Show r News Review of Current Events the World Over f President Proposes Reorganization of Federal Judiciary Increasing Supreme Court Justices to Fiftt Efforts to Settle Motor Strike PICkXrD W By EDWARD We tern Newspaper ft PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT electri- fled congress with a surprise message proposing sweeping changes in the federal court system which would allow him to the Supreme pack Court with justices who could be expected to uphold the constitutionality of New Deal legislation v ' He submitted jr'frV'draft of a bni complish this L proganization vides: That Or every President federal jydge with a Roosevelt service Record of at least ten years “continuously or otherwise” who faito resign or retire within six months after reaching the age of 7ythe President shall appoint another judge 2 That the number of additional Judges so Appointed shall not exceed fifty th Supreme Court being limited members appellate and special courts to two additional members each and district courts to twice the present number of Judges 3 That of the Supreme of other courts Court and shall constitute a quorum 4 That the chief justice of the Supreme Court shall transfer circuit and district judges to jurisdictions with congested dockets in order to speedup disposition of litigation 5 That the Supreme Court shall be empowered to appoint a proctor to supervise the conduct of business in the lower courts The President also proposed a reform in the injunctive process which he declared would expedite Supreme Court rulings on the constitutionality of legislation and would further insure “equality” and “certainty" of federal Justice He said frequent injunctions which set aside acts of congress are “in clear violation of the principle of equity that injunctions should be granted only in those rare cases of manifest illegality and irreparable damage against which the ordinary course of the law oilers no protection” He asked that congress forbid any injunction or decision by any federal court touching a constitutional question without "previous and ample notice” to the attorney general to give the government an opportunity “to present evidence and be heard” His bill proposed that any lower court decision which involved a constitutional question be appealed directly to the Supreme Court where it would take immediate precedence over all other business New Deal leaders in congress were expected to back the President’s proposals solidly while it became apparent that the conservative Democrats might align with the solid Republican group in opposing it The latter group saw in the bill a direct attempt to get rid of some of the older justices of the Supreme Court who have proved continual stumbling blocks for pet New Deal acts Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes approaching 73 has voted sometimes to sustain sometimes to invalidate New Deal laws Justice Willis Van Deventer 73 has invariably opposed New Deal laws so have James Clark McReynolds 75 George Sutherland 75 and Pierce Butler 71 Louis Dembitz Brandeis 80 has voted to sustain New Deal acts except tin the cast of the NRA rejected by unanimous decision If the President is successful in putting over the proposed changes it will be the eighth time in the 148 years of the Supreme Court's history that the number of justices has been changed The largest number ever to sit on the bench was 10 from 1863 to 1866 and the smallest number 5 from 1801 to 1802 t15 DROUGHT by Gov together Frank Murphy at the demand of the White House representatives of both sides in the General Motors strike were in almost continuous conference seeking a way to settle the The controversy was corporation represented by William S Knudsen executive vice president and John Thomas Smith of the legal staff Acting for the strikers were John L Lewis head of the C I O its John Brophy Homer Martin president of United Automobile Workers It was reported that at one time the conference was near collapse Then Governor Murphy received a message from the White House saying the President expected a settlement - During an interim the governor said both sides were in earnest and doing their best Judge Gadola in Flint had issued an injunction ordering the Union strikers there to leave the plants The Sheriff served notice to the men and they jeered him They then sent to Governor Murpliv a bombaic message to the effect that they would resist eviction to the eath The mayor city manager and police chief of Flint the people were tired of beand violence organized 500 and 1000 police reserves The police chief warned Lewis he strike if he "had better call off doesn’t want another Herrin ma- trikes tween his ssacre" A writ of attachment expulsion of the was obtained by the G for forcible strikers M lawyers f ARITIME Workers on the coast ended their long strike by accepting working agreements that had been negotiated in San Francisco and the 40000 rrrerr returned to their jobs Ships in all the ports long idle got up steam and prepared to resume business and the ticket offices were thronged with passengers Shipowners issued a statement asserting the end of the w'alkout would mean a business revival for 1000 industrial plants and 500 export offices up and down the coast SECRETARY of and the Interior the national re- sources committee of which he is chairman have produced a public works and national water program for the next six years and it was submitted to congress by President Roosevelt with the recommendation that it should be adopted It involves the expenditure of five billion dollars and calls for lump sum annual appropriations under the regular budget for a list of approved projects and allocation of the funds to a permanent public works or development agency As the chief part of the plan Mr Roosevelt presented congress with a list of some $27500000QO worth of water conservation projects' including a $116000000 program in the inundated Ohio and Mississippi river valleys In his transmission message the President warned congress against considering each project as a separate entity The report he said “should of course be read in con-- J recommendanotion with the tions for highways bridges dams flood control and so forth already under construction estimates for which have been submitted in the budget” the “During depression" he told congress "we have substantially creased the facilities and developed the resources of our country for the common welfare through public works and programs "We have been compelled to undertake actual work somewhat hurin the riedly emergency “Now it is time to develop a plan and policy for construction — to provide the best use of our resources and to prepare in advance against any other emergency" The committee that drew up this includes besides M r program Ickes Secretary of War Harry II Woodring WPA Administrator Harof Agricury Hopkins Secretary lture Henry A Wallace Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins Secretary of Commerce Daniel C Roper Frederic A Delano uncle of the President and Charles E Merrlam University of Chicago professor F ESPITE the warm opposition of Democratic Senator J W Bailof North Carolina and others including the few Republicans the senate passed the house deficiency relief bill carrying an appropriation of $948725868 Senator Bailey spoke in support of his amendment which would require a means test or “pauper’s oath” as some have called it for states counties and their political subdivisions to secure federal aid for their relief t requirements The amendment was rejected without a vote record Out of the total allocated in the bill for “relief and work relief” about $650000000 was expected to be given to the Works Progress Aey dministration From this will be given to victims the Ohio and Mississippi 'T'O FINANCE the social for fund aid of floods in valleys another security board vetand about erans’ administration thirty other federal agencies the house appropriated one billion million dollars ever The bill passed without a record vote carried a last minute amendment providing that none of the funds appropriated should be available to pay for the expenses of any conThis gressional Investigation amendment was aimed at senate investigations such as the La and Wheeler inquiries most of the levees were hold- ing and the winds that had been driving the waters against them were subsiding About 200000 inhabitants of the valley had been forced to abandon their homes but the Red Cross and other relief agencies Were caring for them At Cairo and Hickman were plenty of coast guard boats and barges ready to rescue the people if the embankments gave way Floodwater from a break in the Bessie Landing Tenn levee all but encircled Tiptonville Tenn and over spread adjacent thousands of acres Backwaters continued to harass lowland dwellers in Mississippi and Louisiana rebut engineers mained firm in the conviction the worst definitely would be over when Tenand crests the pass Arkansas nessee Harry HopkinsWPA administrator and other members of the special flood relief committee named by President Roosevelt went to the inflood areas with the expressed tention of seeing that the job of caring for the refugees was well done was he Mr Hopkins indicated prepared to spend $790000000— the entire deficiency work relief budget — for flood relief iX- necessary STANLEY HIGH religious publicist who has been prominent among the administration supporters is out of Presidential favor He has been cashing in on his closeness to the White House by writing for periodicals and his latest article entitled "Whose Party Is It?” in the Saturday Evening Post brought this statement released by Assistant White House Secretary Early: announced the “The President death of the ‘official spokesman’ in March 1933 He now announces the authoritapassing of the tive spokesman— those who write as ’one of the President's closest ad- visers’ ” Though High left no Early was doubt not named as to who Mr was meant ITALY and Turkey settled their disputes in conferences between Count foreign ministers Ciano and Dr Tewfik Rustu Aras Italy will participate in the Montreux convention which gave Turkey the right to rearm the Dardanelles and Turkey is assured that Italian ambitions to possess Turkish Anatolia have been abandoned It was believed Mussolini considered the time ripe to make friends with Turkey first allaying Turkish suspicions and defining spheres of influence in the hope Italy could woo Turkey from friendship with Moscow their of State Rafael Cuba announced Pedro Martinez Fraga been appointed Cuban ambassador He has been serving to Washington as minister to London and will succeed Afnbassador Guillermo Patterson who has been transferred to Mexico City SECRETARY had that THIRTEEN of thein tried Russian Moscow for plotting the overthrow of the Stalin regime were condemned to death by the trial court and their pleas for j X mercy were reject- ed by the presidium of the communist executive committee They were ordered shot within 48 hours after sentence was pronounced One of the executioners said "they died like soldiers” To the surprise of the world four of the leading defendants were saved from the firing squad being sentenced to terms of imprisonment These were Karl Radek once noted journalist and Gregory Sokolnikov former Soviet ambassador to London given ten years each and M S Stroilov and V V Arnold ordered confined for eight years The judges said these four men while guilty of treason did rot actually participate in terroristic and wreckIt was the belief of ing activities that they had neutral observers been spared in order to get their testimony against the scores of men still under arrest CHARLES A LINDBERGH birthday in Rome whither inhe had flown their new with Mrs Lindbergh plane From the Eternal City they flew to Tripoli to spend a few days with Gen Italo Balbo governor of Libya and himself a famous airman Then they planned to continue to Egypt COL C' year Striking Wild Hose Design in CutworJc FEVERISH wor)c day and night pick and shovel laborers all down the Mississippi from Cairo appeared to have won the to save the fertile lands along fight the river from the great flood But engineers warned that the danger of inundation was not yet over How- EDERAL his and Missouri led by Robert Kenyon a moronic police character to a thicket fourteen miles from Willow Springs where lay the body of Dr J C B Davis whom Kenyon had kidnaped and allegedly killed before attempting to collect $5000 ransom Kenyon confessed the crime and was rushed to jail in Kansas City to save hirr from lynching There he told a wild storjr of one "Nighthawk" who he said forced him to write the ran som note and then murdered the agents state troopers were doctor I U33HJnD l — I have said in these Washington columns many times that politics Is a business If body desires proof of that statement Busineaa I think I am able now to offer the best possible evidence of the truth of that statement W Forbes Morgan treasLately urer of the Democratic national committee has demonstrated beyond the shadow of a doubt what as a business actually politics means He did so in the recent announcement that the Democratic national committee would seek to build up a “war chest” of $10000000 that the vast New Deal party machinery can go on at top speed that the momentum gained by the successful Presidential campaign of 1936 can be maintained and that the party can continue to function as a cohesive unit through which millions of voters may speak It appears that Mr Morgan wiU not succeed in getting anything like $10000000 together but it is very that he is thinking in significant terms so large as those mentioned in his announcement It means simply that the present control of the New Deal party is determined tn carry out to the nth degree the theory of its chairman James A Farley only recently reappointed as postmaster general of the United States Mr Farley plays politics in exactly the same manner that he W’ould engage in a business venture He takes chances when the stakes are high he knows his men he his workers and moreover knows how to get the best results His out of the material he has funcunlike not the are operations tions of a sales manager of a great concern — he sells what he has to the voters and if any salesman fails to function Mr Farley looks for replacements We might illustrate the Farley methods further by reviewing some of the methods he employed in the last four years For when it comes to raising money the Democratic under Chairnational committee man Farley is both businesslike and versatile It will be recalled how whenever the pretext arose the committee national Democratic sponsored such things as dinners to which the faithful partisans were asked to buy 'tickets usually high priced tickets for an It will be reordinary banquet called also how elaborate programs of the Democratic national convention were sold by the hundreds of thousands how those programs were loaded to the gunwhales with advertising of concerns that could not well refuse to buy advertising space how victory dinners were given and how finally the inaugural ceremony when Mr Roosevelt took office was turned into a gigantic political rally that spread itself into every hotel in Washington that had space for great dinners These things are but a and dances few which demonstrated the Farley versatility but they prove to my mind that if the Democratic national committee sets out to build up a real “war chest” it will accomplish exactly its objective is the most The committee pretentious yet attempted by any political organization It has a large and exceedingly efficient staff of trained men and women and it runs like the well oiled machine that it is It will cost money to keep that machine running at high Farley recogspeed but Mr nizes how elections are won His is that the early bird philosophy alcatches the worm and so though there is not another election for two years the Democratic national committee is making ready for that election campaign right now Unless the wise political students around Washington are badly mistaken Mr Farley will know pretty well when the congressional and senatorial candidates take to the stump early in 1938 just w'hat the last two years of the Roosevelt administration will be like It goes without saying that he will be prepared for them that remembered approximately 18000000 voters cast their ballots for the presidential Republican Governor Landon of Kansas That is not a small number It is a any way you examine it powerful segment of the American population but it is powerful only to the extent that its leadership develops enthusiasm for the fight and capacity to take it on the chin when victory goes the other way Among the New Dealers who can be classified as sound politicians there is considerable regret at the failure of the Republican leadership to get going President Roosevelt himself would like to see more opbecause it would make his position task much easier and would prevent some of the unsound legislation from seeping through congress on account of a lack of opposition Furif there were more Rethermore publican fight there would be less chance of splits in the Democratic Democratic ranks in congress leaders entertain a very real fear of this possibility nominee From among the corps Pattern 1337 Simplicity of design—simpllcfty of needlework combine to ir&ko these wild roses effective in De the flowers in applique too — it’s very easy to combine with cutwork Use these design on sheets and pillow cases — ®i Karls and towels — on a chair back Dress up your own home or make them as gifts Pattern 1337 contains a transfer pattern of motif 6 by 20 inches two motif inenes and pattern 5 by 14 pieces for the applique patches illustrations of all stitches used material requirements color suggestions Send 15 cents in stamps or coin (coins preferred) for this pattern to The Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept 82 Eighth Ave New York N Y Write plainly pattern number your name and address of politi- I hear writers in Washington much criticism of Criticize the Republicans Republicans who are variously described as being “dead on their feet" They are cal doing less than nothing allowed the Democratic national committee to carry the ball on every play they have offered no publicity by way of criticism of New Deal programs and they have developed no plans at all for reviving the Republican organization or restoring life to the party workers I am not saying that Mr Hamilton is wholly to blame for this condition He must accept responsibecause he is the bility however titular head of the organization It would seem therefore that unless Mr Hamilton awakens and shows some fight there will be fewer Republicans in the house or senate after the 1938 elections than there are now The national chairman of the Republicans according to all discussion that I hear sooner or later will have to start cooking or depart from the kitchen Otherwise the 18000000 voters which the Republican party has as a nucleus upon which to build will become so so disheartened badly disorganized and discouraged that it will be impossible to reunite them difficulPart of the Republicans’ ties are traceable directly to Capitol Hill I simply cannot understand why Senator McNary of Oregon continues to serve as Republican leader in the senate when in he the opinion of most observers has failed to justify his title in any way It will be recalled that he did nothing in behalf of Governor candidacy against Mr Roosevelt Nor has he shown either the capacity or the desire to carry on as an opposition leader should carry on since the new congress convened this is not the fault of Again I Chairman Hamilton Frankly think it is the fault of the few Republicans in the senate If they had in them or faith in any fight any their party label they would insist upon a militant leadership on their side of the senate chamber small as 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"I didn’t see it till It was out sight" Dont Sleep When Gas Presses Heart If you want to resfl y GET RID OF QAS and terrible bloating don’t expect to do It by Juet doctoring your stomach with harsh Irritating alkaliea and "ga tablets" Moet GAS is (edged In the stomach and upper Intestine and la dua to old poisonous matter In the bowels that are leaded constipated bacteria with If your constipation la of long standing onormoua quantities ef dangers Then yeur bacteria Isaccumulate upset GAS eften preeeea gestion heart and lungi making life miserable Yeur head You can’t eat er Bleep Yeur bask aches Yeur cam aches Yeur plexion is sallow and pimply breath la feul You are a tick grouchy YOUR wretched unhappy person SYSTEM IS POISONED Thousands ef sufferers have found In Adlerika the quick scientific way to rid their systems ef harmful bacteria Adlerika rids you of gas and cleans foul poiaona out of BOTH upper and Give your bowels lower bowels REAL cleansing with Adlerika Get Adlerika does not grip rtd ef GAS —is net habit forming At aN Leading Druggists Character and Intellect are much greater signs of Character is higher than intelamong the house Republicans A great soul will be strong They are trying lect to them- - to live as well as to think— R W Sigrra of make There fight selves heard but preponderance of Democratic strength in the house coupled with the gag rules which have been applied without stint or limit by the Democratic majority leader Snell precludes Republican and his associates from doing very much for their party in the house Where senators have the privilege of Fight unlimited Emerson the debate House members are allotted time and lately the time allotted the Republicans has been infinitesimal That of course is one of the spoils of victory and the Democrats cannot be blamed for asserti- to ng their power But the point of it all is that while In contrast to the circumstances Democratic Chairman Farley has I have just related it must be ds-- his team on its toes full of fight to wit- - ready to go Chairman Hamilton heartening G O Pm ners the feeble al- - has not even been vocal personally most futile ef- much less has he been able to stir Contrast are up fight among his associates It forts that shown around Republican headquaris a situation from which most anyters Of course old time politicians thing may emerge Mr Hamilton a horse tlvat winning always say sought and was given a vote of concan be financed never a loser John fidence by his own national comD M Hamilton the Republican namittee shortly after the election Ha rode a losing cannot say now that his hands are tional chairman horse He came out of the race tied insofar as the authority of leaddeficit DefiSaddled with a gigantic So it is made ership is concerned cits for losing political parties are to appear that unless the present not as easily financed as United leaders of the Republicans really States Treasury deficits these days enter the arena unless they show nd so Mr Hamilton is having his their ability to carry the fight to troubles in that direction as well the enemy it seems rather likely as finding any enthusiasm among that new leaders will come from the ranks of the Republicans and the Republican party workers But that does not excuse the present group will become has national committee nor beens C Weoteni Newspaper Union Ir Hamilton After all it is to be —Now That Colds Are Here Again Do what yea CM to prevent eeogha coagesliea sad bronchial irriteuoa by using Denver Mud A remedy that doctors have baaa proscribing far yesrs lust spread it en csvsr and saa how promptly rslisi will coma Excellent lor burns bruises and akin Irritation Keep a package of Denver Mud in your medicine cheat AT ALL DBTJQ STORES FamDy aha 50c Practical size 2Sc "iiaaai Help Them Cleans the Blood of Harmful Body lasts Your kidneys are constantly filterlnr waste matter (rom the blood stream Bui ktdneya sometimes lag In their work— do net ee Nature intended— fail te move irppuritics that if retained may petaen the eystcra and upset the wsolo body mmehlnsry Symptoms may be nogping backache pendent headache attache ef diazmeee swelling pulDneee getting up nights uadw tbs eyes — a feeling of nereouo and Iocs rf pep and mnalety eigni ef kidney er bladder disorder may be burning seamy er low urination Ireoueat nl There rkould be no doubt that prompt Dec ta winer than netlect Pifla Deen'S have been winning frlenda for more than forty yearn have n They reputation Are recommended by grateful people the ew unify ever dak geur nngkiorl treatment new f |