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ence ' DOscprem reme Southern doubts of Supreme Court } the magazine Life Is an article which will bring to a great many readers for the first time a beginning of under- res: of both the Southern attitude * and of Supreme Court characteriatica. It is announced that the nation's * highest’ court, is involved in a “crisis , of doubt” as to whether it ia properly * fulfilling its function as the “supreme interpreter of the American law.” % We read that “tke Court for some - years has been falling into = swamp‘ of slushy uncertainty.” We learn that “There are no conservatives on today's , court, There are simply two varieties of what many lawyers call ‘the bleed- ing hearts.’ One variety bleeds all the time. The other bleeds part of the é Troubles of the ' high court ‘are ; broader than the South. There is the ( matter of confusion in 12 opinions on the same day ag to the power te take { away citizenship, There is the matter - 42 states on security and subversion. ‘“munist conspirators. And there {s the | general situation of being a court of ‘lew toward being 2. court of justice, the one being de- voted to meaning of the statutes while the other is concerned with effects on individual persona. But the repeated example of Supreme Court troubles is the school segrega- tion ruling of 1954 in which, the maga- sine says, the court precipitated the country’s deepest social conflict since the Civil War. The observation is made that “the ultimate power of law lies ‘ in consent ‘to law, and the special ‘ power of the court will have ished “ if ita Judgment has to be generale, 4 Peete ot it hes hed to be in j Little a a a {ie 6 0 JUN 27 1958 Cou Troubles _)_ahis magazine is a champion of de- | other Tegiona, In the current issue ‘of | court's methods ana accompany it With of a decision that overthrew laws of |. There is tha matter of freeing com- from : , fr, Parsons Mr. Rosen. Mr. Tamm. . Mr. Trotter.___ Mr. W.C.Sullivan Tele. Room. Mir. Holloman. Miss Gandy. oe ae ) segregation. It is a newswo for it to give auch prominence to an article expressing | doubts about _the THE COMMERICAL APPR MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE 6-45-58 a full-page editoria? in which dissatis-. ~~ & y), faction is expressed with the reason- ing used in coming to the segregation b b ruling. f JonN, Osnonwe, a veteran of the Time-Life organization who was a 5 . n the Mid-South and a young man in Tene emphis, has written the Supreme ; urt article and done well in opening 7 Pp some complex subjects rarely at- —) l- empted in popular publications. He f 4 Pncreases understanding, although ' the. i “Southern school difficulties remain. — , In one portion of the discussion we ish he had gone much deeper. He ites in plain words of the Jack of ‘legal scholarship on the part of Chief ‘Justice EARL WARREN, and of his diffi- | culties with intricacies of constitutional . law, Tt seems to us there’ could have been further presentation of thé Ieck of judicial experience and the brevity of aw practice on the part of other fus- tices before they put on the imposing H And, at least in the editorial, there could have been an “examination of whether there would be such uncer. | tainty about Supreme Conrt rutings—- ach a change in high court intereste. uch a crisis of public doubt about’ a gupreme bench—if the Senate | refused to confirm any appointment Sestinn's hivh ast tribunal unless the ~ ee A bel romoted ffenrowaict NOT PRTORDED Hetepsasne oe 2 191 JUN 26 1958 TOT - a seus. WIN DEXME Deccan! “creas th FILED, | SERIALIES Ye... " ~ a ACHPAIS