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| stifutions that judges amaast—0 before the people—sometimes after six-year and sometimes after twelve or fourteen-year ‘terms. But there is t check by the people. Criticism Growing Criticism of the Supreme Court is mounting. Unforty- nately, it is a criticism that attributes pelitical or ideological motives to the justices. Many Republicans and Democrats. moreover, are blaming Presi- dent Eisenhower for the pecu- liar attitude that Chief Justice Warren has taken since being on the high court. “Why was Watren ever appointed?” is asked repeatedly in political’ circles. He was known as a middle-of-the-roader for many ‘years. Mr. Eisenhower, however, is reported to be as much sur- prised as the general public that “Mr. Warren has become enam- ored of the Douglas-Black phil- osophy and consistently follows the radical line without the slightest show of independence. ustice Black wrote extensively ion the rights of Congressional Investigating committees when he Was a United States Senator, and so Gid Justice Frankfurter before he came to the court. They both’thought investigating committees shouldn't be re- stricted in gathering information and in browbeating recalcitrant witnesses. They wrote approv- ingly of the harassment of the business men of those days. But when the harassment now turns to persons who have had “past associations” with Communists and who conceal their connec- tions. both Justices Frankfurter and Black seem to become cham- pions of the very individual tights which they once urged should be denied as business men sought to exercise th-m against tne vitch-hunting and fishing expeditions of Congressional commitices. So, since it is all so obviously political. there are Many persons here in Congress who are coming reluctantly to the conclusion that election of judges for fixed terms. with the right to run for. re-election. is the only way out of the political dilemma which the present court has created by its “legislative” decisions. OTST RY. Herald Prete, a