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Show A Little News Story Justice R-.iy Griffin, Redwood City, Calif., has dropped dead from a heart attack. Probably not one of the readers of this paper ever heard of Justice Griffin; and, his passing on is noted in merely a little 1-line-head item in the columns of a local paper. But For 10 years, Justice Griffin administered justice in his community and came to be beloved, because of his exact justice and his Christian regard for human temptations nnrl wpfiloicws. in his; execution of the laws which is a pretty i'ino story in itself. There is another. Justice Griffin, a bachelor, lived with his mother and passed most of his existence ni a cripple's chair. Much of his body was dead, but his mind and heart were big and won him the respect and affection of everybody, something which the most able-bodied man often misses. Living, half-dead, in a cripple's wheel chair seems a terrible fate, to be happy thus seems impossible, so many the deprivations, so great the de-pendency de-pendency unless one has what Ray Griffin had. Every morning, some citizen called at Justice Griffin's house and wheeled him to his court room, in his cripple's chair. Every evening, some other citizen called at his office and wheeled him home. Never weather bad enough to prevent pre-vent it. . Never everybody too busy. Never a failure. Always, somebody thinking of wheeling the cripple ; and, often, several sev-eral on- hand to do it. No auto. No taxi. Just a wheel chair propelled by human sympathy and love. No schedule, no pre-arrangement of any sort. Always, some volunteer on hand to give the cripple a lift and make him happy in feeling that he was of great use, even though not as other men. Isn't it a pretty good little story, among the great mass of miscellaneous news stories? |