The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-01-28
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CONTEMPT DUE
Speakers at Lawyers Club Banquet
Have Heap of Fun With
Jurists.

SAAAoNos
The Lawyers club is not a big
bludgeon exactly; neither does l.
tread softly when il has the judiciary
present AS guests. II Is To the grave
and reverend seignors what the Grid
! iron club rs to the immOrtals at Wash.
iugton. to-wit. vent for pent-up emo
tons touching notables that are gen.
orally TOO deeply panoplied In author
I ity and austerity 10 have much fun
with
The club is composed of young
lawyers. who laugh at scars-pre-
sumably because they have never lelt
wound. A little while ago they had
Z the circuit judges in for beefsteak anti
badinage at the Fellowcraft club: 90
! discuss the golden age OF now or she
goneness OF the was. or anything else
present or past Wednesday night the
supreme court came 10 town Ia help
/ tie club settle the dear meat situa-
I ton with something more professional
/ than fasting and prayer. They all dlo
what they could To increase the price
! by reducing the supply-a process that
argued better for prospective Tees
/ than Fletcherism OF Negetarianism.
James d. May and Tom May settled
I the yexed grammatical question q
May" and Can" Both were right.
The Mays could and did. James pokel
j fun at the dignitsries present and Tom
I more pradenU poked 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 tho
room. Clamorous demand for a re-
I I, 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 10 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 10 know why
the lawyers didn't come to see MIN
socially for old acquaintance sake. any
more. He assured the 5arristers that
the dog had not chewed the welcome
sign from the doormat. or words 70
that effect This appeal for uncon-
ventional good fellowship was e
ceived with loud tokens OF approval
from the Juvenile court IN one OF
the banquet room aicoves
!, The decision handed down by jus
tice Ostrander. setting aside the ini-
= preston that members OF the court
= are TO be approached only after -.
moving the shoes, prompted James
, Schermerhorn TO give a newspaper
) mans opinion OF tn judiciary unawed
; by fear IF contempt. unbribed by the
; possibility of having libel suit como
. before It some fine day.
He welcomed the jurists TO the scene
; OF the glorious automobile show and
? the alluring automobile litigation. 1t
Is well that motor-car manufacturers
. and disgraced bankers are getting into
tre courts. for the price OF justice has
? gone up with other necessities and
only the prosperous can afford ii. II
YOU 90 10 the top story OF any tall Of
fee building you Will ind a lawyer
who took automobile stock in payment
OF legal seFvices-and that's another
story. Mr. Schermcrhorn thought Il
was fine for the supreme court 70
come down toADetroit, much finer than
/ TOR Detroit To go UP 10 the suprcce
court: for we have been up there sew
icral times. and still were adjudged in
I competenu 10 run our own street car
system II was a glorious apparition,
/ that figure OF Annette Kellerman with
the bandlged ewes and the balanced
scales: only now aDd then. II We can
believe President Taft and Judge Lind
sey. the bandaSa Is constructed OF
peek-a-boo stun and the scales are Of
the computing kind. The speaker in.
sisted that no definite application OF
his remarks was intended. His rela
tions with the court had been ideally
satisfactory, I0T ne had had no rela-
tions 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. If man smite you on one
cheek. turn the other: IL is better than
being dishgured from top TO toe. X
one take thy coat. give him thy cloak
also. il is better than losing your
whole wardrobe al law. Ii one shall
ask thee to 60 with him a mile, 20
with him twain: II il better than going
10 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
beefsteak was received from SauIt
Ste Marie.