Show U will rows the caf t 1 MIA aderi a 1 ai N V V all M v 4 by ELMO SCOTT WATSON T WAS tennyson the poet who penned the line about the old order chanreth cha ngeth giving place to the new but there are still with us in these modern days enough survivals of the past to demonstrate once more that other saying about the exception proving the rule if you want to find an interesting example of this fact go into a room in the capitol at washington which from 1815 to 1859 was the meeting place of the united states senate but which aich Is now the room where here sits the most august tribunal in amer lea the united states supreme court look upon the desks which front the long bench be hind which pit sit the nine justices and what inspru ments for writing will you find typewriters heavens not no penicks Pen Pe icis niels tot not onel one fountain pens no indeed 1 what then why quill pens dignity and tradition those are the two out standing characteristics of the highest judicial body in the united states there is dignity in the appearance of that room with its red cur bains its marble columns and its general air of being thousands of miles away from the busy modern life which ebbs and flows through the streets around the capitol and the traditions 1 there theres a the traditional cry of the announcer 0 jet let 0 yet 0 yet I 1 as the n ne black robed justices led by the chief justice of the united states the hon charles evans hughes Hilgh es the through the door and take their places behind the long bench on the raised platform which overlooks the chamber there is the trad tion that the supreme court meets precisely on the dot of noon and that it will rise at two 0 clock tharp sharp tor for lunch and the tradition that on eion pion mondays the stiff sharp bow of the court attaches wearing their punctilious cutaway coats will be made to the advancing line of justices with the same exact mil tary precision and then there Is the tradition that there shall always be on the counsels desks a supply of freshly sharpened quill pens in case they want to use them the supreme court you know has its own bar or group of lawyers admitted to practice before it to be eligible for this a lawyer must have been a member of the bar of the highest court in his own state for not less than three years and arid more than that he cannot be ad bitted to the bar of the supreme court unless he be Is sponsored by another member for the court Is very careful to whom it gives its eriv lieges and that includes the matter of dress too several years ago an attorney appeared before the supreme court one hot summer day with cut out a vest he ile was ras immediately informed that he could not plead in such a garb as that he retired from the chambers and did not come back away back in the early days of the supreme court it was the custom to provide quill pens for the attorneys appearing before it the duty of providing them was assigned to the marshal of the court fashions in writing utensils changed but not in the supreme court of the united states the marshal kept right on sup plying quill pens and frank K green who has been marshal since 1915 still does it each lawyer lawyers s desk gets two pens they are placed in the center of a writing pad which must be large and white and one pen is placed over the other in the shape of an X above is a tray tra for steel pens a concesa on to new tan fan aled ways I 1 and to the right Is placed a small blue blotter it must always be blue there Is no telling what might happen if any change were made in that arrangement for it would be upsetting a tradition in the united states supreme court and traditions are NEVER upset there once once one came very near being upset and a national scandal was barely averted it con berned those quill pens genuine quill pens are not made in the united states A washington department store imports them from england and marshal green gets teem from this store one day he discovered that his supply was ex hausted and the store had none here was a crisis indeed but the marshal was equal to the occasion he ile secured some turkey feathers and fashioned them to resemble real quill pens and these tided him over until a fresh supply was received from england what would have happened if he t Is unknown probably nothing for none of the lawyers who appear before the supreme court ever use the quill pens anyway the last one who ever did was a new york lawyer and that was more than a quarter of a century ago but the important fact Is that the quill pens must be on hand in case they ever do want to use them that is a supreme court tradition than which there is nothing more sacred cross oer the potomac river from washing ton into virgin i i go to r amond and in that city you will find another ancient survival that 1 the photograph shows albert thompson who has succeeded his father in carry ng on a three hundred year old business at menden meriden england where for f ave ve generations his family has daily manufactured bows and arrows his work now forms the only d english sur v val of th s ancient craft mr thompson hav ing been under h hs s fathers direction since he was a child exactly the same methods are employed as in the days when a form of con required every engi engl sh youth to put in two hours of shoot ng practice w th bow and arrows of h s own production the bu ness necess tates the rearing of turkeys in order to obtain twelve pe ial feathers from each bird 2 of wh ch are needed ne 0 dd d d each ea c h year y e ar so that mr thompson may feather the arrows he makes he Is shown at h s workbench while his ass st ant tends to the turkeys 2 if any attorney appearing before the united states supreme court Is still old fashioned enough to want to use a quill pen he will and f nd a supply of them freshly sharpened ready on the counsels desks in the chambers of that au gust body its a century old custom that is s still observed even though few lawyers use them and souvenir hunters pers st in carrying them away the p shows M s lorine staley w th several of these relics of a bygone by gone day 3 george geqrge of tro brooklyn oklyn N Y who receives an annu ty of from the estate of king charles 11 II because his ancestor saved the king from the sold ers of oliver cromwell Is it if you hap happen pento to be there at the beginning of a hunting season for you may be treated to the s of a group of indians dressed in na tive costume making their way to the executive mansion and bearing with them the carcass of a deer or some other wild game away back in 1620 the ind ans of virginia started the custom of presenting to the white governor of that col ony the first game billed killed during the hunting season and that custom has been observed for more than SOO years or go to brooklyn N Y seek out a seventy seven year old resident of that city named george and ask him about the annuity which he receives from the estate of king charles 11 II of england the story which he would tell you goes back to when charles stuart who had been proclaimed king charles 11 II of great britain by the scots even though oliver cromwell s protectorate was in power in eng land was fleeing from cromwell s Round roundheads beads after the defeat of the king s forces at the battle of worcester on september 6 of that year the fugitive king came to boscobel biscobel Bo near wolverhampton Wolver hampton and there was taken into the home of a yeoman fam lly ily named cromwell s sold ers were hot on h s track and if they captured him it was quite likely that he would suffer the fate of his father charles I 1 nho ft ho had been beheaded it was as certain that they would search the house so elizabeth the daughter of the family hit upon the idea of hid ng the monarch in a great oak tree which stood in their garden so up the tree NN eat ent king charles II 11 and there he remained all day while cromwell s soldiers searched the house and premises in vain when night came elizabeth ren drell and her brothers told him how to reach the coast safely and he escaped to france years later when the res to ration brought charles H to the throne of england he had a chance to repay those thoe who had saved his life and although he was hotori ous for pledges the fact rem tins that charles stuart did repay th s debt in july 1675 he issued a royal charter establishing establish ing a pension for the Pend to be paid annually out of rents to be collected from roundheads in a dozen english counties the charter deigna designated ted as beneficiaries george humphrey mary and william and elizabeth bates 1 ates for the g rl who suggested the hiding place had married a man named yates and when she lived out her time her pension passed to her eldest son named yates down through the yates family the pension ran for many years then through a succeed ng family named D son and another named walker the vendrell pens on Is one of the few per letual pensions on record another Is paid by the belgian bel fan government for although more than a century has passed s nee the duke of wellington aided by german belgian and dutch troops defeated napoleon at waterloo for this feat of arms the beig belg ans must pay a perpetual annuity to the duke s heir amounting to approximately after waterloo the duke of wellington re the belgan beig an title of prince of waterloo together with revenue from the property sit bated in the famous battlefield the present beneficiary Is arthur charles wellesley fourth prince of waterloo today a total of 38 persons receive annuities under the terms of king lung charles charter to the Pend for although there are only 12 41 IV 14 N 4 V 41 01 q f direct beneficiaries the fund has been vided the direct pensioners are scattered far and wide throughout the world most of them are in england some in ireland some in india and two in north america the only pensioners who bear the nal name are miss florence who lives in new zealand and george of brooklyn N Y the other north american beneficiary Is dr francis E walker a professor of english in the university of brit ish columbia a direct descendant of elizabeth the trust fund which king iving charles lashed Is administered by T A W gifford hereditary trustee appointed by the king the original charter Is stored in the strong room of fowler langley ian ley and wright t of wolverhampton Wolver hampton solicitors to the trust at the left lefthand hand top corner of the parchment Is a finely engraved medallion with the head and shoulders of king charles the great seal of england with its dangling ribbons has crumbled and broken during the centuries so that it has to be held together in a leather bag the writing Is nearly as clear and bright in black and red as on the day it was first penned in a fine clerkly hand the text in legal latin gets sets forth all the properties on which payments are to be made to the trust and states that the pensions shall be 1100 to mary 1100 to william pen drell marks to john marks to II Il marks to george I 1 en drell and to 0 to elizabeth yates and to heirs of their bodies the amounts received by the various pension ers varies from 10 sterl ng to 40 sterl ng paid semiannually the brooklyn Pro oklyn heir receives the largest larget amount twice talce a year he receives a letter from the sol cifors to the trust inquiring if he Is still alive upon his replying in the affirmative he receives a check for 40 about which Is paid by the british government years ago that government realized that its treasury was ras badly cluttered up with pensions of all kinds some of these it quit piling and others it bought off by paying a lump sum to the pensioners the Pen diell annuity was one of those cut off but when these heirs made rep presentations to the court the permanency of a grant made in perpetuity by a king of england was recognized and payments were resumed for the english even more than the united states supreme court has a great reverence reve e for tradition and there Is no better example of the survival of ancient customs in these modern days than Is found in certain feudal rights which the king of england still retains in net fact if bing george 1 were n ere to enforce all the quit quitrents rents to w chich aich he Is legally entitled he would possess a unique collection of odds and ends A quit rent is a contribution in kind und made to britain s re gning going sovereign by hollers hoi lers of country estates granted to them by english kings in anc ent times the duke dule of atholl holds his lands on condl tion that he present a white rose to the king whenever honored with a royal visit at his rest dence blair atholl the manros of boulls in similar circumstances are under the much more difficult obi gation to present a snowball when his majesty passes through the town of crendon in Bucking hamshire the owner of the land on which it Is situated has to tender red oses should the king visit the village of amesbury Ames burs wiltshire the owner 0 the land on which it Is situated is called upon to furnish for the royal bed the th holder of the cor her estates in Is obi ged to supply the king s table with bacon when england Is at war Q by western newspaper union ft ft at in 0 Is t iua ia I 1 0 |