Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-07-01
Iona Newspapers
LAWYERS AND JUSTICE.

w. c. Walters is under bond at Co
lumbia. Miss. charged with kidnapping
Robert Dunbar of Opelousas, La.
He does not propose to return to
Opelousas for trial unless he has TO.
In pursuance Of his purpose he has
retained a firm of shrewd lawyers.
These men. according to the Shreve-
port La, Journal, have said that they
will prevent the return of their client
to Louisiana until public sentiment
has died out and perhaps many of the
witnesses will have died. also"
Their plan is simplicity itself. 1t be-
gins with a petition for a writ Of ha-
beas corpus. That is good for five
years, in the opinion of the lawyers.
as they expect to prosecute 1t thru
the United States supreme court. Then,
if beaten, they have other legal tricks
up their sleeves which will be good for
another five years or more. By that
time the boy who was the victim Will
have forgotten his experiences. and
most of the witnesses viii! have passed
away. including the women WHO
tracked the lad and his kidnaper thru
several southern states. And Walters
will then be free if. long before that
time, the charges against him have not
been dismissed.
Now, this plan Of escape is within
the letter of the law. 1t is the usuai
resort of accused persons who nave
money and are not sure OF the Verdlcl'
1t is the thing which has brought law
into question and its administrator
into suspicion. Lawyers can remedy
it. Why don't they?
IN THIS GADDING AGE OF OURS.
LCedar Rapids Republican
This is abe age Of amusements,
exclaimed one observer Of the trend OF
things recently.
Yes, it is the age in which men and
women and even children want TO De
amused. The rest Ia not so important.
Most of us are running about and
gadding about seeing what we can see,
and always looking for that mythical
new thing in the world.
We do not stay at home much. AT
least not as much as we used to do.
Thousands are bored now, II they
have to remain at home all evening.
for instance. They want to have
something going on, or they want to
be going themselves. The streets. the
theaters and the automobiles and mot
orcycles, these are now the homes OIL
the people in vast numbers. There
they spend their time.
When you were boy or girl, If
you are row past 40, or even past 80.
things were different. Then there were
the long evenings at home. There were
the books, the papers-and even the
old almanacs to look at. Home was
cultural influence in those days. 1t
was the place of safety for the young
and the growing
1t is all different now, we repeat.
Many people are bored at the susses-
ton of staying at home. There are
few left who stay at home, lew le1t
who read books, but they are only a
few. The many will be out on the
streets, in the picture shows, or on
the road making the highways dusty
until after midnight.
It's a. fact II will do no harm TO
look at the fact. Perhaps, it will mean
all right for the future. We nave
great deal of faith that humanity mas
virtue enough to work out It's prop
lens from generation to generation.
But there are some who do not nave
so much falkland they are made I'M
happy by what they see going on about
them.