Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-20
FAIR
ENOUGH
By Westbrook
PegIer


including one continental refu-
gee who speaks on the air with
a Weber and Fields accent of
Our Amewica' and goes under
a false name, have done me the
dubious honor o. suggesting that
/ have had a hand in the COM
position of some of Gov. Dew
ey'S speechS.
The honor is dubious. I say.
because Mr.. DeweyS style is
too restrained for my taste and,
in a contest with the MeSsrs.
Sherwood, Nicholson, Rosen-
man and David X. Niles, as he
calls himself. l should like 10
be represented by my own work
in which case, L am confident i
could bat the ears off the SpookS
who haunt the White House.
Not that Mr.. Dewey isn't do
ing well enough on his own, you
understand. But the difference
is that he cuts them up whereas
my method would be to belt
AONlls
A S AN example Of the con-
"A traSt between Mr.. Deweys
treatment of prominent issue
! and the way l should handle
the same question, l give you
this:
In his speech on taxation, Mr..
Dewey touched briefly on the
confusion which is written into
law and quoted from a section
concerning contributions TO em-
ployes' pension plans which
says:
"They shall not be deductible
under subsection Al but shall
be deductible. if deductible un-
der subsection (A) without re-
gard TO this subsection but only
to the following extent"
Now that was 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.
My way would have been to
C ! GU t 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 ra-
pacity of the professional New
Deal bureaucrat TO be found in
all the Sordid record of this
parasitic horde.
This was a speech by Miss
Marguerite Rawalt, the presi-
dent of the Federal Bar Asso-
citation, a bund of New Deal gov
eminent lawyers, including
many federal judges and men,
berS of the Lawyers Guild,
whose first president, Ju d G e
Ferdinand Pecora of the New
York Supreme Court, resigned
because. as he said, it had be-
come a Communist Trojan horse.
MISS RAWALT. who is a Spe-
WI cial attorney in the appeals
division of the chief counsel of
the bureau of internal revenue.
declared herself in a practical
trade-talk 10 the Texas Bar
Association, which was plain
eXhortation to her fellow law
yers to take full advantage OF
the unfortunate citizens uncer-
tainty and his dependence on
legal counsel for the interpreta-
ton of the law in countless,
perilous daily relations with his
government.
"Are the lawyers Of this
country, men and women, going
to take full advantage of their
opportunities i'm administrative
law" Miss Rawalt demanded.
at Is the most rapidly expand
ing area of law practice today.
There are some 217 special
courts, bureaus and commissions
which today decide upon and
administer various federal laws
directly affecting citizens and
business firms.
Administrative law, through
the Federal Communicate tons
Commission, regulates the pro-
grams you hear on your radio
and determines the use Of the
telegraph and telephone.
Administrative law, through
the Federal Trade Commission,
determines various trade prac-
tees within the industries.
Administrative law, through
the OPA and other departments,
regulates what food you may
buy and what you may pay
for IL.
Concurrent with the phenOm-
email growth in this field of
law. there has been sudden
decrease i'm the number of law
yers."
THUS exulting over the citi-
Il zen's helpleSSnesS in the
maze Of deliberately tricky and
ambiguous laws and his need
of lawyers TO keep him out of
court or out of Jail. the New
Deal lady counsellor adjured
her colleagues ito stake their
claim in this promising profess
sional gold mine adding that,
as guardians of the home front
for lawyers off at war. they
had a duty 10 establish the
legal profession in the new field
$50 that, when they came home,
the warrior barristers could
share the profit from the mis-
cry of their own fighting COM
radeS who happen not to be