The Penn's Grove record., 1917-04-27
DUFFY A REFORMER
Rough Necks Get Deserts.
Weak Unfortunates Given
Advice and Sympathy

Here's to Judge" Duffy. May his
tribe increase,
Solomon was credited with great wis
dom. acumen and a keen diseernment of
human nature for his day. but he never
ran up against the bunch Of derelicts
which Squire Duffy has to diagnose and
pass judgment upon about every seven
days in the week.
Penns Grove for the past two or three
years has been like a newly-discovered
gold field. attracting along with the
thousands of solid outstanding men who
are employed in the powder plants. a
raft IF irresponsible hangers-on. birds
If prey. men who have no regard for
law common decency or the respect and
good will Of their fellow men. Every
day Squire Duffy passes Judgment on a
bunch Of this class and many of his litE
lie dissertations flung in the faces of
these rough-necks are classics. He.
knows by intuition just what sort of
flesh and blood he is talking to and he
also known how to say it.
Say, what's your right name" he SAYS
10 the first victim. 1T doesn't matter.
though. Stand up. You were brought
in here last night ossifed drunk. You
came over from Wilmington after load
ing up with rum that must have tasted
ike "A torchlight procession going down
your throat and then you wobbled thru
Penns Grove thinking you owned the
place. Now you are nothing but a low
down bum and don't own anything and
| want You to understand that you can't
get your miserable carcass soaked with
booze and run amuek here. 1t don't go.
You are good for nothing and never will
be. If my dog bit you I'd kill him. for
he wouldn't be worth shucks afterwards.
You don't belong in Penns Grove and
YOU shan't stay here. Your fine is
$3.50 and it is the further order of this
court that you get out of this town and
stay out. If any officer brings you IN
here again | win send you to Trenton on
general principles. Don't think this IS
a joke. for / can easily rake up enough
against your miserable life to give you
forty years. Now go before / say some
thing harsh to YOU"
SO much for that one. and the next
and the next are no better. some of them
even worse. 1t takes a Judge" Duffy
to handle this cattle. sympathy or SEN
timent is wasted upon them.
Next man. Joe Evinrude. Stand up.
Well, you're here again. Ell? Last night
it tool two officers to carry your limp
carcass in here. yet only a little while
before You were able to go home and
nearly beat the life out of Your wife.
You went to Salem and loaded up with
the kind Of courage they sell to buns
ike you and then turned in and took it
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Won can't do that any more. You're
through. From here you meander down
To Salem under escort. there to remain
until a jury fixes up things and then the
court will provide for some of your fu-
ture spare time. We don't want you
here and won't have you; your wife
don't want you and it viii sure be some
time before | see you again, but if l
ever do. heaven help YOU
What's the use of assembling with
such carrion? Long experience has
convinced the Judge that itAG a waste
Of time to minee words with them and
he lets them have it straight from the
shoulder. His wisdom and good judg-
ment in handling these rough-necks has
resulted in making the town reasonably
safe for respectable. law-abiding people.
Plenty of ordinarily steady. hard work.
ing men break away from the monOton-
ous grind at times in a moment of weak
ness and are brought before the
Judge These are dealt with in the
spirit of sympathy and l~eniency for I'M
intentional error. counseled to brace up.
he men. return to work and cut out the
INK that sets them going wrong.
fEharafg pnapr- a cannon nraaghad n
Judge Dufry's court and Billy sun
day could get some pointers from them.