The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-10-23
In Shadow of the Gal lows - Schutte Has New Light on Many Things - Guarding Against Wrong Per son - Great States men Are Rare Automobile Is the Leading Killer.

tonight, kisses his children fran tically. and hopes his wife will come to see him. He forgives his son, who testified against him. Schutte is convicted of shooting the Balls, man and wife, and their son, in cold blood; then burn ing their bodies, by firing the dwelling in which they lived. If the killers could only look a bit ahead, they might do better. Re- Venge is warm, but death Is cold. The sNn eriff, the court, the cell and moose are not pretty things to see.
 What would you do with this man? Do you believe in capital punishment? If so, for punish ment, or as the quickest way to be rid of one who is unfit to live. That is, should feroctous human beings be executed in the same spirit in which unnecessary kit
 
 eral schools of thought. Some say the state has no right to kill. Some say kill to punish. Some say kill to restrain, not to pun ish. The creature is wild, and harmful they claim, a defective machine which would better be scrapped.
 
 The Schuttes have a screw loose, or cog wrong. They have the habit of terrible temper. Perhaps there was a tendency in the mind, which might have been cured Possibly many things contributed to increase the ten dency- Perhaps, again, certain cells in the brain suffered an in jury. whitening, 8, decay. Some reasons there are why a, human does a deed SO desperate that most humans could not be bribed to do it.
 IS SenO1ng a. scientist to West Africa to start a chimpanzee farm. from which monkey glands will be supplied. This will be better than the sort of farming they do in Chicago, where young men are way1aid and stripped of glands for the benefit of jaded persons at the present time unknown.
 Much Is 1t to be feared that these rejuvenations so unnatural will not measure up to the prom iSes made in the advertisen ents.
 
 Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall paid a detective, 1t seems. to guard the choir singer from the attentions of another man." It was misdirected energy. What Hall needed was a detective to gentleman so much threatens the safety of a lady, as the man who woos her and Is the husband of another. And the persons who murdered these two are not comfortable. Private revenge be- longs to another age. It is mis- placed in this one.
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 London Times, Thunderer, which no longer thunders, being out of the hands of it's founders, and out of the control of Northcliffe. who has passed away, says that Andrew Bonar Law is not great man. but a safe one. George. 1t says, was a. great man. Great in government, was Lloyd George. This doesn't happen often. Great men are often called into gov- ernments, but their greatness is usually in something else. The really great governors of the ages are not many to count. They come only once in a while. For tunate Is the land that finds one. Thrice fortunate the land that keeps one
 Fourteen persons were burned to death in a tenement house fire. in New York. Arson suspected. Four die, including two children, when an automobile capsizes on the Orange Road, near Montclair, N. J. At Atlantic City, only four were drowned, all season. Day in and day out automobiIe is champion killer. Each day of the year at least thirty persons are automobile killed in conti- mental United States.
 
 Centuries ago kings had their astrologers. They read the stars, advised the king. and he often acted accordingly. A wise astrol- oger might give helpful advise to 8 foolish king. Miller, governor of New York, keeps no star gag CT. but a newspaper has employ ed one for him. who declares, '"The stars are pretending evil for Nil Ter" Astro1oger wins either way. If Miller is elected astrologer may