anaheim-daily-herald 1921-12-03

HERALD EDITORIALS JUSTICE OR SENTIMENT There is in progress in the courts of Los Angeles county the trial of a man charged with murder. The jury in the case consists of ten women and two men. Probably in no action of similar importance had any jury been thus constituted. The outcome will be watched, therefore, with peculiar interest. The defendant had expressed a preference for a feminine jury. It is natural to question, not necessarily with hostility, his motive in this choice. A criminal trial is for the purpose of reaching a conclusion based on facts, and with due consideration for the element of justice. It does not have for its legitimate object, the conviction of the innocent nor the acquittal of the guilty. It is not designed to be an occasion on which sentiment is to be given full sway. The jurors listen to the evidence, weigh it, compare it; listen to the instructions of the judge, and bring in a verdict. They are supposed to be shrewd enough not to be misled by the trickery of lawyers, firm enough so as to decline to be controlled by emotions. Can a jury by large majority women, meet and withstand the test? The question is not asked as in any manner reflecting upon their intelligence, or upon their ability to discern the truth. It is asked because it is a most interesting point, and has yet to be determined. The defendant is said to have received "mash notes" in jail. As a Frenchman accused of the murder of eleven wives faces his prosecutors, he is made aware of acute sympathy on the part of female spectators. What is the significance of this? Or has it any significance? manner reflecting upon their intelligence, or upon their ability to discern the truth. It is asked because it is a most interesting point, and has yet to be determined. The defendant is said to have received "mash notes" in jail. As a Frenchman accused of the murder of eleven wives faces his prosecutors, he is made aware of acute sympathy on the part of female spectators. What is the significance of this? Or has it any significance? Indicted as party to the crime of the local prisoner is a woman, young and beautiful. Her trial comes next. It is not expected that her counsel will seek a woman jury. And if not, would there be significance in that? SENATOR BORAH TO THE FORE Senator Borah says: "I see no difference in joining the present league and joining another league under a new name." As a rule the country loses little by failing to agree with Borah. What he sees or may not, see is a matter of small consequence. On numerous occasions when his voice has been raised in protest, he has been in the wrong. The fact that Borah opposed the League of Nations was proclaimed widely. Doubtless it had effect. The standing of a senator, quite regardless of his ability, or the soundness of his logic, is bound to carry some weight. Knowledge of the circumstance that he was playing into the hands of men disloyal to their own country seemed to escape him. Doubtless in principle the conference agreement if such should be the fruitage of the present gathering, would be in consonance with that formerly rejected. It would differ in detail; probably have far less detail. As it is taking on shape, it seems to be an agreement among nations to preserve a rational peace, to discourage war, to lessen the burden of armament, to check the spirit of aggression. There cannot be any grave wrong pointed to among these purposes. The Borahs of the land seem to hold that it is the duty of the United States to look out for itself alone. But supposing that the influence of the United States may prevent Europe from military waste, and remembering that Europe owes billions to this country, would it not be clear that it was conserving its own interests, anyhow? Clear to all but the Borahs, that is to say. Perjury probably is one of the most common crimes. Doubtless it is a feature of most criminal trials. It seldom is punished. Perhaps the frequency of perjury is the reason that a cautious prosecutor does not always outline alone. But supposing that the influence of the United States may prevent Europe from military waste, and remembering that Europe owes billions to this country, would it not be clear that it was conserving its own interests, anyhow? Clear to all but the Borahs, that is to say. Perjury probably is one of the most common crimes. Doubtless it is a feature of most criminal trials. It seldom is punished. Perhaps the frequency of perjury is the reason that a cautious prosecutor does not always outline the series of allegations he hopes to establish as facts. He knows that were he to do so, the other side would have a suborned and trained witness ready to make any sort of oath deemed necessary. Premier Briand received a warm welcome in France. Indeed the heat of it was great enough to cause possible discomfort to a statesman not already having his soul at-tuned to high temperature. It is to be remembered that the atmosphere that Briand left in the United States had been giving out flashes indicative of extreme warmth. Herman Strandt 1104 West Center Street All kinds of Cement Work. Prices reasonable. Work Guaranteed. PAINTING APERING ROY A. TAYLOR All Work Guaranteed 210 N. Los Angeles St., Anaheim —Phone 26— Anaheim Sanitary Dairy Phone 268M Fresh Milk Delivered QUARTS 15c; PINTS 8c Morning and evening delivery BUY IT IN ANAHEIM. Between Ourselves By Della M. Stewart One reason that so many of us be moan the necessity of doing housework is that we're not good sports. There's no profession that demands outsize as much of that quality. Advertising columns to the contrary, very few women look as delightfully neat and smiling as do the picture women who run the power washers and the vacuum cleaners. Solled clothes are always smiled clothes, and the continued use of water is more or less a sloppy process. The vacuum cleaner may be an efficient dust collector, but it can't remove the ink spots from the library rug or the grease from the chair cushion. The trouble is that we take our job of housekeeping too seriously—we women. There are those of us who fret more over a darn in a curtain than we do over our immortal souls, and whose wrath is more stirred by a bit of mud on the cleaned floor than by some transgression of the moral law. Things are so much more than people to us, that we will put our whole domestic atmosphere in volcanic motion if some household belonging is mishandled, or some possession unconsciously injured. Of course we grow care-lined and shrewish. Of course we lose respect and some measure of love that we might have had. Of course the keeping of the house seems a heavy burden. Why shouldn't all this happen? If we just used the God-given intelligence and reasoning power within every one of us, we would quickly see that all this is the logical outcome of our own actions. Do we love to be constantly "nagged?" Do we enjoy being made to feel a hopeless outcast because of some unintentional accident or careless deed? Then why should others George Our Boy Reporter Pare an warmer an its gettin nippy in the mornin an Mister Harry Riley is got a cold in his hed from keepin his hat off talkin to a lady up on Center street a cupple of days ago he sed. jim dash I seen Cheef Stedman this mornin wotchin them tarin down the city hall. jim dash Mister Weber sed by Christmuss he bets he wood sell a bout a hunderd fourergrafts the way bizness is pickin up agen. He sed jesses soon as he gets sum new mashines sumbuddy cums in an sees it an takes it an then he has got to get sum more. I shood worry he sed. jim dash Mister Padden wus happy today a bout sumthin I gess cause when he cum in this mornin it wus only haff past 6 an he sed Good Mornin-George whats your first name. He nose what my first name is cause its jess like him. Hisn is George also an his middle name is Vincent George Padden is his hull name an he used to rite it all out he sed in the bommy days when he wus ritin for papers wich is wun thousand times as big as the Herald. When he gets mad Mister Gibson wich is the editer calls him Mister Trotsky. jim dash Cum wun cum all Mister Buck sed up to the new drug store an get your Christmas presuints early. He wants me to rite a ad for him for Christmuss an the cheef sed I shood do it so I am goin up to see whats he got for Christmas an rite it up. jim dash Mister Tom Williams whats our operater sed he aint got over from bein held up by robbers yet. They didnt get nothin cause Mister Williams he gives evrythink to his wife ennyhow I gess before he cums to work. He sed he thinks maybe he cood no the man wich talked to him if he seen him agen but he sed he dont want to see him agen less its in the day time when they are a deputy shariff from Santa Ana a round sum wares. jim dash Mister Larsen up to the Sanitary Bakery is fixin up sum frute cakes for Christmuss an he is goin to get up ad about them he sed jesses soon as he gets time to take a breth without havin sumthin to do. He sed he never seen so menny people wich eats bred in his hull life like they do here. Frute cake aint got no more brandy in it he sed but its got everythink else in it an it wood last ten yeers he sed if you dont eat it. —— thirty —— Little Stories for Bedtime By THORNTON W. BURGESS (Copyright by J. G. Lloyd) FARMER BROWN'S BOY TRIES TO MAKE FRIENDS Nobody lives who's wholly bad; Some good you'll find in every heart. again and always he found some delicious fat nuts or some other dainty Snap Shots By Henry James The hand that Hughes laid on the table had all the potentiality of a royal flush. Liberty bonds soared when they got into the hands of financiers, but on their way thither seemed to lack qualities necessary to upward flight. The gentlemen who propose to "lead working masses in struggle for abolition of capital" have undertaken a big job. The working masses like wages for their work. The autoist who ran over a man aged 107 has no reason to feel proud. Almost any make of machine ought to out speed a centenarian. Prohibition Commissioner Haynes has ruled that when his agents raid the wrong house by mistake, the raided have no cause to complain. This is a rule that will have more than the usual number of exceptions. The business of selling divorces and then branding them as spurious is likely to injure Nevada's trade as well as its reputation. There promises to be a political war in the Philippines revolving around the question of immediate independence. If such a war would be amusing to the natives there could not be much harm in it. Independence, however, will be granted when the islands are ready for it, and the change may be made safely. The exact time will be determined by the kindly guardian Uncle Sam. The poulterer had just received some live chickens in a crate from the country. The crate was just being lifted off a cart as Mrs. Newlywed entered to buy the Sunday dinner. "If you like ma'am," offered the poulterer. "I'll kill and dress a couple of these chickens and send them over he couldn't catch them by running after them, he made up his mind that they didn't want to be his friends, and so then he began to hunt them because he thought it was fun to try to outwit them. Of course, when he began to do that they hated him and feared him all the more. You see, they didn't understand that really he had one of the kindest hearts in the world, and he didn't understand that they hated him just because they didn't know him. So when Chatterer had been caught in the trap in Farmer Brown's corncrib he hadn't doubted in the least that Farmer Brown's boy would give him to Black Pussy or do something equally cruel, and even when he found that he was only to be kept a prisoner in a very comfortable prison, with plenty to eat and drink, he was not willing to believe any good of Farmer Brown's boy. Indeed, he hatched him more ever if that were again and always he found some delicious fat nuts or some other dainty waiting for him. After a little as soon as he saw Farmer Brown's boy coming Chatterer would begin to wonder what good thing he had brought this time, and would grow terribly impatient for Farmer Brown's boy to go away so that he could find out. By and by it got so that he could not wait, but would silly peep out of his little round doorway to see what had been brought for him. Then one day Farmer Brown's boy didn't come at all. Chatterer tried to make himself believe that he was glad. He told himself that he hated Farmer Brown's boy, and he hoped that he never, never would see him again. But all the time he knew that it wasn't true. It was the longest day since Chatterer had been a prisoner. Early the next morning, before Chatterer was out of bed, he heard a step in the woodshed, and before he thought what he was doing he was out of the hollow stump to see if it really was Farmer Brown's boy. It was, and he had three great fat nuts which he dropped into Chatterer's cage. It seemed to Chatterer that he just couldn't wait for Farmer Brown's boy to go away. He darted forward and seized one. Then he scampered to the shelter of his hollow stump to eat it. When it was finished he just had to have another. Farmer Brown's boy was still watching, but somehow Chatterer didn't feel so much afraid. This time he sat up on one of the little branches of the stump and ate it in plain sight. Farmer Brown's boy smiled, and it was a pleasant smile. "I believe we shall be friends after all," said he. Next Story: Chatterer Has a Pleasant Surprise. Have a Smile A man and his wife who were invited to a reception given by a certain viceroy of India received, by mistake, tickets of different colors—one white, one blue. They didn't know it, but the viceroy had decided to make some distinction between his personal guests and those who were not quite so intimate. Accordingly, blue and white tickets were sent out. The "whites" were to enter a certain door, which gave them precedence over the "blues," who were to gain admittance by another The poulterer had just received some live chickens in a crate from the country. The crate was just being lifted off a cart as Mrs. Newlywed entered to buy the Sunday dinner. "If you like ma'am," offered the poulterer. "I'll kill and dress a couple of these chickens and send them over to your house." "Well," replied the young housekeeper, hesitating cautiously, "if you are positive that they are fresh you may." A pretty girl, who is in the chorus of one popular Broadway show, boasts that she has missed Sunday school only twice in her life. A nuisance and a man with a grievance are much the same. Trouble comes to those who haven't time to wait. So when Chatterer had been caught in the trap in Farmer Brown's corncrib he hadn't doubted in the least that Farmer Brown's boy would give him to Black Passy or do something equally cruel, and even when he found that he was only to be kept a prisoner in a very comfortable prison, with plenty to eat and drink, he was not willing to believe any good of Farmer Brown's boy. Indeed, he hatched him more than ever, if that were possible. But Farmer Brown's Boy was very patient. He came to Chatterer's prison ever so many times a day and whistled and clucked and talked to Chatterer. And he brought good things to eat. It seemed as if he was all the time trying to think of some new treat for Chatterer. He never came without bringing something. At first Chatterer would hide in his hollow stump as soon as he saw Farmer Brown's boy coming, and wouldn't so much as peek out until he had gone away. When he was sure that the way was clear he would come out A man and his wife who were invited to a reception given by a certain viceroy of India received, by mistake, tickets of different colors—one white, one blue. They didn't know it, but the viceroy had decided to make some distinction between his personal guests and those who were not quite so intimate. Accordingly, blue and white tickets were sent out. The "whites" were to enter a certain door, which gave them precedence over the "blues," who were to gain admittance by another entrance. When the man and his wife arrived at the "white" entrance, the A.D.C. on duty told them they could not enter together, for the lady, having a blue ticket, must present herself at the other door. The wife, says Mr. Frederic Villiers in his book, "Five Decades of Adventure," refused to be separated from her husband by such an absurd regulation, and, fixing the young official with a stormy glare, said: "Young man, my husband and I are not a seidlitz powder!" Saturday, December 3, 1921. HERALD SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Month by Carrier .65 One Year by Mall $4.00 One Month by Mall .40 Entered at the Postoffice at Anaheim, California, as second-class matter. THE ONCE OVER By H. I. PHILLIPS THE INNBADDS DISCUSS BLUEBEARD LANDRU “What do you think of this Landru?” asked Ignatius Innbadd, drawing his wife into conversation over his favorite newspaper. “Land who?” asked the wife. “Not Landwho, Landru; this French Bluebeard who is accused of killing several dozen wives and sweethearts. They claim that over 100 women went out to see Landru at his country place and immediately disappeared,” explained Ignatius. “I saw a picture of Landru in the paper the other day,” replied Mrs. Innbadd. “After one look at him the 100 women probably were anxious to disappear.” “Do you think he is guilty?” asked Ignatius. “If you want the truth, I think it’s all a publicity scheme,” replied Mrs. Innbadd. “Publicity!” exclaimed Innbadd. “Sure,” returned Mrs. Innbadd. “They’re getting him all set for a vaudeville tour or engagement in the moving pictures.” “What can he do in vaudeville or the movies?” demanded Ignatius. “Nuthin’” admitted the wife. “That’s why he’d be just the right type for a headliner. I’m telling you it is all bunk; this Landru never killed all those women. I’ll leave it to your own common sense. Do you imagine any man could kill twelve or fifteen wives and get away with it?” “I can hardly imagine a man having any such luck,” replied Ignatius. “What was that?” demanded Mrs. Innbadd. “I said I could hardly imagine any man doing away with any woman of pluck.” stammered Innbadd. “The very law of averages is against it,” insisted Mrs. Innbadd. “A Bluebeard might do away with a couple wives without much trouble, but the third one would be pretty sure to strike a few return blows and attract the attention of the neighbors. You can bet that one out of every three women is boss of her own home, no matter what color her husband’s beard may be.” “From my own experience I should say the percentage would be three out of every three,” said Innbadd. “And another thing: do you suppose a man could marry twelve women without having at least five of them bring their mothers with them? There’s the old law of averages again. And what do you think Bluebeard’s mother-in-law’s were doing while he was chasing his wives around the parlor with a sledge hammer? Believe me, there’s one way to prove whether Landru is innocent or not.” “What’s that?” asked Ignatius. “Let the jury look at his head. If he has no deep scars it’s a sure proof he has not only never killed a wife, but never got into a serious row with her either.” Innbadd picked up his hat and walked to the door. “I’ll say one thing about this Landru, though,” he remarked. “What’s that?” asked the wife. “Whether he really did it or not, you gotta give him credit for a great idea!” “Yes,” said a traveller, “I had an amusing journey up to town. There were two Scotsmen in the car.” “How do you know they were Scotsmen?” asked his friend. “Well, they both happened to take their pipes out together. 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