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New-York tribune., 1918-05-12
HAT THE LAW ALLOWS EIECTROCUTlNG Chill DRFN

the guardian. Yet when they do wrong thew
are considered old enough to bear full re-
sponsibility for their wrongdong without the
protection of guardian, and to pay for it
the price of life itself
One of these children is John Kushnieruck.
Russian. He ran away from home at sixteen and
came here with no knowledge of our language.
While he was trying to find work he fell in
with criminal companions, who told him that
it was impossible to get a job without good
clothes, and that the only way to get good
clothes was to steal them. He was caught in
the theft and sent to Emra Reformatory, but
released within the minimum time for good
behavior.
His companions however, had not lost their
influence over him, and before long he was
implicated in a drunken brawl, during which
an innkeeper at Elizabethtown, in Essex Coun-
ty was shot to death. John was convicted of
the murder. He was eighteen years old. He
has been sentenced to die in the electric chair
on Thursday, May 16.
There is no special sentimental appeal in
this case. The boy is not typical victim;
he is not a boy who can be said to
lie suffering from his first mistake. There are
only two things in his favor-his youth and
his ignorance. And the question is not whether
or not he was guilty Of the crime; the question
is whether it is fair to fasten the RESPONSE
bilty OF such a crime upon one so young and
so pitifully handicapped
The other case is more appealing. 1t is that
OF Paul Chapman boy without criminal
record, who has been convicted Of murder
on circumstantial evidence in the face Of
proof that ne was never in the house where
the crime took place.
The main facts are familiar to newspaper
readers:
On October 10, 1917, witnesses said,
n'neteen-year-old boy. Hughes Davis, 1iving
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12
By FRANCES DUNCAN MANNING

but, mother!" I heard three-year-old
Bostonian demonstrate as his parent dragged
him away from some forbidden joy-"but,
mother, what is the park FORE"
There is no damage the babies could do to
the grass that could not be counterbalanced
by good soaking, such as it rarely gets, ap-
piled after the manner familiar to every SUBJ
urbanite That is the hose is laid down on
the grass, allowed to run, and shifted when
one place is thoroughly wet to another site. 1
have seen policeman hale adventurous babies
from the sacred grass of Washington Square.
Must look after the grass" says he And this
was during three weeks drought in blazing
summer, weeks during which that same sacred
grass was given never drop of water to help
it through, although all the time the nearby
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12

dren? Or are the conditions with which we
surround them such as to make them unfit to
cope with life? And if the conditions that
surround them are so bad that they become
CRIMINALS before they are old enough to sign
a contract cast vote, should they or So
clety bear the burden of what they do?
There is another question the New Citizen
would like to ask: When will public prosecu-
tors cease to feel that the office requires them
to secure convictions, and become convinced
instead that its object is to obtain justice?
Paul Chapmans has been appealed and
new trial with another Judge and jury will
be asked for in the Appellate Court But
there is no money back of him-his mother
works Tor living, and has said that for this
reason she has been only "half- time mother"
and perhaps has not done all she might for
her boy. And we all know that capital pun
lshment is penalty exacted chiefly of the
poor. Besides, it is difficult now, in the face
OF the wholesale slaughter in Europe, to arouse
interest in saving single life. Human life
has been cheapened.
But principles of justice and humanity
should endure. They will remain after this
war is over.
Don't let the Boche make Boche of you
II you feel that a boy who in everything else
is infant under the law should not pay
mans price, and more than a mans usual
price, for a crime there is strong likelihood he
never even thought of committing and
say it to Governor Whitman. Write to US and
let US print your letter on this page. Write
to the boys lawyer, Matthew w. Wood, at 233
Broadway, and let him add the weight Of your
plea to his own.
When John Kushnieruck goes to the electric
chair, on May 16, for a crime he was charged
with when he was eighteen-and nothing short
Of miracle can save him now-remember
that though you can do nothing for him, it Is
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12

men who obviously do not know how to make
the best of their lives
A woman commissioner would suggest the
establishment of an outdoor clinic held at GER
tain hours in the park, detail an expert
psychologist who would send one man to a
hospital, another to convalescent home, and
third to cure for alcoholism Another needs
the public library, or perhaps a free evening
school; many should be directed to the munich
pal employment bureau. This method would
not only clear the park benches of undesira-
bes, but would be as we'll very direct social
service, protection to others in the park
During the summer months woman park
commissioner would see to it that the physi-
clans who in terrn-time inspect the school chill
dren should inspect the children who mingle
freely in the small parks, to insure that no
transmissible disease is present to be carried
from sick to healthy children.
There are plenty of other things that a
woman would do with each of the little parks;
these are few of the things, she would do
first.
"But this sort of thing is not done!w saws
the male voter. "Parks are not treated in this
fashion-a park is asphalt and iron benches
@~AA" q iAv'O uOOeIy, DIS IL always mas Deen-
not community centre!"
NY dear sir, you do not understand the
workings of the feminine mind woman
may be indirect in dealing with men; she is
directness itself in dealing with problems. She
has serene disregard of political precedent
Besides, if few ultra-radcal souls had not
centuries ago undertaken the unheard of task
OF crossing the Atlantic, what would this, our
United States, be now?
Arnold Bennett illustrates we'll the feminine
method of tackling problem. A good woman,
ne says, once wished her husband to change
his style of hat.
"But my dear!" he protested, "I have al
ways worn this kind of hat. ! could not DOS
sibly wear soft hat!"
Whereat she marched him to a hatterie.
where hat after hat was tried on his reluctant
head until at last she was suited She gave
the offending tile to shop attendant and
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12

marched her husband
out again wearing on
his head the hat he re-
peatedly had said he
couldn't wear.
"There, now, you see
how impossible it isl"
she said triumphantly.
So with the parks.
Give women a chance
at them and they will
invest them quickly with
a certain lovable hu-
manness and adapta-
tion to the human de-
mand about them.
Instead of the pres
ent ready-made, cast
iron quality which is
stamped on all alike,
they will acquire a
wholly new charm and
attractiveness, each diff.
ferent from the other,
as the needs of the diff
ferent commu n itie S
vary.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12

81 ME law of New York State permits the
electrocution of child seven years old!
When q child commits crime for
/ saicn the penalty for an adult is less than life
/ Mapr1sonment or death he does not suffer the
ss1 penalty of the law. This provision is
i 1sae IN the juvenile delinquency act of 1909,
! nieh reads as follows:
child of more than seven and less than
sAA'sen years of age who shall commit any
I ~ or omission which, if committed by an
sault, would be crime not punishable by
/ ssaln or life imprisonment, shall not be deemed
ssnlya 's' wv ~ 'N' ~'-'o '>'''A'S
i, 0us II the child has killed some one, and
sa0's 50 IS proof that he has sufficient capacity
uuoerstand the act or neglect charged
sesaast nlm and to know it's wrongfulness"-
vs'er words, if his mother has taught him
8. - Zen Commandments and told him it is wrong
aal--he may pay the full penalty, even if
k only seven years old. And the penalty
Ts murder in this state is death.
0uL the casual reader will say, "surely, no
~. would invoke the extreme rigor of the
1 = impose the death penalty upon child"
h Just this very thing is done, and done
lsntiy. Two children are now in the death
ss,ss = Sing Sing, under sentence of electro
I'M sn.s They are each over seven years old,
|lI, ssue, but legally they are infants. They
IN. t yet old enough to vote, to make bind
Sps 4 tfacts, to contract marriage. For
~ s..s sVn action by or against them guard
~ oe appointed by the court, and the
Court must approve all the acts Of
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12

Suffrage Party
sHSHE only way we can profit from women's
+ ] votes is by keeping them honest And
in order to be honest they must be in
dependent Of the parties even when they are
within the parties.
4 By that mean that a woman who is regu-
larly enrolled Democrat should feel under no
i obligation to vote a straight Democratic ticket
at election if any candidate selected at the pri-
4 mary is one of whom she does not approve.
i made this statement in a speech one day
! not long ago and was amazed when the speaker
who followed me, a man who had seemed in
perfect accord with my principles throughout
I the suffrage campaign, opposed everything I
had said He maintained that loyalty to the
party Of which one is a member is the first
duty-that because we live in democracy
] ruled by the majority it is necessary to abide
by the will OF the majority even in the selec-
J ton of a candidate at primary and to vote
at election for that candidate whether one ap-
proves of him or not, simply because he has
been chosen
: That apparently is the point of view of the
Z typical party man, accustomed for years to
constant compromise with conditions he feels
be cannot wholly change. Women, coming
into politics with code of ethics still uncloud-
Cd by the necessity of having to do the expe-
dent instead of the ideal thing, should have
the courage to be Independent. So want to
repeat one of the slogans of your New Citi-
Rn's page: Use your party; don't let 1t use
you'
We are justified in expecting great deal of
the ballots cast by middle-aged women at this
next election. The new votes we have always
pad before were those representing the un-
baked opinions of the lad Of twenty-one This
time we will have the fresh votes of seasoned
minds. combining with wisdom of years all the
: Youthful enthusiasm and vigor that come with
anew experience.
ought to be a wonderful election
K. E. TIFFANY.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12

Now, however, the mothers who push the
baby carriages also voters. They begin
to wonder at benches vigorously divided off so
that sleepy three-year-old cannot possibly
stretch out and take nap but has to be laid
in a carriage, draped across another sound
asleep baby, while his legs and heavy little
head dangle uncomfortably. For the unsteady
babies there is the dusty asphalt to tumble on,
while the grass that their little feet couldn't
possibly hurt is inexorably kept from them.
Little children seem to have a primitive, pas
sionate longing to run on the grass, and
as far as meeting the human need goes, moth
ing could be more cynical than the sight of
heavy-footed park attendant walking about in
the sacred grass space spearing dandelions
with his sharp-pointed stick, while the babies
look yearningly through the bars and some
times wriggle desperately across to get nearer
to that beatiic vision of dandelions
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12
State
Nation
Items selected from "The In.
formation Bulletin for Voters"
issued weekly by the New York
State Woman Suffrage Party

CITY:
The Board of Aldermen. has approved grant
ing S4,650 to the Board of Elections for the
printing Of maps of assembly districts and
other expenses incident to the enrolment OF
women for the primaries May 25. (Anv one
desiring to obtain maps should apply To the
Board of Elections for them.)
Commissioner of Accounts HirshfieId WIN
has been investigating the Street Cleaning
Department, reports "that in the past four
years hundreds of thousands of dollars hava
heen wasted because of the practice of hir;no
emergency labor
STATE:
Governor Whitman has signed the follow
ing bills, making them law
1hree measures providing for the educa
tion of lliterates:
me Lockwood-Meyer bill, arranging for the
tralnlng OF teachers to teach adult illiterates.
Inc Meyer bill, making compulsory the ar.
tendance at school of iiterate minors bet,ueo,
sixteen and twenty-one, and penaizing both
minors and their employers for disregardinp
the law (thls bill forms an important sten
In tne Americanization campaign, since it
ihakes 1t impossible for employers to engage
workers between these ages who are ignorant
VI 1iie LllgllSh language); and
Assembly Int. No. 1900, which extends
night school provisions in order to make tina
foregoing measures possible
Inc Adler bill. This makes necessary "sne.
clal classes for physically defective children
IN city or union district where there ar.
ten or more such children"
Two Thompson bills One provides for n.
establishment in New York City of a branch of
tne State Public Employment Bureau for ne-
eress. The other extends the civil RIGHTS of
negroes 'A
Inc Nicoll bill. 1t forbids the emnlovmen+
oi girl messengers under twenty-one. and 1;,r;+,
thelr working hours to fifty-four waek bo-
tween Z a. m. and 10 D. m.
Inc Wagner bill. This gives the State Food
COMMISSION power to fix retail prices on nece.-
sary foodstuffs.
Inc Wlcks bill. A measure extending Tho
period allowed for cold storage from +or
months to twelve, and providing that renor+a
oe made to the State Department of Foode
and Markets instead of to the State Denar+.
ment of Health
Inc Wagner bill This gives the Board ~
magistrates of this city power to hold sne-
clal ca court for women during the day instead
OF at night. -''o"u
The Cowee bill. Forbids junk dealers and
teen ' 0i'aie Gil uhoer SIX
NATION:
Inc Overman bill, giving the President
power 70 consolidate and reorganize executive
ueparI.nents mas been passed. ALI amendments
pr0gv,ldlng exceptions to this law were rejected
me housing blll has passed the Senate. This
provides $60,000,000 for the housing of in
oustrlal workers and government employees.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12

selves are we'll enough in intention, but are
exasperating in their needless inconvenience
These small parks, such as jackson Park,
Stuyvesant Square, Washington Square, St.
Gabriel's Park, are in densely crowded dis
tricts, where the parks existence as breath
ing space is very necessary. In the summer
they fairly swarm with mothers and babies,
with baby carriages and little toddlers, and
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12

recent dispatch from Chicago to Tha
Tribune refers to the fact that twenty-seven
women have been acquitted of murder within
a few years by a Cook County jury. Jurors
seem to show chronic lenency where women
are concerned, and to be incredibly rigid in
the case of young boy
MARIE DE MONTALyO
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12
THE NEW CITIZENS POINT or VIEW -
1t Woman Were Park Commissioner

o THE feminine mind, the same
sort of masculine helplessness
and curious angle of vision are
shown in the construction of
the small city parks that women
suffer from in man-planned
kitchens. The things in them
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12

not TOO late to save the state from executing
chapman. And ask yourself whether women
cltlzens are going to let the electrocuticn Of
children go on in New York State without
protest.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-12

dCIlNC anu CllC1 SC CCAN
three and four-year-
olds. Larger children
go to more inviting
Fairgrounds, or else
are at work. And yet
these parks are about
as we'll adapted to
their constituency" as
the man-designed kit
chen, with its sink at a
back-breaking height
and it's laundry tubs
carefully set where no
light falls on them, is
adapted to the wom-
an who works there
unless it be that
the men who fill the
iron benches are the
constituency" and be-
ing voters, for them
Tho oor1~ .vo, o~,-l
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-02-25
80 Minute Kiss Wins
Long Distance Reward

NEW YORK. Feb. 25.-Boy, page
Olga Nethersole! Here is man who,
according to the complaint of Miss
Pauline Hendler. II. kissed her for
thirty thrilling minutes in an elevator
in an office building in West Twenty
fifth street
And Phillip Fl. Harris. also Il, will
please stand up and be introduced AS
the alleged holder of the worlds !oEC
distance kissing record.
The girl appeared in Jefferson Mar
ket court and testified she was in the
car piloted by Philip when he stopped
the car between the third and fourth
floors and hold her in one long and
enduring kiss for thirty minutes en-
tirely against her will and protest. She
said that when she started to give an
alarm the young man threatened to
strike her. Meanwhile visitors to the
building. which has but one passen-
ger elevator in operation, walked up
and down stairs and complained to
one another about the service.
"You will go to the workhouse for
ten days" said Magistrate Corrigan.
Harris went away to serve the SEN
tence, with his mother remaining be-
hind to plead that he be given another
chance.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-02-25
A MERCILESS JUDGE
One Who Shows No Favor.

4 merciless judge is Father Time
Before him the weak and the wanting
so to the wall. Only the truth can
stand. For years tho following state
ment from a Richmond resident has
withstood this sternest of all tests.
Mrs. E. Brown, 532 S. Thirteenth
St. Richmond, says: About two
years ago I found II necessary to use
kidney medicine and as one of my
family lad found Doan's Kidney Pills
very beneficial, got box at Thistle
thwsi.e's Drug Store. They were just
as successful in my case. I haven't
had any kidney trouble since l used
them and feel sure they have cured
me. l advise anyone to take Doan's
when troubled with backache or other
kidney disorders
Mrs. Brown gave the above state
ment in September, 1915 and on Nov
cmbcr %, 1917, she added: Il have
had no return of kidney complaint
since Doan's cured me. | am glad to
again recommend them. for l know
what they VIII do
Price Coo, at all dealers. Don't SIM
ply ask for kidney remedy-get
DoaI's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mrs. Brown had. Foster-Milburn Co.,
Mfgrs., Buffalo. n. Y.-Adv.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-02-25
Coming OF
The Sunbeam
How to Avoid Those Pains and Distress
Which 80 Many Mothers Have Suffered.

Too much cannot be said FOR G. won
derful preparation, familiar to many
women as Mothers Friend.
It is more effective in it's action Than
all the health rules ever laid down for
is an external application that spreads
its influence upon the cords, tendon S
and muscles of the abdomen, rendering
them plant, and they expand grace.
fully without that peculiar wrenchinE
strain.
The occasion is, therefore, one of un-
bounded joyful anticipation and too
much stress cannot be laid upon the
remarkable influence which a mothers
happy prenatal disposition has upon
the health and fortunes of the genera
tons to come.
The pain at the crisis is infinitely
less when Mothers Friend is used dur
ing the period of expectancy for the
muscles expand easier and with less
strain when baby is born.
Mothers Friend is for external use
only, is entirely safe and may be had
of your druggist. 1t is prepared by
the Bradfield Regulator Co, D-2O5 La
mar Bldg, Atlanta, Ga. Write them
to mail you their interesting Mother
hood Book They will send it at
once, without charge, and you will find
it very helpful Do not neglect for a
single night and morning to apply
Mothers Friend according to direct
ions around the bottle and thus fortify
yourself against pain and discomfort.
ADV.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-02-25
HOW FAT ACTRESS
WAS MADE SLIM

Many stage people now depend en-
tirely upon Marmola Prescription Tab
lets for reducing and controlling fat.
One clever actress tells that she re-
duced two to four pounds week by
using this new form of the famous
Marmola Prescription and now, by TAX
ing Marmola Tabrets several times
year, keeps her weight just right. All
druggists sell MaYmola Prescription
Tablets at IS cents for large case.
Or you can get them by sending price
direct to the Marmola Co, S64 Wood
ward Ave, Detroit, Mich. If you have
not tried them do SO. They are harm
less and effective--Adv.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-02-25
INTERN 24,13e
DISABLED MEN
IN SWISS CAMP
New Ways and Means Devised
TO Make Wounded Soldiers
Happy.

PARIS. Feb. % Correspondence of
the Associated Press) There were
2A.le6 invaded soldiers OF warning
nc::ons informed IN Switzerland on
October 81. 1917. according to q report
OF the Swiss Federal Council. OF
these. 1876 were French. 1922 Bel.
Efane. S64 English. 1884 Germans. 2c8
AustrianA and 14c Hungarians. These
agures do not include 4,746 interned
persons who were returned to their
native countries In accordance with
agreements concluded between COM
batants through the intermediary of
Switzerland in 1917.
An interesting account Of the nego-
nations leading to the repatriation OF
wounded soldiers Is contained in the
first report OF Major Edward Favre of
the internment service OF the Swiss
Army, which has Just made its appear
ance. The question OF an exchange
or wounded prisoners was taken up,
the report says. in the first months
OF the war but almost insurmountable
difficulties arose because OF the fact
that the belligereDis feared to risk re-
leasing these prisoners. who, while IN
able to resume their positions on the
front, might be used in occupations
which would free other modified men
for combatant service.
Following conversation which he
had in Paris with III. Millerand. Minis
ter OF War. Gustave Ador. president
OF the international Red Cross Com
mittee, proposed tc NJ. Hoffman, then
head of the Swiss foreign office, that
it would be possible to intern the
wounded soldiers in Switzerland. The
Swiss Federal Council received this
suggestion favorably and the greater
part of 1915 was spent in negotiations
betwean Switzerland and the warning
powers.
In December. 1915, an agreement
was finally concluded between Swift
zerland, France and Germany. Eng
land and Belgium later joined in.
The first repatriates began to arrive
in Switzerland early in 1916. They
were mostly soldiers afflicted with
tuberculosis.
It was necessary to find useful oc.
equations for those who were able to
work and to teach new trades to those
whose injuries prevented them from
returning to their ante-war occupa-
lions. Professional men were assisted
in continuing their studies. The prob
lens Of discipline ind administration
have also been difficult ones, but all
are being solved. and new ways and
means are constantly being found to
make the interned men happy and
comfortable.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-02-25
MRS. ", ], BANE
GREENSBORO DIES

GREENSBORO, Ind, Feb. 25.-Mrs
". J. Bane, II years old. died Sunday
morning at the home of her son Har-
rison Bane. She had lived here for
the last ten years, coming to Greens
forg from Virginia. She is survived
by her husband; six sons. Ellison. OF
near Economy; Kenton and Fred OF
Sugar Grove, Aaron of Muncie and Eli
OF Virginia; and three daughters, Mrs
Jennie Hall of Virginia, Mrs. Frank
Mcfarland OF Williamsport and Mrs.
Vint Wilson OF Greensboro. The fun.
eral will be held Tuesday morning at
10 o'clock at the Sugar Grove Liberal
U. B. church, Rev. Mr.. Coddington, of.
ficiating.