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A Sentence Board
One of the many excellent proposals made by Governor
Smith of New York for reform, which perhaps because of
its being a presidential year, has escaped much attention in
the west, is his recent recommendation for removal of the
power of sentence in cases of felony from judges and placing
it in the hands of a board composed of legal experts, psy
chiatrists and penologists..
This would be a step not only towards justice but to
wards uniformity in punishment. The mood or tempera
ment of the individual judge governs the sentence as can be
readily seen from a study of cases. , For the same crime,
one judge will impose one sentence, and a different court
another. Some judges are "hard-boiled" and prescribe the
limit, others temper justice with mcrcy Indeed it is a mat
ter of record that a judge one day will be inclined toward
severity and another day towards leniency, dependent per
haps upon his liver.
Take the case of Ellsworth Kelley, sent up for 20 years
, in prison for passing a saw to a prisoner in a county jail to
' enable his escape, while another guilty of the same offense,
draws a jail sentence or a brief prison term. Take the cases
of the Portland youths who on their first offense, for hold
ups yielding a few dollars, got from 15 to 20 years, while a
promoter guilty of a half a million dollar swindle got a fine
of $500 in the same court -
A state treasurer who embezzled a quarter of a million,
got a three years sentence, while a man who stole a loaf of
bread at the same time got seven years. In another case
the same judge sentenced a man to a year in the peniten
tiary for the theft of 530 in cigars, and one who stole $1,478
in jewelry was given six months in jail.
It is true that there are many other considerations be
side the personal equation of the judge that governs the
sentence, questions of environment, opportunity, tempta
tion and motive. The circustances of the crimes may have
differed, so what appears at first an inequality of sentence,
may actually prove on investigation, to make for an equality
of justice. More and more the individuality of the criminal
is being considered, so the apparent inequality of sentences
are likely to increase rather than decrease.
A sentencing board, composed of experts as proposed
by Governor Smith, would by impartial and scientific study
of the individual and his crime, eliminate the personal bias
of the judge and fix a fair sentence. Such a change would
be welcomed by most judges as it would relieve them of
grave responsibility and enable them to concentrate their
attention upon the conduct of the trial.
The Smith proposal is worth a trial.
Upholding the Blacklist
By a rising vote of 2000 to 14 tho national convention
of the Daughters of the American Revolution squelched
critics of the "blacklist" by defeating resolutions embody
ing a demand for the consideration of all national policies by
the chapters and members before their pronouncement by
the national officers; the discontinuance of all "black listing"
of speakers; and the submission of the national defense com
mittee's program to the membership for approval.
"The D. A. R. recognized no blacklist," said the presi
' dent, Mrs. Brosseau, who circulated it, but she added, "any
state regent has a perfect right to advise her chapters as
who should come upon their platform to speak," which when
the state regents act in concert, constitutes a black-list.
The distinguished men on the black-list, denounced as
"radicals" are of the same type as tho revolutionary heroes
the ladies claim descent from that is believers in the Bill
of Rights and the ladies arc resorting to tht tactics of the
colonial Tories by proscribing free speech and asscmblcge,
under the pretense of patriotism.
It was Samuel Johnson who in his lexicon defined pa
triotism -"as the last refuge of scoundrels" for in his day
as in our, patriotism has been capitalized by swindlers and
grafters who wrap the flag about them to flim-flam the
populace for a profit. We have only to cite the existing cases
of the Ku KIux Klan "100 percent American" and Big Bill
Thompson's "America First" crusade to realize the extent
to which partriotism is commercialized by professional "pa
triots," and the D. A. R. leaders seem to have come under
the spell along with the gullibles
As the New York World puts it:
This game has been worked again and wain In human history, but
unfortunately there are always plenty of people who know no history
and havo learned nothing from it. They provide the Innocent following
out of which the Thompsons and tha Imperial Wizards get their votes
and their dues-paying members. They arc tho bedazzled suckers who
throughout human history havo supported every swindle. Somebody
waves n flat? at them and they go Into a coma. Somebody makes passes
at (hem with a sacred formula and they are overcome with such palpi
tation that they can t think. They become so bewitched with words that
they will endure almost anything.
People who know something about human nature know quite well
how the game is worked, and nro on their guard. They know that in
nlnctl-nlne cases out of a hundred a man who advertises his patriotism
or his religion loudly Is a sti.sptcous character. Really patriotic men
and really ivlixious men let their actions speak for them. Those who
have to make a show of their loyalty, their idealism and their virtue
almost invariably havo something else to hide.
A light tap at the door. "Lucy.
'es. Lucy." Adele called. She
didn't open tho door.
"Mr. Haines phoned that he won t
be home to dinner," replied the
girl.
"Very well." Adele was relieved
She'd not have to make excuses
now.
Silence. Except the brisk, cheer
ful ticking of the ctoctc on her
dressing -table and the occasional
soft coll.in.se In the fire-place of a
to? of wood that was reduced to
clean, pinkish embers. Adele had
lighted the lire herseu. She had
felt cold . . . Now she stared at the
dying fire. How like herself! Dying
-dying a little more each day. Soon
the embers would to.se even their
pinknesft and they would be only
cold, gray ashes.
She ounhfc to write to him. Tell
him the truth. Not let him go on
thinking her a flirt a careless
woman. If she could reach him
with an explanation, or a part ex
planation, or even a hint, but It was
so difficult to put a thing like that
in words. She stared at the em
bers. Life could not go back. Life
never went beak. If she could find.
with Dexter, what she had believed
she would find when she married
him. Why hadn't they found it
together? Had It been her fault
that they hadn't? Dexter had prob
ably suffered despairs and griefs of
which rhe knew nothing. She owed
him n Ihing but kindness and affec
tion and she had failed himsome
howas he had failed her. , . . She
felt heavy and stupid. . . .
Yesterday last week, at this time,
her heart had been singing, soaring,
floating like a bird high up In heady
blue sunshine , and she had been
proud of her beauty. Today she
looked at herself with a sort of Im
patient hatred. Hatred of life. too.
OS Sl. hnrt n ff - tn I'.-
A pretty nonentity. That was what
had wrought about this awful unrest
Adele had always liked to read of
the heroines of history, of the wom
en 'ho swayed kingdoms ruled
governments. She often pictured
herself maintaining a salon in Eu
rope, where men of Importance
would be her dally visitors. Men
who would bend over her and kiss
her hand and ask her opinion of the
world's affairs."';' ." ; instead two
mornings a week in the market:
"Aren't the artichokes in yet? When
will you have asparagus, Mr. Zilch?"
The weekly meeting of the women's
clubs. Talk talk about developing
children, schools the community
Herself herself? That entity that
screamed lor recognition, deep with
in her. The woman within her who
begged for the warmth of admira
tion and the leaping light in the
eyes ot a man who knew beauty and
beauty's worth, ...
Tiffany had supplied this. A well-
groomed, finely built man with all
the authoritative def initeness of the :
aristocrat in the glance of his hazel j
eyes, the smile that played about his
sensitive, keenly chiseled mouth. A
cosmopolitan. He knew Paris and
Berlin London. He had studied the
columns of Chinese temples and
Russian cathedrals. He was not
rich but there was a finish, an
elegance and beauty and easiness!
about his ways of saying things, do-'
ing things that would never let her !
quite forget him. ... j
But it was ended and Adele was j
glad she had not let herself or i
him go any further than they had. !
If she could only shake off this :
drowsy stupidity. If she could only ;
feel again the happiness now ing
back into her veins to feel again.
oddly confident and light. To laugh
again, brushing her wavy sheen oi
dark hair into polished smoothness,;
powdering her straight white nose
smiling, enchanted. The woman in j
Ihe mirror -who used to smile bact i
at her; the rather tall, well-rounded
sleek-haired woman with the liquid
shine in her eyes, the repressed
smile about her liquid mouth, the
indescribable glow the radiance
she once saw there, . . .
But. no. She had made her de
cision and she must abide by it. She
would try to go back to fight back
if need be, and find the threads of
her life together hers and Doctors-
and pick them up where they had
left off. Like her husband, she
traveled back along the road of
their lives together and tried to
find the point where the road had
divided. She had b?en the one who
was at fault. Partly, at least. Dexter
had become Immersed in his work
and she had become impatient of
his abstraction. Let middle-age
close in about cne. Let it epine
It was bound to come, anyway. . . .
Adele neara her husband come
home that night. She knew he went
into the library. She switched out
the light in her room so he would
think her asleep should he chance
to look in. Silence again. , . Strange
He went out again. What a man!
Where was he going at this time of
night? She must have dozed. . . .
The sound of the opening and clos
ing of the front door aroused her
The luminous dlai ot the little clock
told her it was half after one. . , .
Dexter had returned. ... He did not
come upstairs. In the library again,
no doubt. . . . How hateful to be
awake. The dream had been a de
light ... If one need never to
awaken. The minutes ticked by
and It was 2 o'clock. A car stopped
outside and there was a chorus oi
"goc-'lnlghu." - Jerry- home at lost.
What a little night owl she was.
How youth could keep on tirelessly,
night after night. Youth! . . . Jerry
must be talking to her father. Once
her voice sounded shrill high-
pitched ith excitemen,. Jerry was
irrepressible.
Adele drifted off to sleep again.
totally unaware of the drama that
wan taking place in the library be
low. ....
(To Re Continued)
PNEUMONIA FATAL
FOR DAYTON MAN
near Dayton since 1H70 and had been
ill less than a week with pneumonia
Srhaeffer was born in Germany
October 21. 1848 and had never been
i arried and so far as known no rela
tives survive him-
The funeral was held at the Day
ton Methodist church at 2 o'clock
Saturday with burial In the Ever
green Memorial cemetery.
Aurora, Apr. 21. Miss Theoda
Gribble, now in Marshtield, took
parf in a recent cantata in the
Methodist chirch o. that city and
was the soloist over a new radio
station at idarshfleld.
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Dayton. April 21 Louis Schaeffer,
78. died Thursday In a McMinnville
hospital. He had been a resident
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Golden Youth
By CLAlltfi I'OMKHOi
CHAPTER 44
Adele Haines never left her room
the day after her drive with Jack
Tiffany. She had heard Jerry's
boisterous voice ringing through the
hall and she had heard her husband
leave the house in the morning. She
gave the maid instructions for the
day and told her not : bother her
again. Toward late afternoon when
- tlm Ahnrinwa prflw long ftho rose
from her bed and slipped on an em
broidered Chinese coat and sat by
the window, staring out across the
stretch of lawn with un-teeing eyes
Jerry came home In the roadster
and Adele observed in fl.i abstracted
way, how recklessly the girl swung
the car into the driveway. Jerry
was so renklessJ-. . . She heard Jerry
dth up tho stain to her room and
she supposed her daughter was
dressing for dinner. Another dance
at the club, no doubt. Yes, Jerry
went out again.
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