Show t f And nd Philadelphia Judges Judges' knows that when one ane lawyer E EVERYBODY JD Ii has hat exercised his fullest ingenuity in fashioning fashioning fash fash- a contract bargain caven covenant ant or other ather- legal instrument beyond the understanding of any ordinary mortal to make heads or ar tails out of it a Philadelphia lawyer must be called in Even then as Daniel Webster said lawyers are like the two parts of shears they cut what comes between them but not each other The Philadelphia Philadelphia Philadelphia Phila Phila- delphia lawyer perhaps earned his fame but now the Philadelphia judge may muscle in on it and not in the way Governor Earle has hat publicly charged Monday from frem the City of Brotherly Love LoveI I came this little news item Shoot ordered Magistrate Jacob Dogole handing dice to Ike Thomas charged with gambling Thomas rolled a a five a and d a three Eight da days in the hoosegow said the mag- mag Istrate Glad It wasn't box cars said Thomas ti i tI That is just about the most mast sordid piece piece of court news that has found its way into public print rint in a long long time In these columns w i many times it has been suggested that before i the he law and its officers can regain and hold the respect and confidence of ef the people and thus make a great contribution to the reduction of oft i t lawlessness in this country the legal profession must clean its own awn house Granted that efforts along these lines are b being ing made and that some seme of ot the rubbish is is' b being swe swept t from under tinder sofas and out of the comers comers' behind the doors the noblest adventures in housewifery by bench and bar fall far short of results which must be attained This Philadelphia I case is of course e extreme ex ex- and it marks such a a. row low point in in indecency indecency indecency in- in decency t that at by no means may it be called cal It should receive nationwide attention by the legal profession and its organized groups before the term Philadelphia judge passes into common speech as an opprobrious opprobriouS' epithet to apply to numerous clowns on an the bench in nuS numerous nu nu- nu S courts in the nation |