Life — July 5, 1928 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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deserve all the honor that has come to them; but the craze for priority has cost a good many lives, and lives of men and women whose high courage and technical proficiency made them worth more to society than most of us who stay on the ground. . As a sport, aviation has probably seen its greatest days; hardly anything remains to be done as startling as what has been done already. But as a public utility it is only beginning. Presently, one hopes, men and women may be flying across the At- lantic, not to be first in anything, but simply to get on the other side. A veticate ethical problem has lately been raised in Colorado by the enemies of ex-Judge Ben Lindsey, who are trying to disbar him from the practice of law on the ground of certain acts while he was on the bench. Whether their assertions are true or untrue, it will be a serious matter for both bench and bar if a lawyer is to be condemned for what he may have done when he was a judge. For lawyers, all things are lawful (so far as a layman can comprehend these mysteries) and pretty nearly all things are expedient too. Every year, in every State, a considerable number of lawyers are accused before the Bar Associations of various offenses; but in New York, at least, about the only conduct which is regarded as heinous enough to be cause for disbarment is the actual embezzle- ment of a client’s money—an offense, it may be observed, which tends to injure the profession as a whole, since it oper- ates to discourage other clients from in- trusting their money to other lawyers. Judges, through some archaic prejudice, are held to a somewhat higher ethical standard, It seems an unjust and retro- active procedure if a man just resuming the practice of law, in which the sky is the limit, is held to have suffered a sort of attainder by reason of his behavior on the bench. No man is debarred from playing rofessional ball because he may ave faleiaiged the canons of amateur- ism while he was in college. And, for the legal profession, the whole matter has a more serious aspect than that which the abstract ethical problem involves. If the Grievance Committees of Bar Associations once begin to mark in- iquity, who shall stand? Elmer Davis. More Tuan He Exrecrep —Life Lines— Miss Ametia Earnart is now tasting the irony of fate. Although she has realized her ambition to be the first woman to fly the Adantic, she is still known as “that girl who looks like Lindbergh.” aL Tue sone “Lucky Lindy” is said to make the Colonel shudder. We should imagine that in his case “Among My Souvenirs” might also be good for a wince. LL “Tevevox,” the mechanical man, has been equipped with a bass voice of powerful but pleasing quality. It is thought if he could be taught to write he would sign a cigarette testimonial. LL G. B. S. has made his first ap- pearance in the talking movies. He deliv- ered, of course, his famous lecture on Shaw. -L Svccesten regulation to tighten the pennant race in the American League: “Rute 1—Over the fence is out.” AL Now that Dr. Beebe assures us sharks are harmless except when attacked, we have made a firm resolution never again to go around biting sharks, Born political parties have prom- ised to provide farm relief, flood relief and tax relief. The question now arises: What are we going to do with all this relief when we get it? Here, obviously, is another commodity with which to fill up the Grand Canyon. comicbooks.com