Show Round Merry Irad II Mark MarkBy Uk By DREW PE DREW PEARSON and end ROBERT ALLEN llE llEW W WASHINGTON WASHINGTON Vitriolic Vitriolic and bitter have been some of the debates priva privately ely st staged ged among the justices of the supreme court days but dur dur- fug ing them one man at least always remains calm H He is George GeQrge Sutherland rl nd slender grey-bearded grey scholarly silent 1 Sutherland has a most mOlt agreeable manner He is mild and charming During the private debates he is always calm and even He does not get irritated as does Butler he does not sulk as does But to try to change Sutherland's Sutherlands Sutherlands Sutherland's Sutherlands Sutherland's erlands erland's set conviction on any economic subject is like baying at the moon Sutherland is 74 years old And his law his economic reasoning are as old or older than he He spent most of his an age that is no nomore more more more-an an age of fenceless prairies free ree land and limitless natural resources es e's Born Boril in England S Sutherlands Sutherland's parents br brought him to Utah where he became a budding young lawyer and in 1901 was elected to congress later to the senate Hardings Harding's Friend In the senate Sutherland was known chiefly for his long and dreary dissertations on the constitution constitution constitution con con- and his friendship with Warren Gamaliel Harding The future president perhaps because he rarely listened or because he himself knew little of ot such things considered the scholarly Utahn a avery avery avery very erudite man At any rate Sutherland was defeated by Senator Senator Senator Sen Sen- ator King and left the senate in 1917 In 1920 he spent months ad Harding on his campaign Harding appointed him to the supreme court in 1922 On the court Sutherland has established a record in opposing state legislation to control busness busIness business busi bus ness and regulate labor conditions It It- was Sutherland who wrote the opinion outlawing out out- lawing the minimum wage It was as Sutherland who wh wrote the opinion making unconstitutional the child labor law It was Sutherland nd who inthe inthe in iri the Baltimore e street railway case of 1930 ruled that a fare are fixed by the state permitting the company com corn panya pany panya a 6 per pel cent return was Finally it was Sutherland who ho wrote the majority majority ma ma- opinions upsetting Oklahoma's attempt to control her ice industry and again checking the right of a state t to td use its t taxing xing power ver to promote cooperative farming Justice Sutherland has hy tendencies tendencies tend tend- and is js constan constantly ly talking about medicine and his his- ailments Two or three e years ago he talked about resigning But like some of ot his other anti anti- new deal colleagues Sutherland no now noY is determined to stand standby br as a protector of the constitution to the very end n On the Jump JumpA A few days after atter his court colleagues had riddled rid rid- died the A AA A-AA A A Justice Harlan F. F Stone time one-time dean of the Columbia law school met one of his former students now a government lawyer How are you getting on John inquired Stone Pretty good Mr Justice I 1 was with the legal division of th the N R A last year then I 1 transferred to the A A A and now I 1 am in the legal division of the securities and exchange commission I see Keeping one jump ahead of us eh Note Some new dealers fear the S SEe SEC E C will go the way of other new deal agencies be de declared declared de- de dared unconstitutional by the supreme court Louder and Funnier Secretary Henry Wallace Vallace is one of the most careful speech writers in the administration But as he himself ruefully relates he has his lapses This is the st story ry Henry tells tellson on himself Rushed with other matters up to the last minute minute minute min min- ute before belore delivering a recent speech W Wallace failed tailed to go over the final draft of his manuscript which he had turn turned over to an assistant to prepare pre pre- pre pre- pare Appearing before the audience Wallace was a little hesitant at first but gradually warmed warmed-to to the work Finally he b came so fervid that without realizing it he read aloud the following typed notation no no- tation At this point tell audience a 3 funny story and get them in good humor Only when a roar of laughter burst on him did he stop and look Jook to see what he had said Then he too joined in the joke oh on on himself 1934 by ty atur t Inc lAc I t |