The important question in a criminal case is not whether John Smith killed Bill Jones, but “why did he kill him?," declared Clarence Darrow before the For “Him” A man can use a diamond as well as the ladies. His main thought. though, is of its investment value. There is none better. Opposite The Patent i omce o CRAIG ISSUES PLEA FOR SOLID FRONT Urges Northern Ireland to, Stand Firm on Issue cf Boundary Commission. BEFORE THEY MET ON THE PLATFORM By the Associated Press. BELFAST, March 14.—Premier Cralg of Ulster issued a manifesto to the people of Northern Ireland today concerning the boundary dispute. He recalls the Ulster government's con- sistent policy has been refusal to recognize the boundary commission or to appoint a member of it “But,” he adds, “the coercive action of the late British socialist cabinet consti- tuted the commission over our heads and against our solemn protests. * ¢ * T am desirous that the people should by constitutional means make manifest in the most effective man- ner their solidarity on this supreme issue and seccure victory over the | forces of soclalism and the Sinn Fein.” At an opportune moment, sald the manifesto, & measure to end propor- tional representation would be sub- mitted to Pariament When the | boundary erisis had been surmounted | there were still important out- | standing problems namely, settle- | ment between Great Britain and Northern Ireland of future financial arrangements, transfer to ‘the Ul- ster government of those services originally reserved to the council of | Ireland, reamalgamation of unem- ployment funds of Great Britain and | Northern lIreland and provision for a| permanent force of special consta notice his presence, but when, years later, he took a criminal case of public interest, the papers let everybody in Chicago know about it “It was hard then to get into the newspaper,” he sald, “and now it is hard for me to keep out of them.” Senator ey was also a guest of | the barristers, and made a brief talk Dr. W. A. White, superintendent of St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, who was a witness of the Leopold-Loeb trial, was also present at the luncheon. About 100 lawyers and their guests | assembled to meet Mr. Darrow, | among them being Justice Adolph A Hoehling of the District Supreme Court; United States Attorney Peyton | Gordon; former United States Attor- | ney John Laskey, Wilton J. Lambert, | anton C. Peelle, Willlam E. Leahy nd members of the club. Francis W. Hill, jr., presided in the absen of Paul B. Cromelin, the president, who is ill in Florid | some it Promineni lawyers andg oiraphed yesterany ‘lub, where the Washingt awyers gave luncheon to Ex-Senator A, O. Stanley of Kentucky and Clarence Darrow of Chicago, who who debated last nizht on the question of capital punishment. Left to right: Dr. W. A. White, wuperintendent of St. Ellzabeth’s Hospital, famous alienist wh he trial in Chicago; former Senator Stanley of Kentucky. r a luncheon in his Club yesterday Barristers' Club, af honor at the Cosmos afterncon. When the lawyer under- stands why the crime was committed, he learns to sympathize with his client and to see what part heredity and environ- ment played in the crime, the lawyer sald Mr. Darrow declared he was often asked why he took a case in which the general public thought the accused gullty. He asserted that he did not think a person guilty because he had violated some law, until he had looked into the causes underlying the crime. “I do not think I would take the man really guilty,” he said. 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