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VOL. XII Mar, 6, 1914 No. 10 
SSS a ae 
The Probate Court has always been known affect- 
tionately as the ‘‘people’s court,’’ and as such it should 
be preserved, Of all the absurdities which occur in 
our ‘‘lawyer-made’’ laws the latest attempt -is about 
the limit of effrontery to the people of Massachusetts. 
Senate bill 176, termed editorially by the Salem News 
as a ‘‘gag measure, indeed,’’ should more properly be 
termed ‘‘a graft measure.’’ Read section one of the 
bill: 
‘In all matters and cases now pending in the pro- 
bate courts of this commonwealth, and in all matters 
and cases hereafter arising in said courts, no proceed- 
ing thereon shall be held before the respective judges 
thereof where the parties to said matter or case are 
represented in said court by a person other than an 
attorney in good standing.’’ 
Shades of Rufus Choate! What are we coming 
to? With a bill now in effect to bar from legal prac- 
tice any but a college graduate (which bill would have 
shut out Lincoln and many of the most eminent jurists 
of the country), and other legislation as absurd being 
proposed and passed at every session, it would seem 
that it were time we sent few less lawyers to the legis- 
lature to establish a monopoly of practice for the fra- 
ternity. Very many matters of probate procedure may 
be attended to without the assistance of a lawyer, and 
matters have been so simplified in the past few years 
that an individual can, with the advice of the clerks 
or the judges transact his own probate matters or dele- 
gate, for a nominal fee, a layman to do the work for 
him. Still this is the proposition of section two: ‘‘All 
persons other than attorneys-at-law in good standing, 
including officers, clerks, and employees of probate 
courts are hereby prohibited from advising any and all 
persons interested in any matter or case now pending 
or hereafter arising in any probate court of this com- 
monwealth; and all said persons other than attorneys- 
at-law in good standing are likewise prohibited from 
drawing or giving the directions for drawing any paper 
for use in any matter or case now pending or hereafter 
arising therein.’’ 
It is an attempt to gag the courts and court officers 
fat fees may fall into the pockets of the legal fra- 
Of course it will 
that 
ternity by compulsion of a state law, 
not be made a law! 
With the Broadest Spirit of good will and kindly 
feeling it is possible to criticise any religious organiza- 
tion without malice. 
Now the Manilla Incident is recalled and the lime- 
light has been thrown upon Admiral Dewey’s activi- 
ties and decisions, it must not be forgotten that the 
American republic owes a debt of gratitude to the 
commander of the English squadron then in the harbor. 
When the German squadron cleared decks for action 
the English squadron took up a position that would 
make it impossible for the Germans to make an attack 
upon the American men-of-war except across the Eng-~ 
lish decks. The incident is now ended. Let it be closed! 
When Tempted to Criticize Wilson and his policy 
of non-intervention remember that Mexico is in that 
stage of development the Anglo-Saxon people enjoyed 
a thousand years ago. It will be well to bear in mind 
that only three short centuries ago in the Mexican terri- 
tory the religious orthodoxy called for the barbaric 
rite of human sacrifice and the modern standards of 
monogamy were unknown. President Wilson knows 
what he is about and every day that goes by without 
armed intervention is a credit to our nation. 
The Massachusetts Milk Consumers Association 
has begun an agitation in the interest of pure milk. 
The work is well under way, but the field is broad and 
the problem is hard. If, after ten years of careful 
study of the requirements demanded for the health of 
the community and the just dues that should be paid 
to the producers of milk, the association has made 
even a beginning in the work, something will have been 
gained. 
The Morgan Memorial Settlement Work in the city 
of Boston has been unusually successful. Now a new 
building has been added to its plant. It is a striking 
illustration of what a non-sectarian church movement 
can do in a field that is usually abandoned in the face 
of difficulties. Here a social settlement work is being 
done that is a credit to Boston and its philanthropic 
interests. 
Jack London as a Socialist would be Governor of 
California if he could. He seeks also the nomination 
of the Prohibition Party. Here is a notable difference 
of views on the liquor problem and personal habits. 
Jack asserts he still loves a glass and probably always: 
will, but believes in legal prohibition. Whether London 
wins his nomination his new book John Barley Corn 
is well worth reading. 
The National Geographical Society has awarded to 
Goethals a medal of gold in honor of his gigantie work 
on the isthmus. As a man among men Goethals doubt- 
less appreciates the honor conferred upon him; but the 
‘‘bie ditch’’ is its own reward. Men realize that the 
work itself is far more valuable and desirable than the 
honors the work brings. 
The Suburban Towns of Boston, especially to the 
south, are watching with jealous eyes the encroaching 
invasion of their townships by commuters. The fears 
are well founded, but a township may pursue an un- 
democratic policy that is too conservative in this direc- 
tion. 
Another Sag in New Haven values! These depres-. 
sions seem inevitable but it must be remembered that 
for a non-dividend paying stock the present price is 
surprising. 
