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wv Oanasal DP ahaet BHoughweout . .dackson and Senator James Francis Byrnes : “(D-S.C.) to be Associate Justices. -- We especially tike Justice Stone’s eleva- motion on merit, earned by Mr. Stone’s long and able service on the high court. Too often, some outsider has been given the Chief Justiceship because he has de- served well of his political party. Though- we've had some excellent Chief Justices who orawn aneneinétad Im that mannose ¢ha eatirina ¢ Charles Evans Hughes amorig them, it is not the best or fairest way to go about it. Messrs. Jackson and Byrnes are both good men. Jackson is young and forward Chief Justice- looking; Byrnes has been the real New Deal esignate | Harlan spearhead in the Senate, though dear Alben Barkley has had the title of majority leader. GOOD APPOINTME ae Mhiaf Tratin A ttn. : "BPO VILG Wilita CUSVASE 5 Pi utet et ucy WUE EL AYVNUL YY AAV or” "s : PON OB nee eeee » Mr. Rosen --.-.++ — eee Ly { tion to the Chief Justiceship. This is a pro-— Midau we fee] that these gentlemen would make — 4 better Supreme Court Justices if they had each served on some | federal diatrict court or Cireuit Court of Appeals. We "Y never take to appointing Supreme Court justices j from the lower federa! courts, however, until and unless it is required by law. A federal judge normally awings little political power. And we'll probably never get a Supreme Court merit system into the law, because too many Senators have hopes of some day leaping from Senate floor to big bench by act of a grateful President. .- And so, Franklin D. Roosevelt rounds out the job, begun Feb. 5, 1937, with his sensational message to Congress de- | manding drastic federal court reforms, of * ‘unpacking” the vanessa MO newt Tilnmeste ootill aims - ¥ Supreme WOUrt. Lis ute Bulg BiALl1Iicsa 'U npacked, over whether he has unpacked the court >? or packed it. - Or Packed: The fact remains that. the Supreme Court as then constituted had killed the NRA, the first AAA, the Railroad Retirement Act, the New York State Minimum Wage Law, and other New Deal measures, and seemed to be an immovable obstacle in the path of social welfare legislation. It is no longer such an obstacle—though the new Supreme Court, too, will in ali probability outlive -its psefulness s some day. wallad and hantad tha a ae erre 9 than a we oavilig yYousa ana booted wai’ < Supreme WUE of the ' *8¢3 into catching up with ita times, we think Praajident R pe deserves the lasting gratitude of the Ame people. &. _ _ ——e me es YLIFPING FROM THE ' NEW YORK DATLY NEWS JUN 4 | 4@A4 Ue 8 bos DATE PORPARTED BY N«Y. DIVISION