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President and Publiber of the Twenty Gannett Newspapers NATIONAL COMMIT_.é TO UPHOLD CONSTI. . TONAL GOVERNMENT FRANK §£. GANNETT, Chairman Times-Union Bldg., Rochester, N. Y. REPORT OF PROGRESS The following statement was broadcast to the nation on Sunday, February 21, by courtesy of the Columbia Broadcasting System. Additional copies may be obtained from the mailing office of the National Committee to Uphold Constitutional Government, 205 East 42nd Street, New York, N. Y. THE DENDIE’C FIAUT IME FEVILE 8 Tiull The other day a barber was cutting my haire He said to me: I am deerly interested in preserving the Supreme Court," am a Jew, and therefore one of a minority. "You know, Mr. Gannett, I asked him why. He said: "TI I realize that if it were not for the Supreme Court, I might be treated here as they treat the Jews in Germany." Members of the colored race mst feel the same, for the Supreme Court ‘again and again has protected the rights of the ool- ored people, The Court stands as a de- fender of all classes, all creeds and all rACEeS. Lawyers, because of their _braining, understand this very clearly. “One of the best legal minds that I know said to me yesterday: "In bringing home this Su- preme Court issue to the people, let me suggest -- that constitutional law and the theory of checks and balances in gov- ermment may be of remote interest to some. But any factory worker will appreciate what the Supreme Court means to him when you recall that picketing, as an instru- ment of industrial controversies, was challenged and its legality was estab- lished by the Supreme Court in an 6pin- ion written by Judge Taft. <A negro will understand what the Supreme Court means when you recall that those negro boys in Alabama saved their necks twice, only because the Supreme Court had to be com- pletely“satisfied that they had had a fair trial." A majority imposed its will ona minority in Oregon by the state law abol- ishing parochial and private schools, and only the United States Supreme Court pre- vented its enforcement. The Supreme Court held that no state can deprive an Ameri- ean father and mother of the right to send their children to a parochial school if the standards are equal to a public school. "Al] church people, regardless of de~ Organized efforts will be made to confuse the people on issues raised by the President's demand that he be given power to create a new Supreme Court by appoint- ing six new justices. Emphasis will be laid on the fact that several of the pres- ent judges are old in years; but that, my friends, is not the issue. Throughout all history men 70 years and older have been prominent among the greatest men of their - time, Retirement of Supreme Court judges at the age of 70, whether voluntary or com- pulsory, would have shortened by nearly one-third the judicial career of the great John Marshall, who died at 80, It would have resulted in the retirement of Justice Holmes in 1912, reducing his period of service from 30 years to 10, It would have cut in half the judicial career of Justice Brandeis, an exponent ot' liber- alism. iIt would have retired Chief Jus- tice Hughes from publio- life three years ago. Whether Supreme Court justices should be retired for age, and, if so, at what age, is a question for sober de- bate which should be settled by a con- stitutional amendment and not be sprung on the people and put in effect by a man- date from the White House to enact legis- lation for that purpose. The bill proposed by the President is not aimed at fixing a definite age of retirement for judges. It is aimed at getting for the President control of the