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The Trouble Chart is Invaluable Particular attention is directed to the trouble chart embraced in the last chapter, which is sufficiently replete to aid materially in the location of faults which interfere with perfect functioning of the power plant. 226 Pages, 64 Photographs, Book is profuse with interesting and helpful drawings, D. E. BORN 257 Minna Street San Francisco, Cal. Founded 1868 Bret Harte Jan Francisco Vol. LXXVII APRIL, 1921 No. 4 America's Erratic Judge How Judge Landis Entered Into Public Life By HARVEY BROUGHAM T would be impossible to reconcile I the conflicting opinions of the friendly and the unfriendly critics of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis. To one set of fellow-citizens, he is the embodiment of the Good Samaritan. To the other set he is a poseur, more interested in advertising his unique personality than making himself a credit to his high office of judge of the United States District Court for the northern district of Illinois. Since this much-discussed judge accepted the position of High Commissioner of Baseball at a salary of $42,500, and extra allowances, without resigning his public office with its salary of $7500 a year, the friends and foes of Judge Landis are further than ever apart. But, while they are disputing whether the judge should be impeached, or promoted to higher public office, let us cast a glance at his antecedents. He was born fifty-five years ago in Butler county, Ohio, and was given the name of Kenesaw Mountain by his father, Abraham Landis, who had been wounded at that famous battle place and had returned home as an invalid soldier the day before the future Federal judge was born. So Kenesaw Mountain Landis he became on the baptismal records. He was the youngest of seven sons. The Landis family moved to Indiana, and five of them grew to be men, at Delphi, Indiana. Some clerked in the postoffice, or taught school, and the youngster, Kenesaw, "carried a route" for a local paper during his school days. After a year at high school he got a job as a clerk in a grocery store and worked there for six months before his father found out that he had left school. The father stormed over the change. The son won his point. Then he took up shorthand and became a court reporter at Crown Point, Indiana. He eventually studied law at Cincinnati and was graduated from the Union Law College of Chicago. From law to politics is an easy transition for young and briefless attorneys, and Kenesaw Mountain Landis became private secretary to Walter Q. Gresham, who was secretary of state under President Cleveland and had commanded the corps in which Landis, senior, had served and been wounded. That was how young Landis got in line for a position in the judicial system of the United States. He was not appointed to a judgship until Theodore Roosevelt became president, but he had an opportunity to cut such a figure in politics. He no doubt inherited a talent for that line of activity, as four |