The sun., 1919-07-28
LUNACY REFORM rs
aim OF CHALONER
Dedicates Time and Fortune
to End System Of Which
He Was Victim.
COOPER UNION Is HIRED
Lawyers, Doctors and Venal
Rich to Be Exposed in
Ten Lectures.

the auditorium Of Cooper Union for a
series of ten lectures in the course of
which he promises to expose the 'Tunacy
Trust" In the State OF New York. BY
"Lunacy Trust he means the lawyers.
doctors, proprletors OF insane asylums
ana wealthy men who. no says, have for
years pursued venal practice of COM
hitting persons to Institutions without n
semblance Of en- opportunity to appear
In their own defence.
Mr.. Chaloner. having won from Jus
tice Ford decision holding him both
sane and competent in the State OF New
York, the elimination of his own twenty
year fight for vindication after n COM
mitment to Bloomingdale In which he
had no part, promises that his rovela-
tons will be the hot stufr'' with names,
dates and places. The lectures will be
free. Mr.. Chaloner has dedicated his
own fortune of something like two mil
lions OF dollars to the readjustment of
the wrongs from which he was made to
suffer for SO long.
In no sense viii the lectures be a re-
newal OF the twenty year feud of tho
lecturer with his own family. A COM
plete reconciliation has been effected
among them. When seen in the Hotel
Brevoort yesterday Mr.. Chaloner had
Just come from the homo of his brother
and sister-in-law. Mr.. and Mrs. william
Aston Chanler. where he had met his
sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.
John Jay Chapman. all on the rnost cor
dial terms. He already has met his
brother. Sheriff Bob" Chanler-to
whom he sent the famous who's
Looney Now?' telegram on the occasion
OF Bob's marriage to Lima Cavalier
and he's made a cursory examination of
"Bob's studio, resulting in elaborate
praise of his work in decorative art He
has exchanged kilograms of announce
ment and congratulation with the other
members of his family who are out Of
town. Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, once
1ieutenant-Governor: Mrs. Temple
Emmett and Winthrop Astor CHAMBER
Doctors Fooled Family.
my family" said Mr.. Chaloner yester-
day. were fooled by the doctors It's
the doctors and the lawyers and the
proprietors of these private asylums that
I'm after. Under the pernicious pro-
visions of the laws of New York and OF
dozen other States and countries a
man can be adjudged insane and de.
prived Of his liberty on the simple GER
tificate OF two rascally physicians They
are nothing but head hunters. For their
price they would commit to the cham
Der of horrors the young man Of prom
Use or the young girl in her teens. And
among the rich there are frequently rea-
sons why It is convenient and profita BILE
that such persons be put out of the
way
"Rich people and people Of influence
are so tied Up with this crowd through
their various associations that It has
hitherto been impossible to arouse public
opinion on the question. I'm going to
do it. I'm going to do to- this crowd
what the Allies did to Germany It's
their thousand million OF dollars against
my paitry two. but / know what to do
and I'm going to do 1t. It's exit Who's
Looney NowT and enter Jack the Giant
Killer"
Mr.. Chaloner's lectures win begin on
November 8. He will continue them
either once or twice a month throughout
the winter. Once sufficient public senti-
ment has been aroused he wfll go to the
Legislature in Albany with his amend
ments to the lunacy laws-he has the
amendments all ready-and then he will
make similar attacks on the similar laws
of such States as those in New England,
New Jersey. Pennsylvania, Indiana.
Ohio. Illinois and Missouri. In the
South, he says, where there are as yet
few rich mon. the same pernicious sys-
tenn does not exist.
VIII rake Five Years.
He gives himself i've years for the
task, and then he Is going to Europe
TO effect similar reforms in the laws OF
France, England and other countries
So great Is the influence Of the United
States to-day that Mr.. Chaloner believes
that. the reform having been -.,vfn-
plished here, crowned perhaps by Fed
eral law on lunacy, II will take but a
couple OF years for him to induce other
countries to follow the lead OF the United
States
He contends that In all lunacy pro-
ceedings notice to the alleged lunatic
ought TO be absolutely essential and that
trial should be by Jury in the presence
of the alleged iunatic.
He has many distinguished authorities
here and elsewhere to support him In
this contention. He contends that any
other proceeding Is violative OF the con-
stitutional rights Of the alleged insane
and dangerous in that It might be used
by designing persons for fraudulent
purposes.
might be (" he exclaimed. 'It has.
And can prove II, not only In my own
case. but In many other cases. l know
the law and I knos Jhe facts. and I'm
going to let the world know them"
This pill. Incidentally, Mr.. Chaloner Is
going to sugar coat with his own grace
full. interesting and frequently inspiring
remarks on things In general. The title
OF the lectures IL to be THE Philosophic
Aspect OF Christianity: or, Topics OF
National and International Interest of
the Past Month"
Mr.. Chaloner thus abandons his ex-
pressed intention of returning TO live
on his Virginia farm. He has taken an
apartment at the Brevoort because no
finds that he cannot resist New York
The Brevoort is the last relic Of the
New York he used to know, but he is
staying there because of tho new New
York, which he has found for the first
time In twenty years. He Is In love
with its beauty, its theatres. its man
ners. and even its policemen. He has
but two complaints against 1t.
Phones Make Him Swear.
Your telephone servica."' said he,
couldn't be worse In hell. And you
haven't got enough street cars. It
drives me profane to try to telephone
and II is extremely irritating TO have
20 wait for surface cars the way one
has to here. Both services are better
in the little city of Richmond, Virginia.
But otherwise New York is wonder.
full have seen almost all the plays
now on the stage here and like them
all I'm coming here for the theatre
every winter. The plays are unbeliey-
ably better than when left. particularly
the musical comedies. Your audiences
too are the best in the world, and I
know the audiences OF London ana Paris,
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