The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-03-05

dill ain uS6m0nC concern IN the
West, and who is. now in a Western
Federal prison, and after you read
the reason why, you may hope he
will be permitted to rcmain there
for an indefinite period.
The man had married a young
Jewish girl of the Orthodox faith,
and he was not of that faith. The
girls parents were bitterly resent
full, and the couple went away, the
man evidently with a job that would
support the wife and himself with
out her having to add to the family
bread box by her labor.
Hard times fell on them, and the
man lost his job; he could find no
work, and he suggested the wife see
what she could do. She was unsuc-
cessful in her efforts, also, and he
tried again-for her.
He found a job, and he insisted on
her taking it-as cook and maid of
all work. in a house in the ere
stricted district" eve have to be so
careful how we call a spade a shovel,
these days.) Evidently the girl was
decent, and she rebelled at working
there when she found out the sort
OF place it was; whereat the husband
tool upon himself the authority so
many men have inherited from the
Stone Age ancestors, and he beat
her, beat her hard and plenty, till
she was willing to go back and make
living for him, and which one may
suppose was not altogether from the
cooking and maid of all work de-
partment-in house of that sort
In some way, the girl got word
to her parents, and they promptly
came to, her rescue; that is one good
thing I always liked about Jews Of
the Orthodox Faith: if you hit one,
you have the whole band of them
down on you, and they will settle
for their number who has suffered
The girls parents took her home
and when he story was learned, they
. took the matter up with the authori-
ties, and things began to happen,
the last of which put the husband
in the Federal prison A petition is
being circulated for his pardon, on
what grounds it would be hard for
one to imagine, but it is earnestly to
be hoped that every Jew in the U. S.
Will combat every effort ever made
to get that flend out Of where he is.
According to Senator Ramsdell, of
Louisiana, woman who has suf-
fered as that woman did at the hands
of man who had promised God
and man to care for her, must con-
tinue to live her life with him-sim-
ply because she did not know where
she was going to land when she mar
ried him; according to the Louisiana
Senator (Whom it is needless to say
is Roman Catholic) once a woman
is married, she must stay married
If it ever happens, that the Law
will compel a woman to live with
drunken, abusive, immoral, shiftless
man, degrading herself and the
children she may bring into the
world, then the penitentiaries will
be filed to overlooking with women
who preferred living death in
prison, to living hell with some
thing that was only the semblance of
a man.
We are growing entirely too pater-
nal in our attitude, in regard to the
home and the inmates. Let such
restrictions be placed upon marriage
as shall debar the. unfit-and this
doesn't mean that eugenics will
solve it, by great deal. Education
along the right lines, restoration
of the old-fashioned home, where a
mans house was his castle and his
wife the queen, and we wont have