St. Johnsbury Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-1920, 1920-05-19
JUDGE HOWE
SAYS HE'S A
VT. FARMER
And Has a Farm Where He
Can PlOW a FurrOw "A
Mile Long

The Syracuse newspaper men have
been irving to interview Judge Har-
land Il. Howe and the Syracuse Her
aid has discovered that Vermont !;
. jurist l.; a St. .JohnSbury farmer.
Judge Howe has big farm, as all
/ know, but 1t is located at Maid
stone and not in his home town. But
here is the New York newspapers
story OF the versatile Judge:
Judge Howe is farmcr-a Yer
mont farmer.
He says so himself.
The federal court .iuliSt, whose
stand as presiding jud"c in the cur
rent Syracuse session insistino upon
trial OF alleged proiiteers Of highmcr-
chandising reputation, has focused
the eyes of the nation upon his court
himself and Syracuse, is d farmer.
SO he says, Vermont farmer.
Vermont is the Granite state.
st. JohnSburv is the judges farm
hold.
St. Johnsbuiy Is the townScat of
ST. Johnsbury townShi- in Caledonia
county, which shoulder the New
Hampshire line on the right and the
rest Of Vermont on the other sides.
There are about 1000 folks in st.
JohnSbury. There is Il school there,
certainly the school that produced
Judge Howe. Until II year ago, with
the exception of his college years at
Ann Arbor, Mich, where he studied
law, his months at Montpelier. where
he sat rs Il member of the Vermont
legislature, and like months he has
sat us United States court judge in
the last five years, Judge Howe has
been st. Johnsburv boy.
None of this information was OBJ
tanned from the jud We, except the
simple statement that he is Il farm
cr.
"I'vc farm on which you can
pillow turrow IL mile long," he told
his interviewer, "and if you'd like to
talk farming sit down."
On the exterior a "olished Ken
tuckian, this Vermont farmer, as
he processes himself, tells one to
lit down, doesn't ask it.
"You want to know who am?;"
he said directly. "Wcll, I'm a Yer
mont farmer
That was the extent of the infor-
nation he would volunteer concern
ng himself. Questioned concerning
lis legal career, his comment on the |
he weather was commonplace.
Judge Howe is of the opinion that
he vast winter has been Il severe
me. His opinion of the coming
was not learned
This is the man learned counsel for
prominent Albany district business
nen sought to disqualify from pre-
iding at their trials on the grounds
hat his ALLEGED uttcrances proved
i'm biased and prejudiccd in his
Jews toward them.
This comes from the man disclaim-
d bias or prejudice in the instances
nd ordered the cases to trial under
i'm at once to protect the good name
f the court and maintain its dignity.
This is the, man who has caught
'ide public fancy-Harland B.
lowe.
Concerning himself and his career
e is so reticent as to be difficult. He
no ncwspaperman'S meat.
CllaractcllStically he says OF inc
ross:
"Thc press-the press-God bless
,mc of it!'-
And Judge Howe can blame as
ell as praise, which he did here in
lie same breath, blame as charac-
ristically and pithily as he praised. ;
George Washington is his patron.
ebruary % has figured at least {
rice and each time significantly in |
$ career. He was born that day {
1888. He was elevated that day in ;
is to the federal bench.
These details were garnercd by
lephone and telegraph inquiry when |
failed to elicit any in
concerning Judge Howe +
e man, OF the ma gis'trate. l