Justice Brandeis Hailed on Eve of Both Birthday

High government officials, Jewish leaders the nation over and lovers of Palestine throughout the world joined today in paying tribute to Justice Louis D. Brandeis, dean of the Supreme Court liberals and veteran leader of American Zionists, who will be eighty years old tomorrow. The jurist planned to spend the day on the bench as usual.

President Roosevelt sent Mr. Brandeis a letter of felicitations in Washington, but neither the White House nor the Justice would make public its contents. His legal brilliance, contributions to American life and leadership in the Zionist movement were extolled by Cabinet members, senators and leaders in every walk of life.

More than a hundred appraisals, tributes and felicitations are published in the American Hebrew alone, which has issued a special Brandeis number. Governor Lehman, in a statement to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, called him “a great American and a great Jew.”

The American Jewish Congress scheduled six meetings in Justice Brandeis’ honor, four of which will be held Friday evening in Brooklyn and the Bronx, another Nov. 22 in the Bronx and the last Nov. 27 in Brooklyn. Zionist groups held private celebrations in various parts of the city. The Palestine Economic Corporation paid tribute to the jurist at a private gathering in the Jewish Club.

In Louisville, Ky., Evelyn J. Schneider, librarian of the University of Louisville, disclosed that Justice Brandeis, a native of the city, had presented the university with seven packets of personal papers, not to be opened until his death. The university will hold a convocation in his honor tomorrow.

Among the many forms of tribute on his birthday were the decisions of Hadassah to plant 10,000 trees in Palestine in his honor and to name the out-patient department of the Rothschild-Hadassah-University Medical Center after him.