Show The Th e Ri Right g ht C Course CourseN ourse I 1 34 1 IN IN N INSTRUCTING the att attorney general to 1 take immediate steps toward a grand jury investigation of charges involving two mem- mem 4 ft pers ers of the house of representatives fresi- fresi i S dent Coolidge acts wisely Criminal offenses against the government should b be investigated byla cba regul regularly constituted grand jury with full power i t If congress would ad adopt pt simi- simi Tl j f methods i in dealing with high o officials under suspicion there would be less deJa delay i in I correcting prevailing e evils land less disgust on c the part of the public j With a complete of criminal criminal la laws vs rc this would seem the natural way of bringing t punishment to all offenders Con Congressional rp probes obes' obes seem to get nowhere and since they cost a I lot t of mon money y it would seem far better 7 to o have them handled by the courts The public gets no particular satisfaction from the 4 f di disgusting gusting charges charges' and Wind counter counter charges charges which tt mark f rk the average congressional investigation ion What the the people people would like to see is a a decourse de de- J J mined course of if f action n which measures big bigand bigand and little criminals with the same judicial eye We can have this only when prosecutions t are afe I conducted independently of politics and I tl fluence en e which is just another way of say- say ipg mg that t the e courts have the same power to tot toS t S r Veach ach high who go wrong as they do doo o o 10 o punish petty offenders The offense e charged arged against th the two co congressmen 1 who whore j rf re as as yet unidentified before the public is a t eniOus Heni us one Th They y are accused of accepting i fj ony n for exerting their influence to to obtain fr 1 le nency for federal prisoners I t g r treachery has no pl place ce in our Z k life ife and should ld be punished to the fullest tnt t nt of the law It betrays the very vey laws I rJ h t these hes e men help to enact Perhaps it ll i not be possible for congressmen to aid d the ends of justice if our people ts a whole were less les inclined to to exert individual indi indi- J vid vidual al and personal influence in behalf of the 1 criminals of the country The p public trend i in this direction is witnessed at frequent interchurch intervals inter inter- inter inter-I vals church workers and business men of in- in tt 1 ence ence often devoting their private funds and alid I V s toward saving those thos have transgressed trans trans- gressed th the law from the stipulated penalties 1 rI i When good people leople l lend nd themselves to ch designed designe to toch cheat at the law v for noth- noth lV ing pg is 15 it surprising to find unscrupulous men f influence selling t this is servi service e for gold It Itis 1 is such things as this which tend to break public pub pub- lie lic faith aith in the laws of f the land VI We e cannot top stop sl p the th th ni maudlin ud in sympathy which some good eople hold for cn criminals m ls of the worst stripe 1 g ut tye we e can cm prevent it from becoming commer- commer 4 d by invoking the penalties of the f c in for or all who accept accept bribes s. s It It is t J hoped that the grand jury investigation I es e's d by Pr President Coolidge will vill be nd complete |