Show JUSTICE DAVID J. J BREWER Associate Justice David J J. J Brewer c cele cele- le- le biating brating his seventieth birthday with his children and grandchildren about him with letters and telegrams of congratulation tion pouring in on him from classmates and friends everywhere from front his fellow- fellow Justices and Cabinet officers and from the he President is an object of national In in- terest In Iii both the man and the occasion occasion occasion occa occa- sion there is something of old Roman dignity and character It Is is' the boast of ot one oe Justice of the United States Supreme court that he retrains re- re hi trains rains himself from as aloof reading as t the possible sJ papers from and d p public holds 8 affairs in order order- that he may remain uninfluenced un- un influenced by by- popular opinion and avoid all appearance of judicial bias That has not been Justice Brewers Brewer's way he has never courted a Lama like seclusion In the nearly half a century since he lung hung out his shingle in a little Kansas town on the debatable border ground of slavery he has ever kept near the peole peo peo- pie le and taken part in n their issues and causes As United States Commissioner in n the first five years of the war as aa County bounty Attorney as Probate te Judge and Judge Fudge of the Criminal court District Judge Justice of the Kansas Supreme c cOurt urt and Circuit Judge In turn tunI and for forthe forthe the he past eighteen years as a member of ot the he highest court he lIe has pas grown with the Nations Nation's growth He Ho has mixed in the fray ray and been a large part of it without fear that contact with the soil would stain his toga Justice Brewer has been not only a great Judge measured by standards which Jay and Marshall set but he lie has manifested many of the attributes of a sighted far statesman as well vell Unlike liar Harvard Yale cannot point to a greatest great est living graduate In tho the Presidential cl chair lIr But on the Supreme bench it has hasan hasan hasan an alumnus in whose honorable and distinguished distinguished dis dis- dia- dia career It may take a proper maternal pride New New York J i World |