Open forum, vol. 2, no. 41 (October, 1925)

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THE OPEN FORUM -

``The thirsty of soul soon learn to know.''- John Boyle O'Reilly|

a Vol. 2. , LOS' ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, OCTOBER 10, 1925 No. 41

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a S : cent 18. ILLINOIS. Police raided the offices of the

vel Contemp Orary merican Joint Board of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers.

08 " of America at Chicago on August 14th. Of 63 mem-

i e bers arrested, 14 were held on charges of conspiracy

An Histor to intimidate strike-breakers, on complaint of the

sa y International Tailoring Company whose plant is: on

Or : strike.

st | As reported by the American Civil Liberties Union i

19. NEW YORK. Supreme Court Justice Levy on

August 29th dismissed five members of the Amalga-

DR xoTs: Southern mobs were responsible for two 7. MARYLAND. On August 17th a mob of 500 oe Se eae Seay, Pe

One more lynchings of Negroes during the month of white residents of Baltimore forced Samuel Krayer, of hae oragiiyaltpere th pee ie nite eee

`gh August, taking their victims from the custody of a white landlord, to refund the rent of a house on ape pontnt ie Be ee ee pear y

ig officials in whose charge they had been placed. An Lamont Avenue to a Negro family and compelled the ate ae ; 8 P ah : ay

: ; e urchill. Judge Levy referred to the in-

eak ynusual number of cases of mob violence is reported, family to leave. eae "gis Gi waka brotedlive"

ii) of which five involved the Ku Klux Klan and three 8. MICHIGAN. Dr. Alex L. Turner, Negro gradu- Rey Sie si buaineh Bho hrees

life were attacks on Negroes. They are reported chiefly ate of the University of Michigan, and three other 20. CONNECTICUT. William Simons, organizer

the from the north. The anti-Klan battles continue in Negro families of Detroit were evicted from their Be 7s Workers Party hata eee aga Vance brie

and Massachusetts with a total of ten men injured dur- homes recently and their furniture smashed by a wWoiicenar Meomehin?(R) a 3 widhie ue" Deibe SIA ueeee

the ing the month. In North Dakota a sheriff turned mob of white people. 16th and fined $10 baud " a ` e

: es 3 ` costs for "peddling without

over to an armed mob 118 I.W.W. prisoners in his = 9 Nimw YORK. M. M. Robertson, a real estate a license."

charge, for deportation to Minnesota. agent and five others were indicted by the Richmond :

ES The report shows numerous instances of inter- Grand Jury on August 28th, charged with conspiracy 21. TEXAS. John Zagorski was saved from de-

al ference with union activities by means of injunc- to coerce Samuel Brown, a Negro postman, and his portation as a communist on July 29th on a writ of

OY! tions. In the West Virginia coal fields the miners' wife, a public school teacher, to leave a white neigh- habeas corpus secured by his attorney on proof that

eee officials were served with injunction notices and borhood in Staten Island. They have been the vic- he is a citizen of Russia.

ost ordered out of town. Sweeping injunctions against tims of Ku Klux Klan death threats and acts of

eM peaceful picketing were issued in Scranton and vandalism for over a year. 22. ARKANSAS. On complaint of the Greenwood

a Cincinnati. In New York City, strikers in the cloth- 10. Seven automobile loads of Klansmen return- Coal Company, Gomer Jones, Vice-President of Dis-

i ing industry successfully fought an injunction issued ing from a Klan meeting at Freeport, L. I., to their trict No. 21 of the United Mine Workers of America

ny against them by Justice Churchill which was criti: homes in New Jersey were mobbed on August 18th and 0x00A7. A. Robertson, another official, are cited to

or cized by Justice Levy as a "high-handed procedure." at the Queensboro Bridge Plaza, L. I. City by several appear in the Chaucery Court at Fort Smith, for

In Illinois this method of breaking the unions re- hundred persons. Police reserves dispersed the planning a parade in violation of an injunction issued

ceived 2 set back in Judge Pam's decision upholding crowd. in, 19,

OR: the new anti-injunction law. 11. LOUISIANA. Lured by a fake telegram, an

i The three cases of interference with freedom of ee ee eae - oe oS bani tank 23.) Judge.J. 'V. Bourland. on August Ae ordered

ay Obinion in the public schools reported during August Cente ave le bess seanasiwaTah exe tee aan ak Of sx Dees for BiChet ats in alleged

e will be appealed. The case of Benjamin Glassberg ` a a " Jac eae cia f on : ee violation of an array nese District No.

i) Whose dismissal from the New York City public eka 5 ee Pass : " fe en i ne re 31 UMW. from, interfering with tho, Memmow Coal

7 schools has just been affirmed by the Commissioner ae Ore ee oe - re seg Company in Sebastian County.

af of Education will be taken into the courts, while the atee ood JERSEY. na riot which unsued when

ail | cases of two teachers dismissed from the Geneseo !talian Fascisti raided an anti-Fascisti meeting in CIVIL CASES

. State Normal School and a teacher dismissed from Newmark on August 16th, seven persons were hurt. soe

the Phillipsburg, N. J. High School, will be appealed Count Revel, President of the Fascisti League and 24. ILLINOIS. Judge Hugo Parn of the Superior

to the state educational authorities. seventeen Fascisti were held on August 19th on Court of Cook County on August 10th upheld the

a ee charges of rioting. Vincenzo Vacirea, former Socia- constitutionality of the recently enacted anti-injunc-

LYNCHINGS list member of the Italian Parliament, who was to' tion act of Illinois in refusing a blanket anti-picket-

; : speak at the meeting, was released on a writ of ing injunction to the International Tailoring Com-

it 1. MISSISSIPPI. Sidney Townes, a wounded in- habeas corpus on August 25th by Justice Churchill, pany of Chicago against the Amalgamated aL

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sane Negro, held for murder, was taken from Sheriff

Front at Scobey on August 12th by a mob of 100

men and lynched.

2. MISSOURI. Miller Mitchell, Negro, was taken

from the city jail at Excelsior on August 7th by a

mob of 500 men and lynched. He was charged with

assault upon a white woman.

MOB VIOLENCE AND THE KU KLUX KLAN

ieee Twenty-five members of the Zeig-

side the United oo Workers of America are

ne a charged with conspiracy as a result of

ae enipinn meeting on August 11th in which a

er, Mike Savovich was killed by Alex Hargis,

member of the Ku Klux Klan.

a NORTH DAKOTA. 118 members of the Agri-

Bee vorbets: Union No. 110, I1.W.W. who had

arrested for riding freight trains en route to

the h

arvest fields, were turned over to an armed

mo

boon August 25th by Sheriff Rose of the Cass

Cou ai

W nty Jail and deported into Minnesota. Several

ere severely beaten.

ing A SSACHUSETTS, The Illsley Farm at

Klux eA wrecked when a meeting of the Ku

armed Aah a August 2nd was broken up by an

lansmen ee 500. P. W. Libby and L. B. Hall,

" were sentenced on August 12th to one

year impr;

Prisonment,. charge : Rae Anant

Weanpils t, charged with carrying dangerous

6. Five men

were shot in a riot after a meeting

of the Ky Klux ; :

Klan at the Libby Forum, Framing-

after five days in the Tombs, charged with being "a

fugitive from Justice from Italy."

MEETINGS

13. OKLAHOMA. The right of striking miners in

Okmulgee County to hold open-air prayer meetings

was upheld by Judge Thomas H. Doyle of the Crim-

inal Court of Appeals on August 21st, when he re-

leased four men arrested under the recent ban of

Sheriff Russell. ;

CRIMINAL CASES

14. KENTUCKY. Bruce I. Susong, managing

editor of the Kentucky Post at Covington was ar-

rested in July charged. with violating the new

"sossip law," on complaint of Mayor O'Donovan and

City Auditor Murphy, whose administration of city

finanees he had criticised.

15. PENNSYLVANIA. Four members of the

Young Workers' League were arrested at Philadel-

phia on August 9th charged with distributing sedi-

tious literature which consisted of circulars protest-

ing against the expulsion of Samuel Miller from the

Citizen's Military Training Camp at Camp Meade.

16. CALIFORNIA. Pat O'Hara, member of the

I.W.W., was deported to New Zealand on August 12th

after being held in jail eight months because of

difficulty in finding his birth records in New Zea-

land.

17. NEW YORK. Charles S. Sumner, Superinten-

dent of the Society for the Supression of Vice, ac-

companied by a detective, raided the Craftsman

Bindery Company at New York City on August 18th

and seized on a search warrant 680 copies of "My

_ against the

Workers.

25. NEW YORK. Supreme Court Justice Church-

ill on August 10th issued a sweeping injunction

Amalgamated Clothing Workers of

America forbidding picketing or congregating within

ten blocks of the plant of the International Tailoring

Company.

26. An iniunction against peaceful picketing by

members of the Retail Shoe Salesmen's Union of

New York City was issued in July by Supreme Court

Judge Tierney.

27. OHIO. The Butcher Workmen's Union of Cin-

cinnati are appealing to the Ohio Supreme Court

against an injunction issued by Judge Roettinger of

the Hamilton County Common Pleas Court perpetu-

ally enjoining them from picketing. The president

and the union were fined $100 each for picketing.

28. WEST VIRGINIA. Van A. Bittner, organizer,

and a number of officials of the United Mine Work-

ers of America, were served notice of a permanent

injunction which had been issued in 1924 restraining

their union from organizing in Logan County, on

their arrival there on August 25th. Later they were

ordered to leave town by a Committee of the Cham-

ber of Commerce.

29. PENNSYLVANIA. Judge E. C. Scranton, in

issuing an injunction recently restraining Meat Cut-

ters and Butchers Union No. 111 and E. F. Grady,

i ham, 9 : : `

the ae August 10th when anti-Klan groups attacked Life" by Frank Harris. Jacob Sidowsky and Harry organizer of the American Federation of Labor, from

made Persing Klansmen. Seventy-five arrests were J. Lebovits, employees, were arrested charged with picketing the market of Frank Carr, defined the at-

printing an obscene book.

tempt to unionize a plant as "an unlawful purpose."

Academic Freedom in

America

NEW YORK. The dismissal six years ago of

Benjamin Glassberg, a teachers in the Commercial

High School of Brooklyn, for alleged radical opinion,

was sustained by the State Board of Education on

August 11th.

NEW YORK. Prof. Manley H. Harper; head

of the Department of English and director of the

summer school, and Prof. Harry B. Smith, his assist-

ant, in the Geneseo Normal School are appealing to

State Commissioner Graves against their recent dis

missal, without a hearing, on vague charges of radi-

calism.

NEW JERSEY. IPrOTwawAN solve unc Kernels

teacher of mathematics and general science for three

years at the Phillipsburg High School who was re-

quested on May 13th to resign because of `inferior

work," is demanding a hearing of the State Board

of Education and insists that his political views are

the real reason.

IOWA. Prof. Aldena Carlson, head of the

English Department of Ellsworth College at Iowa

Falls for four years, was dismissed by the trustees

at a recent meeting for "unpatriotic activities" in

the LaFollette campaign.

OHIO. A temporary Injunction restraining

the Board of Education of East Liverpool from per-

mitting teaching of the Bible in the public school

was granted by the Common Pleas Court on August

22nd on an application of R. H. Perry, taxpayer.

Sued DLE cpl as Ne

Contemporary Notes

WISCONSIN. The constitutionality of the

state law compelling the registration and licensing

of private detective agencies was upheld by the

Federal District Court at Milwaukee early in August,

when an injunction restraining its enforcement was

refused the Pinkerton and other agencies.

MICHIGAN. Joseph Plotkin was expelled on

August 9th from the Custer Citizens' Training Camp

charged with being a member of the Young Workers'

League.

MARYLAND. Henry Miller of Philadelphia,

member of the Young Workers' League, was ex-

pelled from Camp Meade on July 29th as an agent

of the Bolsheviki for communist propaganda.

YNGLAND. Gertrude Haessler, American

correspondent of the Federated Press abroad, was

refused admission into England recently and de-

ported back to France.

Government and

Labor

When Mexican and American labor representa-

tives sat down in Washington and agreed upon a

principle to guide immigration and emigration legis-

lation they demonstrated the difference between

peoples and governments in a most important par-

ticular.

These representatives tried to find a solution that

would protect peoples and their progress. `They

thought of helpfulness, not of penalties. They

thought in terms of co-operation, not in terms of

opposition. Hach had a thought for the other. Both

looked for that which would best safeguard the free-

dom of peoples. Neither was trying to get any-

thing or to impose anything. They quickly settled

upon a sound principle.

If this principle had been adopted by the United

States in dealing with Japanese immigration the

Japanese furore would never have arisen and there

would have been justice all around.

Governments could learn something from labor if

they would have a look now and then.

And governments, being for the purpose of serv-

ing the people, should feel free to have a look now

and then and find out what people really want.

Some day governments may learn that a gov-

ernment can do something besides act high and

mighty-and get better results. - Union-Record,

Seattle.

* * * *

Why not say that someday labor may have enough

sense and courage to do its own governing?

A Military Picnic

A number of Seattle school boys-nearly 500 of

them-went out to Fort Lawton last Friday to see

how a real battle looks and to learn about the sol-

dier's life. They "had all the thrills of a soldier

going over the top,' as one of the army officers ex-

pressed it. How to wear a trench helmet, how to

present arms with a real rifle, how machine guns are

fired and how poison gas is manipulated, how it feels

to witness "real bullets and shells screaming down

the field'-all these "thrills" and more, the boys ex-

perienced under the leadership of army officers and

playground supervisors of Seattle, headed by Ben

Evans.

The lads were supposed to be from twelve to four-

teen years old. I found by actual count that a fairly

large percentage could not have been more than nine

`or ten; some looked not more than seven. The little

fellows had all they could do to keep up with the

officers and playground leaders who insisted on drag-

ging them off to witness one warlike "stunt" after

another, tho it was evident that some of the young-

sters would have preferred to run freely over the

parade grounds and pick `crab-apples. They were not

allowed to do as they pleased; they were there to

`Jearn how men live who defend the nation," as they

were told by Colonel Howard Davids, commanding

officer of the fort, in his speech of welcome.

It was an odd sight, somewhat grotesque and

rather pitiful-this spectacle of 475 small boys rang-

ed on a hillside while a line of regulars from the

fort charged up from below with fixed bayonets, and

others stretched themselves on the ground a few

rods from the youngsters lighting fuses to produce

a smoke-screen. This movement was put on to show

the boys how troops advance to kill with bayonets!

The boys stayed over night; they were quartered

in tents like real soldiers and ate out in the open

where things were arranged quite in picnic style.

The occasion was looked upon as a splendid success

by the editor of the SEATTLE POST INTELLI-

GENCER, who helped to arrange the affair, and the

boys came away convinced that war is a great and

glorious adventure.

I talked with several of the officers. They were all

agreed that this was a fine thing for the boys. I

wasn't surprised at this opinion coming from them,

but I was rather taken aback when the playground

leaders told me they held the same view. The unani-

mity of these young men regarding an experience of

this kind shows what rapid strides our country has

been making in the last decade towards becoming the

most warlike nation in the world today; for it is

doubtful if in any other country the physical trainers

of boys would go so far in an attempt to militarize

the spirit of lads in the grade school. Furthermore

when these playground leaders assert that such "mil-

itary thrills" have no permanent effect upon a boy's

emotional nature they only show a deplorable lack of

knowledge regarding the psychology of boys.

It happened that I was the only woman present.

As I watched the different numbers on the days' pro-

gram I wondered what the mothers and club-women

of Seattle would think if they could see this "war

picnic." [I fancy many of them would have felt that

these lads weren't being given a square deal, for

after all, war isn't a glorious affair, nor do battle

fields look. like picnic grounds, f

I thought of the action taken two years ago by

Japan, when the leading woman pacifist of that coun-

try was called upon by her government to join a com-

mittee for the purpose of eliminating from the text-

books of Japan all passages emphasizing the glory of

war and military heroes. This committee performed

its function and substituted in the place of chapters

exalting war other accounts extolling the "Heroes of

peace" of all lands.

Will not the club women in Seattle, and in Amer-

ica, do all in their power to instill ideals of peace in

the minds of our school-boys as the women of Japan

have done? Let us at least try to prevent a repeti-

tion of "war picnics" for grade school boys like the

Fort Lawton affair.

Jane Garrott,

4238 12th Ave. N. E.,

Seattle, Washington.

----_- e--_____

Better to perish than to hate and fear, and twice

better to perish than to make oneself hated and

feared-this must someday become the

maxim of every political

Nietzsche.

supreme

community.-Frederich

_ing citizenship.

Reconciliation -East_

and West .

A Statement adopted by the American Fellow,

of Reconciliation in Conference at Swarthy

Penn., September 10-13, 1925.

* * *

Mor,

We have realized anew our conviction that only

a fearless reliance upon acts of justice and Unarme4

good will can bring a fair and peaceable: relatigy be

tween the Hastern and Western peoples.

We know that we ourselves have an inescapabjp

share in the wrongs done by the Western Nations,

When we require of our government, of America,

investors, and of Christian bodies a new gpipit in

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their dealings with Hastern nations, we are Seeking

the development of a social method which none of

has perfectly applied.

We welcomed with keenest satisfaction the State.

ment made many months ago by twenty-five Ameri.

can missionaries that they would neither geek qo

accept military protection in any crises that might

arise: We believe that only as such a determinati,

prevails among Christian missionaries and among

the church bodies owning mission property can the

sincerity and international character of their Chris

tian faith be made clearly evident to non-Christiay

peoples.

This summer the English speaking branch of th

Peking Fellowship of Reconcilation, composed largely

of missionaries, reiterated publicly their conviction

ot the evil and futility of violence and placed then.

selves squarely on record for an immediate move by

the foreign powers toward the abolition of the uw

equal treaties and the removal of all foreign troops,

With this position we are wholly in accord.

Recent events in China have revealed as witha

lightning flash the way in which the whole mission

enterprise appears to Hastern eyes as an integral

part of our Western civilization and bound up with

it in reliance upon force and entanglement with

capitalistic methods of exploitation.

We believe that the time has come when mission:

ary organizations should completely dissociate then:

selves and their workers from the special treaty

privileges which have been secured from China unde!

coercion. A serious responsibility rests upon them

also, we believe, to cooperate with the new efforts di

other agencies to secure and make known to the

Western public such facts and information aboll

events in the Far Hast and the trend of Oriental

opinion as are not now available through.the West

ern press.

We urge our government to throw its weight wr

reservedly toward the extension of the coming (ol

Us

ference of the Nine Powers to include a frank, hones

and thorough discussion of all special treaty pritl:

leges of the powers in China go that the Westell

world may have a fair chance to hear China's side !

the case. We believe that if the facts were fill

known the public would forthwith demand immedialt

steps toward the abolition of extra-territorialty all

the restoration of China's sovereignty, unimpaired.

We call the attention of the public to the propostl

for vast fortifications at Pearl Harbor by the Amett

can Government and to the British plans alreay

under way for the Singapore base, preparations for

which can only be regarded by Eastern nations as

threats against their independence. Distrust of tl"

purposes of the Western powers and the genet

atmosphere of mutual suspicion can be dissipatel

only as such plans are abandoned. We must Itt

furthermore the implications to Oriental peoples

our delay in redeeming our promise of independen

to the Philippine Islands.

We urge upon our fellow countrymen resP

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the Oriental worker and a reconsideration oe

ding

measures which discriminate against him, forbid

him immigration to the United States and withhold:

We must assist him in his efforts"

raise the industrial standards of the Hast, most (c)

pecially in mills owned by foreign capital. We wel

come the increasing solidarity and determination i)

achieve freedom and justice among the students

workers and merchants of China shown in the

strikes.

We would give our support to those throug a

world who are striving to practise the metho

peace which are common to the teaching of Jesus *

the great philosophies of the Bast. "dra sill

tion that only through a spirit of love that risks on

fering and humiliation in an effort to win its na

ents, and that steadily refuses to take the way 0

lence, as Gandhi has refused in India, can P0x00B0

Hast or West, achieve a better world.

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SAY SO

we want letters.

Lots of them.

From lots of people.

On lots of subjects.

BUT NOT LOTS OF WORDS.

Make them "Century Letters,"

that is letters of not more than

One Hundred words.

Write on subjects of general

interest. .

Typewrite your letters,

if possible. If you are

interested in anything worth-

while, say SO. But say it in

as few sentences as you can.

Sign your name. It will not be

used if you do not wish it

published, provided you say S0-

Let's make "SAY SO" the best

page of this paper. Mind you,

be brief. And again, BE BRIEF.

C]

Looking for Horns

"There was an article in the last OPEN FORUM to

which I took exception the instant I read it. It was

like a cynic searching for the horns in the tangled

curls of a cherub. I refer to the article re. American

sailors in Australia. The writer, X, was very evi-

dently a clean-minded man, with a sense of humor

and an appreciation of the fundamental natural in-

stinets and reactions of youth.

Yesterday a friend who has a boy in the Navy was

telling me what a wonderful time he had in Aus-

tralia-how the people, the best, finest people, opened

their homes and hearts to the American boys and

gave them a perfectly glorious time every moment

of their stay, and how she appreciated especially

the fact that the nice girls put themselves out to

make it a memorable occasion. One girl went her-

self to this boy's captain to beg a three days' leave

for him, and, succeeding, took him on a camping

trip with her family.

Judging from this one boy's experience doubtless

many an American gob will always entertain a very

tender feeling for Australian people and especially

Australian girls."

From an American mother, in a private letter.

The Open Forum:

A recent quotation in your valued paper: "The

assumption that when the body perishes, the soul

dies too, is the most colossal assumption in history."

Is not the true rationalist's answer: "The assumption

that there is a soul is the most colossal assumption in

history?" Is it not clear that the burden of proof for

the existence of a soul is upon those romantically

minded persons who believe their own worth to be so

fnormous that they shall be miraculously preserved

throughout all eternity? Arviel.

* * *

Rie which the answer might very rationally be

wie that if a man thinks human personality is

ore perishable than a soiled rag there is no good

reas

*ason why he should consider the testimony of

history at all, .

; : 25.

Editor Open Forum, October 3, 1925

Log Angeles, Calif.

Dear Friend:

In the lett

er of mi ic 5 ad-

dresse mine which you published, ad

he one Russell, the word "honor" should

given up ss ; he Rentence should read: "You have

receive Oe i ope for Democracy and you don't per-

indentical wi umor in the idea that Americanism is

racy." " With Feudalism, rather than. with Democ-

Sincerely,

Upton Sinclair

Americanism

JACKSONVILLE, BOA, Sept.a? 13-4CAR)--Two

white women were tarred and feathered by a mob

of 150 men here last night, police learned tonight.

The women were seized by the men while walk-

ing toward the city prison farm, where they had been

sentenced to serve a 30-day sentence on a disorderly

conduct charge.

The women had served less than two weeks of

their sentence. They were taken to a secluded spot

and tarred and feathered. Late last night they were

brought back to Jacksonville, and let out of an au-

tomobile on a downtown street, clad only in gunny-

sacks.

They were admitted to a rooming house nearby,

where the proprietor allowed them to cleanse them-

selves. The women are sisters.

* * * *

Two white women-little baby sisters some years

ago. No special home life-nothing much in the

way of education-no religious training to speak

of-just little girls, looking with curious eyes to

right and left as they travel carelessly along life's

road, plucking the pretty flowers, the daisy and the

deadly nightshade, all together in a boquet, just like

children will.

And the deadly night-shade gets in its work along

the road. Quite likely some boys drew their atten-

tion to the pretty night-shade, as boys will. Who

knows? Or cares?

At any rate, there they are, in Jacksonville, Flor-

ida. And because there are men, even in Jackson-

ville, Florida ready and willing to give girls money

for the use of their bodies, these sisters live for a

time-until sentenced to the Florida Prison farm for

disorderly conduct.

And now one hundred and fifty men, men of Jack-

gonville, Florida, go out to the prison farm where two

women are serving their sentence and seize them,

and take them to a lonely spot outside the city.

And then these two sisters are stripped naked--

yes, there they are-clinging together-two white

naked bodies, just the same shape as your mother

and mine-just the same shape as Mary, the mother

of Christ. There they are, surrounded by one hun-

dred and fifty pairs of eyes-mens eyes. Then the

fun begins. On goes the tar; on the feathers are

heaped. One hundred and fifty men make a good

job of it. Oh yes, its a thorough job.

The tarring and feathering is not quite so exciting

as the first part of the business though. Tearing the

clothes from two chalk-faced women, wildly search-

ing the sea of faces, babling incoherently for pity,

cursing and praying-in Christ's name, mercy.

But one hundred and fifty pairs of eyes are turned

on the bodies-they will soon be naked now. One

hundred and fifty men lick their lips in anticipation.

Yes-now two women are wholly exposed to view.

The agony is now at white heat. One hundred and

fifty men surge closer. One hundred and fifty pairs

of hands struggle to lay hold of those two naked

bodies. Only a lucky few can thrust themselves be-

tween the naked legs. Only a score can feel the

naked bodies. Then get the tar-hold the feathers

ready. Those other hands shant stay there. Besides,

the supreme agony is over. The nerves have wrack-

ed their worst. Excitement is dulling. Let's have

the comedy now.

So two sisters, shapeless tar-dripping feather-

coated figures, freed from the eager hands, cling

together once more. Tar-coated arms round tar-

coated bodies-truly a comic sight.

Well, its all over. One hundred and fifty men take

them back to Jacksonville, Florida. Placing sacking

around them, as if to hide their thoughts a while

ago; keep them close till evening, and turn them

loose on Main Street.

One hundred and fifty md@n of Jacksonville,

Florida, being without sin have cast their stones-

have done their duty, "quitting themselves like

men," and one rooming proprietor has given a cup

of cold water. Blessed is Jacksonville, Florida.

-H. B. Dart.

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"Give me a creed with doors that open out,

A creed that lays no fetters on my mind,

With no dark corners that can. house a doubt,

And no dim aisles to close me from mankind."

-Molly Anderson Haley.

` acquit through

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The Object of Law

By Faith Chevallier

All criminologists will agree that the sole object

of Law, whether civil or criminal is to protect society

as a whole, and each individual from injustice or

wrong from another.

As long ago as when late President Hayes was

President of the American Penological Society (the

writer being a member of `said Society ) the unani-

mous consensus of opinion was that Society had no

right to punish the law breaker. The duty of Society

was two fold-First and primarily to protect society

by the isolation of the offender and second Society

owes a paramount duty to those whom it deprived of

liberty to reconstruct. them through scientific and.

humane methods so that they may be restored to

Society as useful citizens rather than enemies of

society which legal crime factories turn out.

The matter of parole and probation is a serious

one and though at present the result of fallible judg-

ment (when not of influence and money), yet 85%

make good. Often the worst criminal is the best

behaved prisoner, while: the novice or innocent is

liable to be under a nerve irritation, which unscien-

tific and ignorant officials deal with most unwisely.

The scientific way to decide upon parole, in the

writer's opinion, is to have a Commission of three, a

psychiatrist, a socologist and a jurist to determine

the state of mind, the motives and ideals, actuating

the candidate for parole, that his fitness to return to

society may be determined.

The sub-conscious never lies nor is self deceived.

Hence, if one is put under hypnosis or psycho-

analysis, by a competent psychologist, we can pretty

accurately judge of his fitness for parole. How dif-

ferent such methods from the asinine and unreliable

methods that obtain today! Prosecutors must con-

vict guilty or innocent, while defense attorneys must

Machiavellian eloquence, guilty or

innocent, and a thoughtless, prejudiced public cry

out for justice whose other. name is vengeance or

punishment.

Both Wendell Phillips and the Poet Whittier told

the writer that such is the temper of the public to-

ward.the law-breaker. No better example of the

truth of this statement than the howl that has gone

up on release of "Big Hutch." No plea in behalf of

this former bunko man, is the intent of the writer.

He was justly convicted, justly sentenced. No one

realized that more fully than he did when he re-

viewed his life both in the County jail and in San

Quentin. The writer had many talks with him in

both places. At first he condoned his actions, saying

that those he fleeced were equally ready to fleece.

Gradually, after reading many books on psychology

and social science, (which he asked the writer to give

him a list of), his Reason taught him the folly of

wronging anyone, realizing that the Master's teach-

ing to do unto others as we would wish done to us, is

the only scientific basis on which civilization can

stand. Notwithstanding the writer was long since

convineed that Big Hutch could return to society a

social and economic asset,-she never has made the

slightest effort for his release, preferring to work for

the poor and friendless.

The District Attorney made strenuous efforts for

his parole a year or more ago. If he was an unsafe

member of Society then, it was a crime to try to

inflict him upon society, as great a crime as to turn

a leper loose because he would divulge the where~

abouts of other lepers! If a patient has a severe at-

tack of typhoid fever, we release him when cured, as

well as a light case. So when a criminal commits a

heinous offense, he should be released when scientists

are convinced he is cured independent of the extent

of his crime.

The whole attitude of officials and public towards

the parole of Big Hutch is most deplorable. The one

good thing done by the Governor, (whom personally

the writer will do all she can to retire), is his ap-

pointment of the Warden of San Quentin and the

Prison Board.

This is no apology for San Quentin, which is a

crime factory with its infamous jute mill, its en-

forced idleness, its over-crowded unsanitary condi-

tion, its utter failure to re-construct and rehabilitate.

But the Warden and Prison Board are powerless

to materially change this condition with the faulty

and ineffective equipment the public are satisfied to

furnish for the punishment-not the cure of a legal

offender. Peony

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