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Show Prevailing Opinions ' Common of the American Press ' bars. Carious Is now returning to custody on a charge of murder mur-der to which he is reported to have confessed. Parole ia not meant for his kind. The travesty on justice is beyond belief when It is known that criminals of this type are released without adequate ade-quate supervision. Prison bare, I and nothing. else, will "supervise" that kind of a man. Los An- : geles Examiner. j Tht Sit-Down Judge One good way to test a reaction reac-tion to a Bet of eircumstancea I to ask what would have been the reaction had the eircumstancea been reversed. So let us suppose this hypothetical hypothet-ical caae: A judge in Michigan, who works part time In a General Gen-eral Motors plant and geta a substantial sub-stantial part of hia income therefrom. there-from. Is a member of the United Automobile Workers of America and la therefore personally interested in-terested In the success of th strike. Union lawyers appear before be-fore this judge and he grants their petition for an injunction directing General Motora officials te bargain collectively with tht union and grant what the union wants in the way of wage, hour and working condition. What would th a M. official do when th injunction wa served en them? First, they probably would laugh and say te the sheriff. sher-iff. "Don't be allly. that Judge holds a union card." And en sober second thought they probably would get mad and want to do something about such a Judicial proc. Now, let' get back te what 1 th actual case: A Judge In Michigan Mich-igan ewna stock In General Motors, Mo-tors, whoae lawyers appear before . him. Ho grante their petition for an Injunction directing the union te quit the altdown atrike, clear out of the plant, and refrain re-frain on the outside from doing other things to make the strike a success. What happened? First, the strikers laughed, and continued their aitdoWn. Then, en sober ascend thought, they got mad and 'proceeded to do something. The union president petitioned th legislature leg-islature te impeach the Judge, ait- ' Ing a Michigan statute which expressly ex-pressly forbids any judge te ait in "proceeding of which he is a party or In which he la Interested." San Francisco News. Helpless In Her Own House "Extraterritoriality" In China waa a sore Issue when It waa largely a matter of pride. Chinese themselves often preferred prac-, prac-, tically to live and have their Investments In-vestments in the security of the odious "international settlement" or "French concession" Of Shanghai, Shang-hai, even while deploring the extraterritoriality ex-traterritoriality which protected them, and if a dispute between two Englishmen was settled by English law in aa English eourt, it hurt nothing but Chine dignity. dig-nity. Even that, however, the Chinee nationalist regarded as ef supreme Importance. Dut now theae threatened mass execution of Chin opium ad-dicta ad-dicta reveal a very practical aspect as-pect Th real criminal are the Korean dope peddlers. But they, being Japanese subject, can not bt tried in th Chinese courts, and the Japanese courts refuse to try them. The only one over whom China has Jurisdiction are the Chinese victims. Bo China propose pro-pose t shut off th market for tht peddler whom it eaa not stop directly by tht wholesale slaughter slaugh-ter ef their Chinese victims. It Is a characteristic kit of Chinese logic. And the were fact that It Is only a threat, and may not a carried out in more than a few sample cases, make it no less Chinese. The wholesale Japanese smuggling smug-gling In North China is. another and . larger example.' Because Chinese law cannot be enforced on Japaneae smugglers, and Japan will not enforce iu ewa law oa I 'V them, Japan has virtually set aside the Chinese tariff laws in North China, and has in effect added these provices to a Japanese Jap-anese tariff union. And all thia under a treaty which Japan has signed with eight other nations, including America, guaranteeing the "administrative" "ad-ministrative" integrity of China! The only way te preaerve the "administrative integrity" is to let China administer its own lawa on all persons in China. San Francisco Chronicle. Stop Parole Abutci! It is a shallow defense of the parol system to say that Its abuses are in large part the result re-sult af Ua Inability ef toe few supervisors te keep track of toe many people on parole. - It Is entirely proper te emphasise empha-sise the fact that facilities for adequate parole supervision are lacking. According to report by the Prison Association of New York, the nation haa only 191 parole officer to supervise 43.613 parolee, pa-rolee, an average of one officer for every 344 paroled persons. Th principle of parol is good. It ia fundamental to any humane conception ef justice that man whoae rehabilitation la so complete com-plete that he can resume a nor- i mat plac In society should have that opportunity. But a parole system that turn criminals loose is not good, and nothing can ever be aaid in de- ' fense of it to justify the abuses for which it is responsible. A challenging indictment of the parole system is found in New York City in the case of "Tough j Tony" Carious. , Fret en pern after spending tijnt ef hi -thirty years behind |
