Life — May 17, 1928 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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Boxine Teacner: Ah, so you want to learn the manly art of self-defense? Woutp-ne Puriv: Self-defense, nothing. I want to know how to knock a guy out. ican life. It is susceptible to public opinion—not to temporary manifestations of sentiment, but to those deep currents of social and economic thought that set the tone for each generation. The Court is composed of men with finite minds, and these minds necessarily receive impressions from their environ- ment. A decision represents something more than a mere determination of points of law; it represents the reaction of nine men—or of a majority ot nine men— to the needs of the time. I feel certain that most lawyers and probably some members of the Court would deny this, but I believe it to be fundamentally true. . . . Tuere is something fitting in the cir- cumstance that the Supreme Court of the United States sits in the Capitol itself. The courtroom is a small, semicir- cular Chamber which once housed the United States Senate. The attendants wear morning coats and do much bow- ing. The Court reposes in great leather armchairs, against a background of crim- son velvet. Over the chair of Mr. Taft is suspended a gilt eagle with open beak and extended wings. It is all very modest and even a trifle shabby, but the atmos- phere is heavy with tradition. It seems a shame that this romantic mise en scéne is to be abandoned for more modern quarters. The Government construction program includes a new building for the Supreme Court. Every- thing will be sanitary and devoid of as- sociations, There will be plenty of fresh paint but no ghosts, On grounds of com- tort, Mr. Tatt and his associates are en- titled to all modern improvements, but I, for one, shall not relish the Supreme Court's leaving the Capitol and moving into new surroundings. A few voices are already being raised in Congress against abandonment of the existing courtroom. It is probably old-fashioned sentimentality to take this attitude, but I would rather see the Supreme Court cramped and glamorous than functioning in a modern office building equipped with time-saving devices. The Lord Chief Justice of England, in his red robes and ermine, sits in a tiny courtroom that an American Police Magistrate would despise. But in Enp. land people understand the value of “staying put.” The British Empire itself is governed from No. 10 Downing Street, the type of modest mansion in the front window of which you would expect to see the sign, “Room for Rent Henry Suydam, A Nose for News “HAROLD Everything all settled; return at once, Oatmeal."—Detroit > 8, Ir it was us, we'd stay away. “Dean Miss Dix—A_ certain’ man has asked me to marry him, and I do not know STAOIN NN? Miss ‘ampa Axxiovs” Tribune. Rest assured, my dear, that if he is a real man he will know that a woman's “ETAOIN N N” means “yes.” “Did you ever happen to be in a lady's room with your arm about her while she wore a dancing costume of only a few beads, and did some man pop in with an automatic poked at you and announce that he was the ady’s husband?” —New York Erening Graphic, Wuy, no, not that we remember. ‘These are port- n be set up easily in any store. es and in fine condition. “One 10-ft. floor case, heavy plate glass top and marble base. “General Electric sign Shop. “Window fixtures, William and Mary pat- tern in beautiful pearl grey. “National cash register. “Wicker chair and table. “A fine lot of lumber shelving. “One tent, 12x16 ft. “One Corona Portable typewriter. “1 25-ft. Python snake, alive and in fine condition. The first $650 takes her. loopy’s Sior.” —Fergus Falls (Minn.) Journal. reading, ‘Men's Everytuine, in fact, for a young couple who are about to start housekeeping. Hints ror tHe Hostess New style glasses for guests accustomed to drinking out of bottles. comicbooks.com