Show Douglas Brings N New cv Color to Supreme Co Court rt Freckle-Faced Freckle Justice Is IsY Y Youngest Since Jos Joseph ph Story Twenty years ago a sandy-haired sandy young Scotchman pushed a lawnmower lawn lawnmower lawnmower mower and stoked a furnace at Whitman college Washington Today Today To To- day the same sandy-haired sandy Scotchman Scotchman Scotch Scotch- man a little older but still a kid Is the youngest United States Supreme Supreme Su Suo Su- Su preme court Justice since Joseph Story of Massachusetts was elevated ed to the bench at the age of 32 32 2 In 1811 William Douglas at 40 40 looks back backon on a meteoric rise from the day he mothered a box box- full car of sheep j from from Washington to Chicago on his way east from Yakima Yakima Yakima- en route to enter Harvard law school With a short-lived short teaching career behind be hind him Douglas t changed his mind about Harvard and studied law at Columbia Co- Co Co 1 lumbia under Har liar Dourla Dougls Ian Ian- F. F Stone who Isnow Is Isnow isnow now now his colleague on the court After Alter teaching at Columbia DOUR Doug I las met Robert Hutchins Hutching who was then the boy dean of Harvard's Harvard law school Offered a post of assistant assistant as as- professorship at Harvard he was soon made Sterling professor of law at Yale In 1936 when he accepted ac a post on the securities and exchange commission Douglas was said to be the country's country highest paid law professor Mrs Douglas the girl be he kissed good good-by back In Yakima became his wife wile the next year They have bave two children Mildred nine and William Wil Wil- liam seven Douglas Is regarded as the most extraordinary character placed onI on the Supreme bench In many years He lie Is a New Dealer and a close friend of Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold a former Yale faculty fac fae member whose specialty Is opposing op op- posing monopolistic practices Although Al AI though accused of belig belag a B left winger inger the new justice denies radicalism and simply insists government gov must be mobile bold and intelligent ent C e Western N. N p pcr Union |