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t 1 . The Oregon Statesman ' : Issued Daily Except Stands? ay THB STATE S3CAH PTJBUtlHTJra COMTAYT "v 115 Bonis, Commercial 8W Salem, OrM - Jfaseger : Managing-Editor - City Editor . Islegrapfc Editor v Society Editor Fred J. Teose - . Lee M. Her i-.a Leeii J. Sa.it . Aedred Bancs- 4 . - 1 ViV HOCEBJt Or THE J i.VL. OTO'! 7 w nwlualveiy ZVLT rT, A -j . " "c osaerwtse ewe paMiaaed herein. K ! BUSINESS OFFICES: Albert Brers. 13 Worcester Bag Portland. Ore, hiTVl ot .V ;rr f " w- ? cateage, Marenette Bid.; loty Payae. Sharoa Bldg, Saa Franelaeo. Calif.; Higgijui BMc. Ln Angeles. Caliil I - TELEPHONES s GreahMie Offiee-aAS Asto Contact Editr10 Rnslaeaa Office.. -Mar f aWeiety Editor 10 V; ! tW Pest Office Saleta, Oregon, a aoeoad-elaM matter. " k ' FVbraarr v RICH BLESSINGS-fEten by Almighty, who shall bless: thee: they shall be on fWHAT JUDGES j A. new hat for court Official meant a penitentiary cell for a boy. one day In my neighborhoodso said the boy's lawyer. "Of coarse be stole the! watch." said the boy's lawyer, in court, before the trial opened. - i . "Well, why Uoesn't; he plead Kullty?" ' "He's willing tb plead guilty to stealing the watch aU right, but the prosecuting attorney has' charged it is worth over $30 and that sends him to the. pen." J I. a, young lawyer, overheard this conversation between an attor ney who was defending a young man. and a courtroom neighbor. "You mean," I asked, "that a theft of an article worth $30 or less Is petit larceny and he goes to jail, and orer $30 Is grand larceny and he goes to the pen?" j '. "That's it," v U - j.-" "But what difference does it make to the prosecuting attorney whether the young fellow goes to Jail or the pen?" I asked. . -"What difference!" replied my brother lawyer. "Haven't you learned that yet? The difference is $5 exactly! The urosecutin attorney gets a J 5 fee for sending ing him to the pen.; That's all there is in the case." That may or may not haVe been all there was in the case. Rut I that was the truth: And the Watch jL and the boy DID go away to the m- Liie local ia.ii.'. . . .- : inis iee: statute was part of the MMiuiueu Hoi Bj me couris out ny.tneusrfislature. Presumably the legislature thought it was wisellt Wy'haTe been. 2 The prosecuUng attorney said that yemcenuary. ine ooy's lawyer said io.ui.eu w uuj a new nai. no matter wmcn, is true.the nysihineryvof Justice made by the people of Missouri encouragedVrfd pal the prosecuting attorney to , ruu mo w meperjry regardless or anyth!sral oat ta boy or his crime, its causes or its curpanythinJCl cert whether that inanimate watch that was uniorwnate" Ugh to get stolen 11 mtiy ,s tenlthat ;this iurn.y prosecuting attorney a i Question 'lires ha te been ? tame, thing! is happening y Later I found myself In the the same and many i other questions to meet. And I did not know , then the actual practices that would best give Justice in my job. And . there was nobody to tell me and no i AniTiow, twenty years later, "a judge on the bench, I do not know; , tAerVj is nobody to tell me; no adequate way to find out. t vi at is the matter with the courts? ' . i, - The writer believes that there that explain the whole situation. f M , The first is that the forces of justice are not organized. There is v no ARMY to fight the battles of the law,' but only separate straggling , soldiers. Justice is disorganised, article in Collier's. i The second fact tfl -startling. learning of -many things old! and k astonish. It is this: ' , i jusuce, merany, not tne law, lcally not taught in this country! .v.. ; There are hundreds of law schools. I have written to the deans ,3- vOf all these schools to, send met their-catalogues and tell me if there ,fVare any courses in their schools that teach the giving of justice. I have received many replies. - the country, do I find any definite . I 'is the law or how to find It but on .law promptly, inexpensively and surely, -f ; As I write tonight, there is down in the county jail a young man 4 twenty-seven years old, who either - : without the owner's permission lor stole it outright. He has admitted Jds gullt J, as Judge, must fix! His punishment.' . I 4 , ; - It should, be heavy enough to. deter other young men from stealing , 'r ; . But I have learned that this young man has a good wife and four , ,chlldren,JrA single year's imprisonment may partly; ruin their lives .and make them, the cause of much harm and expense' to society. Yet l this tact Is ts bim o 1 ererj criminal will soon" learn he heed only j marry a good girl to hive a license to commit crime, J- He is a good mechanic but never sticks long at one Job. He never drinks, swears, gambles or gets mad. -Evidence Shows that he deliberately stole the car. f Other evidence ? ' Shows inadequate abnormal motives for the theft and other illogical, childlike acts in his life. He may. have a mental or "personality" defect or a border line state that makes him do such things much ' more easily, than. normal persons. , . . J 4' With all these fact4rnd maiiy others nottstated--urging diamet rically contradictory courses on my part, the law sars I may Imprison - blm-for any time I see tit from one day to twenty-five years!- I may 8eBd him to jail, reform school or penitentiary. Or turn him loose, , wlth a fine, of $1! Or parole him at once, with no imprisonment whatever.5 What SHOULD I dot Who writes the abovet ! It : is8ouri.veteran;Jut;::w United ? States Senator In an explanatory note on the article quoted above,? taken froni Collier's, fiFebniary ' 6, - thV'foilowinjrlanirffer' is used'v VVlien a crime Is committed we judges must act. on n it without jtnowlrisr its cause prescribe a -reinedy wilhbut laiowing: how muchf should, be "given and w give the remedy without knowingi ho to give ; it veteran Jurist in . the second of a series of three articles. However well versed they may be in the law, he says,; judges are groping. bUnf;4S' s: tyMiBiim miMh - .lQ"-the"cwr which the excerpts above V . a'CB- Ji one ,i iwo junuaciiner aiwui pruperxy pr people. There are more oout proirty and , they are far rnore r important aria - f"" " wlcdge -But we h udses t tha t run ; these W. IT Henderami : . V f71m!Laa If Ma Ralph R. Kletsiag - Adnruaimf liir : Prank Jaakoski Manager Jab Dept. K. A. Rhotea , t : . - Xjirsstock edits W. C. Coaaer - Poaltry Editor ASSOCIATED FBXIS entitled to th for pabUeetiea of alt news credited la taia paper aae also too local ,-wZw Hews Depsrtaent-?1 or 1 0 jod Jjepsrtmeat 5SI 2A. the God of thy father, and by the The blessings of thy father J I unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: the head f Joseph." Gen. 49:25-26. DONT KNOW him to Jail and a $10 fee for send was declared to be worth orer S3 o penitentiary. Instead of serving in - .. machinery in our state forTVin particular boy;eht n go to the the I'Pfosecj attorney simply "l,.mm- ''L' lojtead of to Jail. And, that, too. was worth more or less than $30. boy's life was ruined in order to new hat. ruined for new hats in Missouri. today lit any4 state thai has ;this prosecuting attorney's shoes.- T had adequate way for me to find out.' . .... . are two simple, fundamental facts as I have previously shown in an In this ay of the teaching and new the statement of it will is, as a aeunue subject, systemat But nowhere, in any law school in teaching - on the subject hot of what how, in the courts, to GIVE that took an automobile for a trip is Judge Ewing Cockrell of cases about people than there courts are taulit .none of the knowledge and know but little of it .... w ., There is no j place to teach us J and much of this knowledge that we judges need is not yet known by anybody. The ills of the flesh are many. . Imagine, physicians giving only quinine or calomel nothing else! Yet we judges give only fine or imprisonment for ills of the mindnd spirit that far exceed in number and complexity those of the body.; Not only this,' but in the overwhelming majority of cases'we give them without diagnosis, prescription or treatment, or even investigation;' England's criminal justice is far more effec tive than ours and her judges far shorter than purs i . '. With us our good citizens clamor for longer terms- (unless the defendant is' a special friend) ; our bad citizens see one. judge give a man five years and another in . exactly the same Every prisoner, excepl the guidance. Almost every one without that guidance. ?And and prescribes the same cure failure," '.'.' . '. p ; : The writer of this corner of The Statesman is very proud, finally, to quote the concluding words of Judge CockreJTs article, as follows: "Knowledge of the law? men and wardens, have; that. justice, that will best curb crime and best bring civil peace between man and man we judges don't know as yet. And we will not know it tintil justice and its giving are taught, some where somehow, as are taught culture, war, religionand everything except justice. THE LAW IN AMERICA MUST SAY GOODBY TO THE IGNOR ANCE OF THE PAST arid teach today the truth of today." That is what this writer reiterated so many times , That in our higher institutions of learning criminology and penology must be taught, and those who are to adminis ter the laws, from policemen on up, must be trained And this is one of the whole rea!m of education and and the future down the generations. All the abuses which Judge in Missouri are found in Oregon: man fo the penitentiary1 for same crime another Oregon judge will send another man for from five to fifteen years And yet we have people who want the present parole law vanao 0A riWHvp as it is.- it be amended, and amended and ruls of penology and criminology increases. STATESMAN'S BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION IN MARCH . (Continued from page 1.) paper seems to have survived. Somewhere along the line busi ness firms have opened and ; have traveled 60 years, 50 years, and many 40 years in company with this paper. In the Diamond Jubi lee number an endeavor will' be made to gather together histories of as many old . firms, and bio graphies of as many old families as can be located, and whose his tory can be found out. ! In this work, editors are; ask ing the aid of readers ln making the historical edition complete and representative of those early en deavors which laid the founda tion of this section. Readers are requested to consider this an in vitation to volunteer -Jacts con cerning the history of firms, and of families, or old cuts and en gravings that you feel would be of general Interest. Who has read The Oregon Statesman for the greatest num ber of years? L That person must be recognized in the anniversary edition marking the service of the oldest - existing organization in tne two counties. 1 For convenience, all correspon dence should be addressed to the Anniversary Editor, The Oregon Statesman. POWER MERGER PENDS 1 VANCOUVER, B. C. Feb. 27, George Kldd. president of the Brit ish Columbia Electric Railway company announced today the in corporation within a few weeks of a S17.000.000 subsidiary of his company called the British Colum bia Electric Power & .Gas com pany. The new company is 10 con trol all power and gas plants of the British Columbia Electric rail way throughout the province, j How Skinny Kids Gain Needed Weight v ' - 'Vi Weak;, undernourished, under weight boys and girls who are peevish, fretful and sickly need McCoy's Cod Liver' Oil Compound Tablets - v Cod JLiver Oil would do just as well, but what parent would be so cruel as to give them the hor rible1 nasty tasting, ill smelling stuff, when sugar coated cod liver; oil tablets made by McCoy's Labor atories of New York are as easy to take: as candy and .won't up set their delicate stomachs. There s more vitamlnes of the first -lass In cod liver oil than in anything else and' for-that reason thin, scraggly, sickly children com mence ' to 'liven ?. bd - and., take on good healthy flesh after' McCoy's Cod Liver Oil Compound Tablets haVe been taken for just a few days. Be sure and ask J. C. Perry, Central Pharmacy, D. J. Fry or any druggist for McCoy's original and genuine Cod Liver Oil Tablets If you want your delicate children to become strong, robust and ac tive, a r--- ' j- i:- Hi 'For grown-ups they are jnst as wonderful-one woman gained 15 pounds! in five weeks. 60 tablets 6D cents and if they don't put, 6 pounds or good firm flesh on any thin man or woman ln ao, days. ur 'druggist is authorized to nd ; yon back k the money yu -Adv. id for them assess terms of imprisonment circumstances fifteen years defective," has proved hie needs is turned back into the world. the judge often gets him again for him that has just proved a - ' j . Judges, lawyers, even police But how to administer the medicine, engineering, agri believes and has stated and most important things in the training; affecting the present Cockrell mentions as existing One Oregon judge will send one to five years, while for the must not be repealed. It must amended, as knowledge of the EDITORIALS OF THE PEOPLE All correspondence for this depart ment must be aignesl by the writer, most be written on one side of the paper only, end sboold not be longer Utajt 150 words. Want Street Cars Back Editor Statesman: When a petition containing practically all the signatures of the legal voters residing on and continguous to a street car line, asking that the street cars be re established and maintained under the terms and conditions of the franchise granted to the company, the same should receive due and prompt attention. And such demand should be granted without any hesitation or substitution. There has been only one de mand, and that is for a return of the street car service just as it was, and the people will not be satisfied with any alteration or substitution. The Southern Pacific company, the owners of the street car lines In Salem, ceasing to operate the street cars on the line in question according to the terms of the fran chise, have violated their contract with the people, and the people re siding along and adjacent to-the car Use are under no moral obli gation. to patronize the buses that have been substituted for the street cars by the company. The people's obligation to the company for the construction of a street car system under a fran chise ceases when the company refuses, to operate the street cars. The streets are public property under the regulations of the city authorities, and anyone should be allowed to operate buses under proper regulations and licenses. And the citizens residing in the district affected should hold a mass meeting, and . tnere agree that they will not patronize the Southern Pacific company's buses; ana that unless the street cars are re-established ' at once they- will exclusively patronize a private bus: that compiles with the re quirements of the city. B. S. MARTIN - Salem, February 24, 1926. Bits For Breakfast Did you get it K - The .prospect of a mining bom in the Santlam country? It would costdbout 40T),000to install the smallest type of s the Greenawalt plant in that district. But -a paper mill- costs .three to six times as much, and the big thing In that the. Greenawalt pro cess Is adaptable to the ores of the Santlam district, and that there are whole mountains under laid -with the. ores copper and gold and silver and other metals; and that; with this process, mining there would be immensely profit able. - j : :-. j . -;' -! ' Wlyo will give the next old fid dlers' Contest. The idea seems to grow. - ' - - : ' ' Los AWeeles oil magnate Invests $2,000. 00-0. In East Portland va cant towin .lots, l and -will spend 2,00.e0 r mora .' in .' developing their, vrue, Salem should -' join itLf i-t. -' winsiwiu a man. - , - nead rb'.t Jndr. CoclirtH Missouri iMu'icf tlie necessitj of In Salem Debate A ticket seUior campiln. t rii 5 id iras to meet expenses in the trans- eentinentsl debate between Bales MassaebosetU end Salem. Oregon, - being conducted hj high aebool tta an' and bnin(w men -who aee ant (taodinc - advertising value in the contest. - ' , That renders mav know more of thee student speakera. a abort bioc raphy of each will be printed here ia alphabetical order (Editorial Note). j ; : -:' ;'k . . - JACK RAMAGE, Junior. . Class Iebate Team School Debate Squad 26. teaching criminology and penology and the general administration of justice, on the editorial page this morning. , . m Governor Pierce has received a picture post card from Fred A Erixon, dated Feb. S, at Funchal, Maderla Island. He says: "This is a very old town. Columbus mar ried his wife here before he dis covered America; semi tropical, 63 In winter, 81 in summer. 4000 women and girls work in embroid ery factories. Tour is O. K.' so far." The post card picture on the reverse side shows a view of Funchal from the sea, with the sea wall in front, behind which appears the business district on the level and the residence dis tricts on the hills in the back ground. Maderia Island if, off the west coast of Morocco and be longs to Portugal, forming, with four other islands, the Funchal district; of Portugal, Maderia Is land is 34 miles long and contains 300 square miles. Governor Pierce, according to Bill Lightfoot. his chief stenographer, suggests that, judging from his remarks about the 4000 women and girls and not ing the fact that Columbus got his wife there, that Fred may be giv ing undue attention to the other sex and that he might be lost from the ranks of the widowers. Mr. Erixon is one of the oldest and most prominent contractors of Salem, and he is now making a tour of Europe and parts of Asia and Africa. RADIO SET IS ADDED TO STATESMAN PRIZES (Continued from page 1.) can be you, if you will try. Don't let anyone discourage you. Just go ahead pay no attention and am sure you will be a winner. Now, during the next few weeks, is the opportune time to win. The diamond ring offer came to a close last Saturday night, and owing to the fact that several con testants ran very close in this race for the diamond ring it is neces sary to check and recheck the totals very, very carefully so that there will be no mistake made in making this award of the diamond ring. This work takes time and ac cordingly we will not be able to announce the winner of the dia mond ring before Tuesday. The name of the winner of the ring will - be published in the paper Tuesday morning. The amount of money collected by the winning candidate will not be announced at that time, but will be announc ed at the close of the competition or April 10, It would not be fair to announce the amount of money collected by the winning candidate at this time tM It would be contrary to tho ex pressed wishes of the candidates 1 nthe contest as they do not wish that announcement, to be made until the end of the contest on April 10. Frances M. Greenwood is verv active these days. On Saturday she started to work in earnest. She and her friend, Mrs. May Ir vfn. organized an automobile party and started to work the rural routes. Both Mrs. Green wood and Mrs. Irwin are good vote getters, and are bound to be se rious contenders, when the prizes are being handed around. CLUBMEN WIN . MEET CORVALL1S, Or., Feb. 27. Multnomah club of Portland de feated Oregon Agricultural college today 36 .to 33 in a swimming meet. You J3 Profm j By having your eyes examined with the most modern and scientific optical equipment, such as ; yoii find in our offices. Your finished glasses Are sure to be correct as well as becoming; j Staples Optical Co ;! Jfasonlc Temple Building With tye JRed Cross Pharmacj An Italianhaving applied, for Citizenship, was being examined In the naturalization court. r "Who is the President of the United States?" "Mr.', Coolidge." "Who is the Vice-President? "Mr. Dawes." - . . "Could yon.be President?" "No."' "Why?" "Mister, you -'souse, please. vera busy worka da mine." 7 A young-woman entered a book store in Chicago and asked the aid of the clerk in selecting suitable reading-' She especially desired some Kentucky fiction, she said. "Why not try Allen's 'Kentucky Cardinal?" said the, salesman taking a copy of the book off the shelf, "That used to be a very popular book." "No; I' don't think I care for those theological stories," said the lady. v "But this cardinal was a bird." "I am not interested in the scan dals of his private life," replied the young woman; and out she walked. ! The little girl returned from church deeply musing on the ser mon, in which the preacher had declared ; that animals, lacking souls could not go to heaven. As the result of her meditation, she presented a problem to the family at the dinner table, when she asked earnestly: "If cats don': go to heaven, where do the angels get the strings for their harps?" There is . a. strong possibility chat Helen Wills, who .needs ' no introduction to sport fans, as well as Suzanne Lenglen, who, likewise needs no introduction, will clash again shortly, lA fact as early as March 8. After the recent match at Cannes in which the petite Call fornian met defeat it was pre sumed that these two well night peerless tennis players would not meet again until the Wimble don match in England in June.. It is now believed that they will TINY GLAND MAKES MEN Getj Up Nights if Dv 70a know that great percentage of all men of raatare rears are troubled with Urinary Irritations and disorders ! little gland the Prostate! When this tiny but very , vital -gland begins to "slow up," . many distressing ailments may arise, sack as 'nervousness, restless ness, frequent night rising, scanty, painful smarting, difficult Urination and aosae tima lack of control. But now at last, there is a praiseworthy treatment for these annoying symptoms, that according to signed statements has brottghfersweet relief to many thousands. The-treatment is plessant and perfectly harmless and so seemingly remarkable in action that -fop a short time a liberal "proof of merit" trial sise is being offered absolutely ir to convince people of its smaxtng effi ciency; ABSOLUTELY FEEE. Jnt sand yonr name, address and lOe to help pay postage and packing, and by return mail you wil) get the liberal trial pack age. Act at once, as tha offer may be made for a short time only. . Write ioday to . . : 1 .- . Tha Palmo Co., BatUe Creak, Mick. rept. 8-884. . . ; 0 - '.-"t ."f -in ir-TTW wage battle again at Nice, the week of, March 8 tor the cham pionship of Southern ". France, - " Mile, Lenglen has already; off 1 Cialljr entered the tournament and while Miss Wills' has not yet made -her entry it is .reported " that she intends to do so, at least m tne singles matches. . , Needless to say 'the entire ten nUCorldif Uhe lJnited States is eager ttc see the Pacific coast star try conclusions' with Suzanne again; for.-' they- feel 8he can re- verse. the decision. 1 may be that with a different brand , of .tennis she can do so. No less an authority than Bill. Tiiden said,; following the recent Cannes setto; ; "If. Miss.. Wills would go out-and. knopk the cover off .the ball at the start of the match, she might beat Suzanne.' VV-;-;;V' - : A" number: of individuals In' Bos ton . are making a desperate - at tempt -to stop Sunday baseball. Let's see. isn't this 'town Boston in the same' state where they used to burn witches, r put people; in stocks and pillories, etc? We thought they finally-become en lightened . In the Back . Bay dis trict but this doesn't look like it. .There must be some' jinx, black cat or hoodoo hovering over the,. University; of Oregon or at least over the gridiron .department of that institution. Capt. John J. McEwan, the new: football coach, Is the fourth specialist (he Eugene college has had in four years. , . The. announcement that, the Futurity at - Belmont Park- in . 1928 will have a gross value ! of f 100,000 making it the ! richest stake in V.-. the world ; ; makes us think of that ancient wheeze about the '. "passing of the horse." Sure he's passing, j Passing under the wire t ahead ; so that his owner can hurry . over!" to the secretary's office and! collect the 'juicy purse -which he had Just won. It is reported that Bob Weaver, 1 president of the Southern Califor nia division ' of the A. A. U. is training a Zuni Indian to defeat Paayo Nurml at ' the Olympic games in 1928. If the Flying Finn j m M I Newly discovered treatment kills khe wonders. 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