Show Prevailing Opinions Comment of the tho American Press Mr Bumble Said Iii Al Cap Capones Capone's nes ne's Chicago lawyers are going to try ty to get him off the rock They announce that they have discovered where a great Injustice in injustice In- In justice has been done Mr Capone He Is serving a definite period on onan onan onan an indefinite article and that is incompetent irrelevant ultra vires and not in due duc process of law These lawyers have just proved to a Chicago judge that a an judge is not the judge and since a an judge continued the session of ot a grand jury beyond its term when the tho law says the judge must perform this thi Important act an indictment against five alleged ged offenders offenders offenders of of- fenders was quashed The presiding presiding presiding ing judge complimented the lawyers lawyers lawyers law law- on their astuteness Now they have found that the thesa sa same e thing happened in tho theY Capane Capone Capone Ca Ca- pone pane case He was ungrammatically cally convicted They're going to start habeas corpus right here in n San Francisco If the point is well taken It will again justify Mr Bumble He said the law is an ass ass which Is very definite even with the indefinite article San San FrancIsco Francisco Fran Fran- cisco deco Chronicle f S S Reactionary Rca a ry ryThe The word is coming into high favor again It is reappearing in political writings and speeches There it serves as a substitute for thought or definition n just as Macaulay said that a long word of Greek derivation often did Reactionary frequently occurs occur as a form torm of epithet a convenient kind kina of ot condemnation applied to toa toa a man or a political party It would seem that a reactionary reaction reaction- ary person must be one who has hu reactions But these may be entirely entirely en en- proper and even desirable A common form of question is What is your reaction to this proposal or plan Z The Implication tion is that a reaction is an expression expression ex ex- of an individuals individual's sober conclusion from a state of facts or or a positive conviction as to whether a given policy is wise or foolish In this sense those who react strongly against some parts of the new deal will wUl be content to tD t be dubbed reactionaries The term may signify that they think look before and after judge of a method or project by what they see will be its conse conse- Thus explained it might be said with a ashow show of truth that President Roosevelt himself J is a reactionary In his Baltimore speech he declared that if a governmental governmental governmental gov gov- scheme did not work the best thing was to drop it at once and try something else This is an innocent and even useful way of being leing a reactionary It t in indicates indicates indicates in- in that the reactions are the right ones Critics of the new deal simply hope for a wide re reaction reaction reaction re- re action against its elements clements which have proved unworkable To that extent they are quite willing to go along alongi with the president New NewYork York Tim Times s. s Cursed by Politics The usual outcry against the parole system has followed the discovery that the brutal murderer murder murder- er of Nancy Evans in New York was a parolee While there may be something in the conte contention th that t paroling prisoners makes it unnecessary to triple or quadruple accommodations accommodations accommodations in American prisons any saving to the taxpayers is reduced by the amount paid out every year in salaries to parole and nd probation probation probation proba proba- tion officers And net saving is made at a grave risk to society as long Jong as the thc parole system Is dominated by politics as it is In so many of the states The theory of ot parole is sound Bound Where prisoners have been paroled who never should have been paroled the trouble will usually usually usually ally be found to lie in the political cal aI pull which they had or in inthe inthe inthe the incompetence of ot parole boards bards made mado up of political appointees without regard to their fitness for tor their duties Detroit Detroit Free Press An International Bridge While the United States has been bridging the thc Mississippi at New Orleans the Hudson at New NewYork NewYork NewYork York and the Golden Gate at San Francisco Europe also has been studying scale large-scale bridges and several of these have havo international significance One plan upon which con considerable progress has been made calls for tor a mile 10 span Recently Peter Munch foreign minister of ot Denmark made formal formal formal for for- mal denial of a report in a leading leading lead lead- ing inE Swedish newspaper of ot a Berlin Berlin Berun Ber Ber- lin un report that Germany in the event of hostilities would occupy Denmark as a war pantry using the ancient Schleswig dispute as asa asa asa a pretext The report is said to persist however and now Copenhagen Copenhagen Copenhagen Copen Copen- hagen questions whether Denmark Denmark Denmark Den Den- mark would gain by tying her capital to the European mainland with all aU the risk that would imply New New Orleans Times |