Evening star., 1938-07-10
Cardo7o Hoped to Auoid Court
Post, Former Secretary Says
Asides on Gentle but Disciplined Life
ReUealed-Master of Statutes He
Read Briefs in Advnz,ce.

He didn't read by lines, but by
paragraphs and pages. He could look
at pages and keep turning.
He was so familiar with the stat
utes that you couldn't assist him. In
stead Of my doing original research
work he could always say, You'll find
that in volume SO and so, on page so
and so.'"
Once Clarence J. Shearn, who had
resigned as justice of the appellate di-
vision, said admiringly to Justice Car
dozo. you're = living encyclopedias of
law" Mr.. Paley recalled.
Mr.. Shearn came up as q practicing
lawyer to chambers, after one Of his
cases had been in the Court of Ap-
peals, and asked Justice Cardo1o about
q matter not related to his case.
You'll find 1t in New York report
so-and-so." Justice Cardozo said, and
walked over, picked up the book and
turned to the page.
Ahead Of Attorneys.
When Justice Cardozo was chief
Judge of the Court Of Appeals, Mr..
Paley said, he was always a Jump
ahead Of his colleagues and two jumps
ahead Of the attorneys because he
read every record and every brief be-
fore the argument.
He had all the records and briefs
sent down to chambers a week before
court opened, and he read in the recess
periods.
THE stunned attorneys thought,
He knows more about the case than
we do
He could do things in one-tenth
the time the average man takes, and
he was a tireless worker who would
work at all hours Of the night.
Sometimes he'd get up at 2 or ;
am. to work, and On most days he was
up at s. In Albany we always had
breakfast at 7.
He wrote all his opinions longhand
himself.
He had keen. dry sense Of humor.
In his speaking to people, you couldn't
detect it, but his personal writing
showed it.
Once when I was on vacation. in
response to letter had written him
about the game of golf, he suggested
that start course i'll golf at St.
Johns. developing the law Of the
game, with practical illustrations
Sisters Death Was Shock.
The greatest blow in Justice Car
dozo's life was the death of his older
sister, Nellie. his devoted companion
for years in the three-story brown
brick house on West Seventy-fifth
street, New York.
He used to call her from Albany
once day, and he always wrote to
her when he was away" Mr.. Paley said.
Life seemed pretty much an empty
shell to Justice Cardozo after she died.
He said, I'm just marking time"
When Justice Cardozo retired from
the Court of Appeals to accept ap-
pointment as a Supreme Court justice,
his senior associate, Judge Cuthbert
w. Pound. delivered tribute priced
by the legal profession.
Nothing has ever moved you to an
unkind or hasty word" Judge Pound
said. g" The rich storehouse of
your unfailing memory has always
been open to us.
The bar knows with what earnest
ness of consideration, firmness of
grasp and force and grace Of utter
ance you have made your power felt;
with what evenness, courtesy and
calmness you have presided over the
sessions of the court
You were appointed Ito the Su-
preme Court of the United States)
neither for political nor geographical
considerations, but in defiance Of
them" Judge Pound continued, "and
because the whole country demanded
the one man who could best carry on
the great Holmes tradition OF philo-
sophie approach to modern American
Jurisprudence.
Our loss is the gain of the high
court to which you 60"