By EDWARD W. PICKARD HINLY veiled but unmistak- able was President Roosevelt's rebuke to the Supreme court in his annual message on the state of the Union. Standing tri- umphant before the lopsidedly Demo- cratic senate and house in joint ses- sion, the chief exec- utive said: “The United States of America, within itself, must continue the task of making democracy succeed. “In that task the legislative branch of our government will, I am con- fident, continue to meet the de- mands of democracy whether they relate to the curbing of abuses, the extension of help to those who need help, or the better balancing of our interdependent economies. “So, too, the executive branch of the government must move forward in this task and, at the same time, provide better management for ad- ministrative action of all kinds. “The judicial branch also is asked by the people to do its part in mak- ing democracy successful. We do not ask the courts to call non-ex- istent powers into being, but we have a right to expect that conced- ed powers or those legitimately im- plied shall be made effective instru- ments for the common good. “The process of our democracy must not be imperiled by the denial of essential powers of free govern- ment.” Sketching the program for his sec- ond term, the President said legisla- President Roosevelt ed extension of the RFC, of other New Deal trality law to apply to the Spanish civil war. Conceding that NRA tinued: “The statute of NRA has not. They are still with us.” The President proposed federal and state supplementary laws to help solve the social and economic problems of a modern industrial democracy and challenged specula- tion, reckless over-production and monopolistic under-production as creating wasteful, net losses to so- ciety. on he would seek enlargement of federal powers over industry, agri- culture and commerce. * No members of the Supreme buke by the President, but the pacity and there was a spirit of jubilation that broke out in fre- quent demonstrations. being fairly smothered with con- ocratic victory. senate and house met the before the President ad- HE day of the former , and Speaker Bankhead again ruling over the lower chamber. The one matter of interest in this pro- ceeding was the se- lection of Sam Ray- burn of Texas as majority leader of the house. He had beaten John J. O'- Connor of New York in the caucus, hav- ing the potent back- ing of Vice President Garner and presumably of Mr. Roosevelt. Of the total of 16 new senators only two were absent, Clyde L. Herring of lowa and William H. Smathers of New Jersey, both Democrats. Two new Republican senators were sworn in, H. Styles Bridges of New Hampshire and Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts, Immediately after the President's address had been delivered on Wed- nesday, both house and senate hur- ried with the neutrality resolution applying specifically to the civil war in Spain. The senate adopted it quickly by unanimous vote, but there were parliamentary delays in the house, and meanwhile the freighter Mar Cantabrico managed to get away from New York with Robert Cuse’s cargo of airplanes and munitions for the Spanish loy- alists, valued at $2,000,000. GHENN FRANK, president of the University of Wisconsin, was re- moved from office by the board of regents of that great institution, by a vote of 8 to 7, on charges that his administration has not been capable and that he has been ex- travagant in personal expenditures for which the state paid. Allegedly, Dr. Frank was ousted because Gov. Philip La Follete demanded it. As one regent said: ‘He has not been very Progressive.” Accused of play- Sam Rayburn ing politics in this affair, the La Follete group replied that there is no politics in their attitude in the sense of political party affiliations or convictions, but that they have been extremely patient with Dr. Frank over a period of years, and that he has shown himself incom- petent in many ways. The “trial” of President Frank occupied two days and aroused in- tense interest throughout the coun- try, especially among educators. Chairman of the Board H. M. Wilkie and Regent Clough Gates were the prosecutors. Dr. Frank made vigor- ous reply to the charges against him, declaring most of them to be ‘false statements.” He explained that he had spent university money for his household furnishings be- cause there were none in the big mansion provided for the president, and he forced Gates to retract some accusations. As far as neglect of his duties for outside writing and lectures Dr. Frank noted that most of them were in Wisconsin, for which he never took any pay at all. He has been out of the state 137 times in ten years, he said, and eighty-eight of those trips were specifically with educational groups, alumni bodies or other university business. The remaining engagements, he said, were with groups whose prob- lems were related to the problems arising in the various schools. Whereupon 300 dele- met in Flint, Mich., and granted to a order a The board is headed by in- ternational president Auto- mobile Workers of America, one of the Lewis C. 1. O. un- ions. Eighteen of the corporation's plants down strikes and walkouts, 000 of its employees were idle. The auto workers in their Flint meeting, besides creating the board of strategy with to A. P. Sloan INNESOTA'S new governor, El- mer A. Benson, in his inaug- ural address took a hard slap at the Supreme court. Said he: “I recommend that you petition congress to submit a constitutional amendment which would remove from the Supreme court its as- sumed power to declare unconsti- tutional laws passed by congress pertaining to child labor, regulating working conditions in industry and agricultural and industrial produc- tion, providing security against old age, unemployment and sickness and social legislation generally. “Progressive America stands helpless to enact needed social and economic reforms while a reaction- ary Supreme court has usurped au- tocratic powers never intended by the framers of the constitution.” NDREW W. MELLON, Pitts- burgh multimillionaire and for- mer secretary of the treasury, has offered to present to the nation his magnificent art col- lection, valued at $23,000,000, together with a $9,000,000 building for its hous- ing in Washington and a fund for its maintenance and in- crease. The offer is made through Presi- dent Roosev@it, with whom Mr. Mellon has been in corre- spondence and cone ference on the mat- ter. It will be gress with the President's favorable recommendation. The Mellon collection, part of which is stored in the Corcoran art gallery in Washington, includes many paintings of highest impor- tance and some fine works of sculp- ture. Lord Duveen of Milbank, head of a celebrated art firm, says that its actual value is more than $50. 000,000 and that it is the ‘‘greatest collection ever assembled by any individual collector." Andrew Mellon TALY sent a note to the French and British governments offer- the Spanish Fascists provided all nations withdrew their sup- This was to the Franco- note urging that no more be permitted to go to Spain. Evidently it would call for negotiations before noninter- reply British Hitler had not answered the non- but the German indicated that their “war' of reprisal on the Spanish Probably realizing that his hope of final victory was slim unless he was ably seconded by Mussolini and Hitler or could speedily cap- General Franco di- ognition of their union wages and shorter hours. They also appointed a committee to negotiate with the corporation. Alfred P. Sloan, president of Gen- eral Motors, is on record as in- Both Madrid and suffered severely from on the capital. Malaga The Spanish government at Val- encia filled with the League of Na- poration's employees. As he left New York for Detroit he said: “Let them pull workers out. That's the strong the union is.” Homer Martin has declared that “the question of recognition of the William 8. Knudsen, executive declared the company never would biles as long as possible. agree to a conference with of Labor, and Governor Murphy of to further negotiations. One stum- bling block was the insistence of General Motors that the sit-down strikers must get out of the Fisher Body plants in Flint before any conference could be held. Judge E. D. Black of Flint, who issued an injunction against the Flint strikers, was bitterly attacked by the union men. Martin petitioned the Michigan legislature to impeach the jurist because he admittedly owned General Motors stock and so allegedly had violated Michigan law by taking jurisdiction in the matter. The prime object of the C. 1. O. is organization of the steel industry, and the crisis in the automotive in- dustry was not expected by Lewis and his associates or wanted at this time. However, they are giving the auto workers their full support, mor- ally and financially. T WAS announced at the White House that President Roosevelt's Shiest Jom, James, will become a ged White House secretary and draw a salary of $10,000 a year after June 1. Until the of the new fiscal year, James act as secretary but will be on the public pay roll as administrative officer drawing $7,500, At the elevation of James to the Py Stephen T. Early will defies futile, it, so the protest seems ROWN PRINCESS JULIANA of the Netherlands and Prince made man and wife at The Hague, exceedingly. The tall, plump bride wore dents, including “insults” by Reichsfuehrer Hitler. But apol- erything up and Hitler sent to Queen Wilhelmina a cordial tele- riage of her only daughter. ted in Holland on that day was that of “the other Juliana,” a peasant girl who was born at the same hour on the same day as the crown prin. cess, UBMISSION, conviction and par- don of Marshal Shang Hsueh- Chiang Kai-shek of China, appar- ently hasn’t ended the trouble start. ed by him. Dispatches from Sianfu Manchurian army, numbering 250,- 000 troops, had joined red troops of Shensi and Kansu provinces in open revolt against the central govern ment to establish a vast communist empire in northwest China. Reliable sources said that be- tween 5,000 and 10,000 persons were killed during the Shensi rebellion while Chiang was held captive, and the Sianfu authorities feared a re- newal of the slaughter there. bag barricades and trench fortifica- [ I Washington. — When President Roosevelt took office for his first term, one of the About outstanding obser- Money vations that he made was to the effect that the American people “feared fear” and of this condition was born instability. It was a re- markable statement and the truth of it may not now even be denied. It accurately presented one of the fundamental influences disturbing American life and if that psychology As I remember, I commented at remark. Subsequently, I called at- stead of calming the nerves. term and begins his second tenure, I believe it is entirely proper again to advert to his significant and truthful observation of 1933. We can look at this picture only in we cannot see the basis of Mr. Roosevelt's obser- he complained. I shall not attempt to go into the various phases of the term. Indeed, I think it is neither conditions beyond those that are basic, fundamental, in our national economic and polifical structure. For that reason, and because of recent developments of administra- tive policy, I am writing so about money in this report to you The Scripture quotation is: “The love of money is the root of all evil." In treating of the subject of money from our practical stand- point, “the love of money” takes on quite an unusual definition. For, may I point out in candor, there never has been a national admin- istration, so far as my research goes, that has so thoroughly loved the spending of money. I believe Mr. Roosevelt himself enjoys it but Mr. Roosevelt is not fender of his administration in this regard. The two men whose rec- ords stand out with an absurd will ingness to throw money d as I used to throw pebbles when I was a boy on a Missouri farm are Harry Hopkins, Works Progress ad- ministrator, and Secretary Wallace, of the Department of Agriculture. aroun kins is the worse of the two. My conclusion is based on a conviction that Mr. Hopkins is the more waste- ful. I am afraid that when the his- tory of this great depression is set Mr. will not do credit to the hundreds of the poor at heart. » * - The latest development concern- ment that there Money must be at least for Relief three-quartersofa billion new money appropriated for his relief work. President Roosevelt previously had said he would ask congress for only half a billion. It is difficult to rec- oncile these two statements or the reasons therefor. Some slipshod ing taxpayers’ money. Now, the figures reveal that re- Hopkins, are costing about $165, 000,000 a month. If Mr. Roosevelt intends to use only $500,000,000 for relief, curtailment in sharp fashion must take place. If no such cur- tailment is intended, even the Hop- kins figure is too small. Thus, we are brought face to face again with a question: What is to be the policy? I hear more and more discussion as congress gets under way that some definite state- ment ought to be made, some com- mitment given, so that the nation would know what it is proposed to do with all of this money and how much of it is to be used. Incidentally, Mr. Roosevelt re- cently spoke rather curtly to some of his departmental heads about their printing bills. He thought they were too large and that money should be saved in that direction. Now, it happens governmental printing bills amouht to no more than a drop in the bucket when com- may have to be revised later, but that does not excuse the rather care- less practices that have grown up in the calculation of relief expendi- tures. It does not exclude the ne- cessity for a real protection against heedless spending nor does it pre- vent the formulation of intelligent policies. Individually, I do not quite under- stand why the administration should fuss about a few millions of print- ing bills and toss out half a billion or three-quarters of a billion, as the case may be, with reckless abandon when such tossing is done without any evident continuity of sound pol- icy. * * * I referred to Secretary Wallace's spending proclivities. Mr. Wallace has been going Wallace about the country Talks Money lately talking of the necessity for soil conservation and the payment of a subsidy to farmers to accom- plish that end. He has been talking Mr. normal granary" In theory, there is much to be said in favor of spreading unpredict- Wallace's ‘‘ever idea. A large part of the dis- tress found in agricultural regions is due to the destruction of crops by causes over which the farmers have no control. If the consequences of these hazards could be minimized by adjusting losses over wide areas, and by using the surplus of one year to offset the shortage of the one major farm problem be solved. But, as malters now stand, there is a natural tend- ency to regard this move with a skeptical eye. This is necessary be- cause, like so many theories, the Wallace crop insurance, ever nor- mal granary plan seems to omit the one element that is necessary to be included. If this proposition is to be successful, there 1 ly can be no doubt that it must have almost unanimous support. It does not have it and never will. The reason is that it calls upon the government to pay part or all of the cost and human nature inevit- ably resents taking from one to give to another. Mr. Wallace's ideas were adopted by the President's crop insurance That commitlee was sed to have the interest of ag- ulture at heart. Its recommen- dations indicate that it had not only such an interest but an even greater interest, namely, making sure that the farmers were given everything. From all of the discussions that I have heard, I believe it is quite would too far. It went so far, indeed, that it is arousing resentment from will have to pay the bill. There- extreme, the crop insurance and Mr. Wallace have forced a cleavage between producer and consumer and that is likely to result in a renewal of warfare be- tween these two segments of our national life. It will cause a re- vival of an age-old quarrel instead of a healing of old wounds. No one can deny that the farmers, as a class, have not been getting their fair share. From the attitude of many thinking farmers, however, too would prefer to have a farm aid under harmonious conditions and regulations rather than get too masses who are to buy the farmers’ output. To advert to the original theme, Only the Beginning “Yes,” said the self-made man | “I was left without a mother and father at nine months, and ever | since I've had to battle for my- | self.” “How did you manage to sup- port yourself at nine months?” asked a listener. “1 crawled to a baby show and | won the first prize. That was how I started.” Endless “1 wish my wife would not live beyond her means.” “Why does she do it?” “Just to impress the Millers, who live beyond their means just to impress us.”’ The Important One Daughter (scanning the pages) —William means ‘“‘good,” 1 see, James means “beloved” (blush ing slightly). 1 wonder what tly) — 1 sincerely trust, my dear, that George means business. 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