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LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, MONDAY WHY HAVE A JURY? Commission, which has Both the National Crime the American Bar Asbeen making a survey for Missouri Association for Criminal sociation, and the has been making a similar inquiry, Justice, which convention of the Bar recommended to the national Judges in state courts be Association at Denver that of comment possessed by Federal given the right Judges. chairman of the national inChancellor Hadley, in both England and Canada quiry, points out that to comment upon the the trial Judge is permitted and guide the jury. He thinks this privilege case all but eight of the states of has been withdrawn in criminal lawyers, who are the our own Union because sent to state legislatures, want to manipulate type juries without interference by the Judge. to ask why we have a jury at all. It seems pertinent The plain intimation of this argument is that juries incompetent in criminal cases.

Clever lawyers are handle them. That is true, and it is retoo easily but what a price do these commissions grettable; for a remedy! The Judges, like the propose to pay handle the juries. They can do it even lawyers, can than the lawyers can. Whatever the law, easier the same plastic material. They are not juries are competent by the fact that the trial made any more Judge can guide them in consideration of the case.

The Post-Dispatch has pointed out time and again of history in this matter. Such power has the lesson often been given Judges, and it has resulted in tyrantime it has been done. It is not in human ny every nature to resist such an opportunity to abuse power. It makes tyrants of Federal Judges, and one of these tyrants has just been impeached by the House of Representatives. What is proposed is to take away one of the most precious safeguards of liberty and substitute an evil proved by history since the beginning of jurisprudence.

It is a pity that neither of these commissions has been able to make a suggestion that does not strike at our very liberties. Both might have said that what we need is not a Judge to tell the jury what to think, but an improved public morale that itself respects law. We haven't that because law, to be respected, must first be respectable. ROME'S PROJECTED SUBWAY. If, as announced, the City of Rome is to build subway system, to be completed within 10 years, 1 the Eternal City, with its population of less than 600.000 will outclass St.

Louis in transportation facilities, especially as the Mussolini Government has begun to widen and reconstruct many of the streets. However, when the Italian engineers begin their planning they will be confronted with difficulties not to be found here, in the existence of the vast system of ancient underground ways known as catacombs. While these burial excavations, along with ceme teries above ground, were not permitted within the limits of the city under the Emperors, they extended in a wide circle beyond the Aurelian wall, honeycombing the soil in all directions and at every angle, sometimes to a depth of 75 feet, and forming a network of corridors around the older part of the city estimated to be 550 miles in length. All these passages, with their thousands of small chapels and niches, in which the early Christians placed their dead. closed with marble slabs with religious inscriptions and symbols, are, of course, sacred ground, and even in pagan times were so recognized by law.

In 1870 the Italian Parliament passed a law providing that the catacombs be left under the care of the church, and forbidding Government excavation. If subways are built, it will have to be within the limits of the ring of catacombs, or, to pass this boundary, will have to be dug to a greater depth, so as not to disturb these historic burial places. The men who went around the world in 28 days found airplane service worse in the United States than in any other country they traversed. The first shall be last. THE REVERSAL OF THE NATIONS CASE.

In reversing Heber Nations' conviction and sentence, the United States Court of Appeals held that Judge Faris erred in not disqualifying himself as trial Judge after Nations had filed an affidavit charging Judge Faris with bias. The court held that the United States statutes make it obligatory, under the circumstances in this case, for a Judge to disqualify himself. Nations' offense, as testified to by Raymond Griesedieck, brewery owner, and Charles S. Prather, former State Pure Food and Drug Commissioner, was in accepting money from Griesedieck through Prather in return for protection of his brewery against raids by dry agents. Nations was found guilty by a jury, sentenced to 18 months in the penitentiary and fined $3333.

The higher court did not go into the merits of the case, basing its reversal on the sole point of Judge Faris' error. It did not pass upon the guilt or innocence of Nations. Nevertheless, its action nullifies the whole trial, and the case now goes back to the lower court, being automatically placed on the docket for retrial. People who have believed in a millennium will be gratified to learn that the railroads are announcing summer rates to the East for the first time in years. 5000 MILES OR BUST-BY HUNGERFORD.

(Pittsburg Sun.) THE GREAT AMERICAN PILGRIMAGE. EVENING, JULY 19, 1926. ST. PAGE 14 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH Founded by JOSEPH PULITZER Dec.

12, 1878. Published by the Pulitzer Publishing Company, Twelfth Boulevard and Olive Street. THE POSTPLAT- FORM. retirement will I know that my make no difference in its cardinal that it will always fight principles, reform, never tolfor progress and erate injustice or corruption, always demagogues of all parties, fight never belong to any party, always privileged classes public oppose plunderers, never lack sympathy with the poor, always remain dewelfare, never be voted to the public satisfied with printing always be drastically attack wrong. independent: never be plutocracy or whether by predatory predatory poverty.

JOSEPH PULITZER. April 10, 1907. FROM THE PEOPLE LETTERS Maplewood Is Satisfied. To the Editor of the Post-1 letters of J. A.

L. reading the AFTER "County Resident" Mapleannexation, I would wood, in regard to much if you could find appreciate very little space for this letter. a county resident myself, living I am a and would like to know, In Maplewood, and have this gentleman from Mapleexplain, in what way the people wood of Maplewood would benefit annexation. At the present time Maplewood thing it needs, has better fire has every protection than St. Louis, aland police so we have our own government and if anything should not go right we wouldn't have much trouble in getting it so.

Does this resident of Maplewood know that Maplewood Fire Department county, gets to fires in the vicinity of Maplewood in St. Louis before the St. Louis department gets there and generally has the fires under control by that time? Does he further know that in streets, sewers, Maplewood is far ahead of St. Louts? So why change from better to worse, for St. Louis cannot give us anything but can take a lot? I wish to state that in my opinion the county has everything to lose and nothing to gain by annexation.

C. F. NOLTING. Maplewood, Mo. Going to Watch 'Em.

the Editor of the Post-Dispatch. AMERICAN UNION AGAINST THE I TREASON thanks the -Dispatch having published its letter wherein asked certain senatorial candidates their stand on the World Court and League of Nations, but those candidates have failed to answer and are still talking prohibition loudly. This union takes notice of the departure of 94 members of the Chamber Commerce, who are leaving for foreign lands by way of Canada, and then on the steamship "Mount Royal" for a "good will" tour of Europe. They scorn, of course, to take passage an American nonroyal steamship. They are to be wined, dined and lionized by foreign Governments.

Why? This union feels it knows the reason, but shall await definite information. This union is sending a representative an American steamship who will report from time to time to it on the conduct and movements of the "Mount Royal" passengers. UNION AGAINST TREASON. John Adams, Secretary. More About Playground Cares.

To the Editor of the Post-Dispatch. death of Bill Tirre in a playT THE ground cave erected by the boys of the Methodist Orphans' Home, Clayton, brought forth many thoughts as to has the real menace and danger of caves to the boys as well as the public in general. In writing this article we wish to correct the statement of "A Citizen of C'ayton" in your paper of July 8 which read that dugouts were not "permitted cr tolerated" prior to the administration of H. B. Griffitts.

Only last summer Mrs. of us who had left the home remany turned to enjoy a rollicking Sunday afternoon in the caves which we had helped to make. Our greatest difficulty was dodging the smoke screen which poured forth from the fireplace where we cooked our coffee. As we lolled in the coolness of our caves or cracked jokes on our efforts in construction work. we gave not a moment's thought to any lurking danger in handiwork.

However, this year as BIll passed away, we have become a of sadder and better graduates of group the home. We fully realize that such hazards should not be allowed Foung citizens of America. Shouldn't we have heeded Mr. Sam Davis of Clayton when he forbade us d'gging caves in his ground because were undermining his It is certain that another cave be dug the playgrounds-the boys are 100 on cent Terra Firma. per THE ALUMNI OF THE CLAYTON HOME.

France Should Pay. To the Editor of the Post-Dispatch. OUR editorial of Sunday, commenting upon the letter to President Coolidge from Frederick W. Peabody under the heading "A Plea for is the first and only editorial that I have read that stated the truth about the war debts owed us by foreign nations. It seems that we have at least one large paper which is American.

France has been pleading poverty, yet she has been maintaining the largest army in the world. She obtained AlsaceLorraine and other valuable territories and islands with millions of Inhabitants immense wealth. I agree very fully with you that before any further cancellation or reductions in these debts are made there should be ample proof shown us that they have put their house in order and are yet unable to pay. WILLIAM RICHARDS. 2525 Belt Ave.

PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENCE. Philippine Legislature, upon its As usual, the Manila last week, adopted by unanimous opening in expressing to the President of the vote a resolution "the constant and intense desire of United States for immediate, absolute and complete the Filipinos When this resolution is transmitted independence." it will be duly filed with its fellows. to Washington Assembly was organized in 1907 The Philippine Philippine Legislature in 1916. At every and the bodies, the first business has meeting of these two resolution asking for independence. Never been a vote been cast against these resohas a dissenting the first one was adopted in 1907.

lutions since Whatever differences the two Filipino political parthey try to outdo each other in furthering ties have, and the surest way for the cause of independence, commit political suicide in the Islands a candidate to is to fail or refuse to advocate cause. this The continued and unanimous pleas for independunanimously by the representatives of ence voiced however, are made in the face of the Filipinos, that it will be realized. Both diminishing hopes Coolidge administrations have turned Harding and backs upon the promises made to the Philiptheir the Wilson regime, and there are inpines during that the Islands are on the eve of creasing signs of a new and comprehensive commercial exan era ploitation. Jones law was passed the Filipinos felt When the That act announced that "it is near to their goal. has been the purpose of the people of the and always withdraw their sovereignty over the United States to Philippine Islands and to recognize their independsoon as a stable government can be estabence as lished therein." Some years after Congress made government" the condition precedent to stable President Wilson declared that the condependence, dition had been fulfilled, and called upon Congress to grant to 1 the Philippines the independence "which they so honorably covet." Despite the letter of the law and a presidential recommendation, the Wood-Forbes mission to the Philippines under Harding, though finding the Fillpinos rapidly advanced in the art of ment, recommended the continuance of American control.

Gen. Wood, who collaborated in the report and who is firmly opposed to the Filipino independence movement, was made Governor-General and exercises powers superior to those possessed by the President of the United States. President Coolidge has shown himself inclined to believe that the Filipinos are not ready for independence. He says that they have not yet demonstrated "a full realization of the fundamental ideals of democratic government." And he has sent a personal representative, Carmi A. Thompson, to the Islands on a mission, the full significance of which has not yet been revealed.

At present, however, the promise of the Jones law and the recommendations of President Wilson have been submerged by a new policy of continuing American control indefinitely. The latest independence resolution of the Philippine Legislature thus falls on deaf ears. The administration has no intention of granting its plea, or of carrying out the well-defined policy of the Wilson administration. From the standpoint of the Filipino patriot, the position of the United States has been, to say the least, inconsistent and insincere. WHAT PRICE THE PRESIDENCY? When Mr.

Coolidge frequents the trout stream near to White Pine camp he is followed into the wilderness by four secret service men and a photographer! What a way to go fishing! Who would exchange the detachment and solitariness of private fishing for everything that goes with fishing that is run after by such a crowd as that? How glad it makes the average pupil of Izaak Walton that he is not President and can fish quietly anywhere he pleases without five pairs of inquisitive eyes peering from behind every bush! That he can hear the wood thrush sing in the still keeps of the wild instead of the rattle and click of the moving picture machine! That he can, himself unobserved, watch the water ousel dip and dive, instead of having his own every movement watched by his bodyguard and the White House photographer! It is no wonder that so many men make no effort to be President. It is more precious quietly and unobservedly to fish. ST. LOUIS AND THE COUNTY. We can never get anywhere in the annexation debate until the fallacy that the county derives its wealth from the city is routed.

Nothing could be farther from the truth than that the county owes to the city its culture, its wealth and its splendid growth. The county would have all those if the city were nowhere near. Does not every suburban community have them, and is there any difference really between St. Louis County and the other counties of the State? They all have their symphony orchestras, their big league baseball teams, their metropolitan police forces, their skyscrapers, factories, chambers of commerce and their hordes of busy and prosperous people. St.

Louis makes no claim to having anything to do with either the wealth or culture of St. Louis County. It is only grateful to live in intimacy with a community enjoying such material and spiritual riches, and seeks by annexation to intensify that: relation. It the county rejects us, she can easily go on to glory without us. She has everything, except possibly the generosity to take us with her, and we hope she is going to have that.

An American sea captain reports an iceberg in a Red Sea mirage, but since there ain't no Ten Commandments east of Suez he cannot make anybody believe it. A PROGRESSIVE CANDIDATE FOR THE SENATE. Like Atlee Pomerene in Ohio, former Senator John F. Nugent is to try a comeback in Idaho. Both these Democrats went down in the Harding landslide of 1920.

If Nugent is returned to the Senate there will be less point to the trick question one hears in Washington: "Who is the other Senator from Nugent of late months has been performing a valnable service on the Federal Trade Commission in helping his fellow minority member, Huston Thompson, to turn the light on the methods of the reactionary majority. If this record is a criterion, Nugent's election over Frank R. Gooding, who is Borah's present colleague, would measurably strengthen the progressive group in the Senate. WILL ILLOUR COLLECTIONS FROM FRANCE. To for it of on on Written for the JUST A MINUTE POSTDISPATCH Copyright, 1926.

ASK YOUR BANKER. Is there something you would know? Ask your banker. Is there somewhere you should go? Ask your banker. He's the man that God ordained To advise the feeble-brained, And to handle all your dough. Ask your banker.

Will the market still advance? Ask your banker. If with wealth you soon would prance, Ask your banker. He will give you, quick as thought, Sage advice that can't be bought; Do not throw away your chanceAsk your banker. Pin him down behind his rail, Ask your banker. It in jail, get out on bail, Ask your banker.

Never doubt his good advice, Skepticism isn't nice, Don't they handle all your kale? Ask your banker. Will our ball teams cop the flag? Ask your banker. Form sheets fool you on a nag? Ask your banker. He will tell you plain and straight What will be your final fate: Don't waste time and chew the rag, Ask your banker. Is the market going down? Ask your banker.

Who's the jane that's dressed in brown? Ask your banker. For he knows them one and all, Knows them short and knows them tall; Who's the smartest man in town, Ask your banker. After ponderous thinking, we have discovered where the art is in these alleged "Art Magazines." The art consists in sending them by express when the Postoffice Deobjects to the bareness of their partment reading matter. On the other hand, if true art consists in concealing art, the magazines are not at all arty. Far be it from them to conceal the art.

We have traced "Nobody home" to Pope, and "It happens in the best regulated families" to Dickens. We shall probe the quotation book until we find out who first said "So's your old man," even if it takes all summer. The public enjoys reading success stories. Witness the growth of the, "American" Magazine. Nor is the public interest in the ensuing investigation of how you did it lightly to be esteemed.

If. as currently reported, money talks, the French doubtless are waiting anxiously for the franc to say something. Speaking of fiat money, the motto of the international bankers seems to be: shall not Statistical Note. If all the people who wear tortolse-shell glasses had to read Plato's "Republic," most of them wouldn't. The MIRROR PUBLIC OPINION UNIFORM TRAFIO LAWS THINK, NELL; IT'S ALL BECAUSE JUST I TOOK THAT COURSE! MANY JOBS BEING FILLED.

$100,000 or more a Positions carrying year are constantly being filled. the writer show that of Records kept by America's 20 leading industrial corporations has the same president as it had only one and that only four have the 20 years ago same presidents they had ten years ago. Of our 20 leading railroads, only one has the same president as it had 20 years ago and only five have the same presidents as ten years ago. Apply this same ratio to large enterprises all over the country, and you get an idea of how numerous "plums" are in this swiftly-moving nation. Similar records would reveal quite as many changes among bank presidents.

Here, also, younger men have been made presidents and, in many cases, their predecessors have become chairmen of the board. Surely the facts here set forth should act as an inspiration for ambitious young -B. C. Forbes, in Forbes Magazine (N. A correspondent accuses us of being proBritish because we did not publish his patriotic but unmetrical, lines.

To prevent the repetition of so unjust an accusation from saddening our young life, we request that hereafter poets who sing of God, little children or the United States scan their verses carefully. The idea of a woman's being her own divorce lawyer never will be popular. After a woman has been married three months she realizes that the most futile way to get information from a man is the direct question method. is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday." chirps one of the sweetness and light cards. And we might add that eventually, tomorrow may be one of the yesterdays you regret for the rest of your life.

As a neat comeback. "I'm no mind reader" registers zero with us. That retort courteous implies that the other party to the squabble has a mind, a thing we never admit. After long and varied experience in keeping secrets, we have reached the conclusion that the only reason people ask you to keep something a secret is that they may have the pleasure of telling it themselves. We once read in a textbook on advertising that a name, the pronunciation of which was doubtful, interfered with the sale of a product.

What about "The Mauve "Four out of five have it." "For a woman is only a a book that you lend is a GIFT. Mr. Printer, I don't mind about the bathing suits, but I must sell these sox. HOSIERY All fresh stock and new shades. Satisfaction or our money refunded.

This week's version of an advertisement in the Osborn (Mo.) Enterprise, Washington Post. LEGISLATURES at of their all the sessions state ti cr next to consider the enactment form traffic laws as recommended national conference on street and safety, which met in Washington weeks ago. Surveys made the Safety Council demonstrated the benefits that would result from traffic law, not only in making meta safer, but in making it easier for the tors of cars and more pleasurable for ists. model traffic undoubt would help largely to decrease the of accidents. While every large comae has local traffic conditions that did ty from those of other places, there are tain problems common to all.

No unifor parking law, for instance, would solve universal problem. But there are many that could be made uniform in every and city. Speed regulations, the proted of school children and the responsibility parents in connection therewith; the enforcement of grade-crossing rules: and prison sentences; national opera permits; brake inspection and regulate the rights of way crossings and on signaling systems; street car ways: destrian traffic control; the competence drivers--all these are matters that properly be made subject to uniform I It is gratifying that the governors of have shown a disposition to with Secretary of Commerce Hoover he a ommending to the legislatures the of such uniform laws. Prompt the legislatures will go a long preventing accidents and saving lives DAWES AND THE FILIBCI From the Philadelphia Public Lede ICE PRESIDENT DAWES will his crusade against the This summer he is expected to many assailing rule Senate speeches, talking about pleases, as long as it pleases and it pleases. An eleventh-hour, onebuster which held up Senate acties tain phases of the primary fund tion before adjournment has fresh text.

The Vice President lously careful to enforce the which he has attacked. He gave A heavy dose of its own cherished He made little headway with in the first session. At no time able to dramatize his fight. much interested in it. Then the in its closing hours, played directly hands.

The querulous-voiced Arizona, with his little eleventh-1 fifty-ninth minute filibuster, has Dawes campaign a new lease on WALL STREET AND TICKER From the Baltimore Sun. of the New Tork OFFICIALS up against the ticker tape. They want all exchange bers to quit throwing it out whenever the city is celebrating thrifty plans do them credit, but can ill afford to lose the show. of ticker tape give about the cle that is possible on short notice emn city. And what it ticker money? It is not half 50 festooning Wall street as it when the exchange prints figures people read them..