Show administration of justice Justic ein in united states in n a period of decline Gi general states attorney by HARLAN F STONE united improvement ont actual and po potential tent ial STANDING tile the improved in the administration of justice law tile actual static in our N united states is not improving and there are multiplying evidences decline which began before tho the of that it is in a period accelerated by the war world war and was greatly that decline is not duo due either to tho the form or substance of our legal but is ia to for generation structure which has been steadily improving a that facility in translating to develop bo be attributed rather to our failure which is essential to an adequate action control of legal rules into ac actual legal system lowered the tone and standards for a generation we have progressively numbers of those entering the the increasing of tile the bar through without the adequate technical clinical te training and legal profession who are I 1 experience and without the background of liberal education experience and associations which make for moral responsibility of the law on its the improvement for the most important step in tho the training cliar character acler and administrative side is by improvement its administration is primarily committed J by komlo of those elioso to whom convincing ourselves and the public that our profession ought to be and must be in a real sense a learned profession fundamentally there is no reason why the office of the public prosecutor indefinite harm aarni is done to the alio should be a political office and yet in this country in bon consequence cause of law enforcement and good government of the fact that that office is either frankly and avowedly political or III in any event is peculiarly subject to untoward political influences for the lax administration of law this fact is probably more responsible than all other causes combined |