Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 273, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1919 — STORIES of AMERICAN CITIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

STORIES of AMERICAN CITIES

Judge Sentences Automobile Speeders to Morgue CHICAGO.— Instead of letting off the five fast-drivers who were arraigned before him with customary fine, Judge Stelk ordered them aFI to report to Warden Michael Zimmer of the county morgue, and afterward to visit the county hospital to look upon the vic-

tims of reckless autoists who are stretched on beds of pain in that place. The cases were continued’ for a week. “I want you all to have a chance to digest your impressions of the morgue,'’ said the judgd'. ~~~~ r ‘Vou won't need to send me," pleaded, A. W. Cornell of IVestern Springs. “I was only going 33 miles an hour on a clear road, straight

ahead of me.”/ * “I’m going to show you two widows, one with five children and one with 12, whose husbands were killed by men who were going 33 miles on a clear road,” said the Judge grimly. "If some one crossed the street ahead of you. you couldn’t stop your car in 104 feet. You go out and look at those two men in the county morgue, and interview their families, and then come back -a week from today and tell me what you think of it.” Joseph Bitel, 2100 South Halsted street, who was arrested for driving by the side of a street car while passengers were alighting didn’t think he ought to go out, either. _ “I fined you $25 a or so ago for speeding, didn’t I?” said the Judge. "It didn’t do much good. I’m going to send you out to see two little children in the morgue and then you can come back and tell me your thoughts on the speed problem.” Louis Koalvas, 5754 West Chicago avenue; A. H. Jlangold and James John O’Donnell, 1924 Springfield avenue, were the other three sent to the- morgue.

Chaloner’s Mission Now to Fight “Lunacy Trust” NEW YORK. —Branding alienists ns "head hunters who. for a price, will send any man to the madhouse,” John Armstrong Chaloner, sage of Virginia and author of ‘JWho’s Loony Now?” hals announced his intention of ,

devoting, his life to fighting “bogus lunacy laws.” Summoning a group of newspaper men, whom he insisted upon addressing as “Gentlemen of the Fourth Estate," Mr. Chaloner said that fiveyears of warfare would be necessary to defeat the “lunacy trust” in the United States and then only two years in Europe before there, too, he would be victorious. The “lunacy trust” here “is ri£h

and Intrenched,” he said, but asserted • he was willing to devote to his campaign both his time and his incom , amounts to $112,000 a year. --- Off Sunday morning, November 9, at 7 :45 o’clock, Mr. Chaloner will begin a series of lectures to which the public will be invited. He will continue the series for five months, under the title, “The Philosophic Aspects o tianI ‘*The lunacy laws of this state, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri and New England are rotten. In the South Jhere are fewer rich men and it hasn’t paid to organize a ‘lunacy trust’ there.” Mr. Chaloner (originally Chanler) is a grandson of John Jacob Astor and the owner of an estate valued at more than $1,500,000. He was adjudged insane in this state in 1897 on the petition of several of his relatives, and was confined in Bloomingdale asylum. Two years later he escaped and took refuge The courts have now declared him sane and restored his fortune.

“The Quick and the Dead” Combined in One Soldier SAN FRANCISCO. —A good many men have seen their death notices in a newspaper and read their own obituaries. It is a standing Joke of the grimmest kind that many men are dead who don’t know it. But here s a man who seems to be unable to convince

the government he’s alive. Anyway, to try to re-enlist In Uncle Sam’s army and then be repeatedly told that he is dead is the experience of James Q. O’Malley of Plymouth, Cal. Although Col. T. E. Page, In charge of army recruiting here, insists that O’Malley is alive and produces the man to support his contention, official Washington insists that he is dead. - And O’Malley’s mother, despite

her repeated letters Informing the war department that her son is alive, is receiving death compensation every month frO, "o-M,Uta been trying to re-enllst tor weeke. He lenrnetl the tourteenth time that he was dead when he applied to the recruiting officer recentlj fOT mTking-appHcatlon for reinstatement O'Malley requested assignment to San Francisco in the motor transportation corps. In order to secure special assSnmentLionel Page wired the adjutant general at Washington for this snecial dispensation and he received this telegraphic reply. ta regnrd to James Q. O’Malley not understood. Thia aoldter tas discharge given to him at the Presidio here In April of this year. He served overseas with the One Hundred and Eleventh letters to the w*r- rtsk insurance department- ask tag them discontinue his death compensation tp his mother have been of no avail. Patriotic Woman Buys League of Nations Stock BTnxf Tier HAM ALA—If you want the League of Nations to be a success t to support it bv subscribing for stock. That was the argument used by “Miss Sarah Benson ot Chicago” In Birmingham. “Miss

Benson” called at the home of Mrs. Blank the other morning. Mrs. Blank, who refused to give her real name, laid the case before the police in the afternoon; Here is Mrs. Blank’s story: “I am*just an (#dlnary woman. 1 read the papers occasionally, but generally just glance at the headlines; so when this woman came to my house and said that great men like President Wilson and William Howard Taft w’ere

ouTto me that the purpose of the League of Nations was to buy up al the materfa?t«ed by the different nations and make farming implements of it. I am a religious woman and she quoted me a verse ftom the Bible about men belting their swords into plowshares, and it impressed me as an admirable PlaD “When I informed her that I would take two shares she explained thd< •stock wS OT a klmre «»d without themwa, 0T.50/ “ ‘Which wav <*• President Wilson taking his?’ I inquired. -She informed me that the president was taking his without the reservaHnna ho I invested what mongy I had with the woman. “When my husband came home I told him^wliatlhaddone.—Efe too|_ about two hours explaining the League of Nations to me. I feel llkea silly old hen and people will tease me to death about it if my name is used.” Blink thought that this woman should be caught. That is the reuoa •he came to police headquarters and'reported the matter.