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Show Prevailing Opinions ' Comment of the American Press ' ths censorship did not keep It in pathetic ignorance of world opinion, opin-ion, so the kind of reasoning which distinguishes Germany's pleas abroad flourishes nowhere but in those authoritarian states where the oracles hear no back talk and where an Incredulous smile is treason. New York Herald-Tribune. German Facts and Fenciet ' There would be no point in resenting re-senting Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels contrast of conditions In Germany, Ger-many, where the public is expected expect-ed to feel that rearmament to the fatherland's glory makes up for depressing shortages of food and essential goods, with an imaginary imagi-nary America of long breadlines and starving grandmothers. Such propaganda ia not meant for our consumption. Its only purpose Is that of making the Germans happy in their lot and proud that it is a hard one. Yet it is not good propaganda abroad. It is just irritating enough to stimulate widespread Interest In the discontent which Dr. Goebbels Goeb-bels Is striving to allay: and any inquiry abroad into Germany's economic troubles is bound to result re-sult in an unsympathetic reaction to Germany's special pleas for colonies or colonial trade and for freer markets and easier credits. The state of affairs in Germany la easily sketched in outline. Thanks to military conscription, to the rapidly growing naval and air forces, to an extravagant public pub-lic construction program and to the demands of rearmament upon heavy industry, there is very Utile unemployment in Germany; but relatively few workers are engaged en-gaged in making ths goods which the people want Consumers' goods are therefore scarce and costly. They would be prohibitively prohibi-tively costly if prices were not kept down by arbitrary decrees which, in turn, discourage production. produc-tion. So it is with the supply of food. The disgruntled fanner shows little disposition to produce pro-duce abundantly and sell cheaply. Special government organizations are now being empowered, therefore, there-fore, to collect all produce, distribute dis-tribute and sell It at the government's govern-ment's prices, and the food-hoarding farmer will be an enemy of the stste. The cost of the military mili-tary establishment, public construction con-struction and new armaments is such, and the export trade is so unproductive of foreign credits, that Germany cannot relieve the ahertagea by importing much food or goods. Just as Dn Goebbels' propaganda propa-ganda would be irritating nonsense non-sense te the German nation if Fewer but Better Lawyers The state bar of California, by ' 4312 to 364, favors higher standards stand-ards for admission to the bar. The cry will of course be raised that the lawyers are selfish. They want the business for themselves and do not want to divide It with too many aspiring newcomers. Perhaps this is the motive of some of them. Even so, it is not Illegitimate. If there are too many lawyers already, that is all the better reason for seeing that only the best ones are added to their numbers. But the public service is a better bet-ter reason. The rights ' of the people, in the final resort are in the hands of its attorneys and courts. The right of the individual to practice law Is far less important im-portant than ths right of the public pub-lic te be well served. As Justice Brandeis once pointed point-ed out the first need of the legal profession Is a higher minimum moral standard. But aince that standard cannot be tested directly, di-rectly, the best wsy to get it indirectly in-directly Is by a higher educational standard. The higher educational standards stand-ards may Induce, Incidentally, a better preliminary training in the law. But primarily they are the requirement of a better education In ether things than the law. This is already required in medicine and is being sought In engineering. engineer-ing. And let not the bugaboo of Abraham Lincoln be raised. Lincoln Lin-coln was a good lawyer, just as-he as-he was a very great writer, with little formal training for either. The Lord made Lincoln, as he snakes occasional other geniuses, once every century or two, just to show what he can do with even human material. But If Lincoln Lin-coln were bqrn in our generation, as poor and obscure aa he was then, and worked aa hard for an education as he did then, he would probably have graduated, first summa cum lauds and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard college col-lege and then at the top of his class, breaking even Brandeis" record, ia the Harvard law school. - Nobody Is demanding so high an educational standard aa that for admission to the bar today. Saa Francisco Chronicle. |