Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-12-26
REACTIONARIES REPUDIAT-
Ed AT POLLS, PLAN TO
FORCE"C "COSSACKS"ON STATE
LIVE TOPICS
OF COUNTRY
A ND TO " \

I AND TOW \
Z Five DAYS before Christmas fate
played a unique plot IN the case Of
{ Joe Name. awaiting the death penalty
for numbering a child. Name peering
through the bars of the Ohio state
= peuitentiary awaiting execution on
I December %. heard the attendant call
\ reprieve of 20 days.
5 His mother had prayed that her sou
might live until after Christmas. II
made little difference 10 the son. bat
} IL meant everything TO the mother to
! have her prayer answered, Tor she
! will feel nov that somehow her son
is in divine hands,
The chief Justice who had charge Of
staying sentences and executions made
an error. Ii appears that a theatre
manager had been fined 500 for vio-
! la,ion of the child labor law and the
judge got the papers mixed and
signed a reprieve fer Kane instead Of
! a stay Of execution in the fine case.
i The murderer laughed In his cell at
the trick Of fate, which the mother
! Is disposed to call the hand of ProVid.
/ ence.
SaMue, .Gompers, late president Of
! the American Federation of Labor,
assigned Sa00 In his will 60 various
} organizations for the purchase Of
) American flags. The beneheiarles are
i the American Federation of Labor,
: 800; the Cigar Makers International
Union: the Cigar Makers Local un-
ion, No. Id, New York City, and the
Masonic fraternity, each organisa-
ton receiving the same amount.
} Gompers, besides being stalwart
! Union Labor leader was an American
/, patriot, His act is n reflection of the
! attitude Of the American Federation
OF Labor toward the American flag
/ and toward all American institutions
that are worthy of respect,
] The Champaign Chamber of Com
Z merce has authorized the appointment
y of committee OF five to cooperate
= with an Urbana committee in carry
Z ling forward projects that are of vital
= interest 10 both cities.
y The intention is to promote the
4 Champaign Urbana idea In the view
4 Of making one city out Of the two.
Z The plan is only tentative, but
5 significant. II the two cities find that
they can work harmoniously In soy-
2 ing inter-eity problems it is only a
d step from that to union of the two
4 cities in one municipality.
= Most of the present generation
= have forgotten the factlonism of the
D fifties and sixties when the two cities
= were ardent rivals, and are willing to
2 bury the hatchet. Eventually com
y plete union will be established. and
3 the two committees will aid material
: " in crystalizing sentiment which
already exists and needs only en-
) couragement.
The success of the Community
\ Chest plan in which both cities co
) o. oerated through committees appoint.
7 ed by the Chamber of Commerce and
y the Association Of Commerce, Is the
/ background Of the present plan.
y Ray Lindsey, who was killed last
August in an attempt to hold up the
B Bell oil station, corner Springfield
) avenue and Prospect streets, Cham,
: paign, was veteran Of the word
y War. Members Of his family, who
: are highly respectable citizens, state
that Ray was a model young man
Y until the war. Since then he drifted
4 into bad company and the end was
tragedy.
y How many more young men who
went overseas were ruined by the De
vastating morals Of war? II Is I'M
) possible to compute the number. Fully
4 25 900 ex-sodiers of the World Wai
= are being cared for In government
) institutions. Seventy-fye percent OF
1 these are i'll as a direct effect of the
= war. In the majority Of cases 1t Is the
Y breaking down Of the nervous system
D But tae hospitals do not contain
2 the story of the wars devastation
= That is found in such men as Ray
y Lindsey whose morals were corrupt
q ed. and whose spiritual character
suffered a worse devastation than all
= the shells, machine guns, poison ga.
4 and exposure could administer 10 the
j bodies Of men.
= II is a bad thing to be physically
] in; it is infinitely worse to be morally
, i'll. The end Of the latter Is tragedy
= Two trials have recently been con
! Quoted in the circuit court over which
j Judge Boggs presides in urbana
Paul Lindsey and Howard Ward, both
= members Of highly respected families
d were condemned to "a years each IN
4 the state penitentary for the part
4 they played in the murder Of Howard
z Bell.
d Evidence in both cases proved be-
Z yond doubt that illicit liquor imbibe