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“DN Eh 0. pa aR THEIR Wé IS LAW Bat Supreme Court 4 Ta "T’L. judges LC€ain 1 hat Nobody Likes Umps By ARTHUR WATSON ASHINGTON, Mare 7.—By now, the nine august jurists of the Supreme Court mus? feel little like the umpires at the old Brooklyn Dodgers vames—tolally unappreciated. For months, their decisions in key issues havel been drawing boos from the bleachers. Fiery integrati¢nista nivea denounced them for opening Southern schodls to | Kegroes. Zealous patriots have assailed them for being soft, levally speaking, on Reds. | A delegation led by a de-* : termined lady named Opal For inatance, the pfficially Tanner White has even de- denied story that Chief Justice manded thes he fmneached, ap- Bast Warren is furious ft Presi- narently oor meneral principles, ent Eisenhower is still going Sirontening Jetiers have caused ' ha FBI to post a peard around the Chief Justice. All this hax saddened the fii .tiees, of conrse. Still, they are understanding men who realize that a judee’s lot, like an um- pire'’s, is not a happy one. They expect a certain amount of dis- seul from the spectators. But just the other day the house of delevates of the staid American Bar Assoriation-—their own coifergie:. so to speak— gave them the bird. In measured prose, the ABA fqulted 23 nf the high tribu al's iy gal calla and surgeries be fect, (had Coniere oveyiey Ceol 's gotpiring wr ena dso idawa that would chanee the tutes, In oma eurtior dns. suecH epirae Felting with the conmst's deeisins itieht have prevaled om ten Ay justice Into challe “nen oa de. tractor to ao dueloop oat Ie ast rating him, Hat the yeara have imposed a tradition | of chilly aloofness that makes it unthink- able for the justices to retaliate even in words. Today, they must take no no- tlee ‘of their critics. —in public. at Jeast. Privately, more than one member of the court is fum- sel em en all sidns, I of pititics, - difficult to adjust to the frigid "inaccessibility that has become of | California, is a gind-hander at heat and, unlike sours—of HRs 1 isp inp Rt the faultfinding_thet—te- trong here. eel that the President let him lown badly by not dtaputing the court's eritics, particularly on the integration issue. Only the crackpots among the ourt’s detractors have launched ; heir altacks on « personal level. @ almost everyone else, friend and foe alike, the men who sit on the nation’s highest bench are impersonal and remote. ut beneath those flowing | Tack tohes and all that dignity are hine ordinary men, who, like other men, put their pants on one leg at a time .What really sep- rates them from the rest is that they are prisoners of their jobs. Ant, now that they are pop- plug inda the news every diy or 40, aoeloedp on them be appro. post, Take Chief Justice Warren ee eee FIER apending most of his life in the rough and tumble Warren has found tt traditional with the court. The genial ex-governct G2 Warren ial anid ta! re . “ Tpison wean Me _yEothon 5 a » A) ky “Rosen , Lamm Trotte Holloman Gandy __ 1 4 ated Presa foto) DPutdcoreman of court ie hiker who's shown here taking 180-miler along old sees! trail. from Cumberland, to Washington. 1G Md, —_—o t The Washington Post and : o Times Herald 1 The Washington Dally News __- The Evening Star | New York Herald Tribune : New York Journal-American New York Mirror Now Yotk Daily News Lor New York Post The New York Times The Workor ae eee ee The Now Leader The Wall Street Journal te —_——_—_o of ee RS RY ES aie SS anon, ~- SS aye