The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-20

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 Sutherland has Q most agree able manner. He is mild and charming. During the private de- bates he is always calm and even-tempered. He does not get irritated as does Butler; he does not sullr as does McReynolds. But to try to change eutherland's set conviction on any economic sub- ject Is like paying ct the moon. Sutherland is "A years old. And his law, his economic rea- sonlng, are as old or older than he.
 He spent most of his life in an age that is no more--an age of fenceless pralries, free land, and llmitless natural resources.
 Born in England, sutherland's parents brought him to Utah, where he became Q budding young lawyer, aligned himself with the Mormon republican machine and in 1901 was elected to congress, later to the senate. Harding's Friend
 In the senate Sutherland was known chiefly for his long and dreary dissertations on the Con- stitution and his friendship with Warren Gamaliel Harding. The future President, perhaps because he rarely listened, or because he himself knew little of such things, considered the scholarly Utahan very erudite man.
 At any rate, Sutherland was defeated by Senator King and left the Senate in 1917. In 1920, he he spent several months advising Harding on his campaign. Hard- ing appointed him to the Supreme Court in 1922.
 On the court, Sutherland has established . record in opposing state Iegislatlton to control bus- iness and regulate labor condi. tons. At
 It was Sutherland who wrote the opinion outlawlng the min. imuna wage. lt was Sutherland who wrote the opinion making unconstitutional the calld. labor law. It was Sutherland, who, in the Baltimore Street Railway case of 1880, ruled that . fare fixed by the state per. hitting Che company . 6 l.4 per cent return was "cOnfiscatory."
 Finally 1t was Sutherland who wrote the majority opinions up. setting Oklahoma's attempt to again checking the right of a state to use its taxing power to promotet cooperative farming.
 Justice Sutherland has hy- pochondriacal tendencies and he is constantly talking about medi. cine and his ailments. Two or three years ago he talked about resigning. But like some of his other antl.New Deal colleagues, Sutherland now is determined to stand by as the protector of the Constitution to the very end. On the Jump
 A few days after his court cole leagues had riddled tho AAA, Justice Harlan P. Stone, one- time dean of the Columbia Law School, met one of his former students, now Q government lAWVVeT
 "Aow are you getting on, John?" inquired stone.
 Pretty good, Mfr. Justice. I was with the legal division Of the NRA last year, then I transferred Co the AAA, and now ! am in the legal division oR the Securities and Exchange Commission"
 Stone smiled, said:
 "I see. Keeping one jump ahead of us, eh?"
 NOTE--Some New Dealers fear the SEC will SO the way of other New Deal agencies, be declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
 Louder and Funnier
 Rushed with other matters up to the last minute before deliv- ering Q recent speech, Wallace failed to 90 oyer the final draft of his manuscript, which he had turned over to an assistant to prepare.
 Appearing before the audience. Wallace was Q little hesitant at first, but gradually warmed to the work. Finally be became Co fervid that without realizing 1t, he read aloud the following typed notation:
 "At thls point tell audience . funny story and set them In good humor."
 Only when Q roar of laughter burst on him did he stop, and look to sec what he had said. Then he, too. joined in the joke on himself.
 Mail Bag E. P. S., Madison, Wls.-There is nothing in the Constitution which empowers the suprem Court to declare acts of Congress unconstitutional W. K, Boise, daho-Iranklin D Roosevelt's venture into the aircraft business was in 1923, when he became member of Q company known as General Air Service" purposing OFF THE RECORD