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Der Nordstern. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1874-1931, 1922-11-23
JUSTICE AND THE Law.

Justice as 1t Is administered by the
Law courts Is sometimes 9 rather hard
thing to understand and sometimes we
doubt If It can be understood at all
Last week In Cleveland q maj accused.
OF stealing three dollars, q watch and
a knife was sentenced TO life imprison-
ment. The Jury IN returning the ver-
dict filled out the wrong ballot and
instead Of handing the presiding Judge
the one which recommended mercy to
the accused, they did just the opposite.
OF course after the prisoner had been
sentenced, they tried to explain their
mistake, but the Judge said that "a
jury could not impeach its own yer
dict and that the mistake was the pri-
soner's hard luck" In view Of the
fact that murderers, yeggs, and hard
boiled criminals Of the worst variety
usually serve a term, II they serve one,
not in the least commensurate with
their crime, it is rather inexplicable
that the jury's mistake should make
the prisoner we have reference to
serve a life-term. He was guilty and
we are not attempting to excuse him.
The law demands punishment for q
crime, but does it demand life-impri-
sonment for the stealing of three dol
lars, a watch and a knife?
No doubtsth judge was right in his
Interpretation Of the law and what he
did, was demanded OF him. Yet a sys-
tenn Of Jurisprudence which has no
remedy for a case Of this nature is
lacking a few buttons somewhere.
Blackstone in defining the law once
said that lit is the perfection Of rea-
son" 1t sounds we'll and in fact its
euphony is quite captivating but that
does not mean that it is correct. There
one might think it is .'the imperfec-
ton Of reason.
Mercy" has become a sort of foot
Udll, III SOMe OI COuItS. lt&IS DIP
piled where there is least occasion for
it and where 1t might do some good,
some technicality of the law intervenes
and prevents it from being administer
ed. The Bible and the law are evident
~ Is far apart in this respect as the
two poles and yet the law, ignoring all
that books other admonitions, seizes
greedily upon those words: Thou
shalt not pity him. but shalt require
life for life, eye for eye, tooth for
tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot"
This action is inconsistent. It is not
far back that law was administered
from the bible. The principles it voic-
es are sounder than some Of our laws
and though strict justice is almost an
impossibility,th they would bring us quite
near to it, in fact as near as it is pos
sible for mankind to onme.-ca tholic
Bulletin.
Der Nordstern. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1874-1931, 1922-11-23

The pearl button was first manufac-
tured in Illinois in 1887 and has been
developed until now the bulk Of but
tons are manufactured from mussel
shells. Other buttons are made from
nuts, potatoes, horns, hoofs: blood,
porcelain, skim milk, glass, metals and
seaweed. The total button sales each
year in America alone r more than
$32,O00,O0O.
Der Nordstern. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1874-1931, 1922-11-23
JUST n

You can read this in one minute.
BY the time you reach the last line,
property worth 1923 will have been de-
stroyed by fire somewhere in the Unit
ed States.
Minute after minute day after day,
on the average, this appalling pace
keeps up, to a grand yearly total of
s485, OO0, 900.
That, at least, was the record in
1921. What the showing will be this
year, and in the years to zone de-
ponds, in large measure, on you.
Ninety per cent Of all fires are pre-
ventable, for they are due to careless
ness.
Take look in you cellar, your attic,
that closet. Clear out the rubbish-the
old stuff stored away because maybe
some day we'll find a use for it."
Many fires about the house are born
in trash piles.
While insurance marks the differ
ence between protection and destitu-
ton, every American home has its
treasured possessions whose worth
cannot be computed in terms of money
and can never be replaced.
A minutes thought now may save
the patient accumulation Of a life
time from the ravages Of fire.
After all, it's chiefly a matter of pro-
tecting your own dwelling and those
whose presence there makes it Home.
Der Nordstern. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1874-1931, 1922-11-23
Our Schools Need Active De
Tenders.

Uur schools Need AcIlVea0e.
Tenders.
al school system In which 100000
Catholic children + instructed an
nually and tUrned into citizens Of
which the country may we'll be proud
is undoubtedly worth saving. Not only
is It worth saving, but means should
be taken to increase its efficacy and
its worth to the country. This issue
occupied asleading place in the dis
~cussions OF the convention OF the Ma
tional Council OF; Catholic Men held re-
GENTLY in Washington. IF the National
Council Of Catholic Men," said Bishop
schWertner Of Wichita In his sermon
opening the convention, does nothing
more than safeguard the existence Of
our Catholic schools, it will have more
than justified its existence"
Some may say that in all this talk
about the parochial school issue there
is betrayed an undue and exaggerated
alarm. Catholics Of the East and Mid
die West have Of course given their at
tention to the efforts made to uproot
this integral unit Of the Catholic
Church in Oregon, California, Oklaho-
ma and Michigan, but until they them
selves are confronted with q like
problem in their own respective locali-
tiles they refuse to consider the situa-
tions as one that calls for strong mea-
sures Of defense. Rome was not built
in q day, and neither did its glory sink
to the dust within a like space Of time.
"a gradual Strengthening will eventual-
lily make any organization we'll nigh
i~mpregnable and a gradual weakening
will have just the opposite effect. Small
losses are not apt to attract an ex-
~traordinady amount of attention when
they come to a school system of 2,00O,-
900 students which the Catholic people
of the United States maintain at their
own expense, yet losses Of this kind
mean a general devitalizing influence
upon the entire organization. AppaT-
emily all is well but when a real test
Of strength is necessary comparative
impotence to meet the issue is the re-
suit.
There is no undue alarm, ma airy
.tcaveats in the discussion of the N. G.
lie. M. If the entire parochial school
system Of the United States is worth
saving, every part, even the smallest
country school, is worth saving. A
fight begins where the defense is
weakest and where the means neces-
sary for victory are sometimes wholly
inadequate. That Well-known political
phrase ITO view with alarm comes to
our mind. That is what many are do
ing, merely viewing with alarm" BIZ
shop Schwertner's sermon calls for
acts and not states Of mind. The N. G.
C. M. is an organizationsthat is grow
ing more powerful as each year passes
by, but the parochial school system If
it is to remain, has need Of a power
full protector. The Council has been
given this task of defending the Catho-
lie school system and it is a task that
will not cease one or five or ten years
hence but as long as the schools them
selves exist. It is the job of the Mems
Council, to see that they continue to
exist. If it does this, sit will have more
than justified its existence Catholic
Bulletin.
The New York herald., 1922-12-13
HARDING TELLS EUROPE u. S.
is FOR PREPARATIONS CUTS
Special Dispatch to THE New Yo.K HERALD.

New ioRK HERALD
Yo HeraldB Bureau
D. Co.
RESIDENT HARDING using influence of the Washing
full legitimate extent to compose the
Europe with particular ref
reparations the
prerequisite reconstruction 1t made clear that
crisis reached where this
hold itself aloof
thought abstain from formal
the Premier it is indicated
the Powers informed
reached which
threatened crisis.
information the White House following
the regular o Cabinet to-day.
communication addressed the Preniers
The definite impression to-day
forth with regard
the basis of considerable
the unwsdom Of making military gestures
against Germany.
tentative proposal by Great Britain
debt French acquiescence
aserained the State Depart
kind in regard to cancellation
the meeting the conference
which the cancellation project revived
however does
made plain discuss cancellation OF
with refundng accord
position that the foreign debt
reparation and included
conference general
opinion of the be
condition that the European Powers
fundamental
abstinence
attempts to balance budgets and reduc-
of military expenditures
The New York herald., 1922-12-13
Ex-President Wilson Will SeUer
Law Partnership With Colby

ment by Bainbridge Colby in New York
OF the termination of his law partner
ship with former President Wilson was
not unexpected In Washington.
II was understood when Mr. Wilson
went into the partnership arrangement
two years ago that Il WAS 20 extend until
the end OF the present year. when Il
could be renewed or terminated by mu-
tual consent.
Various interpretations were placed
on to-day's announcement, one Icing
that Mr.. Wilson desires 20 devote him
self to public affairs and the interests OF
the Democratic party. In which he has
been manifesting keen interest with his
Improvement In health. Since the recent
election he has congratulated successful
Democratic nominees for the Senate and
Governorship In three or four States.
Considerable Importance Is attached
to the statement Of Mrs. Wilson at Bal
timore the other day that the Former
President has shown great Improvement
in health during the last two or three
months.
The New York herald., 1922-12-13
CH|LDREN'S DOCTOR,
LONG I'LL, IS DEAD
DIR. Whitenack Succumbs to
Dreaded Malady in Home
in Newark.
IS MOURNED BY MANY
Blood Transfusions Fail to
Kindle Ebbing Spark
of Life.
Is MOURNED BY MANY

DR.. Miller Royal whitenack, the chill
dren's physician of Newark. died last
night In the Presbyterian Hospital In
that city after fighting for more than
six weeks against an infection OF the
blood that he is believed to have caught
from one of his small patients.
When it became known during the
first few days of November that DR..
Whitenack was i'll messages began to
come from scores OF persons many Of
whom had seen him bring back their
children to health after all hope had
been abandoned. As the news of his
illness spread the number and the
warmth of these messages increased un-
III finally during the last few daye.
prayers were offered for him in many
churches by hundreds OF parents.
Telephone calls asking about his con-
dition were received at the rate OF one
every three minutes at the hospital.
More flowers were sent than could be
banked about his room or placed in his
home at 10 Bathgate avenue, Newark.
And now that ne Is dead his funeral
probably will be attended by more par
ents and by more children than the
funeral Of any man who has died In
many n day.
DR. Whitenack was a victim OF the
germ known as streptococcus hernoly-
ticus. which, in the language of the lay
man, has the effect OF turning the blood
into water.
Blood transrusions were necessary
every twenty-four hours TO keep up the
lifegiving quality OF his blood. There
o.,
sions. Dozens of parents whose chill
dren had been saved by the doctor came
to the hospital and offered their blood.
And more than one childlsss couple
begged to be allowed to do what they
might to save his life.
Or. whitenack was born forty-eight
years ago at 10 Bathgate avenue. in
The same house In which he lived all
his life. He was graduated from the
old Newark High School and took his
n. A. degree from Rutgers In 1897. He
studied at the College of Physicians
and Surgeons in New York and then
served as an inferno In the City Hos
pital at Newark. Thirteen years ago
he gave w his general practice OF med
icine TO devote alls his attention to
diseases of children particularly in
fants, and he was so successful that
he came to be regarded as having a
sort of magic touch.
He was 3 member OF the Chi Phi
fraternity, the New Jersey Medical
Association, the Essex County Medical
Society, che American Medical Asso-
citation. the New Jersey Pediatric So
ciety. the Practitioners Club. the Acad-
erny OF Medicine OF New Jersey and
many other organizations. Besides his
private practice he was attending ply
slcian at four hospitals. Twenty years
ago he married Miss Clementina Haw-
ley OF Newark. She survives him. His
only son. Royal died eight years ago
at the age OF 10 yesrs. OF pneumonia.
The New York herald., 1922-12-13
Yellowley Aims to Reduce Hip
Pocket Festivity Along
Broadway.
PLANS THOROUGH INQUIRY
Dry Chief Sees Taft Ruling as
Great Help to Stopping
Liquor Sales.

All persons possessing liquor in
Broadway cafes and cabarets raided
by prohibition agents will be placed
in Jail and all patrons of such places
will be required to supply their names
and addresses as material witnesses
+. c. Yellowley, Federal Prohibition
Enforcement Director, aid yesterday
in announcing additional drastic meas
ures to be employed in the campaign
to dry up the White Light district
The practice Of handing summonses
to proprietors of places selling liquor
declared the director, has been abol-
ished.
Every person in raided place." he
asserted, will be questioned by the
raiding officers in compliance with my
positive instructions. Those found to
have whisky in their possession will
be- taken to Police Headquarters
where they will make bail or go to
Jail. The reckless display of liquor
In the theatrical district. within ten
block radius OF Times Square. is going
t. cease. We have started our bar
rage against John Barleycorn's strong
holds In that sector"
Mr. Yellowley was highly pleased 'ei
the ruling OF william II. Taft. Chic.
Justice OF the United States Supreme
Court, that conviction under State
liquor law does not bar prosecution FOL
the same offense In a Federal court. II,
said:
with the police making many ar
rests for alleged violations of the Mui
lan-Gage law. the New York enforce.
ment measure. and furnishing the Fed
eral Prohibition Enforcement Depart.
ment with complete daily reports or
those cases. we are on the verge of more
rigid enforcement Of the Volstead act
Bootleggers and dealers In liquors arr
going to become more cautious after
Chief Justice Taft's ruling. My depart
ment is making thorough check OF al
police cases and we intend TO move 70,
prosecution for violation of the national
prohibition act after the State courts
have held trials for defendants arrested
by members of Commissioner Enright's
department"
Dry agents already are conducting a
campaign for evidence against promin-
ent places on the Rialto, Mr.. Yellow
ley said. Raids will be made. he de-
clared, as soon as evidence on which
search warrants can be procured has
been found by the investigators.
The New York herald., 1922-12-13
Elephants Sound Alarm;
Fire at Circus Quarters
spee.al Dispatch 70 THE Nrw Yosk HnaAlp.

specsal Dispatch 10 THE NEw YokK HERALD.
~ BRIDGEPORT. Conn. Dec. IL.
h Cool headed keepers at the
Barnum & Bailey-Ringling
Brothers winter quarters succeeded
in preventing a stampede Of the
big elephant herd early to-day
when fire broke out in the cook
house close to the elephant barn.
One elephant after another in
the barn began to set up clamor
as soon as they smelled the smoke.
Their trumpeting acted as an i'm
promptu fire alarm, awakening
residents of the neighborhood even
before the fire apparatus rolled out
of the engine house. Keepers
called out 10 the beasts by name
and as soon as the animals heard
them their fears appeared to be
allayed and the danger of serious
stampede quickly passed. The fire
w9s soon out.
The New York herald., 1922-12-13

Banbridge Colby. who was Secretary
Of state In Woodrow Wilson's Cabinet
following Robert Lansing, announced
last night that the former President
would retire from the law firm OF Wilson
a Colby OF 80 Nassau street on Decem-
Der 81. when the copartnership agree
ment will expire. Mr.. Colby said that
the former President. because of the
rapid Improvement in his health. Is turn
ing his attention to subjects that for
meriy interested him. and that at con-
ference two weeks ago Nr. Wilson said
he did not wish 70 renew the partner
ship
when Mr. Colby was asked at his Of
ncc n he wished 10 say anything TO sup
plement the brief statement OF the dlsso-
luton OF the Arm, ne said
"Thcre Is little to add. As result OF
the steady gain in Mr.. Wilson's health
during the last few months. which has
been so gratifying to his friends he IS
turning his energies once more TO sub
iects which have long invited him and
the Importance Of which cannot be over
estimated. F"
The New York herald., 1922-12-13
RUPERT BUYS FULL
CONTROL OF YANKS
Col. Huston Sells Interest in
American League Baseball
Club to Partner.
PRICE IS KEPT SECRET
Huggins Will Remain as Man
ager and Barrow as Busi-
ness Director.
PRICE is KEPT SECRET
BY w. o. M'GEEHAN.


Col. Jacob Rupert will become the
sole owner of the New York Yankees
as soon as the papers transferring to
him the half interest Of Col. Tilling-
hast L'Hommedieu Huston can be
made out, it was announced yesterday.
Col. Huston has agreed to sell out to
his partner for price not to be re-
vealed The club. including baseball
franchise, players and new baseball
park, is valued at $3,000000. When
the two Colonels bought it seven years
ago they paid $3.50. 900. and it was the
consensus of baseball and financial
opinion that they had been badly
stung.
1t was due to the partnership which
practically was dissolved yesterday
that the Yankees were developed from
a tail end club and a collection of LA
bilities into the pennant club of the
American League and highly lucra-
tive investment. Col. Rupert an
nounced that he would take no other
partner, but would control the YAM
KEGS alone from now on. Miller Hug
gins will be retained as manager and
Cousin Egbert Barrow will continue
to be business manager.
Col. Huston reiterated his Intention OF
retiring absolutely from baseball except
Ing as a spectator.
The Ruppert-Huston partnership was
one OF the most picturesque combina-
tions brought about through baseball.
In 1915 the Yankees, then the property
OF Frank Farrell. Bill Devery and Tom
Foley, were the orphans and poor rela-
tions of organized baseball. After ex-
periments with various managers, the
trio OF owners decided that The Yankees
never would pay and decided to put the
team on the market.
Col. Jacob Rupert. president OF the
Knickerbocker Brewing Company an
nounced that he would be willing to take
a half interest In the team II he could
find a congenial partner to take the
other half. Rupert was an ardent
baseball fan. Newspaper men intro
duced him to n stout gentleman In a
loose brown suit and an iron boiler
This man announced quietly that he
would take the other half. He was Col.
Tillinghast LHommedieu Huston. re-
tired army officer and business man
whose notion OF rest and recreation was
following the New York Giants to their
training camps and around the circuit
On the first meeting the partnership
was formed and the negotiations with
the Tammany Hall control of the YAM
kees started. Finally the price was
fxed and the two colonels took over the
club. which consisted of merely fran
chise and about the worst looking coll
lection OF baseball players In either
lea que.
For a while the Yankees continued to
Re the Joke club of the big leagues. and
Continued on Page Seventeen.
The New York herald., 1922-12-13
Heroic Boy Tries to SaUe Sisters
in Fire; All Three Die at Hospital

The three small children OF Mr. and
Mrs. Joseph MCGOWAN OF 241 East
'rwenty-fourth street died AZ o'clock
last night in Bellevue Hospital OF burns
and suffocation caused by a fire which
started from a gas Jet.
Mrs. McGowan. whose husband is an
electrician employed by the New York
Edison Company. left the two smaller
children, Anna, 7 months old. and Rose,
3 years old. In the care Of their brother.
Joseph, Jr. who Is 5. She came back
about an hour later and found a group
of women. living IN other apartments
In that building, trying TO break down
the door Smoke was coming from the
The New York herald., 1922-12-13
Commission to Open
18th Street Subway

THE Transit Commission will
open the completed section
Of the Fourteenth street.
Eastern subway line without wait
ing for the city and the Brooklyn
Rapid Transit Company to settle
their dispute over the proposed
Boerum street extension. The
commission has called for bids for
a temporary ramp connecting the
new line with the Long Island
Railroad tracks at Bushwick place,
which will enable subway cars to
be shunted underground. and the
line soon will open for business be-
tween Fourteenth street. Manhat-
tan, at Third and First avenues.
and Bedford avenue. Graham ave-
nue.. Grand street and Montrose
avenue, Brooklyn.
When this addition to the city's
transit system is completed 1t will
shorten 100000 daily rides in a
year.
The New York herald., 1922-12-13
BRONZE TRAFFIC TOWER
IN SERVICE TOMORROW
Mayor to Receive First of
Seven From Fifth AUe. Assn.

The first Of the new permanent bronze
traffic control towers the Fifth Avenue
Association Is presenting to the city will
be placed In operation tomorrow at
Fifth avenue and Forty-second street
and will be formally presented TO Mayor
Hylan and the Board Of Estimate. The
new towers will number seven. five to
replace the towers now In use and two
to be erected at Twenty-sixth and
Fourteenth streets Each new tower will
be equipped with electrical synchronized
clocks on the north and south faces. ,.nd
$50 pound bronze bell Will toll the
hours
The New York herald., 1922-12-13

transom and through the lSeyhole. Mrs.
MCGOWAN opened the door with her key.
The three children were lying un-
conscious on the floor. and the apart
ment was full OF smoke. while the car
pet. mattress and baby carriage were
smoldering. The boy. Joseph, was hold
ing the baby in his arms. and Rose was
lying beside them. He evidently had
taken the baby out Of the carriage in
an attempt to save her and was over
come by smoke.
The children were taken TO the street,
placed In a taxicab and hurried TO
Bellevue. where they died few minutes
later.
The New York herald., 1922-12-13
FEAR LOST ,AVIATORS
NEVER WILL BE FOUND
Seorchers Credit Report of
Fall in Arizona.

Er. PAso, Tex. Dec. 12.--Lieuts. w. c.
Morris and Paul Everett OF the Twelfth
Observation Squadron, who arrived at
Fort Bliss to-day after searching for the
lost aviators, declare that aviators place
credence in the report that the airplane
carrying Col. Marshall and Lieut.. Web
ber was seen late Thursday between
Twin Buttes and the Santa Rita Noun
tains In Arizona.
''If the plane burned when Il landed e"
said Morris, "it probably VIII never be
seen from an airplane. because the
country In which the aviators believe II
fell Is wooded in places and In other
places contains long stretches OF old.
dark lava beds"
The New York herald., 1922-12-13
GUILTY IN vINTONDALE CASE.
OmctsIs Convicted for Hating
Coal strike Meeting.

EsbNsBuRo, Pa. Dec. i2.--L. I. Arbo-
gast. an Official OF the vinton Collieries
Company at vintondale, and four coal
and iron policemen. charged with forci-
bly, preventing Arthur Garfield Fays OF
the Civil Liberties Union OF New York
City from holding a meeting at Vinton-
dale last spring. were convicted OF as
ssult by a jury in Criminal Court here
early tonight.
The New York herald., 1922-12-13
SIGNS BILL TO RETIRE pIrSEy

wAsHINoToN. Dee. 10. - President
Harding has signed the bill authorizing
the retirement of Associate Justice Pit
ney Of the Supreme Court. Justice PITT
ney has been in III health for some time.
Friends said they expected him TO tender
his resignation within a few days.