Evening Star Newspaper, December 18, 1924, Page 26

EPledges Support to Measure 3& for Purchase of Mount 5{ Hamilton Site. . The Garden Club of America, with #tnore than 5,000 members throughout w'the countr; was pledged yesterday Mo support the Pepper and Luce bills )in Congress for purchase of the ¥ ‘Mount Hamilton site for a national "4 arboretum. Three 8peakers, including the na- f tional president of the soclety, Mrs Samuel Sloan of New York spoke in strong support of the pro # vosal, and urged that all persons in- d throw their influence behind zislation. The occasion was the meeting of the season of the committee of the National Capital of ab, at the home of Mrs. chairman, 1239 Ver- : 1ot the arboxstuminot onu for | # Washington, but also for the Nation, was stre by Mre. Sloan, Mrs. Noves and Mrs. Francis King, a § founder of the Garden Club and dis- tinguished author on gardening, who presented a delightful illustrated lec- # ture on her own garden at Alma, Aich. Describing the proposed arboretum “great monument,” Mrs. Sloan she had had a conference ~ with Director Lord of the Bureau of the Budget in regard to the pending Gen. Lord had sald that volved was “tremen- < n indicated. But she 1 told him, she said, that the Gov- ernment should at least purchase the #round at the present time, before it is too late, and develop it afterward. The land, Mrs. Sloan said, was par- ticularly well suited to the purpose, h lowland along the river for wa- gardens and highland farther as a reported nt the arboretum to help sts here in Washington,” an, “we want it to help our people. Tt will be a great! § monument, at the Nation's Capital, % 1or the American people.” The sclen- ¢ in the Department of Agricul- ture, Mrs. Sloan said, were doifg the biggest work of its kind in the world, and were in need of an adequate arboretum for their workshop. Axkx National Interest. The entire Nation, from Maine to California, Mrs. Sloan said, should be in the velopment and tists for her activ- not only with the work of the Fine Arts Com- mis: king of the importance of early action in the arboretum move- ment, Mrs. Noyes said it would be| £ a great blow to the District of Co- «ilumbia to lose the arboretum, and t the opportunity was now greater ever before to ot it. “For cientists of * ghe said, “th ent of Agriculture have| to demonstrate the re- niific work.” had no pla sults of the Lutification of Washington triotic duty of s to interest ourselves in this plan.” The influence of the which has been dome by the » Arts Commission in Washington has permeated to London, Mrs. King §'said, reporting that she had intima- “‘tions that a movement was on foot in the capital of the British Empire 1o create a commission similar to the Fine Arts Commission here. She felt 1he arborety 1 be a vital factor in carrying out the plan for the ational Capital. delighted her audience 80 colored vn garden formal ad- and glory a memory or a a mind and an resh dreams in " said Mrs. King, the vital requis rdening. No v or private, can be paid b, those erely devoted to this rar art, without the * constant exercise of this faculty of + observation: and no garden, I main- , large or 11, rich or humble, |)||L s worth visit It is true that the main good we get from the see- ing of poor gardens, must be ex- we learn thus On the other hand, my fixed bellef that from every garden we may see, as from every ' human being we medt, we may ge that which is of value to ourselve: It was the first time Mrs. King had e T mmmmui d flower to gardens, public Ivory Pins— = Pendants— = Chains— While you are looking around for suggestions for Christmas will be interested h\ see- want to take = % sideration. y . Pin or Pendant’ will be just the thing to carry ©= And ou prices are most .:e Your Christmas message. unusual in their modera- tion. THE NATIONAL REMEMBRANCE SHOP (Mr, Foster's Shop) Onen. Evenings 14th St. o< Donr from a. Ave. Alwo 1220 Pa. Ave, $3.50 Philadelphia $3.25 Chester -$3.00 Wilmington AND RETUEN SUNDAY, December 21 SPECIAL TRAIN Eastern Standard Time (Union Station) Arrives Wiimington 10: A bufadelphia,’ Brosd Troad 3 Wert Phadetonis T8 PO, Cheiter T:00 P.M., Wil mington 8:19 P.M. 4 Tickets on Sele Friday Preceding Trcursion Leaves Washington .| ner garden ta THE EVENING STAR, 'WASHINGTON, D. C., YOU AND UNCLE SAM Series of Educational Articles Telling How Federal Govern- ment Is Organized and Functions—Written Ezxpressly for School Children. No. 20—Something About the Sui;reme Court BY WILL P. KENNEDY We have seen in an early article in this series that when in 1788 the loosely Confederated States of Amer- ica formed themselves into a Unlon and established a new Nation, adopt- ing the Constitution, the central Gov- ernment was divided Into three branches— the legislative, the execu- tive ahd the judiclal. We have dis- cussed in some detail the way in which the legislative branch (Con- gress) and the Executive (the Pres- ident and the administrative depart- ments under him) perform their par- ticular functions. At the head of the American judi- cial system is the Supreme Court of the United States, the most deliberate and august body in the world, and from whose decision there is no ap- Deal, except by the votes of “We, the people,” who, it must be always re- meribered, always retain all authority for self-government, though we have delegated to Congress and the Presi- dent (whom we chose from among ourselves) certain clearly defined and limited authority. The Supreme Court is created hy Article 3, Secti8n 1 of the Consti- tution, which says: “The * judicial | power of the United States shall be | vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.” Thus, it will be seen that the details of organization have been left to Congress. James Bryce in his most authoritative work on the “American Commonwealth” gives most concise explanation of the re sons that made imperative the set up of our Federal judiclary. Br the as impartial as is humanly possible with the underlying and basic prin- ciple that in a democracy like ours the people must at all times have the utmost confidence in the integrity of this branch of Government, duty s to interpret the and the Constitution, without fear or favor, exactly as it is, unmoved by popular opinion. . The Constitution makes no provi- sion regarding the number of Supreme Court judges. We now have a Chiof Justice (who is a former President of the United States, William Howard Taft) and eight associate justices. —_— ng fy, shown in any open meeting the slides from her own photographs of Mre. King is € former vice president of the Garden Club of America, and a founder of it. She is honorary president of the Woman's National Farm and Garden Associa- tion, and the holder of two gold medals, the George Robert White Medal of the Massachusetts Horticul tural Society, “for eminient service in horticulture,” and the Medal Honor, Garden Club of America. is a regular contributor to House Beautiful and McCall's Magazine, and member of Secretary Hoover's Ad- Council for Better Homes in America. Mrs. King is the author of the following books: The Well Con- sidered Garden, Pages From a Gar den Note Book, The Little Garden, Varfety in the Little Garden, and Chronicles of the Garden. visory Ty a Federal courts have been made | whose | law | The Chiet Justice now receives $15,000 & year and the associate justices $14,500. They are nominated by the President and confirmed by the Sen- They hold office “during good behavior"—tHat is, they are removable only by impeachment. This life tenure of office for Su- preme Court judges was deemed most essential by the fathers in framing the Constitution, as it would assure Independence of' the judiciary as a bulwark of defense -for the people against possible aggression by the Congress or by the President—so it was given unanimous support in the constitutional convention. The jurisdiction of the Supreme Court is defined in Article 3, Section 2 of the Constitution, which gives it original jurisdiction in certain kinds of cases—that is, they are heard for the first time before the upreme Court. The bulk of its work, how- ever, is to declde cases brought before it on appeal from some other Federal or State court. It is called upon to make a decision on only a compar tively few of all the laws passed by Congress. It decides a question, | whether any law is in conflict with | the Constitution, only when an actual case Is brought before it. All de- cisions of the Supreme Court are by a majority vote. The Supreme Court occupies quar- ters in the very center of the Capitol building, where the Senate formerly i Christmas. Week Week Week Week Week a a a a a | | i | Amounts Amounts Amounts Amounts Amounts Plus 3% Interest and its courtroom is visited by practically all tourists. It sits from October till June of each year. The presence of six judges on the bench is required for the pronouncement of. a decision, which guarantees thorough consideration of each case. The judges wear “long, flowing black robes,” as their official dress. ch case is discussed twice by the court—first, to ascertain the opinfon of the majority, which is then ex- pressed in a written decision: and second, when that written declsion prepared by some one of the judges is read to the others for criticism, and final adoption as the mature, deliber- ate judgment of the court. Only once has an attempt been made to remove a justice of the Su- preme Court by impeachment, and then it was unsuccessful. This was the case of Samuel Chase of Mary- land in 1804-5. While most of the justices of the Supreme Court have been men who occupied an outstanding place in our national Ufe, probably the most noted is John Marshall, the fourth Chief Justice. His decisions during _the “shaking down” period of our Gov- ernment were so important in fixing the powers and the working form of our Government that he is known as “The Expounder of the Constitution.” (Copyright. 1924, by Wil P, Kennedy.) (The twenty-first article in series will be “The Greatest Staff of Scientists in All the World.” It will be printed in this paper next Sunday.) Chiropractors Meet. The Washington City Chiroprac- tors’ Assoclation held its monthly meeting last night at 1914 Seventh street, in the rooms of the Central Chiropractor College. Dr. Marrie E. Whittey presided. New discoveries in chiropractory were discussed. Sev- eral visiting chiropractors were Buests. Line Up With the Thrifty— Join Our 1925 Christmas Savings Club —and have a full pocketbook next to. Second National Bank “The Bank of Utmost Service” | 509 Seventh Street N.W. [ 1333 G Street N.W. 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