Show Round Merry By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. S ALLEN WASHINGTON The The administration is beginning beginning beginning be be- ginning to wonder if the supreme court is playing a sly game of ring around The inner council has been hoping for a decision decision decision de de- de- de that would provide an opening to loose a along along along long up pent-up attack on the court The new dealers dealers dealers deal deal- ers felt confident they would not have to wait long Weeks have passed On every showdown the court has adroitly stymied its waiting foes This was the case in test of the New York unemployment insurance law and in the Duke Power company vs P W A caseIn case In the New York case the court ducked a cut clear-cut de declaration by means of a tie vote The Duke Power case was another out-and- out out sidestep Not only did the court obviously resort to a t technicality but it also defied a statute that has been on the law books books' since 1789 1789 Statute The case involved the power of the government government government govern govern- ment to make loans and grants rants to municipalities for the construction of public hydro-electric hydro plants Both the administration and the utility industry industry industry indus indus- try were extremely anxious anxious' f for r a prompt settlement settlement settlement settle settle- ment of the controversy over the power pro pro- gram But the supreme court apparently was inno in inno inno no hurry to be put on the spot Seizing on the technicality of f an admitted harmless error by a lower court which neither side had considered important enough to mention in their arguments or to challenge the supreme court ordered the case returned for retrial The 1789 statute provides that no legal action or decision shall be abated arrested quashed or reversed for any defect or want of form but such court shall proceed and give judgment according according according ac ac- ac- ac cording as the right of the causes and matters in inlaw inlaw inlaw law shall appear to it it Instead of deciding the vital and urgent issue before it squarely on its merits the court threw the case back into the lower courts to begin allover all allover allover over again A New Senator Talks Sometimes the best gauge of a public official is the w way y he reacts to a press interview Here is an account of an interview with Claude Pepper Pepper Pepper Pep Pep- per Florida's new U. U S. S senator As the Rounder Merry walked into Peppers Pepper's Peppers Pepper's Peppers Pepper's Pep Pep- pers per's office the senator arose from b behind hind a desk that for several decades had been used by his late and widely esteemed predecessor Senator Duncan Duncan Duncan Dun Dun- can U. U Fletcher Pepper shook hands and offered a cigar from a humidor He did not take one himself I 1 dont don't smoke he said His voice is pleasant His features are homely homely homely home home- ly his ears large and his jaw long and jutting But his eyes are friendly and straightforward When the reporter couldn't find an ash tray Pepper quietly walked across the room room picked up a brass cuspidor and placed it beside the desk Here use this he said He was asked to tell something personal about himself Well I 1 lived on a farm till I was ten and Ive I've done most everything since then Ive I've blocked hats taught school worked in a power plant and jn n a a. steel mill Folks around here dont don't know much about me but everybody knows two other men who were born in my county Chambers county Alabama Alabama Alabama Ala Ala- bama One is Tom Heflin and the other is Joe LouisI Louis I 1 went to school at Camp Hill Ala Aia and andI I r Idid did my studying at night in the office of the justice of the peace One night I took a pencil and wrote on the wall behind the office door Some day Claude Pepper will be United States senator That was twenty years ago My friends kidded me about it and began calling me Senator Pepper It stuck to me even at Harvard law school years later I was called Senator Pepper t Funny part of it is that when the pE people ople of of Florida got around to making me a real senator I had no opposition I was unopposed in the primary and unopposed in the election People say a man named Pepper ought to have little Peppers But Im Ima a bachelor And AndI I reckon Im I'm one of the three youngest members of the senate I was 36 last September Holt of West Virginia is 31 Lodge of ot Massachusetts is 34 Obviously a man from the hills Pepper has lost some of the rough edges Mail MailBag Bag Reference was made in this column on Thanksgiving day to Mrs Roosevelt's favorite recipe for cranberry sauce and incidentally the offer was made to furnish the recipe on request In answer to the first several hundred requests the recipe was sent individually to each cant But still they come So in self-defense self the recipe is printed herewith in plenty of time for Christmas preparations Mrs Roosevelt's recipe for cranberry sauce referred to in the Round Merry-Go-Round column on on Thanksgiving da day is as follows 1 lb Ib cranberries ries pick ries-pick pick over and boil in one pint of water in open kettle until all are broken it is well to crush the berries as they boil add water if necessary Put through sieve Add sugar to taste Set on on stove for another nother three minutes minutes' to boil then set aside to cool Copyright 1936 by United d Fe Feature ure Syndicate Inc t l t f |