Show Prevailing Opinions 1 I Comment Comme t of the tho American Press I A Tribute Twenty years ago today Louis D. D Brandeis assumed his seat on the supreme court The bitter month five fight which took seven past presidents of the American Bar association to Washington to testify against him had ended at last in failure That there could have been such a battle seems unbelievable after after- two d decades cades His seventy-fifth seventy birthday in 1931 brought tributes from every corner cor cor- ncr ner of at the county country from persons and journals of all shades of opinion ion Today's anniversary brings another outpouring of popular admiration admiration admiration ad ad- for his brilliant and profound profound pro pro- found work as social philosopher and jurist At the threshold of 80 SO Justice Brandeis stands with Marshall and Taney and Story as one of the great judges of the tho greatest of courts Why Because he ho has made fact the basis of social insight Others might be dog dog- Not he What does experience experience ex ex- show and then what does docs still wider experience show This has been his test It made his fact ribbed fact ribbed brief in Muller vs Oregon supporting a maximum hour statute one of the most historic historIc his his- of pleadings before belore the supreme supreme su su- su- su preme court It has made his opinions opinIons' since he ascended the bench realistic discussions of modern problems instead of le legalistic legalistic le- le hair St. St Louis Post Sorely Needed The need of a competent nonpartisan nonpartisan non non- partisan civil service at Washington Washing Washing- ton was never greater than today The federal government is is' undertaking undertaking under under- taking and carrying on enterprises which affect the people business labor and agriculture in a Do hundred different and intimate ways Unhealthy Unhealthy Un Un- healthy as this Increase in paternalism paternalism paternalism pater pater- has been in many ways it is probably a development which will endure at least so long as there is unemployment human misery and economic dislocations It is therefore imperative that these services the success of I which so 50 large depends depend on in- in I f administration shall be performed by men and women who have been educated and trained for their duties and whose positions are immune from political political political cal meddling and sabotage Bos Bos Boston ton Herald Comatose Cuties The sleeping beauty of Oak OakPark OakPark OakPark Park IlL III may in the opinion ofa of ot ofa ota a French medico round out her life asleep Some young women in similar condition have become stenographers and some somo few have even married the boss Los Los Angeles Angeles Angeles An An- geles Times Truth About China Chine On what is happening in China tho the best the news service correspondents correspondents correspondents cor cor- cor- cor respondents can do is to send over overa a variety of guesses by a variety of persons in a variety of cities Of Ot only one thing can we be sure This is that nothing will turn outto out outto t to be what it now seems It is always so in oriental affairs What appears on the surface is no indication indication indi indi- cation of what is going on under under- neath If we may add one more guess to those coming over the cables it is that whatever is going on and wherever it is going on Japan is likely to be at the bottom of it even at the bottom of this assumed Japanese Anti-Japanese Salvation Army To this may also be added something something something some some- thing that is more than a guess When whatever is doing is all allover allover allover over Japan will be found to have gorged some more of China and to have fastened her teeth more firmly on the rest San San Francisco Chronicle Campaign Songs The announcement in Cleveland that Oh Suzanna is to be the official official official of of- campaign song of ot Governor Landon's followers followers- just as The liThe Sidewalks of New York was Al Smiths Smith's campaign song in 1928 and Happy Days Are Here Again was Roosevelt's campaign song in 1932 is a suggestion that the Landon Landon Landon Lan- Lan don campaign will not lack colO colof Color does not always win however however however how how- ever although it helps In 1928 Al Smith had the color and Hoover had the votes otes Springfield lican a New Crop Curtailment Although it made ma-dc a great show of loyalty toward King Carol toone toone to toone one who reads between the lines it must be evident that the tho nationwide nationwide na na- na- na wide tion-wide peasant demonstration n wl Ich was participated in by farmers w was s called primarily for the purpose of or seeing to it that Mme Lupescu Carols CaroI's redheaded redheaded redheaded red red- headed girl friend was plowed under Los Angeles Ti Times I I |