Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-13
SAYS HAPPINESS
CENTRES IN FOOD
Attorney-Gen. Wescott Takes
Widely Different Theme for
State Bar Address.
NOURlSHMENT BASIS FOR
HISTORY OF ALL PROGRESS
Says Woman Suffrage Move
ment Is a Step in the Ad-
vance of Morals.
rsnecisI TO the Evening start


ATLANTIC CITY, June 1S.-"Food
in the last analysis, is happiness. On
food morality and civilization are
built"
This statement made by Attorney
General Wescott, president OF the
state Bar Association, to the annual
session of the society in convention
here. today brought the several hun
dred delegates to rapt attention.
Wescott. the man who nominated
Woodrow Wilson at the Democratic
convention at Baltimore for presl-
dent. had sounded a new note at
LAWYERS convention, where long
winded discussions of legal techhl-
calties generally prevailed
The many phases of progressive
movements today, such as woman
suffrage, worldwide peace, economic
efficiency, enlightenment of the
masses, money madness, new thought
religions, Wescott attributed to this
one human desire for nourishment-
ham and eggs and like appetiSers.
Everyon's Aim q Freer Life.
THE struggle for the race has al
wavs been, and always will be" said
| the encouragement, IAN effort to
move away from the line of bare
subsistence into a freer and fuller
life. The problem of production is
! solved. The problem to be solved Is
that of distribution
I'm the solution of that problem,
men are confronted with greed, cum
ming, inadequate custom and law.
That the problem will be solved Is
certainty as inevitable as the oper-
alton of the general laws of the
universe. VIII it be a peaceful solu-
ton? In the end, yes. In the near
future? Probably yes. 1t is a long
process-the elimination of mis-
takes, ON the one hand, and the ap-
preparation of knowledge, on the
other. Human ingenuity and greed
cannot stay the onrush of life into
conditions of comfort and well-being
any more than they can change the
operation of Interchangeable laws. What
society has achieved cannot be lost "
Praises Suffrage Movement.
Speaking of woman suffrage, Wes-
colt said: 1.-The woman's suffrage
movement is a startling expression of
Intelligence, and is the necessary out
come of the development of a better
morality in the world generally.
Heretofore women have been eXclud-
ed from participation in the affairs
| of government. Heretofore their
activities have been limited to the
home. Woman was regarded as a
negative force.
Three millions are now organized in
an effort to secure active participation
| in all public activities. Many more
millions in lesser organizations are in
| concerted effort to utilize their ener-
gies in the practical problems of gen.
] H..
economic expression. The powers OF
women, through ignorance, have been
unduly repressed."
In discussing economic phases OF
modern life he touched upon the
enormous loss due to sickness, stating
that the annual sick list mum bered
three million persons, or one-fourth OF
the working population. The loss in
earnings, the speaker told together
with the cost of medical attendance,
reached the astounding sum of one
billion five hundred million dollars
annually. He quoted DIR. George NJ
Gould in estimating that sickness and
postponeable deaths in the United
States cost three billion dollars an
nually.
The encouragement pointed out
two species of sovereignty, one OF
public opinion and social order sus-
tanned by the physical power of the
State, the other being the instrument
which controls the surplus of produc-
ton, money.
| The Power of Fortune.
IF hundreds of millions of dollars
are used in concert" said the speaker
"under our present social scheme, il
becomes a sovereign power. 1t deals
with and controls not only the sur
plus Of production, but the future sur
plus production. While this form o.
power always has been, from the be
ginning of civilization to the complies
social state of modern times. at nj
period of history has 1t attained any
thing like its modern proportions. L
is a phenomenon of such consequence
that the best minds of the age arr
engaged concerning the methods anC
means of subordinating this sover
eighty to the other"
, 1.-THE unrest in America is of spe'
cial moment to US in that it is at
lacking the administration of justice
With that our profession is chiefly
concerned. For many of the evil:
of administration of the law thu
lawyer is directly and largely re-
sponsible. In the great upheaval ap'
parent on every hand in American
life we hear the startling and jar
ring note that would make certain
judgments of our courts the property
of a majority of the electorate.
IAN early application of such coz
receive agencies need not be feared
We must therefore eagerly hope an
EXPECT that out of this foment viii
come a democratizing of the forms
practise, procedure and judgments
of judicial tribunals. Our forms
must be further simplified our prac
tise must be less technical; our pro
cedure must be made less comple2
and indeterminate and our judg
ments in constituting constitutions
questions must become imbued witt
the spirit of progress that every
; where moves on the deep of mems
souls. But few enactments are re
. auired for these changes.
Respect for Courts Weakened.
ION ever hand we hear carping ant
/ cautious criticism of the courts
] Already the respect and confidence o
: many people in them have beef
: weakened. The disposition to attacl
{ the courts, the Judges and the Who'll
, judiciary system was never so pro
t nounced, was never so universal, wa
= never so pointed and determined. w
t read such attacks in the magazines
: We hear them in the conversation o
2 the most cautious and conservativ
r members of society. Candidates TO
high office in the gift of their felloN
r citizens see in them the potentially
of e-getting. The complaint bein
acute, the necessity for reform il
: therefore, the more pronounced. TIL
old reverence that attached to tn
courts has about passed. and tn
isolation that hedged q about tn
Judge has been broken in upon. No
onIy are the character and eapacit