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was found in swamp. The boy
had been struck on the head by
a member Of the band named Cam
pisciano, and this man was cap
tured at once.
The, members Of the posse
which had found the body took
CAmpisciano to the swamp In
which the body had been found.
They demanded a confession and
Campisciano refused to talk. The
members Of the posse were
equipped with ropes. They strung
Campisciano to a tree several
times until he told the story Of
the boys death.
The prisoners were held in the
little station house at Hahnville.
When news Of their capture
reached New Orleans mobs at once
began to form. The newspapers
put out bulletins every few mo-
ments and one Of these announced
that troops had been called out to
guard the Jail.
Cool heads addressed the mobs
and finally prevailed. In the jail,
guarded by troops, this trial was
held.
"CAJUN'' DISTRICT.
Mer Rouge, where the recent
sensational murders occurred, is
in the heart of the "Cajun". dis
trict, peopled largely by the des-
cendants Of the French inhabitants
of Nova Scotia and Canada. who
refused allegiance to the British
crown and fled to Louisiana, where
they have maintained their integ-
rity and still speak French as their
native tongue.
In Morehouse parish, in which
are Mer Rouge and Bastrop. hun
dreds of persons can be found who
do not speak or write English.
Mer Rouge, translated literally,
ALOdAS ASOU oSdI OuI 6CLuoA5 IAAS
name stands for red mud-from
the banks of the Mississippi river,
which occasionally settles over the
countryside when a crevasse &C.
cars and the river breaks it's
banks. 1t sin the heart of fer
tile farming country.
The country is prosperous as q
rule, but there is none of the
development known in the North
and East. Most OF the mansions
are implanted and the roads as a
rule are a mass Of ruts set in mud.
At night there are few electric
lights In the towns and none out.
side and with the swamps and
lakes filled with the glow Of fire
flies and with the sound of frogs
and crickets, the scene Is one IN.
deed for murder and mystery.
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PARIS, Jan. 27.

AIMS,
EXTRAORDINARY precautions
are being taken by Eugene
Cornuchet, manager of Cannes
casino, and by the authorities Of
other gambling places on the
Riviera, to protect their establish
ments against a band Of Spanish
hold-up men who are said to have
cleaned up more than million
francs in two raids on gaming
rooms at Montpelier.
Armed guards have been sta
toned at the entrance and all win
dows of casinos at Cannes, Nice.
Monte Carlo and Mentone, where
the season is just beginning and
where millions of francs change
hands on the gaming tables
nightly.
In the last hold-up at Mont
pellier the club was full and play
exceptionally high at the fifty
louis" table when two men in
impeccable evening dress stand
ing behind the croupier suddenly
produced revo1vers and shouted
Hands up"
Gamblers tuling to flee, dis.
covered that |: AL exits were
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Baraflowice IL like prison camp
"a few wooden shaclxs. surrounded
with barbed wire To this God
forsaken place the refugees are re-
turning from the starvation and.
suffering OF Russia and Siberia.
The first trainload l saw cross the
border into Poland consisted OF
1900 persons. including 800 chm
dren.
Regardless Of sex. family rela.
tionship or creature comfort these
refugees had been thrust into cat.
tie cars. In these pens they had
lived for eight months in their
frightful journey over the Ural
mountains and across Russia to
Baranowice. All the food they had
each day was . quarter Of q LOAF Of
bread per person -bread made from
black earth, the seeds Of weeds and
the excreta Of animals.
One trainioad started from 81
IBERIA with $500 persons. II ar.
rived in Poland with but 600 alive.
Two thousand had died en- route
and the hDdies 6f the dead had
been tossed overheard.
You can imagine the condition
OF these refugees ragged, dirty.
filthy, vermin-infested and dis
eased. In the makeshift hospitals
OF Baranowice in July: q time Of
year when there should be no cases
Of ali, saw hundreds Of cases Of
typhiis.
/ was informed at the League
Of Nations in Geneva that during
the past four years in Russia there
have been $1,000, 900 cases OF
typnus. Nine millions have died OF
the diseased Heaven only knows
how many have died Of cholera.
Think OF the menace to Poland.
But IL, ii Poland alone which =
nenaced?
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An ABsurd Systsu

x e
Instead Of being scientific,
our present system IL absurd
and contemplate. Not only 50.
but it il cruel and lneartless.
These poor Immigrants selF all
they have ana set forth for the
land Of their dreams. TO them
America 10 like Heaven. Per
haps they have selected the
fastest ship or the one with the
widest captain--in any event they
reach Ellis Island
For one reason or another
family Is sent back, or a family
il divided. Not at the day Of
judgment win there be more
terrible partingss than take place
at Ellis Island.
Oh, my cOuntrymen, do YOU
not agree that the laws Of
humanity should be above all
human laws? Are you not hu-
inflated ct the spectacle Of these
United States sending back TO
Smyrna the little boy who was
the only one Of his family to
escape massacre or worse at the
hands Of the Turks?
Within month ) father and
mother and four children applied
for admission to the country.
The mother was an American
girl, the father Scotchman, .
naturalized American but the
children were horn IN Australia.
The immigration authorities said
the parents could enter, but the
children must be sent back be-
cause Australia's Quota was ex-s
hausted.
This very week two educated
Russians were ordered deported
because by their accident Of birth
their baby first saw the light Of
day in Censtantinople, where
the father was engaged tempo
rarily by the American z. IA G.
IA. In relief yorkN for starving
Russians. Had he permitted his
suffering countrymen to starye
and hurried on here before the
baby was horn, he would have on
tered America
As it is. however, the whole
family must return to Europe be-
cause the Turkish quota is ex-
hausted and we have no room
for the baby although the parents
could stay, since there is . bal.
ance in the Russian quota. It - {
enough to make angels weep.
Surely there is something wrong
with the laws or with their ad-
ministration.
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European health conditions give
us warning that the immigration
question must be dealt with on
higher grounds than restrictions
made simply for economic rea-
sons.
BY. the way, wish to say that,
in my opinion, too many ques-
lions are settled for economic
reasons" alone. Discussions in
legislative bodies or in CONNER
cial organizations whicA are con-
fined wholly to the financial
aspects OF a given problem, with
no thought given to the human
factor-such discussions are on
too low a plane to be worthy OF
true Americans. The common
welfare and the good Of all should
determine our decisions in every
matter where men and women
are concerned.
When it comes to immigration
there can be. no difference of
opinion that restrictions are as
necessary for nations as they are
desirable for homes. No one Of
us would open his door to every
body WING might knock. But there
is room for difference Of opinion
when it comes to the sort Of ma
tional restrictions which should
be enforced.
Personally, I am out Of har-
mony with the percentage sys-
tenn. It is ridiculous to argue
that the highest welfare of our
country is advanced by fixing a
monthly quota for each nation
and then leaving it to the steam
ship companies to determine who
shall become citizens OF the
United States.
AS it is at present. the quality
Of the coal, the energy o. the fire
men. the power Of the machinery
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York harbOr against the admits.
sion Of foreign disease. / have
told this story, as I have many
times before, to impress upon
you the Indifference, born OF lack
Of information, Of course, or our
national legislators toward health
measures which are vital to our
national safety.
For the next five or ten years
typhus. cholera ana bubefic
plague. Every attention must be
given the many details Of guard
ing the ports OF entry or We
will suffer the penalty Of our.
oversight.
This summer / went up to the
Russian border In Poland. This
survey has given me first hand
information on conditions in east.
ern Europe.
Seven hostile armies passed
through Poland and many points
were occupied twenty times dur
ing the great war. After that the
Poles had q three year war with
the Russian Bolshevilxi. When
the Russians were finally driven
out Of eastern Poland they de-
stroyed every building, took away
the floclxs and herds and carried
three and one.haif million Poles
into captivity.
Under the treaty Of Riga these
refugees must be returned and.
there were selected seven border
points, through which they are to
be brought back to Poland. Chief
of these is Baranowice, and this
place was the objective Of my
trip to eastern Europe.
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"We Will Never Go Back to Free and Unrestricted
Immigration; But We Must Make the Law Flex-
IDLE Enough to Prevent the Cruel, Un-Christian
Acts Which Are Perpetrated at Our
Ports of Entry

More careful inspection revealed
nineteen cases Of typhus on that
ship. and q number Of the victims
died in our harbor.
This experience and the result
ing events brought home to me
the real attitude Of Congress to-
ward national and international
health matters.
It seemed to me that such q
slip.up must be due to lack Of
personnel and equipment at Quar-
antine, 80 / went to Washington
to discuss the situation with the
! Federal authorities. It was frankly
admitted that such q lack existed
and / was told that 100000 was
the sum needed to guard this port
against disease from abroad.
To my Amusement no request
for the money was pending and
no plan had been made to ask
Congress for the money.
On my demand to know why, I
was informed reluctantly that
Congress looks with unfavorable
eyes upon requests for the Public
Health Service and treats all ite
acquisitions with coldnesa.
Determined to have New York
and the country protected, y
marched over to Congress. Here
was sent from pillar to post ana
finally landed In the office Of the
chairman OF the Appropriations
Committee Of the House, Con-
gresham Good, Of Iowa. He
listened to my story, but seemed
unimpressed. Finally he said:
Doctor, the trouble with you
New York men 10 that you want
a lot Of money to beautify your
harbor."
My reply was:
81 don't care whether yous
beautify the harbor or not: 4
never see It. I don't care whether
you protect New York or not
the board Of health Of New York
city will do that. but what we are
trying to do is to save Iowa.
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Doctors IN Commons

While most OF them, as would
be expected, were candidates of
the Conservative party, yet the
Liberal and Labor parties were
represented in the list. When the
smoke of battle blew away, it was
epund that twelve doctors had
been seated in the House Of Com
mons.
The Scottish universities, the
London University, and Queens
University seated doctors. Dunn
fries, Glasgow, Lincoln and Man
chester sent doctors to Par1ia.,
ment. It is not considered gro
tesque, apparently, In England to
place physicians in the great leg
islative body of. the British en-
pire.
What special aid can a doctor
give to Congress? Are there any
existing national problems which
require in their solution such, aid
as trained medical man can
give? I shall attempt to answer
. these questions.
In my judgment. If he rises to
his opportunities, the physician
has q most important contribu-
ton to make In the legislative
work Of the nation.
When Louis Pasteur was made
o member Of the French Acad-
envy. he delivered an address
which was notable for its human
ity and wisdom. In this address
ne called attention most strikingly
to the contrast between the con-
structive, conserving and humane
endeavors OF medical science and
the wanton destruction Of life and
the sinister influence OF war,
which have hampered human de-
velopment. and which, too often,
have been the product of old
fashioned diplomacy. Of narrow
legislation, greed, and inhuman
laws,
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LOUISIANA SCENE OF WEIRD CRIMES;
MANY TRAGEDIES BEFORE MER ROUGE
BY HERBERT B. MAYER.

BY HERBERT b. MAYER.
THE Ku Klux Khan killings ut
Mer Rouge now being investi-
gated by the authorities under the
protection Of troops come at the
climax to q long series Of killings
which have given Louisiana more
than her share Of sensational
homicides.
For twenty years the gamut
Of human emotion has been run
by these atrocities. Fiction has
been outdone time and time again
by fact and the records OF courts
in New Orleans and in the State
at large contain recitals which
would delight the heart of a
: dramatist.
Police reporting in New Orleans
is much different from that Of any
other city in the country. There
is no news syndicate and in the
offices of the newspapers there are
no rewrite men. The police re-
porter is much like the police re-
porter Of fiction. He gets tip or
gains information CONCERNING a
story and goes out on the Job him
self, leaving to his assistant the
job OF vovering routine.
REPORTERS AS SLEUTHS.
In consequence, the men who do
police reporting in New Orleans
not only become local detectives
to all intents and purposes, but
when cases like those at Mer
Rouge occur. they, as the Grim
inal experts of the newspapers
they represent. are "sent out on
the story" Some Of them have
gained large local regulations as
sleuths.
There was old Chris" Lindauer,
for example, a veteran of sixty
years, who had covered more muir
der stories than any reporter in
the world, suppose. His fame had
come to him while he worked on
the old Picayune and had engaged
in the solution of the famous muir
der of Chief of Police Hennessy.
This killing had international
complications, for the murderers
were lynched by a mob composed
of the leading citizens of New Or
leans.
Hennessy, tall, sta1wart fight
ing man, had become Disguised
with the operations of the Malta
in New Orleans. He led his police
with indefatigable zeal down the
dark alleys and queer, foreign look
ing streetsSof the French quarter,
in which were located the dens OF
the Malta.
Somehow he had secured stool
pigeons to assist him, and with the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-28
React o., Health

Among other things, 1 have
studied the relation Of the cost
Of living TO a small fraction Of
, our population, namely, the l.
100000 sufferers from pulmonary
tuberculosis. I am satisfied that
just an soon as the cost of liv.
ing rises, these sufferers, and
their families as well, are de-
prived of milk and eggs. Of but
ter and other Indispensable foods
which are absolutely needed in
their fight against 'srhe Captain
of the Men of Death" As a re-
suit, the national health suffers
Further, tariff laws that affect
the cost Of building materials In
evitab1y prevent the development
OF proper housing facilities, and
as q logical result we find the
health conditions in the country
at large adversely affected by un-
avoidable crowding, by the in
ability Of persons to avoid close
contact with those who have dis
ease, by the lack Of adequate ven-
tilation. and other consequences
Of poor housing, which break
down resistance ana predispose to
disease.
Whether the laws relate to the
prohibition OF liquor or to ques-
tons that seem to have a strict
ly economic aspect, they react
eventually upon the health con-
ditons Of the country. Surely,
in matters 50 vital to national and
individual welfare and happiness,
as well as to the prevention of
dependency and delinquency, the
voice Of the physician il needed in
the councils Of the nation.
He should be there to exercise
the influence Of his special knowl-
edge upon legislation. He should
warn and counsel his colleagues
in the legislative chambers of the
nation against the sins of omis.
sion and commission which may
be of vital Importance in their ul-
innate effect upon national well
fare, especially SO far as health IL
concerned.
Perhaps all this is very gen.
eral. To be more specific, we
have a great problem to deal
with In the matter of postwar
diseases. Since the armistice I
have worried over this danger,
and not without reason.
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Issues Concerr, Hin,

The true physician. however,
much he may be absorbed in at
tempting to wrest from nature
further revelations as to her
mysterious processes, and how
ever great his efforts to solve
the problems OF health and dis.
ease, Is at all times concerned in
everything affecting the we'll
being Of the community.
Social, moral, economic and
legal issues concern him because
they involve considerations of
heal A, and, In this realm, like
the REST Of old. he has q mes.
sage to offer and q role to play.
The true physician is not only
the moral and spiritual guide OF
the patients who place their
mental and physical welfare in
their hands, but in similar things
he she uId be the guide OF the
community or nation as q whole.
The doctor who confines his
labors and achievements to what
concerns his individual patients il
working in a restricted field. He
accompiishes much Of value to
his fellow.man, but, Of course,
the effects OF his efforts are
limited to the individuals or to
the families under his direct care.
The same degree Of energy and
Intelligence applied on q larger
and vaster scale may reach the
great mass of persons in the
community and the whole State
may benefit through his humane
and constructive labors.
In the process Of making laws
physicians have rarely been con-
suited or given a proper oppor-
tunity for service. 1t 10 q pity
they cannot apply their training,
their experience and their knowl-
edge Of human life to the ad.
vantage Of society.
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to patch up Individual injuries
to the child, the mother or the
male adult. So far as these are
the direct or remote result Of
inadequate or defective laws, he
has q social duty to do. and he
has a function to perform in de-
termining what is polite" -
If one viii study legislation as
it may affect the cost of living,
or as it relates to the faculty
with which people may obtain
those things essential to decency,
comfort. health and life, it will
become apparent that many forms
Of legislation which at first blush
seem utterly without any relation
to the health Of the community,
derived q special significance be-
cause Of their ultimate influence
upon health. This IL q thing
which 10 often. utterly overlooked.
For example, tariff legislation,
and other laws which affect the
cost OF living, have the most
vital influence upon public health.
Many. studies have indicated that
as the cost of living increases,
those who are already iii find
IL increasingly difficult or impos-
sible to secure not only adequate
treatment but also the necessities
of life upon which prompt re-
covery and unhampered con-
valescence depend in many In
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center of the mob which marched
on the old Parish Prison at Beau
regard Square and stormed It,
taking from their cells the Ma
Tia prisoners. In good order and
silently the mob marched the men
to the trees of the square, strung
them up and then dispersed
quietly. AS the lynched men
were italians, this country paid a
large indemnity to italy as dam.
ages.
BLACK HAND APPEARS.
For years, however. there were
no Malta or Black Hand crimes
in New Orleans, but in 1908 New
Orleans found that the Black
Hand had begun to operate when
the five-year.old son of Peter La
mana, an undertaken, was kid
mapped and held for ransom Of
$1,000.
The search for the Lamana boy
was Statewide. His father Of
fered to pay the ransom, but had
meanwhile communicated with
the police. These traced the boy
to the environment Of st. Rose,
a small town near New Orleans,
and after days Of search the body
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From New York Tells What He His

"A recall it, the only editorial utterance during the
~ campaign which aroused and irritated the
statement by of the papers that the nomination Of
doctor to the United States Senate grotesque.
TESS did not like the word groesque," and doubt if it
is properly applied in this connection though the paper
using it is counted Of the leading opponents of culture
in the United States.
To be grotesque thing must be incongruous fantastic
uncouth, extravagant barbarous, irregular As matter
of fact it possible that the nomination of from
AM ssrrnte
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Easy Of Solution

am out Of sympathy with our
immigration system. To my
mind the solution is not difficult.
The examinations should be
made on the other side Of the
ocean. Let our officials do their
work over there. Careful physi-
cal examination, mental examine
tioa, moral examination and ex-
animation with. reference to in
dustrial training - examinations
which may be made deliberately
and thoroughly.
Then let, these applicants Tor
American citizenship be allo-
Gated, so far as is possible, &C
cording to industrial or profes-
sional preparation. To me 1t
seems absurd to have 81 per cent
of all immigrants enter America
through the port OF New York,
thousands of them remaining in
our overcongested city, following
unfamiliar and, too frequently.
overcrowded occupations.
Why should not those who have
had agricultural training be sent
to Savannah or Galveston--to
some point contiguous to the soil?
If our. Government studied the
needs Of the country and OF the
various States and localities OF
our great land, our officials
abroad would be in a position TO
encourage the immigration OF
desirable and needed persons.
On a percentage basis, l per
cent allowance might bring too
many musicians, while 10 per
cent allowance might not supply
enough farmhands.
In any event, the present 8 per
cent law, as view It, Is silly
law. more honored in the breach
than in the observance. This Law
has broken many hearts and it
initiates against the highest good
Of our country.
We will never go back to free
and unrestricted immigration. We
will insist on strict limitation.
But we must make the law flexible
enough to prevent the cruel I'M
Christian acts which are perpe-
trated too frequently at our ports
Of entry.
There is much, you see, for q
doctor to do in the United States
Congress. 7 hope to be strong
enough to do my share towards
improving the national healfh.
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Penled IN Cars

Twice during the past three
years have visited the war,
zones of western Europe and
northern italy thought ! knew
all about the terrible effects Of
war, but 1t took the conditions
of the eastern front to grind into
my soul realization Of what q
hellish thing war il. Endless
miles of trenches. dugouts. torn.
DIP soil, annihilated homes and
hopelessness painted on every
face--ti1fs, 10 all you see on the
Russian border of Poland.
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RIVIERA CASINOS
BLOCK RAIDERS

guarded by other bandits, all level
ing revolvers and all similarly at
tired in full dress suits, two even
wearing the red ribbon of the
Legion Of Honor.
The banks Of all four tables in
the room were confiscated and
several hundred thousand francs
collected from players. Then the
bandits left in a limousine, firing
volleys to prevent pursuit