Show OTHERS OTHERS' VIEWS Reader Discusses Court Decision The fhe decision recently made by bythe bythe bythe the Supreme Court of the United States in vetoing the Agricultural I Adjustment Act is is- is of far r reaching ching importance In writing the majority decision Justice Roberts Robarts stated None no power power to agricultural ral production reduction is given in the constitution constitution constitution con con- and therefore legislation legisla legisla- tion for that purpose is forbid forbid- den He further says It dOM does not I help to declare that local conditions conditions conditions condi condi- throughout the Nation have created a situation of National concern On One a comes to wonder how many of our acts of Congress past or pr present ent can stand such a test of constitutionality As Senator Pope expresses it The court says that agricultural production cannot be regulated eV even n under the spending power of Congress because that power is 15 not given to the Federal ral Govern Govern- ment Neither is the Federal Government Government Gov Gov- clothed with power ver to regulate or control education or to construct public works within wIthin within with wIth- in a 0 state or orto to feed th the destitute within a state Through this decision Justice declares that th the tha farmers farmer's problems are unrelated to the general Welfare Under this decision the Adjusted Adjust Adjust- ed Compensation Act and antitrust antitrust anti anti- trust laws may be nul nullified The Supreme Court may deny Congress Congress Con Con- gr gress SS the power to enact old age pension laws laws holding that the plight of each victim of insecurity is a local matter And yet th the Constitution provides pro pro- vides vido that the Ule Supreme Court may I eX jt jurisdiction with Such ch exceptions exceptions and und under r such regulations regulations regu regu- lations as th the Congress ss Shall make JOHN O. O V WATTERS A |