Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-25
Heart and Intellect United
I'm MarshalPs Personality

was called upon more often than he to
argue constitutional questions in the
United States Supreme Court. Bonus
laws inheritance-tax laws, compensa-
ton laws, special franchise tax, the tax
on stock transfers, alien immigration
laws and many international cases
these were only few of the subjects
with which his name was identified"
Mr.. Marshall was, in the opinion OF
the New York Times, "a living illustra-
ton of America as the land of opportu-
nifty" for, while his remarkable powers
would doubtless have made him man
of note in any country, in the United
States they had freer course than they
could have found elsewhere. What he
became he made himself by sheer pene-
tration of mind and untiring applica-
tiop< His death removed one whom his
fellow lawyers have long delighted to
honor, and citizen whose usefulness
could be measured only in terms of an
abounding and gracious personality
which cannot itself be measured The
Savannah Press feels that it will be
difficult to replace IAN American Of
such brilliance, a lawyer of such ability
and citizen of such splendid attain
ments.''
He was philanthropic and his activi-
ties on lines of social welfare were far
reaching. His death will leave a gap in
the intellectual life of the metropolis
says the Buffalo Evening News, while
the Asheville Times recalls that ION
the occasion of his 10th birthday, he
was presented with an address signed
by more than 5000 persons in many
lands, testitying to his Character and
ettainmentS. At that time" continues
the Asheville paper. 1.-The Jewish Tribune
rightly claimed him as a prince in
Israel and the acknowledged leader of
American Jewry.' His sympathies were
not restricted by racial boundaries. At
Paris in 1919 he was instrumental in
| negotiating treaties with Poland, Ru-
mania and other countries in which
| the equal rights of racial, linguistic and
religious minorities were made obliga-
tons OF world concern and especially
placed under the protection of the
League of Nations"
He hated oppression as oppression,
and all his tactfulnesS in negotiation,
all his profound knowledge of interna-
tional and of constitutional law, all his
capacity for enthusiasm were at the
service of the oppressed" remarks the
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, and the Cincin-
| natl Times-Star mentions, as perhaps
his greatest contribution" his activity
in behalf OF reforms in the law. He
assisted by wise counsel and cogent
argument in the modern effort to make
the letter of the law conform to the
spirit of justice. It is Louis Marshall
the humanitarian that is remembered
| rather than Louis Marshall the lawyer,
the heart rather than the mind. HUI
mainly is grateful when large ability is
put at its service"
Products of Louis Marshall's work
win continue in their good purpose now
that he has passed on, as memorials to
his service for his race and for man.
kind" testif1es the Jersey City Journal.
The Springfield Republican is impressed
by the fact that 1.-The position which Mr..
Marshall held among his coreligionists
was strikingly attested four years ago
when straw vote was taken by jew
ish newspaper among its subscribers to
determine a list of the 10 Jews who
have done the most to preserve and to
| further the ideals and traditions of
America He was third in the voting,
| preceded only by Nathan Straus and
Justice Louis D. Brandeis.s
Home or abroad, local or distant"
states the Utica Observer Dispatch.
anything that touched uporl BETTER
ment interested Louis Marshall"