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Show iffill ATTACKS ARMY PENALTIES Court-Martial System Leads to Injustice, He Tells Lunch Forum. WASHINGTON, March IV-.Tjii-u tenant Colonel Samuel T. Aes.U, former acting iudtro advocate general of the army and storm center of a controversy between Secretary Kaker and members of i. on-gross, on-gross, ma de a spe.-ch vigorously ; Hacking Hack-ing the existinc- court mailed system here , tod.'i.v at the '"lainch h'orum'" of the IS a- . tional Popular '.iov-rnmcnt league. ! "The court -nai l ial." sa id 'oloiicl An- ! seli, 'is one that laus to iijusth-e, logi- eallv. naUirahv. inevitably. It is inheri-! inheri-! tai.ee. from tin- old Hritish code which was ! adopted in lot and ner ehangi d. It is i not a court ;n the proper sene; it lb ; simply t o executive arm of a comniand-' comniand-' ing officer. i "A man is arrested, brought before this ! tribunal. He lias no eciin.-! in the proper 'sense. A callow second lieutenant with-! with-! oi-' t anv knowledge ol law, easily Intind- dated, 'is assigned to defend him. The l lieuten:. id maK-s a perfunctory defense, i but never insists upon the- rights ol 1 ho 1 man. He is eouvlcteu 1 y a court which ! has no knowledge of law. The sentence : is reviewed by an authority sometimes i equally 'uminin! :' la vv, and the man is lorced to undergo the s ntence Imposed. 1 "One hist a i 1 want to relul o from ; tho records ol trials 1 y courts martial. It j is of a man who was arrested and 1 cha rgi d with desert ion. lie w ..s scii-' scii-' teneed to fi.rlVH all pay. he dishonorably (iiseharfrcd and serve i ; i m-t ni ne c:irs at 1 hard labor. The reviewing' aut h'-ri ty jn sust a in ing I he crmrt in U'el y n ma '-lied that it woldd not enioroe the pari of the iinhrniont providing lor the man's dishonorable dishon-orable discharge until he had ser cd lua prison sentence." |