The Washington times., 1931-11-23

'I nominated Mr. Brandeis for the Supreme Court he
told the Senate because my deliberate judgment that
of all the at the bar whom has been privilege
to observe test and know he is exceptionally qualified
speak highly of his impartial mpersonal orderly
and constructive mind his analytical powers, his deep
human sympathy his profound acquaintance with the hsor
cal roots of institutions and insight into their spirit
of the evidences he has of being mbued to the
very heart with our American ideals Of justice and equality
of opportunity This friend of justice and of will
ment the High Court of which all justly proud.
The President had his way and the "radcal''
approved.
few days ago Justice Brandeis celebrated his seventy
fifth birthday And far and wide the land there
voiced confirmation of Wilson's prophecy Of the man. still
the RADICAL champion Of human rights above all else
Another President, this time conservative and Repub
can, joined in the chorus Of acclaim. Conservative law
through its professional journals united in declaring the
revered Justice of the greatest judges in all the
history of the United States Supreme Court
If time has revealed to public realization his great
lecua STATURE has not been at the expense of compro
mise with his ruthless logic his answering passion for the
truth, his unbending championship of human rights
Brandeis Hasn't Changed
The Brandes of 1916 the Brandes of today the
little grayer bit stopped, but the un-
quenchable spirit for human progress and upift is
changed Today then he lives in austere simplicity de-
voted to work and the PRONUNCIATION of truth.
Justice Brandes comes by his devotion to liberalism
through long family tradition. His parents Amer
lea refuse after the unsuccessful revolution Bohemia
in 1848 They settled in Louisville, Kentucky where his
father prospered in business Their named after.
uncle Louis Dembitz, who voted for Lincoln at the Chi
cago convention in 1860
When the Civil War Louis father stood staunchly
by the Union Kentucky disputed ground between the
North and the South but the father dscardng all other
considerations gave his loyalty and to the Union.
Louis education wide and deep At carly
he taken Europe where he studied at Dresden Ger
many His family fortune coapsng in the panic of 1873,
young Brandeis worked his way through Harvard Law
School by tutoring He graduated with the highest
honors.
He began practicing law in St. Louis but returned
Boston There he frequently appeared before Justice
Oliver Wendell Holiness then member of the State Su
preme Court.
His unusual talents early marked him out lucrative
business People who knew him in those early days
remember him fastidious dresser fond of good
pany, and devOtee of good horses: He the high
road to wealth when he employed to defend manu-
facturer against the claims Of of his workers.
Brandeis discovered that his client knew little about Ia
Dor and he set himself to bring about amcabe Just
settlement between him and his workers He succeeded
This case may not have been the beginning of his interest
in the problems of economics and labor but nquestion
ably important landmark in his life
His from then an evergrowng champion
ship, of human liberties As time he stripped his
life of the modest luxuries he had allowed himself
plicity.
Simplicity Is Marked.
This simplicity he and his devoted wife have maintained
throughout their long residence in the Capital They reside
In modest, odfashioned apartment house. The rooms of
their home furnished with almost meagerness
The Justice has automobile He and Justice Holmes
his closest colleague the court rent to take them
to and from the Capitol He loves walking, and the COM
pany of interesting people.
Both he and Mrs Brandeis unrng scholars of broad
interest Mrs Brandeis is completing the translation
ofa German volume child education The Justice
interested and has made wide study of the subject
The Justices resemblance to Lincoln is often subject
of comment. But with him it is wholly unconscious
Today, in the endless weer of laws and laws he
sees as the ages greatest need revival of ideals For
to believe in truth and to stand unflnchngly for against
all odds is to him the world great need.
He believes that such trial Of strength not too much
to ask for To him it possible to all if they will