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are we justised in taking life the warden nodded his head the executioner spun a brass wheel a miniature lightning stroke flashed through the body of a man in the chair blood corp uscles disintegrated nerve fibre hroke the man in the chair was dead do you believe in capita punish ment we asked that question of a fairly large number of people some favored it the majority didnt jublie sentiment would release every murderer in six months after conviction a judge observed we convict them on logic but the peo ple woud release them on senti ment to hang a man is barbarous another man strongly argued where they have no capital punish ment law they have no more mur ders than they have where hanging is practiced canada has a dominion wide capital punishment law some of the states of the usa have a life imprisonment law while a review of the number of murders in these states contrasted with the number in the states where capital punish ment is practiced indicates that taking the life of the murderer makes little difference as to the number of murders strike one in favour of life im prisonment yet upon analysis we discover such findings are not very valuable we are told that for every thirty murders committed in the united states where death is the penalty there is only one execu tion evidently it is a comparatively safe pastime to commit murder in that country you have 29 chances out of 30 for getting away that being the case it makes little dif ference whether life imprisonment or the death penalty is ordered the proponents of life imprisonment get scant encouragement from a study of the records of american jurisprudence to kill or not to kill that is the question when a man takes a life are we justified in taking his life we hang a man for two reasons we wish to punish him for his crime and we hope to deter others from future murders if these reasons are not substantial then taking the life of a criminal is a doubtful pro cedure if we do not hang a murderer what are we to do with him we cannot release him for he will doubtless commit another murder by reason of leniency shown him in the first instance give him life imprisonment you tell us what dilfere ice would that make in either instance we have really taken the life of the murderer the first method hanging is mercifully short the second method life im prisonment is just as fatal but nicyre painful are we being fair or sim ply sentimental when we send a man to jail for life rather than to the gallows life inside a narrow cell day in and day out week in and week out year in and year out with no hope of anything else is surely the death penalty in an ag gravated form much has been written as to the merits and demerits of how life ought to be taken hanging the electric chair or the lethal chamber what difference does it make such debate might be interesting but rather amusing as well any method is effective so long as the victim is killed painlessly in our arguments it is our own sensibilities we defend rather than those of the poor wretch whose life we take when a hang man pulls the head off the victim we become indignant at his atrocious bungling forgetting that it is our own feeling which are violated rath er than those of the condemned man we fancy the man hanged doesnt care very much about it to him it makes little difference whether decapitation takes place or not in fact he might get some comfort out of the thought that his head would como olt thus guaranteeing instan taneous death the method of destroying life is of minor detail so long as it is pain less but the right to destroy life at any time or for any reason is surely food for serious and contemplative thought stratford beaconherald for a new delight in tea try saflada orange pekoe blend ml bibffl north ontario flirts with thought of a new province the suggestion advanced by j b crawford mla for fort william that northern ontario may in the future secede and form a separate province is not a new one it has been made from time to time for over a generation indeed a quarter cen tury or more ago tentative steps to ward such an end had made consid erable progress that the idea should come up tre- spring now at gods touch the winters woods have come to life again his step upon the mountains brow i hear the orchards scented bridal flowers appear to gladden hearts of men his garments flutter as they pass across the sbimcring sea at break of day his voice a birds clear call and then bright sunshine flooding all this springtime testacy dorothy sproulc without scrubbing gilletts pure flake lye saves hard rubbing and scrubbing cuts through grease gets rid of dirt easily quickly use a solu tion of 1 teaspoonful dissolved in a quart of cold water used full strength it also cleans and disin fects toilets sinks etc frees clog ged drainpipes from obstruction wont harm plumbing or enamel get a tin vvcr dissolve lye in liof water tho ucflou o the lye itself heat the water free booklet the chletta iyo booklet tell how this powerful cleanser and disinfectant takes tho hard work out of dozens of cleaning tasks shows how it keeps farm buildings and equipment clean and sanitary hires full directions for making fine soap at home ask for your jrtt copy write standard brands ltj krsser ayc c liberty st toronto ont queutly is no entirely surprising and while in recent years it has been heard more often from the northwes tern section of the province between the lakchead and manitoba algoma can sympathize with its viewpoint northern ontario is a vast area lar ger than any country in europe ex cept russia larger than the united kingdom and prance taken together algoma alone is larger than several european countries naturaliy in such a large territory there is a wide variety ot problems and the people of the north have not infrequently felt that the ontario legislature has properly appreciated neither the extent of northern ont- arios resources nor the diversity of its needs kipling ouee wrote of england that she- thinks her empire still is the strand and ilolborn hill and simil arly many in the north feel that the ontario legislature as a group think that northern ontario is the narrow strip along the t no the develop ment of gold mines in michipicoten long lac patricia is breaking down that view but a proper understanding of the area would have brought that development sooner it is agreed that various ontario governments including the present one have spent large sims in the north and have done a great deal to ward opening it up but even theyve had tho difficulty at times in getting the support of old ontario memoers for their program it is not surprising then if north ern ontario sometimes flirts with the idea of a separate province the mem bers of whose legislature would nat urally be more conversant with its problems than a legislature made up for the most part of men unacquaint ed with the north on the other hand of course leg islature and administrative organiza tions 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