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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1918-12-18
School Made hospital.

Hancock has turned the first floor
Of her school building into an infu-
anZa hospital. It is in charge of
three nurses assisted by four of the
teachers, who have volunteered to
help in any way needed. The equip
ment for the hospital has been loan
ed by the housewives of the town and
the expenses will be met by the bust
ness men. The patients who are able
to pay will gladly do so and those
who are not will be given just as
good care as, tho they we're. At last
reports there were thirteen patients
at the hospital.-Swift County Mont
tor.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1918-12-18

Mrs. Dana Taylor, who had been
visiting her grandparents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Otto J. Olson, has returned to
Willmar
Mrs. H. J. Crooks, Miss Ethel Crooks
and the Misses Clara and Beatrice
Hunter drove to Willmar and called
at the Jas. Sanderson home.-Swift
County Review.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1918-12-18

The restrictions Of the War Indus
tries Board under which we were
obliged to cut off all subscribers in ar
rears has been relaxed, with the re-
commentator, however, that the rules
be adhered to as far as possible.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1918-12-18

Miss Lynnea Ronning left Tuesday
morning for Willmar after a weeks
visit with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
o. P. Ronning.
Miss Louisa Schmidt left Tuesday
for Willmar where she will teach
dressmaking.
Private Jesse Thompson of Willmar
arrived here Monday from Camp
Grant, ILL.,, for a visit with his sister,
Mrs. Chalmer Ford.-Montevideo
News.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1918-12-18

George Sexton, who has been en-
ployed at Willmar, came down from
that city Tuesday on account of Ill
ness.-Litchfield Saturday Review.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1918-12-18

ty. Interment was. made at Norwe-
gian Lutheran Synod cemetery in
Willmar. She will be greatly missed
by all who knew her. ....-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-08

In my thirteen years experience
have not discussed the subject of ex-
IRENE punishment for minors with one
person Of intelligence who. favors it.
The world has progressed too far for
the continuance of such barbaric prac-
tice, and it is the duty of the people to
change the laws so that there will never
again be the need to resort to an appeal
to the Governor for clemency, as in
the Chapman case.
I cannot be too emphatic in declaring
my opposition to the infection Of the
death penalty on sixteen-year-old boy.
CLARICE BARIGHT,
Attorney at Law.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-08
PAULINE FIELD,
Attorney at Loao.
New Outlook for Women

How the public can condone the law
permitting punishment by death Of
sixteenyear-old boy as long as there are
mothers in the land I cannot see. I do
not believe in capital punishment except
in extreme cases. And the use of it
against minors is to me barbarous.
The Tribune is to be congratulated on
the wonderful campaign it has made in
calling the attention of the people Of
the country to such cases. For years in
Justices have been done simply because
people knew nothing about the trials of
obscure men. The only way that mis-
takes can be eliminated is through Just
such campaigns as The Tribune is max
ing for new legislation
We have a new outlook since the war.
In the letters that / receive from worn
ems clubs asking for "work" for the
coming year l find new groupings. The
women do not wish to study the old,
dry, useless subjects to which many Of
them have devoted their time. They
want broader and more active subjects.
They seem to feel a responsibility in
everything that is going on in the world
10 what better work could thew turn
themselves than that of working for the
lives OF boys condemned by the state,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-08
Not Death for Bows

/ am conscientiously opposed to capi.
tai punishment. Still, while it is ths
law believe in it's strict enforcement
unless there are highly mitigating cir.
cumstances. Such circumstances seemed
to me to exist in the case Of the IN.
fortunate Paul Chapman, in whose be.
half widespread intercession was mazda
for executive clemency. I was not will.
ing to sign my name to the published
petitions which left but two courses Of
action open to the Governor. But was
glad to have you add my name to the
list of those who asked communication
of the death sentence, leaving to the
Governors experience and judgment
what other punishment he might deem
suited to the offence, short of execution.
CYRUS TOWNSEND BRADY, ID.
Author Of "T'he S1cord Hand Of Ncpo-
leon," CAS- the Sparks Fly Up1cord"
efr
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-08
Us Stop Electrocuting Children

and treated by modern psychiatric
methods than one that should come I'M
der the criminal law.
do not believe the punishment of
such boy acts as deterrent to other
boys similarly situated, and I consider
that society, which is directly re-
sponsible for their situation, should
take upon itself the duty of dealing
with them by curative rather than punt
tive methods. Their very act is to my
mind prima facie evidence that they
are proper subjects for mental and
moral therapeutics.
This being the case don't see what
right we have to shoot thunderbolt
through them and kick them into the
next world
HENRY MCMAHON PAINTER, MD.
College of Physicians and Surgeons;
New York Nursery aud Childs Hos
pitdl.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-08
What on Earth Shall
We Do With FlorizeIle j.?

Should there then be training school
tor chorus girls, to weed out the fit from
the unfit? Possibly, but who is going t.
finance it? Certainly not the theatrical
managers, who have hundreds Of girls
waiting in their Offices all day long, and
need only pick up the telephone to get
hundred more from the nearest agency.
Moreover, they Go not want ambitious
and intelligent girls; they want raw ma
terial, untroubled with any aspirations.
and they will not take anything else il
they can avoid it. No training schools
for them.
And then, too, it doesn't seem very fair
to the other working girls, who give up
all the fun of youth in order to fit them
selves to be self-respecting members of
society later on, that the chorus girl
should eat her cake and have it, TOO.
Why should she have her fling on the
stage, and then be provided for after
ward by some benevolent organization?
Yet, there she is, year after year,
thousands of her, cluttering up our
streets with her painted face and her
high-heeled slippers-not yet middle
aged, and yet too old, too idle and too
inefficient to get job.
What shall we do with herr "a
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-08
Nonaadic Life
A Complication

Nhorus girls, unlike other classes of
working girl, have few home ties. Their
homadic life soon sewers those they
started out with, and they seem to have
no sense of responsibility toward their
famlles once they have left them. The
girl who happens to hit her home town
while she is on the road is the envy of
all her associates, not so much because
1t is home, but because she gets her meals
Tree. The girls have sense of pride
over not being burden to their families.
out 1t is very seldom one hears of one of
them sending money home, and the atti-
tude OF the little stenographer who saves
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-08
Other girls see a real home in the
fufure-buf not FIorizeHe.

1t with the stage manager" l said one
day, will you understudy Else's part?
You are plenty clever enough to do it,"
Elsie was the second lead and was at
that period threatening to leave the COM
pany at once If the electrician ever spoke
to her again in the ungentlemanly way
he did the night she knocked over the
ambers outside her dressing room door.
And what were they there for, anyway,
she should like to be told?
will you?" said to Florzele, and l
offered to go over the part with her if
she would try it. That is the height of
theatrical friendliness.
"Me understudy that girl?" said Flori-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-08
Law Must Be Revised

! signed the Chapman petition not
because of any knowledge I possess of
the case in question; in fact, I do not
even recall reading of it in the press
My reason for SO doing was based sole
ly on the arguments presented in The
New York Tribune editorials.
Whatever may be said, pro or con,
relative to the viciousness of Paul Chap
man does not, so it seems to me, bear
upon this case of child criminology; but
what is Of concern primarily is that
this public petitioning on the part Of
the citizens of the state should direct
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-08
Concerning the Future
Of Florizelle

What" I demanded sternly another
day, do you intend to do when you are
too old for the chorus?" This was put
ting it brutally, but Florizelle was al
ways match for me. She laid down her
lipstick and REPLIED:
Say, grille, have I got a job in this
show, or am l out of it because too old?"
"No, of course, you're all right now.
butt She continued firmly: did I
show you a letter from Annie Deveraugh
yesterday saying as how she had a place
promised me next to her in the big show
Thrlllingham is putting on just when we
get through with this one?'
| had to confess weakly that / had
seen such letter.
well, them" said Florizelle, with tri
umph, I'm fixed, amt I? Thrillingham
amt sent me any special messenger ask
In about my age. Has he?"
NO." l agreed, weakly, but
Now, you just quit buttin' and cut out
the gloom stuff, and as for me and nv
future, l should worry; now, don't that
seem to you reasonable, dearie?' and
that was as far as I ever could get with
Florizelle, and the stage carpenter said
II told you 500
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-08
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her wages to send younger brother 10
school is one which is unknown in the
annals of the chorus. Perhaps it is this
habit of avoiding responsibilities to
others that makes the chorus girl so un-
willing TO face the burden of her own
future
And the solution is easier to suggest
than to find Should the chorus girl be
made to study trade while she is on TIE
stage? At first sight it seems so. for
after the brief period of rehearsals she
IS free all day except for two matinee
a week
AS matter of fact this is not pra-
teal. The theatre is a business like any
other, big, involved, complicated piece
of human machinery-a game in which
the chorus girls are the pawn. If any
one is late, if anything goes wrong. i
some one is stupid, it is taken out on the
chorus girls. If the rehearsal or the re-
Torrance is postponed, it is thew wAo
SIT around in the damp corridors and
wait. Their time, in the ewes 81 iha
stage manager, is of no value. And lis
hanging around habit does not end ,qhs.
the show is put on. For some reaeLc 49,
other it seems to be necessary par. OF
theatrical life, and that one night APP
pearance manages to absorb every hour
OF the chorus girls waking time, as any
one Will testify who has tried it. Good
intentions avail nothing. You have got
to be on the Job.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-08
A Blot Upon the State

/ am unalterably opposed to the
infction Of the extreme penalty in the
case Of minors. 1t is against all prin-
ciple of upbuilding and civilization, and
is a relic of barbarism. The greatest
opportunities should be given to chill
dren, and they should be helped to be
good and w-abiding citi-:ns. We
seem to be but at the beginning of an
understanding Of our obligations in this
regard.
To have electrocuted Paul Chapman
would have been blot upon the his
tory of New York, which l am sure
every right thinking citizen of the
state would deplore. The great need
is for change in the law, so that the
jurisdiction of the juvenile court will
be raised to eighteen years, and I am
interested in the move to that end now
being urged by the Legislative League
and other clubs and associations, in
Guiding the Federation of Women's
Clubs.
MARY WOOD,
Chairman of Legislation of the General
Federation of Women's Clubs.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-08

ure so constantly before the eyes of the
beginner and the compromise of keenino
job in the chorus so easv and so Meas
ant that the girl who would show aver
age intelligence in any other profession
shows none in this; she becomes stupe-
tied, and then blind, and she cannot seem
TO grasp the fact that this easy, sociable,
gay existence must end when she is twen-
ty-elght-or thirty, if she is lucky.
1t has untitled her for every other oc-
cupatlon there is. One respectable road
only seems open to her-to keep q the
atrical boarding house No one who has
seen the bedraggled ex-chorus women
who still cling to the memories of their
youth by providing rooms for road COM
panies can possibly condone such an end:
and too often the longing for luxury
drives girls to the less respectable alter
native.
Ut course they have had their fun,
and should pay for it, just as the little
stenographer has earned inch bv inch
her claim to comfortable and idle old
age, but the price the chorus girl paws
affects society as well as herself.
In exact ratio as she becomes disrepu-
table does she become a menace to the
community which has to receive her
when the stage casts her off.
The pity of this is that SO long as she
is on the stage she is in eight cases out
OF ten very jolly simple, happy and
honest girl. The average chorus girl
comes either from a family of mechan-
les or small shop keepers in some West
ern town. Sometimes she drifts into It
because she had an uncle who was a
scene shlfter or a cousin who went INTO
the movies and gave her a tip. Some
times it takes nothing stronger than tbe
accident of pretty face and great
dlslnclination for routine work. There
IS nothing more amusing than the fear
1ul ar OF sophistication that the chorus
girl acquires as soon as possible Thew
all copy it from each other. It is onlv
skin deep and covers a wonderful amount
OF innocence and ignorance.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-08

zcllc. "Say, kid, what do you take me
fer? Didn't you hear about her stealing
my soap only yesterday to wash her stock
ngs with? Why, / wouldn't associate
with her-an' when | asked her she says:
How can you prove it's your soap"
What d'ya know about that, askin' me
can | prove | know my own cake of
soap?" And Florizelle whistled so loudly
for the next ten minutes, from pure ex-
cltement, that conversation was out of
the question.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-08
An Eternal Disgrace

In the name Of humanity and justice
we felt compelled to appeal for Paul
Chapman. That this boy, minor,
should have been sentenced to death is
an eternal blot and disgrace on the fair
name of the State of New York. 1t
seems incredible that modern civil
cation would permit the execution of a
child for any offence.
FLORENCE p. EAGLETON,
President, Wonen's Political Union of
Neaoark, aVith 1900 members.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-08
economic Problems Of Fl0riz elle-Ch0rus Cir

shirt sleeves, he says sternly to one group,
"You are short girls"; and to the other
group, which includes US, he says, "You
are tall girls" after which we are jerked
out of this group into a sub-group of
dark girls, as opposed to light girls.
Thus the whole brutal truth is made
clear to you once and for all; you are
tall-dark, nothing more, nothing less
That horrid chunky girl with the mole
is small-light, and that's ali the diff
ference there is between you, as you will
know only too we'll before the show is
over. No matter what your we'll mean
ing friends and mirrors tell you after
this. 1t is no use. You know what you
are; you are tall-dark, so why fuss?
''My Face Is My Future, Sir"
She Said
AS her face is her fortune, one would
think that the chorus girl, having got
such a true perspective OH that face,
would get one ON her future, too,
but she never does. This is her great
weakness, and it's why she is becoming,
more than any other class of girl,
grave economic problem.
The little factory girl who gets $18
week thinks ahead and saves, hard as
her life is.
The stenographer who sits all day in
one monotonous office for $18 a week
thinks ahead and saves.
The chorus girl who sings and dances
for few hours night gets $25 week
for doing it, saves nothing and does not
look ahead at all. Why?
found out why by having once upon
a time a chorus girl for a friend. Her
real name she never gave out, but re-
ferred to it dimly as though it were
family heirloom. Her stage name was
Florzelle Du Bots, in spite of the fact
that she was Belgian by BIRTH Her
hair curled in tight gold rings all over
her head, and it was impossible to tell
her age. She was a short-light, and it
was a cause Of great establishment to
the company that I, being a tall-dark,
should have selected her as a travelling
companion; for sort Of natural affinity
causes you, as a rule, to stay with the
T. DIS once you have been put there, and
IL it is road company you are expected
to double up on sleeping berths and hotel
bedrooms with one of your own kind.
This is because there is good deal of
social rivalry between the small-lights
oy1H fh0 toll lo,-I
matter of stature; it springs from far
deeper tradition.
The tall-darks and lights are Show
Girls. That is, their job is to stand
around and exhibit on their persons the
Clothes which make up the Cast of tn.
Show. The small-lights and -darks, on
the contrary. handle the steps; that is to
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-08
The Crimes of Youth

l am in complete accord with you
upon the noble stand which you have
taken against capital punishment for
minors. 1t is hard, indeed to treat
children as men, when in many in
stances they are really not responsible
for the consequences of their msdeeds
There is physical transition which
takes place in the growing youth who
suddenly finds his strength and begins
to know things of which he has hithcr-
to been ignorant. When the child at
tains this awkward age he is apt, in
the heat of his youth, wildly, almost
ignorantly, to commit crime Many
children in these conditions just es-
cape through sheer luck, because their
misdeeds happen to miss fire, Many Of
even the worst of these children are
tempted by the offer of little money
to commit murder which the dastardlv
coward who gives it is afraid to exc
cute. Often the wild children who
grow into mellowed manhood become
the best citizens of the land.
Can child really know what are the
ledl consequences OF MS act, even
though he has murder in his heart?
Would he not, when he attained man
hoods estate, forever regret the hor
rors of his crime?
After all, we should judge those
most sternly who coo11y and studiously
commit crimes after having attained the
full maturity of years.
Capital punishment must remain as
a deterrent to full grown men, but
children should be given the merciful,
human chance to do better when they
know better
ALBERT OTTINGER,
NcV Yorh State Senator.
Juvenile Court Jurisdiction
1t is beyond my jurisdiction to criti-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-08
No Death Penalty

There can be no fault found with the
courts, for it is the province of the
courts to say what the law is, not what
it should be- But it is high time there
was an amendment to the juvenile
court law which would preclude another
trial like the case of Paul Chapman. I
am most decidedly opposed to the in
fiction of the death penalty-cspecial-
ly so in the case of minor I would
have considered the execution Of Paul
Chapman a blot on the history of the
State of New York
ROSE FALLS BRES,
1fiOlr0ll al nln
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-08

else sentence imposed by any fellow
justice
However, feel that in general the
jurisdiction of the Juvenile court should
be extended at least to eighteen years
for girls and seventeen for boys
was willing to sign the Chapman
petition asking for clemency.
FRANKLIN CHASE HOYT,
Presiding Justice, Childrcm's Court of
the City Of Ncap York.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-08

The People Of the State OF New York. rep
fellows:
Section l. Section 2lss Of the Penal Law
IS hereby amended to read follows:
Section 2lSs: Sentence Of Minors 70 I'm
priSonment.-Where male person between
the ages Of sixteen and twenty-one years T.
convicted Of felony or where the term Of
Imprisonment of male convicted for felony
is fixed by the Trial Court at one scar or jess.
the court may direct the convict 10 ho I'm
prisoned in a County Penitentiary. Instead oi
a State Prison, in the County Jail located
in the County where sentence is imposed A
(minor) OF more than seven and less than
(efghteen) years of age who shall commit an
act or omission which. If committed 1or
omitted) by adult would be q crime. shall
not be deemed guilty of any crime but of
juvenile delinquency only. but any other par
son concerned therein, whether as PRINCIPAL Or
accessory. who otherwise would be punishable
as principal or accessory. shall be punishable
as a principal or accessory in the same man
ner as if such child were over (eightsent
years of age at the time the crime vas com
mitted. Any child charged With any &C. o.
omission, which may ronder him guilty or
juvenile delinquency. shall he dealt with in The
same manner as now Is or may hereafter be
provided in the case Of adults charged with
the same act or omission. except as specially
provided heretofore in the case of children
under the age Of (eighteen) years
Section :. This act shall take effect imne.
diately.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-08
Essentially Wrong

l believe the laws should be changed
so that the inf1iction of the death pen
atty on sixteen-year-old boy would
not be possible. 1t is essentially wrong.
1t is against good principles and good
morals.
1t does not advance the cause of the
good of the community, because IL
serves to brutalize, and I cannot say
too strongly how much / abhor the very
idea.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-08
Reforming Florizellc,
Short-Light

Perhaps | would never have had
aroused her amusement at the beginning
of the tour by contidng to her that when
ever we had three-night stands in big
cities meant to get up early, in order to
visit points of interest. She giggled a
great deal over this.
Say, grille" she said, how do you get
like that?" She herself had soiourned in
all the great cities of Europe and had
successfully escaped seeing anything at
all Ill any of them except the restaurants,
and, as she pointed out, there was no
need Tor me to get up early to find those,
because she knew them all and would
take me.
The stage carpenter, who had travelled
In show out West in which Florizelle
figured, advised me to let we'll enough
alone, and said in plain terms that I
didn't know what / was I'D against trv-
ing to reform that kid. But thought I
did, and Florizelle didn't seem to mind
at all, so | went right ahead, and it was
not till this had gone on for some weeks
that | began to see that the reason going
ahead with Florizelle was so easy was
because | never got anywhere. She was
very elusive.
"Florizelle," l used to say, "have you
ever tried to be anything but chorus
girl?"
"Nope," said Florizelle, beading her
eyelashes.
but don't you want to get on? Aren't
you ambitious?" At which point Flori-
zelle would give the gayest and most
dimpling of laughs and say tolerantly:
Jaw, lay off me, dearie; lay off me-"
But | never would lay off. of fix
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-08
Ancient Barbaric Rite

| am deeply interested in the Chap
man case. In the extensive investiga-
tions made by the Sage Foundation we
have had the benefit of actual results
of research in child welfare. In the
light of such educative illumination the
infliction Of extreme punishment in the
case of young people seems part of an
ancient barbaric rite.