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Show y ' Guilty? Feel His Bumps! l i f The weird course of American justice is now confronted by the strange case of Gov. Hardman of. Georgia, who decides de-cides whether folks are guilty or not by the. aid of phrenology. phrenol-ogy. Why he doesn't add palmistry,, crystal-gazing, and astrology as-trology to his repertoire we don't know. Gov. Hardman let Clifford Thompson go to the chair, the other day, because he didn't like the shape of Thompson's Thomp-son's head. He didn't care much, for Thompson's face, . either. It's true, of course, that a man's face sometimes is an index to his character but only sometimes. It seems almost al-most elementary to point out that the size and' shape of his head have very little to do with his brain-power.. Prehistoric Prehis-toric men had, as a rule, larger heads than. modern men but they certainly weren't as clever. American justice is cluttered up enough now with alien- ists, technicalities, soothsayers and. sky-lifting, oratory. If, ! we are going to introduce phrenology, black magic, star-j star-j gazing and other such trash, the rest , of . us . may, as' well take a long breath and go off the deep end. |