Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 313, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 April 1927 — Page 10

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SUPREME COURT SPEEDIER UNDER CHANGED RULES Chief Justice Taft Also Aids by New Efficiency Methods. Bu Times Special * WASHINGTON, April B.—The United States Supreme Court is making new speed records. The court has disposed of 695 cases, well over 100 a month, since it went to work on the present year’s business in October. There still remain 392 cases for the high court to handls, but if it maintains its present pace the day when it can announce “prompt service for all patrons’’ is not far distant. Change in the rules which permits the court to exercise discretion in reviewing many kinds of cases, is the principal reason for the progress in clearing up a docket clogged since the Civil War. Since October the court has declined to hear arguments in 317 cases presented. The balance of the 595 cases have been decided after argument. Taft Brought Efficiency According to lawyers practicing before the court, a regime of efficiency, instituted by Chief Justice Taft, also contributes to speeding up the judicial output. Although there is nothing about the Supreme Court, a venerable group of jurists—average age 67 — to suggest high pressure methods, its business is now run withTS. bang, lawyers say. Cases are heard at the hour set or permanently taken from the docket. There’s no more agreement among lawyers to postpone cases. Arguments are cut off when the time allowed has expired, and decisions are being made by file court much more promptly. Same Complaints Some attorneys even declare the court is altogether too snappy. The discretionary power to dismiss cases the court does not feel disposed to consider is attacked as resulting in speed at the expense of thorough justice. There is also wailing against, the preciseness with vyliioh Chief Justice Taft cuts off arguments. Brushing aside complaints, the court continues to smash speed records. INTERESTED IN FORD Many Russian Read Books Written by Auto Maker. Bv United Press MOSCOW, April S.— lltury Ford’s autogiography, “My Life,’’ lias run through eight editions in less than a year in its Russian translation and another bool; Bjorn the American motor manufacturer. “Today and Tomorrow,’’ is in its second edition, though it was only recently translated into the Russian tongue. Ford’s name is known throughout RussiS. where tractors arc in demand among farmers and his efficiency methods are studied by all tli • Soviet industrial managers. EAGLE BATTLES BASS NEWARK. Ohio—A bald eagle, the first seen in this country l’or i.i:;n, years, was seen to swoop to tli surface of Buckeye Lake ami il; on with a fish in its talon. . Yi, * . ;li struggling, slipped from the bird’s clutqii and fell. Charles Fink ij-ui , Henderson Jones recovered it, and found it to be a 3-pound buss.

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OLD COURT HOUSE TOWER WATCHES CITY’S GROWTH i View Greatly Changed Since it First Reared Its Head in 1872—Ponderous Bell Described.

The new war memorial plaza to the north; the elevated railway tracks winding away on the south; smoke curling from factories on the west and more industrial buildings on the .eastern skyline. Tills, in short, is a birds-eye view of Indianapolis from a rare location —the block tower of the Courthouse. Os course, after the first glimpse, comes the view of residences and apartments lining street after street on all sides. The clock and tower have a certain amount of romance about them. When the Courthouse was first erected in 1872, the tower was used as a watch tower for the fire department. From this place, fire were “spotted.’’ Later when the Mer-

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!as the mainspring—if it may be called that —unwinds. The pendulum weighs 100 pounds and is held to the clock mechanism by a strip of steel not more than one-sixteenth of an inch thick. Nowadays the tower, but seldom viewed by outsiders, is merely a place where courthouse employes go to wind the clock and to which .citizens glance to see the time. There are four clock faces, staring into the four main points of the compass. Long Climb The climb to the tower is a long one. Two flights of stairs to the first room, with nothing in it. Another flight to the clock bell, which sounds on the houf and half-hour. Another set of stairs to the mechanism, and several more flights to the base of the flag staff at the tower’s top. From any one of these places, Indianapolis appears to be under one's hand. Commissioner George Snider, with whom the reporter made the climb, said: “If the watch tower men were on duty here eight hours a day, it

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