Life — March 11, 1926 — page 18: what you’re looking at

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MARCH “While there is Life ther Published by LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY $98 Madison Avenue, New Ye Crrantes Dana Giason, President R. E. Sureawoon, Editor F. D. Casey, Art Editor t might seem as if Secre- tary of Labor Davis, as the person on whom most conspicuously rests the re- sponsibility for making an ass of the United States in the Catheart now with propriety he ne of the back benches of the Government case, might escorted to or even left out of it truth is, as Com that the altogether. But the missioner Curran points out, phrasing of the Immigration Law is more to blame for the absurd Cathcart complication than any of the officials enforce it, Th istration of that law as it now who tried to admin. stands calls for a mind subtle enough to dis tinguish between words 1 facts; interpret the law as well ay to execute it, Mr be of an order and quality that can be Davis’ mind does not seem inating as all that, and no such high class John-Marshall quality should he expected in him or in the subordinate officers. Yet. after the ors pinched Lady Catheart aboard properly directed to a jol immigration inspec the boat as a criminal, there seems to have heen no i to modify it up to Secretary Davis. Mr power in any one their decision until you Curran, the Commissioner, — is without authority to interpret the law when it is passed up to him by an inspector. It is a good deal as thor from a Supreme Court without intervention of ha police case had to go policeman to the magistrates. Mr. Curran is for having the law amended immediately, so that the inspectors ean understand the p grounds of exclusion. We zht to be thankful to Catheart for what she Lady has done for ns Coate Lancnome Maxwett, Vice-President Giasox, Secretary ant Of course our Government, like all other governments, is incorrigibly fallible and needs to have from its foolishness exhibited time to time. Public exposure with resounding yells from newspapers is about the only manner of correction that it is amenable to. O far as can be judged by an out “sider, Lady Catheart has had a time lis Island may hotel one would choose for a pleasure visit, but she has been safe there, pr lic and sui Com Roosevelt They day, xhibited tected from the admiring p ficiently from the newspapers. pared with the heroes of the she has had were far the best of it dragged about day after over-fed, over-cheered, over ind odliged to stand up under a lot of public talk without due opportunity ior response, whereas the visiting Countess has had a lively and pleasant fight and has taken to it most kindly, and talked freely and yet not too freely into the public ear. She is a valuable visitor Let us hope she will never do anything that would prevent her frequent return able shores. COQOIEBD UR world and the world generally is full of nice fights. There is that to these hospi one in Italy. cile the P with his Mussolini trying to recon- eto Fascism, and the ‘onsecrated thumb to his rev erend on waving fingers at him rings and all. Mussolini plans it that the Papal Court shall be reconciled to Italy. The part of the reading Pope demurs, and a large world looks on vith the sentiment of the hushat woman whose was fighting the hear—Go it, hear: » hushand ! Then here, besides the flurry over the Immigration Law, there is constant and encouraging over the Volstead Act. Be it observed that when the Amendment was passed the Drys were on. the nowadays all of the attack is by the Wets and it is the Drys who defend. When Pro hibition began, a large majority of the bickering offensive, but people hated rum worse than they did Prohibition, but now and every day the that than it does rum company: is increasing Pro: That Mates hibition worse is a real change and significant R. BUCKNER, our local District Attorney, has his hands full all the time with crimes that are not crimina » the prejudice, as he gladly ad mits, of his activities in pursuit of crimes that are crimes. Not only has he been implicated in the effort to ex tricate the cre of Gov Lady s with embarrassments even ulest urts to rment from the muddle over Catheart, vat he me his 7 enforce Dry Law. Perhaps he wele latter idents as preeurs: eventual escape from the Dry Law alt He has padlocked or threatens to padlock the Hotel Brevoort and de- fends it by say gether. there can be no crimination hetween places where is sold. him with much pith that the hasis of his method of Dry rim But the MWorld points out te particular Law en- discrimination. It has start. He picks the Id prosecute and lets the He has said that is all he To pick the Brevoort for dis cipline is very unpopular and that may be why he did it, for he forcement is heen so from the people he w can d has never ad mitted a belief in Volstead or ethical sympathy with his views A great deal more than rum is in volved in the anti-Volstead fight. It is 1 part of a great war that is now on— the war between materialism and. spiri- tuality; the war between force and free will; the war for world peace. The Prohibitionists are lined up on the side of force. They are for compulsory conduct. Some day they will discover it, or some of them will, and very much dismayed a lot of zealous people will be when it is disclosed to them what they are doing FE. S. Martin, comicbooks.com