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to destroy their business. But not all
the lawyers, be it said to their credit, will
oppose it, for we are not all shysters.
There is some expense attached to the
system. One-tenth of one per cent. is
charged for registration. The money
thus obtained goes into an indemnity
fund for the reimbursement of those
who may, by no fault Of their own, be
deprived of their rights, when land is
registered. Bnt it is very rarely that
the indemnity fund is called upon.
The Torrens act has been twice be-
fore the Michigan legislature. First,
by Senator Helme, and now by your
own Senator Cook, of Shiawassee.
hope it will be passed,
There is one defect in the law as in
troduced by Senator Cook The COM
missioners of title are the Circuit Court
Commissioners, and believe they should
be men not subject to such frequent
change.
lndeterminate Sentences.
''Indeterminate Sentences for Crimi-
nails" were explained by Prof. O. II.
Cooley, Of Ann Arbor. Indetermin.
ate sentences apply, or are intended to
apply, only to younger criminals-those
between the ages OF sixteen to thirty.
Indeterminate sentences do not ap.
ply to those who murder In cold blood
and similar heinous offences. Most OF
the younger criminals who go to jail
are those who have lost one or both
parents, or are the children of drunk.
ards or vicious people. These boys are
fit SUBJECTS for this law.
There are good reasons for the pass.
ing of an indeterminate sentence law.
The trial judge sees the prisoner un-
der peculiar circumstances, when the
prisoner Is in an abnormal state OF
mind. Is 1t not probable that the
prison authorities who see him In a
normal state day after day are the
better able to determine how long he
shall serve?
The parole, which allows the govern
or to release prisoners when he sees
fit, does not take the place of the in
determinate sentence as many suppose.
In the first place the parole is usually
employed with the long termers.
Most Of the younger men are in for
short terms, and they are the ones we
wish to reform. The men released on
the indeterminate sentence plan can
always, If they do not behave well
after release, be again confined for the
maximum term for the original offense.
It is not negative good behavior that
let's man out under the indetermin-
ate sentence. Mere pious behaviour
will not do either. He must learn q
trade and be eager to do right and
must prove his good faith to the prls-
on officials.
As an objection 1t Is said that the
indeterminate sentence makes prison
life too easy, but this is not so. At
Ionia the average length Of the SEN
tence is two years. At Elmira, N. T.,
where the indeterminate sentence is
in force, the average length of SEN
tence is two and one-half years.
The strongest thing we can say for
the new plan is that it furnishes an
opportunity for young men who may
have gone wrong to reform.
The Dairy Cow.
Hon. Fred M. Warner, of Farming.
ton, secretary of state and president
Of the State Dairymans Association,
presided at the dairy section Of the
roundup Thursday morning.
Prof. Charles s. Plumb, of the Ohio
State University, Columbus, spoke on
"The Dairy Cow" We shall consider
two features of the dairy COW, form
and function. You must have good
breeding. A well bred dairy COW is
not good for beef as you know. She
should be muscular, narrow body In
front, wide behind, she should be spare
though not very thin. In Minnesota
q few years ago at the experiment
station two groups Of cattle were kept,
the spare dairy type and thel!fleshy
type. The former earned s3S each In
the year, the latter but $40. You
must have the spare type to make
money In the dairy.
The udder OF the COW Is made up of
= mass Of cells In which there is a con.