Show Round Merry nd Mt By 1 DREW PEARSON and end ROBERT ALLEN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON-At At 1130 a. a m. m of the day the historic AAA AM decision was handed down down by bythe the supreme court President Roos Roosevelt was was' holding a conference the farm tenant bill Simultaneously the n nine ne old men who knocked the foundation out from under his his' new deal legislation legislation legislation leg leg- were about to put on their black robes and go oh 1 the bench Sitting with Roosevelt in the White House ouse were Secretary of Agriculture ture Wallace W Will Alexander who is Tugwell's rig right hand man plan o on ten tenant n farming farming farm farm- arming arm arm- ing Marvin Jones chairman an of the h committee committee com corn on agriculture and andLee andLer Lee Pressman I legal ad- ad to k I- I Pl Plans were be being ng laid for pushing the farm 4 tenant tenant ten ten- ant bill through ough the 1 h house use as s soon as asp possible sible Passed by th the s senate senite nate Ia last t. t s session t the e bill provides ides for or a ii billion dollar corporation by which the government gov ov- ov buys land for tenant farmers and helps them them get st started on it it The president e explained that for political reasons rca rea rea reasons sons he wanted this bill passed as soon as as pos pos- sible Turning to Representative Jones of M t the e agriculture agriculture agriculture ag ag- ag- ag committee he said Marvin what about getting hearings started by your committee within the next three weeks But Mr President replied Jones dont you think we had better not hurry Remember we may have to pass some legislation for fot the AAA after the sup supreme eme co court rt hands down its decision I r doubt it replied the president I I dont don't think well we'll have anything serious to worry about Twenty minutes later Justice Roberts be began an reading the momentous AAA decision And shortly after the tenant conference adjourned news of the decision was placed on the presidents president's desk AAA Parents Now that the AAA is dead it i is interest interesting g to recall who wrote it I It was a composite child spawned by Henry Wallace an Republican ex-Republican together er with Professor sor M M. L. L Wilson of Montana State coUe college e now assistant secretary of of agriculture and Mordecai Mordecal Ezekiel a Harding appointee appoint e to the department of agriculture and a Hoover appointee as e economist to the federal farm board It was vas drafted chiefly by Fred Lee a Democrat Democrat Democrat Demo Demo- crat who served as legislative draftsman of ot the sen senate te during two Republican administrations Justice Roberts Justice Owen Josephus Roberts who delivered the historic AAA decision fo foe fot the majority of the court has spent his latter years between torI liberal liberal liberal lib lib- lib lib- eral and conservative viewpoints The son of moderately well-to-do well parents Roberts Rob Rob- erts ens was reared in a conservative Republican en environment en- en practiced law aw for thirty years with one of Philadelphia's most conservative law firms finns and represented two of the stat states state's s 's largest corporations the the Philadelphia Rapid Transit company and the Pennsylvania railroad During those years Roberts was thoroughly inculcated ted with the big business point of view At rAt the zenith of his legal career however he was was' special government prosecutor in the thc Harry F F. Albert Sinclair-Albert Alb rt B. B Fall oil scandals durin during during dur dur- in ing which he became a fervent government cru cru- Roberts not only did practically all of the prosecution prose prose-j cution w work ork- ork but advanced money out of his own pocket to pay for the expenses of the prosecution It was wa diligence in uncovering evidence plus his his' masterful court presentation which finally sent Fall and Sinclair to jail Sh Shortly after this Roberts was appointed to the supreme court Perhaps still imbued with the fervor acquired in m the oil scandal cases he immediately immediately imme imme- sided with the liberal wing of the court In recent years however Roberts Roberts' has swung back to the views of his early days as a Philadelphia Phila Phila- delphia corporation lawyer Wallace Forecast When news of the supreme courts court's AAA de decision decision de- de m reached Secretary Wallace he continued talking unconcernedly to a caller But eighteen months ago he wrote in his book the following statement which sounds as if it had been written this week J 11 1 would n not t mind seeing the processing tax and acreage ge control abolished in 1936 if we have hav something better to take its place But unless we have built up greatly increased purchasing pow power r by red reducing cing tariffs tariff or unless we we start tar loaning money outside the United St States tes to enable foreign nations to buy our surplus I am afraid that dropping the processing tax and acreage ge control c in 1936 1036 would woula r result with the average run run m of weather in ina a repetition within a few years of I the 1932 situation C t. t 1036 by United Syndicate Inc lac J |