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Show PUBLIC OPINION Science Has Made This Age of Super Miracles Armed with more Washington. power than any President of the United States, or the head of any democratic government, ever has hud, Iresl-IdeRoosevelt has started wluit he hopes will be the Anal drive for economic recovery. lie has all of the weapons In his own bands. There can be no mistake that be Is prepared to nse them. When the second session of the Seventy-third congress adjourned, the work It bad done together with the enactments of the first session, completed the transfer to the Chief Executive of more authority than any congress ever before had delegated to the head of the government. In fact, a survey of the acts seems to Indicate that congress delegated to Mr. Roosevelt at least 50 per cent of the power ordinarily reserved to the legislative branch alone. Some of the grants were of a temporary churacter, of course, tut nevertheless the President hns them and they mnnot Is taken away until after the first of Junuury, 11K55, Irresicrtlve of their nuture, unless exigencies should arise under which Mr. Roosevelt will cult the congress back for an extraordinary session. Those exigencies do not now appear on the horizon. The above paragraphs are a necessary prelude to the further statement that for the coming six months, at least, the country will have a distincn tive control Ordinarily, we are prone to consider this government of oura In a little different manner because, In a period when congress Is In session, the restrictions which Its enactments emliody serve to circumscribe the powers of the executive branch of the government. In the forthcoming six months, however, the executive branch may operate with all of the freedom discretionary authority carries lu the New Deal legislation. Because of the great speed which characterised passage of the New Deal legislation for which the President asked. Its full meaning wns overlooked temporarily lu many cast's. Now that congress has gone, however, appraisals are possible In the light of the relationship existing tetween various Items of the New Deal, and this has occasioned more than the usual amount of discussion In Washington. One line of discussion frequently heard Is that Mr. Roosevelt has placed himself In a spot where he can claim full personal credit for the success of hla program. Ry the same token, and .since success la not yet assured, he Is on the siot where he must accept full responsibility for failure of any part of the program to accomplish the Job which he has outlined. From wluit I hear aronnd Washington, there seems no disposition anywhere to take away any of the credit The politicians on the President's side dare not seek any of the credit, for their records show them to have been wholly subservient nt one-ma- to Ids will poli- ticians are continuing to play dead, for their strategy Is apparently one of allowing the calf all of the rope. If failure attends any units of the program, they will make groat capital of It If success Is complete, they can do nothing about It anywuy, thus they are in a blind alley for the time being. This position, I am told, does not mean that the Republican and other groups will not fight hack. I have explained In earlier letters that they are going to foment trouble by attacks on various of show vulnerable points. the policies s As I said at the outset, the story congress Is the story of 'the broast loan of power dcast a Loan v.t Kiveti. It must of Power be described as a loan of power, because congress cun take it hack at any time by mustering Hutliclenl voles for repeal of the laws It enacted. lint It must lie remembered that, under tbe Norris amendment to the federal Constitution, the recently adjourned session of congress was the lust session, la other wonts, when adjournment wns voted, it was an adjournment sine die. It wiis finisliisl. It ciiiitiot lie reconvened without a call by the President and that, as I retorted almve. Is hardly within the realm of possibilities. All of which Is by wny of saying that Mr. Roosevelt will linvc the use of these loaned powers completely and unequivocally certainly until next January. It might be added that he will have most of them fer much longer because. although congress can exercise Its right to take them hack, recovery of the grants of imwer Is not ns easy as It may seem. For example, normally, roisiil of a law Is Rerumpllslied by a majority vole In congress. Rut one must slop to consider here I Imt Mr. Roosevelt may imt want to give up the authority vested In him. He has the power to veto an uct of congress. Then, to get those powers back congress must override the veto. To override a veto It Is necessary under the terms of the Constitution that two thirds of each house shnll have voted In the afilrnmtlve. I am making no usscrtlon that any such attitude will be taken by the President None cun make It for none knows whut the President's altitude of the Seventy-thir- d When the first steam engine dragged a single cur along a track at fuur or fire miles an hour, and 'the Clermont chugged her labored way up the Hudson, and tbe first telegraph tediously ticked out the message, "What hath God wrought!" men and women sensitive to these developments said: "We live In an age of miracles." And the phrase bus been repeated until It has lost much of Its original meaning, has become s mere bromide of conversation. A new denomination appears to be needed. For example, a man files from California to New York In less than twelve hours as little as a dox en years ago such a feat could have been Imagined only by a professional novelist or a professional lunatic ; no one seriously believed that any such thing could be done. And even more Incredible was the notion that residents of opposite ends of the eurth might talk with each other. Yet, recently, Dr. Anton Lang, Jr Georgetown university, exchanged greetings with Ills family at Obcrain-mergnGermany, while an undetermined million "listened In." Also, by a marvelous technique of reproduction, a thousuud movie theaters Just now are showing In colors as rich as life Itself a pageant of the Court of St. Jumps in 1815 the screen blossoms Into glory beyond the dreams of any genius of the past; what would Benvenuto Cellini or Richard Wagner have said of such a medium of enfranchised art! Scientists meanwhile climb the stratosphere and plumb the deepest depths of the restless sea, look out into the boundless heavens and watch storms passing over planets of which the ancients never guessed, dig into mountains and drag from hiding elements which their immediate predecessors could not foretell, snatch from the grasp of death victims of accidents and ailments which once were accepted as Immutable whims of an unkind Providence. Each hour thut runs Its course provides news of unexampled victory over circumstance. And so It happens that a super-miracof ma sty reaction la achieved a psychological lalssez fuire on the part of the public. Young folk, es- - will be when the time comes for a decision on tbe (mint It is worthy of thought In my opinion, however, that here is a condition where the system of checks and balances between the legislative, Judicial and executive branches of the government have placed a powerful whip In the hands of the Executive. Students of the Constitution tell me that It Is a very unusual condition. Frankly, as I see the situation at this time. It will take an overturning of public sentiment equal In magnitude to the landslide by which Mr. Roosevelt was elected to force a return of that power to congress were the President desirous of rctululng It When Mr. Roosevelt cunie into fice March 4, 1933, the congress, cording to the stltution, held Questioned I'"" ,e7 ofac- Con-Legali- ty the '"1 u, borcollect taxes, row money, to regulate foreign and domestic commerce, to coin money and regulate lls value and to govern Its relation to foreign roln, to combat to set up Inferior counterfeiting, courts, to declare war and grant letters of marque nnd reprisal, to raise and support the army and the navy and control cnlls for the militia, to define and punish piracy, guard the copyright of creative work, and to inuke all necessary laws for carrying out these various powers. What has congress retained of these vast powers, given it by the Constitution because it represents the people? There Is a divergence of opinion. Surely, however, there has been delegated to the President some of the most Important of those powers, and some authorities like Senator Borah of Idaho, and some of the Democratic conservatives claimed the delegation has been Illegal. Whether that contention Is true, of course, Is a matter for the courts. To examine Just a few of the things done by congress will Illustrate the extent to which It went In granting authority to the President Tuke the laws creating the Agricultural Adjustment administration and It will be seen tliut the authority to levy and collect taxes was granted and at the snme time a big handful of control over Interstate and foreign commerce was given to the Executive. ProducBank-hea- d tion control under the cotton control law Is Just thut An Important control over Interstate and foreign commerce was given the President also under the nutlonal recovery act General Johnson, administrator, exercises that authority, of course, but he dura so under executive direction. While the power Is circumscribed to an extent, congress gave the President authority to change the value of the dollar. He cannot vury it greater than between fifty and sixty cents, as we used to measure rents, but the power to coin money and regulate Its value rests with Mr. Roosevelt to that extent The Implications go much further. The treasury has an Immense fund of gold which it can use In maintaining the relationship between our dollar and foreign coins. , Under the present congress gave away temporarily the right to make laws, or a part U. S. in Many of that authority. In nil of the acts Businesses nearly (f the Kew congress, much discretionary power to draft regulations and rules for administration of the new laws was accorded the Executive. leaders contend thut In using this discretionary N)wer, the executive branch has put government Into countless businesses. Through the Reconstruction Finance corporation, for example; the government owns or has Inlluence in through the medium of loans such businesses as hanking, dairying, cotton and wheat and other grain stocks, In the mortgage field, railroading and In the vuriotis fields of commerce and Industry such as those touched by the Tennessee Valley experiment. In the charity field, the government has gone a long way. It Is providing work In numerous ways. Various experiments arc being worked out with these funds, voted by congress for distribution under tbe President's direction. Some of the money is being used, for example, for the building of whole towns In conjunction with a government-owned manufacturing plant. Through NBA, It Is to be mentioned laws were virtually, also, tbe anti-truIf not wholly, suspended. The recovt laws Inery act made the applicable where corporations signed the rodes and complied with the blue eagle requirements. Under tlint same set of laws, too, tbe government virtually became a partner In all bust nesses, since It exercises authority over their manufaciuring practices and policies as well as their methods of production and distribution. Finally, It ought to lie mentioned that no longer can an Individual sign a contract by which he will agree to make payment in cold. All such contracts entered Into heretofore, If they are still In effect, mean nothing because they cannot lie enforced as to payment In gold. The treasury hns become the owner of all monetary gold within the confines of the United States. Xewnpeewr l'nlia O br An Afghan Silversmiths l story of silver is a very old For ages It has been among coin and ornament makers; yet today Its name flares In the uews headlines to an even greater extent than that of Its fellow precious metal, gold. Less costly than gold or platinum, almost plastic In tbe hands of clever silversmiths, silver's everyday uses are legion. Not every one Is born with s silver spoon In his mouth ; yet the spoon, In some form, Is almost as old as man, or at least, as one witty Frenchman said, certainly aq old as soup. One Greek example In the British museum has a stem ending In a goats hoof. Pliny speaks of spoons whose bandies were sbaiied like spikes to perforate eggs. The famous Apostle spoons, usually In sets of 13 (the additional one with the figure of Christ), were once popular gifts to a new-bor- n child. Made In 1040, Its handle an imnge of St. Peter, one such spoon Is on view now at Wunanmker's In New York. Knives and forks came much later. That the head of the family should curve at table may have come from the fact that la old days men carried knives fur defense. Forks were not generally used till the early lCih century, when Italian nubility started the fashion. Tbe practice, though some thought It effeminate, gradually spread to other countries. The English novelist James Iayn wrote of "the culture of the silver-fork school without their affectation." The "Lytyl Reporte of How Young People Should Behave gives those guides to correct table manners: "Your knife Is to be kept clean and sharp. . . . Eat your broth with a spoon, not sip it. . . . You are not to leave your spoon In your dish nor dip your meat In the sulere (salt)." Old beliefs cling to some silver articles. Malays make a betrothal cup. It is filled with slrth (betel pepper) leaf, and sent by a man to the girl he wishes as s wife. If she Is agreeable, she accepts the cup and eats some of the leaf. Malays also use a silver box, rounded like an apple, for ceremonies at the first shaving of little boys heads and at ear piercings. Sometimes this box Is brought to a wedding when a lock of the bride's hair is buried In It under s ban na tree for good luck. Jdd Uses of Silver Articles. In tsarist Russia the proposer of a toast stood In the center of the room, drained his silver brutina, or drinking cup, and then, to prove his sincerity, turned It upside down over his head! The sumptuousuess of the tsars' plate was proverbial. In this collection was a famous English wine cistern wc(gh- -' Ing 8,000 ounces, with a bathtub ra-- ! pacity. How this vessel, raffled off in 1730, when funds were sought for a bridge over the Thames, finally came to the whiter palace at Petrograd (now Leningrad) has long been a mystery. Barcelona, Spain, used to present each visiting member of royalty with s maguiflerut (liver service, remindful of a similar courtesy sometimes ex-- : tended by one of our own states when s new ship has been named in Ra honor. On dining tables of the rich from the Flfteeiilh to the Seventeenth cen-- ; turies, silver ships, orlglnnlly designed to hold the knives and napkins, and sometimes the wine, made striking renter pieces. In Toledo, Spain, Is one such vessel which belonged to the daughter of Isabella and Ferdinand. Nefs, these shis were called. As early as 1392 Duly records a silver nef on wheels, a foreshadow of the popular Gcrmnn and Dutch models of lutcr years. After the conquest of Mexico and Peru, silver flooded the markets of Eurotie, especially Spain. One visitor to the Spanish capital In the Sixteenth century observed: "Utensils of common mctnl are not employed here, only those of silver or of ware. , , , Upon THE set-up- I ; ! ! I ' anti-trus- n by National Geoaraiihlo Society, Washington, I. C WNU Service. i j ' ' i , Shop. the death of the Duke of Albuquerque, six weeks were needed to make Inventory of bis gold and silver services. Nearly a century before the Revolution, pioneer New England silversmiths were busy at their benches. Among this group was William Moulton, of Newburyport, Mass. Pieces designed by him are among silver treasures shown In the Metropolitan Museum of Art In New York. Ones Newburyport rang with the sound of hammer and saw, and ships built there carried Colonial wares to the ends of the earth, bringing back coins which Its silversmiths melted for use In their art This was known as "coin silver. Itinerant artisans worked even Into our Far West until well past the lSGOs making knives, forks and spoons from silver dollars. Colonial Silversmiths. Newburyport, however, Is unique for Its continuity In silverwork since JG90. UNKNOWN GENIUS One family, the Moultons, mads sterGAVE AMERICAN ling through six generations, the fourth being competitors of Paul Revere. BUGGY TO WORLD When the last of tbe Moultons laid down his tools, some years before our Civil war, sa apprentice, Many of our land transportation Anthony Towle, was among those who carried methods are of European origin, but on the ancient traditions of the craft, the old family buggy Is distinctly and today the pioneer factory bears American. No one knows Just who did build the first one, according to his name. Colonial silversmiths flourished In Carl W. Mitinan, of the Smltlftwnlan spite of such Puritan sentiments as Institution, who spent a lot of time John Adams expressed In a letter to looking the matter up, but It was his wife : "If I bad power I would for- used in this cmntry first of alL American roads were extremely ever banish from America all gold, bad following the Revolution (some silver, silk, velvet and lace. In Boston, before 1800, more than still ire) and the only conveyances were the heavy wagons drawn by 150 names of silversmiths are recorded, and Its rich merchants bought horses or oxen. Tills was a very much costly silverware. British officers slow method of transportation. About the best way to get any place was to stationed In New York before the Revolution were astonished at the wealth cut across the hills and walk. Of and of silver used In fashionable homes course, If you were well-to-d-o owned a horse and saddle, that was there. Our own Navajo Indians are good faster, too. Yankee Ingenuity wouldn't be silversmiths. Using merely s forge and even then, and about 1820 some hand bellows, with s small anvil and other simple tools, they make buttons, smart fellow built the first light wagbeads, bracelets, rings, crosses, bridle on and equipped It with springs. n mountings and buckles, as native Thus we had our first sprng-wagospring-wagoour wc had Thus first as s concession to American works; demand, they add mlniuture canteens, from which our buggy was developed. knives, forks and Then, about 1840, somebody else stickpins, wanted to go still faster, and built spoons. shay and the gig In such studios as that of Gorham's the first "one-lios- s In Providence, designers create an (the same thing In a different form) In which the sports amaxlng variety of silver prize cups with two whpels went about at a great rate rattling and trophies, often in the form of horses, sailing craft, or athletes In of speed. Of course, the railroad came along ubout that time, hut you action. Tiffany, Wallace, International and others are also known for artistic didn't have to lay tracks for a buggy, and it held Its own throughout the creations In this field Nineteenth century, until the auto Silver In Olden Times. about put It out of busiSilver Jewelry was not new when finully Just ness. The depression made a lot of wives of the Pharaohs "dressed up." folks get out their old buggies, howHelen of Troy used a burnished silver so we still see a few of them mirror to admire the face that ever, around even In the National Capilaunched a thousand ships. When Cleotal. Pathfinder Magazine. patra flirted with Mark Antony on the Nile, gleaming sliver oars splashed softly In the moonlight THE Silver Jewelry Is worn in the Orient to guard against evil Charms made from coflia nails covered with silver are common In parts of China. In India a peasant father may mortgage his whole future to deck s marriageable daughter with silver. Wealthy Indian women carry many pounds of this Jewelry at one time, and tinkle A liked belled cows as they walk. In Vlsigothic Spain, gold and silver were reserved for the ruling class, whose passion for show led to fabulous decoration. Then the Moors came with greedy hands for the treasure. After the battle of the Guadalete, 711, "Muslim victors, stripping the dead, Identified the nobles by golden rings uiam their fingers, and those of less exalted rank by their silver rings." Serenely Indifferent to the Korans ban on gold and sliver ornamentation, the Moors embellished everything from dress to furniture, and even trappings for horses and mules. Similarly, modern South American cattle baron;, use hits and bridles of pure silver, as well as cruel, sharp-edgestirrups. "He bids his horse to dig for him a grave," said one writer describing Turkish scenes, "with silver-platehoofs. le peclally, are so accustomed to the mnglc of the century that they take It for granted. One must be at tbe e tost of existence to realise to the full what Is occurring on the earth ; one must be able to remember tallow candles, horse cars, gasoline and the old talking machines to appreciate to the full the wonder of the present era. Perhaps It Is not too much to say mld-iull- wax-cylind- er that fortune has been particularly kind to those who have been privileged to see tbe age of miracles replaced by the age of That Is the greatest story In the history of the race the progress of the past five decades, the grandest super-miracin human experience. super-miracle- s. le ''EHSY.WHYTQ IRON! KEEP COOL SAVE TIME SAVE WORK SAVE MONEY with the Coleman Iron Coleman Iran vd eve you more time and work than a waihlna machinal It will aava tow aength ... help you do better Ironing caitet end quicker at lew coat. Inslant Lighting . . .no hearing with matches or torch ... no waiting. The evenly-heate- d double pointed bate trona gatmenti with fewer atrakca. 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