Arizona republican., 1919-08-02
Professor Cunning the "Expert"

Professor Cunning of Columbia University, the expert" who testified for the prosecution in the Ford Tribune libel case is of those intelectuas' who may be found in almost any of higher insti- tutions of learning. The intellectual is called not because of the superior development of his in telect, but because of his advanced" abnormal way of thinking, generally loose thinking Professor Dun- ming had formulated certain theories largely social istc regarding society. Henry Ford either of himself of his superb ignorance under the tutelage of John Reed and other socialists had groped toward the theories Ford less dreamy than the social ists more clearly what he wanted to do but was not capable of measuring the effect of the doing.
 That is the trouble with these beautiful theories which are set up against the results of all human experience As long they exist only in the brains of the ntellectua1s they do harm. It is only when the ignorant and the criminal become idealiss and take hold of these theories and try to apply them that they produce disaster It is the attempted appi cation of these theories that has made the l. w. w. so much of a menace; they at the of bo- shevism. The fundamental thing wrong with them is that they propose the setting up of a new order without having first revolutionized human nature
 The shallowness of the thinking and speaking of Professor Dunning is shown in his comparison of con- ditions in Mexico during the last years with those of the United States during the of re- bellion. Nothing ridiculous has been attempted outside of lunatc asylum since Secretary Baker three years ago tried to show similarity between Villas bandits and Washington,s army at Valley Forge.
 The difference between the United States in 1S61- e4 and Mexico from 1911 the present these In the United States there were two strong though enemy governments. The laws were enforced in both the north and the south There was no disorder ex- In
 community back of the actual war zone there was order and security It was war
 In Mexico since 1912 there has been no govern ment, in fact, in Mexico. The disturbance that has ragged and raging there been and is not war but anarchy. No laws have been enforced No con- stitutional guarantes have been observed; the life and property of no anywhere in Mexico have been secure.
 The views of Professor Cunning regarding an archy are as loose his observations on order He accepts the actions and the speeches of Emma Gold man as comprehensive and accurate definition of anarchy. According the Emma Goldman standard one could not be anarchist without being an out breaking enemy of God repudator of God; one must also accomplish anarchy by bombs by the utter, physical destruction of what exists
 We might as well adopt limited definition of murder We would take eminent murderer who used pistol weapon as the stan- dard murderer One who uses knife or poison could not under such definition qualify as mur- derer.
 The man who laid the foundation of the theories amid which such men Cunning and Ford wander in maze, were of them of great intellectual power and laid down rules for the conduct of life under ideal conditions. Their smaller followers at tempt to apply these rules in conditions which are not ideal and many with fimy notion of these rules without the mental equipment necessary to understand them evolve from them the most gro- tesque products.