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RIGHTLY DIRECTED ATTENTION
Don't criticise the courts for administering and ap
plying the same laws that you permitted your legislators
to enact. True, much of the criminal procedure followed
nowadays seems absurd to the layman, but it will do no
good to blame the lawyers for taking advantage of it.
Our legislatures are not composed entirely of lawyers.
There are always other strong-minded men to hold a pro
per balance.
That a guilty person escapes punishment by court or
Perhaps Dempsey just imagines his eyesight is bad
the fault of the jury, at least, in the absence of, sheer
fraud or bribery. What the country needs most of all
in that line is a re-hashing of criminal procedure to the
extent that the guilty shall not hide behind the technicali
ties that are wholesomely designed to protect the inno.
cent. Besides, a law can always approach nearer to per
fection than can its application.
Success also depends* upon reducing to a minimum
the number of things we have to undo that we have done.
It is reported that Poles are being smuggled into the
United States. Also other contraband witth a “stick in it.
The Mexicans might play even by critizing our Con
gressional bull-shots.
Only a truly desperate mouse would seek cover under
a skirt these days.
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because there is no big money in sight.
Some of the funniest things we hear are said by peo
ple who take themselves seriously.
An Ohio woman routed a burglar by hitting him with
a can of tomatoes. A case of being literally canned.
Coolidge admirer of Jackson—headline. The old
law of the attraction of opposites appears to be working
still.
American saxophones are being smuggled into Eng
land. Possibly Big Bill Thompson is the instigator of
this affront.
The proposed temporary convention hall at Houston
may answer its purpose, inasmuch as the winters are mild
in Texas.
We wonder if the inhabitants of Mars were suffi
ciently educated to spell and pronounce the name of that
Skjellerup comet.
Judging by what is happening in England, a fruitful
source of future civil wars may be seen in attempts to re
vise the prayer books. ,
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DEAD ON ROAD. HEART
The body of Williami Burgie, a farm
er at Homer, was found on the road ,
between his place and Nielson’s resi
dence near Homer, January 22, _
by Glen Bowers. Mr. Burgie had left i f§
Nielson’s Sunday afternoon between j jf
three and four o’clock for home but I H
was evidently taken with a heart at- J m
tack and fell by the road. There are
few passers-by on this part of the road
so it is not strange that his body was
not found sooner. He told Mrs. Niel
son that he had been sick that morn
ing and that it was quite an exertion
in going to their place. Judge Allen
Peterson and Deputy Marshal Milo
Hurlbut held a corner’s inquest on Fri
day and Dr. Lane of Seldovia gave
heart failure as the cause of his death.
He was buried on his place by neigh
bors and friends, and a simple burial
service was held. Mr. Burgie has a
brother living in Spokane, Wash., and
another somewhere in California. He
was born in Switzerland.
SCRAP ROOK EXERPS
(By “Babe’' Hayes, Cordova)
John J. Bliss, Jamaica, N. Y.,—“I
have sent four people up your way
during the past summer and they are
all more than pleased with the trip.”
Mr. Elliott, of the Pacific Whaling
Co, made the trip from* Akutan to Un
alaska and return on the S S. Starr.
Mr. Elliott is the sole survivor of the
Christmas tragedy at Akutan in which
his wife and four others were drowned
JACK OTIS MARRIED
Jack Otis, the genial proprieter of
the Otis Trading Co., at King Cove,
and Miss Stella Marum were married
at Unalaska on February 20. They re
turned to King Cove on the Starr.
W. B. Dickenson, from the naval rad
io station at Dutch Harbor, was a pas
senger on the S. S- Starr which ar
rived in port yesterday. He is being
transferred to the Sitka station.
Miss Vera McGlashen, who has been
visiting at Unalaska, returned to her
home at Akutan on the S. S. Starr.
May belle Rice, ~f Seattle and a
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ciarkin of
Seldovia, came in from th« Westward
yesterday on the W'at-v. i
Mrs. Leonard Hopkins departed
for Anchorage today to witness the
girls high school games.
Frye-Bruhn’s Baby Beef Is unex
celled.
In The
LIBERTY THEATER
SUNDAY
Sunday School and Bible Class
11 a. m.
Preaching and Song Service
3 p. m.
W. R. Macpherson
will deliver the message
Everybody invited
No collections
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8 O'CLOCK -w ONE SHOW
8 O’CLOCK
Jack Pickford
and the new English stage star
BEATRICE LILLIE
in the great comedy drama
“ Exit Smiling ”
• Here is a very fine drama so full of comedy as
to make it possible to call it either a straight
drama or a straight comedy. A good combina
tion of both and the stars do some fine work.
The English star is, in private life, the young
wife of Sir Robert Peel and is a famous London
comedy queen. It is her first movie.
Jack needs no introduction for everyone knows
he is the brother of Mary.
A behind-the-stage theatre play that’s a good
one. A traveling troupe of actors sees more of
life than any other class, and this story deals
with their adventures in the “Tank towns.”
Then there is a good two-reel comedy
“BLACK AND BLUE EYES”
And a reel of Jokes. A tip-top program.
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COMING
The big ten-reel superfeature
“THE VANISHING AMERICAN”
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