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

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JUDGE t’s hard to say which was the more hideous—the stock I crash or the 4 anche of hind-sighted chatter that has ensued. The old gent on the bench knows naught of speculation and has had scant opportunity to tm about investment. But should that deter him from com ment? We should say not! We have no wisdom as to whether the market is going to go up or down. We never did hav And it certainly is a pleasure to discover that nobody else had, either. Sir cle was only old Dr. Hunch in false whiskers. Never in shall we have to sit respectful at his feet. They're nd chipped at that. Hy our sympathy goes out to those economists and sts id just been telling us that the bull movement was practically permanent. Chief among these, Professor Irving Fisher, the demon dry calculator. Here's hoping that his figures about the blessings of pro- hibition are just as wrong. We have a new respect, however, for the Great Ameri- can Sucker. For years he has griped us by his vain . his bragging about his profits and his conspicuous nding. He was a bum winne But, by all the gods, he's a grand loser! ‘The hue of Wall Street changed from rosy to blue, but never to yellow. From all the thousands who lost everything we've heard hardly a whimper. The prevailing spirit has been that of the girl pianist from ha who sunk her whole fortune, a million, and re- arked that she would stay in New York a few days more “to try to find a bear who will buy my chinchilla coat.” And having hitherto played the piano because she liked it, she is now going to play for a living. We welcome the renaissance of the doctrine only sure way to make money is to work for it. Dr. Julius Klein estimates that not more than a million persons were involved in speculation. Only about ten cities pay much heed to Wall Street antics. No real values have been wiped out. War, flood, fire or pestilence de stroy natural resources, property, lives, the ability to produce. Today we have every ‘real thing that we had before, plus the necessity and the resolve of a great many able folks to quit fooling and get down to business. that the Uneven Justice st over the Gastonia trial centers upon the R' SENTM charge that this land of the free hounds its radicals. s occur often enough to keep alive the dan, ‘ous be- lief that we have one law for the lofty and one for the ly, that we persecute those whose political, economic or religious views do not conform to those of the ma- i The truth is, of course, that we have forty-nine of law, one federal and one for each of the forty- cight States—besides all the ordinances and regulations of the smaller units of government. in the law of Massachusetts dooms Saceo and their appeal has to be heard before the very who tried them. Mooney and Billings spend thir- ars in jail in California beeause the governor chooses to keep them there in. the f nation-wide protests, including those of the judge and jurymen before whom they were tried. At the trial of the Gastonia strikers obviously strove to be fair, but the lina got’ in his way. He heretical views of a key witness, the w defendants. She did not believe in and said that the fact that she had to Bible wouldn't make her tell the truth an than if she took it on an almanac. This was taken as impeaching her testimony, bee: North Carolina the idea seems to be that an oath doesn’t count unless you take it on a Bible. Like the man who said, “1 won't bet on it, but I'll give you my word of hono Ina letter to the New York Times € that even if the Gastonia trial was with the laws of North Carolina, it wi ing to the American system of jurisprud The clos- ing speeches of the prosecution were “fiery harangues.” Recently the Supreme Court reversed 4 : where the vituperative pose an appeal to passion and prejudice the Court of Appeals reversed ¢ tain questions put to the de judice the jury. Religious prejudice flamed in the ques- tions put at Gastoni It remains to be scen whether the Supreme Court of the State will reverse the conviction, Mr, Mintz asserts that there would be no doubt of reversal if the appeal were in a federal court or in New York or one of many other States. But North Carolina does not have “typical American jurispruder Probably these forty-eight diverse States never will agree on a “typical” code and therefore never shall we have ¢ handed justice. Which is all the more reason why everybody who values our civil liberties should protest whenever any whe re there is ground for suspicion that men are being convicted on prejudice rather than on facts. A MAN in New Jersey recently had his driving license revoked be as found guilty of “driving while under the influence of snuff.” That's progress. But ur highways won't be really safe until we take away the licenses of people who drive while under the influence of too much Sunday dinner, back-seat drivers, and anger at that guy who passed on the wrong side. Seriously, there may be a lot of truth in the assertion that you can’t have personal liberty in a motorized civilization. Judge Barnhill laws of North Caro- as to the of one of the “Supreme Being” e the oath on more faithfully admitted evidence wuse in al Mintz shows RILW,