Evening star., 1932-03-13
CARDOzO TO BEGIN
DUTIES TOMORROW
Small Group of Friends viii
See New Supreme Court
Justice Take Oath.

BY the Associated Press
Only the formalities of oath-taking
remain before Benjamin Nathan Car
dozo OF New York goes to his place on
the Supreme Court bench tomorrow.
The ceremonies will be solemn but
simple. Cardozo will meet his colleagues
Just of the court chamber. A little
group OF friends will be present. rare
occurrence, for few outsiders have been
inside the narrow quarters where the
luStlceS don their sombre black robes
to hear him take the constitutional
oath.
A fellow New Yorker, the stately
Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes,
Will administer it, and Cardozo will
take an oath to support and defend
the Constitution against all enemies,
foreign and domestic"
There probably will be time for only
a few brief words of congratulation be-
fore noon, the hour for the ceremonious
entrance into the court room. The
justices will form in line with Hughes
at their head and Cardozo in the rear.
Words Pronounced Clearly.
They go in slowly. Everybody rises.
The clerk of the court, Charles Elmore
Cropley, and the other court attendants
bow and speak. The justices nod and
speak in return. Nimble pages see that
each big leather cushioned chair is in
it's place on the court dais. The court
crier solemnly intones the formal ad-
monishment for all who have business
with the court to draw nigh and give
their attention for the court is now sit
ting"
In some courts about all that can be
distinguished of the crier's announce
ment is the "oyez" but in the Supreme
Court each word is pronounced clearly.
The justices seat themselves and the
audience sits.
Cardoza, however, will not take his
seat on the bench itself at first. He
will find a place by Cropley until the
Chief Justice announces his appoint
ment as if it were news. Hughes will
then direct Cropley to read the new
members commission and with hand
upraised before the clerk, Cardozo will
take the second or judicial oath.
In it. he will swear to administer
Justice without respect to persons and
DO equal right to the poor and to the
rich"
DNdbAhS SNFoSAsy oAsNhA'
The successor to Oliver Wendell
Holmes will then take his seat at the
extreme left of the bench next to
Justice Stone, and the business of the
court will begin.
Cardozos first reaction as he looks
out at the audience jammed into the
small semi-circular room-the old Sen
ate chamber-may be surprised at its
smallness.
Its comfortable seating capacity is
not many more than hundred. There
is a continuous coming and going at
the door in front, the actual entrances
and departures being hidden by screen.
The justices pay no attention to this,
nor do they heed the frequent and
quite audible click of another door
only a few feet from the bench-lead-
ing to the marshal's office.
Frank Questions Asked.
1t is unlikely, however, that Cardozo
long a judge himself-will be sur
prised also at the frankness of the ques-
tions asked by his fellow justices at
times The court is impatient with
conventional oratory. If there is doubt
whether a case belongs on the docket,
an attorney does not get far with his
carefully prepared argument before he
is interrupted.
Why can't you get relief in the State
courts?" is frequent query.
If that is not answered satisfactorily,
the case is about over.