FACES THAT SPEAK
Paine, Robert F.
FACES THAT SPEAK : : By ROBERT F. PAINE npHE movie camera men missed it in * not getting all of the facial expraa: sions at that Pan-American Conference. in Washington. Observe the faces of...
...Fact is, Mr...
...Observe the faces of representatives of twenty-one Pan-American countries seriously registering Where-do-we-go-from-here'.' Rises Secretary Hoover, with one of the choicest poker faces in Washington, to declare that a ban should be put on all loans to foreigners for military purposes...
...Robert, the old fellows who located that power in the Constitution didn't know a thing about oil wells and railroad bonds...
...The majority, however, register conviction that they're at just where they were at, before their Pan-American Conference assembled...
...A total loss up in the hundreds of millions, with competition of airplane service still to be encountered...
...But that's another story...
...DDRESSING the American Law Institute, at Washington, Chief Justice Taft declared that the administration of criminal laws in recent years had been a failure...
...The plan of salvation involves something more than bags of sand and bulwarks of timber...
...CONSTITUTION ? HUH...
...It isn't at all remarkable that Mr...
...A SICKENING EXHIBITION |N the Anita Whitney case, the I...
...Kellogg, if he can hustle around into the right focus, but you will miss the expressions of these twenty-one'little foreigners...
...Cut down on what the people must have and pool on what you let them have...
...Here's the highest court in the land powerless to prevent a good woman's commitment to a penitentiary of whose guilt it has doubts...
...TTUNDREDS of more marines, more airplanes and everything off to protect the lives of oil and railroad concessions in Nicaragua, by taking their guns away from the Liberals...
...president of Stand-¦* ard Oil of New Jersey and recognized leader of the oil industry, has a cure for the present "oil crisis...
...Howard Taft, chief justice of the U. S. Supreme court, holds that the administration of justice in America is a farce and a disgrace to civilization...
...You will have to hang on, if comet and earth meet at the crossing of that orbit...
...Sounds like the natural way of curing a Standard Oil profit crisis, doesn't it...
...but, it will be a fine demonstration of, "Better late than never...
...Comes then...
...As chief executive of the nation, he became familiar with general law, both domestic and international...
...Really, a difference of only two days means a mighty close shave...
...With the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Commerce wholly out of accord, in respect of loaning little foreigners money with which to fight, some of the faces of the representative twenty-one register disgust, others high blood pressure and others cold feet...
...This produces a very sick condition, if you will recall the millions of dollars netted by the oil companies last year...
...but, they wilr not...
...As a federal judge, he became well acquainted with uncommon law...
...On June 26th, it will be only 4,000,000 miles away and headed at our earth's orbit...
...The movie news reels will give you plenty of poses of Mr...
...Pinchot...
...The twenty-one squirm and look sidewise at one another, suspiciously...
...We will not reach the crossing until two days after Pons-Winnec ke has passed on, its tail lights being just visible in the distance...
...Teagle presents his remedy as based upon what he calls "natural economic law" and it consists of producing less oil and unit operation of existing pools...
...THE CHANGE IN TRANSPORTATION RAILWAY AGE discloses what the auto is doing to the railway business...
...Secretary Kellogg, with features rugged and wrinkled as a topographical map of Nicaragua, to inform that his department doesn't deny approval of loans of private financiers to Central or South American governments, even when such loans are not for peaceful productive purposes...
...The "crisis" is due to heavy production of oil in new fields and over-production in old fields, to such an extent that somebody is bound to sell oil to the folks at lower prices...
...Army engineers cannot regulate the rainfall and it has been demonstrated, beyond doubt, that their levees cannot save cities, homes and farms...
...railroad trains, for freight...
...Millions, annually, for levees and more levee6 has constituted the opinion of the army engineers and they are still harping on it, notwithstanding that they have just had to dynamite miles of their levees and flood whole parishes a* a means of saving New Orleans and other important cities of the valley...
...OTHER OPINION WANTED 'T-sHERE are many great engineers out-side the army whose opinions on this question (Mississippi valley flood control) are well worth having.—Gifford Pinchot...
...IS THERE BIGGER FAILURE...
...HANG ON TAON'T jump off this terrestrial train or do anything desperate, through fright over the race for the crossing, although, astronomically, it will be nip and tuck at said crossing...
...S. Supreme Court upholds California's nefarious criminal syndicalism la\v...
...SPRUNG A LEAK TV/fR- Walter Teaglo...
...that it begins to appear that it is only the opinions of engineers outside of the army that are worth having at all...
...Southern group, $46,-000,000...
...No question about Mr...
...During the past six years, the losses in passenger revenue have been, approximately: Eastern group of railroads, $91,000,000...
...The plan must be something bigger, more comprehensive than fighting "the crest of the flood," after it reaches Louisiana...
...Young Senator Bob La Follette is under the impression that the Constitution bars war save upon declaration by the Congress...
...We may be a bit late at the crossing...
...But, the railroads are right happy over their total earnings, such have been the enormous increases in freight earnings...
...On or about March 3d, the Pons-Win-necke comet was sighted, 92.000,000 miles away, and, since then it has been speeding toward us, with its driver's foot on the gas full force...
...He has, fo^ some years, been head of the greatest highest court...
...Justice...
...War being in much disfavor with the people, at present, the Nicaragua job can be neatly done by quietly suspending the Constitution...
...If the Liberals don't surrender their arms, shoot 'em up...
...When Congress considers the flood problem, it is likely to consider a whole lot of opinion outside of that of the army engineers...
...A. D. 1950: Auto and plane, for passengers...
...Taft's qualification as an expert...
...No dissenters among the nine justices, "although Justice Brandeis and Holmes," according to Washington dispatches, "express regret that the question had not reached the court in such form as to permit a decision as to whether her acts constitute a violation of the State statute...
...As a member of high standing of the Cincinnati bar, he became well informed on common law...
...Western group, $200,000,000...
...Taft is a remarkably expert witness as to the administration of law...
...For years and years, dealing with the Mississippi has been in accord with opinion and plans of army engineers...
Vol. 19 • June 1927 • No. 6
