Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-31

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Fuller Will probably he assigned TO his
successor There are nine circuits N
the country, one for each justice OF the
Supreme Court. who was required by
law to sit as presiding judge in his re-
spective circuit court at least once IN
two years. But the act organizing cir
cult courts of appeals made this a dead
letter. and no Supreme Court justice now
troubles himself to go in circuit duty, saw,
now and then, when he may choose to
preside over a circuit court OF appeals
when i is trying an important case.
So a Supreme Court berth is a moro
comfortable one today than in the old
days when members scattered in the
summer months to go TO San Francisco,
New Orleans and seven other points TO do
circuit duty. But their four and half
horrs day on their own bench during thu
six cool months of the year that they Sit
in Washington is not the only time they
have 10 work. While writing his opinions
on important cases each Justice works
many hours at home, before and after
court
The Chief Justices leadership is felt
chiefly in the process of assigning cases
for opinion. Thus when case comes
up for Judgment he assigns 1t TO himself
or TO some associate justice who he de-
sires TO decide it. This initial opinion.
however, must be printed and referred to
the full bench. Each Justice having
studied it carefully either approves or
dissents and a majority decides the case.
In case of a division the views oppose
to those expressed in the original opin-
ion are prepared by the other faction and
one is read as dissenting opinion. These
opinions are written and amended at JUS
tices homes and brought each Satur-
day to the conference room in the base
ment Of the Capitol Here they are read
to all of the members Of the court and
if approved by majority are announces
from the bench Monday, which is always
decision day"
The Forbidden city Of Picking was not
more jealousy guarded in its palmiest
DAYS than is this conference room. An
employee of the court literally turnei
pale the other day when ! asked II it
might be photographed for this article
was very emphatically informed that none
but confidential employees OF the court
are ever allowed to even peep inside or IL
and that not even Clerk Mckinney him
self is admitted while conferences are in
progress.
1t is Uncle Sans Sanctum Sanctorum
JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS
thing, which becomes just sa-ad and hate
full looking.
BY just strolling and avoiding that
foolish sloshing around in the sticky
stuff she is able at least to keep clutch
on little bit of the illusion wherewith
she charms a willing -to-be-charmed
world.
And If we were young Teller en-
barking in life with the deliberate idea
of capturing and espousing a giggiy
young heiress possessed o. fourteen mil
lion seeds or metallic men in her own
right. certainly should not make thu
first escalade, SO 10 put il. while diked
out in a bathing suit. Certainly we
should not. We'd have a feeling all the
time that we were licked before We be-
gan. We'd prefer. in case like that.
to do our initial escalading, anyhow,
in regular suit of clothes properly drap-
ing and screening our almost uncanny
beauty. Wed have bunch If We tried
to pull off something of that kind whiic
swaddled in bathing suit that We
weren't getting ii across; that We were
making wild pitches right along: that
we were getting mired deeper all the
time, and that We were going to be yank-
ed out of the box almost any old minute.
We believe. when II comes to that land.
of course. desire to be absolved here
of any desire 10 make comparisons that
may SAVIOR of slipping ourseif a self
boost)--we believe that had Apollo Bel
videre or Hermes or Mercury or any OF
those ducks been compelled TO pose for
their statues for Pra yiteles or Phidias
while diked out in modern bathing suits
they'd have come down to posterity look
ing like perfect guys and more or less
pikerish flivvers.
The regular togs are the candy. folks.
If you don't believe it or can't see II.
why. just listen: You've often seen a
girl in bathing in the sea In the forenoon
who when she emerged dripping from
the extensive picking brine reminded
YOU Of nothing so much a rained-on
reed bird. and who, thus falling athwart
Your vision. aroused within YOU not a
symptom of CULVER or even the first
preliminary indication of a fiuttering.
But long toward o'clock in the even.
ing you've been sitting on the hotel"
porch, waiting for em to open the dining
room, and you're seen that same cyril
tippytoe out, all dolled and peached up
in her cunnin little white dress and
shoes and tocknettes and with the hair
all waved and bound back with the rib
bon and with the cute little nose all pow
dered and the freckles banished and all
like that. and you've forgotten all about
the opening of the dining room door AMI
how she looked In the bathing toys during
the forenoon. and you've sat there in n
over, and YOU We
Oh. well, anyhow. there Is difference
and you KNOW there is.
CLARENCE L.. CULLEN.