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A General Quiz
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1. What president of the United
States married Frances Folsom?
2. Was St. George an English-
man?
3. Where was the Parthenon?
4. By what bcdy is an
ment usually returned?
5. Of what. ‘“‘marquis"
“Puss in Boots" tell?
6. What is the foreground of a
picture?
7. Who were the ‘Boxers’?
8. In what sport are foils used?
9. How many stomachs has a
ruminant?
10. What is a Sybarite?
11. Was Washington a signer of
the Declaration of Independence’
12. Who was Desire Joseph
Mercier?
did
Answers
1. Craver Cleveland.
2. No, said to be a native of
Cappadocia.
3. In Athens.
4. A grand ‘cry.
5. The Marquis of Carabas.
6. The part apparently nearest
the spectator.
7. Members of a Chinese soci-
ety aiming at expelling for-
eigners.
8. Fencing.
9. Four.
10. A lover of luxury.
t1. No.
12. A Cardinal of Belgium during
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CLASSIFIED
DEPARTMENT
REMEDIES
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Washington.—More perhaps than
ever before in our country's BistorYs
. the courts of the
The President , ation, federal
and the Court and state, are in
a jam. They are
being subjected to a greater strain
than ever before and, I think, the
strain is too great for them long to
continue to bear it.
That sentence sounds sensational.
It is meant to be. In the opinion of
many sound thinkers, men and
women of vision, there has never
been a time when a wave or surge
has attacked the courts or any other
American institution with such fe-
rocity.
One of the reasons the situation is
to be regarded with so much con-
cern is President Roosevelt's latest
request of congress for a reorgani-
zation of the judiciary system. He
is asking for more judges every-
where which, of itself, seems en-
proper, but the message
astounded observers by proposing
an increase in the membership of
the Supreme court of the United
States to fifteen. That is to say
that if it were enacted into law, Mr.
Roosevelt's own proposal would
give him authority to select six ad-
unal. Inasmuch as the present
membership of the court has re-
fused a number of times to hold
New Deal legislation valid under
the Constitution, it takes no stretch
of the imagination at all to figure
out that Mr. Roosevelt's proposal
would give him authority to select a
sufficient number of new justices
so that the New Deal would hold
the balance of power in the highest
court of the judiciary of the coun-
try.
There may be and probably is
merit in the President's proposal
that judges should retire at seventy
years of age. It happens that the
present membership of the court in-
cludes six men who are above that
age and a statute compelling re-
tirement at seventy would make six
added vacancies in the court unless
the present court should find that
this law itself is unconstitutional in
one regard. The judges are ap-
pointed for life and they cannot be
removed without cause — which
means they must be impeached by
congress and tried.
The message respecting reorgani-
zation of the judiciary system was
by far the most sensational to come
from Mr. Roosevelt as President.
He pointed out in it that he had
proposed reorganization of the ex-
ecutive branch of the government so
that it might function more effi-
ciently. The next step, he said,
was to reorganize the judiciary so
that it could administer justice
more speedily. But there are many
minds throughout the country which
find it difficult to believe that the
necessity for speedy justice is the
fundamental reason for the new pro-
posal.
It is too early to tell, of course,
how congress will act on the Presi-
dent's suggestion, but the more as-
tute observers here are quite con-
vinced that such legislation cannot
go through without a bitter debate.
The political implications are many.
If a real struggle develops in the
house or the senate, it is not out-
side the range of a good guess to
predict that it could split the tre-
mendous Democratic majority
asunder in either house. If it did
that once, undoubtedly enmities and
factions would be created that
would continue through the remain-
der of the President's new term and
only the passage of time can dis-
close how far reaching such a thing
might be.
But let us review for a moment
some of the background of the con-
ditions that have preceded the Pres-
ident's sensational proposal. There
have been sniping and bushwhack-
ing at the judiciary for a number of
years and this was thrown into high
speed by the President himself
when the Supreme court threw out
the NRA. On that occasion, Mr.
Roosevelt made the well remem-
bered remark that the decision had
taken us back to ‘‘the horse and
buggy days.”
There followed an uproar by a
vocal minority of radicals and per-
sons who claimed to be liberal.
They attacked the Supreme court
for throwing out New Deal meas-
ures, ridiculed the justices as ‘‘the
nine old men” and proceeded in
general to spread poison to all and
sundry about the country’s judicial
system. On top of that came Mr.
Roosevelt's speech to congress last
month in which he made a virtual
demand upon the Supreme court for
“a more enlightened interpretation
of the Constitution.” That was an
unprecedented thing but it was not
nearly so sensational as the present
problem.
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Much of the problem that is swirl-
ing around the courts of the land re-
sults from the po-
Congress sition which con-
Criticizes gress has chosen
to take. There are
a goodly number of representatives
are doing this because they see the
Supreme court deciding every now
and then that some ill-thought-out
piece of legislation should be tossed
out of the window. A good many of
these eongressional shouters have
only a slight understanding of the
babble that they put out on the
the fact remains they are a part of
tion among those who want to be-
lieve the same way,
foresee real trouble for all of us if
the powers of the courts are curbed.
paramount issue and
made a powerful appeal that if the
their government, the people ought
to do it and not the President and
the congress.
The Idaho senator makes the point
that only through a judiciary un-
fettered by politics, free to operate
as it sees the law, can the people
of the country retain their freedom.
erty goes.
congress, which just now is the
spearhead of the movement to
change the power of the courts,
bility.
I said earlier that the courts could
not continue long to bear the pres-
ent burden of attack. That burden
which they carry now results large-
ly—and this is especially true of
the Supreme court of the United
States—from the fact that congress
has ceased to
body. It has tossed great chunks
of undigested legislation at the
courts and when the courts have
held these laws unconstitutional, a
bunch of nitwits each time has un-
leashed a great howl. It would seem
then that the proper conclusion is
that the nine old men are not older
nor any less enlightened than the
members of congress or the execu-
tive branches of the government
but that especially congress is fail-
ing to do its job.
to read election returns
judiciary. It seems to me it ought
to be remembered by members of
congress and officials of the execu-
tive branch of the government that
each and every one of them has
taken an oath as an official of this
government to preserve, protect and
defend the Constitution and in so
doing they must defend the courts.
» * .
In any discussion of congress and
its activities, I find time to do
a little laughing.
Laughs Are Through the last
Loud Today
several weeks, a
period when floods
were raging and people were dying,
when thousands upon thousands
walked the streets without jobs,
when other thousands walked the
streets because a militant labor
leader had called a strike and had
permitted his strikers to violate
laws of the land by seizure of prop-
erty—while all of these things were
happening, our congress was giving
thought to a picayune proposition.
It was discussing a bill providing
for alterations of the Capitol build-
ing, itself.
thing is that it has a very good
before the end of this session. It
is proposed to spend four or five
construct the central portion of the
the three east wings extend the
same distance from the main build.
ing.
for all of the offices required now
or for the next half century.
I said the tragedy of the thing
was that this proposal stands a fair
chance of passing through congress.
Sponsors of the plan declare it
will improve the appearance of the
central portion of the old building,
It may do that but I have found
more architects who disagree than
agree with that thought.
As for the office space argument,
it would appear that somebody in
congress is quite determined simply
to spend some more money. It is
to be remembered that only two
years ago, the house of repre.
sentatives built a second office
building at a cost of $9,000,000 for
its members. About the same time,
the senate added a wing to the
senate office building so that each
senator could have three rooms
whereas heretofore the average sen-
ator had only two rooms in his
suite. Committee chairmen always
have had three or more rooms. In
addition, there are several hundred
offices in the Capitol Miilding itself
and a goodly number of senators
and represenistives have private of-
fices in the Capitol as well as in
the office buildings. So altogether,
I think there is just ground for say-
ing, as one hears said frequently,
that the congresses of the last few
years much resemble boys who
have received too many toys in one
delivery. They don’t know what to
do with themselves.
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OBODY makes
about being late to parties
hostess knows before they ex-
plain their tardiness that they
est stars agree that Greta’s per.
formance is sheer magic. When you
“Camille”
is playing, you
Without giving her friends time
well parties and
showers,
Mary Pickford
quietly booked pas-
sage to London for
herself and her
niece. Buddy Rog-
ers took an earlier
If there is a
lull of a few days
during the produc-
picture
for which he is go-
Pickford
will be married
leaving Mary signed contracts with
several players and technicians. She
has every intention of going back
to work as a picture producer
to Hollywood.
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Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., has been
homesick for Hollywood. The film
to
learn that he had persuaded United
Artists to grant him leave of ab-
sence from his important job as
producer and star in order to take
an acting role of secondary impor-
tance in Hollywood. He will play in
“Prisoner of Zenda’ in support of
Ronald Colman and Mary Astor.
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When Fred Astaire was a mere
child trying out with his sister for
an amateur show in St. Louis, the
greatest dancing stars in the world,
and the darlings of international
society were Vernon and Irene
Castle. Now Irene Castle McLaugh-
lin, widow of Vernon who lost his
life as an aviator in the war, has
shown up at a studio with the ex-
citing story of her life. Fred As-
taire will star in it.
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Any girl who can make an out-
standing hit in a picture in which
the smoothly expert Myrna Loy and
William Powell appear is not just
good, she is marvelous. That is
what directors on the M. G. M. lot
have been telling Dorothy McNulty
ever since her appearance in “After
the Thin Man” made audiences
burst into spontaneous applause. In
the midst of all the enthusiasm over
her at the studio, everyone neg-
lected to make sure that she had
been put under contract. She didn’t
mention it because nobody asked
her. And Paramount slyly came
along and signed her up for their
pictures,
aos
Many actresses would be more
than satisfied if they could sign a
teeing them four hundred and fifty
thousand dollars a year. But Carole
Lombard insisted on adding clauses
guaranteeing that Teddy Tetzlafl,
her favorite camerman, would al-
ways photograph her. And that Pat
Drew, studio electrician who lost
a leg in a plane crash, would al
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Letters have poured
ging that
instead of
smart-aleck,
their behavior
Shirley's latest pic-
ture. Taking their
Temple advice to heart,
the studio selected *““Wee Willie
Winkie” as Shirley's next picture.
If she does any imitation of Alice
Faye or Tony Martin singing, or of
Bill Robinson dancing, it will be
away from the camera.
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bah?"
“Certainly, sir, what is the num-
“That jolly little thing that goes
dah-de-dah-de-dah-de-dah. Let me
see now, what is it called” | know:
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desires in this vicinity’.
“Did you say a song, sir, or a
recitation?”
“Darn, boss,”
‘he means, “You
there 'ere’."”
can't do that
NO BUDGET
Hubby—Don’t you think you ought
to keep account of your household
expenses?
Wifey— Why? There's never any-
thing left at the end of the week to
account for.
Trap
Smoking a cigarette, the small
boy advanced upon the ticket office
and demanded a half-fare ticket to
Binghampton
“What!” cried the booking clerk,
“a kid like you smoking a cigar-
ette?’
“Kid be blowed!” was the indig-
nant reply. “I'm fourteen.”
“Full fare, please.” Grit (Sid- |
ney, Australia).
Of Course
Professor—] forgot my umbrella
this morning.
King Arthur—How did
member to forget it?
Professor—Well, I missed it when
I raised my hand to close it after
it had stopped raining —Boston
Transcript.
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The People's Servant
Mrs. Green—] want to open an |
account with your bank.
Cashier—How much do you want
to deposit?
Mrs. Green—Why, nothing. I want
to draw out $30.—Pathfinder Mag-
azine,
Controlling End
fr. A.—Our bank has just gone |
through a reorganization.
Mr. B.—~What was the matter?
Mr. A.—~We found we had more |
executives than depositors.—Auto-
mobilits.
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Tourist—Where will I find the bus |
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Native—On top of you if you don't |
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MODERNISTIC BOY
“Jones doesn’t strike me as liter-
ary, yet he declares that he never
feels so comfortable as when he is
snugly in his library.”
“Oh, *hat's not surprising. His
bookcase is a folding bed.”
Attaining Success
Chubb-—I am surprised that Park-
er has made such a phenomenal
success as a weather forecaster.
Duff -I'm not. He threw away
all his scientific instruments and de-
pends on his corns to tell him when
it is going to rain.— Pathfinder Mag-
azine,
Picking His Pieces
Mrs. Jones (to handsome caller)
Come right in and have a chair.
Installment Collector—No thanks,
I'll take the piano instead.
Taking No Chances
“Why did you refuse an offer to
go into moving pictures?”
“I'd rather go on,” said Miss Ca-
yenne, “imagining what a great star
1 might have been, rather than
risk realizing what a flop I actually
was.”
Correct
Teacher—In what battle did Gen-
eral Wolfe, when of vie
think it was his last bat-
cry, "1 die happy"?
Willie
tle.
Judging Self
To judge and examine one's self
is a labor full of profit.
The vein of gold in many a man
is seldom taken for a yellow
streak even by the dullest,
To make better men it is nec
essary to begin with the children,
That's what McGuffey’'s Readers
did.
Anticipated Pleasures
Why do we always wish time
to hasten? Is it because our an-
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When a man becomes thorough-
ly contented ie has outlived his
usefulness.
When we don’t like certain man-
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of bad taste, we are not necessa-
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It's Often Needed
One thing about the School of
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Some are
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This earth owes a hen a living,
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