The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-08-19
The Case of Shufflin Phil Douglas Who Gave Up His Own Will = The Woman Pays as Usual-Why Northcliffe Succeed ed Ancient and Modern Justice in Homicide Cases.

ed from baseball forever TOT OI- fering to sell out his team, says ''Gods I didn't know what I was doing. I wouldn't have done it if I'd been myself
 Mrs. Douglas says, God knows I've tried to keep him away from Hquor."
 It's the woman who pays. She shares the disgrace, and she has, mt had the liquor.
 
 "ShuffIin Phirs'' excuse is real. He is entitled to sympathy. Who knows why one man drinks enough to float a ship, and be- hayes himself all the way through, while another, drinking half as much, becomes a drunk ard. a killer, a thief. a suicide CT some other evil thing?
 
 There is a law of oompensa- tion. The drinker who knows how to take his drink, may die sooner; usually does; from four to fifteen years sooner, the in surance companies say; frequent 1y of Bright's disease or diabetes. Which is best. to drink and live dsgraced. or drink and die early? Somebody said, 'T'd rather be live dog than a dead lion" The wisdom of the pre- f-.ence may be doubted.
 
 'sShnff1in Phir' has made out a case for sympathy, but not case to Justify his unemployment. He can't let drink alone. He is a human machine who has got out of control. The will is gone. There might be hope for the man who sinned, and retained his own will. and power to re- pent and sin no more. But your drink mad man has little or no will of his own His will is the will to drink.
 What was the important fac tor in Lord Noruhcliffe's success? One editor says, thirty per cent because he was not afraid of any, thing and 70 per cent because he knew what NOT to do and kept away from it. Courage is pri- marily a quality of life before brains are highly developed. Man has courage. 1t is a widely dis tributed and usual quality, with limited relation to business suc- cess.
 Knowing what not to do Is a fine quality. Success is based on doing. The other is negative. It keeps man from crossing a crowded street. It doesn't get him to the other side
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 Great success often is found ed upon a special condition of the times, or environment. Un- less France were in turmoil, Ma poleon could not have suppressed the tumult, and could not have become a great conqueror.
 About 1870 England taught tEee masses of her people to read. Northcliffe saw that the time was ripe for a more popular sort of newspaper. He dug in, first and deep. The discovery made. some very ordinary qualities took him through to a big place. The public schools of England were 70 per cent of his success.
 
 voight, who slew Mrs. Roberts, has deeded his property to his relatives. The relatives of the dead woman attach the property and ask for damages. The state will try voight for the crime, and fix a penalty for his m1sdeed. The action for damages is an older form of justice, when a murder has been committed.
 In the good old days. the death penalty for killing was often a payment to the relatives. If a common man killed a lord, the death penalty would surely be inn posed. But if a lord killed a common man. merely a fine. Perhaps not that.
 
 In the United States the people are sovereign. Every man and each woman is a fragment of the sovereignty. That is to say, is a bit of king, or queen This makes public justice necessary The damage suit will not be nearly as painful to the defend ant in the case, as the criminal action will be, which, is shadow. ed with a gallows.