Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-11-20 | Page 4 | A Profession's Enemies

J A Professions Profession's Enemies SOME OME young attorneys were admitted to the bar in New York the other day and Justice Justice Jus Jus- tice Francis Martin took advantage of the oc occasion occasion oc- oc casion sion to warn warn them of th their ir duties and I The t type pe of lawyer who uses his ability to the dangerous criminal to escape the J law lv lawor iW or to take advantage of an opponent is an enemy of the legal profession and of his government s said sald id the justice Your admission to the bar is not a li license ense to exploit the public Now it just happened that a day or so before this homily was delivered the department o of justice revealed that lawyers for some of our l leading ading gangsters are attacking the federal kid kid- kid kid- aping naping and firearms registration acts on the ground that they are unconstitutional A precious pl group of distinguished of-distinguished citizens is represented represented rep rep- resented in this action including the kidnapers kidnaper of June Robles RabIes and Charles Urschel The best best- known of the bunch is Harvey Bailey Their lawyers will presently tell the supreme cour court that the new federal laws under which these thes artists were put away are This federal statute is based upon i L he the the power of the government to regulate interstate interstate inter inter- state commerce as commerce as was the N R A. A The court held last summer that the N R A constituted an undue extension of this power The lawyers for Bailey Sailey and his cohorts cohort say the same thing about the he law And somehow this assault on the law Jaw has an odd sound when placed beside the remarks of Justice Martin