Evening star., 1946-07-05
Letters to The Star
Personal Influence on Court
Versus Rule By Law

To the Editor OF The Star:
The letter of Elmer E. Rogers makes
it very clear that he Is a partisan of
your columnist Lowell Mellett. Mr.
Rogers, like the bull moose of old
hurriedly rushes to protect his young
One is left with the impression,
however, that il the occupant of the
White House might one day be a
gentleman of the extreme right, using
his congressional majority to pass ex-
tremely conservative legislation, Mr..
Rogers would be far less inclined to
husband the theory that the Supreme
Court has no obligation, expressed or
implied, to declare acts OF Congress
unconstitutional.
1t is all in the point of view. And
II Mr.. Rogers will take time to do
little reading in source materials Of the
Constitutional Convention period. he
will discover that our three branches
OF Government, on the national level,
were designed as a system of checks
and balances to Cd protect the funda-
mental right of all men, whether of
the minority or majority, and C2) to
establish national court of supreme
authority that would enforce con-
stitutional guarantees to individuals, so
that no transient majority could violate
them or sweep them away
Unfortunately, today we have no such
court. Experienced jurists have been
replaced by political partisans and
group advocates, to whom the funda-
mentals Of the law mean little if they
stand in the path of their personal in
clination.
This may seem very fine to Mr.. Rogers
so long as it is done in support of the
Old Deal theories so cherished by the
devoted followers of departed leader.
But there well may come day when
Mr.. Rogers and others may wish that
principles had been preserved, even at
the expense of the cherished theories
of an adored leader. Nations built
upon the personalities Of men soon will
pass, as the men themselves do Gov
ernment by law Ito preserve principles)
and not by men was the foundation
upon which the founders designed the
Supreme Court. JOHN EDWARDS.
Price Control and Party Line
To the Editor Of The Star:
Few persons seem to realize it, but
the present struggle engaging Con-
gress for perpetuation Of the OPA may
turn out to be merely the first of a
series Of battles staged by our left
wing radicals to destroy our capitals
tic system.
1t is obvious that price control, which
indirectly controls profits, is incompat-
ible with free enterprise system. The
advocates of the OPA are trying hard
to convince the public that they are
In favor of abolishing price control
eventually. But this should fool no
one.
There is not Communist or left
winger In the country who will not
fight for continuous system of price
control which gradually will eliminate
all profits and bring us to production
for use"-the ultimate goal of the party
line.
Give the Communists, fellow travel
ers and the OPA another year to dis
tribute propaganda and ballyhoo in an
attempt to show that price control gives
an equitable distribution Of goods and
really IS essential to our economy, and
that abandonment thereof would re-
suit in wild imitation, and a large num-
Der Of people eventually would be fooled
into thinking that there is no such
thing as law Of supply and demand.
It already has been demonstrated
that, when the ceiling price OF an
article is set below the profitable pro-
duction level, manufacturers stop max
ing that article. and the article is
made and sold, If at all, only on the
black market. So the next logical step
will be agitation for law to compel
manufacturers to operate at cost. When
such law is passed, our free enter
prise system will disappear. The FBI
then will be converted into an NKVD
secret police and we shall be all set
to join the U. S. S. r. God forbid!
HENRY c. PARKER.