Amendments may be repealed and prohibitions prohibited, but Solomon's work is never done. Here they are, the nine musers to whom life is just one pro and con after another. Reading eastward, each mulling things over, are Justices Roberts, Butler, Brandeis, Van Devanter, Hughes, McReynolds, Sutherland, Stone, and Cardozo: age total, 613 years; legal weight, enormous. Four—sometimes five—are liberals, but they all listen to reason; listen to it day after day, and then form a huddle to render a decision from which there can be no appeal. This term it is possible that they will he called upon to determine the constitutionality of the Recovery and Agricultural administration machinery. There is a chance, too, that eventually the cases of persistent gold-hoarders and of the embattled Henry Ford will he laid before them

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