Harvard Law School - Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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partment. Their primary duty is to advise the commanding generals of those commands, but secondarily, it is their duty to advise anybody in the Army who needs legal advice with respect to his official duties. Besides the judge advocates at the headquarters of the various commands above mentioned, there is the judge Advocate General's Office in the War Department at Washington. It is a large oflice with at present 106 ofiicers on duty in it. The most dif- ficult legal questions are sent to it for solution. All general court-martial records are sent to it for final examination and review. At the head of it is The judge Advocate General. The nature of the work of the office is shown by listing the sections into which it is divided: There are in the first place two Boards of Review, each composed of three ex- perienced officers, one of which reads and passes on every general court-martial record in which a severe sentence is imposed. The Military Justice Section examines all other general court-martial records. The Military Affairs Section handles all legal questions with respect to the personnel of the Army, their appointment, enlistment, promotion, discharge, retirement, and pay and allowances. The War Plans Section deals with the legal aspects of war plans. The Contracts Section handles legal questions growing out of the business operations of the Army, advertising for supplies, bids, the form of con- tracts, performance or breach, delays, emergency purchases, fidelity bonds. The Claims Section of the office deals with claims by or against the United States arising out of the operations of the Army, automobile claims, personal injury claims, claims growing out of contracts. The Patent Section deals with patents for all sorts of military inventions. The Military Reservations Section deals with the purchase and sale of real estate for the Army, examination of titles to such property, and handles matters affecting the work of the Engineer Corps in connection with rivers, harbors, canals, bridges and wharves. Finally, there is a Miscellaneous Section. It is my hope, therefore, that I have offered through the medium of this necessarily brief article, some insight into the legal protection afforded the men who have forsworn their individual status as private citizens in order to serve their country. More pertinent to the readers of this article are the possibilities afforded the embryonic attorney to pursue his career in so extensive and comprehensive an organization. There is opened then, a gate to continued legal practice for the young lawyer whose scholastic gown must be exchanged for Olive Drab. zo IPF

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MR. JUSTICE BRANDEIS by PAUL A. FREUND I-IE achievements of Mr. justice Brandeis were so various, his learning so profound, his resourcefulness so formidable, that it would be easy to mis- take these for the measure of the man. These were, indeed, the marks of a dedicated life, but it was the dedication that gave it greatness. To realize the promise of America through law - that men might share to the limit of their capacity in the American adventure - was for him the lawyer's supreme task. In him the 1awyer's genius was dedicated to the prophet's vision. In his hand the sword and the flame were one. Thus dedicated, his life had the simplicity of greatness. He believed that responsibility is the developer of men, and that excessive power is the great corrupter. Care is taken, he liked to quote, that the trees do not scrape the skies. These beliefs unified and illuminated all his labors. They gave direction to his tireless mastery of detail. They are revealed in the measures he advocated at the bar: an increased share for labor in the problems and rewards of manage- mentg a limit on corporate pyramids, the maintenance of competition. They gave coherence and moral intensity to his judgments on the bench: the strengthening of federalism, freedom of expression, the fallibility of judges exercising supreme power. They gave profound meaning to his advice to young lawyers: that this country is not simply Washington, much less New York, that talents and training should be carried back to the service of one's own community. Fidelity to his beliefs cost him ease but never serenity. His faith in the moral awareness of men gave him strength and unquenchable courage. To flag- ging spirits he would hold up the banner that could never be struck: brains, rectitude, singleness of purpose, and time. For no man do the words of the good gray poet come more fittingly: The pride of the United States leaves the wealth and finesse of the cities and all returns of commerce and agriculture and all the magnitude of geography or shows of exterior victory to enjoy the breed of full-sized men or one full-sized man unconquerable and simp1e. 22