Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-06-08
NAMES OF NOTED MEN
Chief Justice Won Mosehzlsker and
the Late Justice Mestrexat 40 Elk.
annples-The Minister Who
Fought Cardinal Richelieu.
Or. schelllns on
r Students
By GEORGE NOx MCCAIN

ny GEORGE NOX MCCAIN
THE late Louis N. Megargee once insisted
= that Judge Robert Won Moschzisker. now
Chief Justice Of the Supreme Court. change
his name.
-. At the time, seventeen years ngo. the
distinguished jurist was just beginning his
upward march to the highest honors In his
profession.
Us he aware that he is driving the Officers
OF his court and the lawyers who have to
properly pronounce the unpronounceabe
nane" declared the editor and publisher
OF Seen and Heard.
But the future Chief Justice went serenely
on MS way. as was proper.
Ms did not change a letter or reform a
appeal.
Guy r. visknisky. one time we'll known
journalist In this city. now an editor and
publisher in New York. native born Ameri :
can OF European ancestry. answers to u
name almost as difficult of pronunciation as
that of the jurist.
What does It matter anyhow?
JUSTICE 8. LESLIE MEsTREZAT was
u one Of Judge Won Moschzisker's predeces-
sors on the Supreme Bench.
He died April %, 1918. and Edward j.
torney General in charge Of the investiga
tion OF juggled accounts in the Office OF
former State Treasurer Harmon NJ. KEEP
hart, was appointed to fll the vacancy.
Justice Mestrezat also bore name whose
correct pronunciation was always a mat
ter of discussion.
He came Of long line of Huguenot fore.
bears. One of his ancestors was the fore
most Huguenot scholar in France.
lie lived four hundred years ago and was
known and noted for his skill in contro-
Cardinal Ricbelia, told him IN bis faco
that he was "the boldest Minister In
France
MY FRIEND. DR.. George William Lin
lV4 coin. communicated the following in.
antecedents of Stephen Leslie Mestrezat,
who is remembered as one of the most
courteous. poIished and learned Judges that
ever graced the bench.
Colonel James NJ Cnffev was responsible
Supreme Court. He was then the leader of
Pennsylvania Democracy.
Let me present what DR.. Lincoln has 10
say on this subject Of names and nationali =
ties:
i the Jesuit who was rho court chaplain
at that time. prenched Two violent sermons
before T. Iouis Xiii in which be ATTACKED the
Protestants.
He openly accused them of misauoting
the Scriptures varhjino ouotations nutting
false satone tbsm and beins
generally ignorant.
"Comino from sucb n ouarter nm attack
Of this nofura could NOT ba nvSrlooLed
"It was promptlv answered in n nam
pblet. Defense of the Confession of the Re-
formed Churches of France against the &C.
chsations ~ M SrnonI tbe fss,;t
THE style and tbe ieornine Of The renlv
at once attracted ottention and violent
controversy spranp nm Paris was in n
turmoil: It rained pamphlets.
The Sorbonne tool a hand in the fray
."rbe parljament nf por,s nrdored ~:
arrest of tho writer's who werc four Protes. !.
tant ministers of Charenton. Nont;un; In :.
rand. Du Moulin and Mestrezat.
"The council summoned them to onnear
was using every means in it's power TO hush
the matter up.
0DUT II was to no purpose.
6 "Tbe noise of the storm reacbed
Richelieu who was then living in retirement
I'm his diocese OF Lucon,
"He had been banisbed from the court
after he had been dismissed from his nosi :.
tion as Minister Of Foreign Affairs after % the
assassination Of Concini tho Marshal NJ
Anre. and for being involved in the intrieues
of The Queen mother Marie do Wedicis
He was practically in exile n az hs was
forbidden TO stir beyOnd the bounda rios of
bis diocese VI
"At onca be set himself 70 ren,v n Tho
wort which had come from Charan ~ 'To IL
three months he nuhIIsbed his answor a
nr;nted hook of 65O naoos nnt;.,oI .'iha
Ebiaf Points ~ rho raitb of tho To.haiie
C,Lmrcb JofenSed aooinat tbo wmi.,na oi
drassed to tbo Kine hv tho fomr n,inis az,
~ Cbarenton'
lean Nestrezst who was ono ~ .h.
four authors. was one Of the foremoat
IyMa,snnt scho,"rs in Eron VIC '''e"''''
.sTba ;nterestino tbinn co. po,,sr,,,,.
10 tho fact that this ds,ntiess Wr,.,,onnt
wbom Cardinal Richel;em thou1bt a soo,.,o ;,