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...problem of dealing with criminals has always been concerned with speed and accuracy of judgment, and, as might be expected, the latest contribution to both these qualities comes from a foreign country, in this case Hungary, which has just acquired what is probably the most advanced method of securing prima facie evidence. For the Hungarians now use a fleet of automobiles especially equipped with every useful kind of apparatus for the discovery and apprehension of malefactors. From moving picture cameras to portable laboratories, the cars are complete, a decided contrast to the traditional derby and cigar equipment in vogue...
...authentic co-leader with William Butler Yeats of the "Gaelic Renaissance," Sage Russell, now lecturing throughout the U. S., commands respect for the following judgment: ". . . The first phase of great civilization is that of mastery of the plastic and material arts. America is now passing through this phase: witness her buildings that scrape the skies, rails thrown across a continent. Your next phase will be literature. I believe a gigantic literature...
...rich Jew came unto judgment, last week at Budapest. Soon he stood, plucked, gasping and stunned, under sentence to pay a fine equivalent to $500,000 and to serve seven years imprisonment at hard labor. What crime could fit so monstrous a punishment...
...Judd Gray, the question of capital punishment has come up again. Much opinion has been aired, editorially and otherwise, and conclusions have been varied. From lively descriptions of ghostly apparitions in the prison, doctored up with as much sensationalism as possible, to thoughtful attempts to reach an ultimate judgment upon the whole problem by virtue of a particular example newspapers have treated the case from every conceivable aspect. And so the controversy is again aroused, with more than usual intensity this time, as to whether a murderer should pay with his own life. For various humanitarian reasons eight...
...hunting party were Edward of Wales and Albert of York, impotent before Fate. In Cooch Behar, unsympathetic Hindus croaked that their Maharani's accident was in reality a judgment upon her for adopting Occidental habits, even to the extent of eloping with her late hus- band...