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Pomposity. With the pomposity of an early Roman Emperor, Premier Benito Mussolini last week published the full draft of proposed new Italian criminal laws, designed to give him jurisdiction the world over, empowering him to prosecute and punish Italians and foreigners alike...
...high point with concrete stories, and showed how every individual is controlled by heredity and environment. After making his point he drew the logical conclusion that if a man is controlled by society and can exert very little control over his actions, society has no right to punish him for action it has taught him itself...
Further statement of the physical powers of the authorities appears in the statement that "notwithstanding ye pecuniary Mulcts, it shall be lawful for ye President, Tutors or Professors to punish Undergraduates by Boxing, when they shall judge ye nature or circumstances of ye offence call...
...skirts of the period. When the trap was sprung, the victim's clothing prevented her from falling completely through, but exposed her to the ministrations of two men with cat-o-nine-tails below. Thus the Empress Catherine could witness the agony of those whom she wished to punish without offending her gaze with the vulgar aspects of chastisement...
Meanwhile the new Governor of South Carolina* has done nothing more than his predecessor to punish the lynchers of the Lowman Negroes and Negress (TIME...