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Show I BREAD CAST UPON THE WATERS. Serving as a soldier in the war Anthony T.elensky received fourteen four-teen wounds. Lately he commitcd the crime of raising $'J0 notes to I 50, the maximum punishment for which is fifteen years in prison. ; The judge before whom he was tried, allowed one year for each wound and gave the ex-service man one year. This is a recognition of a duty well performed as placed over against a wrong committed, and the judge's leniency because of: the heroism of the offender will receive public approval. It is not serving notice that the brave boys who fought 'for us are to.be lightly dealt with in courts, but rather it is proving that he who sacrifices for his fellow man is regarded as 'worthy of all the! mercy of vwhich justice will allow. ' " ' - ! |