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Show Brxtckart's Washington Digest ?Age-01- d ' Fight Between President And Senate in Vicious Revival WAR SCHOOL Mustache, Wife Taboo But Cadets Prosper a :.. V-.- .: WHO'S NEWS Current Squabble, Involving Senators Glass and Byrtl, THIS Invited by President Himself; Mr. Roosevelt's Attempt Jo Discipline Senate Serious Political Mistake. WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON YORK. The WPA barrel By WILLIAM BRUCKART WNU Service, National Preaa Bldg., Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON. Through nearly ment. It is going to continue to exall of our nation's history, there ist because of the form of our govhas been a continuing controversy ernment, its system of checks and concerning the respective rights and prerogatives of the President of the United States and the senate. It has alternately smouldered and burst into flame. It has been characterized by vicious outbursts from one side or the other at various times and it has made or destroyed the political fortunes of a great many men. Washington has been regaled with a fresh revival of the controversy in the last several weeks. The fundamental differences are the same as they always have been. There are, however, new names and new faces and obviously the political fortunes of individuals who have entered upon the public stage in recent years are bound up in the boiling kettle. Like the earlier embitterments over these rights, this one will prove nothing in the way of a tangible solution. The current fight must be said to have been invited by President Roosevelt. Perhaps, his course of action was urged by some of the "inner circle," which so often has wrongly advised him lately, men 'who do not know politics and who ignore political history but the fact remains that the President carried the fight to the senate, and there are more than a few observers who expect that he will come off a bad loser. Mr. Roosevelt, as I have reported in these .columns earlier, was insisting upon his own selection for political appointments where the senators from a particular state were not receiving his smiles. The procedure was not pleasant but there was no sensational outcry from the senators concerned until the nomination of Judge Floyd Roberts, to a United States district judgeship, was sent to the senate. Mr. Roberts was picked without consultation-ev- en over others recommended with Senators Glass and Byrd of Virginia. It proved to be the signal for a riot. Advisers Reckoned Not With Senatorial Courtesy After the manner of senate procedure, Senators Glass and Byrd rose in their places in the senate and pronounced Judge Roberts "personally offensive" to them. That was enough. The senate, as it has done so many times before, promptly rejected the Roberts nomination by the terrific jolt of 72 to 9. It was such a slap that even the Virginia senators were surprised at its overwhelming character. It surely made the fact abundantly clear that Mr. Roosevelt could not get away with his theory namely, that a President can pick nominees without "the advice and consent of the senate" as the Constitution specifies. But it did not have that effect. And here was where the President made a great political mistake. He sought to discipline the senate by publication of a letter to Judge Roberts in explanation of the senate's action. He scored Senator Glass and he tarred Senator Byrd. They were almost guilty of conduct unbecoming gentlemen. It was rumored that the strategy of the "inner circle" was to have Mr. Roosevelt smear the two senators and thus create a serious defection in their own political machines in their native Virginia which anyone acquainted with Virginia politics will tell you is much easier said than done. It was reported even that Mr. Roosevelt would send up another name without consulting the two senators and if that were rejected to send up still others. That, believed the "inner circle," would slowly force disintegration of the Glass-Byr- d support. But the President and his untrained political advisers reckoned not with senatorial courtesy. Now, senatorial courtesy is an intangible thing. No one ever has been able to define or describe it. One simply has to say that it exists and let time prove the statement The proof always can be found, and the action of the senate on the Roberts nomination, and since, certainly seems to demonstrate that the senators will fight for their rights, or what they believe to be their rights, on a collective basis. Each sticks by the others; none knows when he may need the same kind of help. Use Gay Scraps to Make Applique Quilt NEW Pattern like the widow's cruse of oil in the Bible. They expect to be Color for vour bedroom! Us scraping the bottom by next June. rav scrans for the lilies, and out Who gets fired line and stitch for accent! 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Mr. Roosevelt, as President, conceives that he should be boss; the senators, as representatives of sovereign states, conceive that they are the elected representatives and they are not going to have a single individual, even though it be the President of the " dis-Reli- ef er Weil pointers taste real army life. At Fort Denning, Co., members of the first class of the United States military academy to undergo 10 days of special infantry school training, ride in the "crow's nest" of the army's new tanks. A total of 457 members of the doss took part in the training last fall. Geographic Society, Prepared by National dent; also a quota for honor graduUnited States, dehorn them of the angry congressWashington. D. C WNU Service. of picked military schools. men, union disputants, kickers, strength that an election by popular ' "The importance of this post ates In 1935 congress authorized addivote gives them. fixers, Utopians, and what not so great as justly to have tional appointments which increased is see Mr. Brimhall, and, when he do must the President Moreover, of the total potential enrollment from the considered been isn't takinr this ran. he is ex- key political knitting. He must keep the to 1,374 1,960. perting and editing administraweave as free of knots as is possi- America." The cadet gets his education at tion outputs on labor relations ble. In the case of the present inSo wrote George Washingthe expense of the government. His and employment, making surcumbent, it is quite apparent that he ton about West Point 153 pay is $780 and one ration on relief technique, or flying per year veys to be complete boss of his desires He referred, of per day, equivalent to 80 cents. own plane to some spot in his ago. years political structure. He had a taste From that income he purchases his is ebbing. A value where to its employment course, strategic indeed, a full meal of it for five and pays uniform, books, is supplies, snoozing Hudjust of the years when a subservient congress as the Gibraltar his board, and meets all other exto Mr. Brimcompared along which rubprevastly earned the sobriquet of son, the fortress Actually, he sees no money hall. Merely getting a bear by ber stamps. I imagine that he liked vented the British from split- penses. except when he goes on leave; the the tail was never like this. For if that person is it; anyone would, colonies in two along treasurer keeps his accounts and the relief or nerve tension, he hops ting really human. When some of his the line of the river and then de- sets aside $14 per month for purInto his plane now and then and rubber stamps became blurred and one at a time. chase of an officer's uniform and makes a getaway in the clouds, the halves, stroying did not print clearly what he said on graduation. equipment on which seems like a nice idea. a map, your Lay straightedge they should print, Mr. Roosevelt, passing and New Nothing Personal. Albany through like any other ruthless politician, Reared in the Church of the LatThe first day in a new cadet's city, and you will have was going to get rid of them. He York ter to never life be is an Day Saints his grandfather of the course experience the marked tried that in the "purge" during the Hudson river.general west with Brigham Young trekked The has 50 miles scarcely plebe forgotten. Yet, about last campaign, and failed. Many north of New York, he was one of a group of twelve is a small dropped his luggage in his room in there n Utah business men, Marriner persons are sure that the present double bend, a- scant quarter-mil- e barracks when an flame is intended to destroy this diversion from the north-soutamong them, who craved New line. confronts him. type of opposition. "Mister, you came here to be a Deal action for some of their ideas. On the inner or western side of On that bend lies the town of West soldier. Your slouching days are Six of them are still active.a live Old Line Democrats Seek the side, he still maintains over." Point. To Regain Party Control And in five busy minutes he learns interest in four different concerns Historic Mementos Preserved. an airplane company, a railroad the "position of the soldier at Nor are the senators, not just of The visitor today sees relics company, a lumber business and Glass and Byrd alone, but all of the Revolutionary defenses all about n extensive real estate interests. them, blameless, if one desires to him. From water-lin- e to the craggy is his home town. turn purist The senators have their summits of guardian peaks, the political machines. They seek al- crumbling parapets of earth and He hauled coal to pay for his ways to keep those machines well stone tell their story. d education at Brigham Young trap-drumm- Ec-cl- es h Og-de- moss-covere- Wants Judges Who Will Be Friendly to New Deal The other phase of the differences is less clear. I can report it only as the belief of quite a few senators. Some of them believe it, definitely. I give it here simply as a subject for thought By insisting upon his own choice of nominees for judgeships in the federal courts, Mr. Roosevelt is attempting to place men in the judiciary who will be friendly to all of the New Deal laws, or so some members of the senate and the house firmly believe. That is to say, the belief is held that Mr. Roosevelt is seeking to do by use of the appointive power that which the congress refused him the power to do when it killed off his scheme to pack the Supreme court of the United States with six new justices. By Senate Is Thoroughly filling the judiciary the federal district courts and the circuit courts of Embittered at Roosevelt appeal with men known to be faThus, after several weeks of this vorable to new deal laws, inlashing back and forth because surance against adverse decisions is Senators Glass and Byrd did not fail provided for years to come, or so to tell the country what they thought some of the senators and representaof Mr. Roosevelt's action we find tives will tell you. the senate thoroughly embittered at It would be only incidental, if the Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Roosevelt above analysis is correct, that Mr. saying, repeatedly, that the senate Roosevelt would build a fresh politiis trying to usurp the powers of the machine completely subservient Chief Executive. As I said, that cal to him. It would be only incidental, fundamental difference has existed would be a fact. since the formation of our govern but it 6 Western Newspaper Union. At Trophy point on the grounds of the academy hangs a part of the huge chain, with links more than two feet long, which was stretched across the river to trap British men o' war under the guns of the forts. But Washington saw in West Point something more than a fortress. He knew that America's future armies must be built around a nucleus of trained officers. On his recommendation in 1793 congress created the grade of cadet and assigned the new men to an engineer unit stationed at West Point Here was the germ of the present United States Military academy, but no more than that The real birth of the academy came in 1802 when congress instituted the corps of engineers and made its chief the superintendent of the military academy. Later the academy was allowed to languish, but in the disasters of the War of 1812 the nation learned one lesson it has not forgotten. Congress made atonement in 1816 by reopening the academy. To the West Pointer, Major Thayer will always be the university, and one winter he maintained his family nicely with a shotgun, hunting large and small game. Under Cattell at Columbia university, he studied experimental psychology and later taught that subject at Columbia and, Brigham Young, ne saw the Wrights make their first European flight and he has been interested in flying ever since-fly- ing and hunting. On every week-enand holiday he's high in the sky, his plane poised and pointed toward his beloved Rockies. But there seems to be no likelihood of bis doing a "wrong-wa- y Corrigan." He says he still could get a living with a shotgun, but instead of his gun he has to shoulder the troubles of citizens less versatile. Mc-Ke- en d Secretary of War Harry S. Woodring presents diploma to Cadet John Robert Jannerone, top scholar of the 1938 West Point graduating class. Whatever the mental turmoil of "father of the military academy." As superintendent from 1817 to the neophyte in these first strenuous 1833, Major later General Thayer hours, he gets a grip on himself established a program based on when, assembled in. formation with stern discipline and a rigid moral his classmates late that afternoon, he raises his right hand and takes code. Syl-van- Discipline Easily Maintained. The honor system could be established and can be maintained only because of the full acceptance of a high ideal by the corps of cadets. Discipline can be enforced by a superior upon his subordinates; integrity is a bond uniting equals. In the century since Major Thayer's regime, wars have caused their flurries from time to time. During the World war, classes were graduated so rapidly that at one time course had been rethe four-yeduced to a year or less. The United States Military academy is better known to the American public now than at any previous time in its history. The motion-pictur-e camera, the writers of history and fiction, all play their part in telling its story. Flirtation walk, the mile and a half of romantic pathway winding down the cliffs to the river, was to figure importantly in one picture largely filmed on the academy grounds, and an officer asked when the cameramen were going to shoot those scenes. "Oh, we're not going to use your Flirtation walk," was the reply. "We can build a much better one in Hollywood." Congressmen Appoint A youth may obtain appointment to West Point through his senator or representative, many of whom hold competitive examinations; or he may enlist in the regular army or national guard, and after one year's service qualify by high standing in a stringent examination. There are special quotas of appointments for Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, the territories, lie President and the vice presi ar his oath of allegiance to flag and country. That moment he belongs. n It is this pride in a common ideal which carries the n through the long first summer of practical work and drills. He tells himself, "I'm as n good a man as this who is always riding me about my slouch, and I'll prove it." And he does. But never is his ego allowed to get out of bounds. Any moment an n may stop him, order him to attention, and inquire, "What do plebes rank?" And woe to the plebe who does not know the new-bor- fourth-classma- upper-classma- upper-classma- RELIEVING COLD DISCOMFORT THIS WAY! Jnst Fillow Slnpli Direction Below led Usi Biytr Assirii Fast-Acti- ni er upper-classma- - oiled, smooth running. Upon the functioning of the machines depends whether the senators can be reelected time after time; upon that machine depends the retention or the loss of the power which every politician loves. I imagine they can not be blamed for that, any more than the President can be blamed for wanting to keep his hand on the throttle. That is politics. Selection of the men to judicial jobs, or to any other political post in the nature of a plum, is vital to maintenance of machines. Politicians continue as leaders only so long as they can dominate the scene and get for their followers the things their followers want But in the current battle there is somewhat deeper disagreement between the senate and the President. It is too well known to warrant more than mere reference here that old line Democrats are determined to regain control of the Democratic party label They have had more than enough unpractical direction from the regiment of college proand long haired fessors, crack-pot- s dreamers without political training. Many of them will tell you unhesitatingly that continuation of Democratic party control in the hands of such men will be destruction of the party and its conversion into a vehicle guided by socialists, communists and a complete rainbow of colors. Naturally, they want to adhere to Democratic doctrines and Democratic principles. And that is the line of cleavage. The result? I doubt that Mr. Roosevelt can win over the senate. 1721 'THE United States senate, pos-sibly "standin in the need of prayer," does away with piece-wor- k supplication and puts praying on A Ml answer: "Sir, the superintendent's dog, the commandant's cat, the waiters in the mess hall, the hell cats, and all the admirals in the whole blamed While both parties in the aenate navy." on many occasions claimed have A cigarette is a "skag" (and cadivine guidance and inspiration for not in smoke A dets may public). their side, Mr. Phillips, although a dance, of course, is a "hop." A Republican, appointed by Calvin a or is "femme" young lady "fern," Coolidge in 1927, has been strictly or, if escorted by a cadet, a "drag," a distinguished is tie (though he is not allowed to walk Episcopalian clergyman, rector of in with a girl). Or she the Church of the arm arm non-panisa- n. Epiphany of may be the OAO the One and Only. and has discharged his Washington, Your "wife" has been defined as office with simple eloquence and "the cadet who smokes your skags, dignity. eats your boodle, borrows your Chaplain Phillips, 63 years clothes, and uses your last postage old, is a native of Springfield, stamp your roommate." (You may Ohio, educated at Wittenberg never refuse him a dance with your college and the Genera! Theodrag when he comes to a hop as a logical seminary. He engaged stag.) in special studies at Oxford in There are many things that a ca1910 and 1911 and uas served det may not have or do. "No horse, no wife, no mustache," is literally pastorates in Cincinnati, Chicago. St. Louis and Philadeltrue. He may not ride in an automobile after 10:30 p. m., sit in a phia. His children are named Faith, Deacon and Saliie Hews. parked car, or carry a red comCoiuulnl.ited Na Feulurrs. forter or blanket on his arm to WNU Service. name some at random. 1.To ass Mis and discomfort and radar a favor tika 9 BayoT Tablets-- Mr Etus of wattr. Re-p- ut la 2 tars. 2. If Throat Is raw fron cold, crush and .......... jt..i... ..7.r m laoins n an 4M -- ft glass jw It's the Way Thousands Know to Ease Discomfort of Colds and Sort Throat Accompanying Colds The simple way pictured above often brings amazingly fast relief from discomfort and sore throat accompanying colds. Try it. Then see ffour dodor. He probably will tell you to continue with the Bayer Aspirin it acts so fast to relieve discomforts of a cold. And to reduce bo-cau- se fever. This simple way, backed by scientific authority, has largely supplanted the use of strong medicines in easing cold symptoms. Perhaps the easiest, most effective way yet discovered. But make sure you get daiiui Aspirin, 15!I 12 TAB IXTS 1 FULL DOZEN 2Se Goal of Honesty The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in the felicity of lightning on good education. Plutarch. UESOTORI Senate, in Need, daily schedule. Puts Daily Task Last year, the On Its Chaplain occasional prayers by the official chaplain, the Rev. Ze Barney Thome Phillips cost the government $420 a prayer. Now the rate for each will be about $16, as Mr. Phillips gets $1,680 a year. The change was brought about by a resolution by Senator Neely, by which the senate will be opened by prayer on every calendar day, instead of only on "legislative" days as in the past The latter are a Action by which the senate may free itself from things diurnal, as effectively as did Joshua. But, sinee the senate is entitled to a good prayer on every real, not figurative, working day, it is going to get it Possibly as a tribute to Chaplain Phillips' prayers, the vote on Senator Neely's resolution was unanimous. 1 Why do Luden's contain an alkaline factor? NSWER lb help build up your alkaline reserve when you have a cold. ludeets 5 0 MINTHOL COUGH DROPS Play in Time When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all. Theodore Roosevelt. How Women in Their 40's Can Attract Men Hera, good advice for a woman during bar (anally Inm 88 to 12), whefuer hanrinM her appeal to mra, who worries anon ao BBBBea, was OS pep, Quay epvUs, Get mere fresh air. S km. alma and if im oeea a raoanDarai system ionic take Aua E. Pinkoam's Vegetable Compound, made feiaUt fir wmeaTTt helps Nature build op physical MetaUaee, tbaa helps (tee mora vivacity to enjoy life) and aariet calming Jittery nerves sad disturbing symptom that often araompany ebanaa of tile. 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