Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-06-13
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SPEEDY minds without moral brakes
are called a menace TO society by q
/ specialist who has examined young
Loeb and Leopold, accused of muir
dering the Franks boy in Chicago re-
Gently. The same specialist is said
to have pronounced the young men
"of unbalanced nervous systems and
| feeble minded
This is paradox in diagnosis.
Speedy minds and feeble minded do
not belong in the same category. II
| is possible that the physician has been
misquoted. but specialists are likely
to be guilty of contradiction in dag
noSis.
Speedy minds" and feeble minds
are just the opposite. How the same
physician could be guilty of attribut-
| ing the same defects TO one person Is
difficult to answer.
Young Loeb and Leopold are facing
a crisis. There is not one chance in
hundred that they will escape the
penalty of the crime attributed to
them; but it is we'll to remember the
Harry X. Thaw case, where man OF
wealth escaped the gallows, and in a
few years was allowed his freedom
after he had murdered a fellowman
in fit of insane anger. Thaw, who
has yet many years to live, now has
his freedom.
Thirty thousand people met in
Toxic TO protest the action of the
United States government because OF
the immigration law recently enacted
and signed by the president.
Officials of the Japanese govern
ment attended the meeting and led IN
the demonstration with haranguing
and speech making. 1t was intended
to impress the United States with the
japanese attitude. War was talked
of according to press reports, but
none of the officials took part in this
phase of the demonstration. Ii ap-
peared to be purely the object of the
Japanese people to impress America
with her determined resistance of the
new program.
In the meantime America will sit
quiet and adhere to her policy. Gen
orally in the United States it is not
intended that any reproach shall be
cast upon the people of Japan. 1t is
merely intended that America shall be
kept, in so far as is practical, foI
American people, and particularly for
those who can readily be assimilaNd
| by American institutions. America
will not war with Japan over this
question, nor over any other question
| if she can honorably avoid it.
Report is to the effect that Gov.
ernor Lowden will not permit his
name to be used as a candidate fol-
the viee-presidency on the Republican
ticket. That will disappoint some, and
will please others.
| Lowden is a conservative. force in
the Illinois State Republican party. He
is anti-Small. He worked against
the governor in the recent primaries
and doubtless offended many of the
governors friends, who otherwise
might be expected to support him.
1t is quite probable that the former
governor is right in not permitting
his name to be used. No one doubts
that he is a strong man, and probably
would suit the Republican machine
perfectly, but he probably knows that
his opposition to Governor Small
would split the party at the Novem-
ber election and probably result in a
defeat in this state to his party In
the national election.
Governor Lowden, though he has
had presidential aspirations, is not
too great man for the vice -presi-
dency. Vice presidents of recent
years have a happy faculty of step
ping into the executive office, and ac-
cording to the history of the last
twenty years the vice-president has
an even chance of being elevated to
the office of chief executive. A good
gambler will take an even chance, al
ways. But it appears that former Gov
ernor Lowden is not a particularly
good gambler.
Three boys, of Pesotum, decided
that they would play the tom Saw
yer" act and leave home to make their
fortune in the world. They started
for Detroit, where the flivver is made
and where there are prospects that
sometime boy may become the head
of the fivver establishment. They
got as far as Adrian, Michigan, and
then decided that the game was not
worth the candle. 1t was a freight
train ride home to dad and mother
after their ardor had cooled. Most
of the men who were once boys have
tried the same stunt and laugh at
their experience now. After it is all
over the whole thing becomes a joke;
but while the youth is enroute to see
the world and to spread his wings for
loftier flight, as did Darius Green,
ii is no laughing matter.
After all it is an indication of am
bition for boy to have pep" enough
| to start out to see the world.
"Wild Bill' Hickok was that kind of
man and when he left home he did
not return. Neither did Daniel Boone;
but the day of pioneers and explor-
ers is over.
An aged man by the name of Henry
Sadorus settled in Champaign county
in 1924. That is 100 years ago.
When he came to Champaign county
everything was prairie and wilderness.
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