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Page 4 Section 2 Salem, Oregon, Thursday, October 4, 1956 THE CAPITAL JOURNAL New U. S. Justice Dislikes Legal Niceties By JOHN N. KOLESAR ' TRENTON, N.J. IB-Justice Wil liam J. Brennan, who steps up to the U.S. supreme Court within two weeks, is a judge who dislikes "procedural niceties' but can wax eloquent in defense of the legal rights of a penniless murderer. Brennan Credit the accomplish ments of New Jersey's model court system for his suprise ap pointment to the nation's highest court. The 50-year-old State Su preme Court Justice is as a classic product of New Jersey's eight years under a reorganized court plan. A Democrat, Brennan has never been active politically. One of eight children of an Irish immi grant, he worked his way to a law degree and the law has been his only adult profession. He became a judge almost simultaneously with the birth of the court system In which he takes such pride. . One of his major preoccupations In his home state has been the speeding up of the courts' every day work. "Justice delayed Is essentially bad justice, Brennan believes. "Witnesses die, memories fail and the right may not prevail when it taxes years for a caso to reach a decision, Brennan says How does Brennan feel about tome of the important issues that will come before him when he re places retiring Justice Sherman Minton? What are bis views on segregation, Fifth Amendment witnesses? Is he liberal or con servative? "How do you answer questions . like that?" is Brennan's only re- Joinder. As a lawyer he will not comment on hypothetical cases. As a judge he will not pre-judge real cases, Brennan has written two ma jority decisions Involving the Fifth Amendment's privilege against self-incrimination, "The privilege of a witness against being compelled to incrim inate himself, of ancient origin, is precious to free men as a re straint against high-handed and arrogant inquisitorial practices," Brennant said in a 1955 opinion. ". , The price of occasional failure ef justice under Its protection Is paid in the larger interest of the general personal security." In both self-incrimination cases the witnesses claiming privilege lost his appeal to the State Su preme Court. Brennan is a Roman Catholic. Like Frank Murphy, the last Cath olic to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, one of his specialties has been the field of labor relations law. During World War II as an Army colonel, he handled labor problems in defense industry. Alt er the war, in private practice. he was attorney for a number of large corporations during the post war wave of strikes, Brennan said that as a lawyer In public utility strikes he advocat ed compulsory arbitration, which Is now a feature of New Jersey Jaw. He spoke for the court majority when It struck down the city of Newark's efforts to bar a second burlesque house. Brennan, a stocky, dynamic man, is also one of the most courteous on the bench. Like all appellate judges, he will probe for the weak points in a lawyer's case. But he has been known to help a lawyer make a strong point and has even on occasion thrown a verbal life line to a counsellor floundering in a flood of questions. Brennan views New Jersey's Chief Justice Arthur T. Vanderbilt as one of the great judges in American legal history. But Brennan has disagreed with Vanderbilt on occasion and once even chastised his mentor for ! "formalism." In one of his most eloquent i opinions, dissenting from Vander- j ft n. -wt . f storms Water bilt's majority decision, Brennan spoke up for the rights of an ac cused murderer, who later died in New Jersey's electric chair. The court majority refused a request to see a confession signed by the suspect. Brennan, in tones of outrage, i pointed out that In civil suits, the : which, were this a civil case, defense can see the other side's j could not be denied," said Bren evidence. nan. "It shocks my sense of justice Vanderbilt, In a speech before that In these circumstances coun- the state court Monday, said he sel for an accused facing a possi- hoped Brennan's "missionary bie death sentence should be de- zeal" for court efficiency would nied inspection of his confession "burn bright in Washington." Sawyer Killed Near John Day JOHN DAY ISI Roy Boswell. a sawyer for the Hines Lumber Co., was killed in a logging acci dent near here Tuesday. He was hit by a snag that was snapped off by i tree he was fall ing. , The widow and two children sur- In sculpture on the walls of stone caves, prehistoric man. re corded the migration of birds 40. 000 years B.C. These sculpture re cordings were made before the age of writing. Division Head Gets Skunk E. A. Carleton, principal of North Salem High school, and co chairman of the education division of United Fund, is now the pos sessor of a live skunk that is un til his division passes another in nercenta&e tamed. of conti Ibutions at- D.,. rtim cVtinlr tva nrpspM. ed to Carleton at the United Fund luncheon Wednesday. The skunk is emblematic of the low division in the UF campaign. The education division now trails at 23 per cent. Simon Bolivar was liberator of six South American republics Food at 6-Month Low NEW -YORK W Wholesale food prices, as measured by the Dun 4c Bradstreet food index, de clined this week to the lowest level in six months. At $6.00 the index compared with $6.08 last week and was down 2.8 per cent from the year-ago week's $6.17. , ByU Gls sinmuaue aciers Eved NEVADA CITY, Calif. - Two 'II. S. Forest Service officials lay It may some day be possible to 'feed Northern California nvers ;from man-marie glaciers in the deep and shaded canyons of the high Sierras. Walt Hopkins, watershed man-, agement research authority, and Henry W. Anderson, snow re-t search specialist, pictured the glaciers as a possibility todav. "We are neither optimistic nor pessimistic over such a develop ment but the need ol water con servation through the year is so great we cannot pass up anything which might lead to a more grad ual runoff," Hopkins said. The two men said the glaciers could be made by piping water Into the canyons during freezing -weather. 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