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' CLOSE OF CHA 0TA U QU A.: THE RECOED OFDEATHS.Will Probably Come Back Next Year.The Chautauqua closed Saturday!Inight. Taken as a whole the attractions during the week were satisfJac-j tory beyond what they had been in for- j mer years. One or two of the numbers pleased below par but even they were worth more than they cost/ The lectures on the programme were all good i and some of them were decidedly good.Nearly 100 patrons of Chautauqua have signed the guarantee and we will have Chautauqua an ocher year. Nearly 400 season tickets nave also been subscribed for, the people having been given an opportunity to sign up for tickets during the entertainments Saturday afternoon and r.’grit.Two of the very best lectures on the programme were by Capt. Leslie N. Vickers, one Saturday night and the other Sunday night. Capt. Vickers is a Scotchman and resigned a professorship in Columbia University, New York, to enter the war against Corn;any lie was wounded and has recently been lecturing. H:is two lectures here consisted of a recital of some of the incidents of the battle lines and a discussion of the great lessons we must learn from the war. He expressed the great appreciation of his country over the United States* enhance into I he war and. that it means lies that will forever bind the two ! countriesThe attractions Friday—the Berkeley Sextette in the afternoon and theMr. Johnson m Asheville andOthers.Mr. E. S. Johnson left Sunday for Asheville in response to a message announcing* the death of Ids father, Mr. F. M. Johnson, who died Sunday evening; at 7.20 at his home there.Mr. Johnson had been in bad health for two years and his death was not unexpected. Mr. Johnson was 73 years old and a veteran of the Civil War. He had lived in Asheville for 44 years and. was the founder of the Excelsior Faint and Paper'Co.Mr. Johnson is survived by his wife And six children, five sons and a daughter, namely: Mrs. R. L. Me-Minn, Messrs. Fred. L. Johnson, C. IVI. Johnson and II. II. Johnson of Asheville; E. S'. Johnson.of Statesville and .[VI. IL Johnson of Spartan-ourg. «.The funeral and interment takes place in Asheville this morning at 10 o’clock.i1opera, “Pinafore,” in the eveningwere both good, “Pinafore” being anThe remains of Wallace Oestreich-er, G-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Dave OesLreicher of Salisbury, wero^ interred in Oakwood cemetery Friday afternoon. The hoy died at G o’clock Thursday evening, from complications following an attack of in II amnia toryrheumatism.A large, parly of frlepds and relatives accompanied the funeral party from Salisbury, coming in automo-bi 1 es. F u non\ 1 s e i* v i cos vvore lt;;o udu c t-ed by a rabbi from Camp Greene, Charlotte.especially fine comic opera and well oroscnted. The pageant, “LiborfvV Torch,” by the Junk,.- Chautauqua, and the Hatting-Koniston Co., were the altractions Saturday afternoon.Judgo Kavanaugb.The lecture of Judge Marcus A. Kavanaagb at the Fhaul;?uu{ua Thurs- ( day night touched on a subject of most j vital importance. “Traitors to Justice” j was his subject.J ud ge K a va n a u gh d i s lt;: u s s e d \vhat; ho termed foolish tethniealHie.s that: stand in the way of: justice. Every year for the past ten years then? have been an average of not less Ilian I),000 homicides in the U mi oil States, In?.' stated. More than 00,000 people kill- j ed by the pistol or knife in ten years, t No one scans greatly eoiieamed about , the situation. In Canada there arc 13 homicides a year for each million population; in Germany a; in Italy !(; ir.the United Stales 00. Is it any won-«dor that we are gathering upon our Ik ads the scorn of civilised people? Our prison population has increased j IT times since 1NGO. We are not a j dishonest people; wo arc not an im j moral people; we are lovers of justice. Then what ails us? Few men have reached middle age who haven't at some time been tempted. In other countries the people know that a big j per cent of those who commit crime j arc punished and they arc deterred j iron* committing crime because o?j this knowledge, fn the United State'* j there is not the same certainty of;punishment. jA disease is responsible for the*! condition and the disrate i: lack of. respect of law. The laws must be on- I forced -oho lag laws and the liUl.'l laws. Enforce the little laws and Die big ones will be. Where taw is »-of i enforced the people cannot place th ' 1 | blame on their oOicinls. for it is the : ; people who ejected them. The day a/ ! crime is committed v/e are readv to;The 2-year-old son o f Mr. Elorn re Gryder of Moirho died Saturday night and the interment was Sunday.rrWO YEARS EUR FRAUD.The Ripple says that William Harris, the Boon villa negro who was indicted using- the mails to defraud, was convicted in the Virginia courts and sent to the Federal prison in Atlanta for two years,. The case against Harris wa.s worked up by Postoffice inspector Webb of Statesville anil how the negro rolled an insurance company for money, alleging; that he had lost his eyesight, has been told in The Landmark.tx*tA recruiting campaign for 500 men for the navy from North Carolina was inaugurated a IVw weeks ago and within three vv.ks tlie 500 were enlisted.lt;iii\iisending flowers to the criminal in jail. A tendency has arisen to coddle criminals. Lot's forget the scoundrel who violates law and think of the outraged}l*. wIIl1Punishment of criminals is jusliftod on the ground of reform and the offer i of the example on others. Judges on llie bench and lawyers are most to blame for the conditions described. Lawyers will not reform the laws; they will only tinker with them. Athast one-third the members in every Legislature arc lnwxors and they eonTtc*i\tied legislation. For 75 years the■I lynch and in a few Anonths we are....Pearl DeiU, Mildred Hollar, Pauline.'; , Hollar, Myrtle Gilbe.-r, Hugo Kirn-Ji ball, Minnie Pearl Cline.. . .I'd ph have asked lawyers vo simplify^ ^ j ^ ^our laws and they have not. the lawyers are fitted for legislators and if you have ihe kind that favor thes-reforms select them; otherwise send business rnen and farmers.The duty of jurors was stressed. They are urged to accept service willingly and conscientiously and then topass on a ease on its evidence and notbe governed by what the lawyers say or the tears of the criminal's relatives.Judge Kuvanuugti closed with nr appeal-to mothers to touch their ehiL ilren to lesvRvt the laws of their mother, tiim* of ad!; the laws of theircountry and all authority.\\I
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Statesville Landmark
Statesville, North Carolina, US
Tue, Jun 18, 1918
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