Show r r Hobbies in Court CourtE r 1 S 4 s S NE NE E of the most difficult problems in l law lawS w S enforcement is to be found in the lack S. S of enforcement in the courts The law Jaw doesS does S not carry carrY the stern demeanor it did in in olden S days fas The The hum human hunn n element clement t has wedged edg d its way into th the courtroom and in doing ing 50 so has made m-ade the law mor more more- O or less perso personal I. I In In- In these days d-ays t the e favor of or the j judge with a few notable exceptions is a athing athing athing thing to th be desir desired d d. d t The old days days- when hen a S. S magistrate te felt comp compelled ed to s see his duty first and d his friends aft after have gone A jud judge e no longer r punishes his friends as is s he do does the I stranger stringer S SS S f i to N Nor r. r does does' the lack of enforcement always stop with ith those kl known own to to the court The d. d human ele element clement nent is made the excuse I for Jor for a alot lot of horseplay in our courts Some of th the punishment imposed in in regularly con con- coti- coti i y JH courts resembles les the penalties which used to be ex exacted in hi kangaroo tribunals Reckless Reckless l ss drivers are arc sentenced to read rend or write I official l. l ordinances How thc they mustS must 1 I k S t f t thy they y compare re t th the penal penalties s' s with their own punishment r S O Of late late another mania seems f to have taken h hold td of f the judges judges' in v various rious pacts pacts' of the country They are depriving rec reckless tess drivers of their automobiles or rather they tiley are are warning them then not to drive for of fifteen or thirty days This form of punishment punishment pun pun- represents personal hobbies of fhe the judges It is to be regarded only as as a usurpation of the powers which are are vested inthe in inthe th the law taw pia plating ing the the individual hobby 1 above ve the stated penalty of the law av Jurists and reformers who h have ve d devoid Yol-d Yol considerable time in the endeavor vor to account for increasing disrespect for the law Jaw a and the S courts wo would ld do well weIl to see that the law is vindicated d without regard to p personal whims or influence the flie human human- element clement isa is isa isa S a shield for influence and di discrimination and many other things wh which ch are from th the original original inal ideals of th the law |