The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-02-18
NOT ENOUGH
HOURS IN DAY
FOR ALL HIS WORK
Declared the Commissioners
Of Baseball AS He Took
His Place To-day in the
Federal Court in Chica-
go--Has Forwarded Res
ignation Already

Chicago, Feb. Is Thy the Associated
Press Federal Judge kenesaw NJ
Lands to-day announced that ne had
rasioned from the bench and would de-
vote his entire time to his position q
baseball commissioner
The resignation is effective March 4.
Announcement of it was made Tor
mally BY the Judge to-day az ne eook
his place in court.
sThere are not enough hours in the
day for all my activities, SAID tne
Judge, therefore ] have forwarded my
resignation as federal Judge to WASH
inrton, effective March ~
The Judge then called the first case
on his docket and refused to discuss
the matter until court recess.
Judge Lands will have virtually
completed seventeen years rs Judge Tor
the northern district Of Illinois when
his resignation becomes effective
Rumors Of the resignation have been
current for months and intimate
friends have known for some time that
the action was imminent,
II has been generally understood
that Judge Lands would have resigned
some time ago but for the attacks
made on him BY Senator Dial of South
Carolina and the notoriety brought
through his handling of the case OF
Willie Dalton, seventeen year-old bank
robber. On the verge Of resigning when
these things came up, the judge
changed his plans, informing friends
that he would never resign under fire.
Senator Dial had attacked the Judge
because of the latter's statement that
bank officials sometimes were partly
responsible for robberies by boys since
they dh not make adequate salaries.
Senator Dial and Representative Welty
of Ohio later proposed impeachment
proceedings against the judge, the rep
resentatiye basing his case on the hold
ing of two positions by the judge.
Both cases were dropped.
The Judge became head of organized
baseball shortly after the grand jury
investigation into the 1919 world Sc
ries scandal
Although Sc years old, Judge lands
has always been known as boy at
heart and lover of all forms of sport.
The baseball magnates urged him to
re-organize baseball afor the sake Of
the American boy" and it was this
plea which won.
His unique conduct in court. where
he frequently took the cases out of
the lawyers hands and examined wit
nesses himself caused him TO be feared
by all law breakers. At The same time
his reputation for administering JUS
tice brought him universal respect.
He was vigorous in his attitude
against anti Americans during the war.
= In every war case brought before him
where the defendant was found guilty
the Judge imposed drastic sentences
and scathingly denounced any one who
seemed un-American.
Judge lands was one Of the thirty
persons TO whom bombs were mailed
on May day. in 1919, and during the
1911 black hand trials here he received
many death threats. He insisted on
sitting through the trials.
Judge lands first became nationally
famous when he fined the Standard Oil
company Of Indiana S29, 10000, which
decision later ~ss reversed by higher
court.
In the courtroom the Judge always
was a picturesque figure. not only be-
cause Of his flowing white hair, but
because of his keen wit He once
barred @wrist watched lawyers" and
was drastic in his action against the
courtroom loafers or courtroom liz
ards as he called them.