Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-01-01
Comment and Criticism


In all the comment on the Mitchell
court martial and its outcome, next
to nothing has been said about the
difference of the trial of the doughty
Colonel and the military trial of a
buck private or non-commissioned
officer.
Col. Mitchell and his attorney were
allowed all sorts of liberties during
the trial. They criticized the court
freely and didn't hesitate to speak
their mind about its personnel and
methods of procedure. II a soldier
in the ranks attempted TO defend him.
self in the way Mitchell did he would
be stopped in short order and would
be lucky il he escaped shooting at
sunrise.
In other words, the private and the
officer 7 not equal before the bar
of military justice, any more than the
poor man and the rich man are equal
before the bar of civil justice. Theo-
retically, there is equal justice for all
in our courts; actually there is far
too much of unequal justice, if the
word a be used when there is une-
quality, which, of course, is the an
tithesis of justice.
Undoubtedly, the sentiment of the
American people is almost ~oyerwhelm-
ingly with Col. Mitchell in his fight
with the army and naval bureaucracy.
But that doesn't gainsay the fact that
he had the favorable opportunity
which rank and distinction and wealth
always brings of presenting his case
and defending himself.
OF 2,044 babies and young children
undergoing eye tests In Gary, Ind,
one-third, or exactly 36.l per cent,
were found by Federal investigators
to suffer from faulty vision.
These results, made public in New
York City by the Eyesight Conserva-
ton Council of America, are set forth
in a report on the Gary experiments
made to Secretary of Labor Davis, a
member of the councils board of
councillors.
Complete physical examinations
were made of 994 infants under two
years of age and of 3,125 children
whose ages ranged from 2 to z years.
The work was carried on in connection
with a social and economic study OF
infant mortality in Gary by the Unit
ed States Children's Bureau.
The facts made public in the report
emphasize the truth of the assertion
made by the Eyesight Conservation
Council that "the time to begin to pre-
serve eyesight is at birth"
While the report is entirely an an
alysis of statistical data with NJ at
tempt TO analyze causes and effects
of defects, it is quite evident from the
high prevalence Of defective vision
that the eyesight of infants anc
young children calls for greater at
~tention than has been given in thu
past. II is a subject that should be o
particular interest to the workers, a
a very large p~roportino of those sui
fering from eye defects are the chill
dren of the men and women who d.
the work of the world.
Rum Row has removed its actlvi
ties successfully from New York
Atlantic City, the New England coas
and is now operating extensively an
successfully, 1t is reported, off tn
Florida coast.
Rum Row doesn't play the gam
honestly, on the level, or with any du
regard for the other fellow. The coas
guard has suppressed it a dozen time
within the past three months, but
refuses to stay suppressed. 1t jus
breaks out in a new place. Chase
away from New York it establishe
itself along the Massachusetts coast
Cleared away from Massachusetts j
becomes active around Atlantic City
Now it is reported in force in Florid
; waters.
At the very time it was reporte
from England that the hackers of tn
smuggling trade were becoming dis
couraged and were quitting the gam
the fleet of a smuggling syndicate sal
now to be operating in souther
waters must have been fitting out
Mr.. Haynes and his hot air burea.
having been permanently retired fror
business, there was some reason TO
believing this report might be found
ed on fact. II appears, however, tha
the dry navy still has its work Gu
out for 1t.
Rum Row evidently is no more I
be depended upon than the stuff
peddles.