The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-29
PISTOL -TOTING LAW
 SADLY DEFICIENT
Colonel Caldwell Lectures on
 Laws Inequalities
TURN VEREIN SERIES ENDS
Chairman Deedmeyer Compliments Society on Success of the Literary ~ Sessions Which Were Held
 During the Past Winter.

Last night the Birmingham Turn Verein gave the last literary entertainment of its winter session. A large attendance or members and their friends were present who enjoyed the musical numbers on the programme.
 The special feature of the evening was a lecture by Col. John M. Caldwell, who chose for his subject. "The Inequalities of the Law"
 In his introduction of the lecturer, Chairman Frank Deedmeyer compliment ed the society upon the success of the session just passed, and said the purposes for which these Sunday evening meetings entertain the members by hearing public qustions discussed by men who were able to do them justice. Tonight" said Mr. Deedmeyer, i've close our session, and we have with us a man who has chosen subject in which we are all interested. The laws are our protection, and every
  be ever ready to uphold them. No man is better qualified to explain the inequali- ties of the law than the lecturer of this evening, Colonel Caldwell.
 MT. Caldwell commenced by stating that he was very proud of the invitation to speak to such large and intelligent aud fence. He was not he said, accustomed of late to address a mixed audience, but he was glad there were ladies present as he always took pleasure in speaking to them, since on an occasion about twenty-five years ago he had most in teresting conversation with a lady"
 The lecturer took up his subject by stat ing that many thousand years ago the first code of laws was written, written by God on tables of stone and delivered to Moses, the greatest lawgiyer in the Old Testament. Every law since that time and every code of laws are merely extensions and enlargements of the fund amental principles laid down in the Ten Commandments delivered to Moses amid thunder and lightning on Mount Sinai
 Colonel Caldwell told some humorous stories about negro preachers treatment of the subject of Moses leading the chh- dren of Israel out of the land of Egypt and across the Red sea.
 Returning to his subject, the lecturer said that all attempts at legislation on any particular subject the laws regu- lating the carrying of concealed weapons was the greatest failure and subject to the greatest inequality in it's enforce ment. "The law" said he, "seems to make no difference sbetween the thug and burglar, who go armed for the purpose of committing deeds of violence, and the man who carries a weapon for his own protection against such thugs and rob bers."
 The lecturer deplored the necessity for men goin garmed, but said there ought to be some distinction between the reputa- ble, law-abiding citizen and the walking arsenal who goes around with a chip on his shoulder inviting trouble by his con duct.
 The lecturer also referred to our jury system and said that it was the duty of every citizen to take his seat in the jury box and assist in putting the laws into effect "Questions involving the lives, liberty and property of men are daily submitted to juries for decision," said the lecturer, "and it required intelligence to decide these questions. The jury sys- tenn Is Itself on trial, and many men are beginning to lose faith in verdicts rem dered by juries, but the fault Is not in the system, it is in the failure of the 1o at dtffu xxyba ad to take his place in the jury box"
 Colonel Caldwell also criticised the laws that allow children of tender years to work in factories. He called upon the legislature to protect the children, even if the parents refuse to do so
 The lecturer was given marked atten- ton and received warm applause at the conclusion of his remarks.
 Chairman Deedmeyer, in commenting on the lecture, said that in the cotton fac tories in the New England states the question of child labor has been before the legislatures and resulted in the en- actment of laws which established an eight-hour day, the abolition of child la bor and the production of better goods and large profits.
 Capt. Frank P. O'Brien complimented Colonel Caldwell on the lecture and cor reiterated many of his remarks about the jury system. He said if the legislature had adopted the legislation he proposed long ago making &e education of child ren compulsory it would have served to prevent much of the evils resulting from child labor in factories.
 The following was the programme of the evenings exercises:
 The Day of the Lord ............. Kreutzer
 United Singers.
 Soprano Solo ..............-........ SelecteO
 Miss Bessie Cunningham.
 Lecture, "The Irregularities of the law"
 Col. John M. Caldwell.
 Piano Solo ...................... Selected
 Mrs R. w. Newman.
 Duett, Still vie die Nacht" coco. .Goetze MT. B. L. Michaelson and MT. J. B. Luckie
 United Singers.