Show SECRECY TO SHROUD SHROUDS S PATH OF GOLD DECREE WASHINGTON Feb 1 UP Sometime UP-Sometime Sometime after aUer twilight o of Sunday SInday evening i if all ROCS goes according to schedule there will pass Into the ink ink- stained fingers o of a It probably haired gray-haired printer n a I few sheets of paper pape m more valuable nl ie than a rajahs rajah's r ransom in rubies a and 1 f pear pearls Typewritten 1 on these sheets of oC paper will wm be the words with which the supreme court of the United States renders decision In the gold clau clause e case Advance l knowledge e of ot those words would be worth millions to speculators A fortune might be bewon bewon bewon won by a person who knew which way the court had decided But there will be no ange In a aroutine aroutine aroutine I routine that the court has observed for 60 years If Ie the decision is is' is reached tomorrow as expected a trusted clerk of oC the court will type it up Then Sunday night he will go as supreme court clerks clerics have each Sunday night before beCore decision day since 1875 to an obscure little printing establishment in n the old business district of oC Washington On the door of 61 the sh shop p in worn gold letters Is the legend Pearsons Established 1805 Printing Engraving It is to this small but venerable firm that the supreme court has trusted its its its' opinions since lon long before before be be- fore tore any pres present nt members of the theto tribunal to took ole office The court has resisted all efforts to have havo its Us decisions printed in the government printing of office lice which handles other government business The le c court urt maintains that never inthe In Inthe Inthe the CO GO y years us that Pearsons Pearson's has ha done Its work has ha there been a leak The procedure at P Pearsons Pearson's Is simplicity Itself The clerk cler hands the full typewritten decision to a trusted foreman whose name never has been revealed This foreman carefully snips the decision into many parts part so that no two lines will tell teU the stor story These are handed out to to typesetters of equally lon long service and probity The lines are set up one or two at ata a a. time As each line Is set It Is Ss taken laken by bythe bythe bythe the foreman and locked into a form for the night Only the foreman has the key to Lo the form Corm and he arranges ar- ar a ar arranges ranges rang the disconnected lines in order order order or or- der himself This is all ll done S SUnday night Monday morning just b before re the court meets at noon to read its de decisions visions copies copie arc are rl run n off with se secrecy secrecy secrecy se- se crecy equaling the rest of the op op- These are arc rushed to the court chamber Then and then only are arc the contents revealed |