Evening Star Newspaper, November 30, 1926, Page 10

JUDGES ACGUSED INHUGE RUM PLOT Paper Says New York Mag- istrates Sought Immunity * for Gang Members. By the Assoclated Press. 30STON, November 30.—Two New York City magistrates are included :mong those under investigation by the Government in connection with the gigantic rum conspiracy which \was ‘discovered with the seizure here Inst August of the steamer Cretan and $800,000 cargo of alcohol, the Bos- on Advertiser says today. More than two-score pergons, in- cluding Lewis H. Rothchild, vice resident of the Chelsea Exchange Rank of New York, two of his as: «istants and the captain and crew of > men of the Cretan already have heen Indicted in connection with the alleged conspiracy. et Gvertiser quotes an unnamed official as saying that the New York ‘udges used their influence to secure immunity for members of the gang, in providing protection to thpse unload: ing_cargoes and_in getting money hac! ¢ for enterprise. At jeast o score have been made millionaires by_the operations of this Tast rum ring,” the official declared. Fifty-one secret indictments \‘\‘Pre voted by a eral grand jur_yd el:e and warrants have been serwd(‘hue\ most of these, it was revealed here sunday with :mnnuw;cen:mxkoeiqthe pro: »”'A gs ns the bal 8. e unders {ndictment mclude(fll:\ joged ~fixers,” rum dealers and die| Ivibutors and the men who negotiated ihe purchase of the Cretan from : lerchants and Miners' Transportation VerCin addition to the ship's crew. Hothchild has issued a statement de n¥ing any connection with the ring. NORWEGIAN RADICALS | DROP EXTREME AIMS Communist Party Invites Moderate Group to Co-operate—To Mean Strong Factor. By Cable to! The, Star,_and hicago Daily OSLO, November 30.—The Norwe- gian Communist party council has de- olded to drop extreme aims, such as non-parliamentary_tactics, and invite | the old Moderate Socialist party to co- operate. ] the most _important development in years in Norweglan political life. The Communi whose official Norwegian Labor their leader Martin . The ty comprises a of Norwegian workers and was the second strongest party at the lust elections. Union with the Social- ists would secure for the party some of the best men of the pre-war radical movement. The final dropping of revolutionary methods undoubtedly also will induce many of the radical bourgeoisie ele- menis to join the new party, thus ¢ it a dangerous rival to the itive party at the coming -THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. CAMBRIDGE DEBATERS DEFEAT. ‘Three logical young men from Cam- bridge University, England, thor- oughly convinced an overwhelmingly American audience in the gymnasium of George Washington University last night that the “growing tendency” of the Government to “invade the rights of individuals” is a really good thing, despite the protests of three George ‘Washington University debaters that the whole proposition was entirely un-Americah and dangerous. ‘The decision gave Cambridge a clear victory in the fourth annual interna- tional intercollegiate debate with George Washifigton University. Fol- lowing the British™ custom, the win- ning team was determined by the bal- lots of the audience. Although it was apparent that not half of the specta- tors sent their ballots to the tellers, the count stood 325 for Cambridge and 166 for George Washington, bet- ter than a two-to-one victory for the British team. The question before the house was: “Resolved, That this house opposes the growing tendency of government to invade the rights of individuals.” George Washington University's team attempted to defend the resolution, Cambridge to defeat it. On_ the American team were James R. Kirk- land, William F. Williamson and John T. Trimble; on the British, H. G. G. Merklots, W. G. Fordham and A. L. Hutchinson. Mr. Kirkland, opening the affirma- tive argument, pointed out that it was not so many years back that a number of Cambridge men and others G.W. U. TEAM ON RIGHTS ISSUE came to these shores to escape a gov- ernment that trespassed the rights of individuals. He marveled that the three visitors should now come over here to attempt to impose such a proposition on free Americans again. “You want more government; we want less. You demand more legisla- tion; we demand less,” he argued. “Since the war we have been viewing with genuine alarm the tremendous extent to which the Government is extending its invasion of the indi- vidual's rights. It is contrary to the very philosophy of the American na- tion. We rebel against it with inher- ent dislike, and it is an unnatural sit- uation at the best.” Mr. Herklots professed that after hearing such an argument he could better understand New York, “where the automats and the slot machines make it a veritable dumb man’s para- dise.” His able adversary, he ad- mitted, had an entirely false idea of liberty. He even shuddered to think what would ome of his “individu- alistic friend" en he stepped out into Washington's traffic should his views become the mandate of the people. Mr. Herklots provoked loud laugh- ter and applause when he spoke of having come from “the land of re- serve. to the land of reservations.” He closed his argument with the plea that the very fact that man lives in a communidy must impose some re- straint upon him. ‘“The good of the matic that jegislative restraints bo-‘marlu of prohibition. But the people come more acute as our life becomes of this nation hold that it abridges more complex.” Mr. Williamson, however, hated to think of the time when Government control would get to the point wheml “Bulletin D-13 will prescribe official rules for the burial of the dead and the consolation of all friends and rela- tives.” Mr. Fordham, on the other hand, found much in Washington's traffic conditions to warrant very extensive Government control of individual rights. “I have been struck by your beau- titul countryside and your beautiful city here,” he said. “And I have very nearly been struck by some other things. In fact, I am beginning to think you have two classes here—the quick and the dead. Your very traffic here is proof of the need of legisla- tion. In Washington you have many restraints—you may go here, you can't go there. But out of that sys- tem of restraint comes real freedom, more freedom for all. The community must come before the individual.” Mr. Trimble, however, felt that fur- ther governmental interference would kill the initiative and self-reliance of the individual. “We will soon reach a point where everything is done for the individual but nothing by him,” he asserted. “It is the tendency that would reduce us to be mere wards of a paternalistic state. We can counte- nance nothing that will put a limit on the daring and enterprise of men. “Private and moral rights are sa- cred. You must have the consent of the will before you can make con- structive progress with any legisla- tion. Unless you base your law on human nature, it must fail. 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