Show T THE E DAILY WASHINGTON Mer Round Merry ry-Go-Rou ry nd 1 Trade de Mark t By DREW PEARSON and amI ROBERT ALLEN ALLENT WASHINGTON The T The decision of oC the supreme supreme su- su pr preme me court on the gold clause which clause which the capital capital capital capi capi- tal breathlessly expects on Monday probably Monday probably will be based on two things One is Mr Dooley's epigram No mather th constitution follows the flag th supreme coort always follows th illic- illic tion returns The other Is the background of the justices As a law lawyer er of 25 Willis Van Devanter migrated migrated mi mi- mi- mi grated from from Marion Ind md to Wyoming whose laws he helped to frame and whose land he helped to open as an attorney for the Union Pacific Pacific Pacific Pa Pa- railroad It is not unnatural that T Van Devanter's opinions opinions opinions ions should be tinctured with rugged individual individual- ism He is an opponent of government control or regulation of industry He is now 75 years old Justice George Sutherland 73 usually on the same side as Van Devanter also inherited his economic philosophy from the laissez faire days o of the pioneer west Bon Bori Bonin in England Sutherland Suther Suther- Sutherland land was taken by his parents to Utah eventually eventually I all ally being elected to the senate i As a senator Sutherland was known for his good nature his conservatism his party regularity regular regular- ity and his friendship with Warren Harding who appointed him to the supreme court t James Clark 73 son of oC a smalltown small smalltown smalltown town Kentucky doctor who migrated to Ten Ten- There his has son came to know McAdoo who recommended him as attorney g general when Woodrow Wilson had rejected Brandeis for Cor that post Having discovered that was nothing more than a fundamentalist town small-town law lawyer er Wilson got rid of him by promotion to the supreme court where even since he has been the courts court's most energetic fighter against workmen's compensation and other forms of social insurance Pierce Butler 68 is the son of Irish immigrants immigrants immigrants grants who settled in Minnesota when that state was in in the of its expansion He made madea a fortune as legal champion for the railroads On the court he wrote the decision overruling the state of Nebraska when it passed a bread weight law endeavoring to protect consumers from dishonest bakers and took look the lead in overruling a Pennsylvania law protecting immigrants immigrants im im- im- im migrants from unscrupulous steamship a agents When Justice Holmes handing down the majority majority ma ma- majority ma- ma opinion in the Virginia sterilization of imbeciles case proclaimed Three generations of imbeciles are enough the cleark added Mr Justice Butler dissenting Liberals Louis Brandeis 70 79 carries more than his share of work Brandeis spent his life mostly in Bo Boston Boon on fighting insurance companies and railroads and was appointed to the court by Wilson despite conservative protest iio Harlan F F. Stone 63 was kicked upstairs from attorney generalship where he had shown I too much activity in in investigating the aluminum aluminum aluminum num trust Stone come from froina rom a background of i corporation law and teaching He lie was famed am d das as dean of Columbia law school e it Benjamin Nathan Cardozo 65 is from a Jewish family of ot Portuguese English-Portuguese extraction His great uncle grand-uncle participated as rabbi at atthe atthe atthe the inauguration of George Washington Cardozo Car Czir Cardozo came to the court after a brilliant and lib liberal liberal lib lib- eral record as chief judge of the Now New York court of appeals Middle 1 of or the If II the court runs true to form it will be Chief Justice Hughes and Justice Roberts who will tip the scales one way or the other Frequently Frequently Fre Fre- they are arc on the liberal side but sometimes sometimes sometimes some some- times they are not it Chief Justice Hughes 72 i is the courts court's leadIng lead lead- ing exponent of a moderate course His great aim is to avoid dissenting opinions Perhaps the reason is the complexity of Hughes' Hughes background ground In him there appears rs to be constantly fighting his early crusading liberalism as governor of New York and his more recent corporation practice practice practice tice when he lie championed almost every big business business business busi busi- ness client who came his way Owen Josephus Roberts CO GO is by training and environment a conservative Roberts represented rep rep- represented resented the Pennsylvania railroad the Philadelphia Phila Phila- delphia Rapid Transit and led a life which should have made him as reactionary as a Van Devanter Devant r or a Sutherland But he is not nol He has re remained re- re aloof and md imp impartial And it may fall upon him to C cast 1st the deciding vote ote in the gold case Cop 1835 by United feature Syndicate tt Inc r r |