Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-07-11
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| y man IN attendance at the Demo
cratic national convention - New
York City was importuned by his
wife with request that size be per
mltted to boo her harr. mis- reply
was as follows: "Yes you have my
permission to bob your hair. 1t will
grow out before TINS darn thing is
over. The message was sent collect.
Democrats attending the convention
as delegates are dividing the time
with their altefnates. Many OF the
delegates have returned 10 their
homes, and their alternates continued
IN the capacity of delegates. The
foregoing telegram shows the em-
barrassment OF many delegates on ac-
count of a lack of funds TO pay the
New York prices.
A few days ago an Urbana judge
sent a man to the county Jail, accord
ing 10 press reports, because he had
defaulted in payment of fine as
sessed for driving an automobile
while intoxicated. The same after
noon the mans wife appeared before
the judge and asked that she be SIP
ported by the county while her hus-
band is in Jail laying out his fine.
The judge denied her request ac-
cording to the report, on the ground
that man who is able to own an
automobile is not in need of county
aid
Every man who is not an automo-
bile owner will agree with him.
Probably no others will endorse the
ground on which he made his decision,
though they may endorse his action
In sending the man to Jail.
The fact is that every automobile
owner knows that his car is a liability
and not an asset. Because a man
owns and drives an automobile for
pleasure is good sound reason why
he is in need of county charity, |
whether he deserves it or not. A
reference to the chattel mortgages |
held in Champaign county would be
particularly when it is
known that the larger amount of |
chattel mortgages are placed on auto
that are only partly paid for.
Some time We shall learn that there |
are better ways of inducing obedience |
to law than by fining and incarcerat- |
the law. On the present policy the |
only advantage gained in fining a |
man is to enhance the city treasury.
Fines do not stop the lawless from
the law. More often than |
otherwise they merely result Nv hatred |
for the law and the officerA who
A better way would have p~en 10 I
the man to dispoes of his |
automobile, pay the city treasury |
$50 and costs, or the amount of the |
fine, and permit the man to return to
his family. A sentence to attend
church services would be immeasura-
bly, better than a sentence In the
county jail.
What we need today is officers who
are creative of new law enforcement
methods, not merely those who can
an antequated code.
In the days of Jesus Christ, Rome
killed her insane or drove them into
the deserts. The Hebrews stoned
their lepers, instead of building sani-
tariums. We treat our morally afflict-
ed in a like manner, proving that
at heart we are no better than the
Romans.
Lawlessness is a moral disease
with which many are afflicted merely
because we have not attempted TO
find a remedy for moral ills such as
we have found for the insane and
physically afflicted. When the
world understands Jesus Christ IT
will know that lawlessness is "a
disease resulting from a lost cog IN
the mentality which can be replaced
by proper treatment. What man DID
Jesus Christ ever fine, or jail for
committing a sin? What man did he