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Show Wider Taxing . Powers Urged Roosevelt Campaign Weekly Week-ly Reveals President's Attitude. President Roosevelt's Ideas and purposes In connection with the Con. stltutlon, the Supreme Court and the Congress are again brought to the front by the appearance of the first Issue of the New Deal's weekly magazine the Roosevelt Record. The new publication does not reveal the names of Its publishers and editors and Incorporators, but It Is regarded In Washington as having the seal of the President's full approval. As such, It will express Administration views for the duration of the national na-tional campaign. The leading article In the Roosevelt Roose-velt Record Is written by Charles A. Beard, the historian whose Ideas of the Constitution and of the pow-ers pow-ers of Congress have been regarded so broad as to come under the "radical" "rad-ical" classification. When President Roosevelt last year announced his appolnte.s to a commission to aid In making plans for the sesqulcen-tennlal sesqulcen-tennlal celebration of the Constitution's Constitu-tion's birth, Professor Beard was named as chairman. Later the professor pro-fessor was eliminated. Considerable comment hd been caused by his selection on a commission which was to undertake to educate the public on constitutional matters. "General Welfare" Clause. The Beard article In the first issue of the Roosevelt Record discusses the question of how wide are the powers of Congress under the "general "gen-eral welfare" clause. It is Professor Beard's conclusion In the Roosevelt campaign publication publica-tion that It is left to Congress to dv clde whether Its acts concern the : "general welfare" and If It decides that an Immediate question of taxing tax-ing or spending legislation does Involve In-volve the general (as distinguished !from local) welfare, the Congress 'may pass the law. , Beard's position has been opposed by jurists, statesmen and by some of the more respected members of ;the little group who approved the ! Constitution In its final form. Assails All Opponents. ; But, In the closing paragraph of hJs article Professor Beard says: , "The narrow view of the Constitution Consti-tution la a perversion of their Intentions, In-tentions, a falsification of history for partisan ends a screen for covering cov-ering attacks on measures of government, gov-ernment, actually opposed on grounds of expediency or personal antipathy." Washington observers see In this ! revival of the old argument favoring favor-ing a letting down of the legislative bars only another move In the campaign cam-paign to deprive the Supreme Court of the power to Invalidate Acts of Congress. As yet, the President bas made no definite statement In behalf be-half of these "reforms." Political experts say he will not venture to do so In election year. But the attitude atti-tude of his associates and of his publicity agencies, it Is pointed out, leaves little doubt of the presidential presiden-tial viewpoint |