Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-06-02
NEW JERSEY LAW SCHOOL sam
TO BE ANNOYED

The New Jersey Law School is an.
noyed because of the address made h.
Lawyer Merritt Lane on May 2Otb =.
the annual dinner of the Fresbmow
Glass in Newark, and the Dean. Che
M. Mason, has given to the Anti-Saloor
League a statement r~epudiating, ON he
half of himself and the Faculty. tbe
sentiments attributed by the press ~
Mr.. Lane. The Dean further stated
it was not known to the Faculty that
the ex-vice chancellor was to be q
speaker. Following is Dean Mason's
statement:
Newark, May 90, 1922.
81, as Dean of the New jersey Law
School, did not know that Mr.. Merritt
Lane was to be one of the speakers at
the dinner given by the Freshman
Glass of the New Jersey Law School
on Saturday night, May goth. 1 read
what is reported to be the speech
delivered by Mr.. Lane at the dinner
If the speech made was as it is re-
ported, l consider the same highly i'm
proper and inappropriate, and do not
approve of the sentiments expressed
by him.
81 know that the Faculty of the Law
Scnool agree with me in these SEN
timents as expressed by myself.
CHARLES M. MASON,
Dean of the New Jersey Law School,"
The repudiated advice to students
is as follows:
IT don't ask you to obey the
Eighteenth Amendment; 1 don't ask
you to obey that law because that law
cannot be obeyed, and you won't obey
it because this country is too big to
stand long for a law like that"
Commenting on this advice, Mr..
Samuel Wilson, Assistant State Super
intendent of the Anti-Saloon League,
said today:
From an ethical viewpoint it would
have been as appropriate for Mr.. Lane
to have said to these youths, Il don't
ask you to obey the Seventh Command
ment, because that law cannot be
obeyed, and you won't obey it be-
cause this country is too big to stand
long for a law like that Had some
wild-eyed anarchist shouted such adj
vice from a soap box on a Newark
street he would have been jailed for
melting to sedition. The menace of
such contempt for the supreme law of
the land is even created when spoken
by the highest-paid bootleggers' law
yer in New Jersey, even though he is
an ex-vice chancellor. The public
have not forgotten the reasons for his
hurried exit from the bench, and SUBJ
sequent developments. To counterfeit
the evil influence of Mr.. Lanes words
on the minds of these embryo lawyers,
1 would suggest that the Faculty of the
Law School post in the class rooms of
the school a placard printed in inch
high letters carrying the following
statement of the Hon. Charles E.
Hughes:
Everybody is ready to sustain the
law he likes. That is not in the proper
sense respect for law or order. Ths
test of respect for law is where the
law is upheld ever though it hurts
Chas. E. Hughes, Secretary of State.'
"And another, bearing this warning
of the Judicial Section of the Ameri-
can Bar Association:
1.-THE people of the United States
have undertaken to suppress the age
long evil of the liquor traffic. When,
for the qualification of their appetites,
lawyers, bankers, merchants and man
ufacturers and social leaders, both
men and women, scott at this law, or
any other law, they are aiding the
cause of anarchy and promoting mob
violence, robbery and homicide. They
are sowing dragons teeth, and they
need not be surprised when they find
that no judicial or police authority can
save our country or humanity from
reaping the harvest"