White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-02-25
Hugh Burch Re
plies to Salvini
llOnic Humor Characterizes Reply
to Letter Defending Padded
Court Proposal

airy 70, 1887. Dear Editor: The
primary function of our Supreme
Court lis to be a check on cur legis-
lative and executive branches of
government. Before the inaugural
tlon of Franklin d. Roosevelt. there
was very little said about the SUI
preme Court. But, after he got in
to the drivers seat of our nation,
he took us ito the crossrpad and
turned, to the right or left, depend
ing upon which side of the fence
you are stationed please pardon
my puns).
His first new use for the alphabet
was the MIRA. This was only the
beginning of his little game to see
which senator could think up the
most combinations of the alphabet
Strangely enough, the MIRA was al
so the first to be thrown out of the
back door by the Supreme Court.
! won't go into the decision, because
if you don't know about it, there's
no use reading this.
When Mr.. Roosevelt announced
his plan for packing the Court, for
that is what it IS, it brought great
deal Of criticism from the people.
It is quite evident Thought that,
from the overwhelming majority he
got ON that Hateful night of Novenn-
Der 3rd, he could do anything that
he or Jim (James A. Farley) hap
pened to dream about the night be-
fore. Hut it seems that, although
The people wanted him hack, they
still want their Supreme Court as
1t always was.
Mr.. Salvini evidently doesn't agree
with the newspapers, let alone MIR.
Hearst. But one wonders why IS
percent (q,loted) of them don't a.
gree with the President. He talks
Of the recent crisis; it makes me
wonder if he left out ON purpose or
just forgot the word recurrert.
These crises have happened ever
since Adam and Eve were Thrown
out of the Garden of Eden and will
happen until the core of the earth
cools of and this world is no more.
And we have no assurance they do
not have them ON Mars.
I am quite surprised that there
was no mention of the time Abra-
ham Lincoln was supposed to have
told the army not to pay any at
tention to the Supreme Courts de-
cision. But it is quite evident that
Mfr. Lincoln realized his mistake and
did not do it again. Mr.. Roosevelt
did not realize his mistake until too
late and then, to save his face, he
wants to have "yes" Supreme
Court. 1t Is fortunate that the
country has some persons who see
the real side of Mr.. Roosevelt (this
does not include the writer).
The story goes that when Major-
ity Leader Robinson had a press
conference, one of the reporters
(perhaps he was one of the eighty
five percent) asked Senator Robin
son If it wouldn't be good plan to
have the increase only temporary.
Senator Robinson said: "That is the
idea; look it up" The reporter
looked it up and found Subsection
b. The number of judges OF any
court shall be permanently increas-
ed by the number appointed there
to under the provisions of Subsec-
ton A. Besides being amusing,
it also has another side-if Senator
Joe Robinson can't understand it,
and evidently he can't, how can the
rest of us comprehend the great
wisdom of the plan. {This story
came from the Feb. 22d issue Of the
magazine "Time.")