The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1920-05-17
JUDGE HOWE
SAYS HE'S A
VT. FARMER
And Has a Farm Where He
Can Pl0w a FurrOw a
Mile Long

The Syracuse newspaper men have
been trying to interview Judge Har-
! land B. Howe and the Syracuse Her.
aid has, discovered that Nermont's
jurist is 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 falmer--a YER
mont farmer.
/ He SAYS so himself.
The federal court jurist, whose
stand as presiding judge in the cur
rent Syracuse session insisting upon
trial of alleged profiteers of highmer-
chandising reputation, has focused
the eyes of the nation upon his court
/ himself and Syracuse, is farmer.
! SO he says, Vermont farmer.
/ Vermont is the Granite state.
st. Johnsbulv is the judges farm
/ hold.
/ st. Johnsbury is the townseat of
st. Johnsbury townsh'- 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 school there,
certainly the school that produced
Judge Howe. Until year ago, with
the exception of his college years att
Ann Arbor, Mich, where he studied
law, his months at Montpelier, where
he sat as a member of the Vermont
legislature, and like months he has
sat as United States court judge in
the last five years, Judge Howe has
been a ST. Johnsburv boy.
None of this information was OBJ
tanned from the JUDGE, except the
simple statement that he is farm
er.
GIVE farm on which you can
pillow a furrow mile long" he told
his interviewer, "and if you'd like to
talk farming sit down"
On the exterior nolished Ken
tuckian, this Vermont farmer, as
he processes himself, tells one to
sit down, doesn't ask it.
"You want to know who | am?;"
he said directly. "Well, Pm a Yer
mont farmer"
That was the extent of the infor-
nation he would volunteer concern
ing himself. Questioned concerning
his legal career, his comment on the
the weather was commonplace.
Judge Howe is of the opinion that
the mast winter has been a severe
one. His opinion of the coming
summer was not learned.
This is the man learned counsel for
prominent Albany district business
men sought to disqualify from pre-
siding at their trials on the grounds
that his ALLEGED utterances proved
him biased and prejudiced in his
views toward them.
This comes from the man disclaim-
ed bias or prejudice in the instances
and ordered the cases to trial under
him at once to protect the good name
of the court and maintain its dignity.
This is the man who has caught
wide public fancy-Harland B.
Howe.
Concerning himself and his career
he is so reticent as to be difficult He
II HO ilSN SIJdptlHldH meal.
Enthusiastically he says of the
press:
"The press-the press-God bless
some of it,
And Judge Howe can blame as
well as praise, which he did here in
the same breath, blame as charac-
teristically and pithily as he praised.
George Washington is his patron.
February % has figured at least
twice and each time significantly in
his career. He was born that day
in 1888. He was elevated that day in
1915 to the federal bench.
These details were garnered by