Judge — January 14, 1928 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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JUD Gk Ausciate Editors, Richard J, Wale, Phil Tell It to the Marines Editer, Normas Anthony Nosie delegation of silk-hatted Americans will Acre ronext week at) Havan: the sixth Pan-American Congress. Led Coolidge and Hughes, they are expected to our plain our policies and strengthen our in Central and South America. That's a large order, even for such suave and eloquent gentle rd even in the midst of the furore over Lind . who single-handed can manufacture good will faster than a dozen diplomats can destroy it. Good will and fair words can only temporarily gloss over the hard facts of our imperialism. We have armed forces in Nicaragua; they killed some fifty Ni over the elections, for hy “conciliate neighbors, ¢ prestige” have aguans, they are lording it nd American control of Nica yuan finances is apparently next on the docket. In Haiti and Dominica we hold the money-bags. We own the very soul of the so-called Republic of Panama. Porto Rico is wholly ours, and Cuba’ is fit. rnvone with a sense kable. The United It is out of no neurasthenic morbidity that all Latin America from the Rio Grande to the Horn is united in one sentiment, a sentiment mixed equally of fear and hatred of the colossus of the north whose shadow is alrcady thrown before.” This being the has about delibera walrus. bound to submit to intervention whenever we see As Nathaniel Peffer says, “To of history the portents are unmis' States is on the march. Pan-American conference nce of realistic and sincere between the oysters and the stations of friendly intentions “tell it to the much ¢ the cha To our pre be only one candid reply ion 4 Post Mortem Justice HE commonwealth of Massachusetts, keeping a straight face, is setting about to reform its murder trial procedure. The Judicial Council has con demned the practice by which the judge who tried a case in the superior court for a new trial, and the supreme court on appeal can pass only on questions of law instead of on the whole case, including the facts presented to the jury. This is the very obstacle that thwarted the defenders of Sacco and Vanzetti until they boiled with helpless rage. In good time the law may be changed. But the two victims whom it sent to the electric chair also passes on motions Rosa, Jack Shuttleworth.” Dramatic Editor, George Jean Nathan cannot be brought back to life. Yet th who still hold with capital punishment! are those A Nation of Infinite Capacity Somroxr has taken a census of men and who have gone from Little Rock, Arkansas. make good in New York. He has found more than two hundred who are bank presidents, heads of great enterprises, high officials in railroads, insurance com- panies and in other key positions not astonishing as it is illuminating. Always the execu- tive class of the great city has consisted of men from But it that should spring from a single place? Is there some peculiar elixir in the air of Little Rock, that it breeds so much thility Probably not explanation is that thirteen years ago Samuel Reyburn, having built up a trust company there, was brought on by bankers to reorganize the Claflin business. Today he is presi- dent of Lord and Taylor and the associated chain of stores, His example and his active loyalty to. the home crowd have drawn after another able person from Little Rock. The whole movement was almost fortuitous. We may make the inspiring inference that almost any city of similar size contains human stuff just as good, needing only to be summoned. We call this a nation of infinite opportunity. Rather let that it is a nation of men of infinite capacit There are thousands, scattered everywhere, who are able to measure up to opportunity, if it happens to come their way. It just doesn’t happen often enough. women 7 to This is 1s small towns. how is so many us say Younger Generation Notes. No. 5 Gnovr of high school boys and girls were gathered the other day in the New York They were the winners of prizes in an essay contest, awarded under the A. Barton Hepburn Foundation. One by one they came to the platform to receive their cash pri At last came one who had to be led, and for whom the plause was loudest. He was Abraham Perles, seven- teen years old. He has been stone blind since baby- hood. Among two hundred thousand competitors, this blind boy won one of the prizes, of which there were only one hundred and sixty A Chamber of Commerce. in a reom cs p- RSW, comicbooks.com