The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-16
sneaker at chautauqua Last Night,
judge Of Domestic Relations
Court at Dayton, Pleads for
Equal Justice.
HE GIVES 1T IN HIS COURT
He Would Publish Names In News
paper Together With Court Or.
ders just Like Delinquent
Tax List.

A scathing denunciation OF tht
double standard of morals--"tha
despicable double standard made b.
man for his own preservation" -ane
plea for equal justice for both mar
and woman, were delivered in the
addressSof Judge Roland w Basgot1
OF the court of domestic relations Of
DAYTON, Ohio, at the opening evening
program OF Keolzuk's 1920 chautauqua
| last night. THE generation to come
. must know this is fifty-fifty pTopo
. gition," he declared. "Just as lone
as am serving on the bench, and
men are convicted beyond reasonable
| doubt and on their own statement
| that they are responsible for the
! delinquency of the woman, they get
| the same sentence as the woman. It's
not chivalry, but simply justice.
have been fought by every political
organization, but as long al ninety
per cent Of the voters endorse you
you need not worry about what the
republican or democratic organization
. thinks
Judge Baggott's story of day in
his court iii Dayton was one of the
most interesting and instructive
things that Keokuk audience has
listened to for long time. His ad-
dress sparkled with hUnor, was vivid
with description and scinti1lated and
flashed with keen, biting sarcasm,
tempered in the next sentence by a
story of pathos and love. Souls were
stripped bare by Judge Baggott' S
brilliant mental searchlight, but his
humanity and Justice showed in every
word of his talk. He is a master Of
mimicry, of sarcasm. Of humor, of
description, and ran the whole gamut
in the hour and half that he talked
last night. Sincere and just. one
never would hesitate to leave his
case in his hands.
He smashed the hypocrite and the
gossip a knockout blow between the
eyes; he pleaded for the boy, and he
declared that the boy problem was
of today. He denounced the male
f1irt, the woman who tries to blacken
the character of the girl in trouble,
and in bit Of delicious humor pulled
the veil from that last line Of mascu-
line defense, We'll. she was runnin'
after me-"
Never Run Away.
1--WE never noticed any Of you men
breaking any speed laws getting out
of their way he declared. why
don't you come clean and say that
you are out OF breath from running,
not away from them, but toward
them, with your arms outstretched.
The man who yelps the loudest that
he is glad his wife doesn't wear the
fashions Of today is the man who
looks the longest and the longingest."
The humor cropped out in Judge
Baggott's early sentences. He said
he was glad to be in Iowa-don't ever
leave it and go to South Dakota.
Why there are more trees in this
paTf: than l saw in the whole state
of South Dakota" he said I'm glad
to be in Iowa, although I'm glad I'm
from Ohio. You people must of ne
cessity look to us for the next presi-
dent. Mr.. Debs is in Jail and Mr.
Bryan's heart is in the graVe-a real
dry grave at that, l would imagine"
This sally brought forth applause.
"Ohio is proud she is going to fur
nish the next president, but we're
just like everybody else. We furnish
him and then sit around and abuse
him for four years.
Judge Baggott has two boys Of his
own Perhaps that explains his
knowledge of the boy problem. He
says there are two kinds of men
those that do as their wives tell them
to and those who never marry.
New Angle Of Law.
The Juvenile court is a new angle
of jurisprudence, Judge Baggott said.
The first juvenile court was the
woodshed variety, where father was
the judge, with a barrel stave in one
hand and boy in the other. This
was court of original and final juris-
diction. There was no higher court.
Mothers word was usually concur
rent, and we retired from this bar
of justice sadder and wiser. The or
der in this court was usually that
this action was dismissed without
Prejudice for new action.
But finally it was discovered that
1t was not necessary to beat a boy
to death to make him good. 1t was
found that cases of children were
heard before police magistrates three
or four days after their arrest and
that in the interim they were con-
lined in jafls next to hardened crimi-
nails and learned more about crime
than was good for them. It was de-
clded then that it would be wisdom
TO give them a court by themselves
And the women of Chicago estab-
ished a court there. two years be-
lore the famous court in Colorado
came into being"
Judge Baggott's court handles do
nestle relations as well as juveniles.
and he wittily said it was the court
Of Rehabilitation.
The Types in Court.
The judges description of types
was immense" He first described
the woman who came to him and
told him about her husband. Invari-
ably, he said, the type of this story
develops the fact that the man has
made good money within the last ten