THE UNSERVED WRIT
Paine, Robert F.
THE UNSERVED WRIT : : : By ROBERT F. PAINE IN THESE days of bombings, riotings and killings, in protest against the vengeance of the law, attention should be paid to the case of Joe Delmonte, a...
...During the past 12 months, the Philippines worked up a trade balance, in their favor, of $34,106,428...
...A property issue may be dragged through every court of the country...
...Flathead lake in Montana is the largest body of fresh water in the world that is fed entirely by springs and has no known outlet...
...FOR THE FAMILY IN HIS WILL, Millionaire Judge Gary left his family at least two items »f good advice, which may be condensed thus: Don't spend your income before you get it...
...During the last century, the average life expectancy in the United States at birth has jumped from thirty to fifty-five years...
...and, about 75 per cent of this was against us...
...Why should the machinery of justice impose a handicap against human life, or liberty...
...It is very weighty advice, since it comes from a man who made many millions and didn't have to worry about his income...
...This magazine strains no fibre of its imagination in stating that, if a retired husband can make his wife support him, for life, with her own money, the future will be found to be packed and redolent with enthusiastic and earnest family discussions...
...Our ancestors of the stone age, for example, had so many obstacles to surmount in order to reach old age that, in all probability, men over thirty were a rarity...
...On July 1st, went into effect a new California law, under which a husband may claim alimony, or permanent support from his wife's separate estate for the rest of his life...
...THE UNSERVED WRIT : : : By ROBERT F. PAINE IN THESE days of bombings, riotings and killings, in protest against the vengeance of the law, attention should be paid to the case of Joe Delmonte, a deputy sheriff of Alameda county, Calif., who surely sets a pernicious example which may be emulated by law officials, everywhere...
...LIFE'S SPAN IT IS undoubtedly true that man is gradually lengthening the period of life expectancy and an average life span of one hundred years may not be the impossible thing many people believe...
...When the issue is as to a law or a question of property rights, the highest court of justice of the land can be brought to interfere, not always, but usually...
...Professor Todd, of Cleveland, who has made a long study of bones of ancient man, is authority for this statement, based upon the estimated age at death of the bones he has examined...
...Continued improvements will give our descendants a "new lease on life...
...Crater lake, in Oregon, is believed to be all that remains of a tremendous volcano that occupied the site in pre-historic days and which the geologists have named "Mount Mazama...
...If you can't pay, get out!—law...
...This advice will fit many thousands of families that are over-buying on the installment plan and it will apply to everybody who is crazy to get rich quick...
...The lake is 2,000 feet deep...
...It was lGjOOO feet high, they say, but one day it collapsed, leaving Crater Jake some G,000 feet up...
...Fine...
...It has a shore line of 500 miles and a boulevard clear around it is said to be one of the most beautiful of U. S. scenic highways...
...under this new statute, against his wife, Dorothy, and-her $75,000 (estimated) separate estate...
...For a dozen years it was supposed that these had died, when, suddenly, Crater lake developed fine trout fishing...
...A year ago, Hardy was making good wages as a plasterer...
...In early times, man's life was comparatively brief...
...Slavery, prohibition, or something equally as good...
...Moreover, over 40 per cent of the Philippines import trade was not with us...
...Logue's success would be like a perfumed zephyr from Utopia, to some husbands...
...From this point on, the Hardys' story is rather common...
...Thus, if China should, with her four hundred millions of people, become a great industrial nation, she would soon be up against it...
...A bas...
...Sheriff Joe was given an ejectment warrant to serve upon the Claude Hardy family—wife, husband and two children, living in a one-room house, with another baby expected to arrive, next week...
...Of course, the U. S. Supreme Court is, supposedly, the arbiter as to constitutionality of laws, exclusively...
...Fact is that the United States has 470 times as much iron ore...
...The two Dakotas have more coal than all of China —lignite, of course, but most of China's coal is also of poor quality...
...It has no inlet or outlet and formerly contained no fish...
...The fundamental laws of this republic are expected to provide for protection of every citizen's right to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness...
...mother trying to nurse husband and feed and raise two children, with more coming...
...Is there no discipline that can reach him, to prevent the spreading of his example...
...This man, this official instrument of legal vengeance, is full of disrespect of the law...
...A LIMIT TO JUSTICE IN CONNECTION with the Sacco-Van-zetti case one point must be conspicuous to many people...
...home-ownership hopeless...
...So, the Hardys saved up and paid $300 on that one-room home for four, and the baby about to come, when illness struck the husband down...
...for, the impudent things are beating us at the noble art of bagging dollars...
...You simply cannot snub the American dollar, after this fashion, and get anywhere by yowling for independence...
...When a law officer, especially designated to apply legal vengeance, revolts, scorns his official oath and shows communistic tendencies, the condition becomes real serious...
...REAL IMPUDENT INDEPENDENCE for the Philippines...
...Ye gods...
...rent far in arrears...
...Logue, Superior Court, at San Francisco...
...Joe investigated, returned to the county office, slapped the warrant on the desk and declared, with rebellion raging throughout his system: "I refuse to serve this warrant...
...CHINA'S RESOURCES IT IS a common illusion that nature has been more lavish in giving China mineral resources than with most countries...
...In 1880, trout fry was planted...
...Hardy wanted to own his own home...
...No wages coming in...
...She has water, too, but not more than would run the factories and utility plants of the state of Ohio...
...But, when human lives are at stake, that court hesitates or is divided...
...They sent forth Deputy Sheriff Joe Delmonte, with an ejectment warrant, to legally throw out sick Hardy, the two children, the mother and the child about to come...
...John Logue, retired police sergeant of Sacramento, brings the firsTsuit...
...Don't gamble...
...Live within your means, keep out of foolish speculation, and avoid a family crash ! Judge Gary had learned, through many years of demonstration...
...Modern control over disease and constant reduction of the hazards of death are steadily increasing length of life...
...Is it not legitimate to ask whether our form of government does not make property the first and the superior consideration...
...But, isn't a constitution very weak, when it does not protect, to the utmost limit, the most precious of all things, human life...
...only money enough for medicine and milk...
...IT IS LOADED IT IS of vital interest to married men, everywhere, being loaded to the muzzle with possibilities—case of Logue Vs...
...Then, he acquired a blessed American ambition, one inspired by the Almightj*, in order to give backbone, patriotism and prosperity to the republic...
Vol. 19 • September 1927 • No. 9
