Winslow daily mail., 1926-12-29
LANDS AND PUBLICITY

the Cobbspeaker case doubles and trebes daily until it
would appear that the grand old grandstander from Indiana
has finally poked his way into hornets nest which bids fair
to rout him entirely The latest move assuming any tangible
shape from Detroit where business men and friends
of Ty Cobb circulating petition to the major league
Lands declared unfit for the position he holds
While Lands may not be entirely untitled for the re-
sponsbiy of the whip handle in organized baseball 1t IS
cregone conclusion that he too radical in his general and
personal makeup to sit judgment upon anyone ese IN
order to understand this might back about ten years
and imagine ourselves seated his courtroom
Chicago while the daily grind OF legal matters IS on
f the to be tried is particularly technical one we
find the lawyers both sides quietly cursng the fate that
landed their before Land instead OF Carpenter whose
courtroom is the floor and just across the rounda
Carpenter first and always lawyer Landls on the other
land has had reversas IN Northwestern Reporter than
he would like to admit But nothing daunted Lands rules
with an hand The only through appeal to
the higher courts No use to argue procedure with Lands
He supreme Any lawyer who has the emery to even
suggest reference to authorities is round scored All this
makes good publicity The newspaper boys are always on
the job Landis during his TRADES, frequently gances IN
the direction the press box smile from the reporters
spurs him Inside hour he will be at his accustomed
place the front page and he knows it
During the early days of the while draft evaders
occupied the major time of Lans court came before
him Involving Swedish lad, perhaps p, the eldest of
family of little that the scale on down to five years
Testimony shows that the boy of p has been the famys
sole Support The father in the late seventies too old to
work Had they taken their through the proper chan
nes the boy would have been exempt But they didn't
Neither the boy the old father knew anything about law
Someone had told the elder not to allow his boy to regis
ter for the draft busybody had added that
the boy registered he would be torn from the family
and sent to war. F&5s.sS %.
= On the witness stand the boy admitted that he had
failed register adding that his father told him not to-
The aged father testified similarly He feared that the
boy would be torn from the family There We're little mouths
tofeed He himself no longer able to provide II the
boy taken away it meant starvation
Lands devoted oration of approximately 1000 words
to- sarcastic announcement of the old and the boy He
sentenced the boy to 80 days the House of Correction and
his father six montsbecause, he added the elder
to blame What ever became of the family thus
shorn of and provier known Those
hectic days Everybody looking out for himself Lands
son. Reed Landis later appointed major carry
ing for the family Landis himself spent much time
the lake front pattng the boys in khaki the back and
posing for pictures with them.
there where jurist needed to
mercy with law it in that of the old and the
boy But they had violated the law-techncaly
Vioaors are volaors in Lands creed and must be dealt
with summarily.
was his ability to make the front pages that eventu
ally raised him from $4,000 district court judge to
1he $4,000 year czar Of baseball Last week at the big
meeting of baseball magnaes he was selected for another
seven-year term and the pay raised to S65,0OO.
Of course Lands played his part when 1t was learned
that he was being considered baseball commissioner One
of his favore stunts to halt the hearing of big to
call down his baif from the bench "Bennie, find
what the score is"
Is it any wonder then that this egotistica publicity
seeking old campagner fails to show any mercy when two
ting on game few palt1y dollars involved If they
are found guilty. No evidence of game being thrown
-fhe men are accused. Another man, Dutch Leonard
makes the charge
Lands has just been reapponted advanced salary
IWhat an opportunity for him show that he intends
keep the ean What are regulations compared
with the publicity? Duck soup" for Lands.
To successfully dominate the boy Dad must set an ex-
ample in manliness.