Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-18
SPEEDERS CLUB
MEMBERS
FROM ALL RANKS
West Coast Judge Sets
Stiff Penalty on All
Traffic Violations.
Movie Actresses Unite
With Brokers; Large
List Always Waiting.
Nv GRAHAM

by . EF TEN G0SE1SNf
Special Correspondent Of Ths Great Pats Tribune.
Copyright. lS22, BY Gfedt Falls Trtbuf1sl
! Los Angeles. Dec. 1.-THE Lincoln
Heights social. literary and automobile
club. a strictly indoor organization with
headquarters in the Lincoln Heights
jail. is again looking up in membership.
Police Judge Joseph Chambers, who
! founded the club and who nomi-
| mates and elects its members is again
sitting in Judgment Of violators Of
automobile traffic regulations, and with
| very rare exceptions passing out jail
sentences for speeding or reckless
driving. ;.
speeding has got to stop even if
traffic has TO be stopped" is the dictum
of Judge Chambers. which is another
! way Of saying that unless the speed
! regulations are obeyed, all the drivers
in town will be parked in the jalls while
their ears stand idle.
In the heyday of Undertaking a few
years back it was said that no man
had actually attained prominence until
he had achieved q grand jury indict-
nent. IL Judge Chambers retains hls
health and vigor il may soon be said
that in Los Angeles, any man who has
| not served a jail sentence, is 81 person
totally lacking in pep and not worth
their salt.
All of whirh is all right for the
Judge. but law and the crusade against
speeding. but what of the Lincoln
| Heights Jail club. its membership, its
| sports and pastimes.
The membership is all that could be
desired, embracing all classes for Judge
Chambers is absolutely free from even
a suspicion of discrimination Of favor
| itism, and democratic and care-free
withal. The quarters are severely
plain, with the minimum Of exposure,
and somewhat cramped especially when
active membership recently shot up
around the two hundred mark. necessi-
| tating the use Of triple decked cots,
| placed side by side in the steel tanks
! with only 4 BARROW aisle left Tor IN
gress. there being very little egress e1-
cept at the expiration Of terms.
Early Risers
They are early risers. the members.
for a breakfast Of beans, bread and
coffee, and then a bit Of exercise. The
fayorite exercise is Il sport OF indoor
golf, played with Il mop and pail, and
the champ tusser among those now
present is a prominent realtor ;s they
call them in Los Angeles. who was
caught hnrrying 10 the railroad sta
ton TO interest newly arrived settlers
in lots in his new subdivision which il
only Is miles out in the desert. but
soon to be n part Of n great wonder
city Of teeming millions. His plea of
a great emergency, patriotic duty and
true hospitality wrung the loyal heart
Of the judge. but his lips automatically
spoke the fateful five days
A broker and a Sportsman, member
Of this club, whose secretary down
town YEARLY reports hat he is away
shooting dncks' might change it to
sweeping snipes" and more nearly
approximate exact truths for he has
grown quite dextroas with q broom in
! pursuit of cigarettes and cigar butts
carelessly tossed aside by the brother
members of the club is his particular
tank.
The morning exerices over, however,
the members relax for the rest Of the
day and evening. There is no worrying
over what they'll have for luncheon
they know, or what they'll have for
dinner, for again they know mostly
beans.
But the tired business man may
climb TO the hurricane deck of his col
and rest while his secretary and clerks
tell the world that he should be sud
denly called out of town or important
business. He was called, all right,
and chosen 90. with reading, smok
:. ing gossiping and card playing the
members manage to while away the
pleasant hours. So long as they pre-
serve quiet and decorum they are not
disturbed by intrusions ana what coulG
be more innocent than Il friendly game
Of cards.
Gambling. Of course. is taboo. The
miracle of the man who came into the
club with a deck of cards and so cents
and left three days later still with the
deck of cards and $500 wasn't to be
published ut the world, Things like
that are liable to happen any day. Ev.
erybody Knows that skill and luck work
modern day miracles so why get ex-
cited about it. African golf is a noisy
] and haisteraIls finn md .inltlr nnaLnl