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y KNIGHT BEGINS CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE EVIL XF EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES THE DAY BOOK An Adless Daily Newspaper. kJ N. D. Cochran, Editor and Publisher. 500 South Peoria" St. 398 Tel. Monroe 353. "" Automatic 51-422. By Mail, 50 Cents a Month. VOL. 2, NO.Oo" Chicago, Thursday, Sept. 25, 1913 ONE1CENT WHY LAWYERS, JUDGES AND COURTS ARE IN BAD WITH THE PEOPLE lm Wy. TAey Can' Mend, Matters By Takingthe Courts Farther' Away .From the' People Time for Lawyers to.Give Their Prof ession at Much-Needed Bath. - ' .BY N.'D. COCFJRAW Judgest &nd lawyers shouldn't take themselvestoo seriously. They are two-legged human beings like the rest of us, and are good judges or bad judges according to the kind of men theyare. , One" judge may know more law than another, but if the other has more common, everyday horse sense, then he is very apt to make a bettec Judge than the one who knows more. law. , - - Whatever" of contempt for contemptible courts there-is in the minds of . the people,' the lawyers'and judges are responsible for. " " At the bar 'association banquet in honor of Judge Cutting, Judge Mc- Surely made a few unnecessary remarks on .the situation which indicate! that he favors taking judges farther away rfipm-'the people than they are. now; and Lord knows they, are too far away as it is. t" , Judge McSurely is quoted as saying:- "I am strongly in favor of decreasing the number of Officials elected by the people at large ahjiplacing'ttie election of many of them in the hand3 of the wiser Jew. I believe lawyers should nominate, men for judicial officer and the governor appoint them, and that these elections immediately should he taken, off. the shoulders-of theTpe.qple.'. - ' Of course, it doesn't make any. difference how; much-judges and1awyenv & A -&&&; ft, & jy