Evening star., 1932-10-12

bility for his opposition must be charged
against the laymen who elected him.
THE layman must do his part as
| juror The constitutional guaranty OF
| the right of trial by jury Is in Its es-
sence denied If the jury be not fairly
representative Of our citizenship. trial
before a jury composed wholly OF labor
ers, OF small shopkeepers, of clerks. or
Of any particular class is not fair jury
| trial. The jury trial to which every
man and every corporation is entitled
| is a trial before IL men who fairly rep
resent a Ss-Section OF the community
The layman who evades jury service In
| time Of peace is as much Stacker in
, the performance OF his duty as Is the
man who evades service of his country
| in time of war.
Finally, the layman must do his
| part In cooperating with the bar to
| bring about the reforms that I have
mentioned, namely the self-governing
| bar, the Judicial Council, the self-gov-
erning court, and, meanwhile. the rals-
| ing of the educational standards for
admission to the bar. The lawyers alone
| are powerless to institute these improve
ments. and it is only by and with the
that they can be realized.
Urges Laymen TO Help.
ITO the laymen Of the country I
would issue the ancient call: Come
over into Macedonia and help us!
How is it with our country? To the
thoughtful and obServant Is 1t not
plainly evident that our institutions are
| beset today by dangers more ominous
than have threatened us in the past?
No foreign foes alright our shores; but
surely Huns and Goths and Vandals
assail US from within. Successfully to
cope with the problems of the morrow
will require not only ability and un-
derstanding, but courage and self-sacri-
fee as well. and that too in unStinted
measure.
Republican institutions are still on
trial. 1t is still 1.-The mission of America,
with its far-f1ung territory, its diver
sified interests, its heterogeneous popu-
lation. and its menacing industrial and
social problems, to demonstrate to the
world and to poSterity that a repre-
sentative democracy such as our fathers
conceived and founded can survive.
We vaunt a government of. by and
for the people yet the people stifle and
suppress the interest of their children
| in public affairs by encouraging them
to avoid politics and to shun public
service A government Of. by. and for
the people: yet there prevail among the
people themselves ignorance of the Con-
Stitution and its fundamental philoSo-
ply, Incidence in the discharge of the
common and simplest duties of citizen
ship, and indifference to the conse-
Quences Of their civic apathy. A govern
ment in which every man and woman
Is a ruler crowned with the right of
suffrage; yet less than one-half of the
citizens Of adult age vote at the general
elections and less than one-fourth of
them at the primaries. A government
tc encourage business; yet government
bureaus are now in competition with
more than $50 lines of business. A gov
eminent to protect property; yet fed
eral government expenditures approxi-
mate $4,000 000 1000 per annum. and
S14 000, 900 ,000-one-fifth of the nations
annual ipcome-was wrung from the
people last year to defray the expenses
Of governmental operations. Government
to guard liberty. SO that individual ini-
tiatlve should be promoted individual
enterprise rewarded. and personal pride.
self-respect and ambition to achieve
should be developed: yet increasing mil
mons OF our countrymen are becoming
dependent upon government taxes for
their maintenance. A government to en-
courage Self-reliance; yet one sees an
ominouSly increasing disposition on the
part OF individuals and industries to
look to the national government for
support. A government intended to be
the servant of the people; yet the
people are rapidly becoming the slaves
OF government. A government deriving
its just powers from the consent of the
governed; yet the governed are deriv-
ing their powers from the consent of
the government. A government, the phi
losophy Of whose founders was that 1t
Is the duty of the citizen to maintain
the state: yet there is rapidly spread
ing the fatal philosophy that it is the
duty Of the state to maintain its citi-
Iens. A government to afford equal ave-
nues OF opportunity to all in order that
the people might take care of them
selves: yet the feeling grows that the
people should be taken care of by the
government. A government carefully
contrived to afford protection against
the whims and caprice of majorities;
yet we stand today in the ominous
shadow Of the tyranny of minorities.
Sought Limited Government.
I'VE thought that ours was q national