The national forum., 1910-05-28

Submits the, Providence journal:
Probably the majority OF the saloon
keepers would rather observe the law
than break it, The present perverted
condition will not be overthrow at
once, pernaps it neYe~wiIl| be oyer-
thrown euJirely, Bat sssa 14ayaor
has Certainly taken q st sreR TO-
ward aehiey.ns relorr( Barge con
sequence l
The PhiM 5elghin g4liliter com
plains. A parcel Weighing four Lqu16s
can be sent from Philadelphia to Han
kow, city in the heart of China,
seven or eight hundred miles from
the coast, for AS cents, whereas, the
charge for the transmission of such
a parcel across the Delaware to Cam
den, is GA cents. Moreover, the
weight limit Is four pounds in the
domestic case and eleven pounds in
the other. This is sufficiently absurd
but thus far all attempts to induce
Congress to amend the situation as
common sense and the public con-
,veniencc require have failed.
District Attorney Wayman of Chi
cago, will urge the passage of a law
providing for the simplification Of
the form of indictments. more pow.
er to his elbPw," says the Chicago
Tribune, which adds: "The ease with
which indictments are shot full Of
holes by acute counsel is a public
scandal to justice and a chief cause
of the delay In Furnishing criminals
who have monPy enough to hire acute
counsel and lay for appeals to the
review courts The hall thief may
not profit by this. But the big Grim
inal finds it altogether too easy to
escape the pursuit of justice in the
Jungle Of legal verbiage. One charg-
cd with crime should be informed
in plain and unequivocal terms what
the charge is,"
Impure milk is not cEeap at any
price, insists The Boston Herald. Pro-
testants against the board Of health
order requiring all milk retailed to be
sold In bottles must find some argu-
ment other than the consequent adj
vance in price with which to com.
bat this health regulation If they
would succeed. There is little use
in enforcing sanitary regulations as
to the handling of the milk supply
from the time Of production. through
collection and the earlier phases of
distribution il in the final and wide
ly scattered distributing centers, more
difficult of supervision than the cen
trail depots, the supply is allowed to
be kept in open receptacles, to be
dipped out and handled with no pro-
lection against disease germs. If tho
milk supply requires protection that
protection should be maintained un-
til it reaches the consumer.
Employment OF the so-called third
degree in extracting information
from persons accused Of serious
crime was defended by police Of
ficials at the meeting Of the Ameri-
can Academy of Political and Social
Science in Philadelphia, reports the
Hartford Times. Police Superintend-
ent Baker, of New York City, and
Mai. Sylvester, of Washington, ID. G.,
pronounced the third degree" a
myth, and strongly defended the sharp
questioning Of person charged with
serious offense. They insist that
QI8gGe is no punishment or torture,
llgkr mental or physical, in the pro-
& as generally applied, II it hadn't
a8lI@ for the series Of loaded interro-
B|R|3Sbn B| points hurled at Rertram G.
Ger, the Springfield murderer 1T
|lB t have been a long time before
pnfessed to having committed a
1a fR}Et of felQnies.