THE HERRIN MURDERS Two months after the atrocious wholesale murder of workers in and about the Herrin mines the course of justice has proceeded so far as to obtain from a Grand Jury one individual indictment, that of Otis Clark, a union miner, charged with the murder of Mr. C. K. McDowell, superintendent of the Lester Mine-a crippled man who was f... continued
Law Making
November 5, 2009 By
Laws The government is also the supreme law-making body of society, although rules of conduct are set forth by many other social agencies. New inventions like the radio, the airplane and the automobile call for laws as do new social conditions, such as child labor in factories, chain stores or trusts. Laws in general lag. No doubt unwise laws are p... continued
Crime
November 5, 2009 By
The modern view of crime is that it is not a thing apart, like cancer; not something which can be isolated and treated as a single phenomenon by such simple devices as punishment and prison walls. It is one manifestation of a complex set of forces in society; it is as complex as the environment which influences it; it is affected by the transition ... continued