Show I Newspapers' Newspapers Comment On Courts Court's T V A Ruling By United Untied Press Prell I Excerpts from editorial comment on tho the supreme courts court's s T TVA V A A ruling New York Dally News New The News The supreme supreme su su- su I preme court held th tha framing fathers would not have approved of the N R Aland and A A A. A The framing fathers knew nothing about electric power not even what it was let alono alone how to make or sell it Yet the he court now now holds in effect that I for or the government to make mako and sell this commodity of ot which the tho lathers fathers never eve even dreamed would be o o. o k by the tho fathers Maybe Maybethe the American people want to go on being ruled by what looks to the layman like the whims Inconsistencies inconsistencies and hair of at nine meri men But the people should be able to vote on whether they want such or not We hope President President President dent Roosevelt will force that question question question ques ques- tion to a a showdown in this cam- cam New Y Yo York o r k Tribune Herald The Tho decision is carefully de delimited delimited de- de limited The Tho decision takes the tho common sense view that it tho the government has both the right to sell seU this power generated Incidental incidental inci lad dental to navigation Improvement improvement improvement Improve improve- ment and if it necessary to convert convert convert con con- vert the power into electricity and transmit this curr current nt to a market mar mar- ket It the court refused to express e an opinion as to the validity ty of ot an effort to run a local distributing distributing distributing dis dis- system Thus the major threat of T V A to take the government government government gov gov- into the power business on a vast socialistic scale remains Philadelphia The Record Record The supreme su- su su supreme supreme preme courts court's T TVA V A decision makes American history yet it docs does not settle the major issue of the hour The right of the supreme court to invalidate acts of congress and and especially the right to Invalidate invalidate invalidate in In- validate them by divided opinions of the court which in themselves ves I indicate reasonable doubt as to tc the majority Interpretation of the thi constitution Though the new deal has won orT on or onT TVA T V A the constitution is still in It inthe th the words words' of ot Chief Justice Hughes what the judges say say it Is New NewYork York Times The Tile court has declared not the entire undertaking undertaking undertaking under under- taking valid and it h has s n naturally refrained from discussing whether it is either cither soundly conceived or wisely administered It is likely that among the critics of T V A would be found if it their private opinions w were re known more mor morn than one of the Justices who joined in yesterdays yesterday's historic decision Not the least of its excellences Is that it may help dispel the foolish notion notion notion no no- tion that the court is compos composed d of ot nine old men bent on imposing their will on congress and writing their private prejudices into the tho constitution Philadelphia Inquirer Inquirer Inquirer-In In its decision decision decision de de- de- de the supreme court holds closely to the tho specific case cue arising through the activities of th the Tennessee Tennessee Tennessee Ten Ten- valley authority before it for adjudication As a victory for the new deal tho the ruling has carefully defined limitations Pending a broader decision T TVA V A remains avital a avital avital vital issue Issue Issue-a a threat to American principles an encroachment upon private business and an unjust burden burden burden bur bur- den on the taxpayer Boston Post The Post The long awaited T TVA Y V A decision leaves the question question ques ques- tion of ot the right of tho the government to engage broadly in tho the power business unsettled While in a narrow narrow narrow nar nar- it is for the row sense a victory i new deal the broad philosophy of I the new deal in hi its threat to the ele electric power business was not covered cov cov- covered I cov-I ered by this decision The decision decision decision de de- de- de as made caused no great I surprise sur sur- surprise prise in well informed utility circles I The government had been upheld In this same case several months ago by the Fifth circuit court of ot appeals Tho The almost unanimous decision of ot the court that is Is on the main question in favor of ot the tho government government government gov gov- may perhaps hurt the new deal rather than help it for by thus now ruling in favor tavor of ot the government government government govern govern- ment the court upholds its reputation reputation reputation tion for impartiality against which certain elements in the tho new deal were beginning to rail Kansas City Star The 8 to 1 New York Journal of Commerce Commerce Commerce Com Com- merce The to one decision de- de decision de de- constitutes an important judicial victory for the adminis adminis- The highest court has shown itself ready to construe broadly the power of ot the federal government to transmit and sell ull electric p power in competition wl with h private utilities But it ia lis high time to call caU a. a ahalt halt on the yardstick yard yardstick stick sUck program and to cease investing Investing in investing In- In vesting additional large sums of federal money at a time when budgetary retrenchment is badly needed in federal finance Clevel Cleveland Plain Dealer Political Dealer Political as well as ae economic reactions wIllbe will willbe willbe be read into tho the decision Norris may be a little less insistent now on curbing the power of the tho court There is a little less force to the cry of ot horse and buggy days |