Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 63, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 August 1928 — Page 11

AUG. 3, 1928.

TEXAS JOOOE’S SOBZE JUSTICE JARSJOTHAM Fits Punishment to Man, He Says, Fining One $500; Another Penny. • BY THOMAS L. STOKES United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Aug. 3.—A modern Solomon from Texas is giving New York a judicial education. Federal Judge William H. Atwell, whose native bailiwick is Dallas, but who is doing vacation relief in Federal Court in Brooklyn, metes out a form of justice that is a continual puzzle to the native bootleggers in this haven of speakeasies. “What can you expect when he fines one man SSOO for doing the same thing for which he fines another 1 cent?’’ they ask. The answer' is easy, says the judge, a white-haired, dignified man who comes from the South, but is not a Democrat, and admits that he was an anti-prohibitionist before the Eighteenth Amendment was adopted. Grades the Punishment “I fit the punishment to the man,” he explained today. The judge was asked what difference he finds in the attitude toward the prohibition law here and in Texas. He said he does not like to give interviews on such subjects, explaining that they may be construed as with a political purpose and a judge has no right to make political utterances, but he answered in a judicial, slightly enigmatic way. “The first is this: There is a difference between enforcement and advocacy,” he began. “Enforcement is judicial; advocacy is political. Enforcement is a duty; advocacy is voluntary. “I detect another difference. The journalist is not an apologist in my district for any man who breaks the law, whatever it may be. Formerly Used Liquor “If the journalist misrepreesnts the enforcement of a law to those who do not have opportunity themselves to see it enforced, then it creates a false set of facts so that the reader necessarily will draw a false conclusion.” Judge Atwell was an anti-prohi-bitionist, and used liquor before the Eighteenth Amendment was adopted. “I took a drink and enjoyed it,” he said. “But I haven’t taken a drink in ten years, either at home or abroad. I can lean over the bench and tell the man down there before me: ‘l’m no hypocrite, old fellow.’ ” The Texas judge studies the people who come before him and when the trial is over he knows his man thoroughly. He renders his judgments accordingly. He is strong on the truth. He gave an old man who had been selling liquor a light sentence because he told the truth. He gave another a heavy sentence because he lied. Fined One Cent A young man came before him for selling a quart of liquor to factory employes. He had been in jail forty-five days, unable to get bail. “You’ve been punished enough,” the judge said. “One cent fine.” Judge Atwell fined a grocer who sold liquor $125. He explained that. if the grocer

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Here is the man who is accused by supporters of the Mexican administration as the "intellectual author” of the assassination of President-Elect Alvaro Obregon. He is Luis N. Morones, and was minister of industry, commerce and labor until his removal from office by President Calles. He was known as the bitterest enemy of General Obregon and had’ been quoted as saying: “Either Obregon or I must go.” He sought refuge following the assassination. was breaking this law, he might not be quite honest in other matters. “You might no give me sixteen ounces for a pound,” he said. He talks in a kindly way to those whom he sentences, but there often is a rude shock when he pronounces his verdict. The Texas judge said he often visits the jails in his district and corresponds with many men whom he was sentenced and upon all sorts of subjects.

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