Judge — January 18, 1930 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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Medical Ethics it joking aside, we think doctors are pretty swell A guys. They do more good than harm, which is something you can’t say with confidenc other professionals as lawyers, preachers, 5 editorial writers. They constantly stri to put themselves out of business. The men bout such ators and » by prevention, y share with fire- nd telephone trouble-shooters that amazing willing ness to roll out of bed in the on the job. iddle of the night and get Good manners are a part of their routine. They change their minds and methods with graceful rity. They temper their fees to the shorn purse and soak the ri As golf partners they are useful because you can usually get them in the afternoon. ‘They do not have the annoying habit of practising what they preach, One thing and only one we hold Medical ethies, so called, ar In so far as the code is directed against quackery, fee-splitting and disregard of the Hippocratic Oath, it is all to the good But as applied various medical associations, the « creates a combination in restraint of health. It prevents one doctor from telling patient the truth about the bungling of another. It tends to rule out new discoveries if made by men who do not play the game. And it is all too often invoked against doctors who seek, through writ- ing or lecturing, to help along the popularization of medi- cal_ knowledge. ngerous talk trust” will not ed until the hauling of medical ethics. ac- sinst them, nuisance and a menace, bout a “medical is a drastic over And Now Look at the Darn Thing Dots ther say » dry. Of all dates the dryest is January 16. For on that day, in 1920, Prohibition nto effect. If you can call it “effect.” And this grateful nation hails the tenth anniversary of that magnificent gesture. All is not well. In fact, it’s terrible. Never has the confusion been worse than it is on this tenth birthday. Mr. Volstead, proud father that he is, remarked the other day, “One thing I take pride in about the Volstead act is that it has not been necessary to change the darn thing to any extent to make it effective.” Of course that depends on what you mean by necessary. Take Chairman Wickersham of the Law Enforcement Commission. A while back he blandly suggested that the Volstead law be amended to make it more enforceable. Another member of the commission talks about “govern- ment lawlessness.” There's been more killing by coast guards here and there. Senator Norris demands that Scc- retary Mellon resign because he is not in sympathy with the law, Senator Borah declares it never can be enforced with the present personnel, From Atticus Webb of the 13 Anti-Saloon League we get the shocking news that some of the federal judges are drinking Rumor has it that a dozen federal attorneys are to be fired for laxity. Courts are clogged; at one stage there were 50,000 prohibition cases, of which only 4,000 had come to trial. Juries are refusing to convict on clear evi- dence. Five States have no enforcement laws at all. The “dryest Congress ever assembled” is comically con- fused. The wets never e got together. Now for the first time the drys are divided among themselves. Forty- three prohibition bills are pending, with more to come. Senator Sheppard's amendment, that would make the guilty as the seller, is feared by some of the professional drys because it would make it even harder to get evidence and convictions. President Hoover is urging four separate measures for tightening up enforce- ment. One group wants an increase of many millions in the appropriations. Another group, oddly tender-hearted, wants to appropriate a few thousands to be paid to the families of innocent persons killed by the dry sleuths. We don’t hear much beer.” Fana nation, liquor-buyer as any more about “light wines and icism has t nsformed us into a hard-liquor And on hard-liquor lines the issue has got to be fought out. A resolution for the repeal of the amendment is before the judiciary committee. always pigeon-holed is no hope of passa It always is, and it is as of course it should be, for there But what has happened to that movement among lawyers which was going to bring before the Supreme Court the argument that the Eighteenth Amendment does not exist and ne use it was passed in defiance of the Constitution itself? You can't repeal prohibition, but if by some miracle it were swept away, you certainly could never put it over agi did exist, bee W° hear that the movies have making the film audience ma tion of a vamp. new device for instant identifica- They used to have her smoke a ciga- rette. After smoking was taken up by so many “other- wise nice girl gan to clothe its vamps in paj mas became rd_night-wear, directors were desperate. But only for an insta The. thought of modernist furniture! So that now, when you see a lady surrounded by angular chairs, tables without legs, beds without headboards and lamps that look like accidents in a glass factory, then you 1 know that she is no lady at all, but a hard-boiled sophisticate bent upon the ruin of the handsome hero. By the time this gets into print, there may be need of a still newer convention. May we do our part by suggesting that the new styles offer a rare opportunity? If she wears long skirts, she’s a wicked np (and extravagant, too). If the hem is still up above her knees, she’s just a sweet, simple, old- fashioned girl. RSW. the sereen be mas. When p: comicbooks.com