The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-14
Squaring
The Circle
With
McCREADY HUSTON
McCREADY HUSTON

r AWYERS fascinate me. If I
IL could trade my disordsrly mind
for one from some other profession
I think I would look for it in the
law.
I was reminded of this the other
day when I spent some time with
Arthur Gilliom. Art and I once
lived across the street from each
other and I saw lot of him. Since
then he has been attorney general
and now I find him a prominent
capital attorney.
There is a comfortable folksiness
about Indiana lawyers which is
characteristic and pleasing. For in
stance, they often refer to their pro-
fession as tine law business" Lem
Dare, who is one of the state ex-
aminers, was the first person I ever
heard use the expression. I learn
that it does not mean the counsel
lors hold their calling lightly. 1t is
just an informal, easy way of speak
ing.
THE valuable thing about the
l. law, as it concerns me, is that
it compels its men to think every
problem through. So strong is the
habit that lawyer will take Is min
utes to study a bill-of-fare. He
doesn't want to make mistake. In
ordinary conversation he is conser-
vative and cautious. He does not
want to be wrong even in a trivial
observation.
He reminds me of the conservative
farmer who went blind. Afterward,
following the pillow, he would adj
dress the horse thus: "Giddap,
Charlie-I think"
OF course, we newspaper people, If
we are badly taught, have the feel
ing that we can correct our mis-
takes the next day. The lawyer and
the doctor do not have that advan-
tage, if it is one.
One of the fine things about Art
Gilliom is his ability to raise boys.
Rear" may be the proper word but
raise has a good HooSier sound.
There are four Gilliom sons, one
studying law at Michigan, another
for medicine at Indiana,
and two in high school. They are all
and Ebert, the eldest, is
one of the governors of the Law
Club at Ann Arbor, which is high
student honor.
WE went out and had dinner
w with George Marott in his
unusual hotel. To me, Mr.. Marott
is one of the most interesting men
in indianapolis.
While he had no training in the
law, his mind works like lawyers,
and in his conversation with Art he
opinions which made me
think he had studied law. If ever a
man expressed his personality in his
own creation, Mr.. Marott cid it when
he built the hotel. 1t is different
from any hotel I have ever seen.
1t was our George Marott who
helped the now famous Ralph Hitz
to get started in the hotel business.
knows who has ever
stopped at one of the Hitz hotels
that his also are different. They ex-
press the personality Of the man who
created them. The story of the rise
of Ralph Hitz, as told by Mr.. Ma
rott--who takes no credit to him.
self-is almost the perfect success
story.
4 PERSON miss around town
= n is my old friend Mary Rose
Himler, now the wife Of Roark
Bradford. When she was at Bobbs-
Merrill I used to think she had the
most amusing conversation of any
woman in the publishing business.
She used to help organize and con-
duct the writer's rodeos which were
once SO common. The ones up at
Culver, where Gen. Gignilliat would
round up the authors to parade
them before the cadets, often
showed the touch of Mary Rose.
The general was pretty successful
at getting writer's to come to his
party, partly because he put on
such a grand show. George AIDE,
Nicholson, Walter Green
ough, Elmer Davis, Kate Miner
rabbi and Ed Scoggins usually could
oe found there.
IF the New Deal has done nothing
l. else it las introduced frankness.
For example, Pleas Greenlee calls |