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TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 1928.

AN AMERICAN ON "BIG BILL.”

"EXPLOITER OF RACIAL PREJUDICE,”

"Let us picture a small, narrow, stuffy hall in one of the wards of [Chiengo) - While án Ptalina orator

STREET MORALS AND THE LAW.

"OFFENCES INCREASED BY

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A WOMAN'S VIEW.

WEDDING GUESTS

FATE.

TWO KILLED IN AFFRAY WITH SOLDIERS.

Warsaw, Fob. 14.

An affray at a peasant wedding has resulted in the deaths of two is speaking the door is thrown A large number of women at poasants and the wounding of open, a bugle is blown, and the tended a sitting at Old Palace there at Landwarowo, on the large figure of the Mayor appeara, Yard of the Street Offences Com Polish-Lithuanian border. exuding geniality amid the ap-mitten, before which evidence on. It appears that a quarrel broke plause of the audience. He re-behalf of the Association for out batweon a corporal of From presents one type of American Moral and Social Hygieno was tier Guards and some of the wed-1 politician, the apostla of equality, given by the Rey. W. C. Roberta ding guests. Hot words, soon led If there is a negro mother in the (chairman of the Association), to blows: the corporal's rifio was audience ho takes the piccanniny and Miss Allaon Neilans..

wrenched from him and he was in his arms to show that he to a Mr. Roberts said that he cons forced to take to ble hcola. good republican,"

dered nothing more important Bleeding from wounds inflicted This Inspiring word sketch of than that the criminal law should in the scuffle, he ran to the bar- Big Bill Thompson, that anti-confine itself to overt acts-some- racks, whence he returned with a British Mayor of Chiengo, was thing that was actually dono, detachment of Frontier Guards, drawn by an American, Professor was seen, and could be proved who demanded the return of their D. R. Fox, of Columbai University. He did not consider that girls of comrade's rifle. The crowd re- during a lecture at King's College. cartain classes should be "class-fused, whoreupon the soldiers He told an amusing story of led". immediately they were taken fired into them, killing two pen- how Mayor Thompson placed two into court, and treated on the sants and wounding several. rata in soparate cages on either basis of presumptive character. The puthorities have ordered an aide of him during a public meet-

Ing In a'Chicago hálf?" “Big Bill": Mr. Roberts protested that it investigation of the affair.. called the rats by the names of was Jamentable. that the Chief

his principal political opponents, Commissioner of Police should haranguing them, one after the take the view that it was the busi-under an act which stated they other on the and consequences of ess of the police to keep the must be guilty of riotous be streets "clean." That meant that havlour or indecent conductor opposing his great reforms... it was the business of the police annoyance to passengers, when Thompson was born of a good to go about the streets deciding none of these things had been family in Boston," said Professor that some people were "clean" and proved. Fox, "but he has kept nothing of others were not. It was an inde-

the atmosphere of his early upfensible position. bringing. He wont at an early age to the Far West and became. a cook on a ranch. He came back

"Sense of Injustice."

with a slouch hat and a Western pulitan Magistrate, declared that Sir Chartres Biron, Chief Metro-

manner."

The Chairman-Do you think the "Industry" is now carried on in such refined terms, that it may be left to itsolf?

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Misa Neilans--I do.''t like the Mr. Roberts did not do justico to last part of your sentence, but I Being a Republican, Professor the police views. As he interpre- think solicitation for immoral Fox continued, Thompson could ted the Commissioner's statement purposes is carried on in an command the negro vote. He be- he meant that the maintenance of tremely 'Indefinite and refined came "Big Bill" by humouring decency in the streets was a pub-way. It was often very difficult racial prejudice. in Chicago, lic

concern. Did Mr. Roberts to infer that a conversation bo- besides half a million Germans, mean that actually injustice hap-tween a man and there were Poles, Czechs, Italians, pened in consequences of the state directed towards an immoral pur- Swedena, Norwegians.

of the law?

Mr. Roberts said that he thought that a good many young girls

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History Book Trial,

The reason for the "pro-British" had a sense of injustice on the charge against the Superintendent way they had been treated, and of Schools in Chicago, Mr. Wil that it was not unreasonable. liam McAndrew, was the fact that

DIMcult to Define.

pose,

woman' was

12,000 Arrested in Year

Miss Nollana anld that as many ns 12,000 women had been arrest- ed in England and Wales in a year as common prostitutes and fined or sent to prison. The net-

he was not amenable to the sug- gestions of those who had con- Miss Nollans, secretary of the result of the fine was that a woman tracts to place, and was not In Association for Moral and Social had to apply herself more assi- favour with politiciana who Hygiene, stated that she also re-duously to prostitution. to pay it. wished to find jobs for their sup-presented the National Union of "A fine is, in fact, an irregular

porters in the schools,

Societies for Equal Citizenship,

The hearing of the case against the St. Jean's Social and Political tax on prostitution and is so re ganded. The law has Increased him, which was undertaken by Alliance, and the Women's Free-prostitution and hindered, the re the Chicago School Board, was dom: League.

formation of a woman by stamp- not'à' trial; and therefore evi- She said that there should being her with a legal atigma which dence PILS introduced which no special exceptional legislation is very difficult to remove. It de would have boon-ruled out in a for prostitutes not because of the not, fair to pick out one small court of law. The chairman was difficulty of defining them, but be-section of the community and closely related to a contractor cause such legislation would give make it a scapegoat.” who wished to place contracts them legal sanction as a class of

The Society had no evidence of with the school board. The tradera, :..

bribery of the police, and she chief witnesses were mainly pro The view of her society was not did not believe there was any real minent anti-British agitators. that they would not like to banish blackmail of women by police- Questions had been prearranged this thing from the streets, but men. The real difficulty was the between the lawyers and the wit that it was not possible to pre possibility of seduction of the nessca, in which certain violently vent it by legislation. She police. "I should not like a bro- anti-American passages were ganded soliciting as an unprovable ther of mine to be put on this cited from the text-books. Placed offence. Prostitutes had suffer work," Miss Nellans added. "That in their context all of these pas-ed very grave injustice for is where the usefulness of the sages had another and much oighty or one hundred years, be women police comes in.” milder meaning.

cause often they were convicted

The Commitice adjourned.

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Ile said that a bill of indictment against a motorist war thrown out by the grand fury at the Central Criminal Court. He (the Coroder); was entitled to resume the faquest whether the person accused of manslaughter had been tried or not "I am entitled in this case, although the bill has been thrown out by the grand jury," he added, "to reapme the inquest, and if the ovidhco justifies it to commit the war for】 |trial,”··

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