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Show UINTAH BASIN RECORD "QUOTES" Won Independence Philippine After Struggle of Centuries National Topics Interpreted by William Bruckart Washington, D. National Press Building CURRENT TOPICS BY NATIONAL CHARACTERS NEED By DR. T- FOR SCIENCE KARL T. COMPTON President Massachusetts Institute of Washington. What of the future? Where are we going now that one of the keystones What to Be of the New Deal the National Done Now T n Recovery has been largely outlawed? The national capital never has witnessed such confusion, even In the midst of the World war, as has prevailed here since the Supreme court of the United States had Its final say as to the constitutionality of the NUA and Frazter-Lemk- e farm mortgage moratorium law. The lack of constitutional authority for the Frazier Lemke law was recognized by many but until the highest court tn the land had spoken concerning NRA, views were divided and the Blue Eagle continued to fly, albeit In a lower circle. New Dealers generally were confident to the last. They appeared to expect some unseen force to guide the Supreme court In upholding the fantastic program which they had devised and which the President made a part of his New Deal plans for economic recovery. The adverse ruling made them sick at the stomach. Most of them have not yet recovered. Lienee, confusion continues to reign. You have heard much discussion In the past two weeks as to how the breath of life may again be breathed Into the Blue Eagle. As far as I have been able to gather In from authoritative quarters Washington, there Is nothing left to do but perform the funeral ceremonies for the bird and the national plan which It represented. The reports of Presidential conferences, of meetings of statesmen and executives of the administration, of this plan and that plan and statements and expressions of opinion respecting the future course, mean absolutely nothing. When the Supreme court said that the congress had unlawfully delegated to the President power to draft codes of fair practice and enforce them upon private business, It took away the heart and nerve centers of the NRA structure. ' On top of this body blow, the NUA principle is looked upon In many quarters, and by men who know and understand the problems of government, as being thoroughly discredited In the public mind. It Is not too much to say that when a national law does not hold the confidence of the bulk of the people Its usefulness has ceased. So It wns with the prohibition amendment. Equally, I believe It can be stated. If opinion of statesmen of long training can be trusted, no attempts to revise the NUA will get to first base. Even the Brain Trust movement to ohtatn amendment of the Federal Constitution making such laws as NUA proper cannot win country-wid- e support. -- admin-Istratlo- istration, In the spirit and letter of Its Intent Yet because It was fundamentally unsound It never could succeed. My own guess Is that the Supreme court by Its ruling In this case has rendered a great service to American agriculture. Simmered down, the law which wa3 proposed by Senator Fra.ler and Representative Lemke, both of North Dakota, was designed to give purely temporary aid to distressed owners of mortgage farm lands. The things which apparently neither of the foresaw was the effect the temporary arrangement would have as to the future. By this I mean that, for example, If a farmer wants to buy a home and has only a small amount of cash, be must borrow money from someone else. If the holder of that money were made to feel that at any time during the life of that mortgage congress could pass a law telling the lender he could not force payment of the debt few there would be who would be willing to lend their money. It Is not human nature to lend money unless there Is a reasonable assurance that It will be repaid. Thus, It seems to me the law contained elements of danger that were overlooked In the stress of depressed conditions. Perhaps the worst blow dealt President Roosevelt personally was the Supreme court The Worst Blow decision held which Technology. to me that what is IT SEEMS is a bilateral program for putting science to work for y . -- v . ! I - , - "M , There Is the national welfare. needed on the one side the of the scientists of the country generally, to assist the government In putting the woik of its scientific bureaus on a scale of maximum efficiency and value. There la needed, on the other hand, a new type of government leadership whereby the scientific men of the country may be brought together to make an Intelligent and attack on the great problems which are facing the country at those points which science may offer hope of alleviation or solution. W 0 fa' n By CHARLES R. GAY Stock Exchange. is a widespread Officer New York By WILLIAM C. UTLEY. 1S93, when Admiral Deweys guns had hardly concluded their INpronouncement that America had become a world power, and the echoes were still rumbling over Manila bay, the 10,000,000 Inhabitants of the Bhlllpplnes were already demanding complete political Independence. Ten years from this coming Fourth of July they may get It at last, after a long struggle, both physical and diplomatic. President Franklin D, Roosevelt signed his name In Ink to the constitution of the new Philippine government So did Manuel Quezon, president of the island senate. Six weeks before that, members of the Philippine house of representatives signed it, one of them In his own blood. Philippine Independence has not always been our worry. The struggle had Its beginning centuries before the United States ever existed. The story really opens, so far as the white race Is concerned, In the year 1521, when Fernando Magellan, that most Irrepressible of all gadthe archiabouts, "discovered pelago of the eastern Pacific. It may be well Imagined that Skipper Magellans hoarties, with many moons on the open sea having depleted their food supply to the extent that the dinner menu consisted of fricassee of leather riggings and boiled tongue (of shoe), hailed the Islands with delight. The native rice and sugar, which would have been Just another Tuesday night dessert at Mrs. Gomez Seamans home back In sunny Spain, must have looked to them like a banquet for the gods. Senor Magellan Is still there, but not because he fell In love with the scenery. He was killed by natives on the Island of Mactan. And what remained of his crew continued around the globe without him. When the boys got back home they were pretty much the toasts of their respective communities and were Invited to address the local KIwanIa and Rotary and the Iberian equivalent of what we call the not Stove league. Egged on with bribes of hot tamales and rare Castllllan wines, they were not above spellbinding wide eyed senorltas with reluctant admissions of their daring deeds. Mixed In with their revelations there was probably a little truth and the word eventually got out thnt there were Philippine Islands somewhere In the Pacific, say about two mutinies and three famines out from Barcelona. Bullied the Natives. At any rate, Spanish sailors of the next generation again found the Philippines, and began bullying the natives Into submission In 1505, gaining complete control In 1570. It Is doubtful If these Spaniards knew, or anjbody else knew until the map makers got busy, that their new colonial holdings included 7.0S3 Islands two of them, Luzon and Mindanao, 40,000 and 88,000 square miles In area, and nine others more than 1,000 square miles apiece. However, Filipinos, like elephants, never forget, and the Idea of complete Independence kept rankling In their minds for quite a spell until In 1S00 It swelled forth In open revolt under Emilio Agulnaldo. The Spanish rulers pacified Senor Agulnaldo with threats, promises and goodness knows bow many pesetas, and he and his principal henchmen retired to the heterogeneous obscurity of Hong Kong In 1S97, there to plan their subsequent re- that the Presidential power did not extend to removal of a Federal Trade commission member except for the reasons pre scribed In the law Itself. It will be remembered that Mr. Roosevelt forcibly ousted the late William E. Humphrey from commission mems bership because, It openly stated it the time, Mr. Humphrey was a conservative Republican and he, therefore, did not see eye to eye with the President and his New Deal plans. Mr. Humphrey sued the government for the salary for his term. After his death his executors carried on the litigation. It is the principle involved here that Is Important. The Federal Trade commission was set up as a qn body, one endowed with iinwers to regulate against business practices and to determine the propriety of general busito s dealings affecting countrywide '"isine&s or the Interests of the pi ' Me. It t''es no stretch of the Imagination 'o see how Presidential i" e with the commission personnel i' mild result In changes of comml- -1 n policy. One business dght be held proper by a n majority was con's bile that same practice considered Illegal by a commissi, n dominated by a liberal or radios1 Membership. It becomes Enough Indications already have obvious lb m that if the President become visible to warrant a statewere permuted to disturb the perment that the sonnel of the commission, especially More Hope summer months Judges, there could be no contifor Future "HI see chiseling, nuity of policy, and business Itself pi Ice cutting and would hardly know from day to day other nefarious and Improper busiwhen It was abiding by the law ness practices going on and that or when It was not. these will be disastrous to countless business Interests. The conSeveral months ago, I recall, I gress will strive In a halfhearted reported to you In these columns fashion to offset the loss of strength something In the and prestige sulTered by the New nature of a preDeal at the hnnds of the Supreme diction that the court But the effort plainly will Supreme court be only half hearted. So It Is made would become better known to the to appear that the country must genernl public before the current submit for several months at least administration had ended than it to a bad condition. After that. If had been known since It rendered the opinions of expeilenced men are the famed Dred Scott decision in worth while, there ought to be a Chll war days. It wns a perfectly substantial change for the better. obvious circumstance. Sooner or Careful surveys, close examinations later the of a constituquestions of the problems at band and candid tional nature involved in the New thinking has brought to unbiased Deal procedure obviously were goobservers the conclusion that there ing to be tested In court. Is more hope for the future now as Now, I feel warranted In reportregards the economic situation than ing thnt the highest court again there was while the Blue Eagle con- will be In the The eye. tinued to soar and ballyhoo artists next momentous public decision likely to continued to preach about Its pow- come from the bench of the nine ers to restore prosperity. I believe austere Justices will be a ruling afthis statement which Is the conthe Agricultural Adjustment fecting sensus ought to be tempered with administration and therefore of vione suggestion. There Is likely to tal to the American Importance be a restoration of confidence genfarmer. There will be other cases erally If the administration turns Involving New Peal plans, of aside from Brain Trust theories and course, but their Importance cannot employs the practical Instead of the possibly be as great as .any detheoretical method of government cision affecting the AAA, because It Is an Integral part of the New To the agricultural community Deal program for recovery. the decision Invalidating the FraThere Is no possibility of a rulmort-Juzier ing on any AAA questions before an gage moratorium next October. No test cases have probably has yet reached the Supreme court for Idle Dream greater Interest argument, but there are half a It should not be so. The Frazler-I-emk- e dozen wending their alow way law from the first was an the minor courts. Considerthrough Idle dream and wns predicated upon ation by the Supreme court evenshortsighted understandings of ba- tually Is, of course, certain because sic economic laws. Everywhere I volt In 1S9S. constitutional questhey Involve have Inquired concerning the probIn that year America won the tions. able end or result of the workings the fact that a war with Spain and Spain ceded the Notwithstanding of that statute. Informed persons Supreme court decision on the AAA lslunds to the United States for declared It meant eventual destrucla considered distant. It Is to be $20,000,000. The Filipinos thought tion of credit for agriculture. they ought to be given Independence noted that after the NRA was outat that time, and when they failed Supporters of the Frazler-Lemk- e was scurthere considerable lawed, Idea cannot lean, as do supporters around among AAA officials. to get it they broke out again and rying of the NUA principle, upon an ac- Fresh consideration was given to were not pacified nntll July 4,1901. cusation that the law waa badly adThe United States still later arlaw over of which many ministered. It was administered, ac- there ispoints rested an independence movement doubt. cording to the Farm Credit admin by granting them an autonomous 6 WtpUri Nawapapar tJato. stout-hearte- Rand-McNall- y st THE STOCK EXCHANGE President Roosevelt Handing Signed Philippine Constitution to Manuel Quezon, President of the Philippine Senate. Inset, Emilio Agulnaldo, Who May Be a Candidate for President government under the Jones act of 1910. The Islanders were quick to offer their aid to the United States In the World war, and as soon as It was over began a consistent petitioning for independence which has never subsided. Must Wait Ten Year. They made some headway In December of 1932, when congress bill. This passed the Hawes-Cuttinprovided that, subject to the approval of the bill by the Philippine legislature, the Islands would be allowed to draw up a republican constitution which would have to be acceptable both to them and to the President of the United States. Then, after a period of ten years, the islands would be granted complete Independence. During the ten years, exports and the number of Philippine Immigrants to the United States would be restricted. After that the Islands were to be outside the American tariff walk President Hoover vetoed the bill January 13, 1933, on the grounds that It had been selfishly planned to protect American agriculture against Philippine labor and products; It did not satisfactorily discharge American responsibility towards the Islanders, who were unready for Independence ("Economic of the Philippines Independence must be attained before political can be successful" Independence was the way he put It); and It would lay the Islands open to the danger of turbulent conditions In the Far East. Congress overrode the veto four days later. The Philippine legislature rejected the bill nine months afterward. The new constitution was pre- pared under the conditions of the e bill, which was passed by the last congress and signed by President Roosevelt g Tydlngs-McDuffl- d Varied Resources. The Philippines are not, as many folks In the metropolitan centers of the states might believe, a nation of elevator operators, bus boys and professional ping-ponplayers. They raise great quantities of rice, sugar g cane, hemp, mnnlla, coconut, corn, tobacco and maguey. Their forestry, fishing and mining Is Important. They manufacture sugar, cocoa, coconut oil, cigars and cigarettes, chocolate and coffee. In 1S95, before the American market was opened up to them, the exports totaled about $19,000,000. In 1929 It had reached $104,000,000, everything but sugar to a considerable 'degree during the depression that followed. While only 3 per cent of the exports reached the United States be fore the Islands became an American possession, 61 per cent of them are today sold In American markets. The present agreement Is not what the Philippines have long hoped for, but in their enthusiasm they have apparently decided it Is about all they will get, for In the Island plebiscite which followed the signing of the constitution by Brest-den- t Roosevelt, they approved the document by an overwhelming vote. Women voted for the first time In the history of an oriental country, as the result of a bill passed by the legislature last December and signed by Gov. Gen. Frank Murphy, former mayor of Detroit. The new Philippine constitution, which now becomes effective as soon as the existing government Is terminated by a proclamation of President Roosevelt, Is much like our own Constitution, with the fol lowing important differences: The president may serve only one term, six years. He can veto any part of any bill. The legislature, with two minor exceptions, cannot appropriate more money than his budget calls for. The vice president Is a member of the cabinet, and cabinet member may speak before the legislature. There will be only one legislative body, the assembly. In times of war or other great national emergency it can vote to make the president a dictator. The Supreme court although slumped srsra THERE change; of the Ex- what it really is.. Essential, Say, ThW may not be the but Illiquid! Pr,b,e it is a mans world. I institutions, law s ej,!,? continues to dominate' and vi, lie are bero.e COMMENTS ON C. Training for Mother, It does not buy or sell securities. It does not dictate prices. It is simply a market a meeting place where members gather to transact business In securities. It Is not a private club. It Is a national Institution filling a national need of first will have eleven Justices, automatImportance. To it come the orders ically retired at seventy, who can of those who wish to turn cash Into declare a law or treaty unconstiearning power or securities Into s tutional by a majority cash, and the prices registered on vote. our tickers are a composite of the hopes and fears and necessities of Women to Vote on Suffrage. holders. It Is will the worlds security Literate men over twenty-on- e market a responsive to great liquid he allowed to vote. A plebiscite will It exbe held In two years on woman suf- the needs of a great nation. It fills a vital need and because ists frage, and If 300,000 women vote to render for it they will be given the right because It Is equipped serv lee. of suffrage. All natural resources are to beLESS DOGMA come the property of the state, not to be leased for longer than 25 By SIR WILFRED GRENFELL Labrador Physician. years. The state may operate and establish Industries and systems of ARE still a very young communication and transportation. and I believe that In the Interests of national defense. we are getting better. I think The state will protect labor and that religion Is stronger than ever, regulate relations between land- even though church attendance may lords and tenants and between la- not Indicate it There Is less today bor and capital. It may provide for of both dogma and "intellectual compulsory arbitration. religion. But there Is more religion Treaties will be ratified by a ma- of the kind that comes from the jority of the assembly, and that heart Instead of the head. Now In no doctor body alone may declare war. science, for example, Although the plebiscite on May fifty years ago when science was 14 was a landslide In favor of the materialistic dared to speak of spirnew constitution, It was held In itual things. Now, If you want to the wake of an uprising which was hear the gospel spoken, go to the the bloodiest the islands had seen In Royal Academy of Science. 15 years. There were several actual battles. Constabulary officers A NEW LOCARNO ultimately quelled the uprising, but By DR. HENRYK GRUBER not until 61 rebels were dead and Polish Economist. 54 rebels and 10 constabularies IS just because of the wounded. and Murphy Quezon of the political Locarno were In the United States at the that the nations feel they should time. come to an economic Locarno as Dissatisfaction with the trade re- soon as If stabilization possible. a of the quirement could be arranged today It would bill was one of the things upon be the beginning of recovery. which the revolt was blamed. The question of tariffs would have Economic Future. to be Included in the agenda. ToA congressional committee headday each country Is In a box, sured by Senator Millard F. Tydlngs rounded by tariff walls an absurd of Maryland, of the bill, situation. If one can only find a has just returned from the Islands way to open that box the nations with recommendations which will will be able to breathe more easily probably provide material for a and the circulation of world trade study of their economic future. The would start again. bill calls for a conference on that subject one year before the comFLOATING FORTRESSES monwealth period expires, but It Is By SIR BOLTON probable that this will take place British Naval Expert. at an earlier date. people realize the great The final outcome, It Is thought, FEW power that even will result In one of the following our old battleships have today possibilities: against air attack. The battleship (1) Complete Independence, exof the future will be a veritable actly as proposed, which will fortress of defense. I am confi(according to most authordent that battleships, though not ities) economic ruin and probable necessarily big ones, will remain absorption of the Philippines by an the pivots whereon all our ships Oriental power. will perform their historic function (2) Independence, exchanging tarof keeping open empire communiiff preference to the Islands for cations and making a tremendous free entrance of American goods. contribution toward the general (3) Dominion government of the tranquillity of the world by makIslands, allowing them trade prefer- ing our quarter of the globe safe. ence, but keeping a political string attached to them. WAR PROFITS The Islands are determined to By WELFORD L KING have Independence, complete and Professor of Economics, New York at any cost, according to Quezon, University. who has fought for It In diplomatic is something grisly circles In this country for many in the thought years, served as president of the that men sitting safely in Island senate since 1916, and will awlvel chairs should fortunes reap In all likelihood be Its first presi- from a war In which millions of as dent good or better men, who are facing The dapper little diplomat, e the loss of life or limb, or are sufabout sixty years of age, adfering from disease and wounds, mitted that his nation was setting are yet selling their services for but out on a great adventure and would a few paltry dollars a month. make probably mistakes. What nation does not? he asked, LIVING COSTS But we have been prepared for By PROF. P. G. KAMMERER our adventure by a great republic. Noted Educator. We have trusted you in the past THE value of gold remains and have been rewarded for onr where it was in February, trust. e have depended upon you and have not been disappointed. We 1933, and approximately where know that we can count upon Is today in the free gold markets you It In the future." of the world, the cost of living will Mentioned as a possible candidate have to rise by about 50 per cent to oppose Quezon for the presidency above what It la today before the the same Emilio slack represented by the reducAgulnaldo, Agulnaldo who lod the revolts and tion In the gold content of our guerilla warfare more thRn thirty American dollar has been completeyears ago. Quezon thn was bis ly taken up. 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