The Washington times., 1933-05-22

GILBERT sFlOE' gentlemen with signs all over their
ouglng Waistcoats; and you and I were just what
are now. The trusts crushed opposton railroads
OIL combines or steel mergers the trusts the villains
and the menace of American life If could get rid of
tne trusts we would achieve freedom
After 40 Years!
So for 40 years smashed and restrained and fined
and abolished and regulated the trusts The one thing
we failed to do to create some other form of or
ganlzaton which would be suitable to the kinds of
machinery and the kinds of business which we were
nVentlng We left that to the people who being
thrown out of the trusts-and they formed corpora
nons. And now that in trouble say
10 generation which has forgotten the muckraker
that the Government wishes to take up friendlier
attitude toward the trusts.
My ignorance prevents me from becoming either en-
thuslastic or indignant about this We business
nation, to great extent, and forms of business
ought to be those which the country best. All
that interests is the speed with which ideal
into fact and the greater speed with which
can reject the fact and the ideal behind it. Trust
busting, suspect the reaction of small business
against the inevitable of big business the
horse rebellng against the motor car; it the
steam engine fighting against giant power.
We need, now, some other object to attack Finance
and Wall Street have suffered much during the
depression that they not fair game. The interna
tional racket-the racket-is out by unanimous
consent. We need good enemy, and have none. I
hate to think of the time when will actually be
abolished and economics will be scientific, and all
honest-for then no bogies will exist-and if we are
not happy then, what will we do?
EOlS VI Lawyers
One of Presidents tailor two were engineers
several generals and the rest practiced law;
great judges, naturally, and lawyers; and the
law has always had strangehold, if my lawyer will
pardon the term both houses Of Congress. 1t
to that of the surprises and of the resent
mens of recent days due to the emergence of
legal mind in Federal affairs Or to put it blunty maybe
the lawyers do not like the college professors.
think that what saved the lawyers, about 80 years
ago. the development of corporation law special
branch of study. AS corporations fairly
thing themselves the laws concerning them still had
some connection with actual life, and not fusty
and scked oer with the pale cast of too much thought
So lawyers not all dryasdusts and could make and
interpret laws with some reference to human beings
Shock After Shock
Lawyers in Congress had hard time getting over the
shocks delivered by Supreme Court justices who so far
forgot themselves to talk in human terms IN their
decisions usually in minority reports). Unfortunately
for Mr. Hoover he had chance to shock them
again by bringing the mind of engineer into play
the depression caught him after too short honeymoon
with prosperity in the White House.
Now the legal mind-and minds accustomed to
legates-are taking shock after shock, apparently in
for four years of cold shouderng new kind of
fessor has emerged he may make many mistakes as
the lawyer, but he cannot make The one person
squeezed OUT between the lawyer and the professor
the business man. We have hardly thought of asking
him to run our business And he has always found
thing little profitable to do.