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Show NEW JUSTICE'S NAME ON MANY TREATISES ; By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON It requires J cards to catalog the writings of i Felix Frankfurter In the Congrea- . sional library. I The Hat emphasisea how often I the president's latest supreme I court appointee has written en the supreme court and the con- J stltution as well as how repeated- t ly he haa thrown aalde his pro- feaaorial cloak to battle in court for apecial causes. The writings suggest another thing the harmony of the views a, of Frankfurter and that of the three Justices, Holmes, Cardoso and Brandeis, whoae tradition the new appointee la expected to carry , on. i And what ia ths Holmes-Bran-deis-Cardoxo tradition? It can be defined aa the course pursued by the majority of the court aince ita hiatoric reveraal of Ita courae in 1W7. But It includes at least one other thing. It includes in-cludes a sustained opposition to the course of the court under which the "due process" and "liberty "lib-erty of contract" clauses in the constitution have been so intsr-preted intsr-preted as to shelter property and contract rights far beyond intentions inten-tions of the constitution as seen hv tha thrae 4uatifM Most read by laymen and lawyers law-yers alike are his current works in which be discusses the interpretations inter-pretations of the constitution by Holmes, Brandeis and Cardoso. Frankfurter's pupils, of which 1 thia city has dozens, often speak of "tha master's" apt choice of words and pat phrases. Ths sssay on Csrdoso Includes an Instance or two. He speaka of the "contagious , goodness" of the late Justice, and later describes him as "ons of ths ' most powerful moral resources of the nation." Included are Frankfurter's com-, ments en current subjects. "The radiations of taxation have steadily stead-ily extended the Intrusion of government gov-ernment into economic affairs," he wrote. , Hs frsnkly recognizes that congress con-gress must practice before it can fiddle, a note of good-natured leniency leni-ency which may comfort many a troubled legialator. "Fallible wladom produces fallible fal-lible legislation. To deny government govern-ment the right to act except with omniscience and preacience Is to deny It the right to act at all." In his writings on Holmes, Brandeis and Cardoso it ia notable nota-ble that he finds and commends one characteristic outstanding in , all. It harks back to the bitter assertion of Juatice Stone two year, ago that aeveral "conservative" "conserva-tive" membera of the court were voting their "personal economic , predilections" in throwing out new deal laws lnstesd of deciding without bias whether they were AAneHtutlMMal |