Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-04-17
Comment and Criticism
Observation-Disclosures

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Indictments against Fall, Doheny
and Sinclair are thrown out of court
on technicality. A technicality may
be described as a bubble. When you
| haven't got a good argument you re-
sort to bubble. In other words, you
beat around the bush" when you
can't dive straight in. So Fall, Doh
eny and Sinclair have a clean slate,
as far as criminal charges are con-
cerned.
This is the ruling of the Supreme
Court of the District of Columbia.
1t appears that an assistant United
States district attorney was in the
grand jury room when evidence was
being presented. The court held that
because special counsel had been en-
ployed to have charge of the case, the
regular Department of Justice law
yers had no business monkeying with
It and were improperly in the grand
jury room.
1t was a Government case, of
course, but the regular Government
lawyers had to keep out because spe-
clal lawyers had been engaged.
Now the Government is going to
appeal from that ruling; and if the
appeal fails it will try to get new
indictments.
But meanwhile Fall. Doheny and
Sinclair stand forth with nice clean
states and they have every reason to
be happy. The law is a wondrous in
stitution, no doubt. But sometimes
Justice must be tempted to ask her
self queer questions about the law
and courts.
1t is solemnly announced that the
Department of Agriculture has found
out how to eliminate the odor of garlic
from the breath. 1t is set forth that
there will be no odor of garlic if no
garlic is eaten. That is a gem of wis
dom of purest ray serene.
This finding is in consonance with
another expert opinion which some
years ago is said to have emanated
from the same governmental depart
ment. The department had been con-
tronted with the problem of how own
ers of mules might avoid being kicked
by those hardy and tempermental
beasts. 1t was announced by the ex-
pert having the matter in charge that
the only way to surely avoid being
kicked by a mule was not to get Be.
hind a mule.
One of the reasons we have govern
ment is so that we may be cautioned
and advised in such vital matters as
these. We now look for expert gov
ernmental advice on how to prevent
slipping on banana skins and how to
prevent being run over by locomotives.
Farmers will do well to remember
the economic law stated by the econo-
mist, Gregory King, who estimated
that surplus of one-tenth of a farm
crop would decrease the price three
tenths, and that a surplus of two
tenths would decrease the price eight
tenths.
The Bureau of Agricultural Eco
Monies recently issued its "Agricul-
tural Outlook for 1925" with practical
application of this law. 1t stated:
Continued expansion in the dairy
industry has depressed prices of dairy
products, and with a growing foreign
ApAitBNAiAibll q iuilNI increase IN the
number of dairy cows would probably
retard recovery of prices"
IF there Is an average world crop
of wheat in 1925, the present high
price of wheat can not be expected TO
prevail for the 1925 crop, although
prices are likely to be better than in
1923. Growers of hard spring wheat
are cautioned not to increase produc-
ton above domestic requirements"
Cotton growers should consider
carefully local conditions in connec-
tion with the more general situation,
and the prospects for a profitable en-
plOyment of their land, labor and
in the production of other
crops, particularly in the production
of feed"
Farmers tend to produce a surplus
because they are merciless competi- !
tors of each other When they organ
ize and cooperate, they will be taking
a big step toward solving their prob |
lens and improving their economic |
status.
News that ships of the Atlantic !
scouting fleet of the navy have been
using whales as targets off Magdalena |
Bay leaves an exceedingly bad taste