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Show As a Neighbor Sees It ' And now a woman has been sent to the penitentiary in Michigan, for life, for breaking the prohibition law. It was her fourth conviction and, in Michigan, that automatically carries a life sentence. It's true that "onlookers see most of the game, and you will be interested in a neighbor's viewpoint. This is from the Vancouver (B. C.) Sun: . . . We would not attempt for one minute to minimize the enormity of the offense of having a bottle of liquor in Michigan Michi-gan If the zealous legislators of that state want to draw and quarter all those found carrying a "mickey" they are probably quite within their rights. But it is the relativity of the thing that astounds Canadian Ca-nadian readers. ,. , Leopold and Loeb committed one of the 'most fiendish murders in the history of the continent. And yet, owing to the kindness of Chicago courts, Leopold and Loeb will be eligible eli-gible for a parole in a few years. . Is possession of a bottle of liquor to be regarded as a more heinous crime than the cold-blooded murder of an inoffensive Ch' Prohibition in thf United States may be a very "noble experiment," ex-periment," a Mr. Hoc.ver says. But, judging from this Michigan casr. it is also becoming something ;.i a silly fetich that is affecting the sense of proportion of the American people. , |