Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-09-29
BRANDS A[IENIST
AS HEAD HUNTER.
iohn Armstrong chaIoner VIII
Try to Reform the "Bouds"
Lunaoy Laws.
REcoNenED WITH FAMILY
Having Been Declared Legally Cane
He Plans Campaign to obtain
Jury Trial for rhess sua
psoted Of Being insane.

New York.-Branding ~alienists "a
head hunters, who. for q price, win
lend any man to the madhouse." John
Armstrong Chaioner. sage Of Virginia
and author Of who's Loony Nowf"
announced the other day his inten.
ton OF devotins his Life and fortune
to fighting "bogus lunacy lawsp The
campaign which MIR. Chaloner contem-
plates is designed to bring about n a
tional laws which will not only pro.
tect lunatics. but also give them q
trial by Jury before they are com,
mitted to institutions.
Mr.. Cha1oner, who wal declared
sane by Justice Ford Of the supreme
court, after being exiled from this
state for 20 years, declared that aiisn-
lists are a 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
o%nciliation with his family was com,
plete.
BY the decree Of Justice Ford, Mr.
Chaloner will have full control of hii
property here, valued at about $4,000;
600. This will give him an income
Of $4,000, which he will use In his
crusade against the present lunacy
laws.
Campaign Opens November 0.
Mr.. Chaloner will open his campaign
~ DaA~aA TTnInu ~ SUNDAY Enxxn4n
Der 8, when he will deliver a lecture
which will be part Of a series that
will continue through the winter. The
title Of the series is 1.-THE P%hilosophit
Aspect of Christianity"
"When you came back here you
were delighted with New York and
everything in II. Has your stay al
tered your FIRST impression" he was
asked.
mot in the least" Mr.. Chaloner re-
piled. "New York Is wonderful and
the people are more polite than any
where I have ever been. I am de
lighted with the change in the police
men In the 20 years I have been away.
They are fine, and always willing to
help strangers In a polite way. There
are only two things that ! found
wrong. The telephone system is about
the worst in the world and they Dc
not RUIZ enough street cars"
He Issues Statement.
Mr.. Chaloner gave out the following
statement to the newspaper meni
Gentlemen Of the fourth estate, IL
solemn conclave assembled In my suite
at the Hotel Brevoort; Greeting.
"Some years ago this summei
I called an even larger c%onvocation OF
the scribes to meet me ii conference
on the southern bank Of the Potomac
at Alexandria, virginia-in otheI
words, since in those distant days OF
1912 the atmosphere Of the northern
bank Of the Potomac was too rich fol-
my blood. my habitat then being strict
ly confined to the borders Of the states
Of Virginia and North Carolina, in
which two states I had been found by
judicial process both sane and com
petent.
"Some twenty newspaper men, rep
r~esenting the greatest papers of the
East, West and South, gathered to.
gether to hear what / had to say. ]
said that ! was on the war trail Of
bogus lunacy law throughout the Unit
ed States and that I 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 hall In Richmond. Va.-the Rex
picture theater stif in full and -four
ishing operation, and actually talked
there twice a 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
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