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MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREB Senator Favors Law Making Justices of Supreme Court Experienced Jurists Tuesday. Mar 1. 195B XL WIRING Senate probers he is "too busy" to testify, Murray Chotiner, Los An geles attorney, faces sub poena in inquiry on U. S. clothing deals. (International) Red China Lacks Right To Defense Brussels, Belgium U.R) The International committee against Concentration Camp Practices has found that a citizen does not have any right to defense in Communist China. The committee held a mock trial of the Chinese Republic over the past 10 days and dis closed its findings yesterday. The Red China government was invited to send a defense counsel but did not answer the invitation. The court found "millions of Chinese are undergoing forced labor," but found it impossible to estimate the number accurately. It found also that forced labor plays an important part in the economy of Red China. "The penal . system deprives the citizen of any effective right to defense," the committe found. The mock court held that Communist China "blatantly practices a regime of concentra tion camps similar to those in Russia and formerly in Nazi Germany." Back Stairs: Accrual Basis Accounting By Merriman Smith Washington U.R) Back stairs at the White House: Budg et Director Percival Brundage seldom holds press conferences. When he does, he tries to make his bewildering world of gov ernment disance seem as logical and understandable as possible. At the White House late last week, Brundage was trying to explain a new system of federal cost accounting on an accrual basis. The reporters must have appeared puzzled, so the digni fied budget director shifted his fiscal gears. . f . "Suppose you go to the liquor store and buy four or five cases of whiskey on a cash basis," he said hopefully. "Your books would show an outlay of several hundred dollars for April, but would show nothing for May or June when, presumably, you still would be consuming your original purchase if he said 'suppose you go to your dope peddler and buy four or five decks of heroin on a cash basis."' Whether Brundage was "talk ing down" to the reporters or trying to be understandablei is a moot point. But one newsman observed: ' . .. "It could have been worse Dead line Sunday Classified is at Boon Saturday: 10 a.m. Monday for Monday; other days S:30 previous day. Quadruplets Born To Texas Woman, 25 Dallas, Tex. (U.R) A 25 year-old wife of an aircraft worker gave birth to quadrup let girls last night and early to day. The mother, Mrs. George A. Hunter, and the babies were all reported "doing well" at day break in Methodist hospital. The 27-year-old father, who works at the Chance Vought Air craft plant, said he was "Pretty excited,' at the multiple births, while Mrs. Hunter's first reac tion to the news was, "Oh, no, I want two boys.". The hunters have one other child, a girl less than 18 months old. LOST WEAPONS Hartford, Conn. (U.R) A Connecticut Company , bus driv er' turned a woman's, handbag into the firm's lost and found department. The bag contained only a switch-blade knife and a set of false teeth. Fltcher Knebel in the current issue of a national magazine cat alogues President Eisenhower's dislikes. Women in tailored suits is among them. If the girls on the White House staff take this seriously, Knebel may be responsible - for a lot of new spring dresses and strained charge, accounts. And, if Knebel is right, Mr. Eisenhower must have' spent many moments of frustrated ir ritation since he has been in of fice. The suit is a favorite working costume not only for many of the White House girls, but the ladies in alj the govern ment departments. ) Mr. Eisenhower, as every president does, receives a wide variety of gifts. Well-wishers have given him just about ev erything from a black Angus heifer to a tractor with back-up lights, from his portrait on a typewriter to a 100-pound hali but, Comes now to the White House something new in the haberdashery line a button- down tie. Abraham Schreter of Baltimore, Md., sent Mrs. Eisen hower a special set of the new fangled ties for the chief execu tive The first lady's secretary, Mary Jane McCaffree, thanking the inventor, wrote: "What won derful 'good luck' omens they will be for the President when he is playing golf!" The President probably would be willing to wear a necklace of newt eyes if it would improve his game. More often than not, he plays tieless in a sports shirt but designer Schreter says he's sure Mr.. Eisenhower can cut his score by eliminating "flying, flapping" ties. The Schreter tie has three button holes at the narrow end The wearer . put the small end through a loop sewn on the wide end of the tie, then buttons the whole thing to his shirt. Ought to go great with the sports car set. Quotes From the News By UNITED PRESS Washington President Eisenhower on the death, of Senator and former Vice-President Alben W. Barkley: "As vice-president of the United States, Mr. Barkley had a long and distinguished record of public service for the people of his state and country. The nation is poorer by this tragic event." Huron, S. D. Former President Truman, upon learning of the death of Senator Alben W. Barkley, who served under him as vice president: "He was one of the finest men I ever knew. He was a great congressman,, a great senator and one of the greatest vice-presidents of this nation, and a citizen that the United States can always be proud of." i Boston U.S. Rep. Thomas J. Lane (D.-Mass.) as he tearfully pleaded guilty to evading $38,543 in federal income taxes: "Though I have pleaded guilty, deep down in my heart I know there has never been a willful evading of taxes." Washington Soviet Seaman Viktor Solovyev, telling a Senate committee of how two Russian agents tried to pressure him into returning home: . "I was afraid. There were two of them, and they would do with me whatever they would like." Moscow Russian Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin, on his return to the USSR from Britain: "The Soviet government is in favor of establishing good rela tions with the USA, and we shall do everything in that direction." jean Duard says: we're celebrating 10 YEARS IN BUSINESS! You the public have made this possible . . . so for the next four days, we are offering you some very special savings! . PI wmm Big Rack Spring Beauties in Cottons and Silks Choose Several at These Values! TO OFF! 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Although he did not say sd, Smathers evidently feels that the present court offended the judicial proprieties in its re cent rulings on racial integra tion. The rulings appear to Smathers to be more in the area of legislation or policy-making than in judicial determination. His remedy would be a re quirement that five years on a lower federal bench or on the bench of a state supreme court would be a qualification for membership on the U.S. , Su preme Court. Congress could do that, or re quire that all justices be red haired, for that matter. The Constitution merely said there sould be one "Supreme Court" and left to Congress its composi tion. Congress has been tinker ing with the court ever since it was created in 1789. By-1896 the number of associate justices had been changed six times. Two Had Experience ' Of present court members, Associate Justices John M. Har lan and Sherman Minton had previous experience on a fed eral bench. Associate Justice Hugo L. Black racked up 18 months, in his youth, as a coun ty judge in Alabama. The others, including Chief Justice Earl Warren, were lawyers but never had been on the gavel side of a judicial bench until they joined the high court. Smathers' proposed law would hamper politicking in Supreme Court appointments. President Truman, for example, once dis covered that the best fitted man for an existing Supreme Court vacancy was a Republican U.S. senator from Ohio. : The Democratic governor of Ohio promptly filled the ensu ing Senate vacancy with a Dem- j ocrat, reducing the Republican Senate count by one and in-1 creasing the Democratic count ! likewise. President Wilson pro-! moted one of his cabinet to the Supreme Court early in his first term. The story was that the promoted gentleman was ill tempered and unhandy around the cabinet table. Direct Election Provided . Smathers' proposed, reform probably would be about, as ef fective with the court as the 17th Amendment to the Con stitution was effective with the Senate. That Amendment (1912) provided for direct election of senators. It -relieved state legis latures of that duty, the idea being that many legislatures cor ruptly sold the seats or stupidly sent to the Senate blow-hards and second raters. ,. The amendment dealt well with corruption, but the average of noisy second raters on Cap itol Hill does not change much. It would be very; difficult to prove that the 17th Amendment, increased at all the average of Senate intelligence or public service. It may, even, have diminished both. ' Previous judicial experience would not assure good Supreme Court performance. Lack of It would not forbid a good job. The late Louis D. Brandeis and Har lan Fisk Stone for example, had no judicial experience when named to the Supreme Court. 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