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visitor that such things can be.
1t will disgust him with tho
sordid things ne sees and hears.
1t will amuse him with tho
touch of comedy that shows up
once in a while, and II will
cause him to shudder at life in
the raw that greets him from the
prisoners dock.
MONDAYS THE BIG DAY.
Court convenes at 10 o'clock
each morning. and long before
that hour tho audience Is seated
and waiting. Some in this
audience are regular habitues.
and some in time get hard
boiled, so that they take It as a
personal affront when anyone is
acquitted, and mutter protests in
whispers. OF tho two courts. the
United States branch is the most
popular because hero the pris-
oners are charged with crimes
Of a bit more serious nature and
when convicted arc sentenced to
longer terms.
Monday morning II the greatest
day Of the week in the two
courts. The boys in blue have
been busy Saturday and Sunday,
and the dockets are large ones.
Tho corridors are crowded with
people Of all sorts and conditions.
Professional bondsmen are hurry
ing here and there. buttonholing
grim looking policemen and ad-
vising their clients. Lawyers and
lawbreakers gather In corners and
go over evidence in whispers. Po-
licemen sprawl out in their seats
and yawn. The bailiff looks bored,
and tho clerk sorts his papers as
he has perhaps . thousand times
before.
The Judge enters the court at
10 o'clock, and the audience stands
under protest while tho crier opens
court. This formality disposed of
the audience settles down again.
Lot us take last Monday morning
and watch the parade ~ It passes
before his honor.
The first case called was that Of
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captured. and informed the judge
he was on tho trail Of a bunch Of
robbers. It would break up his
work to send him to jail. The
court didn't want to see those
robbers escape, and % It placed
Dick on probation on the con-
cealed weapon charge and fined
him SO for being drunk. When
last seen. Richard was trying to
borrow the $40 from a policeman
MOBILE VS.. MEMPHIS.
Judge. 1 was walking down the
alley. not meaning no harm to no.
body. when this here oolored man
comes up to me and asks me is
q from Mobile. Alabama. When
tells him Use from Memphis, hes
done say Memphis people Is no
good. He pulls out q knife and
makes for me, so I just naturally
had to get my razor and carve
him up a little. 1t am pure case
of self-defense. Judge, and moth
ing more or less"
Thus did Jim Williams explain
his action IN carving one good
nose off the face Of one LEROY
Thomas. Thomas had an entirely
different story to tell. According
to his version Jim stole from his
room. while he was asleep, . half
pint of a useful preparation that
Leroy was saving to entertain
some visitors from Baltimore.
When he missed 1t he went after
Jim. He came up with him in an
alley, and the two Of them got TO-
gether. The razor ruined Leroy's
beauty. the cops got Jim. and Jim
got eight months.
The preliminary hearings Of the
big criminals furnish some un.
usual types, and very often lay
bare some interesting things.
Here you have no petty law
breaker with some lying tale that
would not deceive a fifteen.year-
old child; you have cool brains.
THE SECOND CHANCE.
Three judges preside over the
different branches in the police
court. At present Judge Nc
Mahan sits in the traffic court,
Judge Hardison in the District
branch and Judge Mattingly in
the United States branch. These
three gentlemen have had long and
varied experiences with people
who insist upon breaking the
statutes. They know human ma
ture also. They realize that We
all are weak, and where there is
an opportunity to extend mercy
to an erring brother or sister,
they are only too ready to do It.
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our great city 10 now put through,
a process for the destruction Of
chance microbes which he In
vented and which is called in his
honor, "pasteurization."
And the unspoken thanks Of
tens Of thousands Of little ones.
saved by the intelligence Of moth
er love to longer and happier life
and happier days, shine and will
continue to- shine like q halo
around the brow Of the great
prophet Of science.
Besides being q man Of science
he almost seemed to foresee the
future. or 20 1t would appear from
the closing words Of his inausu.
raj address upon the opening OF
the Pasteur Institute in Novem,
Der, 1888:
1.-TWO opposing laws seem TO me
now In contest. The one, . Law
Of blood and death. opening out
each day new methods of destruc.
tion. forces nations to be always
ready for the battle. The other,
a law Of peace, work and health
whose only aim is to deliver man
kind from the caiamities which
beset him.
"Ths one seeks violent con
quests; the other. the relief Of
mankind. The 'one places q sin
gle life above all Victories tn,
other sacrifices hundreds Of thou
sands of lives for the ambition
of a single Individual, The law
Of which We are the instrument
strives even through the carnage
to cure the wounds due to the
law Of war,
Treatment by our antisepho
methods may preserve the lives
Of thousands Of soldiers. Which
of these two laws will prevail.
God only knows, But Of this
we may be sure, That science,
in obeyins the law Of humanity,
will always labor 70 enlarge the
frsntisrs sf life"
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Pasteur rose almost over night
to a position Of the greatest honor
and esteem In scientific circles;
and his prestige but increased as
time went on. This sudden leap
to distinction was caused by his
complete solution of a chemical
anomaly which had been puzzling
the most eminent scientists in
Europe.
PATH TO GLORY.
The solution was of little imme-
diate Importance to the world at
large. but It is said that ono Of
the most distinguished chemists
in France simply expressed the
general scientific opinion of the
day when, with truly Gallo enthu-
siasm, he burst into tears and
kissed Pasteur on both cheeks
after the experiment had been
successfully demonstrated before
him.
All this had been accomplished
and yet Pasteur was barely In his
thirties. but It was upon the re.
suits Of another series OF expert
ments, begun In 1854. that Pas
teur's claim to worldwide fame
really rests.
Pasteur ha6 the omnivorous
curiosity Of the true scientist. as
well as q strong strain of prac-
tical common sense, and IL was
this happy combination Of In
stinots which Get him to work ON
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~ EPUBLICS may be pro-
verbally ungrateful, but
~ France is not-at least, II
the erection Of statues to her
more distinguished sons may be
taken as an indication.
Indeed this enthusiasm has
reached such a height that a
statue has recently been un-
yelled at Strasbourg in honor of
tho man who invented the cele-
brated table delicacy. pate de foie
gras, and thereby made the stuff
fling Of geese one of the chief
industries of the district; while
there has been serious talk Of
the creation of a Committee on
Monuments" in Paris.
Unlike most such bodies. its
duty would be not to promote.
but to discourage, the erection Of
statues, and carefully to examine
the record OF each man to whom
1t was proposed to erect a monu-
ment-to see IL he was worthy Of
the honor.
According to some writers.
statues are now becoming so nu-'
merous that they threaten posi-
lively to cucumber the squares
and parks and leave insufficient
room for the really great geniuses
whose memory It may be desired
to honor In years to come.
IMMORTAL FAME.
But by a happy combination Of
chance and design, a compliment
greater than that of almost any
statue is about to be paid to one
of Frances greatest sons, a man
who has gained immortal fame
by the hundreds of thousands of
lives he has saved. not by the
tens of thousands he has de.
stroyed--Louis Pasteur.
Instead OF It being necessary to
20 to one spot in France to be-
hold this tribute to his favor, 1t
win be spread to the uttermost
ends of the earth, and the very
means Of Its transmission is in
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There is ono segment of life
that we know very little Of.
What knowledge we have of 1t
comes to US from the police
news in the daily newspapers.
We are greatly interested In its
doings, and after breakfast on
Sunday morning. when the wife
is getting tho kids ready for
Sunday school. we grab our Sun
day Morning Times-Herald, light a
cigar. poke our feet up on the
best chair in the house and
settle down to read how Bill
jackson got six months for boot
logging or Tom Smith was
pinched for hitting his wife with
q club. We chuckle when We
see that Senator SIS auto
mobile has been stolen once moro,
and we marvel at the clever-
ness Of the crook who broke
into Mrs. Jones' apartment and
stole her diamonds, while tho
family were at dinner.
JUST PETTY CROOKS.
The wandering sons and
daughters sooner or later make
their appearance before Judge
Mattingly or Judge Hardison in
one of the District police courts.
These crooks the sob sisters call
the submerged tenth or denizens
Of the underworld, but they're
not. They are Just plain petty
lawbreakers. Among them can
be mentioned bootleggers. gun
toters, knife handlers. wife
beaters. drug peddlers, pick
pockets and a few bartenders.
These are the people who make
Judge Mattinsly look 80 old for
his "thirty-four years" These are
tho folks who cause Judge
Hardison to wish for q lighted Ian
tern 90 he can look for an honest
man.
A visit to the Police Court Is
bound to prove interesting. 1t
reveals a side Of Life that tho
average citizen only comes in
contact with when he 10 serving
Jury duty. 1t will surprise the
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itself the symbol Of civilization
and progress-the foreign letter
postage stamp.
Philatelists will appreciate the
honor that has been paid to their
chosen field by giving It such an
important place in the centennial
celebrations Of tho birth Of this
world-famous scientist.
This h not by any means the
first honor that has been paid to
him, either now or during his
own lifetime. There Is q Boule-
ward Pasteur in Paris: a play has
Just been written along the lines
OF Drinkwater's abraham Lin
coin" to depict Pasteur's discov.
cries. his struggles with the ultra.
conservatives who would not &C.
cept his theory. and ending in
his ultimate and overwhe elminx
triumph.
GREATEST FRENCHMAN.
Nor is this all. A popular vote
was taken in France. some years
ago, to determine who was the
greatest Frenchman of all time.
and Pasteur swept the field, out
rivaling even the great Napoleon
in the esteem of his fellow
countrymen.
1t seldom falls to the lot of any
man to make two discoveries of
almost incalculable value. one Of
which was, indeed. among the
greatest single advances made
in science, while the other re.
suited in the practical eradica-
ton Of an affliction whose very
name was a synonym Of horror
and which slowly tortured to
death every victim which 1t
seized.
Even rarer Is It for full honor
and grateful recognition to be
paid to scientific discoverer dur.
ing his lifetime, so that his de.
clining years are illumined by the
homage Of the world; yet this
still greater good fortune was the
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the problem Of Why Things Go
Sour.
Until then It was believed that
ferments and decompositions took
place as the result of some in.
ternal and inherent Curse OF
Eve" and that little could be
done to retard, much less pre-
vent, the process.
Pasteur. however, began with a
close study Of fermenting yeast,
and was finally able to pick out
the particular element which
caused the trouble. He then
passed on to the study Of milk
and was the first to locate the
little particles which caused it to
fermsnt. and also, proved that,
when these microscopic specks
had been removed and no more
were allowed to sneak back.
milk would keep fresh almost in
definitely.
This endurance test, It may be
parenthetically remarked. Is still
very good Indicator Of a milk's
purity and cleanliness; the longer
1t remains sweet the more care
fully has its production been
guarded.
BRAvED DEATH.
There is one type known as
dumb" or paralytio. rabies,
where the animal seemingly
passes into a decline and dies
quietly without causing any trou-
BILE. but in the other type, the
last stages Of the disease have
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Writer'S On Medical Subjects.

ment of every suspected case.
If nothing is done until the signs
become unmistakable, 1t Is too
late; the treatment cannot begin
to have effect in time.
Hence every community should
see that all facilities for this
treatment are kept constantly in
readiness, and every one who
even suspects that he has been
bitten by a rabid animal should
have the right to immediate and
competent attention.
Pasteur's first patient. q little
Alsatian shepherd boy. was sue
cessfully treated in 1885: within
q few years Pasteur Institutes
were opened in all parts Of the
world to carry out his treatment,
and in 1888 the Pasteur Institute
of Paris was created to carry on
his work in this and in other
fields.
Though the great scientist SUI.
fered from q stroke in later life.
and hence could not carry on
further experiments personally,
he always remained the guiding
genius of the institution which
bears his name.
GOOD LIVES ON.
One of the happiest moments
of his declining years was when
his protese and fellow worker.
Roux. announced his discovery of
antitoxin for "ths stranger"
diphtheria.
Nor was Pastcur's native land
behindhand IN paying homage TO
her beloved son: honors and dis
tinctions Of every sort were be-
slowed upon him. and when he
died. In 1897, the whole world
mourned his passing.
The good that mon do lives
after them, Almost daily we
come In contact with some de-
veiopment Of his great theory, A
large part ef the milk supply Of
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the effect of making the animal
"go mad" as the saying is. and
lurch frantically about. swapping
wildly at everything 1t sees.
As long as the poisoned saliva
falls upon unbroken skin there
is but slight risk Of infection. but
II It enters q wound, such as may
be made by the teeth of rabid
animal, the danger assumes men,
acing proportions. Even then,
about IS per cent of those bitten
will suffer no Ill effects. but the
factor which gave to the name
of hydrophobia the terrible sig
nificance which 1t had before Pas
teur was that all those whom II
did infect were doomed.
A long period Of mental and
bodily torture would ensue in
variably. ending Mn commissions
and death.
FIRST PATIENT.
The penalty for any accident
in experimenting with this awful
malady was the possibility Of
certain death in q dreadful form.
but Pasteur was not deferred.
and the treatment which he de-
veloped has brought the death
rate from hydrophobia down to q
fraction Of per cont Of those
bitten, instead Of from 10 to 1e
per cent. an before.
This wonderful change has
been. brought about by one thing
only: Prompt and thorough treat
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time in that jail"
How about sixty days, Mary?"
That's too long, Judge"
We'll, how about thirty days?"
That's too long, too"
Hem. will fifteen days suit
your"
Judge. can't you make it tent"
The Judge had reached his
limit. however, and Mary stepped
back to do fifteen days.
The next case was that of a
gentleman charged with punching
up his sister while under the in.
fluence of corn liquor. He was
a little man, about fifty years old.
and when he appeared in court
his head and face were swathed in
bandages which allowed only his
eyes to remain visible. The sis
ter was on hand to tell her story,
and when the spectators looked
at her size. they understood the
bandages on the little mans face.
She was a big woman. and she
had a determined face. Accord
ing to her story. the brother had
arrived home and started in to
clean out the place. The sister
grabbed a milk bottle. and effec-
lively killed his ambitions in this
direction. Then the police ar
lived.
MUCH OBLIGED. JUDGE"
The little chap pleaded guilty
and was sentenced to six months.
lie gave one look at the stern, set
face OF his sister. and. then
thanked the judge for his kind.
ness.
Dick Thomas-that's not his
light name-is q detective. At
least he says he is. and admits
that he works along the lines Of
Sherlock Holmes. Deduction is
his long suit. The detecting
business was slack in Baltimore,
and Dick deducted that he had
better come to Washington and
get a job at paper-hanging-no
carpenteing. Dick placed his
trusty gun in his pocket, polished
up his badge. and caught an elec-
tric car.
Arriving here. he smelled corn
whiskey in the vicinity Of Four
and-a-half street and started out
to trail 1t to it's source. He con-
nected all right. He took one
drink. and went to sleep In a
vacant lot. The cops found him
there, and he was before the
Judge. charged with carry con-
cealed weapons and being drunk.
Dick told his story. Told Of
the desperate criminals he had
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have you got to say for yourselff"
Judge" came the answer, "I've
got an awful pain in my head and
/ sure do wish you would let me
off this time"
Mary, you had better let me
send you down for awhile.s You
can get treatment at the Wash
ington Asylum Hospital and
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name, was an old timer. The
policeman who had made the ar
rest gave her q bad introduction
and things looked black for her.
The Judge placed his head on
his hands and looked down on the
poor human derelict in front Of
him with kindly eyes.
"Well, Mary" he said. what
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AND COMEDY ARE MINGLED i'm WASHINGTONS
)LLCE COURTS--AND HUMAN SYMPATHY GOVERNS
BIG CRIMINALS GET :,
INTO THE NET WITH
THE OTHERS AT TIMES

Cool, Resourceful Veterans of Crime, They
Fight to Last to Keep Their Freedom, and
Preliminary Hearings i'm Police Court Are.
Bitterly Contested-Great School for Stu
dents OF Human Nature.
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By HARRY sHREvE.

NIs is story of Washingtons melting pot and while
not exactly tale Of the underworld 1t is going to
introduce the gentle reader to mighty tough
Of both Back somewhere in history
wise gentleman said "One half Of tho world does
how the other half lives" He right We know not
neither do We all live in little worlds
and think very little of the joys and Of the people
Suhn ist nntside Of them
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when you come out you will be
feeling better and can start all
over again"
Mary was silent for a moment
and then she placed her hand on
her head and moaned. Judge.
you know I been in the crazy
house. I got an awful pain in
my head and I can't stand much
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an elderly woman who had been
arrested tho previous Saturday
evening for being drunk. She had
been confined in a station house
nearly forty-eight hours and now,
suffering from the effects Of the
poison she had been drinking,
she was not a pretty thing to look
1t. Mary. We will call her by that
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MONDAY MORNING is
WEEKS BIGGEST DAY
AND DOCKETS BULGE

BootleggerS, wife BeaterS, Gum TOterS, Knife
Handlers, Petty Thieves and Drug Peddlers
Make UP Bulk of 0ver-Smnday GriSt-Court
is Always Ready TO Give New Offenders Am
other Chance.
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= - Pasteur Centenary Recalls His Feats

DR.. Hutchinson Is An Eminent Physician and
Imperial Valley press., 1922-10-16

Miss Harriet g. Eddy left yestcr-
day for the north after looking into
the work OF the Farm home depart
ment of Imperial County, and attend
ing the directors meeting Saturday.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-10-16
MANY NEW MEMBERS
FOR LITERATURE
SECTION

Mrs r. b. Whiteaw gave a most in
teresting paper at the meeting of the
Literary Section, Saturday afternoon
outlining Russian history from it:
earliest development to the present
The paper was most comprehensive
covering saint features in, the history
of the country, which is 80 much in
the public mind at the present time.
Mrs. Lourraine w. Sears. talked on
Russian literature and its development
from the folk stories to the written
volumes which reflect the life and Gus
toms of the Russian people.
The attendance was large and many
new members were listed for the cours,
to be followed this fall and winter.
Mrs f. l.. Garthwaite is the chairman
of the section. The meeting was held
in the tea room of the clubhouse, which
proved to be ideal for such a purpose.
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MRS. V. S. CAMPBELL
Telephone 1S4-W
MISS EDDY HERE
HOME CENTERS
BOARD MEETS

Miss Harriet q. Eddy, state leader Of
home demonstration, agents of the Unr
versitv Agricultural Extension service
arrived Saturday to attend the meet.
ing Of the county directors of home
department centers in Imperial alley.
This is the first visit of Miss Eddy
since she attended thel great biennial
meeting of the General Federation of
Women 5 Clubs this summer in New
York. Miss Eddy Nas especially in
vited TO this meeting to tell the great
assemblage Of the California plan of
work with rural women. The story was
new TO most of the representatives
present, for California pioneered in
the work of making home demonsira
fion distinctly educational, supported
by general taxation.
Because the promoters of the work
in California had the vision to see clear
beyond the organization period and
plan for stabilized, dienified, yduca
tional service, the california plan has
come to be recognized as in advance of
that tried in any other state.
Here, il is part of the University
Extension Service, hiked up with the
department of agriculture, with its fl
naneial support properly taken care Of
Dy county and state.
Laws were passed which enable the
county Supervisors to appropriate funds
for the expenses and salaries are taken
care of by the state university. The
work is distinctly educational, Follow
ing wells,lefined lines
The scheme was carefully explainc,,
',v the speaker ana awakened tc deep
est interest in the work. Miss Eddy
believes that her ,r;3 10 New York
was cminentlv worth while because il
was infor1nationd sud viii heir other
states to work out problems which have
lindered home demonstration.
Volunteer leadership and collection
Of funds to carry On the work, from
individuals who tire interested; are not
10 be depended upcn, or the work loses
ia dignity wherever it is undertaken,
N the opinion of Miss Eddy. Other
If the states through the influence Of
Imperial Valley press., 1922-10-16
Community CHURCH
RALLY in SEELEY
Nv Special staff Correspondent

sE1sJ ny Oct. l6. George A. Ragan,
lei Centre, who is one Of the most en-.
thusiastic workers for the welfare OF
the Seetcy Community Church, was the
principal speaker yesterday at the re-
uulor service in that house of worship.
He impressed upon the congregation
the necessity of turning out to the last
man. woman and child in the parish, to
greet the Rev. Leon II. Austin, who is
Gaming to preach on October 30, Jay
iny the foundation for the big fally
for Community Church cooperation II
is estimated that more than two nun,
dred grown, ups and half as many
children will be in the line up to shake
hands with Seeley's popular pastor of
two years ago, who has volunteered to
visit his old parishioners and to greet
many new ones
The speaker called attention to the
Prohibition Enforcement Act, known as
the Wright Law to be voted upon by
the people November z, and which was
recently signed by Gov. William ID.
stephens. Mr. kagan urged those
present to become familiar with this
act, which, as the governor says eek
ftCtlN lutttS iHt " Wv
of the United States for
the enforcement of the eighteenth
amendment by both congress and
state.
Mrs. Albertine Smith, principal of the
See!ey school was hostess. ON Friday
night, at her spacious bungalow to Il
party of Friends who enjoyed the in
formal entertainment. Those present
included; Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Rcedy.
Miss Mailman, FL Centre, and the fol
lowing of Seeley: Mrs. George l..
Campbell, Donald Campbell, Mr.. and
Mrs. A. I. Ezell, Miss Helen Moore,
Miss Rose Morero, Mr.. and Mrs. Otis
Tipps, William Tipps and c. Livings-
ton.
Former residents of Seeley who have
been living IN the coast cities and
elsewhere during the heated term, are
beginning to return to their homes. j.