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Show Ivi.lV irilt-LS. cll, all I know is iust what 1 read in the papers. pa-pers. And say I had to read plenty Flip i in the paper the other day. There is a paper got out in Detroit Michigan. Michi-gan. Its called the "Legal Record". Rec-ord". It says its a paper dedicated dedicat-ed to the interests inter-ests of the legal profession. That dedication thats printed on its front page in big " ' 1 " type shows that its a paper that has nothing to do with news, or facts, and I like the honesty of It. It tells you right off we take nothing hut the lawyer's side. (For there aint any other side.) Well the headline as follows to wit, habus corpus, nolle prose, change of venue as follows: "The legal profession profes-sion as a humorist sees it". Written by a man who signs his name as 0. Z. Ide. Now 1 am not a sort of a lawyer detecting things, but that name sounds a little phoney. When one man writes all thats in a paper, and this only had three pages outside of legal notices, why naturally he has got to make it look like he had quite a staff, so he does like these big hold- got 10 mane IL iuuh une liwvj a staff, so he does like these big holding hold-ing companies did when they was Bending wires to help them keep on holding, why they signed any name they could think of. Now there aint no man named 0. Z. Ide. He la as synthetic syn-thetic as the article. Here is what Ozie said: "While the American Bar Association was in session in L. A. last week some of our opinion moulding dailies carried a syndicated article by Will Rogers." Ye3 some ot em did, 650 of em did. But lets get on: "'Before the criminal crimi-nal is tried the defense consul should stand trial to see If there was anything any-thing against him.' Mr. Rogers Indicated Indi-cated further that this was the big question before the convention, and that everything else paled into insig- nificance before this tremendous issue." is-sue." Well now lets take up the issues one by one. In the first place if there had been no truth at all in the statement state-ment I made there would never have been any yell about it. Now as to it being the dominant question, Mr. Rogers dident say that it was the dominant question, he said that it Bhould be the dominant question. In other words the lawyers would give their eye to have the thing cleaned up, and they will admit that it would be of more benefit to their profession to have the crooks driven out than to have any other thing. Now here Is a thing. I am in the movies. When there was so much talk of cleaning up the movies, there wasent a lawyer, or any other profession profes-sion but whnt said, "Why dont they clean those things up? My wife and children cant go to see em." Now you offered an opinion In my business, but the minute a comedian offers an opinion in your business, I am out of place. Your business Is sacred and no one should mention it only In the highest terms. The movies cleaned up and they dident write editorials against the lawyers for saying they should. If all lawyers are not honest how are clients to tell when they might go to a bad one any more than a movie fan might go to a bad movie? Get this: "We have always appreciated appre-ciated Mr. Rogers but because of his droll ill-advised remarks we find our enthusaism begging to jell." In other words, I was funny when the joke was on the other fellow, but any about me Is ill-advised, and dont jell at all. Get this one: "There was a time a few years back when a dig at the lawyers at the Bijou Theatre was a sure fire laugh, but now even the so-called so-called humorists have sonsed the distaste dis-taste in the mouths of the public for such efforts at humor." Well I wish he could have read a "so-called humorist's" mail. Never did 1 have so much approving mail on one article, and not a half dozen dissenting ones, and they were from lawyers. Every laymen approved. It batted about 98 percent I wish 1 could think of something else as true and as good. My little movies have been fairly clean, but when the well-chosen roar against pictures come, 1 dident get ! sore, and rise on my hind leg3 and write any cdit.o - rials. I knew it was coming to us and took lt In good faith for I knew in the long run it would d good, and it this old boy dont think that the audience will Btill lausb at the (t y- - !. v lawyers at me Bijou Theatre Just lr:t him book rn.-for rn.-for a lecture on lawyers at the riijr.ti. ' arid come and sit and listen to tin ' roar. The banker, the lawyer, and ' the politician are s' ill our b'-fl bets f for a laugh. Au-lknccs ha -rt ' change-- at all. and neiiher has the f three above professions. |