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Show TUE SMTTHFIKLD SENTINEL, SMITHFIELD, UTAH News Review of Current Events the World Over resident Proposes Reorganization of Federal Judiciary, Increasing Supreme Court Justices to Fifteen Efforts to Settle Motor Strike. W. PICKARD By EDWARD Westers Unioe. 6 I Nnrrpaper PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT electri--, fled congress with a surprise message proposing sweeping changes in the federal court system which would allow him to pack the Supreme Court with justices who could be expected to uphold the constitutionality of New Deal legislation. He submitted a draft of a bill to accomplish this reorIt proganization. vides: 1. That for every federal judge with a service record of at .least ten years "continuously or otherwise" who fails to resign or retire within six months after reaching the age of 70 the President shall appoint another judge. 2. That the number of additional Judges so appointed shall not exceed fifty, the Supreme Court being limited to 15 members, appellate and pedal courts to two additional members each and district courts to twice the present number of strikers there to leave the plants. The sheriff served notice to the men and they jeered him. They then sent to Governor Murphy a bombastic message to the effect that they would resist eviction to the death. The mayor, city manager and police chief of Flint, asserting the people were tired of strikes and violence, organized between 500 and 1,000 police reserves. The police chief warned Lewis he had better call off his strike if he doesnt want another Herrin massacre. A writ of attachment for forcible expulsion of the strikers was obtained by the G. M. lawyers. sit-do- Af ARITIME workers on the Paci-fi-c coast ended their long strike by accepting working agreements that had been negotiated in San Francisco and the 40,000 men 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 walkout would mean a business revival for 1,000 of the Supreme industrial plants and 500 export ofof other courts fices up and down the coast. Judges. s 3. That s 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. 6. 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 f 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 offers 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 five 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 The latter group saw in the bill it a direct attempt to get rid of some of the older justices of the Supreme Court who have proved continual tumbling blocks for pet New Deal acts. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, approaching 75, has voted sometimes to sustain, sometimes to Invalidate New Deal laws. Justice .Willis Van Deventer, 78, 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 Courts history that the number of justices has been changed. The largest number ever to sit on the bench was 10 from 1863 to 1868. and the smallest number 5 from 1801 to 1802. two-third- three-fifth- CECRETARY of the Interior Har-- J old Ickes and the national resources 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 FEVERISH work, day and night. 1 by 120.000 pick and shovel laborers all down the Mississippi from Cairo appeared to have won the fight to save the fertile lands along the river from the great flood. But engineers warned that the danger of inundation was not yet over. However, most of the levees were holding and the winds that had been driving the waters against them were subsiding. About 200,000 of the valley had been forced to abandon their homes, but the Red Cross and other relief agencies were caring for them. At Cairo end 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 spread over adjacent thousands of acres. Backwaters continued to harass lowland dwellers in Mississippi-anLouisiana but engineers remained firm in the conviction the worst definitely would be over when the crests pass Arkansas and Tennessee. Harry Hopkins, WPA administrator, and other members of the special flood relief committee named by President Roosevelt, went to the flood areas with the expressed intention of seeing that the job of caring for the refugees was well done. Mr. Hopkins indicated he was prepared to spend $790,000,000 the entire deficiency work relief budget for flood relief if 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 in the Saturday Evening Post, brought this statement released by Assistant White House It?, Secretary Early: The President announced the death of the official spokesman in March, 1933. He now announces the authoritapassing of the tive spokesman those who write as one of the Presidents closest advisers. Though High was not named, Mr. Early left no doubt as to who was meant ITALY and settled their 1 disputes in Turkey conferences between their foreign ministers. Count Ciano and Dr. Tewfik Rustu lump sum annual appropriations under Hamid Ickes Aras. Italy will participate in the the regular budget for a list of ap- Montreux convention which gave proved projects, and allocation of Turkey the right to rearm the Darthe funds to a permanent public danelles, and Turkey is assured that Italian ambitions to possess works or development agency. As the chief part of the plan, Mr. Turkish Anatolia have been abanRoosevelt presented congress with doned. It was believed Mussolini consida list of some $2,750,000,000 worth of water conservation projects, in- ered the time ripe to make friends with Turkey, first allaying Turkish cluding a $116,000,000 program in the inundated Ohio and suspicions and defining spheres of influence, in the hope Italy could Mississippi river valleys. In his transmission message the woo Turkey from friendship with President warned congress against Moscow. considering each project as a separate entity. The report, he said, C ECRETARY of State Rafael Montalvo of Cuba announced should, of course, be read in con-- j that Pedro Martinez Fraga had nction with the recommendations for highways, bridges, dams, been appointed Cuban ambassador to Washington. He has been serving flood control, and so forth, already under construction, estimates for as minister to London and will sucwhich have been submitted in the ceed Ambassador Guillermo Patterson, who has been transferred to budget." he told Mexico City. During the depression, congress, we have substantially inTHIRTEEN of the Russian con-- 1 creased the facilities and developed the resources of our country for the spirators tried in Moscow for common welfare through public plotting the overthrow of the Stalin works and work-reliregime were condemned to death programs. We have been compelled to un- by the trial court, dertake actual work somewhat hur- and their pleas for mercy were rejectriedly in the emergency. ed bv the presidium Now it is time to develop a e of the communist and for plan construcpolicy tion to provide the best use of our executive commitresources and to prenare in advance tee. They were ordered shot within 48 against any other emergency. The committee that drew up this hours after sentence was pronounced. program includes, besides M r . One of the execuIckes. Secretary of War Harry H. tioners said they WPA HarWoodring, Administrator died like soldiers. ry Hopkins, Secretary of AgriculTo the surprise of ture Henry A. Wallace, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins. Secretary the world, four of of Commerce Daniel C. Roper. the leading defendants were saved Frederic A. Delano, uncle of the from the firing squad, being sentenced to terms of imprisonment. President, and Charles E. Merriam, These were Karl Radek, once noted of University Chicago professor. journalist, and Gregory Sokolnikov, iormer Soviet ESPITE the warm opposition of don, given ten ambassador to Loneach; and M. Democratic Senator J. W. Bail- S. Stroilov andyears V. V. orey of North Carolina and others, dered confined for eight Arnold, The including the few Republicans, the judges said these four years. men, while senate passed the house deficiency of treason, did i.ot actually relief bill carrying an appropria- guilty in terroristic and wreckparticipate BOUGHT together by Gov. tion of $948,725,868. activities. It was the bejief of Frank Murphy at the demand Senator Bailey spoke in support of ing neutral observers that they had of the White House, representatives his amendment which would require been spared in order to get their of both sides in the General Motors a means test, or pauper's oath. testimony against the scores of men strike were in as some have called it. for states, still under arrest. continuous f a and their counties, political subdiconference seeking visions to secure federal aid for CHARLES A. LINDBERGH way to settle the their relief requirements. The POL. celebrated his thirty-fift- h birthThe controversy. amendment was rejected without a day in Rome, whither he had flown was corporation record vote. with Mrs. Lindbergh in their new represented by WiOut of the total allocated in the plane. From the Eternal City they lliam S. Knudsen, bill for relief and work relief. flew to Tripoli to spend a few executive vice presdays about $650,000,000 was expected to with Gen. Italo Balbo, governor of and John ident, to be given the Works Progress Adand himself a famous airThomas Smith of ministration. From this fund aid Ijibya man. Then they planned to continue the legal staff. Actwill be given to victims of floods in to Egypt. ing for the strikers the Ohio and Mississippi valleys. were John L. Lewis, C EDERAL agents and Missouri bead of the C. I. O., T,'5 FINANCE for another year state troopers were led by RobJohn Brophy, its the social security board, vet- ert Kenyon, a twenty-year-ol- d mor-oni- c Homer Martin, president of erans administration and about police character, to a thicket United Automobile Workers. thirty other federal agencies, the fourteen miles from Willow Springs, It was reported that at one time house appropriated one billion, forlay the body of Dr. J. C B the conference was near collapse. ty six million dollars. The bill, where Davis whom Kenyon had kidnaped Then Governor Murphy received a passed without a record vote, car- and killed before attemptmessage from the White House say- ried a last minute amendment pro- ing toallegedly collect $5,000 ransom. Kenyon ing the President expected a settle- viding that none of the funds ap- confessed the crime and was rushed ment. propriated should be available to to jail in Kansas City to save him During an interim the governor pay for the expenses of any from lynching. There he told a wiki said both sides were in earnest and This story of one Nighthawk who. he Investigation doing their best. amendment was aimed at senate said, forced him to write the ran Judge Gadola in Flint had issued investigations such as the La Fol-lett- a som note and then murdered tot a injunction ordering the a.id Wheeler inquiries. doctor. R w al-m- sit-do- flood-contr- Ga-leaz- zo ol u ef long-rang- H Statog WildR DeagSo4 Washington. I have said in these columns many times that politics is a business. If desires proof It Buainets of that statement I think I am able now to offer the best possible evidence of the truth of that statement. Lately, W. Forbes Morgan, treasurer of the Democratic national committee, has demonstrated beyond the shadow of a doubt what politics as a business' actually means. He did so in the recent announcement that the Democratic national committee would seek to build up a war chest of $10,000,000 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 will not succeed in getting anything like $10,000,000 together but it is very significant that he is thinking in terms so large as those mentioned in his announcement It means simply that the present control of the New Deal party is determined to 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 would engage in a business venture. He takes chances when the ' stakes are high, he knows his men, his workers, and moreover, he knows how to get the best results out of the material he has. His operations are not unlike the functions of a sales manager of a great concern he sells what he has to toe voters and if any salesman fails to function, Mr. Farley looks for replacements. We might illustrate toe Farley methods further by reviewing some of toe methods he employed. in toe last four years. For, when it comes to raising money, the Democratic national committee, under Chairman Farley, is both businesslike and versatile. It will be recalled how whenever the pretext arose, the Democratic national committee sponsored such things as dinners to which the faithful partisans were asked to buy tickets, usually high priced tickets, for an ordinary banquet. It will lie recalled also how elaborate programs of the Democratic national convention were sold b toe 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 and dances. These things are but a few which demonstrated the Farley versatility but they prove to my mind that if toe Democratic national committee sets out to build up a real war chest, it will accomplish exactly its objective. The committee set-u- p is the most 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 speed, but Mr. Farley recognizes how elections are won. His philosophy is that the early bird catches the worm and so, although there is not another election for two years, toe Democratic national committee is making ready for that election campaign right now. Unless toe wise political students around Washington are badly mistaken, Mr. Farley will know pretty well when the congressional and senatorial candidates take to any-Poltti- ca ' toe stump early in 1938 just what the last two years of the Roosevelt administration will be like. It goes without saying that he will be pre- pared for them. In contrast to the circumstances I have just related, it must be d.s- - heartening to wit-naBg y,e feeble, al- most futile, ef Contrast forts that are shown around Republican headquarters. Of course, old time politicians always sry that a winning horse can be financed, never a loser. John D. M. Hamilton, toe Republican national chairman, rode a losing horse. He came out of the race saddled with a gigantic deficit. Deficits for losing political parties are not as easily financed as United States Treasury deficits these days and so Mr. Hamilton is having his troubles in that direction as well as finding any enthusiasm among Republican party workers. But that does not excuse the national committee nor Ir. Hamilton. After all, it is to be D nu. r. u. remembered that approximately 18,000,000 voters cast their ballots for the Republican presidential nominee, Governor Landon of Kansas. That is not a small number, any way you examine it. It is a powerful segment of the American population but it is powerful only to the extent that its leadership develops enthusiasm for toe fight and capacity to take it on toe chin when victory goes toe other way. Among toe New Dealers who can be classified as sound politicians, there is considerable regret at the failure of toe Republican leadership to get going. President Roosevelt, himself, would like to see more opposition because it would make his task much easier and would prevent some of the unsound legislation from seeping through congress on account of a lack of opposition. Furthermore, if there were more Republican fight, there would be less chance of splits in toe Democratic ranks in congress. Democratic leaders entertain a very real fear of this possibility. o Pattern 1337 Simplicity of sim-of needlework design combine these wild roses work. Do the flowersin!-- .; v, to? - too fts very easy with cutwork. Use sheets and pillow jearfs and towels hack. Dress up your own hnm11 thew! - cTv" make them as contains a transfer pat?? 14 5. by mcnes and natti applique illustrations of all stitches pfi Ieces for the Sewing Circle NeedlecS i? Dept., 82 Eighth Ave, New Yori Write plainly pattern your name and address. From among toe corps of political writers in Washington, I hear . , . much criticism of Criticize the Republicans Republicans who are variously described as being dead on their feet. They are Skat! certainly doing less than nothing. (Mi, dear, whos broken ny They have allowed the Democratic lovely china vase? national committee to carry the ball The cat, maam, replied the on every play; they have offered no new maid. publicity by way of criticism of New Whose cat? Deal programs and they have deOh, lor, havent you got one?' veloped no plans at all for reviving the Republican organization or reSo Thats Who storing life to the party workers. Passenger (to cook on ship)-T-ell I am not saying that Mr. Hamilme, sir, are you the mate? ton is wholly to blame for this conCook Oi'm not. Oim the man dition. He must accept responsithat cooks toe mate. bility, however, because he is toe titular head of toe organization. It Ribbon and All would seem, therefore, that, unless My dog took first prize at the Mr. Hamilton awakens and shows cat show." some fight, there will be fewer ReHow did he manage that? publicans in the house or senate Well, he took the prize cat. after the 1938 elections than there are now. The national chairman of Farsighted toe Republicans, according to all Gamekeeper (to friend who has discussion that I hear, sooner or later will have to start cooking or missed a rabbit) Why didnt yon shoot that rabbit? depart from the kitchen. Otherwise, I didnt see it till it was out of the 18,000,000 voters which the Resight publican party has as a nucleus upon which to build will become so badly disorganized, so disheartened and discouraged, that it will be impossible to reunite them. Part of the Republicans difficulties are traceable directly to Capitol Hill. I simply cannot underIf yM want to nally GET RID Of stand why Senator McNary of OreGAS and torrlbla bloating, don't aspect gon, continues to serve as Republito do It by Just doctoring your atomics can leader in the senate when, in with harsh, irritating alkaliea and gu Moat GAS ! lodged In the the opinion of most observers, he tablets." stomach and upper Inteotlne and Is has failed to justify his title in any duo to old poisonous matter In the that arc leaded oonetipated bowel way. It will be recalled that he did with bacteria. If your constipation Is of long standnothing in behalf of Governor Loning, anormoua quantities of dangerous dons candidacy against Mr. Roosebacteria accumulate. Then yeur velt. Nor has he shown either toe cation la upset. GAS often presses art and lungs, making life miserable. capacity or toe desire to carry on You oat or sleep. Vour head as an opposition leader should carry aches. cant Your back .aches. Yeur com- on suice the new congress convened. f lexion Is sallow and pimply. Veer reath la fouL You are a sick, grouchy, YOUR wretched, unhappy person. Again, this is not the fault of SYSTEM IS POISONED. Chairman Hamilton. w found I Thousands have of sufferers Frankly, think it is the fault of the few ReAdlerika the quick, scientific way to bacteria. rid their systems of harmful publicans in toe senate. If they had Adlerika rids you of gas and c tcnc feul poisons out of BOTH upper and any fight in them, or any faith in lower Give your towels a their party label, they would insist REAL bowels. cleansing with Adlerika. Get rid GAS. of docs not grips Adlerika a militant leadership on their upon is not habit forming. At all Leading side of the senate chamber, small as Drugglata, their number is. Don't Sleep When Gas Presses Heart dl- Character and Intellect Character is higher than intel- They to are make selves hea the pre; nee of Democratic strength house coupled with the ga which have been applied withe or limit by the Democratic mi precludes Republican leade and his associates from doit much for their party in the Where senators have the unlimited debate. Housepriv m are allotted time and lately tl allotted to the Republicans hi infinitesimal. That, of course of the spoils of victory and th ocrats cannot be blamed for ing their power. But the point of it all is tot Democratic Chairman Farl his team on its toes, full e ready to go. Chairman H has not even been vocal peri much less has he been able up fight among his associs is a situation from which me thing may emerge. Mr. H Mught and was given a vote fidence by his own nations mittee shortly after the elccti cannot say now that his hai tied insofar as toe authority ership is concerned. 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