LAWYERS ASK PRESS
TO REPORT TRIALS
WITH DUE SOLEMNITY
CHICAGO, 111., Jail. 2G.—As a means
of eliminating the formulation of
public opinion upon matters to be
judged by juries alone, under co
ordination of press and bar, commit
tees of the Chicago Bar Association
are planning to recommend two new
steps with relation to publicity for
courtroom trials. These are the pro
hibition of the taking of photographs
of courtroom scenes, and measures to
ensure reporting of judicial proceed
ings as solemn trials rather than
theatricals.
The Chicago Bar Association Rec
ord in its last issue says:
“The present-day practice in re
porting sensational law-suits in the
public press is typified by the pub
lication of photographs of court-room
scenes. The attendant stories stress
in like fashion those features which
excite popular attention. This sat
ing of the public appetite for the un
usual not only brings the undesir
able results incident to all scandal,
but is peculiarly harmful in its ef
fect in its effect upon the adminis
tration of justice.
“Thus we find the presentation of
a trial in the light of a theatrical
performance rather than a dispas
sionate inquiry into the merits of
the case. This is bound to lessen
respect for the law and its instru
mentalities.
“Akin to this is the creation of an
erroneous conception of the true
working of the judicial machinery.
Frequently there results the formu
lation of a public opinion upon a mat
ter to be judged by the jury alone.
And of course there is the catering
to the public appetite for scandal,
with the consequent detriment to the
public welfare.
“It is believed that a co-ordinated
effort on the part of the press and
the bar will in time bring about the
desired development in this import
ant field of reporting, and that a uni
form rule which will place all news
papers upon the same basis in this
respect will be welcomed by them as
by the bar.
“The Chicago Bar Association,
through its Committee on Relations
of the Press to Judicial Proceedings
and its Committee on the Judiciary,
now has this work in hand, and, as
a first concrete measure, will di
rect its efforts against the publica
tion of photographs of court-room
scenes. It is planned to recommend
to the courts the adoption of a rule
prohibiting absolutely the taking of
any photographs in court. Such a
rule w'ould eliminate at once one of
the most potent means of engaging
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the attention of the public. Next
will come the proposal of measures
to ensure the reporting of court pro
ceedings, not as dramatic or bizarre
incidents, but as solemn trials.”
Pittsburgh Broadcast
Heard In Australia
(By Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Jan. 26.—The West
inghouse Company, whose broadcast
program from KDKA, at Pittsburgh,
for Australia, announced that cable
grams were received for several hours
afterward, indicating that hundreds
of thousands there heard the program
perfectly. It is declared the greatest
achievement in radio history, as the
distance is 9,000 miles.
BERLIN APPLAUDS CAREFULLY
TUNEFUL MUSIC LAST CENTURY
* (By Associated Press)
BERLIN, Jan. 26.—As if in sharp
contrast to the ultra modern ten
dencies recently observable in the
first-nights at the Staatsooper, the
Deutsches Opernhaus, another of Ber
lin’s four operatic institutions, has
gone back to the fifties of the past
century for a first-night, by produc
ing Adolphe Adam’s comic opera, ‘“If
L Were King.” This return to the
melodious, uncomplicated, charming
airs of the age of Cherubini, Auber,
Herold, Flotow and Donizetti is the
more significant as it also marks
the gradual return of French opera
to the German stage.
In its modern dress, with all the
latest technical possibilities of the
stage brought into play, Adam’s opera
was a decided success and numerous
repetitions are planned.
GEOLOGIST EXPLORES THE
ISLAND OF MADAGASCAR
PARIS, Jan. 26— M. Barrabe, a
geologist and member of the French
Ecole Normale who was sent on an
official geological mission to Mada
gascar, has returned to France after
spending three months on the island.
He traveled extensively in the Ma
junga region, and brought back nu
merous samples from the carboniler
ous lands. The coal beds do not ap
pear to be as important as those of
Indo-China, and it would appear that
the bituminous sands and petroleum
fields of Madagascar are much more
important than the coal beds.
Brunswick monographs and Re
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The Ladies’ Aid Society will meet
with Mrs. Dunlap at the Parsonage,
Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock.
NOTICE TO CUSTOMERS
Mrs. Stump of the Seward Beauty
Shoppe will leave here Thursday for
a short visit to Anchorage. She will
return Saturday night. Anyone wish
ing work done please make their dates
before Thursday.
2t MRS. STUMP.
Special rates on the Alaska Railroad
will be given Thursday to Saturday,
$9.15 for the round trip to Anchorage.
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FOR SALE—Household furniture;
Anyone interested call at the house
or phone Main 94. H. A. Weck
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Mrs. John Carey left on the Alaska
for several weeks visit with friends
and relatives at Seattle and Courtney,
Vancouver Island, B. C.
Sheaffer’s Life Time Pens, at the
Alaska Shop. tf
Nip Johnson returned from Anchor
age on last night’s freight train. He
went over as a member of the Seward
basketball team.
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Eaton, Crane, Pike Stationery at
the Alaska Shop. tf
The steamship Starr will sail Mon
day, February 2.
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Shop. tf
Parker’s Duofold Fountain Pens, at
the Alaska Shop. tf
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Ebb of Golden Tide
May Mean Sounder
Money in Europe
(By Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Jan. 27.—Year-end
figures make available today a clear
er picture of whether Europe’s mort
gaged pre-war gold on deposit here
has definitely begun to go back
home, and if so, to what extent.
A remarkable outbound movement
of the yellow metal amounting to
$40,242,000 in the first 27 days of
December produced to first surplus
of exports over imports in a single
month since August, 1920. More
gold went out during this short pe
riod than during the entire twelve
months of either 1923, 1922 or 1921.
Its impetus obviously developed un
der the cumulative pressure of for
eign loans amounting to $1,623,696,
000, w’hich American banks turned
back into depleted but premium-pay
ing reservoirs abroad in 1924, some
$350,000,000 of which were arranged
in the last three months. Whether
foreign loans in the new year of
1925 will take up at the extraordi
nary rate the old year left off is ex
pected to determine whether this new
export phase in gold is to be continu
ous and permanent.
Some bankers would reserve de
cision and, for the time being, av
erage the closing months spirited ebb
tide with the 12 months as a whole.
Comparison of 1924 and 1923, with fig
ures for 1924 as yet approximate,
reveals:
1924—Exports, $62,226,478; Imports,
$315,684,387; balance, $253,457,909.
1923—Exports, $28,643,417; imports,
$322,715,812; balance, $294,072,395.
Thus, it is seen that where the
United States received across the
international counter in 1923 eleven
times as much monetary gold as it
paid out, in the year 1924 it receiv
ed only five times as much. Export
shipments for the past 12 months
are seen to have doubled. Net im
ports fell off one-seventh.
Meanwhile the United States still
holds two-fifths of all the $10,000,000,
000 in monetary gold in the world.
This stock, according to some finan
cial observers, is twice as much as
is required to support the credit and
currency facilities adequate to trade
needs. They would like to see gold
continue to ebb in proportions suffi
cient to take up the slack.
They further welcome a growing
gold demand abroad as an earnest of
increasing use and money sentiment
among other nations. This would
bring them out of the wilderness of
paper money and depreciated cur
rencies and back under the gold stan
dard. It would also save the United
States from the threat of any gener
al repudiation of gold, of which it
holds the greatest single portion
Were the world at large to turn its
back upon gold as a basis for mone
tary systems it would leave the Unit
ed States with its gold stock like
a white elephant on its hands; a
stock with lessened use and corres
pondingly lessened value.
Trade Between Bulgaria
and Greece Grows, Claim
ATHENS, Jan. 26.—Greece is fast
becoming Bulgaria’s chief medium of
communication with most of her for
eign markets for grain, tobacco, hides
and farm products, and as a result
the trade between the two countries
is steadily increasing.
In 1919, the first year of record,
the Bulgarian exports amounted to
7,392,736 drachmae, while her im
ports were valued at 3.313,490 drach
mae. Last year Greece’s exports
amounted to 40,000,000 drachmae,
while Bulgaria’s shipments to Greece
amounted to 107,000,000 drachmae.
The principal item of Greek export
is olive oil, for which Bulgaria is al
most wholly dependent upon Greece.
Howrever, Italy is making some in
roads into the Bulgarian market.
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