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...Vinson on Truth...
...July 23 issue you quote Chief Justice Vinson as saying, "Nothing is more certain in modern society than the principle that there are no absolutes." Vinson either contradicts himself or he is a very foolish man, for he says in effect that he is not absolute about his very statement...
...Assuming that Mr. Vinson is an honorable man, his only alternative is to resign from his job as interpreter of our laws . . . This action is certainly the best he could do in the interests of our nation...
...assumption that there are certain absolute values, referred to in the Declaration of Independence as the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God." Did the Chief Justice of the United States really mean what he said? Quaker Morley gave him the benefit of the doubt: presumably Vinson wrote "at the close of a difficult and trying session" and "did not edit his opinion with customary care...
Whatever the explanation, Kentuckian Vinson's aside on morals drew no dissent from his brethren on the supreme bench. And no wonder. The doctrine he pronounced stems straight from the late Oliver Wendell Holmes, philosophical father of the present Supreme Court. In one way or another, it has been voiced by the court many times, notably by Justice Felix Frankfurter, longtime (1914-39) Harvard Law School professor, author of Mr. Justice Holmes and the Supreme Court (1939), discoverer, under the New Deal, of scores of bright young men (the Happy Hot Dogs) for top Government positions...