Evening star., 1941-05-16
SOIOn ex Machina.

Crawford" cried Sam Himmel-
foyer, his law partner. i've got an
Idea which is going TO revolutioniZs
our business"
A train of the only surviving ele-
vated line had just clacketed past
their office window, the wheels
shrleking in their turn toward Han
over Square. The interlude before
the next train was just the time for
firm conference.
Here you and l." Sam continued,
work most of the day and half Of
some of the nights looking up the
law, hoping to find a decision by a
Judge, even in Texas, distinguishing
the case of Mogewlesky VS.. Webster,
and what do we get for it? Every
two years get thicker lenses for
my glasses. My eyes now look ito
people like those round tropical fish.
When do we get time to go after
clients? I am fed up with It'll
Listen"
Sans earnest argument was cut
short by another express train. In
its wake. Sam quickly said, Listen,
here is my idea. We've got machines
that add, subtract and multiply. In
the Census Bureau, by pressing a
lever they can tell you how many
cops have fiat feet and radios on the
Eastern Seaboard and God knows
what else. The machine has got
to come to the aid of the lawl We
lawyers are still living in the days
of the green bag and rolled parch-
ment deeds. Look here, we've got
numbers for most propositions Of
law, haven't we? Take torts, for
instance, where you can't collect a
dime for a dog bite unless, as the
law says, the owner has scienter
of the vicious propensities of his
animal That's Totorts 375, isp't
it? And where a cabbie gives you
sleighride, what do you look for?
Charter Hire-Deviation,' isn't that
right? What's TO prevent making up
machine so that when you have
rent case you push button under
Eviction 532' and out comes, in
stead Of handful of nickels, the
case of Glatzmeyer VS.. Bunce, 2
Kings Bench Al, affirmed, 93l0
House of Lords 772, and there you
have the law in the palm of your
hand"
Its a great, wonderful idea," said
Crawford. We ought to make
plenty out of it. But what's to hap.
pen on the bills we send out for
looking up the law when we say
Research of authorities, Al hours at
SITS per hour?'"
we can still bill for research"
said Sam excitedly, but we will in
clude on our bills, BY electrical
transcription"
An FL train temporarily drowned
out further conversation of the
partners on this monumental idea.
SAMPSON RIVKINS.
The New York Central has under
construction 26 cars for the Empire
State Express. They will be named
after New York Governors. II they
include all the Governors, they will
have to build more cars. And they
will have to include four Governors
who became United States Presi-
dents.
Greenland Free of Nazis, seamen
Say.-Tmes headline.
Let us hope that 1t never will be
necessary to sing Hebers hymn:
From Greenland's Nazi noun
tains,
From India's Nazi strand
The 1912 outlook for taxation is
something old and something new.
something borrowed and virtually
everything blue.
We farmers understand Rudolf
the aviator. He is Mayetola de-
structor, destructive to wheat. Bet
ter known as the Hessian fly.
The Hess song that they sang at
f1rst in Berlin was He flies through
the air with the greatest of halluci-
nations"
X
There is growing belief about
Hess. that no matter how thin you
slice him he's still a Nazi.
This Is the year when the theaters
advertising cooling systems won't
call themselves iceolationists.
r. p. A.
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