Show 4 PROTECTING VOLUNTEERS FROM CREDITORS Governor Pin ree of Michigan is the most notorious of all the state executives execu-tives in the Union He seems to IJe > a tves compound of the extremes of AHueld and Leedy with a strong dash of Waite In him Recently he convened the legislature leg-islature of his state In extra session 1 whether it accomplished all the purposes pur-poses for which it was brought together to-gether we do not know but It did some very god work I appropriated 500000 for War purposes passed a law to increase i the strength of national guard companies to 150 passed a law to I increase the annual appropriation for I the naval reserves from 3000 to S12 ceo and last but not least a law that I no levy or attachment for debt jhalf be made tin the property of any citizen who may enlist for the pending war I during his absence and for six months 1 after his return i I Such a law would cause many a man to volunteer more readily than he would I I In its absence To go to the defense of i ones country and to feel that while I j he is gone his creditors may proceed against him practically take advantage I advant-age of his absence when his family Is deprived of his help is not an invit i j lug prospect Whether such a law is I constitutional is doubtful but its very presence on the statute book would 1 make an overzealous creditor hesitate I to fly in the face of public sentiment In making an approorlatlon for aiding I aid-ing the state militia and doing what It I can to protect those who go to the defense de-fense of theircountry the Michigan I I legislature has done patriotic WiIk And I ti was Governor Plngree who convened I 1 I in extra session that It might do i I |