Show TALKS ON TIMELY TOPICS BY THE MAN IN A CLUB WINDO W 4 j verdict of voluntary manslaughter THE slaughter returned by the Jury In tho Kalghn trial alan early hqur yesterday mornlnpr will probably occa j sion no surprise to those who have fol loned the line of defense and the facts 1 Brought out in evidence At the worst the verdict could not have exceeded murder in tho second degree and under un-der all the circumstances such a verdict ver-dict with Its resultant sentence would term Co be unduly severe Jt It to be hoped that the lesiralnls of prison life with Its wholesome discipline will have a salutary reformathe Influence upon this unfortunate young man nnd that he will yet take his place In the world ns a useful and honored member of society so-ciety o IN commenting on this very painful cast these questions naturally suggest sug-gest themselves to the ordinary lay mind Is the fact that a person Is under un-der the Influence of liquor or drugs thnt Is I voluntarily under the Influence any valid excuse for the commission of a crime Should a crime when committed com-mitted by a sober man he severely punished pun-ished I while the same when perpetrated hy a man half crazy from the effect of drink or drugs I may be leniently dealt Yvlth Jn tin case of most persons who are the slaves of itch habit there must havo been a time when the I will was free and when they could have kept clear of the awful servitude Their present condition Is l the result of voluntary yielding to vicious appetites are they I therefore to he considered Ir responsible and Immune from the ordinary or-dinary consequences of the crimes re suitlng from the loss of will power nnd moral perception which they have brought upon themselves A man who has all his life striven to curb his ap pctltps and has been sober and self controlled as a rule may when under the Influence of groat provocation and Impelled by Irresistible rage commit a crime which In cooler moments he would shrink from Is he on this account ac-count treated as If he were not respon ilble for his actions The fact that he was sober rather militates against him and tends to Increase the severity of his punishment o THIS practice of treating the voluntary volun-tary victims I of vice as If they were not responsible makes It possible for any coldblooded murderer to feign drunkenness or drugenslavement in order or-der to excuse a crime and nvold Its Just punishment Any such criminal could easily Imbibe fow drinks In the a presence I pres-ence of witnesses as a preliminary step toward a line of defense if brought to trial The whole idea seems unnatural Illogical 1 and opposed to good morals and wholesome respect for the law In the case of Kalghn and others like him the punlnhuient should be of the I reformative kind and the treatment such as would tend to a restoration of will power and habits of selfrestraint In future There would seem to be some confu Elon In the public mind respecting certain cer-tain ordinances of a sanitary nature as to whore < the duty of propertyowners ends and that of city officials begins These ordinances relate to the removal of garbage aslas and other refuse and also to the extirpation and removal of weeds leaves dead trees and branches etc 1 In the CUBe of garbage there Is no question an to the citys duly to remove re-move the same nnd In general this service ser-vice Is performed promptly and efficiently ef-ficiently Many people however seem to think that they are entitled to have every other species of refuse and rubbish rub-bish removed at the public expense It IB a fact that whctlicrfrom mlsuoder 8tmtdlng their UutlcHoii the purl of the city teamsters or through over complnisance much foreign matter not contemplated by the ordinances linn been carted away free of charge from the premises of many citizens It Is all right that people should be encouraged to place their garbage where the teamster o team-ster can easily reach It so that It can he hauled to crematory but the line should bo drawn there and ashes old shoes pots pans broken 1 crockery and other debris should be bared out so far as the city wagons are concerned If the ordinance already hors any or all thecae articles then the fact should be made clear to the public If not tho ordinance should be amended to do so AH an esteemed 1 Correspondent points out It appears that the existing ordinance ordi-nance relating to weeds etc IK sufficiently suf-ficiently definite In that It explicitly requires re-quires propertyowners to remove such from their piemlscy and from the sidewalks side-walks in front of same I 4 w Another point on which there is confusion con-fusion of Ideas Is the duty of property owners to keep the sldeualks in front of their premises clean at all times A walk through any part of the Uty will show that this provision of the law is Fhamefully disregarded Weeds arc allowed al-lowed to giow and all kinds of unsightly unsight-ly I rubbish to accumulate and this Is true of property owned by wealthy people peo-ple in what are constricted fashionable localities Even the business districts show signs of grievous neglect l ThereIn There-In a sidewalk In front of property owned hy the city which does not appear to have been swept since Itwas built Then ngtiln the condition of shade lreei along many lending 1 streets needs Immediate attention Dead branches line the wulks in many places and overhanging boughs have been neglected so long that they are now n source of discomfort If J not of danger to pedestrians That they will be positively dangerous when borne down by the winters snow Is quite certain cer-tain If allowed to remain In their pre ent condition The city authorities I Phould see to It that trees t are properly trimmed and that all dead timber werdx leaves and miscellaneous rubbish rub-bish arc removed during the fall In fact the public health requires that weeds should he cut down and taken away before the frost causes thorn to will and putrefy thus creating stench and sickness Hf all the city ordinances which have been nasFcd In late years none has been more repeatedly published and commented on than the one forbidding for-bidding bicycle riding on certain slcl vulltf There IB absolutely no excuse whatever for Its violation by anyone on the plea of Ignorance I and yet none is more generally disregarded and that In the face of assurances by the police that they arc not aware of any breaches of the law Only the other morning a young woman rode her wheel down the sidewalk on the north fide of Rrl Imam street between A and State She wont at a slapping pace I Founded no hell and very nearly ran I over several tourists who were taking I In the sights and who stared In astonishment as-tonishment at Htich a performance on the leading residence thoroughfare of a cllyjtolalming to be progressive and up odatc Not a day parses but filmllaropen acts of defiance of the ordinance or-dinance may be witnessed In any part of the restricted district Xot only I boys and girls but men and women of mature age arc persistent oftanderc and yet for Home unaccountable reason 1 rea-son the police arc blind and dont know the ordinance Js being violated ti o One day a gush of moral sensibility swept over the City Council and u r curfew ordinance was enacted following follow-ing the example of many of the most enlightened and advanced communities communi-ties In the country The ordinance was designed to keep young boys and t girls off the streets after 9 I oclock at i night There Is probably no city or town In the Weet where such an ordinance ordi-nance Is more needed if wo are to judge from the largo number of Juvenile Juve-nile offenders who Jlgurc In the Police and District courts on various charges r Children of an age when the character U moat pliable and KUHceptlblo to evil r < Influences are permitted to roam tho m f streets at nil hourn of the night and for some Inexplicable reason their parents par-ents or other natural guardians appear ap-pear to have no control over their actions ac-tions No doubt there arc numerous cases of children over whom nb olll clent guardianship Is exercised who being the offspring of utterly worthless worth-less parent arc allowed to grow up without restraints only to enter at an calls ago upon a career of crime It Is quite I likely that for such the homo life Is scarcely less corrupting than the companionships of thc streets on which hey I arc turned loose from morning till nlsrhL Y tIt I It Is for such unfortunates that rescue res-cue missions and all kinds of beneficent organizations are maintained and 1C Is especially In behalf of such that the sovereign people as represented by the State or municipality Interferes There are however hundreds of children chil-dren In this city who are members of what are called gpod families aloe parents fill various honorable positions have decent reputations and are generally gen-erally supposed to be good citizen They live In respectable neighborhoods removed from the sight and hearing of the coarsest forms of vice And yet too often these young boys and girls arc allowed an amount of liberty which IH enough to make a thoughtful observer observ-er tremble for their future Indeed It Is not liberty so much as unrestrained unre-strained license There are boys who at I an early ngo become addicted to cigarettesmoking then to Intoxicants and finally to drugs with the consequent conse-quent loss of wl lpower and the bone less 1 lapse Into a condition of moral paralysis and turpitude These arc the griln who Haunt around the streets antI pleasure resorts without chaperonage who venture into wlnerooms and so pass by rapid stages from what they thought a harmless playing with evil Into the open and shameless practice of every kind of vice God help such homes dod help such parents It wag to save the children whether those of tho reckless and abandoned class or of cite nominally I respectable children now running in the devils pathway that the ordinance known as the curfew cur-few was enacted Is that ordinance anything more than a dead letter now Is there even a pretense I at seeing that Its provisions are carried out If so why the existence In every quarter of the clly of bands of youthful desperados despera-dos who drink gamble and thieve and are a terror to decent people every night between dark and the small hours Why Is there a gang of young bobcles often with female companions behind every billboard or obstructing nearly every crosswalk In the t city Why do we havo cases of burglary and petty theft perpetrated by children not yet In their teens who never would have been concerned In such crimes if they had been kept off the streets at night as they should have been As long as such a state of things exists well may angels weep and sluggish city fathers cry mea culpa mea culpa The disclosures in connection with the killing of Jennings In the Infamous roadhouse run by Barney Eckstein and the evidence which led to the latters exoneration from blame throw a startling start-ling light on the moral conditions which permeate a considerable stratum of society In Salt Lake City The testimony tes-timony of the girl III110 Palmer tends to show an awful state of corruption among a considerable class of boys and girls of Immature age This girl who Is described as only 14 blase pert and apparently unconcerned at the horror of the scene she witnessed testifies tot to-t condition of affairs which is simply appalling Boys and girls run around he country at night unchaperoncd and frequent the lowest winerooms and grogshops They go on from had to worse until they become perfectly hardened and regardless of the good name of themselves and families The kind of homes these boys and girls are raised In the moral atmosphere sur oundlng them and the people responsible respon-sible for their bringing up may he left to the Imagination It would probably oe unjust to say that the home trainIng train-Ing Is to blame In every cape but it mav safely be assumed that In a large majority of Instances defective discipline disci-pline and had example arC responsible for the first downward step Whatever the primary cause the fact remain hat we have among us degenerates of inth Sexes who are a menace to the good morals safety and general wcll jelng of the community These youthful perverts havo through their own bad habits voluntarily weakened their willpower and deprived de-prived themselves of the ability to distinguish dis-tinguish between right and wrong When their blunled moral perceptions lead to the commission of crime there Is seldom any display of remorse or u > pentanrci but only a cowardly fear of consequences and regret that they did not better I arrange matters so as to avoid detection It Is a horrible and detestable state of things when whisky whis-ky alcohol cigarettes cocaine morphine mor-phine and other deadly drugs and Intoxicants In-toxicants are sold to boys and girls w hlle guns and ammunition are handed hand-ed out to any drunkard or lunatic that calls for them and vile procuresses daringly and shamelessly ply their dreadful traffic in human souls and bodies t y Kings rulers and other < high potentates poten-tates can hardly consider themselves In the swim nowadays until they have un dergone a surgical operation of some kind Edward VIr graduated with a highsounding case of perltyphlltis Kaiser Wilhelm has had divers and sundry things done to his arm and J nose and now Roosevelt the strenuous has had a sac of serum removed from the middle third of the left anterior tlbal region There Is something dramatic dra-matic In the circumstances attending the operations performed on both King and President While one case was the > result of illness which approached gradually grad-ually and the oilier was caused by accident ac-cident both exhibited serious symptoms unexpectedly l while the sufferers wcro engaged in public functions and both called for very prompt action The dally drive of a disguised flunky or dummy In a royal carriage In order to delude the public is offset hy the spirited dash to the hospital by the presidential carriage car-riage accompanied hy high Government officials and escorted by secret servicemen service-men Both exalted patients underwent their respective ordeals with great coolness and sangfroid and elicited golden encomiums from the attending surgeons I Apropos of fiome remarks last week on the employment of the word rum an a comprohojinlvc term for Intoxicating Intoxicat-ing liquor In gonqrnl I a High school student who has road his way through I Capt Marryat Klplljlp and Stevenson suggests that the savage peoples lo t whom we now Ic6d missionaries learned to love stimulants from tho sallow who first exulpred their roasts nnd bartered rum in trade with the friendly natives Thin Is doubtless true In a measure although It I IB I known that most savage tribes have Intoxicating beverages of their own manufacture which are not much worse than American Ameri-can lightningrod According to the writers of sea novels < the rvlng out of the rum ration Is a0 very Important function on board ship Rum < Is the favorite drink of pirates and la celebrated cele-brated in many a bacchanalian verse Every reader of Treasure Island will recall the drunken sea rovers who roared tho refrain Fifteen men on a dead mans chest Yoho and a bottle of rural t While expressing sympathy for the lady an authoress too who came ao near meeting un untimely end from a shotgun In the hands of a man who I mistook her hat for a partridge one I cant help fooling sorry for the Innocent bird which do > ratort the fatal head j piece nnd served to mislead the hunter It Is hard luck for tho lady but still It In a little like poetic retribution that she should have nearly lost her life on account of lie murdered bird which she wore for ornament Mrs Julia K Barnes would bo shocked if anyone should accuse her of wantonly sacrificing sacrific-ing bird life and yet that Is Just what she and all ladles connive at who demand de-mand this cruel and unnatural form of adornment The various Audubon so clcllcs throughout the country make I Hlow headway against this wicked custom cus-tom of slaughtering birds for milliners lo use In trimming hats but appeals to sentiments of kindness for time lower animal creation seem to fall when opposed op-posed by tho merciless dlciatcu of a silly fashion i In vain arc appeals to womans hlm nIt n-It When the same are countered by feminine femi-nine vanity |