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Show Starts 50th Year hi r, - y AI.KRKn M. LANDON Gave birthday broadside LANDON LASHES AT ROOSEVELT COLORADO SPfflNGS, Colo., Sept. 10 (UP) Alfred M. Landon climaxed his fiftieth birthday last night with a stinging denunciation of president Roosevelt's economic and supreme court programs which, h said, could lead to dictatorship Hs told th national convention of Phi Delta Phi, legal fraternity: "Yt congress delegates the legislative legis-lative power to the president, or to code authorities: If ths executive, displeased with court decisions, may deprive the court of their power, there is the end of free govern- ment. Possibility Cited He said that If legislative power were delegated without restraint, "then congress may meet In January, Janu-ary, paas ons act authorising the prealdent to enact auch laws as he thinks ths people need, and then adjourn. "I need not tell you what that msans. It is the government ofj Stalin. Hitler anj Mussolini." Ths former Kansas govsrnor and Republican presidential candidate in I 1R36 observed his birthday with friends atop Pike's peak and came her to address th convention. He termed the uprm court con-I con-I rove ray "the most aigniftrant debate de-bate w hav bad line th Civil war " 'Th court was criticised bitterly bitter-ly when It sustained the legal tender ten-der acts following th Civil war." he said. "But naver was it more openly assailed up to the present time than when It protected a minority min-ority In one of the worst periods of oppression In American history. Court Saved South That period llluatratca th way of a temporary, unchecked, tyrannical tyran-nical majority. A courageous, free I and (table supreme court ssved the south from economic and social chaos. And the sams court has protectsd and secured the rights nf the negro, as well as the white man, today to a fair trial." He assailed the administration's attempts to "stretch" the Interatate commerce act "to a point where bureau created by congreas can tall a man how much he can charge for pressing a pair of pants, or tell a farmer what or how much hs shall raise on the eouth forty." |