Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 March 1950 — Page 12

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te Recreation Political Spoils System Harms to Meet Courts, Judge Hamill-Declares ©

Governor's Conference! . Finds ‘Missouri Plan’ of Selecting Judges

i ‘The fourth annual Governor's Conference on Recreation will get under way at 10 a. m, Thurs ‘day in the Claypool Hotel with * a welcoming address by George Caleb Wright, chairman of the

- indiana. Economic -Council.

Charles K. Brightbill president of the American Recreation So-| ciety, will be the main speaker in — the half-day session. Mr. Brightbill is also executive secretary of] Committee on Welfare ind Religion for the

President Truman's Armed Services.

The author of numerous pub- plied this doctrine.

Hcations on recreation, he has

work

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heen in Reading, Pa; Decatur. IL;pared with today. Now the efficient management of th

and functions of government re- today the competence of and re-/cyrcutt Courts and 12 years there-

d spect for English judges is rec- apap for Supreme Court judges ognized throughout the world. In

Washington, Los Angeles Cincinnati. Gov. Schricker will the session. Wayne Kimmel, Indianapolis, is chairman of the program for the gathering which

¢“ i= to be held under the sponsor-

ship of the Indiana Economic

Council, Luncheon Planned Following morning discussion sessions devoted to problems of recreation in specialized groups, a luncheon meeting will be held.

Luncheon speakers, besides Gov.|

Bchricker and Mr. Wright, will inciude O. H. Roberts Jr, Evansville; F. L. McReynolds, Purdue University; Reynold Carlson, Indiana University; Stephen Noland, Indianapolis, and James F. Conover, Térre Haute, Norman Hukreide, Indianapolis, ‘will -lead off the discussion -sessions with an address on employee recreation. Other discussion leaders.and their recreational subjects will'include John L. Coleman, Indianapolis, commercial; Martin. N. Nading, Ft. Wayne, municipal;

and exceptional groups. Indianapolis "and Bloomington

teen-agers will hold a series of | for the immediate time. ranel discussion separately in the

morning.

Australion Ambassador vo Speak at IAC

Makin, Australia’s ambassador to! the United States, before the English Speaking Union at the Indianapolis. Athletic Club Wednesday noon. : } Mr. Makin was wartime Min-| ister for Navy, Munitions and Aircraft Production in Australia| and in January, 1046, he served

as first chairman of the . Uniteq | tXecutive or else they lost their |

Nation Security Council. { . In addition to being ambassa-| dor from Australia, Mr, Makin represents his country on the Far Eastern Commission and is alternate governor for Australia on the International Bank for Reconstruction,

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speak at quires many technical an

|. Improvement Over Old Partisan Methods

Missouri judicial system.

Hamill for The Times:

Government service

“By JUDGE RALPH HAMILL In the year 1830 there arose in our country a political philosophy of “to the victor belongs the spoils.” To a more ian one year), at which time all or less degree both political parties have followed and ap- the people have the

Editor's Note: A few weeks ago ‘The Indianapolis Times | asked Superior. Court Judge Ralph Hamill, a member of the . Judicial Council of Indiana, to prepare articles on the subject: together with the presiding judge “A Plan for Improving the Judiciary.” 8 Deeply interested in the Missouri Plan of selecting judges, Judge Hamill went to St. Louis to take a close-up look at the

The following is the first of three articles written by Judge

‘then was relatively simple com-

skilled employees. Most of

making.

{become proficient is a basically|

[cal spoils and awarded solely on be {a political basis? : | Would it not be better for such | public servants to be hired or released on a basis of their compe-

ticular job? These are critical |

ur form of government as effi-

{in liberty,” may survive the acl [test of the coming .days.

|than 100 years’ standing will re-|

changing: OU ~jedges-- EL Got Life Tenure Historically, our legal system in.” is Angelican. We. inherited it from the English who, in early stages, appointed judges. of England found that judges rendered their decisions in accordance with the will of the

jobs. Most judges, 1ikRg to eat) regularly, made decisions pleas-| ing to their benefactor, the king.

training.

(See “Judges:

3, July, 1947.)

One objection against life ten-| . times and it behooves us to make|, Oe SPJeCUOn SERIE HS (ellithe ways and means of securing]

|the system tends to make a judge, we had lunch with Israel Trei- : to the end] ; e had lunch wi srae! Sent a san be dung “moncelved | ArPitrary and dictatorial with no map the chairman of the final . g : provision for regular opportunity grafting committee, and Judge| to Approve a sisapprove his der LYON Anderson of the Missouri | jtion; the judge does not consider court of Appeals, present chair- | To reverse a custom of more himself beholden to anyone. peas, P i ¢ Warren O'Hara, Indiana Farm quire political courage. The Sood Weibwigus pining op Ld the more| makes the selection of the judges Bureaw, rural and small town; and | politics, however, is good govern- successful apd. capable lawyers Robert Yoho, Indiana State Board ment and good government 1s | will not give up their practices themselves are very much in| of Health, recreation for specialthat which best serves all Hee peo: and clients when there is no as(ple all the time and no at surances of tenure. which caters to some of the people jg that we get very young or elder{ly judges; men who are just getJust as the year 1830 marked ting started or men who are tap[the beginning of a new era for ering.off, : {the manner of changing govern'ment employees generally With pagis of their ability but-on naeach ow ASIN joy, $0 ihe vipa) issues. A judge of one of = {same 'Slour state supreme courts once Our Problem in the Pacific”’|of a new era in the manner o {said,

Judges are elected not on the

Describes New Plan

the - Between the extremes of elec-| their tion and appointment—the short In practice, the people gnq jife terms—lies a plan which! their will incorporate the good features of both and do away with the illadvised features of both. A police officer expressed it to me in a very clear style, “I believe we ought to have a system that

To correct this evil and to se- keeps the good judges in. and

cure independence of action, the Sets rid of the bad ones.”

people of England demanded and|

havior” for their judges.

the United States many of ohn Doe should these positions do not if any our states started their fudicial Judge Yoke office. Each sd] substantial degree involve policy- system with life tenure, but as vacancy occurs by death, resigna- . this wave of political philosophy. tion or rejection by the voters | The changing of millions of “to the victor ‘belongs the spoils,” na above procedure is followed in {these public employees every few swept the country in 1830, the gino that vacancy. lyears with the consequent loss of people thought it best to elect [time in teaching the new ones to/their judges for shqrt terms. There apparently existed in the’; nade a special trip to St. Louis, lunsound custom. Why should such minds of the frontiersmen of that j,q¢ to observe first-hand how the positions be considered as politi-|day a belief that any man should |g. ca)led Missouri Plan is work-| able to perform any-task or ino out in that state. I spent half 11, any office without special, day with Luther Ely Smith, ges: Their nrominent attorney, and one of Selection and Tenure,” by Law-iina principal motivating forces in rence M. Hyde, New York Unl-tne adoption of their plan, and

tency and efficiency for the par-| Yersity Law Quarterly, Vol. XXIL ronald Foulis, the chairman of

The result

“I was elected because Wil “son kept us out of war and I {was defeated because he got ys

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| elected hy the bar, and three laymen appointed by the governnor,!

lof the appellate trfbunal for the | judicial disteict shall constitute |a nominating commission. This | commission, after careful study, |selects the three best qualified men. Out of these three the gov- | ernor appoints one. "This person remains judge until the next general election (not less

opportunity 'to vote on his retention in office. " |The question asked on the ballot is “Shall Judge John Doe be ree tained in office?” Yes Of no. ch six years thereafter for|

the people again vote on whether

{ To me the solution of this prob-| lem is such an intriguing one that

{the original committee to study

|a new system. ”

(man of the commission which

for St. Louis County. From these| conversations I found the people!

favor of the Missouri Plan. (To Be Continued)

Jewish Group

Names Officers

Margaret Worthington took! office as worthy high priestess of | : Pilgrim Shrine

Jerusalem, in " public installa-| tion ceremonies last night in Red | Men's Hall, 137 W. North St. | Other recently elected officers | ig installed inna A elude Henry : affmeyer, Mrs. Worthington thman of the shepherds; Florence Herrmann, noble prophetess; Ivy Wilson! worthy scribe; Ruth Chastain;

chaplain; Margarintha| worthy shepherdess, and

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