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

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Join and Be Done With It nen Owen Young gets into a movement it 's. He has now added his prestige and > to the distinguished committee which is urging that the United States adhere to the World Court. As Edward Bok says, “the World Court matter has been hanging fire for some time.” That is putting it mildly. Our ridiculous shilly-shallying has been go- ing on these seven years. We have be coy and hard to please. Charles E. Hughes sees the World Court as “the absolute minimum of intelligent effort for the promotion of 0 The Senate sees it as part be nd part political straw man. Three years ago the Senate expressed its horrid fears in a reservation about advisory opinions. hu Root figured out a way to get around that. Phe scheme has been put in a protocol, and fifty of the fifty-four nations who are members of the Court have gone to the considerable trouble of adopting it, just to humor us. Secretary Stimson says that this will “fully protect the United States against the dangers anticipated.” President Hoover hopes that we will “take our proper ] in a movement so funda ntal to the progress of peace.” John W. Davis, Thomas Lamont, Silas Strawn, Colonel Hous General Harbord, Dean Pound, Brand Whitlock— the roll of those who urge us to action is long and impressive. Impressive, that is, to everybody except to Sen- ators who admire themselves at good old politi- alisthenic exercise— the tattered and faded banner of American isolation. n uncertain, world | The Law Lags Is a Georgia lumber mill a workman fell through a broken walk and hurt his foot. Later the in- jury developed into tuberculosis of the bone. He applied for compensation under the state law. The application was denied because it was not made within the prescribed period. When the case was taken before Judge Meldrim in the circuit court, he gave a decision in which he said that he believed the workman was entitled to compensation, but that under the “somewhat remarkable statute known as the workman's compensation act” he had no option but to contirm the adverse judgment of the commission, and that he trusted that his own decision “may be taken to the Court of Appeals, where I hope it may be But that did not happen. reversed.” sake of justice that he himself will be reversed by higher court. Lawyers have ever been prone to ¢ plain that, for the sake of the greater good, socicty has to inflict egregious wrong upon an individual now and then, But laymen, stupid creatures that we are, will continue to maintain that this will not be a decent tion until it can deal out level justice to everybody, even to a wage-worker. * . . Ww: don't like to keep picking on Princeton, but the place does seem to breed snappy news. Now we have been hearing about the opin- ions of the freshman class. Asked to specify “the most essential quality in the ideal girl,” the class voted as follows: Physical beauty ....7 Constancy Personality .........65 Brains Dancing abilit Good sense and humor .34 Convers. 31 Money ....... Not drinking .. Not smoking ... Don't blame Princeton. This profound under- standing of relative values was not acquired there. Remember that the voting was done by freshmen, shortly after the opening of the college year. And by freshmen of whom less than half said they came to college to get an education, one hundred admitting that they came for “social contacts and social ad- vantages.” As President Hutchins of Chic why bother to go to college when you can get it per and quicker and better country club? * * * vs and vigilant ladies of the W.C.T.U. of w York, during the past year, have been pa- trolling the sidewalks and have stepped on crushed 405 cigar butts and rette stubs. They have badgered 1323 into. pledging themselves not to smok A motion-picture theatre which had been giving cigarettes free in the women’s -room was forced to apologize and quit it. isfied with thes nificent efforts, : red ive against the filthy They loudly ‘obacco is as great a mena 399 cig: persons © our young Perhaps it aps it is. Our young people today are simply hemmed in by mena One of the worst of these alcohol—probably more so. menaces is the busyl R.JLW,