Who's Best?

William E. Borah, lawyer-Senator from Idaho, is contributing a series of articles (political) to the Hearst press. Boasts Mr. Hearst's Sunday editor: " Borah is the foremost lawyer in the U. S. Senate."

That Mr. Borah is an able lawyer, few will deny. But there are many lawyers in the U. S. Senate. Hiram Johnson,* for one. And La Follette and Lodge and Heflin and Owen and Pepper. Other lawyers: Ashurst, Brandegee, Broussard, Bruce, Caraway, Colt, Cummins, Curtis, Dial, Dill, Dillingham, Ernst, Fletcher, George, Gerry, Hale, Harreld, Harrison, both Jones', King, Lenroot, Mayfield, McLean, McNary, Neely, Norris, Overman, Pittman, Ralston, Ransdell, both Reed's, Robinson, Shortridge, Shields, Simmons, Spencer, Stanley, Stephens, Sterling, Swanson, Trammell, Underwood, both Walsh's, Watson, Wheeler. Willis.

To many, George Wharton Pepper of Pennsylvania appears to be the most able lawyer in the Senate. Mr. Pepper has been one of the most noted practitioners at the Philadelphia Bar. He served as Algernon Sydney Biddle Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania from 1893 till 1910. In 1915 he was the Lyman Beecher Lecturer at Yale. His appellate arguments are surpassed by those of nobody at the entire American Bar. He is in a class with men like John W. Davis, Louis Marshall, William D. Guthrie. He brings to the Senate, in addition to a profound knowledge of the law, a decided talent for convincing logical oratory, merciless in its precision and directness. He has received honorary degrees from Yale, Pennsylvania, Trinity, Pittsburgh. In addition to being a lawyer and statesman, Senator Pepper is also the author of several legal treatises of merit, and is actively interested in athletics, particularly baseball.

*Mr. Johnson is Mr. Hearst's good friend.