Show NEW JUSTICE OF SUPREME COURT After Arter serving vine 27 years Joseph McKenna retires from the supreme bench and Is 18 succeeded by Harlan r F Stone Stone who has ha been attorney general for tor nine month months Joseph McKenna was appoInted bY President McKinley In 1898 and at that hit time tim was 55 years ol ot age more than a quarter of ot a a cen cen- century tury cea-tury tury be he has ha served as a a member r ur of the th supreme court and during all that time tim has bas ha been recognized rec asa as asa asa a hard bard worker At 82 Mr McKenna Is 18 In robust I health his years ot or dose close application lion tion on to court duties dillies having left no I t ot of o unusual wear war and tear Justice McKenna will not go godown godown down In the lh records or of o the th court os as brilliant but hut he his baa been ben known kao kno n art arta a clear thinking justice jostle with a strong tendency to the th side dt Harlan F Stone the new ne-ir mem memo I ber ot of the court should make inako his Impress for tor lie be has ha a strong individuality In- In IndivIduality in individuality has a high hith conception or of duty anti and is Is opposed to shams As attorney general ho bo has lias been beena a cleaner and a vigorous worker During much or of o the th nine nIno months he has given civen to the th office of lice of t alloa attorney ney general ho has pro ed to be b above petty politics politic and pulls Ice He H has oaten en from or office ce three United Untied States attorneys attorney attorn Ys and andone andone andone one assistant United States altor attorney nay ney and one ono ot of o his last acts was to tore re resist the demand ot or Senator Edgo Ede that W D B assistant United States State attorney tor for New I Jersey be retained In office The attorney general pre pre ailed and had to go Co Men loten ot or that stamp are sr good material tor for the th su supreme preme promo court an nn appointment to which is considered the highest honor that tan can an be b bestowed upon a lawyer by the th president Former President Taft Tatt is 1 1 perhaps as os well pleased as chief justice justic ot or the th su- su su supreme premo preme court as he was nag to be ba president dont dent In tact fact he h must find dud more or of o mind on the bench than thanas thanas liS as president for tor or President Taft Tact had hada hada a 11 distressful ending to his tour four years eats when hen Theodore Roose elt saw fit to assail his administration |