The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-04-28

'at the Waldorf this week one OF the
weI-hand-shaken men was Robert
Wolfe of Columbus. Ohio. Wolfe owns
two papers out there. and when the
flood came he forcsaw the probable
consequences in advance of others. He
did Il lot of stunts and saved Il lot Il
lives.
You're the mos, popular mar in
central Ohio" one enthusiastic friend
told him. Wolfe has II turn OF sar-
donic hunlor. He shook his head.
II hope not" he said. II wouldn't
mind popularity if ii only mean that
people would talk about me. Hut I'm
afraid that If I eve got really popular
they'd begin to watch me-"
He walked away with Il perfectly
straight face. His friend stayed be-
hind. paving at his lip and thinking
it over.
There's one u thing. The police
fectivc and profitable and mighty near
~impregnablc as It is if it were not Tor
thicvish II dishonest lawyers.
Every II comedies that IL lawyer
nus do his best to protect his clients.
But when Il lawyer hribcs, witnesses
and s~upprcsses evidence and buys per-
jury and 'double-crosses' client
to save another and pays convicted
graftcrs for silence. ii would seem that
o~verpasscd. Fully a dozen lawyers
have been engaged in the graft case.
Some of them have kept their activ-
tiles secret. Several have by silence
consented to methods they know to be
%fclonious. Several others have Invent
cd these methods. And as for those
rules Of ethics which are ordinarily
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legal professionals least two OF these
attorneys have turned states evidence
to save their hides.
District Attorney Whitman has a
big enough job for ma in trying
to root out some portion of the police
grafters. But the people of New York
are u to he mighty sore if Whitman
or an aSsistant-hc has a yardful of
assistants. who might he given some
clean up the bar association stables.
There are $4,000 lawyers in town.
mostly poor. Too MANY of them must
choose between dishonesty and work.
if they continue to live. Too many
them choose dishonesty. Every
reputable member OF the bar knows
about it-and the bar association
disbars an annual handful.
The cry biggest work that could
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munity would he to clean up the bar
association. The other clean-ups
would follow automatically. And no
one will ever try.
Three years ago an old actor took
the picture of his little daughter GU
of his pocket mi showed it to a
"She's beer Well guarded in a con-
said he fordly. She doesn't
know what a rough place this world
is. Whatever happens to her. I'd
see her dead than on the
The old man told of his lonesome
years. His n ambition had been to
make enough money to permit him to
He had q vision of a little
home. in which his little girl should
reign as queen. "She doesn't even
know that I'm an actor" said he.
i've kept it from her for; fear she'd
be tempted toward the f%ootlights."
The old msnsdkd. The girl. headed
for a dramatic agency as though she /
had planned it all the few years of
her life. Last winter she was a sen
her first show. Critics couldn't
say enough of her beauty and grace
and ability as an actress. They raved
about her voice. She went the Broad
way pace. This spring she was rcfus.
ed q place in the chorus of Il road
The agent vas quite frank to
her.
Gee, Mag" said he, putting his feet
the table, look in the glass, old
girl. You for the burleycues."