The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-09-17
JUDGE DOUB CONVENED
CIRCUIT COURT MONDAY
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july III
AS you know, now the terms of this
court are changed and hereafter the
Jury terms of this court will meet
upon the second Monday Of September
and the third Monday, of March, in
stead of meeting in December and
June as heretofore, The court has
felt for some time, as we'll as the bar
and the clerk and other court officers,
that it would be advisable to make
this change because of the inclem-
ency of the weather which we usually
encounter in the month of December.
Although the change was suggested
some time ago, believe there was
some objection to it because it might
Inconvenience some farmers. / do not
know what Inconvenience it would be
to farmer to attend. the grand jury
for a few days out Of the year, or
rather out of every three or four
wears, and want now to say that any
citizen of Garrett county who is not
willing to give to the administration
of Justice in a republic like ours,
where the people must maintain the
law if it is to be maintained at all, is
not worthy of his rights as a citizen.
We cannot maintain the law. unless
the people assist in its administration.
The courts cannot prevent crime. The
only thing the courts can do is to pun
ish crime and try to- make it so hor-
rible and the punishment so severe
that it will be a warning to others
not to commit crime; but the main
tenance of law depends primarily
though not always entirely-upon the
people of the community.
Ac T tha
tains of Garrett county this morning
Grantsville and Accident and Nc
Henry, 1 could not help but believe
and to say that Garrett county is a
tiful county, in fact almost the most
beautiful in our State. And yet, when
/ thought that its peace and happi-
foul and unnatural murder, right upon
whether all of US are doing all that
we can to assist in maintaining law
and good order. ~
AS I have said, if the laws are not
maintained and enforced, it is not so
much the fault of the court as it is the
fault of the people. Every citizen, for
and his neighbor, has a duty in so
far as in him lies, to see that the
laws and all the laws, are maintained,
and especially to see that he himself
does not violate the law. And then
again wondered whether perhaps our
full duty was being done to the chill
dren of our county and whether they
were being taught as they ought to
L. h. 6 hn To-
say the sanctity of the law mean
that the law is sacred and should al
ways be preserved by every citizen.
I wondered also whether our schools,
for which we pay out such large
amount of money in taxes, are doing
their full duty in teaching the chill
dren to respect and honor and obey
the law.
know that in this republic of ours
the state and the church must be kept
forever separate, yet do not under
stand why the Ten Commandments
handed down by Moses could not be
taught and stressed in the public
schools, for which we pay our taxes.
1t would not do to say that that is
introducing religion into the public
schools, because there is no one of the
commandments
directly or indirectly incorporated into
the statutes and the laws of our State.
Thou shalt not kill; thou shalt not
steal; thou shalt not commit adul-
terry; honor the Sabbath Day-are not
all these parts of the laws OF this
State? Honor thy father and thy
mother. I know of no statute about
that, but 1 know of a statute that
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who fails to support his or her father
and mother when in need shall be sub
ject to punishment by the State. Gould
there be any stronger endorsement OF
that Commandment?
So if l say the Ten Commandments
are Incorporated in the laws of the
State and of our country, they ought
to be incorporated in the teachings in
who he is or what his religious be-
object to that.
have a law for that. When we say
that we do not mean to interpret the
law in the public schools to the ex-
tent that people should be prevented
from every form of work on the Sab
DdCH LAY OuI kAAAt
the fundamental meanings which are
a part of the law, ought to be taught
in the public schools of the land, be-
cause if the Ten Commandments be-
come a part and parcel of the convic-
tions of the growing boys and girls of
our country, then they must be the
convictions of the men and women of
the future, into whose hands we of
this day must in time surrender The
guidance and government of the flu
ture generations, because then boy
or girl becomes impressed and i'm
bued with the conviction that moral
principles must be maintained. If
they are trained and instructed in
that way of thinking in their early
life, it will become a part of their
very being, and they will die rather
than violate them in their later years.
So / am just wondering whether we
are doing our full duty toward our
growing boys and girls.
I am informed that on last Friday
an assassin took the life of harm
less, innocent man for. money. AS
much as has been said about the fl
:nancial depression we are passing