Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1913-05-08

Watertown, became husband and wife
Fate said then and there: This lad
has made good in court. I will make
him a %jurist." And Fate made good
its W pledge.
The happy young couple after their
romance, came back to Waterfowl,
where Mr.. Carpenter accepted a posi-,
ton as clerk in a drug store. So We'll
did he apply himself that he was soon
able to pass the examination and be-
came a registered pharmacist. Later
he bought a drug store of his own.
However in 1905 he sold out and went
to the University Of Minnesota, where
he took his law course. In October,
1904, he passed his bar examination
and Immediately thereafter he and
Frank McNulty formed a partnership
at Sisseton for the practice of law.
1t sounds like fiction to say that in
side of four years each of these two
attorneys found their way to the cir
cult bench.
At the end of the first year of their
partnership, Attorney Carpenter was
appointed register of the land office at
Lennon. He accepted the position.
Its location threw him into a new field
So when the twelfth judicial circuit
comprising a number OF newly organ
lied counties in the northwest palt
Of the state was formed, Governor
Wesley appointed Mr.. Carpenter to
the bench. The appointment came
unsolicited; he accepted. Fate had
Won
AS a student Of criminology, the
judge belongs exclusively as we'll as
inclusively to the new school of thot
that is to say, to the reformation Of
the criminal instead of merely to his
punishment. But you say he tried
this reformation at Webster and fail
ed. True; but in 80 other cases he
would perhaps have won. "Some men
are born criminals, some achieve
crime and others have criminality
thrust upon them" We beg to di-
gress long enough to suggest that If
the legislature were to enact a law
authorizing the paroling of convicts
in u ~penitentiary, except life-term-
ers, on the basis of attained freedom,
II they remained harmless during
their paroles, and if they did not. that
they would undergo imprisonment for
the u%nexpired portions of their terms,
but would in addition thereto, have
to serve their original sentences sll
over again, that not to exceed one
per cent of them would go wrong. The
theorist says, "a lot of them are born
criminals and they are serving their
second or third terms now" Very
well; the trouble is here: We need
a lot of employment whose business
it shall be to see that good remuner-
alive employment is found for each
dismissed convict before he leaves the
prison doors, and not thrust him into
a cruel competitive world to make a
living sewing buttons onto shirts
when there is no other shirt factory
within a thousand miles, and when it
is a woman's job at best. Yes; we
have something to learn, and Judge
Carpenter is on the right track.
While Judge Carpenter was in the
drug business at Watertown, he was
appointed adjutant of the old first
regiment, S. D. N. G., which position
he occupied for two years. Then he
was promoted to major of the squad
ron Of cavalry. He served in this
position for three years, but gave it
up when he entered law school. Clay
makes an ideal military officer. He is
happy but firm, and he possesses that
uncommon kind of common sense
which makes it possible for him to
handle all kinds of men without fric-
ton.
The home life of Judge and Mrs.
Carpenter has been blessed by the
presence of thirteen1year-old Cyrus,
Jr., and by two Of the sweetest twin
girls that ever entered life. Their
names are Doris and Dorothy, and
they are now eight years of age.
The Judge has an exceptionally
pleasing personality. He makes
friends readily; and he is SO demo
cratic in his habits and vet so culti-
waited in his mannerisms that all wLo1
know him love him. He is an Al
tinker, and w shall look for his
rapid rise to a position Of even more
prominence and power within the
next few years.-o. w. coursey, in
the Argus-Leader.