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Court, however, he declined on
several occasions to serve in official
capacities which he considered to
be tingeo with politics or otherwise
incompatible with his Office. He re-
fused in 1914 to be umpire in the
proposed war ballot commission ar
rangement to supervise the soldier
vote In 1912 he was unwilling to
take part in a proposed inquiry of
the rubber supply situation as it
affected war needs
Much earlier in his career. espe-
ciaily when dean of the Columbia
Law School. he spoke out on many
public questions. AS a Supreme
Court member he appeared infre-
quently in public, except on such
occasions as receiving honorary de-
grees awarded by Princeton, Tufts
and Oberlin.
One of his rare formal speeches
was in New York in May, 1914, when
he declared: These are times of
shifting standards and moral con-
fusion. It is due more than all else
to the fact that mankind, despite
its struggle upward from barbarism,
is not yet willing to accept the truth
There can be no civilized society
there can be no peace or happiness
among men, unless all men enjoy
freedom of the spirit of mind; and
l might say also, unless We preserve
intact our capacity for moral indig
nation against cruelty and injustice
and the urge to give it vigorous ex-
preston"
New England Ancestry.
The ancestry of Justice Stone
dates back to the 17th CEN
tury in Massachusetts. His first
American ancestor settled in Water
town, Mass, in 1885 Justice
Stone was the son of Frederick
Lausen Stone and Ann Sophia
(Butler) Stone His boyhood was
that of the typical farm lad of his
time, and to it, as well as to his
athletic career at Amherst, he could
attribute his tall and sturdy frame
His association with the Columbia
Law School began as student but
included service as a lecturer from
1899 to 1902, an adjunct professor
in 1903 and full professor in 1905
before he was named dean in 1910
Articles written by Justice Stone
are still noted in legal circles, but he
was far from being merely an aca-
demic expert or office lawyer" He
practiced actively in the courts in
several important cases.
When Attorney General A. Palmer
Mitchell began the so-called "red
raids" Justice Stone held no brief
for Bolshevism but he vigorously de-
manded protection of aliens as well
as American citizens in their con-
stitutional rights. In connection
with similar issue raised at Co.
lumbia, he thus stated his views on
freedom of speech:
Restraints upon the intellectual
freedom of the university teacher
will inevitably impair confidence in
his teachings and ultimately un-
dermlne and destroy his influence
But especially do I hold to the
opinion that the university profess
sor should voluntarily renounce The
role of the propagandist and the
agitator The university stands for
scientific truth. It's attitude must
never be that of a partisan, but
rather that of the judicially
minded"
Taught While Dean.
Fellow members of the Columbia
faculty in Justice Stones time often
commented on his extraordinary
capacity for intellectual labor" In
addition to handling the admins
trative job of dean, he did as much
teaching as any other professor,
kept in daily touch with a law
practice for several years and con-
tributed to numerous law journals.
When he went to the Justice De-