The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-02-01
syIIabicaIIy Considered.


Inc sentence OF an aut0lnoDlllSt at new
ark to a year and a half in the p%eniten-
tiary, for the reckless killing Of a man-in
the street, should lave a SOLDERING effect
upon the people who rush theit motor cars
along the public highways without regard
to the safety of others. This was a typ
ical case. The man in the car had no evil.
Intent. He appears 10 n been partly
intoxicated, and after he had run down his
victim he proceeded at undiminished speed
until checked by collision with a wagon.
Then he disappeared and was not appre-
heuded until some time later. His counsel
pleaded for leniency, but the judge rightly
informed the culprit that his "recklessness
supplied the place of the evil or criminal
intent required TO constitute a criminal
aet,'' and made him responsible under the
criminal law for m~anslaughter. He will
probably be held responsible also under
the civil law, but n suit for damages can-
not have the same exemplary, effect as this
conviction and sentence. The exposition
of the law seems sound and is earnestly
commended to the thoughtful attention Of
all 'scorchers. "-Phlladelphia Ledger.
Merited Punishment.
There are Judges in New Jersey. A dem
fist who, while intoxicated one day ,ast
September, drove a high-power automobile
down Broad street, in Newark, killed ono
man and endangered many persons, mas
been sentenced to spend eighteen months
in the nenitentiary, and to pay all costs.
In sentencing the offender, Judge Ten
Eyck, of the Court of Quarter Sessions,
did not express deep sorrow at having to
perform a painful duty. On the contrary,
he said; Such conduct was notlonly the
extreme, OF. disregard for the safety Of
others and a cowardly violation of com
mon deceDcy, but your recklessness sup
piled the place of the evil or criminal in
tent required to constitute a criminal act
and makes you responsible under the
criminal law for manslaughter."
Should judges in other parts of the coun-
try take the same view of a serious offense
the sale of automobiles might rapidly in
crease. thanks to the elimination of the
criminal driver and the dangers which his
outrageous conduct creates. Law-abiding
alltomobilists whose unselfishness and te-
spect for human rights have not been i'm
paired by the purchase of new cars might
well give Judge Ten Eyck an engrossed
vote of thanks for having refrained from
letting the culprit off with a fine and a
reprimand.-New York Tribune.
Coordination in Jersey.
They are progressive in New Jersey. So
they call it progress there because Peddie
Institute in that State has abandoned CO.
education, after a more or less faithful trful
of it. Hereafter 1t will take only boys and
there will be nc women In the faculty.
The NEWARK STAR commends this
action, remarks that boys will be boys
and girls will be girls and that there is
no blending the nature of the one with
that of the other in their academic train
Ing. It adds: As for our girls, nobody
wants them to be mannish. The more
truly feminine a woman is the more at
~tractixe she is. The happiest marriages
end the happiest homes are those in which
the woman is wholly a woman. Co-educa =
ton has been Objectionable to young men
in all institutions in which 1t has been in
vogue, mot because of any prejudice
towards the sex, but from an instructive
sense of it's unfitness in the scheme of edu-
cation.
Curiously enough, the girls haven't had
the instructive sense of unfitness that the
STAR ascribes to the boys. They have
seemed to think c~o-education both useful
and pleasant, and have often showed their
appreciation of it by snatchlng the. prizes
away from the manly boys. But 1t is a
big question, end just now there seems to
be a turn against the girl part of co-edu-
cation-New Haven Journal-Courier