The Sentinel=record., 1914-03-24

see to it that malice, jealousy, hatred,
 prejudice and ill-will toward any per
 son CT persons under investigation is
 hanished from his mind and heart as liar as the east is from the west. I1~ ios and partisanship have no place in the grand jury room. Your
 duty under the law and under your
 oatAs should be your polar star, your pillar of cloud by day and your pillar
 of fire by night. In the discharge of
 this duty you will, however exercise your judgment, your reason and your
 common sense, neither of which you
 are to leave behind you, when you go
 into the jury room.
 "The duties with which you are
 charged under the law are prescribed
 in the oath which you have taken to
 diligently inquire of and present all treasons, feionies, misdemeanors and breaches of the peace laws over which Iyou have jurisdiction. of which you have knowledge or may receive infor. nation
 Treason against the state shall con. sist only in levying war against the state or adhering to its enemies, giv- ing aid and comfort.
 "A public offense is any act or omis- sion for which the law has prescribed a punishment.
 Public offenses are felonies and uisdemeanors,
 "A felony is an offe1se of which the punishment is death, or confinement in the penitentiary.
 "All other public offenses are mis- demeanors.
 "Mr George w. Alger who has written a series of articles on orr American judicial system, quotes a Kansas judge as follows:
 "'Our justice of the peace courts are mere fee mills, in which unscrupu- lous collectors or mediocre attorneys, Iwith more or less connivance of jus tice, harrass poor debtors and others in variety of ways, sometimes secur- ing the payment of honest claims. band at other time extorting dishonest ones, but always making fees to run the mill
 Whether public gambling is being carried on in this city at the present time I do not know. Persistent ru- mors have reached me from time to time that such is the case. As a re- suit of some investigations made by 1 the Young Mems Chamber of Com. merce I was requested by our sheriff to meet certain gentlemen with a view of running some of these rumors down, and ascertaining whether there was any foundation for them. I do not know whether anything ever re- suited from this conference or not. but Sheriff Williams assured me that he was ready to go at any time, nigat or day, and to use every effort in his power to suppress gambling, if he could secure any definite information as to where it was being carried on. Some persons have called my atten ton to the fact that nearly all of the gambling clubs have been transformed into cabarets; that in some instances rooms adjoining or having a close con- nection with these cabarets have been rented by and are under the control of those who formerly conducted gam bling houses. Some have commented on the fact that there are some well known faces on guard at the doors of these cabarets, or at other places where gambling was at one time car. ried on; that there are quite a num- Der of well known gamblers in our city at the present time, who may or may not be here for their health alone I have also heard that there are some crooks and confidence men here, for may be no significance attached to any one of these facts or alleged facts, but when taken together they are enough to place us on guard. and to cause us to get busy to avoid a repetition of last years experience It has been said that eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, and 1t may just as truthfully be said that eternal vigil lance is the price of law enforcement. Now is critical time in the history of Hot Springs. If the people who be- lieve i1 a clean town, who believe in law and order and proper protection being afforded to the visitor permit or tolerate a bunch of gamblers and crooks to operate once more in our fair city, all of our efforts in the past will go for naught, and the law will become a despised thing, hiss and byword. I sincerely hope that this grand jury will probe these rumors to the bottom. and take such action as the circumstances justify or warrant"
 Speaking particularly of the "white slave act" Judge Gotham said on this subject:
 "The supreme court in the recent case of State vs. Boyle. said of this act:
 The statute Is comprehensive in f.. t.o afo r.t