TO . REMODEL LITIGATION. A society has recently been organized organ-ized in Chicago with thrrc hundred members of the legal profession in it. Tho members of this society arc to mako scientific research into the history his-tory of the law, into its practice century cen-tury after century, into the legislation which governs the courts and tho practice prac-tice therein; and into court procedure in courts of various civilized and progressive pro-gressive countries, with the view of discovering dis-covering some effective method of redeeming re-deeming the judiciary from the ''oni-plaints ''oni-plaints made against it, especially those so fairly voiced by President Taft, who is himself a great lawyer and judge. Tt will be remembered that President Taft denounced the delays, the tcchni cal and dead forms, whjch hamper our courts, a? a disgrace to civilization. Every one else feels the same thing, but ver3' few arc as able as former President Taft to say what the exact troublo is and to call as he did for specific and appropraitc remedies. There is no doubt but that our court practico has become involved in technicalities tech-nicalities and in a maze of circumlocution circumlo-cution which hampers procedure retards re-tards judgment, and defeats justice-. So much is this, the case, that those who aro able to find any way to avoid litigation are willing to sacrifice a good deal to avoid it. The courts have come to be,, not the common speedy recourse re-course of the people to redress wrongs, establish right, and to get justice, as much as a means whereby vicious litigation liti-gation may harass business and promote pro-mote unfairness and dishonesty. The tAmcrican Bar Association at its annual an-nual sessions has for a number of years past spoke clear and loud in favor of reform of court practice, with a view of getting quick action and spoedy fiual determinations in actions at law. This was in direct accord with President Presi-dent Taft's dc-maial and with the needs of tho public, though not often judicially judi-cially oxprcssed as President Taft" was able to express these demands. Tt is to be hoped that, this American Judicature Society, whose headquarters headquar-ters arc in Chicago, may be able to lead the courts and the law-making powers into better channels than they have drifted iulo through carelessness and the lack of proper attention and supervision. The courts should be the poor man's friend, tho speedy administrators admin-istrators of justice to all alike, without the least regard to power, riches, or prestige. But as the courts aro administered ad-ministered now. ihe man with a long purse is able as a rule to beat the man with the e):m purse through the sheer perversity of technical motions and do-lay, do-lay, even though the slim purse has by all odds the better case. To stale this truism is a frightful arraignment of judicial procedure, as that procedure is commonlv had in the several Statos of this Union. But that this is a plain statement of practical fact, every one E must necessarily admit. It is, thore- J fore, time that some competent asso- I ciation, .or influence, should take this grave matter in hand and bring into effect the icincdy which the people of tho country so much need in their judicial judi-cial procedure. A Chicago chiropodist sets forth that these strange new dances bring on corns and bunions. All the inoro reason rea-son why they should bo danced barefoot. bare-foot. But why should a chiropodist ob- 8 jeet to corns and bunions ojn other f peopled fnot7