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Show GOLD Page Sixteen JUDGES Hear of the L. D. ye! Hear ye! S. is now BLUE MATINEE. The ye! Hear AND court student-body Honorable in session. Up to the date of this writing, November 5, 1920, B. S. C. C. (Betore the second coming of Christ), the small number of 247 cases have been The disposed of by Judge Bingham of the L. D. S. U. Supreme Court. judge and his deputies can be heartily congratulated upon their faithtul The results are seltand rigid performance of their most solemn duties. Crime in our University is now on the decline, there being explanatory. only 247 more cases prosecuted by his worthiness, the judge, than there were all through the hot and dry months of the summer vacation. A thing that may be of vital concern, importance and interest to all free thinkers is that only a comparative few of the arraigned criminals were charged with violating the eighteenth amendment of our most beloved National Constitution. From the judge’s court records and a very statistics, novel fact 1s brought out. There seems to be at this time a great epidemic of horseThis has ensnarled thieving and penny matching sweeping the country. practically every youth of high school age, maidens also, in its long and The court feels that such crime should be cut off gruesome talons. For who can tell but that in the budding and placed under a sudden ban. some of the more thoughtless students may be led astray by these apparently trivial acts and be led a step farther by this great wave of crime -and corruption and begin to match nickles, yes, and even dimes. The records go on to prove that grand larceny and murder are never the less, regardless During the past three weeks, victed of dying.. The dition statistics through the extreme of the judge’s further two bring multiplicity out viligence murdered evidence still holding their own. persons of a very of non-support cases tried and con- demoralizing con- were tried by the court. |