Juvenile Court With Youthful
Juries Described by Speaker
*j5!^;auizer of Unique Clubs
Among Children in Colo
rado Addresses Far
mers’ Meet.
The judge is a child, pprhaps a lad
'in the eighth grade. Lawyers for de
fense and prosecution, are children.
A jury of children hears the case.
The culprit is some unhappy
youngster who has committed an of
f-line against, the code of the organ
ization, the Colorado Farmer’s Union
duvenile eluh. This code, worked out
and adopted by the hoys and girls of
each separate local, generally in
cludes such things as obendience to
parents, consideration for brothers
and sisters, pledge to refrain from
intoxicating liquor, standards of
morality, helpfulness and cq-opera
tion.
If a verdict of "guilty” is brought
in by a solemn little jury in this
juvenile court, a heartbroken little
I judge pronounces sentence, which
may be deprivation of club privileges
I for a certain length of time, or, in
more serious cases, expulsion.
For all first offenses, however, the
culprit is put only on probation for
a certain length of time, during
which all the children are to be
specially kind to him and help him
to avoid falling again.
The court, or "fair play commit
fee," as it is called, is only one of
the features of this remarkable or
ganization. which was presented by
Vance Monroe, to delegates of the
National Farmers’ Kducatlonal and
Co-operative union meeting in Omaha.
Mr. Monroe, editor of the Colo
rado Union Farmer and of the Colo
rado Leader, Denver, has given a
•(•TO share of his time for three
Vattce Mofttoe
r~
j years to founding and working out
plans for these juvenile clubs, of
which there are now' 48 in Colo
rado. If the Farmers’ union endorses
them the organization will be ex
tended to other states.
130 Separatists
Beaten to Death
Terrific Violence Sweeps
Rhineland—Hundreds
Killed or W ounded.
By International »wt Service.
Berlin, Nov. 22.—Hundreds of per
sons have been killed or wounded in
a terrific wave of violence in the
Rhineland within the past 48 hours.
Communists, separatists, antl-separat
atists, peasants and police were in
volved In the fighting. There was
much looting.
The fury of the population of the
Honeff region against the separatists
is taking the form of terrible cru
elty. Since Tuesday, 130 separatists
have been beaten to death In that
district and others were lynched.
Bloody fighting continues.
A motor bus containing so separ
atists in a fight waa held up and
all were dragged from the car. Twen
ty-three of them were killed and
their bodies mutilated! only seven
escaped with their lives.
A mob of half-grown men, armed
with spiked clubs began rioting at
Hagen, In Prussian Westphalia. They
marched through the streets shout
ing: "Hoch Rosa Luxemburg.”
^^Jlosa Luxemburg was the ringleader
*■*07 the women communists in Ger
many.)
Stores were looted and much prop
erty destroyed. The reds were at
tacked by police and several were
wounded before they were dispersed.
New York, Nov. 22.—Premier
Poincare of France, for the first time,
yielded yesterday completely in an
interallied dispute, says the World In
a copyright article today. The news
paper asserts that the joint note sent
to Germany yesterday on the ques
tions of a renewal of the activities
of the Interallied control commission
In Germany and with regard to for
mer Crown Prince Frederick Wil
liam. represented what the British
government had demanded in con
nection with France's threat to pro
ceed with additional penalties against
Germany. Great *B ^;in threatened
a rupture of the entente cordlaleand
was backed up by Italy, and partly
by Belgium.
By Associated Press.
Berlin, Nov. 22.—In a vigorous de
fense of his administration before the
relchstag today. Chancellor Strese
nann welcomed the renewed Ameri
can Interest In the reparation problem
and said he hoped an International
conference would be convoked.
He also took the occasion to deny
the reports published In the German
press that the government had been
officially approached by American
financiers and added that he had not
been informed of any Impending in
r«^^L»rnaUonal financial action.
Pusseldorf, Nov. 22.—The agreement
recently signed between representa
tives of the Rhineland dye Industry
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work on the west bank of the Rhine,
according to French authorities here.
The dye plants, it is stated, agreed
to deliver dyes to the allies on repara
tion account and In return their ex
port taxes were temporarily reduced
so that the plants could rehabilitate
their finances.
Reds Blacklist Swiss
By Associated Tress.
Moscow, Nov. 22.—Switzerland, has
been placed permanently on the black
list by the Russian soviet government
in consequence of the acquittal at
Iaiusanne of Maurice Conradl, who
was charged with the assassination
of the soviet envoy Vorovsky, For
eign Minister Tchiteherin declared
today.
Life and Hope
Ebb Fast for
Doomed Child
“After Monday I Don't Care,”
Whispers Helen Hamilton,
Praying to Live Until
13th Birthday.
SI) Internnrtopal New* Seri ire.
Camden, N. ,T., Nov. 22.—T,ife and
hope ebbed fast for 12-year-old Helen
Hamilton today. She is dying of
leakage .of the heart.
Two N'ew York heart specialist*
were sent by sympathetic friends in a
last effort to prolong the child’s life
until next Monday, her 13tIt birth
day.
"After Monday I don't care.” the
girl whispered to physicians. The
specialists refused to perform a blood
transfusion operation previously plan
ned. "The shock would kill her," they
said.
The Hamilton girl’s plight became
known last week when she and her
widowed mother were evicted from
their tiny one room home because the
sick child was “a “bother” and be
cause her case resulted in "too much
publicity.”
Neighbors took the child in. She
survived the shock of moving.
Today the girl asked that a calen
dar be pinned beside her bed. The
days have been marked off. A circle
marks Monday.
"If 1 can only live until then,” is
the child's prayer.
Skinner Firm Sued.
Following the discharge of Keith
Neville ns receiver of the Skinner
Packing plant by the federal court,
four suits, totaling about $63,000, were
tiled against the company in district
court.
The plaintiffs are Peter Kickanson,
Edwen Jacobsen and the Spllttgerher
brothers, all stockholders.
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Nine Killed in
Boiler Blast
Terrific Explosion Wrecks
Louisiana Sugcr Refinery
—Search for Bodies.
By AnMi.-ialed Preen.
New Iberia, T.a., Nov. 22.—Search
continued today for additional bodies
in the ruins of the Vida Sugar re
finery at I.oreauvllle, 10 miles east
of here, which was razecf late yester
day by a terrific boiler explosion, kill
ing at least nine persons and injur
ing 15 others, live of them probably
fatally.
A. check np of the refinery’s payroll
disclosed that three employes were
unaccounted for and it was feared
they had been buried under the debris
of the plant, which was completely
wrecked, causing an estimated loss of
1100,0011.
Nine bodies had been taken from
tbe ruins. Of 1 lie injured seven were
while and eight negroes.
The killed were Sidney Broussard,
nephew of Senator Kdwin S. Brous
sard, manager of the refinery; Oscar
Broussard, superintendent, and tw'o
white and five negro employes.
The refinery employed 100 persons.
Two Girls Missing.
Aid of police in search for Glova
Gibson, 1131 Wirt street, and Mary
Kipllnger, Sixteenth street, ami Capi
tol avenue, both 11, was sought Wed
nesday.
The girls. It Is said, went to the
home of a friend Tuesday night to
spend the night. About midnight
the Gibson girl returned to her home
and left with her clothes without her
parents' knowledge.
Wednesday, while her parents were
away from home, Mary got her
clothes. Neither of the girls have
been seen since.
Air Pilot Talks
to Towns Below
Air .Mail Pilot Jack Knlgbt was
(lying ever Nebraska Wednesday
talking to the towns over which he
passed by radio.
He was testing out the air mall
service’s first plane equipped for
wireless telephone communication,
both sending and receiving. In his
conversation by radio, on a wave
length of 220 meters, he asked per
sons hearing him to communicate
with D. H. Collier, Sir mall superin
tendent, at Omaha.
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Vacouver, B. C., Nov. 21.—Dominie
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wanna county, Pennsylvania jail in
1918, while awaiting electrocution for
murder and who was recently arrested
at Nelson, B. C. on charges of illegal
entry Into this country, left today In
custody of Pennsylvania officer* tor
Scranton, Pa. ___
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SANTA CLAUS.
Which Will You Have:
Tax Reduction or Bonus?
A head-on collision in the new Congress between advocates of the bonus and champions of
tax reduction is made inevitable, most observers agree, by Secretary Mellon’s letter, stating
flatly that we can lighten our burden of taxation next year by more than $300,000,000, or we
can pay the proposed Federal “adjusted compensation” to ex-service men of the World War,
but that we can not do both.
Which hom of the dilemma shall Congress choose? Public opinion, as reflected in edito
rials and statements in the press, seems to be divided at present into three groups. One—ap
parently the largest, or at least the most vocal—demands tax reduction and is willing to let the
bonus go; another demands bonus legislation, and is willing to surrender tax reduction for it;
and a third sees no reason why we can not have both.
THE LITERARY DIGEST, this week, presents the case for all three-sides, based upon editorials
from leading newspapers and statements from prominent men as: Secretary of the Navy Denby; Sena
tor Borah; Ex-Secretary of the Treasury William F. McAdoo. A table is also included showing how the
proposed reduction would affect incomes of from $2,000 to $25,000. Other big news-features in THE
DIGEST this week are:
The Klan’s Political Role
"The Klan is not in politics," says a spokes
man of the Order. "It is not a political organiza
tion, but Klansmen are in politics and some
Klansmen are mighty good politicians.
Why Italy Holds Fiume
The conflict between Italy and Jugo-Slavia
oyer Fiume is one of the most difficult problems
of diplomacy as shown in these translations from
leading French and Italian papers.
■Bavaria’s Bitter Brew
The rise and fall of Ludendorfft “come
back.”
Another Canadian Province Goes4Wet’
• A review of the recent defeat of prohibition in
Alberta after a seven years’ trial. '
From Plato to Christ
A description of ho* Dean \V. R. Inge of St.
Paul’s Cathedral traveled the length of the road
from Greek Philosophy to the Cross.
The Wilson Voice in the Campaign—Cold Facts of the Near-East Tragedy—The Threatened
Cotton Famine—Press Combinations in England—Henry Ford's Plan to “Burn Coal Twice"
—Squeezing Soft Wood Into Hard Wood—Why Women Change Their Jobs—Romance
Comes to Our Stage—Respectablizing Jazz—President Coolidge's “Shining Example"—
Queer Fish in the League of Nations' Pool—“Where Mountains Walked" in China—Birds,
Beasts, and Trees—Investments and Finance—Topics of the Day—The Spice of Life—An Im
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