The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-20

his eye = Justice Harlan F Justice Stone is 64 years old, a lifelong republican, but he gave the President his best ammunition against the Court iI1 the AAA dis- sent, and perhaps most important of all, avoids the cloistered and sometimes Inusty vaccurn in which 50 many Supreme Court justices become fossilized.
 In fact, Justice Stone almost seems to fear the isolation which grips 6 Supreme Court justice. He works at the job of couliteracting this .--- works at it hard. He goes out of his way to see social contacts. dimes out three or four nights a week, etltertAirs fre- quently at home, seldom misses 8 Sunday symphony concert, and is not at all squearYaish over jokes aimed against the dignity of himself or his colleagues. He seems to enjoy them.
 Once q friend invited him to a cocktail party, called up later to tell him in advance that John L. Lewis was invited, giving Justice Stone the opportunity to back out. Justice Stone replied:
 "Y don't care who's going to Dc there. I'm 2 free agent and I have 8 right to come and 90 as ! wish."
 Not only did Stone attend the party; but he mingled freely with such liberal thinkers as Senator Norris and Charles Beard, the historian, discussing with them such sacred subjects as the con- Stitution and the court. .A Outdoor Man
 Justice Stone has oil the ap. pearances of the successful Arr1eri- can business man, heavy-set, bluff, hearty, well.dressed. There is nothing scholarly or stuffy about him. As g youth he was expelled from an agricultural college be- cause of his two.fisted exuberayce during 8 ha2ing fracas, later be- came star football player at Aln- herst. AS Q senior he conceived the idea of stealing Sabrina, the goddess of Amherst men, away from the alumni and secreting her in the barn of his future father in-law. And today there is still lot of mischief in the heart of Harlan Stone.
 When he built his home in Washington, he designed a secret door between his study and the dining room, hidden by a book case which swings aside at the push of a concealed button.
 When he arose on frosty winter mornings to join the Hoover medi- cine ball cabinet, 1t was not merely for the sake of hob-nobbing with the President of the United States, but because Stone really loves to exercise.
 When he gets out the old lawn- mower on his island off the coast of Maine, or lounges around the dock on a summer afternoon talk. ing with the fishermen, Harlan Stone is really enjoying life.
 Also, having warned his cole leagues in Scalding words that "for the removal of unwise laws from the statute books, appeal lies not to the courts but to the ballot," 1t is not unnatural that Stone should watch the present squirming of his colleagues with . feeling of intense amusement. Beloved Teacher r
 Few college professors have been more loved by, their students than Justice Stone. As Dean of the Columbia law school he got to know hundreds of youngsters, many of them now prominent at torneys. They all swear by him. / One of these is Congressman Lister Hill of Alabama, who says that in 1916, after leaving Colum- bia, he wrote to Stone asking for an autographed photograph. Time passed and no photo came.
 Finally. in 1924, after Stone be- came Attorney General under Coolidge, Hill went to see him. Stone looked at him sharply and said: By the way, Lister, did you ever get that photograph"
 Hill had forgotten all about it. Next day 1t arrived by special messenger.
 Spiked Mellon
 As attorney general, Stone was the bane and the terror of the Coolidge administration. Once when one of Mabel Walker Wille- brandt's prohibition agents raided a Mellon distillery near Pittsburgh Andy brought pressure to have her dismissed.
 Stone not only rebuffed his Cabinet colleague, but went fur- ther. He recommended prOsecu- ton of Mellon's aluminium com-