Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1914-06-19 | Page 3 | Justice Joseph Rucker Lamar

JUSTICE JOSEPH RUCKER LAMAR ; . ' I Justice Joseph Rucker Lamar, who was recently appointed mediator at the Niagara Falls peace conference, Is accepted by all who come in contact con-tact with the Supreme court, or the social life In Washington, as one of the most delightful personalities on the highest bench. President Taft found him to be the most companionable companion-able of men when he was visiting In Augusta, Lamar's home city. A story soon started, and has not yet been downed, that President Taft, who was suspected of being anxious to form a golf cabinet in Washington, matching the "Tennis Cabinet" of a former era, had known Lamar on the links In th9 southern city. But the justice denied It, and, by way of making his assertion asser-tion believed, capped it with the remark re-mark that he had never had a golf stick in his hands in his life. It may not be legal evidence, but it Is strongly strong-ly circumstantial, that the justice would not nave canea a gon ciud a "stick" had he been a follower of St. Andrew. As a matter of fact, Lamar :has no .recreations of this sort. He is one of those southern men who are .able to keep most warmly human, without doing anything that is patently human, such as golf, or being a baseball "fan." His only recreation Is companionship com-panionship with others, and scholarly pursuits. . i