Milford chronicle., 1946-01-25

THE CRITICISM DIRECTED at Cover
nor Walter w. Bacon following his appoint
ment of George Burton Pearson, Jr., to sue
ceed Judge Richard Rodney as Judge at-Large
is unjust and undeServed Governor Bacon
was within his legal rights in every respect
when he submitted Judge PearsOn's name to
the State Senate last Thursday for confirm;i-
tiOn. The law says specifically that the Gov
ernOr shall appoint" and that the State
Senate shall confirm on reject the appoint
ment submitted by the Governor. Never at
any time was the name of former Judge
Rodney before the Senate for action. Even
the most vigorous critics of the Governors
action conclude their arguments with state
mentS to the effect that Judge Pearson is by
temperament and training well qualified to
sit on the Delaware Bench.
The writer has known former Judge
Rodney since college days. We both are men,
bers of the same college fraternity. We have
been friends Of long standing. We know from
years of personal contact that he has made
an excellent member Of the State Judiciary.
In spite of this, and knowing the background
of the fight which led up to the change in
Judges, we believe that Governor Bacon took
the only course which he could have taken
in making the new appointment
When the appointments of former Chief
Justice Layton and Associate Judge Rich
ards were submitted to the Senate last sum-
mer, the Democratic members of the Sen
ate voted consistently as a unit against these
Einol,, Tn1o,o oh orJc
withdrawn and the name of the now Judge
Carey was submitted. Again there was de-
lay of weeks, until finally break in the Re-
publican ranks resulted in the withdrawing
of the name of Chief Justice LAYTON the sub
mission Of the name of Judge Richards for
Chief Justice and the confirmation of Judge
Richards and Judge Carey. That, in brief,
was the procedure followed by those Oppos-
ing the nominations made by the Governor
last summer.
During the long drawn out fight against
Judge Layton and Judge Richards the Demo-
cratic members of the Senate were warned
that they were endangering the re-appoint-
ment of Judge Rodney if they persisted in
their opposition to the men whose names
were before them. Their attitude at that
time was largely one of Indifference as to the
fate of Judge Rodney when his term expired.
With this background how could the Demo-
cratic members of the Senate, and their party
leaders who advised them during the fight on
Layton and Richards, expect anything but
what happened last Thursday? A competent
Judge with a record of twenty-four wears
service to the State, was sacrificed by the
actions OF his own party. Governor Bacon
would have been more than human had he
followed any other course. In other words
the Democrats asked for it-and they got it.
DoG1
NO SINCERE EFFORT has been made
10 return to the free markets of a pre-war
America. The web of government control is
expanding rather than contracting and
shortages are increasing instead of becon,.
ing less acute. The emergency control over
prices established for the sake of the war
effort, has degenerated into mad effort
to escape the inevitable Embellishments Of
war ana perpetually rising public debt. A
decision must eventually be made: We either
return to the hazards and blessings of eco-
nome independence or we go all the way in
Settlng up total, autocratic government.
There IS no halfway station.
Henry ilaZlltt, writing in the New York
llmes, emphasized the latter when he said
"A great number of people try to evade this
issue by talking complacently of a middle
way. what they overlook is the inevitable
tendency OF government intervention TO
grow upon itself. For an effort to prevent
the Tree operation of market economy at
one crucial point has consequences that force
interference at second point, and then at y
third Government control spreads in ever
widening circles. 1t moves toward regi-
mented economy.
Against all objections the OPA renlies
that its price ceilings are preventing inda-
tlon That is no doubt what the equivalent
OF the OPA in Rumania thinks. Last week if
made further drives against the black mar.
ket there and seized huge quantities of GOLD
ana goods IN raids. But prices in Rumania
none the less, have increased thousands of
tlnes ~ above the pre-War level. Apparently
there is point beyond which price fixino ;s
at best, futile. What can the price fiyprs do
when M the government prints more than 3
100000 lei daiy?"