Judge — February 9, 1929 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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Associate Editor, Richard J, Walsh Dram It Still Looks Like Hoover ext week, unless there is some shocking upset, N Herbert Hoover will be elected President. Did we think it was all over long ag Far from it. Not until February 13. when Congress opens and counts the votes cast by the Electoral Colle The actual vote is still a seeret in’ the keeping of the State Departs Last November we elected the electors. On the the capitals of the several States and, as the A. P. put it, “quietly and unnoted by the nation’s millions of voters, cast the official ballots.” essary to add, “They constitute what is known as tl Electoral College,” so little does the public know of this comic anachronism, Of course the college ought to be ished and the president chosen by the direct vote of the people. The more immediate need, however, is to get the new President into action sooner 2nd to abolish the short session in which the lame-duck Congress waddles on until March bT Norris amendment would brin in the new administration in January, two months after the November polling. For a century half this obvious reform has been urged. The has passed it four times in re it failed in the House it to go through no met in It was even nec and a enate years, Last March only thirty-six votes. It Getting Civilized “Never in the history of American business,” says the Federal Trade Commission, “has there been a time when self-re tion has reecived more inten- sive consideration.” What self-regulation means is t industries and trades formula for their own conduct “with due interest. nd obey rules d for the public No, this is not the bunk, It really is being done. Not because business is any more saintly than it used to be, but simply because a few lessons. vusiness has learned It has many more to learn and we venture to predict that with Herbert Hoover in the White House it will get some excellent instruction. Although Hoover is not the spanking type of school master, he knows how to be stern when necessary. And what is better, he uses the technic favored by modern pedagogy—setting the pupils a problem that they have simply got to master, but leaving it largely to them to work it out, preferably in groups rather than one by one. His work with trade assoc iations JUDGE ie Editor, George Jean Nat and in the simplification and standardization pro- grams at the Department that. The Trade Commission has been do well with its “trade practi in which business and government get together to create a set of rules and provide for their enforcement. Fourteen of these conferences were held last year. Under a Hoover ri the procedure f Commerce has shown pretty conference: gime we may expect to see improved and speeded up still further. Parallel to this betterment of group conduct runs the progress of arbitration between individuals. So tly that we have hardly noticed it, the old retort, Go id and sue me,” is being choked off by arbi- tration. ‘Thirty-seven legislatures a rout to he pressed for uniform legislation making arbitration cements irrevocable, At present in most States. n two men try to arbitrate a squabble, the get mad again and call off the arbitration an. they like. But now the American Arbit with the support of a hundred t proposes to make arbitratio: positive guarante wh an time tion Association anizations entered upon, a +» ones tion, and the decision of the arbitrator final merits of the contro versy. This will make the arbitrator more powerful than a Justice of the Supreme Court. And he ought to be, for arbitration is “the poor man’s court” and properly handled it can dispose quickly and cheaply of a vast amount of the petty difficulties that clog the wheels of commerce. Take it altogether, we do seem to be getting more civilized in matters of business. Not All the Good Scouts Are Boys Tits Friday: sees. the nine the Boy Scouts of Americ tions are due all round. who founded scouting in nth anniversary of and hearty congratula- To Sir Robert Baden-Powell gland twenty-one years ago. To the nearly four million young men and boys who have had the training and the fun. ‘To the un counted millions of parents and others who have shared the benefits. To the six hundred thousand boys who are now enrolled in this country. And last and far from least, to the two hundred thousand grown men acting as scout masters, leaders and committeemen, who, in our observation, have a swell time playing round with the youngsters. RJ. WV: comicbooks.com ——————