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HOLD ON TO PSYCHOPATHS
The startling fact has been revealed that psychiatrists
at Bellevue Hospital more that three years ago examined Al
bert H. Fish, elderly confessed murderer of Grace Budd,
and recognized him as a dangerous type—and still he was
turned loose.
Several outrages against child victims during these three
years are being investigated now and it is possible at least
that some may be traced to Fish.
Psychiatrists in court and prison clinics see nothing new
in this; many cranks, perverts and psychopaths are classified
and then set free because there is no legal way to hold them.
The rule for sanity and responsibility is to ask wheth
er the suspect can distinguish between right and wrong. If
the answer is yes the verdict is legal sanity, lhe prisoner
may obtain a writ of habeas corpus if he is sought to be de
tained. It is a rule intrenched in the common law back to
Blackstone’s time.
Psychiatry and medicine on the other hand have been
going forward year after year. Even in the lace of all the
disagreeing expert witnesses at a big trial it is obvious that
science has conquered large areas of assured knowledge.
The shock of the Fish case should bring law and psych
iatry closer together.
Admittedly the problem is delicate, for if it were easy
to commit persons on the charge of insanity abuses would
be inevitable. But clinging to traditional method has produc
ed abuses no less certain.
Two definite steps, we believe, are possible—for pol
ice and medical officers to see that steps be taken to the full
est extent under existing law to hold persons examined and
found to be dangerous psychopaths, and for legislators prom
ptly to bring up legal processes to conform to the assured
ground of science.—New York World-Telegram
ICKES IS A FIGHTER
Details of the fued between what are described as "pow
erful forces within the administration” and two of Secretary
Ickes’ assistants are lacking. But our guess is that the chief
fault of the two assistants is taking seriously the instruc
tions to keep politics out of the PWA.
In view of the fact that Secretary Ickes has taken the
instructions just as seriously as his subordinates, the assump
tion seems justified that the “powerful forces” will have the
Secretary to fight, a well as the assistants.
In view fo Mr Ickes’ record as a first class fighting man
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dom of any Administration forces that go out of their way
to take him on—Kansas City Times
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A man who dies rich dies disgraced, says a magnate. In
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New Fox Film
Reveals Bitter
Southern Feud
An echo of Kentucky’s famous
foods and tragedies is found in Zane
Grey’s "The Golden West,” the new
Fox picture which brings George
O'Brien to the Dream Theatre Fri
day in the role of a southern gentle
man. The story revolves around a
family fucd in the old south that
holds apart a boy and girl who love
each other.
The south has been the scene of
many bitter feuds, but none ever
equalled in ferocity and wholesale
murder the bloody Hatfield-McCoy
feud which started as the result of
an argument over the ownership of
a i log.
Whole families were wiped out
during the life of this epochal ven
detta. Women and children were:
murdered in cold blood by knife and
pistol, and in many cases were burn
ed alive.
A life for a life was the doctrine of
these merciless feudists. They re
cognized no law except their own.
The Hatfield-McCoy feud contin
ued for generations until there was
no more material for it to feed upon
until its sole survivor, not so long
ago, died a natural death.
There have been other notable
feuds in the south, but none of them
reached the extremities of the Hat
field-McCoy outrages. Acts of in
credible cruelty were commonly
practiced by both sides in this unin
terrupted warfare.
Mothers in the act of pleading and
praying for the deliverance of their
children, were laughed at and eith
er kicked or beaten to death. Oth
ers were savagely tortured. Men
and boys were ambushed and butch
ered without a moment's warning
during the run of this greatest of
family feuds.
One of these old southern feuds
flares in "The Golden West” and
leads to tragedy but, generally speak
ing, David Howard who directed
the picture, treated it in a light and
humorous vein.
In the role of David Lynch, son of
an aristocratic family, O’Brien be
comes involved in the feud and
finds it expedient to leave his own
state and go west. There he marries
and a son is born There follows
a lapse of twenty years and O'Brien
plays the role of the youth who has
been raised by the Indians who
slew his father and mother. He
achieves the leadership of his tribe
in a “Robin Hood” role and becom
es the central figure in a number of
stirring adventures which give him
ample opportunity to display his
superior strength and his dexterity
with a gun.
Supporting the popular young
actor is a cast that includes Janet
Chandler, recently elevated to fea
tured roles; Marion Burns, a lead
ing lady from Broadway; Edmund
Breese, Bert Hanlon, Arthur Pier
son and Emmet Corrigan.
A music score running throughout
the production, was written by Jam
es Hanley and Sidney Mitchell.
NEWEST NOTES OF
SCIENCE
In the base of a new salt shaker
for campers is a knife sharpener
Venezuela by a new law' has re
stricted the circulation of uncoined
gold..
One fifth of the fatal accidents in
the United States are due to defec
tive vision..
An Englishman has invented an
asbestos blanket to smother fires in
automobiles quickly
Long wave television pictures have
been successfully transmitted 2500
miles from California to Maine
The mast of a sailboat invented in
Sweden revolves to roll its sail, en
abling one man to handle the craft
Operated by a lever and ratchet,
a fan that revolves at high speed
has been invented to dry finger nail
polish .
To teach pupils to speak correct
ly a Russian school picks up their
voices with a microphone and am
plifies them
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