The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-05-07

lon has heen practically broken f.
and if its victims get into the cttv 4.
Panama they must Come in ~.
boats or must journey OVERLAND
Either course is a difficult one. p
ticaIiy all the ships coming into Par
anna on the Pacific side make pos
Balboa. the Zone harbor. and " ~.
vent 'undesirables' from landing IF
such ships. A short time AGO ~
rested a white-slave trader and
cured his conviction on the charge
having violated in the Canal zone
'white-slave' law. and he was s..
fenced to twenty-one months irp-,-
onment in the zone penitenuarl
Culebra. He had plenty Of none
and by the aid Of co~nfederates 5a
the outside he was enabled To Ste
his way u and escaped. W. cans
tured him. however. on a boat r.t
the Colombian coast. On his ret.r
to prison he expressed his DISCUS
with The Canal Zone; he said he hta
been in the 'white-slave' trade for
more than wenty years. had operat-
ed in many countries. and he l4t
been able to fix matters with puhll
officials everywhere but here. ~
regarded that statement as quite
compliment to official conditions
here
"A oOfu ABOUT the (OuftS.
How about the courts Of Tn,
Sam down here?"
We hav a good judiciary. Thera
are district courts, circuit courts ani
a supreme court. We have a counsel
and chief attorney, prosecuting attor-
ney and an assistant prosecuting at
tOrney. n a number of attorneys
have been admitted to practice III tha
various courts. Last year between
five and six thousand riminal cases
were handlae and over 1000 Of tho
defendants were convicted. About
1900 civil cases were handled. most
of these being of a minor character"
Public Works and the Schools.
What other divisions are there in
the department Of civil administra-
tion?"
Several. We inspect all vessels
coming into zone waters, and this
work is performed by a board of in
spectors. There is also a division of
posts. customs and revenue Our pos
tai service issues money orders to thu
amount of over $1,000. 900 a year
We are now installing a postal say
ings system. Annually, between sixty
and seventy thousand mail pouches
and sacks are handled on the railway
which runs across the iSthmus. W.
collect all taxes and issue all licenses.
mere are some saloons on the zone.
n the men who conduct them pay
a license Of 500 a mont each. Sa
looms are run mostly by Chinese, and
are orderly places. Our division ~
fire protection will. l believe. compar
in efficiency with any in the States.
Then we have a division Of public
works, which operates not only in the
zone. but also maintains the water.
street and systems in the cities
Of Panama n Colon and collects al
the water entails Of these cities. the
same going to repay the United States
5 for the cost Of constructing these sys
TENS. We also nave a zone treasurer
and a ION auditor. And there IS the
division Of schools, which provides
l educational facilities for children 81
the zone equal to those provided in
the best graded schools Of the States
We ave a high school at Gatun, To
? which children from all zone point,
t are transported by railroad. and \
. subsidiary high school at Ancon. In
deed. we LAY all the branches which
l are characteristic Of a territorial GOV
ernment.'
FRANK G.. CARPENTER.