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...Klux Klan has done more for Colorado than Judge Lindsey ever did."-Attorney Edward M. Sabin, of Denver
Upon Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey of the Denver Juvenile Court was last week served a court order officially ousting him from his position. The order was the result of the Colorado Supreme Court's decision last winter that Judge Lindsey's election in 1924 had been illegal. As Judge Lindsey's opponent, Royal R. Graham, had died since the election, the office was declared vacant and the County Commissioners appointed to it Attorney Robert W. Steele. It was under this man's father, then (1899) Chief Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court that Judge Lindsey first...
...years of service with the Denver boys and girls who came before him, Judge Lindsey made the Juvenile Court of Denver internationally famed. Said Judge Lindsey last week: "We have been thanked by resolutions of the Parliament of Great Britain with the approval of the King of England and we have been thanked by prime ministers for the help Denver has furnished them through my court." The work of the Juvenile Court of Denver has been studied by sociologists everywhere; has exerted a strong influence on the nation's Juvenile Court system as it stands today...
...many a U. S. citizen doubtless cheered Judge Lindsey's ousting, rejoiced at his "downfall." For within the past year he has become to many thousands of his countrymen a radical, a lunatic, an attacker of the sanctity of the home, an advocate of free love and of birth control. By his advocacy of what he terms "companionate marriage," he has made many warm admirers but countless bitter enemies, has almost obliterated the reputation of Juvenile Court Judge Lindsey with the new reputation of Companionate Marriage Exponent Lindsey...
...which is binding upon us and that our only standard is our own taste of preference. If this is true, if there is no law of God which must be obeyed we need not wonder if our young people adopt 'companionate marriage' or any other suggestion. Judge Lindsey's advocacy of 'unmarried unions' [TIME, Jan. 24, Feb. 28] is publicly commended by college professors, writers and other well-known people, among some ministers of religion...