JUDGE M'CUNE IN DOUBT.
Non-Committal Opinion of a Visitor
to His Court.
"Like other men, I like to hear something in the way of approval of my public work," said Circuit Judge H. L. McCune yesterday, "and occasionally I do hear it. I am doubtful, however, about what Jim Smith's father said of my juvenile court yesterday."
The Mr. Smith referred to is 93 years of age, a stately old man.
"He spent the whole day in the juvenile court watching the proceedings," Judge McCune explained, "and I supposed he must have been agreeably surprised at the summary way in which business is dispatched. He saw thirty or forty criminal cases put on trial and disposed of in a single day.
" 'What do you think about it, Mr. Smith?' I inquired, prepared for the usual complimentary remark about the system.
" 'It is the damdest court I was ever in,' the patriarch responded."
Now Judge McCune wants to know.
