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...Norman Thomas's "The Conscientious Objector in America" is a book that is helping intelligent people to understand the type of mind that refuses to accept war as a necessity. It is rather strikingly dedicated to "The Brave, who went for Conscience's Sake to Trench or to Prison...
...District Court in Indianapolis, was appointed by President Roosevelt in 1902. A few years later, after a decision which displeased the President, Mr. Roosevelt said that Judge Anderson was "either a fool or a knave." In 1912 he sentenced a group of labor leaders to prison for long terms on conviction of conspiracy to transport explosives in passenger trains. In 1919 it was he who issued an injunction against coal guilty of forging hundreds of fraudulent notes. He is guilty of obtaining strikers. Last week he added to his reputation by saying from the bench...
...that hour Mr. McCray came before Judge Anderson for sentence. He had been convicted on ten counts. The Judge sentenced him to five years' imprisonment and $1,000 fine on each count?the last nine of the terms to be served concurrently i. e., 10 years in prison and $10,000 fine...
...Adolphe Tholome was tried for bigamy in a Paris court. Both his wives were present; both pleaded for leniency, urging that Adolphe was a good husband and father. His attorney urged that the bigamist was helping France when she needed babies. The jury condemned him to two years in prison, but recommended his release on the ground that it was his first offense. Dr. Lutembacher, "distinguished French scientist," claimed that he has invented a cardometer capable of distinguishing between true and false love by measuring heart throbs. The invention aroused the intense curiosity of the feminine...
...little coming into actual existence. The dreary descriptions penned by Charles Dickens and Oscar Wilde, among a score of other forces working to the same end, are apparently effecting their purpose with a slow but steady persistence. The idea of a convict being a mental invalid and of a prison being properly a remedial hospital for his cure which would have aroused nothing but blank amazement in the minds of Judge Jeffrey's and his contemporaries, is accepted at the present day by most people with only momentary qualms. Teaching a man a trade and allowing him to work...