The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-06
LOUIS BRANDEIS
 IS EULOGIZED
Called One of Great Amer ican Jurists; /; Death FOI-
 lowed Brief Illness
BY GILBERT STEWART, Jr.

SAtAoNsASA ~N~@NN laymen as one of the great jurists of American history.
 He dieo as 7:l5 p. m. yesterday after a brief illness. He suffered a heart attack last Wednesday.
 The supreme court, on which he served as an associate justice for g years, convenes at noon for it's first meeting of the i041-42 term. It will hear statement by Chief Justice Harlan r. Stone in Brandeis' memory and adjourn immediately.
 President Roosevelt made no pub- lie statement, but sent from Hyde Park, N. F., a message of condolence to Mrs. Brandeis.
 High government offlcials and former colleagues praised Brandeis as one of the great men of Ameri- can Law who devoted 8 lifetime to enlarging the common mans free- dom.
 Justice Brandeis was one of the very great turists America has pro- duced," said Attorney General Francis Riddle. His very unusual powers combined with completely selfless point of view and devotion to the public interest made him one of the men who has done the most to strengthen democracy"
 Retired Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, who was associated with Brandeis for half a century as lawyer and justice, said he was profoundly grieved."
 "He brought his wide experience and his extraordinary acumen to the service of the public interest and in judicial career of the highest distinction, left his permanent irn- press upon our national jurispru- dence," Hughes said.
 The nations Jewry-Brandeis was the first Jew to sit on the court spoke through Henry Monsky, president of B'Nai B'Rith.
 Serving both justice and the renaissance of the Jewish people with devotion and faithfulness, Justice Brandeis was one of the great moral forces of our day" Monsky said. Better than anyone he summed up his own career when he said his philosophy of life was high thinking and simple living" Final funeral arrangements have not been made but a statement by the family said services would be strictly private" and admission would be by card only.
 Brandeis had been in excellent health for his age-- he would have been 85 Nov. 13-since his retire. ment on Feb. 13, 1899. He and Mrs. Brandeis had just returned last month from Chatham, Mass, where for years they have spent the sum- mers with their children and grand- children.
 The heart attack Wednesday was not announced until Thursday night when a friend of the family revealed that his condition was grave"
 Members of the family were sum- moned and at his bedside last night, in addition to Mrs. BrandeiS, were his two daughters, Mrs. Jacob Gil- bert of New York and Mrs. Paul Raushenbush of Madison, Wis, and a sister. The justice also is sur- vived by several grandchildren.
 Brandeis' death closes long career of public service which began as a young crusading lawyer ir Boston.
 Brandels was denounced in 1918 as an enemy" of American insti. tutions when President woodrow Wilson appointed him.
 This friend of justice and of men will ornament the high court of which we are so justly proud" Wilson replied.
 His appointment created such a storm of protest that five months of Senate hearings were held be. fore 1t was approved.
 With Oliver Wendell Holmes, son of a famous patricsan Boston doc- tor, Brandeis, the son of Bohen1i- an immigrants, teamed to make the most famous of Supreme Court "disSenters' in history.
 For years it was always, Justices Holmes and Brandeis dissent" It was not until after Holmes had died and some i4 years after Brandeis had become a justice that the tide of juridical opinion turn- ed and Brandeis found a majority of the court in agreement with him.
 He. was born Nov. i3, 1856 in Louisville, Kyu eight years after his parents left Bohemia during revo- lution. He studied in the Louisville public schools and attended the university there. In 1872 he was taken to Germany where he studied at the Amen Real Schule, Dresden.
 In this European interlude his family lost its fortune and young Brandeis returned to the United States to work his way through Harvard Law School, with high honors.
 From then on he remained New Englander.
 He was still engaged in private practice and had never served as a judge in any court, when Wilson placed him on the highest bench.
 But his philosophy of govern ment, economies and law was well crystallized. It was OH the bench that he expounded for years-usu- ally in dissentS from majority opinions-his opposition to the big monopolies and trusts, opposition to anti-labor legislation but also opposition to labor organizations that disregarded the rights of its members as individuals. Years be- fore the New Deal he championed social legislation that he saw en- acted in his later years-minimum wage laws, the right to collective bargaining, and social security.
 With Holmes, he advocated the right of Congress to experiment with legislation so long as the ex- periments abided by the basic ideas of the constitution. Like Holmes he disagreed vigorously with the jus tices who used the interstate com merce and due process clauses of the constitution to invalidate acts of Congress.