European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 29, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              The stars and stripes Warren and the new birth of Freedom question what establish h amt a has proved itself preme court a the whole supreme court 7n the past 15 years a i i re Max Lerner a Tiff a tic Hugo Black one Ai Catal Yzer the other As continuous driving dynamic Force. A does this make the supreme court Radical or even communist As some claim a nonsense. But it does Moke the court an activist court committed to courage and heterodoxy in protecting freedoms righting inequities making democracy More participatory. In that sense the court of the past 15 years has been a kind of new left of elderly men Long before the new left of the Young it appearance. A do the Young people of the new left know this a they could t be less interested. They Are looking for the renovating democratic impulse everywhere except in America s own Back Yard or perhaps better on America s own front Lawn. I have put this in the Over simple form of a catechism in order to get away from the smog of cant and distortion that sur rounds the supreme court and its recent changes. The new birth of Freedom that Abraham Lincoln saw in a vision at Gettysburg was not rhetoric but a political and social imperative for a modern democracy. The living realities of equal Ity and Freedom have had to be renewed in every generation. In our own time the Burden of this new birth of Freedom has had to to assumed As much by the judiciary As by the chief executive. If i had to fix on one name since Franklin Roosevelt to serve As Symbol i should say Warren came closer than anyone else. Barry Goldwater warned pres ident Eisenhower against appointing As chief Justice a Man who had t practice Law in 25 years had never been a judge and was a  but Gen. Eisenhower who wanted to quiet Down the supreme court upheaval already in process did pick him. Historians May come to regard it As the most important act of his administration. But Gen. Eisenhower came to regret it. Robert j. Donovan who wrote from knowledge said that the president was left furious with himself for Ever having allowed Warren anywhere near the  Ike must have thought ruefully of Harry Truman s remark pack ing the supreme court can t be done because i be tried it and it won t work. Whenever you put a Man on the supreme court he ceases to be your  but for Warren it was not a question of Friendship or gratitude but of fulfilling his self image. To was not an intellectual in Novator nor a judicial scholar. In his first few terms of court there was a struggle Between Black and Felix Frankfurter to influence him. It was Black who won and whose judicial activism gave intellectual form to Warren s leadership. But it was Warren whose genial Good nature human wis Dom boldness integrity and moral authority fleshed out that leadership. If Gen. Eisenhower had picked either John Foster Dulles or Tom Dewey both had first claim on the chief Justice ship but refused it what a difference it would have made in the his tory of our time. For a Quarter Century the court has been engaged in an inner struggle Between the philosophy of judicial self restraint and judicial  the first was the Holmes Frankfurter tradition Best expressed in Oliver Wendell Holmes own Salty words to a younger colleague about 75 years ago i Learned that i was not god. And so when the peo ple through legislation want to do something i can t find any thing in the Constitution forbid Ding them to do i say whether i like it or not let pm do it " the Warren court has gone beyond this to an activist philos Ophy. When something needs do ing badly de segregating schools protecting the rights of the accused re apportioning voting districts guaranteeing Freedom of expression keeping Church and state separated and obstructions stand unconstitutionally in the Way the court must actively remove the obstructions. The court majority has known this would evoke pain and rage but it has stood its ground. Warren departs knowing that the court of the next decade will not undo the work that his court for Good or ill has done. C 1968, los Angeles times . Can t afford unfair trials new York the first stages in the coming trials of Sirhan Sirhan and James Earl Ray Are proceed ing remarkably quietly consider ing the global Shock wave of the assassinations with which the two men Are charged. That is As it should be. The picture of Ray being returned irom England to a Memphis jail Flora Lewis showed an ugly fact about a country whose Law assumes a Man innocent until proven guilty. He was manacled with the Handcuffs attached to a heavy Belt wearing a Bullet proof Vest and what were described As safety  Memphis police weren t taking any of the chances Dallas police took with the Man who was to be tried for killing president Ken Nedy five years ago. And under the circumstances they were right even though it did t look much of a Way to treat a Man still presumed innocent. But the important thing is to make sure Ray goes through All the process of Law so that a jury can make formal judgment on the murder of Martin Luther King it in t Only because of the principle of fair trial that this is necessary though that principle cannot be violated without questioning the whole Rule of Law. Without it by and order a in Little More than George Wallace s advice to Knock emn he head when it looks like rouble. An orderly Ria for Ray and 101 Strhan is also of crucial Impo to tace to the nation s self pet and its look to the world. Ter the abortion of Justice in eng Vilh the murder of John Kennedy we could t afford to " be the historical question own piracy. Jne conspiracy idea was Start Jjo gom right after Robert Ken of i i ath desp be the wealth and a que wkly Wal Lobl. Sam. Was startin9 " much the � ctn Spira tarted a Mati 0n of president Kennedy. ,.gev,ev6tabouis, years wrote in Paris Jour the real secret was that As the at Torney general Robert Kennedy was the Only one to know the truth about his brother s assassination. He had kept silent in order not to cause horrible convulsions in the United states but people knew that he would con Sider himself released from his oath if he had one Day the authority of a . President. This is Why before the murder or Gans of the far right designated him As the Man to kill using his positions on Vietnam As a pre  and of course Ray is known to have made a trip to los an Geles not Long before the murder of King. He stayed with a woman there. A mysterious woman in a polka Dot dress was said by some witnesses to have been with Sirhan just before the Ken Nedy shooting though other wit Nesses denied it. Of such Loose threads Given willing minds Are theories of conspiracy Woven lit is hard now to find anyone outside the . Who does t believe there was a conspiracy at Dallas. In fact europeans will argue that it has been proven. The damage of the open ques Tion both at Home and abroad is profound. People who feel left to believe that the president of the ., the chief Justice of the supreme court the Fri the dal Las police and Many others conspired to shield guilty parties in 1963 cannot believe that there is anything straightforward in this country. The circumstances of Ray s flight from Memphis do raise a question of accomplices. So far nobody else seems to have been involved with Sirhan. This time the questions of conspiracy will not be left to fanatics grudge bearers publicity seekers. They can be asked and one Hopes answered in open court. They need to be answered to save what remains of Faith in simple honesty anywhere in Public life. And the fulfilment of that need through the most meticulous Legal procedure is alone enough to outweigh every argument about Ordinary suspects being Moll coddled by the strict modern interpretation of due process. C 1968, new Day inc. F f of americans Don t Des rvs  a Good 5-cent electronic girl watcher who lived in the . For if the computer age wants to get in Good with me let s see it come up with something use fur for a change an elec tronic girl watching Aid. Too often i feel we spend too much time trying to get to Jupiter and not enough time coping with problems closer to Home. In fact i Felt this at the Beach just last sunday when while at tempting to com Pute if a nearby Bikini was a look at or not i fell Over a port Able Barbecue diabolically concealed in a clump of picnickers. Girl watching these Days be comes increasingly Complex even for Young and unattached males. For men of my age and Domestic bracket men with everything in the known universe working against them it can be nigh on to impossible. John Keasler we come Down then to the Basic problem of the aging or instinctive girl watcher look but Don t get caught. A mind boggling Prospect under any conditions for reasons i will explain and if you live in a Beach resort area As i do your eyes Start squeaking if the sockets Aren t lubricated As pre scribed in the owners manual. It is Here that a computer a Small ism instant babe Modulator would properly pro framed serve a splendid Pur pose. If the subject is approaching the human vision can do a passable Job. One Eye merely extends the Range of vision along a dotted line to determine a if the subject is looking disapprovingly and b if the subject is someone familiar whom you should t risk ogling and c if you Are going to fall Over a portable Barbecue. The other Eye is free these conditions being met to Ogle in a More southerly direction and at the same time use its peripheral vision perhaps so you won t put the wrong end of your cigarette in your Mouth. Even under these Best of conditions it is obvious that two eyes Are not enough if you happen to be with your wife. One Eye or the other is going to have to shirk its Job for perhaps too Long to ascertain if your wife is watching you watch. Three giant Steps Back however take an impossible situation. You Are driving Down a Road with your wife arid a lady in a Bikini is walking Down the Road on the same Side with her Back toward you. The mind immediately sends out so Many dotted lines in the the opinions expressed in Tho columns and cartoons on this Page represent those of the authors and Are in no Way to be considered As representing the views of the stars and stripes itself or of the United Sute process of triangulation that spare parts fall off the brain. A Quick dotted line to the right to Check the wife a dotted line to the left to make sure you Are on the Road a dotted line to see if you recognize the lady her age it Al a Long dotted line to Check approaching traffic meantime with the mind trying feverishly to Cope with the new calculations As you approach and pass. The full impossibility of this was brought Home to me in All its Start fearfulness one Day when i was Riding my Bike to the Beach checked out a red bathing suit fully or so i thought and peddled rapidly by her with out of course a word or seem ing glance. Hey she said knowingly. I had been so obsessed with my triangulation that i had t recognized my own wife. I naught syndic Jiw Loo