By EDWARD
W. PICKARD
AVING given the New Deal a slight
swat by holding the petroleum
control feature of the NIRA uncon-
stitutional, the Supreme Court moved
« rapidly toward !
* judgment as to the
legality of the abro-
gation of gold pay-
ments. Several cases
challenging this act
were lumped and oral
arguments were
heard. This being a
matter of vast im-
portance, involving
$100,000,000,000, At-
torney General Homer
Attorney Gen o Cummings himself
eral Cummings appeared to present
the case for the government. Mr.
Cummings Is an excellent lawyer, but
not much can be sald in praise of the
legal abilities of most of the men whom
the exigencies of politics have shoved
into his office in Washington. So prob-
ably he was wise to handle this matter
himself,
Cummings defended the constitu-
tional amthority of the President and
congress to adopt the present mone-
tary policy as inherently the right of
the government to preserve itself.
In an argument distinguished for
oratorical display as well as for its
legal aspects, Cummings sald an ad-
yerse decision by the court would:
of those holding bonds demanding pay-
ment in gold,
Ptates treasury $2,500,000,000,
4. Add $17,000,000,000 to the pub-
lic debt and Increase the
charge on this debt alone by $2500,
000,000 a year,
The latter Cummings
sum alone,
1934 wheat and cotton crop,
The attorney general referred tb the
troubled state of the country in the
spring of 1933 and added, “I contend
and shall show that the congress and
the President of the United States act-
ed reasonably In a period of very great
difficulties and that their acts were not
the product of caprice.”
From the questions asked by the
Justices, observers gained the impres-
sion that there was a sharp division
of opinion among them.
SENATOR JOSEPH T. ROBINSON,
majority leader of the senate, be-
ing Informed that the foreign rela-
tions committee had voted 14 to 7 In
favor of the project for American ad-
herence to the World court,
floor of the senate as soon as pos
sible. However he recognized the
fight,
the committee is slightly altered to
meet the objections of other nations to
what Is known as reservation five, Mr.
Robinson said:
ervation five has been preserved In
full. It is provided that discussions
tocol, but in the end the court may not
United States any request for an
advisory opinion on any dispute or
question in which the United States
bas or claims an Interest.”
Of the Democrats on the committee
Benators lewis and Murray voted
against the resolution; Republicans
who favored It were Vandenberg and
Capper.
the National Industrial Recovery
by the Supreme Court of the United
tional abdication of legisiative power
to the President. Eight of the justices
tice Cardozo alone dissenting, and the
opinion was read by Chief Justice
Hughes,
duced In excess of state quotas,
other phases of the recovery act, It
aroused widespread speculation as to
disposition of other cases,
«come before the court
Emergency legisiation by congress
to remedy the situation and to meet
the objection of the court was re
ported to be an Immediate ikelihood.
HOSE Democrats and Republicans,
eminent and otherwise, who are
banded together as the American Lib.
erty league are now really getting into
action against what they deem the rad-
ical features of the administration's
program, and their executive council
has put out a ten-point platform, It
declares the league's opposition to such
practices as sweeping delegations of
legislative authority to the President,
lump sum appropriations to be doled
out by the White House, socialization
of Industry and regimentation of Amer-
ican life.
In the first plank of its platform the
league pledged itself “to preserve
American Institutions which safeguard
to citizens In all walks of life the
right to liberty and pursuit of happl-
ness” and at the same time “to combat
the growth of bureaucracy, the spread
of monopoly, the soclalization of In-
dustry, and the regimentation of Amer-
ican life.”
Invasion of the law making and law
interpreting functions by New Deal ad-
ministrators was also rapped by the
league In promising “to uphold the
American principle that laws be made
only by the direct representatives of
the people In the congress, and that
the laws be interpreted only by the
courts.”
Other points In the 10-point declara-
tion of policy pledged the league to
fight for government economy, a sound
federal fiscal policy, a stable currency,
protection for investors, and individual
liberties,
ECAUSE work rellef must be car
ried on the federal budget will not
be balanced for the coming fiscal year,
and probably not for several years
thereafter. In present.
ing the budget to con-
gress, President Roose.
velt admitted this, but
without qualms He
estimated $8,520,000.
000 as the amount of
money necessary to
carry on the govern.
ment's activities for
the 1936 fiscal year be.
ginning July 1 next
The expenses for the
current year, partly
estimated, are $5081.
President
Roosevelt
If one wishes to know
an
figures showing
who spends
obtained from these
cal year 1986:
1. Legisiative,
and executive
. Civildepartments and
agencies Ces mun
. National! defense
. Veterans’ pensions
and benefits
» Debt charges:
Interest
Retirements
. Refunds
« Recovery and relief
. Supplemental items
(for above groups 1
to 4 inclusive)
judicial
36,595,000
785.057.169
TH. 454.265
704,885,500
£75,000,000
636,434,000
64.548.200
4.582.011.4756
40,000,000
Total expenditures..$8.520.413,608
Total receipts for the same period
are put at $3.901.0046309, so the esti
mated deficit will be $4,528 508.970,
Of the recovery and relief fund the
President asked that $4,000,000000 be
placed at his disposal to be allocated
by him “principally for giving work
Here are some other vital things
The national debt will increase from
$31,000,000000 at the close of this fis
cal year to $34,239,000 000,
No new taxes are requested. Con-
gress is asked to continue the so-called
nuisance taxes which expire soon and
the J-cent stamp rate.
A national defense appropriation of
tory of the country—is requested.
A total of 187,134 federal workers
are to be dismissed,
Veterans pensions in 1936 will reach
the staggering total of $704,000,000,
The accumulated New Deal deficit
for three years on June 30, 1036, will
total $11,700,000,000,
While the trend of recovery and re
lief expenditures is downward, regular
federal expenses will increase,
ARY PICKFORD went before
Judge Ben Lindsey in Los An
geles and obtained a decree of divorce
and thus
wedded
went,
Mary's suit, filed more than a year
ago, charged Doug with mental cruelty,
indifference and neglect. She told
tlement had been made ; and after Eliz
abeth Lewis, Miss Pickford’s secretary,
and Mary left the courtroom almost
Fairbanks, In 8t. Moritz, Switzerland,
was informed of the divorce but de
clined to comment,
JC X- PRESIDENT HERBERT HOOV.
ER has been elected a director of
the New York Life Insurance com.
pany, at the Instance of Alfred E.
Smith. He was first offered the place
two years ago when the death of Cal
vin Coolidge created a vacancy. Mr.
Hoover said: “1 have a in the
hope of contributing ing to the
protection and advancement of the in-
terests of milllons. of polley holders,
for in these great Insurance trusts les
one of the most vital of personal se.
eurities to the women children
of the enuntry.”
N THE
Bruno Hauptmann for the kidnap
ing and murder of the Lindbergh baby
received the ransom; next was Aman-
dus
der in it Into the Lindbergh lane March
1, 1082,
fied him as the man who pald him $1
to deliver a ransom note to “Jafsle.”
“Jafsle,” otherwise Dr. John Con-
don; the aged Bronx educator who un.
dertook the negotiations with the kid-
naper, next went on the stand and in
his garrulous way identified Bruno as
the man with whom he dealt and to
whom he handed the $50,000 ransom
money. His long and somewhat ram-
bling story was bitterly assailed in
cross examination by E. J, Reilly, chief
of defense counsel, but seemingly the
great value of his evidence was not
much shaken.
Detective Arthur Johnson of New
York was on his way home from Eu-
rope bringing relatives of the late Isa.
dore Fisch to testify for the state.
Hauptmann claimed In his defense that
the ransom money found in his pos-
session was given to him by Fisch, a
business associate in New York. Fisch
later returned to his home In Ger
many, where he died.
AN APOLOGY to the Canadian gov-
ernment and payments of $50.
666.50 damages is the penalty imposed
on the United States for sinking the
rum running schooner I'm Alone in the
Gulf of Mexico In Mareh of 1929,
This decision was announced by Willis
Van Devanter, associate justice of the
United States Supreme court, and Sir
Lyman Poore Duff, chief justice of
Canada, who were the commissioners
of arbitration under the ship liquor
treaty of 1024 between the United
States and Great Britain for control
ling liquor smuggling.
Of the damages awarded,
to be paid as compensation to
Canadian government and 825
the master and members of the crew
of the I'm Alone or thelr families. In.
cluded In the latter is $10.185 to the
widow and children of Leon Mainguy,
a French citizen of St. Plerre. Mique-
lon, who drowned the schooner
was sunk by the coastguard.
¢
The commissioners found
$25,000 is
the
B00.50 to
wher
that the
master and members of the crew were
not parties to a liquo, smuggling con-
HERE were huge of
in the chancellieries
when the success of the conversations
in Rome between Foreign Minister
Plerre Laval of France
and Premier Musso
lini was announced In-
formally. For two
days the two states
men discussed the
points at issue between
their nations and con
ditions in general In
central Europe. Emerg-
ing from the last of
their meetings, Laval,
smiling broadly, said
to a group of French
and Italian war veterans
“I am glad to tell you that Premier
Mussolini and | are now In complete
accord.”
Without waiting for an official com-
munique, those best informed sald
Laval and il duce had reached a full
agreement, the principal features of
which are a joint declaration to pre
serve the Independence of Austria, a
five or six power pact of noninterfer
ence, and provisions for colonial con-
cesslons in Africa. The pact agreeing
not to interfere with one another's in-
ternal affairs presumably will include
Italy, Czechoslovakia, Jugosiavia, Aus
tria, and Hungary; and later Eng.
land, France and Rumania may be
asked to adhere to It
sighs relief
of Europe
em
Pierre Laval
ENATOR HUEY P. LONG, after
attacking the administration on the
floor of the senate, betook himself to
the radio and continued the assault.
He decl.red the Hoosevelt policies
were hopeless, and summoned all the
people to flock to his banner and help
wipe out all fortunes above three or
four millions, “making every man a
king.”
Meantime the revolt against the
kingfish In Louisiana was growing
Citizens by the hundreds were Joining
the Square Deal association which ia
pledged to march on the capitol in
Baton Rouge unless the legislature re
peals certain of Huey's dictatorial
nwa
UBLIC WORKS ADMINISTRATOR
ICKES has resumed his contest with
Arizona over the building of the Par
ker dam In the Colorado river and
wants the Supreme court to keep that
state and its “navy.” consisting of one
scow, from Interfering with the job.
Solicitor General Biggs asked permis
Junction,
called out his militta and his navy to
completing the dam.
would Interfere with the distribution
of irrigation water in his state,
PREMIER R. B. BENNETT of Can
ada, appealing for support for his
administration, promises to give
Dominion a “New Deal” that bears a
close resemblance to President Roose.
velt's economic and social program.
He outlined his proposals in a speech
in which he demanded “an end to the
reckless exploitation of human re
sources and the trafMicking in the
health and happiness of Canadian eit
zens.”
around the
National Capital
SSSSSaes By CARTER FIELD Sass
Washington.—A great deal of peer-
ing Into the future as to effects In
the years between 1986 and 1040 of
the present heavy spending by the fed-
eral government is being done by Presi
dent Roosevelt and his advisers. In
cidentally, the recent message {to con-
gress and the budget message which
followed give an inkling of this to one
who reads between the lines.
What is bothering the President is
that unless there 18 a very sharp and
fairly speedy curtailment of the so-
called extraordinary budget expendi
tures, such as publie works and re-
Hef, it will not be possible to avold
putting on very much heavier taxes,
The additional Impositions, or at least
any very burdensome additions, may
be postponed for a few years. But
they cannot, by any stretch of the im-
agination, be postponed untli after the
end of the second Roosevelt admin.
istration,
Which is not to say that Mr. Roose
velt is looking at the situation with a
purely political eye. There is some
polities in the lens, of course, but there
is a good deal more. Roughly, the
continued spending of amounts far In
excess of revenues can quite easily
turn on and wreck all the social re
forms the President Is very desirous
of bringing
Imagine, for example,
in 1040, which Is sick and tired of
high taxes- annoyed that every
time one of the reforms the New Deal
has brought about Is mentioned the
taxpayers want to scream. Which
far from being a figment of some
comedian’s imagination is a very real
danger In the mind of none other
than Franklin D, Roosevelt.
The result of such a state of mind
might easily that some dema-
gogue might be nominated on an op
anbout.
an electorate
#0
be
Roosevelt
and out of the
sweep the whole
off the
Or from the
turn the
True, fro
sort of thi
program
books
Roosevelt
clock back for twenty years.
m the radical standpoint this
ng would bring on the rev-
would actually get
ahedd faster than {if Roosevelt
program had st books,
Not Acceptable
r is acceptable
neither
nor the
is he to curtail emergeny
enough prevent
taxation in the
19407
olution, and
the
ayed on the
to Roose.
the clock
revolution,
Veit, He
turned back
But how
spending rapidly
the danger of
years just
For it is
keep
wants
10
excessive
before
imperative, in his view,
spending fast enough to
prime the business pump. Mr. Roose
velit that government emer
gency spending In various ways is di.
rectly sand almost solely responsible
for the revival in business that Is now
generally conceded.
He hopes that if this priming Is
continued just a little while business
will get going on 11s own momentum,
to on
believes
or the imports,
And It Is also Imperative to prevent
starvation and freezing,
not the states and local communities
take over the “unemployables” from
the federal government
them after they have been forced off
the federal rolls
In the meantime the mental attitude
on Capitol Hill 1s not at all sympa.
thetic with Presidential fears.
gress is positively drunk with the sue.
cess of past and promised government
spending, as demonstrated at the No
vember election.
out of line with Roosevelt's viewpoint,
It is not worrying about the place In
history of the New Deal reforms
Roosevelt is,
New Liquor Order
A "boon to bootleggers™ 1s what
liquor code authorities, say of the
new order of the treasury requiring
liquor to be sold only in bottles with
blown In words forbidding their iI
legal use
Secretary of the Treasury Morgen.
thao imposed this ruling ever the pro-
check could be obtained, which would
thwart the bootleggers if the govern.
ment would license all plants produe-
ing bottles for the aleoholle beverage
trade. Of course the thought was to
deprive bootleggers of a source for
their bottles,
"Of course,” one high officer of a
code authority said to the writer,
holding up one of the new bottles,
use it, he is just going te drop dead!
He wouldn't think of violating the
nw,
“What has already happened is that
ft puts a premium on the reuse of
iegnl hotles, If there were any way
of providing it, 1 would wager a fair
sum that the very peogle who put
this over with Morgenthau, the bot.
tle makers, are going to suffer Ie the
jong run,
“Naturally they are coining
right now. Distillers assert that It will
cost them something like $3.500.000
to discard bottles already purchased
and subMtitute the legal bottles. But
what Is going to happen when there
Is a full supply out? The hottle mak
ots wil! muke no more profit on the
new ones than on the old, Also, they
will begin to be irked pretty quickly
by the government licensing system
they requested to bave put on then
selves,
What Will Happen?
*But aside from that, what will hap-
pen to these legal bottles? Your or-
some special
legal bottles,
bottles have these words blown into
their glass stop that barkeep from re.
filling them when they run low? We
know they are doing it now. What
will be the difference?
“The bootlegger who refills the emp-
ties he obtains from trash collectors,
ete, will have an additional point to
convince his patrons that he is giving
them genuine stuff, lottles are very
cheap. Most bootleggers would rather
buy their bottles In quantities, But
the glass bottle plants being licensed
now, they cannot. So they will turn
to the trashmen. Bottles will be used
over and over again, not only by the
bootleggers, but by all the bars will-
ing to make a dishonest penny. Also
by bartenders whose employers may
be honest, but who wish to graft a
little,
“So in the long run I think the bottle
makers will sell less bottles, and the
amount of bootlegging will not be de-
creased one jota,
"Of course, what the government
ought to do, what it ought to have
done long ago, Is to put the taxes down
to such a point, for a time, and
the restrictions so mild, that the
eggers and moonshiners would
be driven out of business, Then taxes
could be ralsed gradually.”
Ready for Hatching
Locking ahead to possible
lief and construction
year, the recovery
tablished several
might be called
These
gin, say,
low
make
boot]
work re
activities this
program has es
agencies, which
“breeder units”
are now sitting on a string of
in the form of plans which
rapidly hatched if a figure and
ir mark is placed in front of them.
Federal Emergency Relief admin.
istrati rural-industrial housing
piang on a potential
ROOBe egus
can be
dolls
on has
scale beyond the
federal be
only
extensive plans
lege men how
the event
protection
men were
ind fall, show-
Dealers were
and planning
than the brain trust
is usual iven credit for doing.
i i ‘oncentration camps, tying
in with the forest service, park service,
War department and others has a
which can be expanded
by hundreds of thousands of workers
virtually overnight "laus for rural
electrification, and the various phases
of hydro development key into this
Eystem.
Almost
housing which
fore, Soil
has
has gone
erosion service not
heen developing
ag trained 1.000 col
to handle the
ROCs
work in the
governmen into soil
scale. These
trained last summer
New
|
aneag
that certain
further
more practically
lonking
any of several overlapping
agencies is willing to spread its wings
over any sort of nestegg the new
program provides—{rom humming birds
to ostriches,
Much of the guesswork which has
been going on abour what the govern-
ment would do, had what those talk-
tion behind it. The
out before the story had been told
many times in each Instance, was
that the scheme, though made by high
officials of the administration, had not
yet been approved by the President.
only thing left
And the President has been spring.
To cite a con-
verse example, he cut the ground
had been working very quietly but
sentiment to
5,000 men.
increase the navy by
They had begged for this
The
turned them down. They thought
they could use the resentment based on
Japan's denunciation of the naval
treaty to put it over. Then suddenly
the President decided that they could
have 5,500 men—000 more than they
had originally hoped for!
ting a big chuckle out of Secretary of
Commerce Ropers plan to ask con
gress for a big Increase In personnel
80 as to take care of foreign trade
service, trade treaties, and the newly
free port zones. The
Hoover men are laughing because
right after the Roosevelt administra.
off the old bureau of foreign and do
mestic commerce,
Would Oust Roper
But Jim Farley is not laughing.
Nor Emil Hurja.
patronage hounds. Because Roper
has not been playing ball with them
on appointments at all,
at such things. He has weathered
many storms. And he generally
emerges with most of his feathers
though there has been no loud squawk-
ing to attract attention to the battle.
Incidentally, no one has ho for
a minute that Farley would to,
“get” Louis R. Glavis, who ane
other lieutenant of Public Works Ad.
ministrator Ickes, has been
with the working of the patronage ma.
chine. Glavis Is ton dangerous. He
proved that some time back, In the
Taft administration. No such ameni.
ties as standing by one's chief stopped
him from screaming then, to Secre
tary Ballinger's consternation,
Copyright WNU Rervica
Skunk Given Rating as
Friend of the Farmer
Investigation by the United States
of biologleal survey shows
that the main diet of skunks consists
of grasshoppers, crickets, beetles,
mice, rats, ground squirrels, pocket
They are not averse
ground bird if they can catch
and now and then, they are
to a
bureau of biological sur.
vey reports show that skunks rare
ly make these ralds, preferring to
do their hunting at distances from
the haunts of men,
Although usually safe because of
its protective “smell-gun,” the skunk
sometimes victim to
coyotes, badge re, and
falls wolves,
foxes, great
horned owls.
The
black
tween
general color of the skunk is
with a thin white Stripe bee
the This strip forks
at the shoulders and continues along
the sides until it rea tail,
The tail is hairs
with white
in a white
riation in
trappers preferring
narrower stripes,
Skunks vary in size,
welgh from five to ten
black and white
bushy tail
easiest fo
ognize,
eyes,
ches the
h black
ends
furred wit
bases,
tuft
und
There is m
width of these wtris
wits with the
'
i
but
esd
pouncs,
usually
Their
and
the
murkings,
is make skunks one of
animals to
size
r-bearing
rec
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