Evening star., 1922-08-10
AMERICAN IDEALS
BUREAUS URGED
Bar Association Committee
Wants Drive on Elements
Hostile to U. S.
HITS POPULAR FALLACY
Poor Man Can Get Justice as Well
as Rich, Report
Says.
HITS POPULAR FALLACY
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO. Calf. August 10.
Establishment of a bureau to fur
ther American ideals and to offset
growing tide of antiAmericaniSm,
which was declared to be arousing
great prejudice against the courts
and the Constitution. was recommend
! ed to the American Bar Association
, today by its committee on American
ideals
We are convinced that if it could
be submitted to vote. the commit
tee reported, "a large number of our
citizens would vote in favor of abol-
ishins the Constitution entirely
The report which also denounced
the proposal to clothe legislative
bodies with supreme authority. was
presented by Judge Martin Wade of
: the United States district court of
Iowa. The other members of the
committee are c. A. Severance of St
Paul, Mimi, president of the Ameri-
can Bar Association: Maj Edgar b.
Tolman, Chicago; Walter George
smith. Philadelphia: r. f. L. Saner.
Dallas, Tex. and Judge Andrew A.
Bruce, Minneapolis.
Poor Are Protected.
Many of our people are convinced
that the Constitution was intended as
, an aid to the rich and powerful" the
report said; that. it affords unwar-
rantcd immunities to the railroads
and other great corporations, and is
an instrument of oppression to the
poor.
They do not know that the consti-
tutlonal limitation invoked by the
corporation to protect its property in
time of danger is exactly the same
limita ton upon which the widow the
working gman and the farmer rely to
guard their possessions against
wrongful invasion.
They do not know that no man
is so poor or obscure that he
cannot, in the hour of threatened
injury, turn to the Constitution as
his protection against the wrongful
acts of the rich and socially promi-
nent.
Because injunctions are issued in
certain cases judges are bitterly
criticized. when to deny the right
of injunction would be to violate the
oath tine judge has taken to admin
lister the law as it is. 1t is much
better for individuals and for So
ciety that wrong should be prevented
than to award damages after wrong
is done: 1t is better to prevent the
forest fire than to attempt to reforest
the devastated region.
Yet. at recent convention. it was
QecidTeu IndC the continued eXer-
else of this unwarranted power is a
blasphemy on the rights and claims
of free men of America
Must Uphold Courts.
confidence in the courts must be
revived. Resistance to authority is
resistance to the will of the people,
who can have any law they desire
provided they take pains to organize
and crystalline public sentiment"
he -o1 j,r, ~,,;t
senator that Legislative bodies be
clothed with supreme power can
mean nothing less than the deStruc-
tfon of our written Constitution" the
report said.
Under such proposal the Ameri-
can people are guaranteed freedom
of speech and action only until some
legislative body declares otherwise"
The committee proposed working
through schools and colleges to
further American ideals of citizen
ship and advised the creation of
committee upon American citizen
ship composed of five members rep
reSenting parts of the United States
and non-partisan in political and in
duStrial questions. to arouse public
sentiment in favor of support of the
Constitution.
1t also urged that every news
paper and magazine establish de
partment of American citizenship
and that course in American in
stitutions and ideals be made part Of
the curriculum in all schools and COL
legeS.