Judge — March 30, 1929 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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uttlewoeth Art Editor, Pbil Ross Off to a Good Start v is unfair to expect President Hoover to pull rabbits out of hats,” says Mr. Edward N. Hur ley, who put up money and voted for Smith. “[ helped nominate, voted for, subscribed for, worked for and bet on Al Smith.” writes a veteran of "sy American Relief Association, “I am a con- Democrat, But if the Party of Purity, and Potations is to continue to be the minority party, then [will say that the best Repub- lican in the w United States has been elected to the Presidency Giving the new Progress vod old Anglo- is not, however, the only man a break is Th d feeling that seems to prevail. Saxon sportsmanship. basis for the The cabinet was built without any nonsense about best minds’. Probably there are no supermen nit, but almost certainly there are no crooks. Strictly political motives shaped some of the selec- tions, und why not? ‘The litical office and its power swings on a political pivet. But think of the tremendous that fouled by A. B. Fall Work now taken over by the Ray Lyman Wilbur. An line of Adamses resigns as University to take cha only to look back Presidency is a ain in having the job and muffed by Dr. university president, Adams of the glittering treasurer of Harvard ge of the navy; citizens have on Curtis Wilbur and Edwin Denby was appreciate the compliment. © Mitchell, recom nended for attorney-general by members of the upreme Court, contrasts pleasantly with Harry Daugherty and J. Garibaldi Sargent. * * * I the inaugural, as a correspondent says, there was “nothing that would indicate that the millennium Except possibly the President’s faith no human nature when he said: “If citizens do not like a law, their duty as honest men and women is to discourage its violation; their right is openly to work for its repeal.” Not until the millennium, we fear, will the millions of “law-abiding citizens” who do not like prohibition make any effort to obey or enforce it. On the * rching investigation of facts and causes” certain optimistic wets had justified their votes for ! Now it turns out to be not a possible of escape from Volsteadery, but an investig: is imminent.” ver. avenue ition of the whole structure of our Federal system of juris prudence; the purpose is reorganization of the istration of I Imin eral laws and court procedure. JUDGE Arsociate Editor, Richard J, Walbh Curious, is it not, how the idea persists that a law ought to be enforced? On the books today, besides there are at least five x deliberately flouted, not by but by public offic hi the Fifteenth Amendment, con cerning which, in the gencral belief, the less said the better, ‘Then there is the Sherman anti-trust law which is rapidly becoming a dead letter, as it ought tobe. Every di nty against unreasonable search and seizure is violated by pro minor ¢ tinents, major bei individuals laws which pri standard example is are y the constitutional gu: hibition officers. Secretary Mellon holds his job in of an old st: “no person appointed to the office of Secretary of the Treasury shall be directly or indircetly concerned or interested in carrying on the business of trade As the Li it may be said that this is a silly I: spite ute which says that r commerce.” cal Authors’ Association states, “Perhaps w, ill adapted to But the enactment is as completely modern times. in force today as during the term of Alexander Hamilton.” And, finally, there is the constitutional clause for congressional reapportionment which has been ignored ever since the 1920 census. Now that the President disregard and disobedience of law”, some of these has laid such stress on cial peceadilloes may arise to plague him. Ne Mr. Hoover in making good his campaign pledge to call Congress in special He gave Joe Grundy his come-uppance by repeating emphatically that the tariff revision is to be “limited”. And at last we shall be able to con- sider farm relief without talking equalization fee. The long fuss about the World Court, which Presi dent Coolidge said in 1926 was a is promptly reopencd and promises to end happily Hoover has dropped from the Interior Department a solicitor who got himself tinged with oil. He has ordered publicity on all big tax refunds. smen are getting slim pickings. “There some 820,000 persons on the Federal payroll,” says Mr. Hoover, and “there are probably not more than twenty or thirty changes likely to be made at the present time.” The Official Spokesman is officially dead. The White House hand-shaking ¢ ently going to be cut down to one or two a week Everything looks pretty good on the whole, if only Hoover will bring the marines back from Nic RW. time was lost by closed incident”, Spo are jes are appar comicbooks.com