The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-24
JOSEPH III. CHoATE, LAWYER
AND DIPLOMAT is 81
YEARS OLD TO-DAY

Celebrating his eighty-first birth
day, Joseph Hodges Choate, former
American am AMBASSADOR to England,
leader of the New York bar, corpora
ltion counsel and active worker in
many humanitarian movements, may
look back upon an active and useful
| career. But the chances are that Mr..
Choate will not do any looking back.
ward, being too busy with the pres
emit and the future. The wonderful
octogenarfan has. become the grand
old man of America and likes the
title so well that he expects to hold it
for many years to come. Critics may
say that he robs Peter to pay Paul
by acting as attorney for soulless COR
porations and spending no small part
of his fees in the various charitable
m OVEN ents in which he is interested.
MT. Choate Is now president of the
American Society for the Judicial Set
tlement of International Disputes,
head of the New York State Charities
Aid Association, prominent in the
movement for the celebration of the
centennial of peace among English
speaking peoples.~and interested in
many other associations. Age has not
diminished his ability as an after-din-
ner speaker. and no big banquet in
New York is complete without his
presence.
Salem, Mass, points with pride to
the fact that it is the birthplace of
Mr.. Choate. Born in that city on
Jan. "a, 1892, he was educated at 1ar-
ward, and was admitted to the Massa-
chusetts bar In 1855, all of which
seems like very ancient history to be
recorded of a living man. He went
to New York in 1855, and soon be-
came a shining legal light, identified
with numerous famous cases. In
1899 he went to England as ambassa-
dor to the court Of st. James, and dur
ing his six years in that important
position accomplished much toward
cementing of the relations between
the United States and the mother
country.
International peace is the cause
dearest to the heart of the aged law
ed States delegate to the Information
al Peace Conference at The Hague in
1907, and has since been leader In
the movement for arbitrating quar-
re1s between nations.
eve must expect wars in the fu-
ture as in the past he said not long
ago, s.but I notice that they are grow
ing shorter, which is q good sign" >
No man can live efghty-one years
without formulating a philosophy of
life.a Among the things the great
schoolnaster, life, has taught Mr..
Choate, are these:
Success. is always the same story of
the sound mind and the earnest heart
in the sound body
sIt is the women of country in
whose hands its destiny reposes. No
cause can succeed that is not great
enough to command their sympathy"
ssGet all the entertainment we can
out OF our work as we go along. for
we may rest assured that If we post
pone the fun of life until the work is
done 1t will never come"
I Robert Grant, author4of "Unleaven-
ed Bread and many other books that
have made him famous, was born in
Boston sfxty-one years ago to-day. His
career as a writer began in 1879
with the publication of '"The little
Tin Gods on Wheels. For eighteen
years ME was overseer Of Harvard, his
alma mater and judge of probate
court He married Amy, the daugh-
ter of Sir Alexander Tiiloch Gait, of
in 1888. Mr.. Grant was one
Of the charter members OF the Au-
thors' League of America incorporat-
ed last. month