| Show Veteran Jurist Says It May Take Years to End Economic Turmoil Judge Johnson Reminisces Over Changed U. U S. S Ideas Federal Judge Tillman Tiliman D. D Johnson stood at the eve of his seventy seventy- seventh birthday Monday Monda and looking look look- looking ing ins over America from his vantage point o of 01 experience concluded it may take years to work out of this political and arid economic turmoil Young America can h have lve anything it i enough he explained but I am not certain these young citizens citizens citi citi- zens lens know what they want which is why it may ma- take ye years to settle natters matters Men of my genera genera- l ton lion j on were ind individualists Society was less highly organized in years cars past and there was more opportunity for foran an individual personality to stand out Wants More Teamwork Perhaps the modern generation wants more collective action more teamwork than ihan brilliant individual performances If that is what hat is that is is' what the country will c C get Judge Johnson has served more than nan 19 years ears on the federal district bench ench in this state which state which represents I half of Utah's years of or statehood For seven years he has been eligible for retirement at full pa pay but ha has preferred to remain on the bench at work which is where bere he will spend his birthday Tuesday I 1 will retire someday h he admitted ad milled Monday Then Monday Then he smiled A Aman Amass man mass can cant can't t tell teU ahead of 01 time lime though just when he will die or become unfit for or work so I am not certain when I will step out of the picture Happy on Bench Rocking Booking back and forth in a chair in n his federal building o office the judge who weighs scarcely more than nan pounds radiated sheer joy joyo o of living Jiving There was no mistaking he helas has las been happy on the bench I 1 am past the age when I might t I I Judge T T. D. D Johnson want to conceal m my birthdays and I 1 Ican Ican can take a bit of oC pride In them These anniversaries make me realize how however ever I am an old fashioned man mars That Thatis is wh why I feel incapable of advising young persons in a lot of oC things the jud judge e saidI saidI saidI said I was born on a l farm In Rutherford Ruther Rutherford ford tord county Tenn January 8 1858 and after attending Cumberland university university uni uni- at I. I Lebanon banon Tenn from 1876 till tin 1880 I was vas married in 1881 when only 22 years e old When I am asked now it if I think young folks should get married early carly I dont don't feel qualified to advise them When I was married a couple could set up housekeeping on You cant can't do that now It Il takes more I I I Says Young America Can Have Whatever it Determines Determines Determines Deter Deter- mines to Get money and I think girls expect more The jud judge e has had hl 53 years jears aro of wedded life liCe and Mrs l Johnson who was Fannie McCall of ot Huntington Tenn Term when he married her July 27 1881 Becomes Teacher his When Judge Jude Johnson completed college work he became a teacher It wasn't that I liked the work but it was a job he explained I After Arter teaching live Jive years In Tennessee Ten he went to Fort Bennett S. S D Ii with his wife to take charge of a I government school chool for Indians This was in 1886 and 20 months later he had moved on to be principal of the Indian Indian- school at Fort Hall HaJJ Idaho He had started to read law at nights back in irs Tennessee and completed his studies a after west gaining admittance ad to the Utah bar in 1889 Judge Johnson began the practice of law in Ogden and continued there until President Woodrow Wilson appointed appointed ap appointed ap- ap pointed him to 10 the district bench in November 1915 Prior to this appointment ap he had been en a member of the Utah house of representatives In 99 1898 and a Democratic candidate for Cor con congress in 1912 Enviable Reputation As federal judge he has gained an enviable reputation for dispensing justice and md has been called caned on numerous numerous numerous numer numer- ous occasions to sit with the Tenth circuit court of ot app appeals One of the most important things in life is selecting a goal to work toward toward to to- ward Judge John Johnson Johnton on concluded Happiness s comes to the person who has selected what he wants to todo todo todo do and is trying to make himself the best in his line The judge has three children Wade I McCall Johnson is an Ogden attorney Dr Ralph Montgomery Johnson is practicing medic medicine ne in iii Beverly Hills Cal and the daughter Ruth resides at Kalamazoo Mich |
