Former Relief Administrator Is a Freshman at Law School

"I am trying to polish myself up again by sticking my nose against the grind stone here," said 36 year old Julius F. Stone, Jr., first-year student in the Law School and former relief administrator in an interview yesterday afternoon.

Famous for the work he has done in converting Key West, Florida, termed by the "Current March of Time" as "Brain Trust Island," from a poverty stricken town into an enterprising tourist center, Stone originally intended to become a professor of organic chemistry.

With a varied career behind him which includes a Harvard Ph.D. Degree, chain manufacturing, the brokerage business, relief administration in New York State and then in Washington, Stone was persuaded by Harry Hopkins to take the position of relief administrator for Florida.

Key West presented a particularly stiff problem to Stone. Since the depression which had knocked the town's cigar manufacturing industry flat, most of the inhabitants were on relief and barely subsisted. The once thronging naval and military posts had dwindled down to a skeleton crew of eleven men.

"The chief hitch after combining its hair and washing it behind the ears," said Stone, who had absolute power over the city for four years, was in getting the inhabitants to become tourist conscious and in making them aware of the historical interest which the place has for the sight-seer.

Like all other Law Students, Stone who has a wife and little girl does not see how he can possibly answer the questions on the final examinations. He finds himself at a disadvantage "returning to the grind after being away from it for such a long time and getting into sloppy habits of thinking."

"It would be a good idea for everyone to come back to school and get their ears slapped down after being out in business for a while." Asked what he intended to do upon graduation, Stone replied, "I have nothing in mind, but this kind of training is invaluable for business or government work."