The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-10-21
By WESTBROOK PEGLER

Copyright 1914 by King Features Syndicate)
NEW YORK, Several campaign propagan-
dists of the Roosevelt side, including one con-
tinental refugee who speaks on the air with a
Weber and Fields accent of 'Our America
and goes under a false name, have done me
the dubious honor of suggesting that have
had hand in the composition OF some OF
Governor Dewey's speeches.
The honor is dubious, I say, because MIR.
IDewey's style is too restrained for my taste
| and, in contest with the Messrs. Sherwood,
Nicholson, Rosenman and David K Miles, as
he calls himself, should like to be represent
| ed by my own work in which case, am con-
fident I could bat the ears off the spooks
who haunt the White House. Not that Mr..
Dewey isn't doing well enough on his own,
YOU understand But the difference is that he
cuts them up whereas my method would De
to belt them down.
| As an example of the contrast between Mr..
Dewey's treatment OF prominent issue and
the way I should handle the same question,
l give you here as follows:
In his speech on taxation, Mr.. Dewey touch
ed briefly on the confusion which is written
into law and quoted from section concern
ing contributions to employees pension plans
which says: "They shall not be deductible
under sub section CAY but shall be decu-
tible if deductible under sub section (A)
without regard to this sub section but only
| to the following EXTENT
Now that was a nice jab but just when
he had them blinking he stepped away to look
at the blood when the thing to have done was
to pitch the Fourth Of July punch and knock
them up into the two bit seats.
| NV way would have been to clout them one
gosh awful smack and for this purpose l
would have used some remarks from one OF
the most cynical confessions of the brutal
rapacity of the professional new deal bureau
| H. oil he
this parasitic horde. This was speech by
Miss Marguerite Rawalt. the president OF the
Federal Bar Association, a bund of New Deal
government lawyers, including many federal
judges and members of the lawyers guild
whose first president, Judge Ferdinand Pecora,
of the New York Supreme court, resigned be-
cause az he said it had become \ communist
Trojan horse.
| Miss Rawalt who is special attorney in
the appeals division of the chief counsel OF the
Bureau of Internal Revenue declared herse1
in practical trade = talk to the Texas Bar
association which was a plain exhortatlon to
her fellow lawyers to take full advantage OF
the unfortunate citizens uncertainty and his
dependence on legal counsel for the interpre-
tation Of the law in countless, perllous daily
relations with his government.
| "Are the lawyers of this country, men and
women going to take full advantage of their
opportunities in administrative law?" Miss Ra-
walt demanded. 1T is the most rapidly ex-
panding area OF law practise today. There
are some 217 special courts, bureaus and COM
missions which today decide upon and admins
ter various federal laws directly affecting citi-
zens and business firms. Administrative law,
through the federal communications commits
sion regulates the programs you hear on your
radio and determines the use of the telegraph
and telephone. Administrative law, through the
Federal Trade commission, determines various
trade practises within the industries Admin
| istrative law, through the OPA and other de-
partments, regulates what food you may buy
and what you may pay for it. Concurrent
with the phenomenal growth in this field OF
law there has been sudden decrease IN the
number of lawyers
Thus exulting over the citizens helplessness
in the maze Of deliberately tricky and am
biguous laws and his need Of lawyers to keep
him out Of court or out of Jail, the new deal
LADY counsellor adjured her colleagues to
stake their claim in this promising professional
gold mine,'' adding that, as guardians OF the
home front for lawyers off at war, they had
duty to establish the legal profession in
the new field so that, when they came home,
the warrior barristers could share the profit
from the misery of their own fighting COM
! rades who happen not to be learned in me
law. Cheerily, Miss Rawalt advised the Tex.
as bar that one single provision of the original
income tax law had been expanded from ooo
words to 1900 mot to mention lengthy regula-
tons, interpreting and implementing the code,
and she reminded them that Justice Hellx
Frankfurter, who never has been accused OF
simplicity himself, had laid down the hearten.
ing dictum that the citizen has only hlmsel1
to blame if he innocently assumes that the
law, in any given case means what IL PLAINLY
says.
That, said Miss Rawalt, herself new deal
LAWYER in the most complicated field OF law
affecting the bewildered and bedevlled citizen,
is only sample of the ore underlying this
promising professional gold mine" Tor she
promised that future tax laws would be even
longer and more confusing.
Had I been Mr.. Dewey's spook should
have quoted thus and more so from the o1Ilclal
and professional attitude of the president OF
the Federal Bar Association toward that har-
ried worried and bewidered slob, George Spell
vim American, so often and so patronlzlngly
referred to as the little people and the com
mon man. And if so much as twltch then
remained in the wraiths OF the haunted house
on pennsylvania avenue, should finish them
off with a reminder that, according to Frank
f,rrter's own dctum, none Of his own opinions
| or statements, including the one that words
don't mean what they say, has any meaning,
and leave the mugs for dead.
have never been invited to tangle with Mr..
poosevelts spooks but can think OF no con-
test that I would like better.
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/ J,ets have an end to all this talk about
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