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know. There would be "something doing" in
IL from the first snowdrops in February to the
last Christmas rose in December and then
there would be enough berried shrubs to keep
color and heart in the little park until the
crocus came again. There should be flowers
enough so that on certain days the woman
caretaker could give every small visitor one to
take home Instead Of the rallied off fountain
IN the centre a woman park commissioner
would put shallow accessible pool, where
youngsters could sail their boats
Beside the little comfort station a woman
would put place of out-of- door comfort a
wide low pergola, well shaded with vines. 1t
need not be of elaborate construction, but it
should have wide long seats and some tables
of heavy material. Here mother could nurse
her baby, and here, when the sun was hot, the
children could play in the shade. There would
be simple play material in charge of the at
tendant which could be loaned to young visi-
tors-skpping ropes, roller skates, game of
ring-toss and the like. At the tables the chill
dren could play together at quiet games or
sit and read or draw
This is not proposing several thousand
dollar appropriation for a playground. but
merely pointing out what could be done in
cent more efficient, with practically no in
crease in expense
1t may be urged that these suggestions are
not considering the park FANS" the men who
I'LL the iron benches, many of them coming
early to get the shady seats-the human flot-
sam and jetsam that collects in these small
parks like driftwood on beach, These
woman would treat exactly as she treats an
accumulation of material in a storeroom or
auto. She would sort them out and put them
IN their right places. For the human dere-
hct's problem neither the park bench nor the
policeman's move on" is satisfying solution.
Undoubtedly there are places in the city where
each would find the care or assistance that he
needs; but these men, some idlers and loafers.
some weak and i'll, some failures and misfits.
lack the initiative to find their way of escape.
Here, without the trouble or expense of seek
ing them out, is varied collection of the
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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, diving
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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
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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
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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, park is asphalt and iron benches
GA" q iAv'O uOOeIy, DIS IL always mas Deen-
not community centred"
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, 81 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
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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 hui
manness and adapta-
ton 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 title S
vary.
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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 we 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
50 IS proof that he has sufficient capacity
uuoerstand the act or neglect charged
sesaast MN and to know it's wrongfulness"-
vs'er words, if his mother has taught him
- 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
81 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 80 They are each over seven years old,
|lI, ssue, but legally they are infants. They
IN. ~ yet old enough to vote, to make bind
Sps 4 tfacts, to contract marriage. For
~ "a sVn action by or against them guard
~ g appointed by the court, and the
Court must approve all the acts Of
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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.
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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. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 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. ANY 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
ton of lliterates:
me acknowledges bill, arranging for the
framing 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
makes 1t impossible for employers to engage
workers between these ages who are ignorant
VI Vic 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 If
tne State Public Employment Bureau for ne-
eress. The other extends the civil RIGHTS If
negroes ~
Inc Nicoll bill. 1t forbids the emnlovmen+
oi girl messengers under twenty-one. and limit,
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 Ton
months to twelve, and providing that renor+a
De 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 court for women during the day instead
OF at night. -''o"u
The Cowee bill. Forbids junk dealers and
teen VII 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 bill has passed the Senate. This
provides $60,000,000 for the housing of in
oustrlal workers and government employees.
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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
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recent dispatch from Chicago to Thu
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
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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. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 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.
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dCIlNC anu CllC1 81 CAN
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
Evening journal., 1918-05-27
Nv VEN syAnC
ARTICLE NO. 4

The Russia people, powerless 10 speak
openly owing 10 fear OF the Boisheviki,
are praying in their hearts 70 America
for deliverance from Prusslanism.
II the world Is 10 be made safe for
democracy, Russia must be saved by the
Allies now.
II the German monster retains his
hold on Russia, the world FOR decades
would he under the heel OF Prusslan
militarism
The German propasandsts In Russia
are now carrying on a campaign OF les
against the Allies, picturing them as
imperialsis bent on conquest.
But the Russians have always looked
upon us as their friends The bread
we cast upon the waters when we aided
them through their terrible famines viii
come back 10 us. ] have heard their
words OF gratitude.
While disseminating lies. the Germans
are also suppresslng the truth as 20 how
they have despoiled Russia Patriotic
newspapers ara being conlscated, sup
pressed and destroyed.
Last February the "UtrO Rossie" a
leading daily Of Moscow, was lned i00.-
600 rubles ,Or publishing a map OF those
Russian districts which had been an
neXed ,the Huns Call 1t ''freed'l after
the hypocriiical treaty Of Brest-Litovsk.
The Bolsheyk tribunal which assessed
The fine remarked cynlcslly that II such
publications were permitted. the Rus
sian people might be led TO bellece that
the government had been In collusioP
with the Germans
In Siberia, wherever our train stopped
people begged us for news from the in
terror The Germsn-controlled news
papers Of the Bolshevik cause furnished
little reliable information.
We must make the truth known
throughout Russia as our FIRST task 10
saving the nation for democracy. We
must do Il even II we have 10 bring
printing presses and type from the
United States The place 10 begin this
work is in Siberia
Why would u not be possible N send
10 Siberia hundreds OF American citizens
Of Slavic birth or parentage, men who
are true 10 America and Russia alike.
as apostles Of the Amerlcanism that
would revive the spirit Of the real Rus
sia that lies crushed and seeking ex-
preston
Along with our propaganda we could
bring deeds Russia is sorely in need
Of clothing and agricultural implements.
We could supply them We could re-
store the railroads and the economic
system as we started once 10 do.
Our example OF real, substantial help
would be the most potent argument
against Teutonio lies. It would, more
than any other factor, restore law and
Evening journal., 1918-05-27

: Asia.
Paul Rohrbach, "Unsere kononlale
kukunftsarbeit" 1915, pp. 6s-69.
The Achilles Heel OF the British EN-
pire.
The same people who as
serted that war between world powers
at the present time could not possibly
last longer than a few months, are now
saying with the same assurance: "Of
course 1t Is impossible TO overthrow
Englands power in a single war" This
IS by no means impossible: IL is. on
tne contrary, quite possible that we
start with Egypt. England's fatality
was the building Of the Suez Canal.
II the English military forces
in Egypt, all the Australians. Cana
dians, Hindus and real English regi-
ments, surrender 10 the Turvs or are
forced TO take TO their ships IN Alex
andrla, blow will be struck that VIII
be heard from Gibralter 20 Singapore ;
and under this blow the entire dome
OF British world dominion viii crash
down with the broken keystone d.
The day when England shall clearly
see its destiny viii be the
birthday OF the new Germany beyond
the seas. on that day we shall pay
to our brave men In Southwest Africa
in East Africa, in CAMERON. in Togo,
in Tsing-tao and In the South Sea, our
thanks for the way In which they have
discharged their duty; and we shall
write there thanks in bold lines, not
on paper or bronze or stone but on
the map Of the world.
Paul Rohrbach. "Unser Kolonialbe-
sitz no. 81 Sept. ~, i9i5).
Calais is on the circumference, Suez
is at the center Of the English world
empire. Calais menaces one
Of the many routes 10 and from Eng
land. Suez cuts or the single direct
connection between European England
and her African, Asiatlc and Australian
? possessions; IL strikes what is really
the vital nerve. Calais Is a blow OF the
nst that stuns o.. Suez Is a stab
in the heart that kills and
therefore an object most fervenily TO
be desired
Ernst Jsckh. calais oder suez." no.
26 June 26- i9i5l pp. sii, SIS.
Never before has the saying Of Bis
marck been so true as now: England
needs Egypt like her daily bread, on
account Of the Suez Canal, the most
direct line Of connection between the
eastern and western halves OF the EN-
pire. Il is like the nerve in the neck
that connects the spine with the brain.
Neither now nor at any time