Show A FINE RECORD IT 11 seems strange that Oliver Wendell Holmes should be leaving the supreme court be because because because be- be cause of the falling failing health that extreme age has brought him for here if anywhere there seemed to be one man on whom age had no effect Conservatism often is the of 0 yet age yet Justice Holmes is and has been for many years one of the nations nation's foremost lib lib lib- Nearly 91 years old he has managed to keep what many of us lose before we reach half that age an open inquiring mind a looking forward-looking attitude that is ever ready to hail a new horizon a willingness to recognize recognize recognize rec rec- change and a desire to meet that change unhampered by too great reliance on the precedents of the past Could such a man be called old In years of course he has gone far beyond the scriptural scriptural scriptural scrip scrip- tural allotment of three score and ten But mentally he has been one of the youngest men on the bench and he has given the nations nation's nations nation's nations nation's na na- na- na tion's supreme court a tradition of liberalism that has leavened it for years And now he is retiring few Americans of any time had a finer record of service to look back upon |