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Show THE LEHI SUN, LEIH, UTAH News Review of Current Events the World Over Supreme Court Takes Up Gold Clause Abrogation (v,se Senate Committee Favors World Court Adherence Congress Gets the Budget. By EDWARD W. PICKARD by Weetern Newspsper Union. HAVINO given the New Deal a I by the league In promising "to np-.uht np-.uht wHf h holdine the pe- hold the American principle that troleum control feature of the NlItA laws be made only by the direct unconstitutional, the Supreme court i--iiwiui. vv - moved ranidlr to- congress, and that the laws be In terpreted only by the courts.' lK-) - ! I Attorney General Gen-eral Cummings V -.TX I ward I Judgment as to the legality of the abrogation of gold payments. Several cases challenging chal-lenging this act were lumped and oral arguments were heard. This being a matter of vast Importance, Involving In-volving $100,000,-000,000, $100,000,-000,000, Attorney General Homer S. Cummlngs himself appeared to present pre-sent the case for the government. Mr. Cummlngs Is an excellent lawyer, law-yer, but not much can be said In praise of the legal abilities of most of the men whom the exigencies of politics have shoved Into his office la Washington. So probably lie was wise to handle this matter klmself. Cummlngs defended the const!-tutlonal const!-tutlonal anthorlty of the President and congress to adopt the present Monetary policy as Inherently the right of the government to preserve Itself. In an argument distinguished for oratorical display as well as for Its legal aspects, Cummlngs said an adverse decision by the court would : 1. Increase the public and private pri-vate debt of the nation by $09,000,-000,000. $09,000,-000,000. 2. Create a special class that would be beyond the pale of the general financial structure, a class composed of those holding bonds demanding payment In gold. 3. Reduce the balance In the United States treasury $2,500,000,-000. $2,500,000,-000. 4. Add $17,000,000,000 to the public pub-lic debt and Increase the Interest charges on this debt alone by $2,-BOO.OOO.OOO $2,-BOO.OOO.OOO a year. The latter sum alone, Cummlngs said, is equal to twice the value of the 1934 wheat and cotton crop, The attorney general referred to the troubled state of the country hi the spring of 19.13 and added, "I contend and shall show that the congress and the President of the United States acted reasonably In a period of very great difficulties and that their acts were not the product of caprice, From the questions asked by the Justices, observers gained the Impression Im-pression that there was a sharp division of opinion among them. SENATOR JOSEm T. ROBINSON, ROBIN-SON, majority leader of the sen ate, being Informed that the foreign for-eign relations committee had voted 34 to 7 in favor of the project for American adherence to the World court, said he would bring the resolution up on the floor of the senate as soon as possible. How ever he recognized the sentiment against It was strong and would not predict the outcome of the fight. The new resolution as approved bj the committee Is slightly al tered to meet the objections of other rations to what Is known as res ervation five. Mr. Robinson said - "The legal Import and effect of reservation five has been preserved tn full. It ts provided that discussions discus-sions may take place under the Boot protocol, but In the end the court may not entertain over the objection of the United States any request for an advisory opinion on any dispute or question In which the United States has or claims an Interest,' Of the Democrats on the commit tee Senntors Lewis and Murray voted against the resolution: Re publicans who favored it were Van denberg and Capper. TM10SE Democrats and Republl cans, eminent and otherwise, who are banded together as the American Liberty league are now really getting Into action against what they betievo to be the radical features of the administration's program, and their executive council coun-cil has put out a ten-point platform. It declares the league's opposition to such practices as sweeping dele gations of legislative authority to the President, lump sum approprl atlons to be doled out by the White noose, socialization of Industry and regimentation of American life. In the first plank of its platform the league pledged itself "to preserve pre-serve American institutions which safeguard to citizens In all walks of life th right to liberty and pursuit pur-suit of happiness" and at the same time "to combat the growth of bureaucracy, the spread of monopoly, monop-oly, the socialization of Industry, snd the regimentation of American life." Invasion of the law making and law Interpreting functions by New Deal admlnstrators was also rapped Other points in the 10-polnt dec laration of policy pledged the league to fight for government economy, a sound federal fiscal policy, a stable currency, protection for Investors, and Individual liberties. DETROLEUM control provisions of the national Industrial recovery act, specifically section 0 (c), are held by the Supreme Court of the United States to be Invalid as un constitutional abdication of legisla tive power to the President Eight of the Justices united In rendering this decision, justice Cardozo alone dissenting, and it was read by Chief Justice Hughes. The section declared void author ized the President to ban Interstate shipment of "hot oilthat Is, oil produced in excess of state quotas. While the opinion did not deal with other phases of the recovery act, it aroused widespread speculation specula-tion as to disposition of other cases. This was the first major "New Deal" case to come before the court IN THE highly dramatised trial of Bruno Hauptmann for the kid naping and murder of the Lind bergh bnby the state continued to weave a strong nt of circumstan tial evidence around the defendant Lindbergh first identified his voice as that of the man who received the ransom; next was Amandus Hoch- muth, elghty-seven-year-old man who told of seeing Hajptmann driving a "dirty-green" car with a ladder In it into the Lindbergh lane March 1, 1932, the day of the kidnaping. kid-naping. Then John Perrone, Brons tax driver, Identified him as the man who paid him $1 to deliver a ransom note to "Jafsie." "Jafsie," otherwise Dr. John Condon, the 'aged Bronx educator who undertook the negotiations with the kldniper, next went on the stand and in bis garrulous way Identified Bruno as the man with whom he dealt and to whom If handed the $50,000 ransom money. His long and somewhat rambling story was bitterly assailed la cross examination by E. J. Rellly, chief defense counsel, but seemingly the great value of his evidence was not much shaken. Detective Arthur Johnson of New Tork was on his way home from Europe bringing relatives of the late Isadore Flsch to testify for the state. Hauptmann claimed in his defense that the ransom money found In his possession was given to him by Flsch, a business associate associ-ate In New Tork. Flsch later re turned to his home In Germany, where he died. AN President Roosevelt T3 EGA USE work relief must be carried on the federal budget will not be balanced for the coming fiscal year, and probably not for several years thereafter. there-after. In presenting present-ing the budget to congress, President Roosevelt admitted this,' but without 4 qualms. He estl- ' Q r,nc nnn ftftft as the amount of money necessary to carry on the gov ernment's activities for the 19"8 fiscal year beginning July 1 next The ex penses for the current year, partly estimated, are $3,581,000,000. If one wishes to know who spends all these huge sums, an idea may be obtained from these figures showing the estimated expenditures for the fiscal year 1936; L Legislative, Judicial and executive 86,695,000 Civil departments and Kenciei , 788,057,189 t. National defense ... 792,484,265 4. Veterans' pension and benefits 704.885,500 S. Debt charges: Interest STB.000,000 Retirements ,, 636,434.000 6. Refunds 64,946.200 7. Recovery and relief 4,582,011,475 8. Supplemental Items (for above groups 1 to 4 Inclusive) 40,000,000 Total expenditures.. $3,520,413,608 Total receipts for the same peri od are put at $3,991,904,639, so the estimated deficit will be $4.52S,508.- Of the recovery and relief fund the President asked that $4,000,000,-000 $4,000,000,-000 be placed at his disposal to be allocated by him "principally for giving work to those unemployed on the relief rolls." Here are some other vital things disclosed by the message: The national debt will Increase from $31,000,000,000 at the close of this fiscal year to $34,239,000,000. No new taxes are requested. Con gress ts asked to continue the so- called nuisance taxes which expire soon and the 3-ccnt stamp rate. A national defense appropriation of $809,943,065 the greatest in the history of the country Is requested. A total of 137.134 federal workers are to be dismissed. The $2,811,000,000 gold profit has not been disturbed. Veterans pensions In 1938 will reach the staggering total of $704,- 000,000. The accumulated New Deal deficit for three years on June SO, 1936, will total $11,700,000,000. While the trend of recovery and relief expenditures Is downward, regular federal expenses will in crease. This is due In part to a 5 per cent pay restoration for federal workers which Involves $05,000,000. APOLOGY to the Canadian government and payments of $50,600.50 damages is the penalty Imposed on the United States for sinking the rum running schooner I'm Alone In the Gulf of Mexico in March of 1929. This decision was announced by Willis Van Devanter, associate Justice of the United States Supreme court, and Sir Ly man Poore Duff, chief justice of Canada, who were the commissioners commission-ers of arbitration under the ship Hqnor treaty of 1924 between the United States and Great Britain for controlling liquor smuggling. Of the damages awarded, $25,000 is to be paid as compensation to the Canadian government and $25,- GGG.50 to the master and members of the crew of the I'm Alone or their families. Included In the lat ter is $10,1S5 to the widow and children of Leon Mainguy, a French citizen of St. Pierre, Mlquelon, who drowned when the schooner was sunk by the coast guard. The commissioners found that the master and members of the crew were not parties to a liquor smuggling smug-gling conspiracy. THERE were huge sighs of relief re-lief in the chancelleries of Ell rope when the success of the conversations con-versations In Rome between For eign Minister PI erre Laval of France and Premier Pre-mier Mussolini was announced Informally. In-formally. For two days the two statesmen discussed dis-cussed the points at Issue between their nations and conditions in general gen-eral In central Europe. Eu-rope. Emerging from the last of their meetings. Laval, La-val, smiling broadly, said to a group of French and Italian war veterans: "I am glad to tell yon that Pre mier Mussolini and I are now in complete accord." Without waiting for an official communique, those best Informed said Laval and il duce had reached a full agreement the principal features of which are a Joint declaration dec-laration to preserve the Independence Independ-ence of Austria, a five or six pow er pact of noninterference, and pro visions for colonial concessions in Africa. The pact agreeing not to interfere with one another's inter nal affairs presumably will Include Italy. Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia, Austria, and Hungary; and later England. France and Rumania may -I .4 fY Pierre Laval f ART riCKFORD went before Judge Ren IJndsey In Los An geles and obtained a decree of di vorce from Douglas Fairbanks; and thus came to an end the onion of the "royal couple" of moviedom, who for ten years were regarded as the model wedded pair so far as happiness and worldly success went Mary's suit filed more than a year ago. charged Doug with. men tal cruelty. Indifference and neglect She told Judge IJndsey the charges were true and that a fair and Just property settlement bad been made; and after Elizabeth I-ewls, Miss Plckford's secretary, bad testified tho decree was granted and Mary left the courtroom almost In tears. Fairbanks, in St Morits. Switzerland, Switzer-land, was Informed of the divorce but declined to comment be asked to adhere to It tX-PRESIDENT HERBERT - HOOVER has been elected a dl rector of the New York Life In surance company, at the instance of Alfred E. Smith. He was first offered the place two years ago when the death of Calvin Coolldg created a vacancy. Mr. Hoover said "I have accepted In the hope of cou trlbutlng something to the protec tion and advancement of the inter ests of millions of policy holders for in these great Insurance trusts lies one of the most vital personal securities to the women and children chil-dren of the country." PUBLIC WORKS ADMINISTRATOR ADMINISTRA-TOR ICKES has resumed his contest with Arizona over the build ing of the barker dam In the Colo rado river and wants the Supreme court to keep that state and Its "navy," consisting of one scow, from interfering with the Job. Solicitor General Biggs' asked permission of the court to file suit for an Injunc tion. The governor of Arizona recently called out his militia and his navj to keep the public administrator from completing the dam, He held that it would interfere with the di tribuUoa of Irrigation water In his state. LairclFloiDQi 1 . ., -,j.rr.. "Jpr 1 i Sidewalk Solarium at St Petersburg. Prepared by National Geoerath!c Society. Washington, v. v. 'u or;. THE southern trek of winter vacationists of eastern Amer-ia Amer-ia fn irinridn Is on. As north ern resorts close their portals, tour ist aeencies are besiegea wim queries about Florida resorts; and railroads, and steamship lines speno their annual advertising appropria tions, boasting the merits of cities on their routes. Nnrth Florida is as different from south Florida as lower Alabama is from Cuba. Colonists had settled and developed an ante-bellum cotton cot-ton and tobacco aristocracy at Tal lahassee and thereabout when low er Florida was still a howling wll- rtornossL Rven today, we are told, one-fifth of all Florida's population was born In Georgia and AiaDama ; but that will not be true a decaue hence. l-nni? ami. when bears fattened on crabs and turtles' eggs where Miami Beach and Palm Beach now blos som, Spaniards built St Augustine and Pensacola and connected them with a 400-mile military highway. You motor over much of this same old line now when you drive from Jacksonville west to Mobile and New Orleans. In the Cathedral at St. Ansustlne are to be seen crum bling, parchment-bound records of marriages and baptisms among Spaniards and Indians dating back to 1600. Yet Florida but for that settled strip along her upper edge stood still for generations, while the rest of America was in the mak ing. The reason, of course, was the trend of migration to the Great West Till recent years, when bet ter communication came ana America's Amer-ica's food habits began to change intensive distribution methods, refrigerator' re-frigerator' cars, and high-power ad-vertislng, ad-vertislng, there was no great consumer con-sumer market for the golden winter win-ter fruits and green vegetables which the state today grows. Also, years ago, there was yellow fever. . In epidemic days it paralyzed para-lyzed Pensacola, New Orleans, and Havana. Then came Reed, Carrol, Gorgas, and other great men of medicine, and through science life was made safe for whites In mosquito mos-quito lands. "When I came to Miami, after the Spanish-American war, it had 300 people," said a leading lead-ing banker. "Unless yellow fevor and mosquitoes had been conquered, Florida could never have grown as she has." "Flagler's Folly." As science whipped mosquitoes, so bold builders conqdered swamps and jungles, and humanized coral-born coral-born keys, tying to the nation's rail-was rail-was net a new world of strange sights and smells. Down to Tampa the steel was thrust annexing a quaint Spanish-speaking city. And down this line in "98 roared boys In uniform, "average Americans," seeing see-ing Florida first on their way to help In a war of independence. Far down the then empty east coast pushed yet another spearhead of twin steel, a "seagoing" railway. ."Flagler's Folly," critics said of the one man with vision who built and paid for it. "A railroad and a string of railroadHwned, millionaire million-aire hotels way down In that empty wilderness! There's no freight to haul, no passengers, no customers for all those palatial hotels." But Flagler looked across at Cuba; he looked up, saw the sun, and felt the trade wind's kiss. Then, in his mind's eye, he probably saw what critics with sensory eyes alone could not see he saw the earth tracking In space, tilting first one end and then the other, making mak-ing the play of seasons, but leaving Florida more sun than any other place In the eastern United States! On down the coast he went with his horse and buggy. Back In New York, where many calamity howlers howl-ers lived, it was below zero ; yet all about the warm sunshine bathed thts Land of Flowers that lured Ponce de Leon centuries before. The people will come," Flakier said. And they came. Hotels built decades sgo and flocks of newer hotels at times turn real dollars away In droves, so great Is the mass demand for bed and board. They Go by Plana, Toe. Then freight came an amazing traffic with Cuba even as Flagler dreamed. Cuba Is our second best customer in all Latin-America, trade statisticians tell ns. Sliding down the sunbeams, like giant roller coasters of the sky. route now the planes. Into greater "-ml. with Its many airports, fly ing fields, and seaplane docks, from Cuba, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Nassau, Panama, and South America come and go the big three-motored cabin ships. Customs men are at the air ports to Inspect bags and ask for duties, while immigration officials examine passports. Restless, absorbing America ! Land of magic economic change that fathered Florida I You sense Its fine aggressive spirit when, riding rid-ing In from sea, you watch Miami and Miami Beach silhouette their towering architectural masses against a sunset sky. Amazing they are, in their effect of stark simplicity sim-plicity and power, lifted by puny men from the sand pits and man grove swamps of yesterday. Always the contrast persists. Ten miles west, the Everglades; a crane gulping down a wriggling snake; a 'gator pulling under a wild duck; a homing Seminole, silent, si-lent, watchful, In his dugout; abysmal abys-mal waste, solitude, fascinating to the naturalist. Yet, if you think in time and not space alone, you can vision what Florida's population must some day be. It is the way of subtropic lands, where living is easy, as in the West Indies. Life here has a different tempo, a sort of tropic rhythm. Sun, snnd, the blue sparkling waters of the Gulf Stream, blossoms of every hue, and waving palms bring a sense of luxury even to the masses. They are among the state's intangible assets as-sets and quicken man's interest in cosmic things. Tobacco and Tourists. West of Tallahassee one rides past many tobacco fields where plants are grown under "shades." These shades are made by stretching stretch-ing thin cotton cloth over frames of poles and wire, for farmers have found they may best grow certain vegetables under the same proper ly tempered conditions in all seasons. sea-sons. Tobacco seed, for planting in Virginia and elsewhere, is often grown in Florida, since better seed develops where plants enjoy the longest periods of daily sunshine. Of course, sharp clashes of ideas, to make conversation an adventure, are rare among tourist groups here, They have too much in common. One intellectual oasis, howver, is the "open forum" at St. Petersburg. Peters-burg. In a park there, after the band concerts, crowds of many hundreds hun-dreds remain for organized debate and good-natured harangue. Argument Argu-ment is rife on any theme from egg-laying egg-laying contests to whether the influence in-fluence of Ibsen Is permanent or evanescent Socially speaking, In Florida the whole is not equal to the sum of the parts. You cannot add St. Petersburg, Pe-tersburg, for example, to Palm Beach or Miami, because you cannot can-not add unlike things. Life among the Idle well-to-do at east coast resorts, as pictured in Sunday rotogravures, is a familiar theme. Sunburned beauties sprawling sprawl-ing under beach umbrellas; self-anointed self-anointed social queens in raiment that would discount Joseph's coat of many colors, being trundled along under the palms in an "afro-mobile"; "afro-mobile"; fleets of private yachts and comfortable houseboats at anchor; an-chor; gay race crowds or dancing groups under moonlit palms all these are well-advertised aspects of Florida winter-visitor life among those who, with many servants and mountains of baggage, move leisurely leisure-ly north each year, following the march of spring from resort to resort re-sort up and down the Atlantic coast Just the same, one finds at the principal resort centers like Miami and Palm Beach the finest sort of concerts and lecture series made up of world-famous artists and cultural speakers, and there Is an overflowing attendance. But in all America there Is probably prob-ably no group Just like the 150.000 or 200,000 fine type of farmers and small-town folk who visit St Petersburg. Pe-tersburg. It is an amazing sociological sociolog-ical phenomenon, peculiar to this unusual state. It Is worth contemplating. contem-plating. Here flourish 31 different clubs and societies, formed among tour-Itsts tour-Itsts from various cities and states. There are even clubs of Canadians and Scandinavians, half a world away from their homes. There are dance, dramatic, and sunshine card clubs; clubs of roque, croquet and shuffieboard players and a Three-Quarter Three-Quarter Century club, an of whose members are more than seventy-five years of age, , BlSVF-FtLY HILLS.-Woll m 1 know Is Just what 1 read In the pa-pers, pa-pers, and what 1 hear as 1 Bit around on a moving picture pic-ture set and ar-gue ar-gue about We are still lighting the football game over. There is not a soul in the World that dont think those Albanians Al-banians showed not only us, but them8eivs some football that they dident know they had in em. Stan ford was a much better team than the score shows, but there is something some-thing about that Rose Bowl that Just makes em do the wrong thing every time they get in there. They used to talk about deciding a game by the team that made the most number of first downs. Well Stanford in its three previous times in the Bowl had always made more than their opponents, oppo-nents, and sure enough they did this time, but somebody told em they maby could pass. Well they could, but they couldent get anybody to catch em but Alabama, and that wasent a paying proposition. They could march down the field through the line and could have till yet but they wanted to pass, and they did, right out of the picture. 1 tell you those old Southern boys come here tor the eggs, and they gathered em and went home. That Howell is a treak, and that old Hut-son Hut-son that caught em, he gathered em like Rabbitt Maranville on an lntleld fly. It was a great team, and they beat a great team. Stanford is much better than they showed there. They are always better than they show in the Bowl. TLcu too ilk ro Oicjj ftmuo the first touchdown, and the Coach must have felt pretty confident for he started pulling some of bis main men out, and before he could get em back in, the horses had been stolen. But the arguments will go on into the Winter. Well football dropped out on January Janu-ary the First and the old Senate and House of Representatives met on the third, so we ouly had one day of no amusement Mr Roosevelt delievered em a message that all the Country had been waiting for, but the trouble with messages Is conditions come along about a week or two after they are delievered and that almost makes the last messages null and void. Things are sure rambling tn this Country now, and whats radical today to-day Is Btand pat tomorrow. Course there was lots of kicking on the message, mes-sage, and lots in favor ot It You soe Its getting nard to please all these fellows now. This enormous relief is running into big figures and they are all anxious to know how they are to be met Never a time In our lifetimes was money as scared as it is now. Even during the war when folks were asked to shovel it out they dident hesitate, but then they felt that they were able to keep on making it but now there is a doubt, and they want to hang onto it as long as they can. We are getting two fairly well defined de-fined schools or thought on what Is ones obligation to another. Mr Roosevelt Roose-velt has a very liberal idea on the subject. He thinks that there has to be a more generous feeling toward those who are in need, and if it cant be arrived at by persuasion, he will arrange some other way of making each meet their share. He has done a lot in nia attitude to offset a communistic com-munistic feeling, tor if he did happen to lean to the more conservative element ele-ment there would be some Justification Justifica-tion of hollering for a more equal division, but with him doing ail he can, and still keeping within the bounds of fairness to all, why he offsets off-sets the old red. Its going to be an interesting session ses-sion of Congress. The question will be who is going to break over the traces. The Re- oubllcans are naturally nat-urally going to dig in. and do alt they can to save their old princt pies and theorys. Then there will be the plum locoed ones among the Democrats Dem-ocrats who will claim that Roosevelt Roose-velt has gone to far to the right There will be a dozet tactions, nd there will be things whore enough ot em can unite to offset any ot the Presidents plans. He is not going to have any cinch, there is three or tour hundred Democrats in there but there is two or three hundred kinds of em. I am hoping to get back and see some or the Games, t iove to sit up there in that old Seuate Gallery and watch em down there on that ten yard line fighting to hold those Seats. Well we are living In a great age aint weT Quite a Tew changes. I think you will see lots of folks offering to Play ball and glad or It that now think Its their bait so why 'should they have to tarnish It m dl- ' ne led k. , wo tomMr of cigar. ItN "u waen u .frt-Td ID8 the compiti V' the uJSSt ' "Pace Is i bainnZ' l dIting therui'M narethe,.. nart running t ers. Each tornedo' karate marine in itself. "'K Letters "SSiTnT" ments are the tln wordWi;;Tr "to wlf "that The word wS pronounced "mm, i relic of the d.H documents ln ten ln Lnn W9! 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