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Washington.—Developments that
have taken place and are taking
place in the fight
precipitated by
President Roose-
velt's plan to re-
form the Supreme court of the
United States show some phases not
hitherto evident in political fights.
One of these, I believe, portends
important changes in the political
alignment in this country. I have
reported to you in these columns
many times evidences of a growing
trend toward a new political align-
ment and I can say now that noth-
ing which has taken place since
Mr. Roosevelt took his New Deal
into the White House has given such
impetus to this coming realignment
as his proposal that congress pass
a law giving him authority to
name six more justices for the high-
est court. .
The information coming into
Washington these days shows very
plainly that the Roosevelt court
packing proposal is calling forth op-
position from both of the major po-
litical parties. In other words, the
opposition to the President's move
is probably nonpartisan to a greater
extent than any issue before the
American people in the last 50
years. It will be remembered that
the late President Wilson's proposal
that the United States enter the
League of Nations falls within that
period of time and while there was
both Democratic and Republican
opposition to Mr. Wilson's program,
it can not be said to have extended
among the rank and file of the Dem-
ocratic party, then in power, to the
“xtent that Mr. Roosevelt's court
yacking project has permeated the
lists of Democratic voters.
I have endeavored to gain th
views of many individuals respect-
ing the prospects of a new political
mligament but few of the men whose
judgment is best politically are will-
ing to make a guess. A consider-
a number of them say frankly
that they are unable to guess. On
the other hand, however, there was
general agreement that Mr. Roose-
velt, by suddenly tossing his court
program into the lap of congress,
has given momentum to a move-
ment that for some months appears
to have been simply marking time.
There are certain facts on this
phase of the court battle that appear
obvious. They are influential and
important as well.
Take for example the fact that
Mr. Roosevelt does not have the
backing of the so-called solid South
for his proposition. Now, the Demo-
Sees New
Alignment
century has maintained the South
as a stronghold of its party. In-
deed, in every presidential and
congressional election, Republican
politicians began calculating what
the Democratic strength could be
at the maximum by conceding 13
states to the Democrats. How dif-
ferent is the situation, now.
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One can go through the lists of
representatives in congress from
. the South and find
Different them rather even-
Story ly divided. One
will find among
Mr. Roosevelt's opponents in this
battle numerous senators and rep-
resentatives who have supported
him on every other item of legisla-
tion that he has recommended to
congress. Now, however, the story
is different.
Another interesting phase of the
legislative situation is that the bulk
of the true and constant liberals
in the senate and the house have
taken a stand against the proposi-
tion of increasing the Supreme court
from nine to fifteen members.
These two points do not repre-
sent all of the factors opposing the
President's plan by any means, but
I think it can be definitely said that
if Mr. Roosevelt is defeated in his
demand at this time, the two fac-
tors that I have named will have
been the deciding influences.
Having influences like those just
mentioned expanding in their scope,
portends, as I suggested above, a
considerable shake-up in party af.
fllation of a lasting kind. I do not
mean to say that all of the liberals
who are opposing the plan and all
of the Democrats who are opposing
the court-packing will refrain from
supporting Mr. Roosevelt on other
issues in the future. I do mean to
emphasize, however, that some of
them will not return to the ranks
of Roosevelt stalwarts.
Thus it becomes rather obvious,
1 think, that the conservative ranks
in congress will be increased to the
extent that some of the defections,
caused by Mr. Roosevelt's court
proposal, result in permanent ad-
hevence to other philosophies.
So it seems to me that the future
holds the probability of a sharp line
of demarcation between radicals
and conservatives. How they will
be identified and what labels they
may wear is immaterial. We are
due to have a conservative party
and a radical party in this country
and its shape and character is be-
ing molded under the driving fire of
the controversy precipitated by Mr.
Roosevelt's demands for six more
Supreme court justices.
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In a previous article I discussed
the bitterness that has permeated
the Supreme court
controversy. This
bitterness is grow-
ing and no one
can tell how terrific it is going to
be. Yet, while the political leaders
make charges and countercharges,
it seems to me to be almost pa-
thetic that the nine judges of the
Supreme court must sit quietly by
and say nothing. They can not de-
fend themselves against the criti-
cisms leveled at them by President
Roosevelt and his associates.
I have searched the records as
far as I have been able and I have
yet to find where any justice of the
Supreme court of the United States
ever has expressed himself publicly
on any occasion when the court was
assailed. It is a rule that is strictly
adhered to by the nine justices
whom Mr. Rooseveit has described
as ‘‘the nine old men.” Therefore,
we see them as the center of one
of the greatest political battles in
history, wholly unwilling to be-
smirch their dignity or their rec-
ords by answering back.
The recent “fireside chat’ by Mr.
Roosevelt was replete with innuen-
does and inferences that the mem-
bers of the court are quite incapa-
ble of doing their job; that they are
living in an age that is dead and,
consequently, unable to see things
as the rest of the country sees
them today. Mr. Roosevelt's speech
at the victory dinner of the Demo-
crats was purely politics and his
fireside chat in explanation of his
court program was 90 per cent poli-
tics. But the Supreme court is not
in politics. It strikes me as being
almost a tragedy that these ‘‘nine
old men" can not defend their honor
and their record after a lifetime of
service to the American people.
I do not take much stock in the
many tirades that have filled the
air and columns upon columns of
newspaper space that the present
justices are incapable of doing their
job. There is so much untruth, so
many unwarranted conclusions in
those tirades that it amounts to a gi-
gantic campaign that will mislead
the people of the nation. Assuming
that some of the justices are too old
to do their job and assuming fur-
ther that some of them may be
too conservative to deal with pres-
ent day problems, it yet seems to
me to be an indisputable fact that
there is nothing in life that can
take the place of experience and the
lessons thus learned.
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While Mr. Roosevelt was taking
a vacation in the warm sunshine of
Georgia, the case
Able in behalf of the
Spokesmen court packing
proposition was
ably presented to the senate com-
mittee on the judiciary. His spokes-
men were Attorney General Cum-
mings and Assistant Attorney Gen-
eral Robert Jackson. They did their
job well. They met some of the
most vicious questions from com-
mittee members that I have ever
heard and they met them with a
smile. True, opponents of the pro-
gram among those senators were
Growing
Bitterness
tions advanced by the President's
spokesmen. That fact, however,
does not take away from the two
witnesses the credit that is due
them.
And thus for the first time we
have what must be regarded as of-
ficial arguments,
guments are to be distinguished
from fireside chats and political
the President's plan. Likewise, for
mission that Mr. Roosevelt's pur-
pose in asking congress to give him
tional judges is to give him men on
that court who will see present day
problems ¢s the President sees
them.
In view of Mr. Jackson's state-
ments to the committee, we can
look back upon some of the
speeches made by New Deal spokes-
men some months ago and can
realize from them and present de-
velopments that Mr. Roosevelt had
the general purpose of packing the
court in mind for some months.
This circumstance seems to explain
also why the President and his ad-
visors refused to accept the recom-
mendation of Prof. Raymond Moley
in 1934. At that time, Professor
Moley, a member, if not the num-
ber one man, of the Brain Trust,
urgently pressed for the New Deal
ers to go to the country with two
constitutional amendments. He
wanted the people of the country to
understand that these amendments
would permit enactment of certain
types of laws. He thought that the
congressional elections of 1034 was
the time to present the questions
to the voters. It must be said that
Professor Moley’'s proposition was
one of the fairest and soundest to
be made. It is a method prescribed
by the Constitution itself.
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films that make your hair
stand on end, your spine tingle,
and your hands grow damp in
terror,
is “The Woman Alone,” with
ney.
If you take my advice, you will
see it in the afternoon, so you will
have a few hours before bedtime in
which to recover from the sheer ter-
ror it inspires. But by all means
see it, even if it does mean loss of
sleep for a few days, for it is one
of the smoothest and most gripping
pictures you will ever have a chance
to see.
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Speaking of Sylvia Sidney, she
and Ann Dvorak are running a neck
and neck — or 1
should say test and
test — race for the
leading role in Sam-
uel Goldwyn's film
of “Dead End.”
Each girl has made
several tests of the
big scenes in the
play and both are so
good, Mr. Goldwyn
is having a hard
time choosing be-
tween them. Holly-
wood sort of hopes
Ann Dvorak will get the role, be-
cause Sylvia Sidney had so
many triumphs lately, she really
doesn’t need another as much as the
lovable Ann does
nets
When Jean Sablon sang on the
Rudy Vallee hour recently, all the
film scouts were listening. Immedi-
ately studio heads telegraphed their
New York offices to take a look at
him and put him under contract if
his appearance was half as roman-
tic as his voice. They reported that
ee was every studio's dream of a
matinee idol, but none have suc-
ceeded in getting him under con-
tract yet. Mr. Sablon is twenty-
nine years old and has been singing
in operettas in Paris ever since he
was sixteen.
Sylvia Sidney
has
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Everyone who enjoys madeap
comedy will be pleased with the
forthcoming “Love Is News.” Ty-
rone Power, Don Ameche, and Lo
retta Young play the leading roles,
but there is another member of the
cast who may interest you even
more. Playing opposite Tyrone
Power is a young lady named Carol
Tevis who is an old, old friend of
yours. Never heard of her? Maybe
not under that name, but surely
you will recall that you have loved
and cherished her for years when
I tell you that she used to be the
voice of Minnie Mouse. This is not
her first appearance before the cam-
era; she played a small part in
“Sweepstake Annie.”
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All Hollywood is rejoicing because
W. C. Fields is so far on the road to
recovery that he is able to have a
few visitors now, walk around the
sanitarium grounds, and even think
about coming back to Paramount to
work. During his illness he became
one of the country's leading radio
fans. All day and far into the night
he was listening, and he thinks that
curiosity about the next punch in
the Jack Benny-Fred Allen feud
helped to keep him alive. His other
favorites are Easy Aces and Lum
and Abner.
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Zasu Pitts has come back from
England where she made two pic-
tures, paused in
New York a short
time and hustled
into Hollywood to go
to work at RKO.
She loved sightsee-
ing in England, par-
ticularly as her
guide was the mel-
low-voiced Charles
Laughton of innu-
merable film tri-
umphs, including
“Ruggles of Red
Gap” in which she
appeared. Laughton not only
showed her around London, he gave
her a pair of exquisite French an-
tique vases for her new home. In-
cidentally, a radio sponsor is trying
to get Zasu to devote all her time to
radio programs.
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She Modeled Lincoln
N THE rotunda of the United
States Capitol at Washington
stands a statue of Abraham Lin-
coln. Among all the sculptured like-
nesses of the Great Emancipator
this one i8 unique. It is the only
one which was modeled from life
and it is the work of a young girl.
Vinnie Ream was her name and
she was born in Wisconsin in 1847.
As a girl she amused herself by
sketching the Indians whom she saw
when her father, a surveyor, took
her with him on his trips in the
Nest. They were crude sketches
but an old Italian who saw them
recognized her latent talent and en-
couraged her.
When she was fourteen her father
secured a position for her as a copy-
ist in the post
at $50 a
quainted with
mous sculptor,
him at w
office department
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became
could do that if
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real Lincoln has returned to us.”
Vinnie Ream later married
Richard L. Hoxie but cor
work as a sculptor until her death
in 1914. She made many other stat-
ues and modeled medallions and
busts of many notables, both here
and abroad. 3ut she is best re-
membered as the only sculptor who
ever modeled Lincoln from life and
the pioneer woman sculptor of
America.
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Soldier-Painter
F YOU think of a painter as an
impractical idealist, revise that
view before applying it to Charles
Willson Peale. Born in Maryland in
1741 he was apprenticed to a sad-
dler at the age of thirteen and was
such a good workman that he won
his freedom by the time he was
twenty. Then he went into busi-
ness for himself and later formed a
partnership with a chaisemaker
who promptly absconded with all
of the firm's money. To get out of
debt Peale next tried clock and
watch making and set himself up
as a silversmith.
Becoming interested in painting,
Peale took lessons from a Swedish-
American artist and paid for them
with a saddle which he had made.
Next he spent two years studying
under Copley in Boston and then
went to England to learn more
from the famous Benjamin West.
the Revolution, he be-
It was
At the outbreak of the Revolu-
tion Peale, who was an ardent pa-
triot, organized a company of mi-
litia and became a captain. For the
next three years he mixed painting
and soldiering, winning distinction
in both. Next he went into poli-
tics and in 1779 and 1780 served as
a member of the Pennsylvania as-
sembly.
After the war, Peale gathered to-
gether all of the portraits of Revo-
lutionary leaders he had painted—
including several of Washington
and started a picture gallery in
his home, which was so popular
that he had to seek larger quarters.
In 1802 he opened the famous Peale
museum on the second floor of In-
dependence hall. There he exhib
ited not only his paintings but also
a remarkable collection of natural
history specimens he had collected.
At the age of eighty-one Peale
portraits and historical
a memorial to one of
greatest painters and
of her most versatile
About With
Move
By Lydia Le Baron Walker
graceful, and recoils from be-
ing considered awkward. This at-
tribute of grace is held in
bigh ezieem that children are fre-
quently sent to dancing school
just to acquire it although they
may never become exceptionally
fine or professional dancers. They
are taught poize and rhythm of
moticn that gives them the ability
to move about with eage of body
and grace of action,
Ungainly Gaits,
Knowing all this, it is odd that
youths of today frequently have
ungainly walks. This is instanced
in girls especially. Olde: folk re-
gret it when they themselves do
not walk gracefully, and so even-
tually the young girls will also.
Promenades In Foreign Lands,
The art of walking gracefully
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in some countries. In Italy and
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and Phrases
Semper (L.)
prepared
paratus. Alway
vox Dei. (L.) The
voice of the people is the voice of
God.
Vis-a-vis.
ace.
Etat d'ame.
mind.
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state of
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est. (L.) It is not; it is
wanting.
Sponte sua. (L.)
accord.
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are going without keeping your
eyes glued to the ground. Do not
ape the stride of men, for their
long steps are awkward for wom
en. Learn to flex the knees slight
ly, not enough to cause you to
bob up and down, but just enough
to provide that springiness which
is an indication of the suppleness
of youth,
A Suggestion to Remember.
Do not throw the torso first inte
one hip socket and then the other.
This is ungainly and is said to
increase the size of the hips. The
hint of a “swinging gait’ with its
bouyancy is desirable but, when
exaggerated, this becomes a roll-
ing walk, which is to be avoided.
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