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ALPHA OMICRON PI will be shocked and sorry to learn of the
death of Justice George V. Mullan, the husband of one of our
' Founders, Helen St. Clair Mullan (A), on December 29, 1931.
Justice Mullan's health had been failing for several months, but he had
remained at his work until three weeks ago, when he left his chambers
suffering from what was considered an attack of influenza.
Justice Mullan had served on the New York Supreme Court bench
for the last fifteen years. He was born in New York City on August 7,
1872, and was educated at the College of St. Francis Xavier. An LL.B.
was granted to him by New York University in 1895. In 1896 he was
admitted to the bar and entered the law firm of Philbin, Beekman and
Mencken. In 1901 with late Mayor John Purroy Mitchel and W. Bruce
Cobb, he formed the law firm of Mullan, Cobb and Mitchel. For twelve
years he remained the law partner of Mr. Mitchel, who was elected
mayor of New York in 1912.
In 1914 he was named a city tax commissioner. In 1916 he was ap-
pointed a justice of the Supreme Court by Governor Whitman. Later
in the same year he was elected to the same office on the Republican
and Progressive tickets. Last year he was renominated on the Republi-
can and Democratic tickets and was re-elected.
"In his service on the bench Justice Mullan won general respect as
a conscientious, able and industrious jurist." said the Xeiv York Herald since an injury has not been right in the head, a good father still but
Tribune in its tribute to him.
Other tributes to him were:
Mayor Walker—"The city, the courts and the legal profession suffer
a severe loss in the sudden death of Justice Mullan. He was an able,
fearless and extremely conscientious justice. My deep sympathy is ex-
tended to his family."
Joseph V. McKee, President of the Board of Aldermen—"The death
of Mr. Justice Mullan is a severe loss to New York State. He was pos-
sessed of rare judicial ability and had a profound knowledge of the law,
together with a warm, humane understanding of the problems of every-
day life. His death will leave a gap in the ranks of the judiciary that
will not easily be filled."
Supreme Court Justice Salvatore A. Cotillo—"I deeply regret the
untimely death of Justice Mullan. The people have lost a very brilliant
jurist, a man who has rendered a great service to the people and to the
state. To his family I extend my deepest sympathy."
Supreme Court Justice Thomas W. Churchill—"Judge Mullan was
utterly impregnable and he had a heart of gold. We were in-eparabl
companions and he was my bosom friend. All I can do is mourn h
death."
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Nor is Haskell's attitude an expression of sheer perversity. The
human body and its illnesses still hold mysteries for the medical profes-
sion and many more for the common run of us. Haskell's education and
experience have given him almost no light on the subject. Matters
clothed in mystery cultivate superstition and fear and blind resignation.
Haskell is just "ailing." The attitude has been his life-time in the mak-
ing. Greater cause for wonder are the huge strides made by those who
do consent to treatment at the hands of doctors and nurses who use
drugs and methods so foreign to their whole experience. Hookworm
treatment is not the only idea against which such prejudice is directed—
hospitalization, operations, various hygienic measures—in fact almost
any proposal may run up against it. The social worker may be no more
successful than the nurse in dealing with them but dealing with preju-
dices that condition social welfare is a part of a social worker's train-
ing and function.
Others: Johnnie who really "belongs" nowhere—an illegitimate child
and his mother dead. Clem, one in a family of ten, who is leading his
class in school, with dreams of going on to high school and perhaps
college, but with no visible means of getting there, though needing per-
haps mostly encouragement, and help in getting admitted to a school
where he may earn his own way. Mamie who has a bad heart and more
tasks of carrying water, hoeing corn, and endless scrubbing and wash-
ing than that heart will long be able to support. Bascom Allen, who
an easy tool for moonshiners and out of the penitentiary now on proba-
tion to the Frontier Nursing Service.
And so they read—on and on, with nothing so peculiar about them
when one knows them at first hand, but much that is tragic. Such a
price we pay in the coin of human suffering and incompleteness for
poverty and isolation and age-old neglect.
gold
By B O B B Y R E I D , Alpha Sigma
I have a chest that's filled with gold;
Worthless, priceless dreamer's gold.
Gold that buys me not a thing,
Gold that buys me everything
Gold, sweet gold.
Lover's gold-
Pirate's gold—
Starlit, sea-mad,
Dreamer's gold.