Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-09-11
BRANDS AL|EN|ST
AS HEAD HUNTER
Iohn Armstrong Cha|oner viii
Try to Reform the Bogus
lunacy Laws.
RECoNC'LED WITH FAMILY
Having Been Declared Legally Sane,
He Plans Campaign to Obtain
Jury Trial for Those sus-
pected Of Being Insane.

New York.-Brandng allenists as
"head hunters, who, for a price, will
send any man to the madhouse," John
Armstrong Chaloner. sage Of Virginia
and author Of who's Loony NowT
announced the other day his inten.
tion of devoting his life and fortune
to fighting bogus lunacy laws" The
campaign which Mr.. Chaloner contem-
plates is designed to bring about ma
tlonal laws which will not only pro.
tect lunatics, but also give them
trial by jury before they are COM
mitted to institutions.
Mr.. Chaloner, who was declared
sane by Justice Ford of the supreme
court, after being exiled from THU
state for % years. declared that alien
lists are menace to society and the
Instruments of the "lunacy trust" In
obtaining the incarceration Of wealthy
persons so that others may benefit by
their being removed. He said his rec
onciliation with his family was COM
plete.
BY the decree Of Justice Ford. Mr.
Chaloner will have full control of his
property here, valued at about 50 .o00,-
900, This will give him an income
Of $4,000, which he will use In his
crusade against the present lunacy
laws.
Campaign Opens November 9.
Mr.. Chaloner will open his campaign
AZ Cooper Union on Sunday, N0vem-
Der g. when he will deliver lecture
which will be part of series that
will continue through the winter. The
title of the series is "The Philosophic
Aspect of Christianity"
when you came back here you
were delighted with New York and
everything in It, Has your stay al.
tered your first impression?" he was
asked.
Not in the least" Mr.. Chaloner re.
piled. New York Is wonderful and
the people are more polite thnn any.
where | have ever been T am de
lighted with the change IN the police.
men In tie 20 years have been away.
They are fine, and always willing TO
help strangers in polite way. There
are only two things that | found
wrong The telephone system Is about
the worst in the world and they dc
not run enough street cars"
He Issues Statement
Mr.. ChnlOner gave out the FOLLOWING
statement to the newspaper men:
Gentlemen of the fourth estate. In
solemn concnve assembled in my suite
at the Hotel Brevoort: Greeting.
Some seven years ago this summer
] called an even larger convention of
the scrihes to meet me In conference
on the southern bank of the Potomac
at Alexandria, Virginia in other
words. since In those distant days of
1912 tho atmosphere of the northern
bank OF the Potomac WAS too rich for
my blood, my habitat then being strict
ly confined to the borders Of the states
OF Virginia and North Carolina. IN
which two states had been found by
judicial process both sane and com
petent.
Some twenty newspaper men. rep
resenting the greatest papers of the
East, West and South. gathered to-
gether tc hear what I had to say. !
said that | was on the war trail Of
bogus lunacy law throughout the Unit
ed States and that was going TO hire
a hall In Richmond and hammer on II
and talk them to death and write them
to death. Well, gentlemen, hired
that hail In Richmond, Va.--thc Rex
picture thenter still In full and -four.
ishing operation, and actually talked
there twice month for from one to
two years"
He then explained that he was
forced to stop the Sunday night lee.
lures by the Virginia blue laws, and
continued:
$50 You see. gentlemen Of the
Fourth Estate nothing hut what the
French term force maieure-- superior
force~-forced me of Of the trail of
bogus lunacy law. But, whereas. |
nuy possibly he forced off II trail
am On temnorar:;s . cannot, humanity