Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1919-10-07
BRANDS ALIENIST
AS HEAD HUNTER
lohn Armstrong ChaIoner viii
Try to Reform the Bogus"
Lunacy Laws.
RECONcILED WITH FAMILY
Having Been Declared Legally Sane,
He Plans Campaign to Obtain
Jury Trial for Those Sus-
pected Of Being Insane.


pected OF Being Insane.
New York.-Branding alienists 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 Now?p
announced the other day his inten-
ton of devoting his life and fortune.
to fighting bogus lunacy laws" The
campaign which Mr.. Chaloner contem-
plates Is designed to bring about ma
tional laws which will not only pro-
tect lunatics, but also give them a
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 this
state for 25 years, declared that alien
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
onciliation with his family was COM
plete.
BY the decree of Justice Ford, Mr..
Chaloner will have fun control of his
property here valued at about $1,000
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
at Cooper Union on Sunday Novem-
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 Philosophic
Aspect of Christianity"
when you came back here you
were delighted with New York and
everything in 1t. Has your stay al
tered your first impression2" he was
asked.
mot in the least" Mr.. Chaloner re-
piled. New York is wonderful and
the people are more polite than any
where l have ever been. l am de-
lighted with the change in the police
men in the 20 years l have been away.
They are fine, and always willing to
help strangers In polite way. There
wrong. The telephone system is about
the worst in the world and they do
not run enough street cars"
He Issues Statement.
Mr.. Chaloner gave out the following
statement to the newspaper men:
Gentlemen of the fourth estate, In
solemn conclave assembled in my suite
at the Hotel Brevoort: Greeting.
Some seven years ago this summer
l called an even larger convocation of
the scribes 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 the 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 to hear what l had to say.
said that 1 was on the war trail of
bogus lunacy law throughout the Unit
ed States and that l was going to hire
a hall in Richmond and hammer on it
and talk them to death and write them
to death. Well, gentlemen, 1 hired
that hall In Richmond, Va.-the Rex
picture theater still In full and flour
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
continued:
$50 you see, gentlemen of the
Fourth Estate nothing but what the
French term force majeure-superior
force-forced me off of the trail of
bogus lunacy law. But, whereas.
may possibly be forced off a trail I
am on temporarily / cannot, humanity
speaking, be kept off trail. And you
may be surprised to hear that the
Rex lectures of Richmond Va, will
reopen in the auditorium of the Coop
err union at S:15 o'clock, the second
Sunday night In November next.
Doors open at 7;45, free gratis"