Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-02-13
LIVE TOPICS
OF COUNTRY
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been engomhed fer twelve days. Men
have lived longer than that when
surrounded By a mine eave-ln and
cut Ell from communication with the
( ouptSiee world. Hope viii net vanish
until Collins Is taken cut dead
Prom a news standpoint the Incl
dent has been Of unusual interest.
Il has commanded the attention Of
the civilized world. probably for the
same reason that Ne wish 10 see any
eutfapped man escape death.
IL Is from the same moral source
that We draw cur sympathy for the
criminal. We dread 70 see eveu the
guilty suffer That is probably why
Ne are so sentimental AS jurieS and
courts.
American people talk great deal
Of bringing the criminal classes to
Judgment; but when the average
American jury goes into the secret
chamber to affiNe at verdict the
iurymen appear 10 give way TO SEN
timentalism, and the result is a light
sentence, or aequittal. Perhaps this
Is ehivalry gone wrong.
Interest in the Collins entombmen,
has been somewhat divided with the
Warren J. Lincoln murder trial at
Geneva. Lincoln who confessed to
the murder Of MS wife and her broth
er and later repudiated his confession,
was given a life esntenee in tbr Joliet
penitentiary.
Iincoln's counsel eontended that
Lincoln was insane Perhaps he was
afflicted with some form of insanity.
But il Was not of a nature that would
warrant his confinement in a hospital
for the insane. The jufy's verdict
will be considered lust.
Chicago Is growing tremendously
entirely out of proportion 10 the state
constitution. It's people claim that
they are not now awarded adequate
repreSentation in the legislature and
are making a fight for senatorial
fe-apportionment.
One legislator declares that ii Isl
merely a question whether the state
will allow CHICAGO 20 make all the
laws and control all legislation. This
appears TO be the down state version
of the situation.
There is a growing belief that Chi
ca0o should be given certain priyll- /
will settle the dispute without ser.
iously affecting on endangering the
down-state, but on the other hand
ii is said that an antequated consti- |
tuition stands in the way of such an
arrangement.
Obviously we have done away with
the oN-eart and substituted the motor
vehicle, but we still have a constitu.
gha4 - Y1Ifa - a, t,uc
and we cannot get nd of it for a
more up-to-date Code.
Government red tape is responsible
for the separation of father and
child. The l3 year old daughter OF
Peter Gogoff, Battle Creek. Mich,
Canada because she is i'll and un-
naturalized.
II would seem that this is carry
ing red tape too far. We would not
separate a COW and her calf prema- |
turely if they were shipped to Ameri- |
can shores in a vessel. We would !
probably admit them both and kill the
sick one, which would be mercy.
But in DEALING with human hearts
~overnment red tape has no mercy |
and not very much justice. The
proper procedure would be to exclude
both parent and child instead of re-
verting to slave days and separating
them.
April showers visited Champaign
and Urbana the first week In feb'
ruary. In many sections of the state
there were mild electrical storms and
in a few localities hail was in evi-
dence according to press reports. /
A temperature Of 60 was recorded
on the warmest day Of the week, Oid
residents do not recall a similar spell
Of weather" in February in years.
As usual when grain prices take
sudden fall after phenomenal rise
il is the big investor" who gafnefs
the profits, and the sucker who puts
his money in "a bag with holes IN II,
is the loser.
Probably millions Of dollars were
lost and gained last week when the
bottom fell out of wheat quoiauons.l
After the small investors had lost
their all the price took a sudden up
ward turn.
Parents will sometimes be very
foolish. As a result Of pure care
on the part of some one
little James Robert Graham, three
year old son of a Lewiston physl-
clan, is dead as a result of poisoning:
The child asked for drink and
was sent to the kitchen to serve him
self. The mother heard him crying
and found that he had drunk a poison
solution which had been prepared Tor
medical purposes.
Throughout the centuries people OF
strong emotional natures have been
greatly disturbed by scriptural pass
ages predicting the end OF the Wofla.
1t appears that people Of such tenn
perament cannot profit by history.
Every generation has lis panic
fear Of the end of the ~ord
and eternal judgment. Last week the
end was to have occurred on Friday
night. A.
Some misguided prophet Of the
Reformed" Adventist persuasion mad
ferreted out the exact date from the
books of Daniel and Revelation. Il
is easy to twist scripture to prove
ANYTHING. but such interpretations sell
dom if ever turn out as predicted.
The Bible is the most sane volume
1s4--...,4.- ~ a foolish mind can