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Show THE PARE TWO News Review of Current Events the World Over I'resiclent Proposes Reorganization of Federal Jmlici aryt Increasing Supreme Court Justices to Fifteen Efforts to Settle Motor Strike. By W. PICKARD EDWARD Wattera Newspaper Union. tj PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT electrl-- ' fled congress with a surprise mes sage proposing sweeping changes in the jederi.1 court system which would allow him to pack the Supreme Court with Justices wtio could be expected to uphold the constitutionality of New Deal legislation. lie submitted a I draft of a bill to ac Uk "T complish this reor ganization. It pro vides: President 1. That for every Roosevelt federal Judge with a service record of at least ten years "continuously or otherwise" who fails to resign or retire within six months after reaching the age of 70 the President shall appoint another Judge. That the number of additional Judges so appointed shall not exceed 50, the Supreme Court being limited to 15 members, appellate and special courts to two additional members each and district courts to twice the present number of judges. 3. That of the Supreme of other courts Court and three-fifth- s shall constitute a quorum. 4. That the chief Justice of the Supreme Court shall transfer circuit and district Judges to Jurisdictions with congested dockets in order to speed up disposition of litigation. 5. That the Supreme Court shall be empowered to appoint a proctor to supervise the conduct of business in the lower courts. The President also proposed a reform In the injunctive process which he declared would expediate Supreme Court rulings on the constitutionality of legislation and would further insure "equality" and "certainty" of federal justice. He said frequent injunctions which set aside acts of congress are "in clear violation of the principle of equity that injunctions should be granted only in those rare cases of manifest illegality and irreparable damage against which the ordinary course of the law offers no protection." He asked that congress forbid any injunction or decision by any federal court touching a constitutional question without "previous and ample notice" to the attorney general to give the government an opportunity "to present evidence and be heard." His bill proposed that any lower court decision which involved a constitutional question be appealed directly to the Supreme Court, where it would take immediate precedence over all other business. New Deal leaders in congress were expected to back the President's proposals solidly, while it became apparent that the conservative Democrats might align with the eolid Republican group in opposing saw in the bill it The latter group a direct attempt to get rid of some ef the older justices of the Supreme Court who have proved continual stumbling blocks for pet New Deal acts. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, approaching 75, has voted sometimes to sustain, sometimes to Invalidate New Deal laws. Justice Willis Van Deventer, 78, has Invariably opposed New Deal laws; so have James Clark McReynolds. 75; George Sutherland. 75, and Pierce BuOer. 71. Louis Dembitz Brandeis, 80, has voted to sustain New Deal acts, except in the case of the NRA, rejected by unanimous decision. If the President is successful in putting ever the proposed changes it will be the eighth time in the 148 years of the Supreme Court's history that the number of justices has been changed. The largest number ever to sit on the bench was 10 from 1863 1868, and the smallest number 5 from 1801 to 1802. 2. two-thir- BROUGHT together by Gov. at the demand of the White House, representatives mt both sides in the General Motors strike were in al- an s t continuous jr conference seeking s a way to settle the I The controversy. was? corporation represented by Wil- - f h Earn S. Knudsen, . executive vice presJohn and ident, Thomas Smith of . t rf Art. u tog for the strikers William S. were John L. Lewis, Knndsen head of the C. I- - O.. Joha Brophy, its director, and Homer Martin, president of the United Automobile Workers. It was reported that at one time the conference was near collapse. Then Governor Murphy received a message from the White House saying the President expected a settle- jst 1 i.f ment .1 During an interim the governor said both sides wer in earnest and doing their best. Judge Gadola in Flint had Issued an injunction or&tring the strikers there to leave the plants. The sheriff served notice to the men and they Jeered him. They then sent to Governor Murphy a bombastic message to the effect that they would resist eviction to the death. The mayor, city manager and police chief of Flint, as serting the people were tired of strikes and violence, organized be tween 500 and 1.000 police reserves. The police chief warned Lewis he "had better call off bis strike if he doesn't want another Herrin mas sacre." A writ of attachment for forcible strikers expulsion of the was obtained by the G. M. lawyers. n MARITIME workers on the ended their long strike by accepting working agreements that had been negotiated in San Francisco and the 40.000 men returned to their jobs. Ships in all the ports, long idle, got up steam and prepared to resume business, and the ticket offices were thronged with passengers. Shipowners Issued a statement asserting the end of the walkout would mean a business revival for 1.000 industrial plants and 500 export offices up and down the coast of the Interior and the national resources committee of which he is chairman have produced a public works and national water program for the next six years. f v CMJ ! nnowa submit-- I I v, 1 . 'Vl ted to congress by , 3 President Roosevelt with the recommen y 43 dation that it should be adopted. It i n volves the expenditure of five billion dollars and calls for lumD sum annual Harold Ickes appropriations under the regular budget for a list of approved projects, and allocation of tho funds to a permanent public works or development agency. As the chief part of the plan, Mr. Roosevelt presented congress with a list of some $2,750,000,000 worth ol water conservation projects, including a $116,000,000 program in the inundated Ohio and Mississippi river valleys. In his transmission message the President warned congress against considering each project as a separate entity. The report, he said, "should, of course, be read in conjunction with the recommendations for highways, bridges, dams, flood control, and so forth, already under construction, estimates for which l ave been submitted in the budget." "During the depression," he told congress, "we have substantially increased the facilities and developed the resources of our country for the common welfare through public works and work-relie- f programs. "We have been compelled to undertake actual work somewhat hurriedly in the emergency. e "Now it is time to develop a plan and policy for construction to provide the best use of our resources and to prepare in advance against any other emergency. " The committee that drew up this program includes, besides M r . Ickes, Secretary of War Harry H. Woodring, WPA Administrator HarSECRETARY - flood-contr- long-rang- ry Hopkins, Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace. Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, Secretary ol Commerce Daniel C. Roper, Frederic A. Delano, uncle of the President, and Charles E. Merriam, University of Chicago professor. p ESPITE the warm opposition of Democratic Senator J. W. Bailey of North Carolina and others, including the few Republicans, the senate passed the bouse deficiency relief bill carrying an appropriation of $948,725,868. Senator Bailey spoke in support of his amendment which would require a means test or "pauper's oath," as some have called it for states, counties, and their political subdivisions to secure federal aid for their relie The requirements. amendment was rejected without a record vote. Out of the total allocated in the ork relief," bill for "relief and about $650,000,000 was expected to be given tr the Works Progress Administration. From this fund aid will be given to victims of floods in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys. "po theFINANCE for another year vet- social, security board, erans' administration and about thirty other federal agencies, the house appropriated one billion, forty - six million dollars. The bill, passed without a record vote, carried a last minute amendment providing that none of the funds appropriated should be available to pay for the expenses of any conThis investigation. gressional amendment was aimed at senate e investigation such as the La and Wheeler inquiries. - Fol-lett- TIMES-NEW- Thursday. February 11, 1937 NEPIH. UTAH S, FEVERISH work, day and night la- pick and shovel borers all down the Mississippi from Cairo appeared to have won the fight to save the fertile lands along the river from the great flood. But engineers warned that the danger of inundation was not yet over. However, most of the levees were holding and tho winds that bad been driving the waters against them were subsiding. About 200,000 i habitants of tho valley had been forced to abandon their homes, but the Red Cross and other relief agencies were caring for them. At Cairo an- - Hickman were plenty of coast guard boats and barges ready to rescue the people if tho embankments gave way. Floodwater from a break in the Bessie Landing, Tcnn., levee all but encircled Tiptonville. Tenn., and spread over adjacent thousands of acres. Backwaters continued to harass lowland dwellers in Mississippi and Louisiana but engineers retrained firm In the conviction the worst definitely would be over when the crests pass Arkansas and Tennessee. Harry Hopkins, WPA administrator, and other members of the special flood relief committee named by President Roosevelt went to the flood areas with the expressed intention of seeing that the job of caring for the refugees was well done. Mr. Hopkins indicated he was prepared to spend $790,000,000 the entire deficiency work relief budget-- tor flood relief if necessary. STANLEY HIGH, religious who has been prominent among the administration supporters, is out of Presidential favor. He has been cashing in on his closeness to the White House by writing for periodicals, and his latest article, entitled "Whose Party Is It?" in the Saturday Evening Post brought this statement released by Assistant White House Secretary Early: "The President announced the death of the 'official spokesman' in March, 1933. He now announces the authoritapassing of the tive spokesman those who write as 'one of the President's closest advisers.' " Though High was not named, Mr. Early 'eft no doubt as to who was DR. meant ITALY and Turkey settled their in conferences between their foreign ministers. Count Ciano and Dr. Tewfik Rustu Aras. Italy will participate in the Montreux convention which gave Turkey the right to rearm the Dar danelles, and Turkey is assured that Italian ambitions to possess Turkish Anatolia have been abanGa-leaz- doned. It was believed Mussolini consid ered the time ripe to make friends with Turkey, first allaying Turkish suspicions and' defining spheres of influence, in the hope Italy could woo Turkey from friendship with Moscow. State Rafael Cuba announced that Pedro Martinez Fraga had been appointed Cuban ambassador to Washington. He has been serving as minister to London and wil succeed Ambassador Guillermo Pat terson, who has been transferred to Mexico City. SECRETARY of of ot the Russian THIRTEEN tried in Moscow for plotting the overthrow of the Stalin regime were condemned to death - ? by the trial court r w-3K ! and theit pleas for mercy were reject ed by the presidium 1 of the communist executive committee. They were or dered shot within 48 hours after sentence was pronounced One ot the execu tioners said "they died like soldiers." Gregory To the surprise ol the world, four of Sokolnikov the leading defendants were saved from the firing squad, being sen tenced to terms of imprisonment These were Karl Radek, once noted journalist and Gregory Sokolnikov, former Soviet ambassador to London, given ten years each; and M. S. Stroilov and V. V. Arnold, or dered confined for eight years. The judges said these four men, while guilty of treason, did not actually participate in terroristic and wrecking activities. It was the belief of neutral observers that they had been spared in order to get their testimony against the scores of men still under arrest for participation in the conspiracy. f j Wn A. LINDBERGH COL. CHARLES birthhis thirty-fiftday in Rome, whither he had flown with Mrs. Lindbergh in their new plane. From the Eternal City they flew to Tripoli to spend a tew days with Gen. Italo Balbo, governor of Libya and himself a famous airman. Then they planned to continue to Egypt h 2 Ufa 1$ Short Life appears too short to bo Tho rUght of Spain. spent in nursing animosity or regCALIF. istering wrong. BEVERLY HILLS, task Love of money is the root of aQ of bloody but curiosity oft leads to evil; herself utterly destroying wickedness. Spain cannot complain that It you don't think you can she lacked for hearty try it anyway. Then you will Va on the part of some out why you can't. We believe in applying the mind of her sister countries. to art. culture and literature but of the half Openly or secretly, not every instant. Sometimes we contribgreat European powers are like to think of corned beef and uting to tho bloody cabbage. ruination, so that First Requisite finish tho when comes, they'll have If one can't enjoy his own comspoils or dubious pany he is doomed to many unpresUge or both and happy days. land that George Washington was famous, will bo burying but Imagine the magnitude ot his ground and a desofame If there had been newspapers lation. like those today. A fellow gets to When we practice good princiwondering why this it is extremely gratifying to ples or that government us as well as to others. chooses for an em blem some noble Irvla 8. Cobb creature when he turkey buzzaru or tho Ml . Washington. I have said in these columns many times that politics is business. If body desires proof any-Polit- Buaineaa that statement I think I am able now to offer the best possible evidence of the truth of that statement Lately. W. Forbes Morgan, treasurer of tho Democratic national committee, has demonstrated beyond tho shadow of a doubt what politics as a business actually means. He did so in tho recent announcement that the Democratic national committee would seek to build up a "war chest" of $10,000,000 that the vast New Deal party machinery can go on at top speed; that the momentum gained by the successful Presidential campaign of 1930 cat. be maintained and that the party can continue to function as a cohesive unit through which millions of voters may speak. It appears that Mr. Morgan will not succeed in getting anything like $10,000,000 together but it is very significant that he is thinking in termt so large as those mentioned in bis announcement It means simply that the present control of the New Deal party is determined to carry out to the nth degree the theory of its chairman, James A. Farley, only recently reappointed as postmaster general of the United ttes. Mr. Farley plays politics in exactly the same manner that he would engage in a business venture. He takes chances when the stakes are high, he knows his men, his workers, and moreover, he knows how to get the best results out of the material he has. His operations are not unlike the functions of a sales manager of a great concern he sells what he ha. to the voters and if any salesman fails to function, Mr. Farley looks for re- placements. We might Illustrate the Farley methods further by reviewing some of the methods he employed in the last four years. For, when it comes to raising money, the Democratic national committee, under Chairman Farley, is both businesslike and versatile. It jvill be recalled how whenever the pretext arose, the national committee Democratic sponsored such things as dinners to which the faithful partisans- were asked to buy tickets, usually high priced tickets, for an ordinary banquet It will be recalled also how elaborate programs ot the Democratic national convention were sold by the hundreds of thousands; how those programs were loaded to the gun whales with advertising of concerns that could not well refuse to buy advertising space; how victory dinners were given, and how finally the inaugural ceremony when Mr. Roosevelt took office was turned into a gigantic political rally that spread itself into every hotel in Washington that had space for great dinners and dances. These things are but a few which demonstrated the Farley versatility but they prove to my mind that if the Demnjifcajic national committee setsW Tbuild acup a real "War complish exactly Its objective. The committee set-u- p is the most pretentious yet attempted by any political organization. It has a large and exceedingly efficient staff of trained men and women and it runs like the well oiled machine that it is. It will cost money to keep that machine running at high speed, but Mr. Farley recognizes how elections are won. His philosophy is that the early bird catches the worm and so, although there is not another election for two years, the Democratic national committee is making ready for that election campaign right now. Unless the wise political students around Washington are badly mistaken, Mr. Farley wil know pretty well when the congressional and senatorial candidates take to the stump early in 1938 just what the last two years of the Roosevelt administration will be like. It goes without saying, that he will be prepared for them. chest,'ll In contrast to the circumstances I have just related, it must be to wit-O. P. ness the feeble, ost futile, efforts that are shown around Republican headquarters. Of course, old time politicians always say that a winning horse can be financed, never a loser. John D. M. Hamilton, the Republican naFEDERAL agentswereandled Missouri tional chairman, rode a losing by Rob rorse. He "came out of the race morert Kenyon, a twenty-year-olonic police character, to a thicket saddled with a gigantic deficit Defifourteen miles from Willow Springs, cits for losing political parties are where lay the body of Dr. J. C. B. not as easily financed as United deficits these days uuvis whom Kenyon had kidnaped States and so Mr. Hamilton is having his and allegedly killed before attempttroubles in that direction as well ing to collect $5,000 ransom. Kenyon confessed the crime and was rushed as finding any enthusiasm among Republican party workers. to jail in Kansas City to save him But that does not excuse the Refrom lynching. There he told a wild siory of one "r'ighthawk" who. he publican national committee nor Mr. Hamilton. After all, it is to be ifid, forced him to write the ransom note and then murdereo the remembered that approximately 13.000,000 voters cast their ballots doctor. tor the Republican presidential d about: 3 nominee. Governor Land on of Kansas. That is not small number, any way you examine it It is powerful segment of the American population but It is powerful only to the extent that Its leadership develops enthusiasm for the fight and capacity to take it on the chin when victory goes tho other way. Among the New Dealers who can be classified as sound politicians, there Is considerable regret at the failure of the Republican leadership to get going. President Roosevelt himself, would like to see more opposition because It would make his task jnucn easier and would prevent some of the unsound legislation from seeping through congress on account of a lack of opposition. Furg thermore, if there wert more Reso would be appropriless byena would bo publican fight there chance of splits In the Democratic ate. Fierce winters and devastating Democratic ranks In congress. leaders entertain very real fear of floods may be curing us here on this possibility and their fear is this side of the water, but at least the affliction based, as I have indicated, on the we have been spared neighfact that there is not enough oppo- of having for our next-doo- r sition among the Republicans to so- bors certain nations. lidify the Democratic strength. Kidnapers' Ransoms. all well enough to pass an IT'S From among the corps of politimaking payment of ransom cal writers in Washington, I hear to a kidnaper a criminal offense as much criticism of heartbroken parents would Criticize the Republicans though hesitate to pay ransoms to get are variously their babies back, no matter what Republican who described as being tho penalty for so doing might be! "dead on their feet" They are And can you see any American Jury certainly doing less than nothing. convicting those parentsT The auThey have allowed the Democratic thor of the law is no doubt national committee to carry the ball but there is another law, on every play; they have offered no called the law of human nature, publicity by way of criticism of New which most surely would defeat his Deal programs and they have de- purposes. veloped no plans at all for reviving By the way, a person who should the Republican organization or re- know what he's talking about tells to the workers. life party storing me that three out of every tour I am not saying that Mr. Hamil- known kidnapers during recent with ton is wholly to blame for this con- years have been records as repeated offenders. dition. He must accept responsibility, however, because he is the So, instead of trying to penalize titular head of the organization. It agonized parents for obeying a nawould seem, therefore, that unless tural instinct how about a snappy Mr. Hamilton awakens and shows little law to curb certain parole some fight there will be fewer boards which seem to delight in In the house or senate turning 'em out as fast as the courts Republicans after the 1938 elections than there can clap 'em in? are now. The national chairman of the Republicans, according to all Optimism De Luxe. discussion that I hear, sooner or LIKE the spirit of a gentleman to or I in New York who started dredgstart cooking later will have depart from the kitchen. Otherwise, ing operations in East river. He the 18.000,000 voters which the Re- set out to dig a minimum of publican party has as a nucleus In gold and silver from the will so to build become which upon ooze, and to date has salvaged 96 badly disorganized, so disheartened cents, two rusty frying pans and a imwill be and discouraged, that it penknife and is still probing. possible to reunite them. For gorgeous optimism I can Part of the Republicans' difficul- think of but one case to match this. ties are traceable directly to Capi- I was on the French Riviera one tol Hill. I simply cannot undersummer. They'd been shifting the stand why Senator McNary of Ore- railroad tracks along the Grand to as serve Republigon, continues Corniche. This left a disused tun-ecan leader in the senate when, in So, week after week, a beardthe opinion of most observers, he ed gentleman sat at one mouth of has failed to justify his title in any the empty bore with a sign over his way. It will be recalled that he did head reading: "This property for 's nothing in behalf of Governor sale." When I left he was still candidacy against Mr. Roose- there, waiting for somebody who velt Nor has he shown either the was in the market for a secondcapacity or the desire to carry on hand tunnel. as an opposition leader should carry on since the new congress convened. South American Explorers. RECENT years, those hardy Again, this is not the fault of Chairman Hamilton. Frankly, I adventurers who set forth to think it is the fault of the few Re- invade the last great unexplored publicans in the senate. If they had area, interior South America, seem any fight in them, or any faith in to follow a regular routine, to wit their party label, they would insist as follows: First They start off. upon a militant leadership on their Second They get lost side of the senate chamber, small as Third They are rescued. their number is. But wouldn't it save wear and tear and nervous strain if the rescue There are much greater signs of expedition went on ahead so it could fight among the house Republicans. get settled down in camp all nice They are trying and comfortable and be waiting for Signs of to make them-Fig- the explorers when they staggered selves heard, but in, exhausted from toting all those the preponderance tons of material for future lecof Democratic strength in the house ture tours? The modern discovcoupled with the gag rules which erer is gallant but apparently has have been applied without stint or no more sense of direction than an limit by the Democratic majority, and seemingly could get precludes Republican leader Snell lost on top of a marble-to- p table. from and his associates doing very Or possibly the tropic sun has an much for .their party in the house. effect on the human brain. Where senators have the privilege of addling Anyhow, since nearly always he unlimited debate, house members are allotted time and lately the time is in an intact state when resseem to indicate allotted to the Republicans has bee l cued, this would s of the Amainfinitesimal. That, of course, is one fiat the zonian jungles are now getting of the spoils of victory and the Demfussy about the types of heads they ocrats cannot be blamed for assertcollect their power. ing But the point of it all is that while The Charms of Music. Democratic Chairman Farley has to a medical his team on its toes, full of fight, ACCORDING samPennsylvania, to Chairman Hamilton go. ready of whisky, when subjected to has not even been vocal personally, ples sound treatment for sevmuch less has he been able tc stir aenmusical hours, produce a liquor which up fight among his associates. It equals one that has been aged in is a situation from which most anywood for at least four But thing may emeige. Mr. Hamilton why get excited about years. this? I've a was conand vote of given sought known certain brands of classical fidence by his ovn national committee shortly after the election. He music which, in one evening, have cannot say now that his hands are aged a grown man to a point where tied insofar as the authority of lead- he figures the present Christian era must be about over. ership is concerned. 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