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Show L THE. IHS&tCTOR . WASHINGTON. Oct IS Friends of I Bernard If. Uarueh. former head of tha war industries board, wealthy Wall street financier, and friend of Presl- lriu Wilson, have been kidding Mm KbOttt getting In bud with the departments depart-ments of agriculture nnd Justice. i shootlna and shipping wild ducks from South Carolina. Of course. Barney didn't know It , was unlawful. Barney wouldn't de-i llberately violate tha law In fact, af-l ter he had shipped th.-in. u friend of; Bd Meredith culled up Baruch and told him he had violated the law. "Well, what are wo going to do about It?" Barurh asked. Mer.-dlth sought to quash the ase. nnd Baruch and all his Influential frlonds thought U was quashed. But the next think' Baruch heard about It, the case hud been reported formally to the agricultural department. depart-ment. Solicitor Williams had aont it to the. Juatlc department and that department de-partment had certified it to the district attorney In New York with inatructione to file charges against one Bernurd M. Baruch. Then Palmer heard about It and took the case Into his own hands. Ha sent it back to tho agricultural department depart-ment and since then avernJ confer-on.-r hae been held In regard to it. Of cours, nobody wants to aee Barney Bar-ney Jailed for hi mistake. But the man in the treet Is wondering why Baruch shouldn't answer In court. Ilkaj other violator of tho law. Instead of dealing with the heada of departmenta. John Jone. labor, r. mlirnt be Ignorant of the law and kill a duck- He couldn't get a conference with Meredith or Palmer Pal-mer John would have to faco a Jury and hear it repeated over and over again, "gentlemen of the Jury. Ignorance Ignor-ance of the law la not a legal defenae." Why not Baruch? The Baruch caaa recalls another In which William Jennings Bryan waa ar-I ar-I I in VirKlnla for hunting without Mrena. Il coats II11 season for a stranger to bunt In that state, and Bryan, Bry-an, a rank outsider, hadn't vn aj- for a license. A precinct constable nabbed the aee-retary. aee-retary. hauled him Into a Justice court and Bryan paid the fine. Bryan saldj he thought this waa x free- country, but j the, greet commoner paid. Juat Ilka John Jonea. would have to. Ha didn't een take the matter up wth the go - |