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Most of the men who, during the War, were sent to jail for the irregularity of their social ideas, have eventually been let off lightly. The severity of the two Honolulu sentences will come under five reviews; it is predicted that both sentences will shrivel either in the reviews or at the White House...
...vacant Judgeship. Then Lindsey began creating a Juvenile Court, which, a decade later, was world-known. Many reforms accompanied it : a law giving orphans the right to $2,000 of an estate before creditors can touch it; a law making it impossible to send a child under 16 to jail or to charge him with crime; a law of "contributory delinquency" penalizing parents. Playgrounds, public baths, night-schools, summer camps, day- nurseries?these, too, bear the Lindsey seal. "He is the Pinchot-Burbank of human resources." But the revived enthusiasm is a mere whisper in comparison with the plaudits...
...48th state, Delaware, the wife-beater is taken to the jail or workhouse yard, is stripped to the waist in public view, is tied to a post, is lashed with a tough-thonged whip once, twice?30 stinging times. He goes home, beats no more, is no more beaten. For wife-beaters, the whipping-post is the unbeatable punishment...
...fine or jail sentence may, if the court pleases, accompany the whipping...
...through the streets of Dortmund. The sensitive lawyers sued for defamation of character. The drayman swore that he meant no harm. The Judge asked: "If you had a third donkey, what would you name him?" The drayman retorted: "That's no business of the fourth." Thirty days in jail was the Judge's kick...