The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 4, 1923, Page 8

| | THE SEATTLE STAR Publisred TF h Publishing © Main e400. Ni pe cad Us fo th, 2 monthe $1.6 Liquor and Crime Volstead tells his European hearers that prohibition has reduced crime in the United States by 20 per cent The statement is hardly true Never, in the history of the country, was vicious crime 80 rampant and unbridled as it has been since the Vol Stead law became effective. What may be called mild misdemeanors may have decreased, but crime not at all However, it would be quite as untrue to attribute the Wave of crime to prohibition laws as it is to say these laws have decreased crime. The relationship between the two is flimsy. We have had, and are having, crimes of appalling character and number simply because of the tion from a prolonged season of intense strain—a season that Knew war, and grief, and sacrifice, a rigid economy, + and hunger, and idleness, and every other element that might contribute, in reverse movement, to relaxed morals and conduct, If we had had liquor, the situation would have been worse, no doubt. The absence of liquor did not, and could not, save us from criminal reactions. Nashville (Tenn.) woman, 116 years old, ‘chewed and smoked tobacco 100 years, May get her yet. Kansas hogs are being fed on good wheat, They will be the laughing sieck of the country. Louisville (Ky,) doctor is 105. Been doctoring 83 years. A long time to awe him money. When school stars, ten million necks get washed. yeverk and a harers The defendant was one Roland Duck and he had mur- dered Nellie Pearce—his plea, of course, was insanity. They tried Roland Duck in just six hours, including an hour’s adjournment for lunch and a half hour off for tea, and found him guilty. That's the case that the American Bar association, meeting in Minneapoiis the other day, cited to show the swift and sure course of English justice as contrasted to the cumbersome legal machinery in America. The legal @ssociation, deploring the great record of crime in this ™ country, is seeking a remedy. Roland Duck lived in London, England, where there Were only 17 murders last year, despite the fact that it is the largest city in the world. Had he lived in New York tity, where there are 240 murders a year, or Chicago, ' where there are 137, or Memphis, where there are almost that many, he might have fared better. First of all, Roland could have got out on bond and have framed up his witnesses. Then there could have been arranged delay after delay while his shrewd lawyer. fought to stave off trial as long as possible so as to let |) public indignation cool off. After the case finally came up there could have been more delays while the high- brow alienists, hired by each side, testified pro and con+ on whether Roland Duck was crazy or not crazy. Various ‘and sundry appeals, motions for new trials and a maze of + legal technicalities injected by his cunning lawyers could have forestalled the verdict. _ But Roland Duck was born in England, where there were only 63 murders in 1921. He should have been born in the United States where there are nearly 10,000 mur- | raitor The Star Any one possessed wilh common | ders. The American Bar association, seeking the remedy for ‘our world-beating murder rate, might well begin within its own profession. What lawyer has not sat in a court- room, watched a cunning colleague, representing a pris- ‘oner he knew to be guilty, deliberately trying to throw every possible obstacle into the path of justice. Before pointing the accusing finger elsewhere, the bar ‘Association might seek to rid the legal fraternity of these shady, but shrewd attorneys who, for a fee, will not stop ‘at honest defense, but will deliberately try to wreck the Machinery of justice that has been set up for the protec- tion of the people. Towa man who weighs 300 pounds divorced a wife who weighed 287 because she was fat, we'll bet. _ All optimists are not dead, but one is. Texas doctor left orders that be buried in furs. _ The Kabotchnicks made a name for themselves in Philadelphia, Had led changed to Cabot. After school starts the watermelons and fruit not stolen are considered . Handing It to Posterity Hugh Dalton, the atthor, has been delving into war debts. He finds that England is still paying for the bat- of Waterloo, the charge of the Light Brigade and the felief of Ladysmith in South Africa. The Napoleonic wars ended a century ago, and yet in 1914, Great Britain owed for those wars the approximate “sum of $2,480,000,000, and was paying a billion a year of ‘interest on debts of that character. Dalton, using these facts as a basis, concludes that, “if historical precedents are followed, the people in 2023 will be paying for Ypres and the Somme.” The point about this is plain. If our mistakes and ‘troubles and burdens of the present chafe and weigh “heavily, we can easily pass a considerable portion of them to posterity. The latter is helpless. It has no voice in the matter and it cannot escape us or itself. We know, because we, ourselves, are posterity. Grown sister's bathing suit will make a fine basketball outfit for little Henry this fall. Trim the fringe off father's trousers and use tuem for making Johnny @ cowboy suit. An old bird cage placed over an electric light protects it during a family fight. _ A June husband has borrowed one of our shirts to show his wife what [| buttons are. A Pair of Whys After about a dozen strikes in the past 20 years, the day men in the anthracite coal fields are getting $2.20 a Two questions will rise in all minds outside the coal re- ons. Why do men with any brains at all work in the coal elds for $2.20 a day? Why do men work for $2.20 a day, anywhere, when ey can get $3, $3.50, $4 and up a day in that heaven- perc part of the country known as the Pacific Coast re- Pisenejed psychology, maybe. Maybe plain brainless- ness, more of which the coal barons want imported, Man in Lincoln, Neb., @ home in stolert car, 80 he won't be b there for 18 months, Piicher held for nonsupport in Detroit, Usually it ts the team that fails to support. St. Louis saw four brilliant meteors in one night. May have been | at play. 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