| Show io HN G SARGENT J T IA rule nik Respect for W Work Work Mork ork I r. r fr i f s THE THE X H-E H Attorney r General of f the United Unite St States e is out of sympathy with the alarmist view VIew of or of the younger generation today but t When I w was as a boy says Mr Sargent boys boys didn't have to be nagged all the time To Todo do his work became a part of his nature nature Our r. r work vork didn't seem irksome I suppose it was was' because we e were bred to respect our work instead or of to hate it Every boy and girl in his day he remembers remembers bers had something to do That was the first 5 principle of their upbringing A boy had his his' farm chores to do They were vere his duties If he neglected them he was punished and if he did them wrong he had to do them all over again t tAnd And was it all because because it it was was the t. t Ia wI vr ey G By Uthai Vincent Wilcox GET GET something to do and do it was the way he put it when I asked him what cou counsel sel he had to give to the ambitious people of today There are w ways ys many ways of emphasizing emphasizing em emphasizing em- em these seven words wOlds but Attorney Attorney Attorney ney General John Garibaldi Sargent who uttered them apparently didn't need to toh h hammer his big desk there in m the great V-shaped V room on the sixth floor of the Department of Justice Building in order to make them stick in the hearers hearer's mind He said them with such an earnestness and in such a straightforward unassuming unassuming unassuming ing manner that they could not easily be forgotten Then too it at was the Yankee Yankee Yankee Yan Yan- kee custom of choosing simple direct directS S Saxon xon words that meant only one thing Such short emphatic words are boldly assertive they assertive they carry cany a punch There is an undeniable friendliness about this man as he leans back in in his chair to visit even ven though his top flat-top desk of several se square yards' yards surface is is strewn with looking formidable-looking docu docu- ments This tall somewhat gaunt Vermonter Ver- Ver Vermonter Vermonter monter makes his interrogator feel like an old friend You instantly appreciate that sort of a man in in Washington where so many men that once were friendly and genuine get heady with the pomp of power DECENTLY RECENTLY Albert Rosenthal the Philadelphia artist who has painted the portraits of thirty-five thirty Justices of the Supreme Court living and dead called d on the Attorney General lie He was asked for his artistic opinion of Mr Sargent Great figure to paint he re re- re- re plied Hes a Lincoln type That expression will picture a little littlemore littlemore more clearly the sort of man charged with enforcing the laws of this Nation He is truly in physique a Lincoln type of man Will he in his simplicity in in his genuine friendliness also c candor in his emulate emulate the Great Emancipator That Thatis is for history to answer Ive never done anything except keep along at work he reflected The work I did became a little more important And well And well I suppose year by year that's all Im I'm plugging along I have been plugging along When I asked him just how he would his lifes life's motto he laughed a little phrase of thought at the uneasily a bit shyly summing up his working philosophy and then chuckled dryly Oh I haven't any each days day's work the motto I just do best I know how fondly as elderly men Then musingly will he sketched his boyhood background in the the fields the barn the sugar camp miles South-Central South Vermont twenty-five twenty Rutland in the and he 1 from the buckets t to the boiling bringing in sap under the fire going and keeping kettle around mother helping kettle and the J and driving horses and plowing plowing plow- plow house the and drawing poles to toi with oxen I ing and filling the woodi wood the fences i mend and gather- gather gathering feeding the calves and i l box ing the eggs r E I There was the emphasis as it was wasat wasat c of his advice first the very heart at in and through his early given eiven as it was found in the man it is experience as his life the way waye himself his hig ni type his clothes the clothes the gospel of hard to Ie e wears always of it He is plenty and Nork ork vork something to do and nd doing it getting work the best and doing each days day's f. f that he knows Vermont how avenue out of Looking up the very name of windows windowS' the large suggesting his early life the street sugg work played d the dominant part where philosophized Every boy poy and girl he the boys and girls I grew up with within within among something to do That had the in about the first principle of their w was upbringing s A boy had his farm chores duties If H he to do They were his S. S S' S Sr r neglected them he was punished and if he did them wrong he had to do them over ver again It was the law But boys didn't have to be nagged allf all aU of f the time and told to do this and that Io To do his work became a part of his nature Our work didn't seem irksome when ft when hen I was a boy I suppose suppose it was because we were to bred-to respect our work vork instead of to hate it that there wasn't Hasn't the craving for amusement that there here is now It comes back to me that the he finest amusement of my boyhood was vas to lie he on the floor on my belly and ind read the old Youths Youth's Companion and we ve would listen to father reading leading aloud rom from rom Horace Greeleys Greeley's New York Tribune and ind from the Boston Journal There wasi wast was was' wasa a i t great deal of discussion of men and measures in in those papers papers more more in proportion proportion pro pro- portion than in the papers now now and and Father ather would discuss the discussion They were reflecting men men my my father and his neighbors They did a 11 great deal of reflecting effecting and we boys got the benefit of d f it it The old-fashioned old lyceum where the neighbors met once a week at the vil- vil village lage age hall for a program of debates recitations and singing was no contemptible contemptible con con- cultural medium for the boy if of the and One of the deates debates de de- rates bates brought out an illustration that stayed by me to this day The question ques- ques ion tion that night was Which is the more necessary to the welfare of mankind capital or labor Well after both sides got ot through an old soldier got up an old fellow chow straight as a ramrod I remember and ind he said Friends capital and labor ire are like the two sides of a sawhorse sawhorse- ant cant either one of em stand up without with- with out ut the other Ive thought of that j zany lany times He said aid all there is to it THEN the Attorney General went back 1 to the work theme theme speaking speaking admiringly admiringly admiringly of a poor Russian who came into his countryside a few years ago and settled settled settled set set- on an old farm The story of the foreigners foreigner's struggles and his slow clearing clearing clearing clear clear- ing away of the mortgage was long but buthe buthe buthe he wound it up in a way that neatly epitomizes him It was I asked about those folks just the other day and what I heard was was that they're getting along fine working fine working and minding their own business I think that's great Theres There's the New England ideal in es essence es- es sence to sence-to to work and mind your own busi busi- ness The man who in twenty-seven twenty years had made his way from the at- at of Windsor County Vermont to the attorney generalship of the United States would not concede that he had any struggle He thinks it was all the work of a lei kindly world Ive always had the the best of friends he said and then too Ive I've always felt a great respect and regard for men older than myself It happened there were vere always such men I could turn to for advice when I was young And finally the time came when I was the older man and the ultimate responsibility rested on me and I had hl to turn to my my- self You see I had become the senior counsel at last Thus did he outline his early eaIly training that has made an und undeniable impression and shaped his character It was the sterner New En England land doctrine of hard culture and it occurred to me that with such a background he might be somewhat somewhat somewhat some some- what out of sympathy with the genera- genera I 11 t Jt I t. i i I a 7 St g l rt J I E t tI I I 1 I t r Yc 9 b un Sr 4 a r o t Y YS k 3 f C S Mb i A. A f 3 c 9 S 5 N 1 55 r w y x her b r 1 S t a aZ Z da ny P j Y s y 4 fi 5 4 w N I e i r 1 is f l I x S 'S Siy 5 iy s r 5 S SSt g St C r y 45 Y r h 5 r 5 F S John Garibaldi Sargent seems to have absorbed strength from his rugged r Vermont hills hins and it is there that he finds recreation a- a tion with Mrs 1 Sarg Sargent nt tion consisting of flappers apper and cake- cake eaters So I asked him what he thought of the young people of today today this this modern generation In the true Yankee fashion he turned the question back on his interrogator Why I dont don't see anything the matter with them Arent Aren't they doing the work of the tho world or getting ready to carry things forward No I haven't any sympathy sympathy sympathy sym sym- pathy with the alarmist view concerning young folks of today Young people and old people as well are arc in need of education constant education education education edu edu- cation according to t the e present Attorney Attorney Attorney ney General He lIe emphasizes this con con- Education he said is service for others And again he stressed the underlying underlying underlying un un- principle of work of a duty to perform rm He lIe expressed himself carefully carefully carefully care care- fully No one of us can disregard human nature the experience of the ages the environment of modernity and so so we must go forward always with education education education tion which inevitably inculcates on the human mind tenderness and understanding understand understand- ing compassion and intelligence tolerance tolerance tolerance toler toler- ance humility The aims and duties of orman man should be to be a public official without vice a private citizen without wrong a neighbor without reproach a Christian without hypocrisy a man without without without with with- out guile submissive to law obedient to authority thoughtful kind and above all loyal to country and self sel reflective evaluating evaluating evaluating He must develop d a ing attitude toward life and things and the directing heads of the great institutions institutions institutions of learning must be the interpreters interpreters interpreters inter inter- the evaluators the helpful critics whose judgments and standards and virtues have the ring of honest objectivity objectivity ob ob- and sincerity IT TT T IS well that Sargent has has' th the e build 1 of or a giant and the vigor of youth for forit forit forit it is needed during the years he spends in in Washington if he is is- isto to withstand d the physical and nervous nervous strain in his office His assistants too know v what work and endurance are arc There is William J. J Donovan th the new Assistant A Attorney torney General the winner at the time of the war var of the prized much ed Congressi Congressional nal Medal for gallantry ga lantry in France He has immediate charge of or the trust anti-trust prosecutions pros pros- under the Sherman law And Mrs Mabel Walker the former former former for for- mer school teacher who studied law and proved her ability Against the keenest of them now has immediate charge of prohibition enforcement After all the direction and force and stimulus must in the very nature nature of things come come from the chief of the de department de- de this this man who works hard from force of habit Yet he knows how to play too His is play however r is of the quiet nuiet reflective type typical of his heritage Perhaps as a disciple of Izaak Walton he sits contemplatively awaiting the jerk to WORK am tind your own BUSINESS y A Chat u 7 With the m ATTORNEY a G GENERAL NER L 0 C the tae f i f of y Y V f tt S f Ik u. u USA U.S.A. s. s A. A A l f t I s t 4 1 Get something to do all at o 0 oit it says Attorney General Sargent Sargent Sargent Sar Sar- gent to those who feel the heat of ambitions ambition's fire He has done say his friends what many free with wit advice do n not i do act do-act act acton on his own counsel of the line and thinks over oyer his legal lega pr problems and nd plans plans how how he he will angl angle for the criminals and corporations that thai and ar are accused of breaking the laws of the Nation There is much now to think ab about ut Attorney General is optimistic bj by THE TIIE nature and also very cautious in his hi expressions of policy and of Government intent He studies the various questions questions questions ques ques- carefully or has them studied an anc and 3 investigated by his assistants and then ther outlines his course of procedure It i is presumed from his early experience that once he has set himself the task of carrying through he will go all the way through So far as within him l lies Attorney General Sargent is determined det that it shall b be a department of justice for all He Ho will stand as he indicated for the doctrine of fair play t to both sides sides both both to the Government and to the th citizens citizen That i is of or orthe the the- Government involved his aim and he wants it kept before every man and w woman man in his depart depart- department ment The The reaching far i reaching far caching arm of this nicely balanced justice extends over th the United States anc and i its s foreign possessions Di Divided divided di vided into eighty districts each with witha a Federal Feder l district attorney and arid manY mans district Judges to see that the wheels of of justice travel yel along the proper pr per i roads ads The Dep Department of Justice in order to insure a happy end selects its executive executive executive tive personnel both in Washington and through the country with more than usual care Therefore in each Administration Administration Administration Admin Admin- there come to the capital a group of men men and and women in the last few years years who who have gained eminence in their chosen profession and who are willing willing will will- ing to accept the inadequate salaries of Uncle Sam and be a part of this lifesaving lifesaving lifesaving life- life saving station of American rights Of making many laws there is no end in this stage of civilization and the theD Department D of Justice authorities are kept busy interpreting and placing the right construction on these laws As a matter of fact while Congress makes the laws and writes them on the statute books it is the Department of Justice that keeps them there and makes them truly effective The duties of Attorney General General and and J. J G. G Sargent knows them them are are officially outlined in striking clearness The Attorney General is the head of the Department of Justice and the chief law officer of the Government He Ha represents the United States in matters matters mat mat- involving legal questions he h. gives his advice and opinion when i they are required by the President l or by the heads of other executive I departments on questions of f law lawI I arising arising in the administration of 1 their respective departments he appears in the Supreme Court of the United States in cases of especial gravity and importance and he exercises exorcises a general and direction over the United States supervision attorneys and marshals in all judicial districts in the States and Territories Territories Territories Ter Ter- and nd he provides special counsel the United States whenever required for by any department of the Government the enforcing of the laws the thet BESIDES t Department of Justice is constantly |
