Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-03

Mountain Landis. and the oth;r by
retirement, Secretary of State Cor
dell Hull.
Landis lived four years more than
Hull, but they were the same kind of
hickory after all and both very
much endeared TO the American
people. The pathos of their parting
from our public lie will remain long
i'm the atmosphere. ea- @
Judge Landis, q true sport if ever
there was one, manned none the
less q severe but always just and
inexOrable arbiter in the realm in
which he reign d supreme. Come to
know him, and he was among the
gentlest of the gentle, and the best
humor ID of the good humOred. He
ho5nobbed good deal with Edward
F. Swinney. president of the First
National Bank in Kansas City, and
a member of the board of directors
of the c. & A. Railroad, and half
dozen other lines. Thy went to
world series games together and
acted like a pair of boys; Mr..
Swinney was i'm the nineties and
Lands in th' seventies. Swinney
would insist upon bringing some
lcvely young woman along always
a kinswoman) and Lands would guy
him numerically while enjoying her
presence as much as did Swinney.
1t was only last summer that the
writer of this paragraph was sitting
one afternoon i'm his living room,
when he saw out of the front VIM
dow an elderly gentleman get out OF
a big Limousine at the curb and walk
up the steps almost like q forty
y ar-old. In establishment the writer
said TO himself, "by George, that's
Judge Landis,9 and went to the
door. There he stood and began:
Gould this, by any chance, be |
who it is?" H
Quickly the author repli d, you
bet it is, Judge Lands. BY the great
horn spoon it is, and how did you
get here and why i'm thunder did you
come TO see me?" sa'.
ED Swinney is out th.re in that
car and we're on the LAY to his
house in the country. wouldn't let
him 20 by here without stopping"
We visited at the curb, those two
wonderful old men and myself. 1t
was almost worth decade Of life,
that little visit with that happy
pair of men.
Judge Kenesaw Mountain Lands
affected nearly ev IybOdy, ball play
ers, ball magnates, old men and
young men, big men and little men,
in much the same way as he AFFECT
ed Mr.. Swinney. They are having
difficulty finding his successor. Not
TO be wondered at. They will cer-
tainly nev,r find anybody like him.
COrdell Hull, like Judge Lands,
may never live to see his last world
series; but please God, he may gat
it on the radio. When the United
Nations sit in council to build 4
better world structure of govern
ment, something lik- the one en-
visioned at DumbartOn Oaks, he
may not be allie TO preside as the
President expressed the wish that
h might; but he will certainly hear
what is going on and be in close
touch with them, whether he is still
in this world Or not.
All hi9 old friends down in Ten
nessee called him Judge Hull.'
That was because he was a little
county Judge in the mountains OF
Tennessee for so many years before
he went to Congress, to the S mate,
and to the State Department. To
them he was still their old neighbor
and common as an old shoe. Will,
occupying the first place in the
cabinet, the nearest man to the
President himself, to those who
havel known him throughout the
years, he is still "COrdell,' or
Judge Hull"