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Show OPINIONS OF THEPRESJ THE FORT SMITH (ARKANSAS) (ARKAN-SAS) UNION NEWS (LABOR) JUST JUDGMENT by HON. TOM C. CLARK Attorney General of the United States i The enforcement of the Wage I and Hour law as to criminal pro- cedure was originally in the anti-i anti-i trust division of the Department of Justice and it was there, as a I lawyer in the ranks, I prepared and tried cases in the experment-, experment-, al days of this statute. Now, as Attorney General, I am still concerned con-cerned with the statutes relative to the rights of workers, which is but part of the regular work of the Department. Never before has the importance import-ance of the admistration of just-j just-j ice been as vital as it is today. If democracy, as we know it, has anything to offer to the world, it is not merely the right to elect officials. Its strength is in the fair administration of our law. Fundamentally, this means the opportunity for every man, no matter how humble or exalted the individual, no matter how inarticulate in-articulate or skilled the pleader, to be heard and to be heard patiently, pat-iently, courteously; to be heard without prejudice or bias and with full opportunity to present the grievance or the right, and to have a decision after full hearing hear-ing by a judge who will not be influenced in-fluenced by fear, prejudice or dictation from without. Freedom, without law to back it, is anarchy. Just as men must have freedom to think and speak in order to progress and indeed survive, so must they have self-made self-made law regulating that freedom. free-dom. A democratic free government is one of laws, not of dictates. Accordingly, Ac-cordingly, the right to dissent is 1 the most important freedom guar-anteed by the Bill of Rights, for upon it hang all our other freedoms. In order to preserve that right for ourselves, we must accord the same privileges to others. However, while it is our right to dislike laws, it is also our responsibility to obey the laws we, the people, have made. Because our laws are no stronger stron-ger or weaker than the persons who enforce them and are covered cover-ed by them, it is up to each of us to help preserve the American way of life, by obeying these laws, whether or not we like them. I have great faith in the tol-erence tol-erence and wisdom of the people. Having been trained to freedom, I know they have the strength to use that freedom wisely. There is a balancing of power in freedom because it is applicable to all without regard to class, color, creed or economics status. Without With-out equal rights for all there would be no freedom for any - no liberty, just license to oppress for the benefit of a favored few. We must administer justice to others as we would have it administered to ourselves, so that it may be said of us that we "judge the people with just judgment." THE GULFORT (MISSISSIPPI) DIXIE GUIDE (INDEPENDENT) With all this Pearl Harbor hullabaloo, hul-labaloo, one. wonders why the late President Roosevelt's illness has not been investigated. When the President's official physician was telling the country that he was in good health, the President's Presi-dent's blood pressure was 230 and he was accompanied by a heart specialist with a portable Cardiograph. The people were lied to over and over, previous to the Democratic Convention in Chicago, and those close to the President knew that he could not live for long. That was why the hot campaign for the nomination nomi-nation for a vice Dresident. And had the people known the true facts regarding the President's Presi-dent's fitness, they might have voted differently and certainly they would have been more circumspect cir-cumspect in the selection of a nominee for vice president in the Democratic Convention. When Woodrow Wilson was stricken, a special committee from the U.S. Senate visited his bedside at the Whitehouse to de-ermine de-ermine whether lie was mentally and physically unfit. Not so with President Roosevelt - his person was sacred Yet he was a sick man, and through much of his administration ad-ministration was a sick man surrounded sur-rounded by sick men - Howe, Mc-Intyre Mc-Intyre and Harry Hopkins. The President's overwhelming popularity was such that whenever when-ever one referred to his condition, con-dition, there were those who wanted to put one in a concentration concen-tration camp. It now develops the reason Stalin threw a few swift curves to Roosevelt at Yalta in the form of secret agreements was because Roosevelt was to ill to swing the bat. If for no other reason now than the light of history, his-tory, an investigation should be undertaken to determine if President Pres-ident Roosevelt was too ill to be president in 1943 and 1944. In keeping with this thought, remember that as soon as President Pres-ident Roosevelt died, Stalin sent Molotov to Washington to size up the new president first-hand. We may never know what he report-1 ed to his boss, but we do know that Russia has been pushing, elbowing and occasionally kicking kick-ing the United States in the seat J of the pants ever since. Our ship of state is being guid-1 ed by the wishy-wa appeasement and exnlP011 because we may haSlu6. or a wcak-kni?. THE BRANTFORD r CANADA) EXPOSITOR PRAISE FOR ENGU While some leqcot. U S. political ciS h! I attempting to makeo X judice and denounrund P: land" and all hor &A' no question as to the Icven ' er, The Cadrtla Evening Accepting its common ' "England" as includjSJfcf t-and t-and Wales and Northir??0 as well, this tribm! "Spreading. "Sp-reading. It runs: or "We Americans are people. Wc admit it anH J" prove it. if necessary w! colossal contributions tn ,,,-014 World War II. But there or smart people on earth JS' they made colossal contri' to Victorv. too cmnbutior The outstanding spccti 1 weapons of World War ii 1 Radar and the atomic bomb? English also were pionceSVf propulsion. They invented .1' perfected the Bailey bridge designed and built the JpS catcd portable harbor S: made the invasion of France sible and successful. Thev C airplanes second to none in th world. 1 And Sir Alexander Fleming of London, discovered pcnS, the wonder drug for preSf the lives of thousands of S cans and others wounded in; tie. w12,1 wd's TaccomPlishments L ' World War II are little short miraculous. It has been freouer ly said that we saved England We are not so sure that it r not England that saved us!" 1 The compliment is obvious' sincere and the Times of Undo'5 has thought well enough of It 0 reproduce it. It makes grist f : the mill of good relations |