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Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-11-13

AUCTlONS--LECALS


AUCTION SALES-Of every daSrrin-
Ton. Anywhere. n you want 10 sell.
80 hamilton, the square Deal Auc.
ooneer and Farm Agent, COZ West Ninth
street. Phone 4eeI VI
The Washington times., 1922-05-07
Can't Kill Crime BY Kindness.

It is useless for humanitarians to shirk this hard
fact, and proclaim their conviction that all law
breakers be cured by kindness That may be true
Of most cases, provided you find very gifted
practitioner to take the worst in hand with
limited time and means to treat them. But if these
conditions not available and policeman and
executioner who will disable the wrongdoer nsantan
eousy available the police remedy is the only prac
teal one, and will be applied by the rulers who
most deeply penetrated by the wisdom of the Ser
mon of the Mount.
The late G. V. Foote, president of the English Ma
tona Secular Society, and strong humanitarian,
had to persuade very intimate friend of his,
who much smaller and weaker man, to allow
himself to be taken to asylum for lunatcs 1t took
him four hours of humanitarian persuasion to get the
patient from the first floor of his house to the cab door
Foote told me that he not only recognized at once
that asylum attendant with several patients to at
tend to- could possibly spend four hours getting each
of them downstairs but found his temper intoeraby
strained by the unnatural tax his patience that if
the breaking point had been reached, it certainly
would have been in the of a warder or asylum
attendant, he would have been far more violent, not
to say savage than if he had resorted to force at once
and finished the job in five minutes.
The Washington times., 1922-05-07
j. BERNARD SHAW SAYS: All the Hdeous Cruelty
Practiced By Us for Sake of Prisoners Is WAIST

conscientious Arab, keeping his fierce staff in order
not by unusual punishments, but by threats of hell
after death which he invented for the purpose in
voting detail of kind which suggests that Mahomet
had perhaps too much of the woman and tho artist in
him to know what would frghten Bedouin most
Wellington, general so humane that he sacrificed
the exercise of military genius of the first order to
his moral horror Of and his freedom from its IL
lusions nevertheless hanged and fogged his soldiers
mercilessly because he had learned from experience
that, he put it, nothing is worse than impunity.
All revolutions have been the work of men who, like
Robespierre sentimental humanitarians and con-
scentious objectors to capital punishment and the
seventies of military and prison discipline; yet all the
revolutions have after very brief practical experience
been driven to terrorism (the proper name of deter
rence ruthless the Counter Terror
of Sua, the latest example being that of the Russian
revolution in progress.
Whether it is Sula, Robespierre, Trotzky, or the
fighting mate of sailing ship with crew of loafer
wasres the result is the same there people to be
dealt with who will not obey the law unless they
afraid to disobey it, and whose disobedience
disaster.
The Washington times., 1922-05-07
Authorities Face a Dilsn,n,a.

When prison authorities pretend to combine punish
ment with moral reformation they in the same
dilemma. We are told that the reformation of the
criminal is kept constantly in view yet the destruction
of the prisoners sefrespec by systematic humiliation
is deliberately ordered and practised, and we learn
from chaplain that he does not think it is good to
give opportunity for the exercise of Christian and
social virtues toward another among prisoners
The only consolation for such contradictions is their
demonstration that the tormenor nsnctively feels
that he must be liar and hypocrte the subject,
his conscience cannot be very easy about the torment
The contradictions obvious enough here, because
I have put them the same page. Official reports
keep them few pages apart and the average British
readers memory, it seems is not long enough to span
the gap when his personal interests are pot at stake
DIFFERENCE which is the real object of the courts has
much to be said for it, because it is neither simply
and directly wicked like retribution, false
for wckedness like reformation. 1t is an unquestion-
able fact that by making rules and forcing those who
break them to suffer severely that others like them
become afraid to break them discipline can be main
tanned to a certain extent among creatures without
sense enough to understand its necessity, or if they
do understand it. without conscience enough to refrain
from violating it.
The Washington times., 1922-05-07
Seamy Side Of Deterrence.

From taking this rational and practically compulsory
use of kindly physical coercion to making it painful
that the victim will be afraid to give any trouble next
time is pretty certain step. Prison officials have to
protect themselves against violence from prisoners, of
which there is a constant risk and very we'll founded
dread there always ungovernably savage crmi-
furious assaults than some animals, including quite
from biting and savaging.
The British official punishment is flogging and
putting in irons for months But the immediate rescue
Of the assaulted official has to be effected by the whole
body of officials within reach and whoever supposes
that the prisoner suffers nothing at their hands
than the minimum Of force necessary to restrain him
knows nothing of prison life and less of human nature
Any criticism of the deterrent theory Of prison
system which ignores the existence of which
amenable to terrorism and not to any other method
practically available under the circumstances will be
dscredted by the citation of such should be
deservedly dismissed sentimenalist if lost sight
of them for moment. On any other subject could
dispose of the matter by reminding my critics that hard
make bad law.
On this subject recognize that the hard cases
of such nature that provision must be made for them.
Indeed hard may be said to be the whole subject
matter of criminal law, for the normal human case is
not that Of the criminal but of the law abiding person
whose collar the grip of the policeman closes
Only it does not follow that the hardest should
dictate the treatment Of the relatively soft Ones
Let us see what the objections to the Deter
rent Terrorist system.
1t necessarily leaves the interests Of tho victim
The Washington times., 1922-05-07

wholly out of account. 1t Injuries and degrades him.
destroys the reputation without which he cannot get
employment and, when the punishment is imprison-
ment under SYSTEM atrophies his powers of fend
ing for himself in the world. Now this would not
terally hurt anyone but himself it, when he had been
duly made an example of, he were killed like vivi-
sected dog Bit he is not killed
He is at the expiration Of his sentence, flung out of
the prison into the streets to his living in labor
market where nobody will employ ex-prsoner, be-
trays himself at every turn by his ignorance Of the
common news of the months years he has passed
without newspapers lamed in speech, and terrified at
the unaccustomed task of providing food and lodging
for himself.
There is only one lucrative occupation available for
him; and that is crime. He has compunction as to
society; why should he have any' Society for its
selfish protection having done its worst to him. he has
no feeling about it except desire to get bit Of his
back.
He seeks the only company in which he is welcome:
the society of criminals; and later, according
to his luck he finds himself in prison again The figures
of recidvsm show that the exceptions to this routine
are so few to be negligible for the purpose of this
argument The criminal far from being deferred from
crime is forced into it; and the citizen whom his pun
shment was meant to protect suffers from his depre
dations
It u.s. in fact admitted that the deterrent system does
not deter the convicted criminal Its real efficacy is
sought in the deterrent effect the free citizens who
would commit crimes but for their fear of punishment
The terrorist can point to the wide range of evdong
which, not being punished by law, is rampant among
us; for though man can get himself hanged for mo-
mentary lapse of self control under ntolerabe provoca
ton by a naggng woman, into prison for putting
the precepts of Christ above the orders of Competent
Military Authority, he be quite Internal scoun-
drel without breaking any penal law
The Washington times., 1922-05-07
Hate to Release Prisoners.

This is the fundamental explanation of the extreme
and apparently fiendsh reluctance of prison author
ties to release prisoner even when the evidence
which he convicted is discredited to point in
which no jury would maintain it's verdict of guilty.
The reluctance is not to confess that innocent
being punished but to proclaim that guilty has
escaped For if escape possible deterrence shrinks
almost to nothing There is better established rule
of crimnology than that it is not the severity Of pun
shment that deters, but its certainty.
And the flaw in the for terrorism is that it is
impossible to obtain enough certainly to deter The
police compelled to confess every year, when they
publish their statistics, that against the list Of crimes
reported to them they set only percentage of de-
tections and convictions. And the list of reported
crimes form only percentage, how large small
it is impossible to say, but probably small, of the
crimes actually committed; for it is the greatest mis-
take to suppose that everyone who is robbed to
the police; the contrary, only foolish people and ig
noran very angry people do without very serious
consideration and great reluctance.
In most it costs nothing to let the thief off,
and good deal to prosecute him. The burglar in
Heartbreak House. who makes his living by robbng
people and then backmaiing them by threatening to
give himself up to the police and put them to the
pense and discomfort of attending his trial and giving
evidence after enduring all the worry of the police
inquiries is not joke he is a comic dramatzaton of
a process that is going every day.
As to the black sheep of respectable families who
blackmail them by offering them the alternative of
making good their thefts and frauds or having the
family name dsgraced, ask any experienced family
solicitor
doubt whether the chances of acquittal count for
very much except with very attractive women; but it
is worth mentioning that jures will snatch at the
flmsiest pretexts for refusing to send people who
engage their sympathy to the gaows to penal serv
tude evidence Of murder Of theft which would
make short work Of repulsive person.
Take my experience probably common
enough. Fifty years ago friend Of mne hearing that
CONTINUED on Page 81
The Washington times., 1922-05-07
Can't Afford Villany Unpunished.

If it be true it certainly is, that it is conscience
and not the fear of punishment that makes civilized
life possible, and that Dr. Johnson's
How small, of all that human hearts endure,
That part that laws kings can cause or cure!
is as applicable to crime to human activity in gen
era it is none the less true that commercial civilization
presents an appalling spectacle of page and para
stism of corruption in the press and in the pulpit Of
lying advertisements which make people buy rank poi
sons in the belief that they health resorers of traps
to catch the provision for the widow and the fatheress
and divert it to the pockets of company promoting
rogues of vlanous oppression of the poor and cruelty
to the defenseless and is arguabe that most of this
could like burglary and forgery be kept within bear
able bounds if its perpetrators dealt with as burg
lars and forgers are dealt with.
1t is, Of course, equally agreeable that II we can
afford to leave so much vilainy unpunished We can
afford to leave all villany unpunished. The reply is
The Washington times., 1922-05-07

HIS Is the second Of series of articles by George
Bernard Sha,0. in ,Ohich he condemns societys att
tude toUdrd and endorsement of oder. methods of pun
tshment for criminals Other articles ,ciH follo,o.
WHEN people at last compelled to think about
w what they are doing to unfortunate convicts
they think unsuccessfuy and confusedly that they
only make matters Take for example, the British
official list of the results aimed at by the Police Com
mssioners, which is typical. First Imprisonment must
be retnbutory the word vndictve is not in official
use Second, it must be deterrent. Third it must be
Informative.
Now, if you are to punish a man retrbutively, you
must injure him. If you to reform him, you must
improve him. And men are not improved by injuries
To propose to punish and reform man by the same
operation is exactly if you were to take a man
suffering from pneumonia and attempt to combine
punitive and curative treatment. Arguing that man
with pneumonia is danger to the community, and
that he need not catch if he takes proper of his
health, you resolve that he shall have severe lesson
both to punish him for his negligence and pulmonary
weakness and to deter others from following his ex
ample. You therefore strip him Naked and stand him
in that condition all night in the snow. But as you
admit the duty of restoring him to health if possible
and discharging him with sound lungs, you engage a
doctor to superntend the punishment and administer
cough lozenges, made unpleasant to the taste as
possible so not to pamper the culprit. Board of
Commissioners ordering such treatment would prove
thereby that either they nbeciles or else they
were hoty in earnest about Furnishing the patient and
not in the least in earnest about curing him.
The Washington times., 1922-05-07
Piausibilify of Dslusion.

This is the crude basis of all our disciplines, home
discipline, school discipline, factory discipline army
and navy discipline, well prison discipline and
the whole fabric of criminal law. It rs imposed not
only by cruel rulers but by unquestonably humane
ones the only difference being that the cruel rulers i'm
pose it with aacrity and goa its execution and
the humane rulers driven to it reluctantly by the
failure of their appeals to the conscience of people who
have no conscience.
Thus find Mahomet, a conspcuously humane and
The Washington times., 1922-05-07
PRESENT DAY
PRISON RULES
ARE A FARCE

'elf You Are to Punish a Man Retributively,
You Must hjure Him; If You Are to Reform
Him You Must Improve Him, and Mem Arc
Not Improved by Injuries" Declares Eng
land'S Greatest SatiriSt and Critic.
The Washington times., 1922-05-07

that we cannot afford it, liberation is threatening
our civilization. The prosperity that consists in the
wicked fourishing like bay tree and the humble and
contre hearts being thoroughly despised, is CONNER
cal deuson Facts must be looked in the face rascas
told what they ere, and all men called on to justify
their ways to God and Man up to the point at which
the full discharge of their social duties leaves them free
to exercise their individual fancies.
Restraint from evil doing is within the rights we'll
within the powers of organized society over its mem
bers and cannot be denied that the execution of these
powers as far as it could be made inevitable, would
incdenty deter from crime certain number of people
with a marginal conscience at ALL and that
their codficaton would create fresh social conscience
by adding to the list of things which wabdng peo
pie make it point of honor not to do, besides calling
the attention of the community to grave matters in
which they have hitherto erred through thoughtless
ness.
But there is all the difference in the world between
deerrence as incident of the operation of criminal
law and deterrence its sole object and justification
In purely deterrent system, for instance, it matters
not jolt who is punished provided somebody is pun
ished and the public persuaded that he is guilty The
effect of hanging imprsoning the wrong is as
deterrent hanging or imprisoning the right one.
The Washington times., 1922-05-07
CULPRlTS NOT
IMPROVED BY
JAIL TERMS

1--WE Arc Told That the Reformation OF the
Criminal is Kept Constantly In View; Yet
the Destruction of the Prisoners Self
Respect by Systematic Humiliation is Delhi
erately Ordered and Practiced by the Prison
Authorities"
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1922-01-28
tO-OpIHlIIlI SIOIsI.
SHOWS " I>tI,E tSiI

The stockholders uf the o9fhfle
Cooperative association operating y
groeery store on Oklahoma Ave- hsia
4 meeting ~ the Chamber of Com
merce rooms Frlday night A llnan.
,ial report vas read by sccre'ery
rortes which showed The association
doing a good business apd a stai"-
ment of the assets showed the siusk
sorih 100 cents on the dollar
A discussion 81 the affairs of M
association was indnlgod 10 BY those
present and all were optimistic
An early campaign Of advertising
Il 70 BE- pursued and the merits of lhs
plan A. q safe Investment dpf nT
,hess hard times a FoiHy 70 D. pre-
ensed 20 the publlc
president Ganeit presided
over the meeting.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1922-01-28
GUTHRIE HI BOYS DEFEAT
20 BY 0. c. CAGEnS
Spann PLAYS Stellar Part In uame
For Locals, Spurt In Last
Session Defeats Our
Boys

Guthrie hlehs,hool cafefs while
paying brilliant game nai nlgai
feiled % fon lhe score n the Okln
hamA Clir Users aud went down 10
defeat ht Score N s. to it
cuihrle led up "a lhr last shfly
seeondr of The frri hatf when tae
Cardinal. seemed % wake aud man
aeel 90 fAn the lsaa. f,os,lne 0htb.
NJ 20 lhe tape IN ihe flat half 10
ta 9
Henry Cnihries center vas for "a
ont ~ lhp eame in the early part ot
the aeona aoesion neeessliatlnr tae
substitution of yofls vho has he0n
orr 81 the game nll soastn on a.. ount
of sickness. from ihen on the INVADER
seemed 90 tnt on new NE and
fomrsd Az over Guthrie plllne up
20 roinia Ca a few minutes u play.
spann was gulhr'c's best man. ear.
erlng the floor ln rood Snaps ani
giving zoe Cardinals forwards COZ.
siderable trouble
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1922-01-28
LIONS HAVE JOLLY
TIME At LUNCHEON
Bob I.ehew Pulls Hot One
on Fellow Members and
Starts a Near Panic.
Factory Talk

a number "a iaona uAsfl nns ~
ttr iollleas merilnsa ol me eiaa Z
their luncheon fsaaY tY hslng ah
srnt. a. the attendance was nui 0H
a. iho nsnsi numhef r0t insiant-
l.iou Rob iehrw delivered letlurr
pn chemistry 81 Applied to okplt.
al,ss r. n r. eerAllo esr st
which ho had What pafpofied 10 -
samples which be- handled Yefr
glnr,rly ami uersously explained
what wrald happen should ~ aroa 4
small phial "a nitfosll ecrae uhlsA
hc exhibited IN hla demonstration.
and thus worked Hume II tha ii1u.
Into uneasy expectancy. end az lhis
po'ni Lyon nnl illeAmah fired a ii
celihre gan he bad seretuliy conceal.
cd. which sonudel ite au earthquake
10 Tho cfiueiug lions pauAsmonlun
efrned Immediately
Lions Armstrong fepufsrd ihat hlp
committee had lhafaushly lnyr~ti
Rasrd proposition 10 iooate far
tory fnr tho manufacture 81 osrfAlls
and mcnn wori clothes IN OAthHs
ana were satisfied that tbs d An a..
cellent proposition. which is nov
about ready e. elnse The factory iil
~ tne start empluy rlty pwlous
mostly Womcn. and ulll have nn 40
nnal onipnt ~ srount fllOpoo. iha'
ro0l deal ~ ihe cloth lnr ths iA0
tory could te manufactured here d
Guthrie az iha rloueer Cotton mlis
a iutem - souvenirs - ~ drown
~ a each moetins. was adopted. tne
first ono offered helng i've ifss
luurhoons offered b. Lion ssardeo }
a. Crayons and oliver rafkhartl
were introduced - nes tnbs And
both made fellcltloaa lalha
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1922-01-28
sAxToN AND PUcH LIVE
FORD DISTRIBUTORS

vi h change in personnel. the
Dill Pngh Moior Co. Is now operaf-
ing az i22 North Division under the
name OF SAXON Pngh Motor Cem-
psny. agents o. The Ford" the uni
versal car Bill Push is already
known 10 Tie community as live
wire-1 ri hful. int epid business
young man His partner IN the Fori
agency. Earl saxon. has moved his
family 10 Guthrie from Pawhuska
and will prove a rici acquisition %
the business and 50 iai elements Of
the city Mr. Saxon. like Pueh
knows the motor game. lie Is act.
i've. energetic and afiable Tle new
firm occupies the entire roor under
he Elks forest. formerly used ~
he Houghton Motor agency Every
thing in the new quarters is new and
high grade with manifold accom-
ranimeni OF shop machinery. stock
accessories and Ford parts. Clarence
Ellis is 10 caarge Of the shop and
Carl MI..er the parts department.
The new firm has already sold more
than IS cars and promises 10 keep
up a lively sales gait
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1922-01-28
VOCatOna,
Training
q aFarCe?

Cincinnati Ian IS Necat.aaai
tralnns At Camp sherman Chiui.
ooihe. Ohio i farce ont e
fraud accordiae % JedEa Robert $
NarN. national commander 81 iae
n.sah.,t Veterans q fAe World.
War ln retou presented in Wash .
iae,on TODAY 10 Martin y Madden
chairman ol the house commute y
appropriations. luaec Marx saws
The school fooms hasc been made
over IA makeahifi fashion ln the
plestr "a seh.4ol Which has an ennias
maut 81 so. there uefs only 81 wen
actually present and q this rpi ,o-
Only tao were deins ANYTHING
Tho equipment b. said Nas eie,
o.. could d. picked iiom any atshf
oned camp.
"a looked Ike real work was be-
lnr done 30 the taiorine school ih"
report said "onl, t~o 81 lhree mon
seemed 70 ~ idle
IA the shoe refalsnF school they
appeared % ~ huss
4 asa not find single s,uee''
who expressed satisfaction With ih'
method Of teaching Judss Nafs
said Many ~ The students wanted
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1922-01-28
sep. pRikoEV ADDRESSES
OKLAHOMA STATE SOCIETY

Washington. Ian 2S Reprsrnia.
tss j 4 rrinfcy. q oA.shoma. a..
ilYef.i an address as ihe oalshoma
state society lass nlrhs 81 lhn
Thomson School. Twelfth and }.
at ests nor'hVrsi on his resent irp
sl0oufh iiaiu ana ~n4A America.
IN enstng incidents encountered hy
aim during bis tour Ia latin Amer.
iea Nere outlined
Paul A. Walker a LAWYER # okh-
homa CITY. gueat of the society.
fpoke briefly a musical program
con, uAed the evening
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1922-01-28
Law
Declared By
Nebra ska Gorernor

Lincoln Ncb. tar- Five
companies % the ast.oaai aoard
trooFs sadef command a Aieai
colonsi Douglas q the istth Ne
trasss snrantr,. Wi rrecsru q
once 70 Nebraska CITY = resporss
% an sppsal from sns eesniS snsfs
IN. county attorney snd mayor for
sriiissry proteet,on arising seer' al
ieeec disorders arising oUs q ne
packing house strike n That ei'y.
Martial ia~ = oeelareo 10 ee IN
effect Ia az territery comprising
AID ,neloc,no four mile pr<ssret
otoe eourty. lnelvdine Neo'ss ala
CITY. ARD al is sue dlsis o~s'
reaos the proclamation 81 ooNefnog
NcKeisie issued after = eosrleFsrss
thls morning with Aotutans Gen
sral paul o. ,he Nsb-asks ras'ensl
guard.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1922-01-28
BITfisn ORDER iOfR
NCIO TAG TO-DAY

Motorists requesting ists ante.
roblis licenses from ,he state high
way department are taxing the "a
raelly q The office. according 10
statement n y D Clark hlehwae
commissioner An ascmFs u more
lhaa iooa leaasea daily arr balas
lssDed hs ss.d
The liesnss paying pefloi ends aekt
fHesdaf Whether ihr number q 81
ioniohlles registered this year WlH
Ffeafalf etceed last years flsufss
cannot b. aaiermined yet ciark salt