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September 1926
T H E K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S
CONFLICT BETWEEN RUSSIA AND SWITZERLAND The conflict between Russia and Switzerland over the Vorovsky assas sination in 1923 and its consequences is serious, but ■the situation has not reached a complete rupture. Their backs stiffened by public opinion, the Federal councilors have informed Mos cow through the intermediary of France that the soviet formula for a settlement of the dispute' with a new apology for the Vorovsky killing and indemnity for the late soviet envoy’s daughter was not acceptable, but left the door open for further negotia tions. The next move is up to Moscow and if the Russian government tones down its formula, it is believed there is some chance for an eventual accord. But Swiss spokesmen say frankly that Berne has gone to the limit of its concessions. A disagreeable impression has been created by the belief that Russia is using the proposed disarmament con ference aB a club to force Switzerland’s acceptance of all its demands by insist ing that it will not come to Geneva, where the conference is to be held, until Switzerland yields.— News Item. CRIME AT THE PEAK Chicago.— Frauds amounting to ap proximately $3,000,000 in the Union Stockyards have been unearthed by of ficials of the Department of Agricul ture sent here by Secretary of Agricul ture Jardine and local agents of the Department of Justice. The frauds were uncovered after weeks of careful investigation and a whole mass of evidence is ready for presentation to the grand Jury within a few days. Ten confessions have been made to the government investigators and twelve men, well known in the cattle business, will probably be in- dieted, according to information re vealed here. The frauds involve short weights, discrimination against certain cattle men and other violations of the Cor rupt Practices Act. Two assistant attorney generals have been in Chicago for several weeks working with the investigators from the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Justice. The investigation is said to have been started as the result of revela tions made some time ago during a hearing before John C. Brooks, who was sent here by Secretary Jardine to investigate charges of discrimination against a number of cattlemen by the Co-operative Producers’ Association. As a result of this hearing^Brooks re commended that the organization be rebuked and warned of certain assert ed practices.— News Item.
assertion of Theodore E. Burton, for mer Senator and now Representative from Ohio, that, "while substantial de fenses should receive careful consid eration, technical defects should be disregarded, and trivial errors by the trial judge should not be made a ground for the reversal of convic tions.” But, while our lax criminal proce dure IS being revised, other causes for crime must be discouraged, among them maudlin sentiment. Criminals receive too much sympathy. M o r e compassion is aroused for the mur derer in his cell than for his victim in the cemetery. Juries are too indul gent and judges too lenient. All this must cease or the present epidemic of crime never will be curbed. — Exchange. GIVES BLOOD FOR OTHERS The man who has shed the greatest volume of blood for England has been decorated and officially honored by England’s King. In addition he has been made a life governor of the Lon don Hospital. This hero, who volun tarily yielded his veins for no less than fifty-one different transfusions of his blood, is a printer, and his sacrifices have saved more than a score of lives. Some of the lives have been of the great and some of the humble, but the printer gave his life current without reckoning or partiality. Human blood is worth at least twenty-five guineas a pint in transfusion, but this Bertie Wallace Tibbie refused to accept pay ment in each and every case. Few fighting men have done as much for E n g l a n d as this much-punctured soldier of peace.— L. A. Times. REDS ARE BUSY AMONG SCHOOL CHILDREN South Pasadena, Cal.— “ Agents of the soviet government of Russia are incessantly fostering Communistic pro paganda among the school students of America, and their own emissaries de clare that they are making great pro gress,” declared the Baroness Ottlly De Ropp, formerly of Russia, in ad dressing the Kiwanis Club here. "Their organ of propaganda, called ‘The Young Comrade,’ and published in Chicago, aims its appeals most of all at our young people, and they have organizers of groups in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and all through the coun try. Their slogan is ’No god, no flag, no country.’ "The greatest thing I can do for America to show my gratitude for what your country has done for Rus sia-m isruled as it is by a dangerous minority— is to warn you as I am do ing against allowing this Bolshevist propaganda to spread.”— L. A. Times.
SIXTEEN OREGON STUDENTS AVOW SELVES ATHEISTS Salem, Ore.— There are sixteen freshmen in Willamette University who have disavowed their belief in Christ, it was revealed here by Dr. Carl Gregg Doney, in an address be fore the student body. The statement by Dr. Doney followed a thorough in vestigation and a questionaire sent to all students in the university. The sixteen students who declared they were nonbelievers admitted, how ever, Dr. Doney said, that the teach ings of Christ are "logical.”— L. A. Herald. TEMPTATION IN PATH OF GIRL SHOWN ■ "A good-looking bov in a high- powered car is a serious temptation to the unchaperoned girl. Given the car and the gas such a boy can pick up a different girl every night in the week and stage a petting party,” George M. Green, principal of the Inglewood, Cal., Union High School, told the Parent- Teacher Association was the substance of an investigator’s report. "This condition is appalling,” Mr. Green declared, "and it is the result of allowing young girls to go about the streets unchaperoned at night. The girls are to blame rather more than the boys and I think the court records will prove that. "The remedy lies in the home; if girls are out late at night it is the mother who is to blame rather than the girl.” This problem is country-wide and has been aggravated by phrents allow ing boys of high school age to use the family car. Mr. Green also condemns the use of rouge by the girls and the extremely short skirts they are wearing.— Cali fornia News Item. PENALTY OF SENTIMENTAL SYMPATHY How did the present epidemic of crime begin in this country? How is it that in the exceptionally orderly city of Washington there have been in a single year four times as many hold ups and burglaries as in London? How is it that in Los Angeles there were more than in all England, Wales and Scotland in the same period? No body can answer these questions defi nitely. Some lay it to the war, others to bootlegging, others to the heteroge neous nature of our population. But the cause which obtrudes itself most conspicuously is the growing laxity of our criminal procedure. It is essen tial to the adequate punishment of crime that the trial of the accused should occur with as much promptness as possible after the commission of the offense. There is much truth in the
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