Life — January 6, 1921 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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LDF IE: Lawyer vs. Doctor ROFESSIONALLY speaking, the lawyer labors under certain disad- vantages that the doctor is singularly free from. The lawyer deals with a client, the doctor with a patient—and experience teaches that a patient will stand for more than a client will because his powers of resistance are weak- ened. The patient—often cheerfully—allows his whole mode of life to be rearranged, whereas the client’s main object is to escape any radical change in his mode of living. The one proceeds according to doctor's orders, the other by advice of counsel. When a great man lies sick, it is customary for the consulting physicians to get together’ and issue daily bulletins These bulletins, always unanimous, are popularly accepted as the last word on the subject. But when a great issue hangs in the balance, the best we can hope for is that enough judges will be found in agreement to hand down a prevailing opinion—even though the other jurists come forward with a dissenting opinion that is still better. All of which tends to create a certain distrust of the lawyer which does not exist in the case of the doctor. The doctor, without reason, per- haps, enjoys a monopoly of public faith “The patient is doing as well as could be expected,” is accepted the world over as an authoritative medical pronouncement not requiring verification. But in arriv- ing at the legal truth we prefer to have a judge and a dozen jurors present while the opposing lawyers fight it out. Soon? “THAT'S a nice-looking suit Charley has on.” “Yes, he has a wonderful talent for making his own cloth LIPE’S LAWYER CANDIDATE FOR NICKER: Food prices are coming THE HALL OF PAML down, “Um a lawyer and my name is Mark: Bocker: Well, maybe it’s because —Unele Tom's Cabin they've quit using it in Ireland. After All, the World is Small HE was beautiful. She hurried to the golf links. She hurried back. She speeded a car. She was afrested. She escaped. She responded to an invitation. “She went somewhere else. She danced. She flirted. She played bridge. She can- vassed for the church. She dined. Shestheatred. She chatted. She phoned. She made a speech. She teas a secretary. She dictated. She shopped. She movied. She parlor-carred. She swam, e planed. She hairdressed. She flew around. ran. She broke away. She wrote. She jumped up. She left. She returned. She went out. She was hqre. She was there. She was— And one day he ran up against her and ‘kissed her, and she said You are a sttanger to me, sir.” “T knew it,” he replied bitterly, “even 'f we were married last month, AYBE Elihu Root will push in where Republican angels Lateyers! Nou z wont are 3 Cer rG rere rte fear to tread. IN THIS CASE, YOUR HONOR. JUST TAKE A LOOK AT IT, comicbooks.com