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...Jackson (TIME, Sept. 19), Dr. McBride was doubtless heartily sympathetic. But what could he think and feel about Attorney General Arthur L. Gillon of Indiana ? The latter, not content that the Reverend E. S. Shumaker, State Anti-Saloon superintendent of Indiana, had been sentenced to two months on a penal farm for contempt of court, was last week seeking to extend the Reverend Shumaker's sentence considerably for alleged efforts to cor- rupt the Supreme Court of Indiana in its review of his case...
...Miserables. While forced into retirement by the displeasure of Napoleon, Victor Hugo wrote his great novel venting protest against the harsh penal system of the day. He meant to proclaim the Christian doctrine that all men are brothers, the hopeful opinion that even the most reprehensible wretch is kin to God. His example is Jean Valjean, a strapping fellow, brutalized by 19 years in the chains of convict labor for the theft of a loaf of bread. The kindness of an old bishop causes the spark to glow in Valjean, so that after his release, he devotes himself to saintly...
...newspaper may be attributed to the publication of crime news. . . ." Mr. Hearst was recently elected honorary president of the American Crime Study Commission, an organization of which Bradford Merrill, general manager of the Hearst newspapers, is secretary. Addressing the Commission, Mr. Hearst said that the U. S. penal system is "built upon the sand, founded upon the basis of force and violence instead of on the basis of Christian care of our fellow...
...purpose of making a thorough study of the present government. He said to me: "The civilization which is now being developed in Italy is the greatest ever conceived in the mind of man." He is personally going to investigate the "Italian Siberia." He will go to these penal islands. Mrs. Jackson Flemming, the popular current history lecturer, said in my drawing-room: "The government Mussolini is developing is so modern we Americans are not able to understand it; we are not educated up to it." Both these statements are significant...
...carloads of assorted obscenity. He strove cheerfully to administer well the $15,000 per annum supplied him by John D. Rockefeller Jr., the Colgate (soap) family, Thomas Alva Edison and other earnest souls. He concentrated his efforts upon enforcing Section 1141 of New York's penal code, a famed paragraph lobbied through by the whiskered subject of the Suppression office's chief portrait. He suppressed Jurgen, famed allegory by James Branch Cabell. He did quite well until 1919 when he inadvertently attacked Harper & Bros. for publishing the dull biography of a prostitute. He obtained a conviction, but Harpers...