The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-01-27
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CONTEMPT DUE
Speakers at Lawyers Club Banquet
Have Heap of Fun With
Jurists.

The Lawyers club is not big
bludgeon exactly; neither does T.
tread softly when il has the judiciary
present as guests. II is to the grave
and reverend seignors what the Grid
iron club is to the immortals at Wash
ington. to.wit. vent for pent-up emo
tons touching notaDles tnat are gen
orally too deeply panoplied In author
lty and austerity to have much fun
with.
The club is composed OF young
lawyers, who laugh at scars-pre-
sumably because they have never felt
wound A little while ago they had
the circuit judges In for beefsteak and
badinage at the Fellowcraft club; to
discuss the golden age of now or the
goneness OF the was. or anything else
present or past Wednesday night the
supreme court came TO town to help
the club settle the dear meat sitna-
ton with something more professional
than fasting and payer They all did
what they could TO increase the price
by reducing the suppy-a process that
argued better for prospective Tees
than Fletchersm or vegetarianism
James D. May and Tom May settled
the vexed grammatical question q
May" and Can" Both were right
The Mays could and did. James pokel
fun at the dignitsries present and Tom
(more prudent) poled his cruel crayon
at the illustrious absent.
The rich baritone voice OF Col
John Atkinson was tried and the jury
found it guilty without leaving the
room. Clamorous demand for re-
t!ial granted amidst applause.
Ivan Swift. poet, iitterateur and "a.
conteur--d bully one, by the way
came down from the north to disguise
some heretical doctrines in French
Canadian dialect The club seems to
take to heterodoxy Of the humanizing
sort. for they ratified for more.
The supreme court was allowed a
word The opinion was by Justice
Ostrander He wanted TO know why
the lawyers didn't come To see MIN
socially for old acquaintance sake, any
more. He assured the barristers that
the dog had not chewed the welcome
sign from the doormat. or words 70
that effect This appeal for uncon-
ventiona good fellowship was se-
ceiyed with loud tokens OF approval
from the Juvenile court In one OF
the banquet room a;coyes.
The decision handed down by JUS
tice Ostrander, setting aside the I'M
preston that members of the court
are TO be approached only after re-
moving the shoes, prompted James
Schermerhorn 10 give newspaper
mans opinion of thu judiciary unawed
by fear II contempt, unbribed by the
possibility OF having libel suit come
before II some fine day.
He welcomed the Jurists to the scere
of the glorious automobile show and
the alluring automobile litigation. II
Is well that motor'car manufacturers
and disgraced bankers are getting into
TIE courts, for the price of justice has
gone up with other necessities and
only the prosperous can afford II. IL
you go to the top story Of any tall Of
fee building you will find a lawyer
who took automobile stock In payment
Of legal services-and that's another
story Mr.. Schermerhorn thought It
was fine for the supreme court 80
come down TO Detroit, much finer than
FOR Detroit to 60 UP to the supreme
court: for we have been up there sey
oral timcs. and still were adjudged in
competent TO run our own street car
system. II was a glorious apparltion,
/ that figure OF Annette Kellerman with
the bandaged eyes and the balanced
scales. only now and then. II we can
believe President Taft and Judge Lind
sey, the bandaSe is constructed OF
lpeek-a-boo stun and the scales are Of
the computing kind. The speaker IN.
sisted that no definite application or
| his remarks was intended. His re!a-
tions with the court had been ideally
satisfactory. ro- ne had had no rela-
tiops whatever with them. In view OF
the laws delays and the luxury ~
court processes generally he believed
! I'm the TolstOyan doctrine Of non-rc-
sistance. II man snite you ON one
check. turn the other 1t is better than
! being disigured from top 20 toe. II
one take thy coat. give him thy cloak
also. It Is better than losing your
whole wardrobe at law. II one shall
ask thee 70 go with him mile, 80
with him twain; II H. better than going
TO the SUPREME court.
Supreme Justices Stone, Ostrander,
Hooker. Moore. Montgomery and
Brooke were present. No protest
against Justice Montgomery being
one OF the martyrs that went TO the
becfsteak was received from Sault
Ste. Marie.