Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 45, Number 15, 27 November 1919 — Page 10

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN -TELEGRAM, THURSDAY, NOW 27, 1919.

Beveridge s iLife of Marshall" is Great Work

(By Worthlngton Ford in Boston Herald) Life of John Marshall, by Albert J. Beveridge. Vols. Ill and IV. Houghton Mifflin Company. With the Issue of the third and fourth volumes of the "Life of John Marshall," Senator Beveridge completes bis really great undertaking. Doubly great, by reason of the greatness of the subject- and by the scale on which the work was planned. It Is now possible to estimate the performance aa a whole, for Marshall as a Judge the real Marshall among the makers of the republic had not appeared in the first' two volumes. It may confidently be said that Mr. Beveridge has met successfully the exacting requirements of his self-imposed task. His research is full and accurate, as his wide reading 6hows; his handling of the material is assured and intelligently balanced; bis portrayal of character proves Just and discriminating; his style, sometimes strongly tinged with rhetoric, is vigorous and carries the reader rapidly through the long stretches of massed detail; and his enthusiasm has endured to the end. He has lived with his

subject enough to feel confidence in himseK; he has not willingly erred In giving short measure. To. read the four volumes is to know Marshall and the times in which he lived. The third volume opens with Marshall as chief justice, a position demanding qualities not fully called into action in his earlier career. It was not as a lawyer, steeped in learning nnd guided by precedent, that Marshall took the office; rather as a man whose clarity of reasoning and sound oomtnon sense had recommended him. and whose political experience couid sorve him in a day when contest between parties took on acute stage. It is one of the greatest services of John Adams that he should have lac?d Marshall where he could by his magnificent strength lay the foundations of a national government. The decisions he rendered, the influence h9 exerted on the bench and bar. and th-3 traditions he created and handed down to his successors are evidence of his

mental power and personal character, j tive, he saw the gloomy apprehension

Kaon of his important decisions had the rise of popular government and the rotiticnl bearings, and interpreted by ! possibilities it gave to such a ruler as initios thry were n direct .challenge to Andrew Jackson. His letters of

.irfferron and hi1 follower', jet. never .fusttce Story are among the most in-

Sparks gave to Washington. The superman must be laid aside and some will think that Mr. Beveridge has gone too far In stressing the weak points; but the man is great enough to bear all, and we end with an enhanced conception of the simple grandeur of Marshall, a veritable refuge of safety in a period of storm and danger. Under the surface were the passions and frailties of man. but the calm of his utterances on the bench was never ruffled by a passing breath of contest The public might be excited, as in the Burr trial and on the bank question; the magnitude of the issues might . be realized, not unconnected with danger to himself; the human side of the conflict might be clear to him; never did he swerve from the path of duty. We read into some of his phrases a threat or an acceptance of the gage of battle, but after a century the ephemeral has passed and the full scope and force of his reasoning are recognized. In defending the Judiciary from attack. In laying down interpretation of the constitution which could stand the

test even of a civil war, in establishing the rights of contract and in meeting the threats which later became nullification and secession, he set a standard which no successor in the office has attained and under which every successor has acted. If Washington made the union possible in 1789, Marshall established it beyond overthrow. As a judge he is preeminent, for he was also a great statesman, more creative than Washington, whose personal influence was his strength, and "even more far-sighted than Hamilton, whose public usefulness was lessened by his political ambitions. As a nationalist, Marshall was ahead of his day. He lived to see the popular outcry against the supreme court die down, and though flouted in the Cherokee Indian's cases, he won a substantial victory in the action of Jackson against South Carolina. He had, however, lived into a period when a new political policy controlled, and when a majority of his collegues opposed his views of national suppremacy. Be

coming each year more of a conserva

d''i Marshal! Indicate n. political purtwv. ard he vouh' have been the Tast tn i;i'-e pdmif,'"-d entertaining such i nnrr.ope. TV;ep5y Interested in the conice r,t parties. ?. federalist, 'rem bogtno end. a pt.rong psrtv man in the

IMogrsphy of Wash inert en. ne cm'etei

t cresting of his writings, and they near full testimony to the confidence the aging jurist reposed in the younger man. At the same time they show bis increasing despondency, almost despair, over the course of public events. His tenderness for his wife

himself entirely of fhat quality n hts , ar.d grief for her death give the deeper

dec-'Mons. Therein si t ieir nine.-; note cr patnos.

mental greatness and vifilUy. The origin of each rase mifthi nurely personal or portisar: t.h tncidrts of continuance might1 he increasingly so and involve the executive itself: in the final act the calm, judicial statement lifts- the cruse above the Individual or party, and becomes an abstract of general principles capable of expansion in unexpected direction? and to unmeasured dWance-.. From every ancle the result iz the same. The

Judge dom'r.ates ty sheer devotlor. to

principle and nresnih or vision.

i? always greater than the cause. Senator Bererirfge con Id not but approach Mr tud- of those decisions T-ith rolit'cat bias. The party relations they reflected or called into fiction arceal to him. He is exper

ienced in public, service and political

We can ocl' say that the work now so happily ccmpleted is worthy of its subject. Higher praise can hardly be given.

Hoboes Ccti' trntion Votes for Irish Freedom

(By Associated Press) BALTIMOKE, Nov. 27. Radical

He ' changes would be made in the running

of the worid if resolutions adopted here today by the annual convention of the Migratory, Casual and Unemployed Workers, familiarly known aa "Hoboes," are ever realized. After

parsing a resolution denouncing the

management, and he has. to his cred'.t bain gang system for convicts, a

..u ; nretnna inrieneTiHence of move was made lor the ireedom of

Tarty dictation. The r)y for advant- Ireland. Copies of this action were ae ir. Plate and nst.lon.-.l politics at- ordered to be sent to friends of Irish tracts him. and his pese- are rtdolent 1 freedom of the contest between federalist and I

republican forces, cf the condition

which brought Jefferron and Jackson

into power and made Jeffersonian principles a lasting Influence in political development. Here is much of Senator Beveridge, and we confess that we have found this aspect of the volumes quite as interesting as the summary of Marshall's opinions. The law of the decisions has been expounded again and again by lawyers and for lawyers, and the later applications would of themselves constitute a valume, but the other feature which gave them life at the time and has made them organic since had been overlooked. This Is the chief value of this study. It again sets forth the occasion, the forces in antagonism, the leading actors, the staging of the contest and

the achievement. The measure of the writer may be 1aken by his ill-concealed prejudices. What Marshall thought of Jefferson, of Burr or of Spencer Roane may readily be gathered from his letters. Mr. Beveridge goes further and has no hesitation in showing his own opinion of men. When Jefferson, became President Marshall was inclined to class him with the "absolute terrorists," and his first measures directed against the federalist policy were destructive. To Mr. Beveridge he Is "the great radical." concerned "only with his Influence on the destiny of the world"; the "alert politician" of "abnormal sensitiveness to even moderate criticism," and much more to the same effect. Jefferson as the chief antagonist of Marshall is used as a foil throughout the work, and his attacks on the Judiciary, his criticisms of the life of Washington, his conduct towards Burr and his comments on the decisions, so subversive of his doctrine of states right, are given their natural weight, as is fit, with an added running comment by the author disclosing his dislike of the man and his policies. He is an open advocate of Burr, dislikes the Virginian combination of Roane and Ritchie and whatever savors of disunion. It is evident that Beveridge and Marshall are one on nationalism. Into details it would be impossible to venture, through the work bristles with striking and quotable passages. Yet the author is neither a blind worshipper of his subject nor does he weakly indulge in abuse of the other side. He complains again and again of the tiresome length and iteration nf the decisions, of their wordiness and

repetition even of their dullness. Hej

has almost a contempt ior .wa.it.uu as a controversialist, and hardly does him justice in the reply to Roane, whom Marshall's five articles were ruthlessly cut down by the editor to three and so combined as to produce a hopelessly mixed argument. He welcomes human weaknesses in Marshall, his ungainliness. his lack of neatness in clothes, his absent-mindedness, and his sensitiveness to criticism, believing that his isolation has lcl to a false idea of ths man, such as

LEATHER OUTFIT MEANS COxMFORT ON MOTOR TRIP

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Correct in every detail is the motor outfit illustrated. The -aat is of brown leather with a rolling collar of raccoon. Chamois lines it throughout to give added warmth. The gauntlet gloves are also lined nnd preclude the possibility of wintry winds causing chapped wrists. The tailored hat is also of leather in a harmonizing shade of orc'A'n.

AFTER WASTING MILLIONS OF LIVES IN THE WORLD WAR GERMANY B EGINS TO CONSERVE LIFE, REBUILD NATION

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FORT WAYNE BOY KILLED WHEN AUTO TURNS OVER (By Associated Press) FT. WAYNE, lnd., Nov. 27. While returning home early today with three other young men from a dance. Harvey Girardot, 25, was Instantly killed when the automobile in which they were riding, struck a stone culvert east of this city and turned over. Glrardot's neck was broken. None of the others was seriousiy hurt. Just before the accident the lights of the automobile failed.

fal tests of a new system or railwa signalling based on the principle ol wireless telegraphy, were carried out yesterday-in the presence of Albert Claveille, minister of public works.

WIRELESS RAILWAY SIGNALS SUCCESSFUL (By Associated Press) PARIS. Nov. 7.(Havasl Success-

STEEL PENS POPULAR. (By Associated Press)

i LONDON, Nov. 27. Steel pens be

ing both scarce and high in price, quills such as were used a half century ago, are enjoying a vogue in London. A popular feminine notion

! is to have the quills dyed to match the color of the stationery, or the corj respondent's dress.

Appalled by the terrific waste of human life in the world war, when waves of soldiers were hurled with utter abandon against alliea artil

lery, Germany is starting a wattle now to conserve its babies and rebuild the nation physically. As the first important move In this-

Weighing babies in clinic at hospital and nurse attending baby iu incubator.

direction a new hospital devoted entirely to children has been opened' in cno rf the suburbs of Berlin. The hospital is equipped with all possible appliances for aiding in saving the lives of poorly nourished children. A new type of incubator is among these appliances. It is shown above. Beside the nurse is an oxygen tank, ready for use if necessary. Clinics are Meld f3T outside patients at which babies are given thorough examinations and courses of care outlined for them.

Milton to Entertain Township' Mar ' Mil1.3- a,du,ts' and w

junaay Dcnooi convention MILTON, lnd.. Nov. 27 The complete program for the Washington township Bible school convention, to be held at Milton next Sunday afternoon, has been announced by Alvine M. Threewits, township president. The principal speaker of the meeting will be E. H. Hasemeier, state president. Following is a complete program: Song. E. P. Jones, chorister; invocation, Amos Outland; address, William H. Dynes, county president; song; report of secretary, treasurer and business period; special music, Christian Bible school; county administration conference, E. P. Jones; special music, M. E. Bible school; address, E. H. Hasemeier, state president; song; offering: song; benediction, the Rev. C. E. Hester. Alvin M. Threewits is township president, Walter Templin vice-president; Charles H. Calloway, secretarytreasurer pro tem; Mrs. F. C. McCormick is children's leader and Miss Clara Hasemeier young people's, the

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to our friends and patrons for the kind patronage they have extended us during the past year. We shall merit continuation of same.

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"Sweet Papa" "Aint She a Bird"

I got a coat at Marshall's last week that was the biggest value I ever laid my mits on. I got a coat everyone else asks $50 for, for only $35 and it's a perfect darling. The money I saved on it will buy me a pair of the dandiest shoes for $7.98 that would cost me $ 1 0 at any place else. 4 Say kiddo let me put you wise, it only cost about half as much for things at Marshall's as any whereselse. They sure got swell stuff.

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