Show J I F Another Jury Goes Wrong I Ij NCE more the need of the adoption of som some e definite code to govern the conduct of juries jurie s I makes its appearance in the the regular run of th the se e days day's news A Philadelphia jury hearing the evi evi- evidence evidence dence against a saloonkeeper ch charged ged with sellin selling I evi g liquor retired to deliberate It took with it a bottle of the stuff that brought the saloonkeeper s r into court labeled exhibit A. A Four hours passed and the jurors had no not t been heard from and so the judge ordered the them back into court No verdict had been reached reache d and and- exhibit A looked considerably worse fo for r wear In fact the bottle was empty and despite e th this s harmonizing influence the jury reported i iwas it t was vas unable to agree Inquiry as to what ha had d I become of the evid evidence nce failed i to d. d develop a sa satis satisfactory satisfactory I factory answer What happens The prisoner at the the bar is not convicted Th The e evidence on which the prosecution t relied fo for er r conviction is gone so so that the prosecution is i s handicapped for another trial Justice miscarries s and for no reason reas reason n except th that t unscrupulous me men n were on the jury Nothing can be done to th the e jurors but to dismiss them and possibly hold u up their pay The judge said also that he might recommend d' d that they be disbarred from future jury service e. e All of this fails t to constitute p punishment if it does not actually please the members of the j jury ry Many men would like to win permanent P tion from jury service and this seems to be th them the e r m most st c certain way Still there should be some som e means of compelling a jury to do do its duty honestly honestly hon hon- e estly and conscientiously 9 r These Thes things usually wear wear out in four or five years years ordinary ordinary machinery autos used for business or farm purposes and farm tractors So says a government publication issued to guide businesses making out income tax Exasperating Exasperating Exasperating how rapidly things thing's wear out Yet the wearing out necessitates necessitates' replacement k keeps eps fac- fac topes going or starts them up after b being ing shut shutdown down during depression II In New York state state the forestry conservation commission commissi n has fast gr growing baby trees It offers these at rat very low prices as' as as as' part of the reforestation program The states or national government could solve the van vanishing shing forest problem lem rem quickly by giving away young trees to all willing to plant them Few v can resist something for nothing V r- |