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Show i Tc WHOS HEWS THIS WEEK... By Lemuel F. Parton By LLMO SCOTT WATSON court The Supreme - ''eshasanememnJ t0 that her extent, rfJScW , Present suc-- i Rooseelt has reorganin ceeded L..a cS. ass&rss -- rTa .non by questiors. at course, important, the Black, Senator that lOO per cent ,, nearly much a!er, it is m0e, ' to a as country the most w U rt to hereafer as Black i Mr. be- - reasons why , aware of the LMimc job the to selected It is likewise Xfl per jear. the reasons to remember ' Black was selected when . balance T.Jies the eVji the Supreme court. that Mr Black duties next one of the gravest ever was set upon tps that court aiders of a Supreme of this handicap, Because because of the reasons lying tfU ;.w to me upon his appointment, I greatly .at Senator Black can never of a great great member his first instance, his record in covering a period of ten Le tale, has demonstrated to nse that he has a keen most mind, fact remains, and I think it "be disputed, the new justice has the poise which always of outstanding aa attribute s I hope he has the qualities him to grow and 31 enable te justice from the I hope this for the of the country as a whole and struc-;- ! re sake of the judicial But after our government. ung him as an independent I t over the last, ten years I would be unfair to those who these lines if I did not charac-Mr- , re a good as a Black's decidedly appointment, acre fact that nearly all observers and a very lumber of officials do not legal wisdom from the wtice is traceable more to the ons under which Mr. Black ed the honor than to Mr. u, the igton h himself. s examine the reasons that of Mr. Roosevelts selec-c- f Mr. Black. In tins case, as us ck cl lesser appoint-,- s the politics, the r ying objectives have not been sed anywhere. In order to the situation, it is neces-t- o review several years of his-cone line and it is likewise ary to examine various case e stayed with the President through thick and thin. He never was an exceedingly popular man among his colleagues. Add to this the capacity of using harsh language in the extreme and one finds that he was not the most popular choice among the senators for the job to which he has been elevated. From various quarters, therefore, I bave heard observations to the effect that Mr. Roosevelt appointed Senator Black with full knowledge of the facts I have related. He could and did slap at some members of his owm party for failing to go along with him on the court packing plan and some other New Deal legislation like the wages and hours program. He showed certain groups and cliques in the senate and house that he is boss. Then, ln selecting a man from the deep South undoubtedly the President figured it would be influential in pulling back to him some of the support which he certainly has lost among local politicians in the southern states. Views of this test of political strategy differ greatly, but whether he gaii.j or whether he loses on that score, there certainly is ground for belief that the reasons were as I have given them. There is also another reason for the appointment of Mr. Black. Of course, everyone realized that Mr. Roosevelt would name a man of New Deal leaning. Moreoever, everyone recognized that it would be strictly a personal appointment as far as the President was concerned. So the stage was set for appointment of a man of more or less radical tendencies but no one expected the choice that was made. Now, the senate long has operated almost as a high class group. Every senator considers his colleagues with great deference and respect. This is senatorial courtesy. Does it not seem quite reasonable then, to consider that Mr. Roosevelt went into the senate to pick a new justice with the full realization that the nomination would be debated in gentlemanly fashion; that senatorial courtesy would tone down the barbs and the darts and the personal attacks that would probably obtain if the name of a private citizen were submitted? I cannot know the Presidents mind, obviously, yet I have heard these conclusions stated so many times that they cannot be New Dealers wholly disregarded. consider the appointment clever from the standpoint of senate debate, and those opposed to the New Deal called it a smart trick. So there is very little disagreement. who of many the motives, un--n- d n Mr. Elacks career Out of this maze of senate. e certain Significant and definite conclusions more appear. s E the one side of the examina-fa- Senator Black d consist-supportm- g President Roose-heDeal programs where-M- d whenever he found them, te as well intolerance on his lor those persons and those "eats running counter to New Policies. Thirdly, we cannot ok various senate investiga-conducte- d by Senator Black 'e toow that m most of these s carrying out orders from the e House. That is, Senator Black in Kgaged of expeditions muckraking, and in by way of senate ln order that if there w need-exposu- k flashbacks someone 5 other than white would be in the cr.ticism. of 8 aside many of the BIacks personal turning to the other phase ation that culminated in j for the court, it must ,Mr- t2tPrTe - kn0Wmg Roosevelt had a sc'ccUr,S the PhaS revw aU al' requires ten N thaf'rf 6nt SUdden,y reorganize court the Supreme and rndke Provi-ar- t S1n for the ap- cesnfK,POlntment 0f SIX j'od an erarmnH Choosing- he us.!Pht in the Static - Party, sections iamo alienated of' South and at DemVded niany oId-f- time southern LCraiS CUld , Pooselelt 0T kslauon to not mean . southern n Wlth US n mdny that Say am-tO PP0S' ther a11 of turned bccause that The toren sen,.6 'ere Poss.bly a senator s hJ I, i equal 'nt ar-- 5lte J the South f repre- stiCK'ng by the at factC?tmUe l SUp' ho I! Pfopurtn n the re Ac'er. dees od.tinn i WlC-- i- "Or Etack as men- - open split among those I called attention earlier to the effect of the conditions under which Mr. Black enters May Solidify the court. I thmk of examination Court them' is vital. They are important for the reasons I have set down and they are important from another standpoint. It is pure conjecture, of course, but I am going to mention the possibility that Senator Blacks entry into the court membership may possibly create resentment among the other justices. Each of them will certainly know about all of the various undercurrents, the gossip, and the more or less obvious facts involved in the appointment I have been wondering then whether the other members of the court even liberal members like Justices Stone, Brandeis, and may not feel that Mr. Roosevelt has subjected them to undignified terms. I mean by that, is there not a possibility of them feeling that the President is seeking to gain decisions along his own line of reasoning rather than on the basis of justice and law? As I said, this is pure conjecture Nevertheless, I think it will be agreed that it is a logical thought, because the Supreme court justices, after all, are just as human as you and anyone else. Carrying this thought a little further, what will be the effect upon the old conservative members of the court like Justices McReynolds and Butler and Sutherland? Will they regard the Black appointment as a direct thrust at them personally? If they do, it seems to me the logical result would be to make them more conservative than they now are. I do not mean to imply dishonesty or unfairness to any member of the court. I know some of them personally and I respect every one of them. I merely call attention to these things as among the possible results in the appointment of a man to the Supreme court who may have been not the worst appointment possible but surely, all conditions considered, It was far from the best Politically, the Black appointment is likely to enter into the 1938 congressional elections. There seems no way by which the matter can be avoided as an issue. It is only through these elections of senators and representatives that the people can express themselves, and nearly everyone agrees now that the name of Justice Black will enter into numerous state and district political battles. Car-doz- Western Newspaper Union. SEPTEMBER morning 75 years ago. Through the streets of the little city of Frederick Md. marched a column of soldiers wearing the giay uniform of the armies of the Confederate States of America. Their commander was Gen. Thomas JJackson, since the Battle of Bull Ran as Stonewall Jackson. In Frederick lived a woman named Barbara Frietchie ninety-si- x years old. At the outbreak of the Civil war she had declared The Union of the States will be maintained. God takes care of His people and He will take care of this She had frequently country. repeated that belief. In a of divided city allegiances she had remained intensely loyal o the Union and as proof of her lovalty she frequently displayed an American flag from the window of her home. These statements can be accepted as facts, as matters Maryland, My Maryland! The of historical record. But main body camped at Frederick when you go beyond them, Junction, three miles south of you find yourself in a maze Frederick, but a large portion of the army, including the forces of fiction and fact, of assercommanded by Stonewall Jack-sotions and denials, of contramarched through the town dictions and controversy. All and camped at Wormans Mill, this has resulted from a poem two miles north. For three days Restored home of Barbara Frietchie in Frederick, Md. Shown written by John Greenleaf the Confederates reaiained in at the window with the flag is her grandniece, Mrs. Julia II. Abbott. and around Frederick. Then early Whittier which has taken its on the morning of September 10 were in the column which halted They fired no more, but passed on In place, along with Henry the army broke camp and began alienee, and she secured the flag ln tta in witof - ed n, Wadsworth Longfellows Paul Reveres Ride and AA'It) ill nt BARBARA FRIETCHIE Buchanan Reads Sheridans Ride, among Americas favorite patri- recitations. otic How much truth is there in Whittiers poem? Did the incident described in it actually take place as he has told it? If not, on what basis of fact does his poetic version rest? This article, based upon a varied collection of evidence and an evaluation of that evidence, is an attempt to answer those questions. Thomas to move west, marching out on West Patrick street which took them past the home of Dame Barbara. But "Stonewall Jack-so- n was not with his troops when they reached her home. He had left the line at West Second street and ridden up to the Presbyterian parsonage w'here lived the Rev. Dr. Ross. Under the door of the parsonage an orderly slipped this note: Regret not being permitted to see Dr. and Mrs. Ross, but could not expect to have that pleasure at so unseasonable an hour. T. J. Jackson, September 10, 18625:15 a. m. As he rejoined the column, which had halted, a sudden excitement broke out toward the rear. The word passed up along the line that an old lady was shaking a Yankee flag right in their faces and defying them to take it away from her. Order was soon restored and at the command Forward march! the long gray column filed out of towm. What Happened. It was not until some time later that Dame Barbara confessed to her niece, Caroline Ebert, what had happened. Her account of this incident was substantially as follow's: Early that morning some people had rushed up to her door and told her to get out her flag because the soldiers were coming. Hearing the tramp of marching men and believing that they were Union soldiers, she took her little silk flag from between the leaves of her Bible and stepped out on the porch where she began to wave the banner. Immediately an officer rode up, Granny, give me your saying reYou cant have it, flag. First of all, let it be recorded Dame Barbara, then noticthat Dame Barbaras name was pliedthe gray uniforms, she began Fntchie despite the fact that ing it more energetically than common usage has made Friet-rhi- e waving The officer spoke to his men ever. the accepted spelling. (It and they turned facing her. For a Freit-chi- e is occasionally spelled moment she beheed that they in Lanborn was She also). were going to fire on her, but caster, Pa., on December 3, 17C6, she continued to wae her flag. the daughter of Niclaus and Cathemwho had erine Zeiler Hauer, igrated from Germany to Pennsylvania in 1754. She was baptized on December 14, 17C6, and given the name of Barbara for her sponsor, Barbara Gamber. Niclaus moved with his family (his wife, another daughter, Catherine, and a son, Jacob), to Frederick, Md., in 1767 or 1768 and there Barbara Hauer grew in up. One of the great events to a according life, her early mw tradition, was visit by George Washington to Frederick in 1791. The first President spent the night at the tavern there and his dinner was served to him by the prettiest girls of the village, among them Barbara Hauer. According to the story, Washington was so impressed by her appearance and pleasant manners that he presented her with a beautiful china bowl which she treasured as long as she lived. a beau- -- her house and her Among them was Capt. Frank Myers, who asserted that he was the officer who forbade the soldiers to fire upon her. Three days after the Confederates left Frederick, Union troops commanded by Gen. A. E. Burnside, the advance of McClellans army, entered the city. Dame Barbaras feat was common talk among the citizens and when Gen. Jesse Lee Reno heard about it he called on the old lady, who showed him two flags. One of them was the small silk flag which she had waved at the Confederates and the other was a large cotton banner which she had, on occasion, displayed from a window in the attic of her home. Her Flags Preserved. She gave General Reno the large cotton flag and, after he was killed at the Battle of South Mountain the next day, it was sent with his body to his home in Boston. Later members of the Reno family presented it to the Massachusetts commandery of the Loyal Legion of the United States and it is still on display in the headquarters of that organization in Boston. The little silk flag is now in the possession of Miss Abbott who lives in the reconstructed Barbara Frietchie home in Frederick. flag-wavin- g. place, uhere it remained unmolested during the whole of the rebel occupa tion of the city. "StonewaU" would not permit her to be troubled. (3-- L 1 ninety-six-year-ol- d f h i three-quarter- b e than flag A' B See Elevator company, which he founded fifty-fou- r years ago, Is being dissolved and Its properties sold to Westinghouse. It Is hoped he now will have time to catch up with h!s letter writing. His son, Alva B. See, who has managed his business affairs recently, did not follow ln his fathers Mr. See first big turn ln the headlines came ln 1322 with his Insistence that, for the good of all concerned, we ought to burn down all the womens colleges. He was a vehement opponent of feminine education, beyond kriowing their A B Ca forward and backward. In support of this view, he offered the findings of his own research, which were that womens brains were, on the average, five ounces lighter than No college woman mens brains. can be a fit parent, he contended. He assailed pedagogues, and ell techeducational contemporary niques, writing and publishing a book called Schools, ln 1929, tn which he Insisted education should be under the guidance of men who have the intelligence to own and run a shop." He was a porcupine individualist, denouncing governmental parasites and and Betea Noir by hinting that Herbert Hoover ought Thouaanda to be examined Enrage Him for his sanity ln governing by commission. Cigarettes, high heels, extremes ln style, slang and a thousand other betea noir enraged him. pen-track- g first photograph of Vox Populi ever taken. They were a quarrelsome lot and we almost had to call out the militia, but you couldnt help liking them. flag-wavin- g vere-a- th ateel-rlmme- d n more Se. Justnowhls Hit Ceiling benevolent-appearin- Those who have doubled the Barbara Frietchie legend have asserted that "Stonewall Jack-sodid not pass her house and had no part in the incident, which is true. In the opinion of this writer the story as told by Dame Barbara to Catherine Ebert, preserved in Miss Abbotts booklet and substantiated by Confederate soldiers who were there at the time and by Union soldiers who heard of the incident three days after it happened, is more conatvincing than the statement tributed to Valerius Ebert. How, then, docs it happen that there has been and still is so much conBarbara troversy over the Frietchie legend? That is due to the inaccuracies in Whittiers poem but he is not so much responsible for those ately its accuracy was questioned errors as is Mrs. E. D. E. N. and in reply to a friend who wantSouthworth, a famous American ed to know if Barbara was a myth novelist of those days. Her part Whittier wrote: I had a portrait of the good Lady Barbara from m it came about in this manner: Catherine Ebert told the story of the saintly hand of Dorothea Dix, her aunts heroic deed to her cous- and a cane from Barbaras cotlivtage sent me by Doctor Steiner in, a Mr. Ramsberg, who was of the Maryland senate. WhethC. He D. in m Washington, ing turn told it to a newspaper re- er she did all that my poem to her, or not, she was porter and it subsequently ap- ascribed a brave, true woman. I followed a in newspaWashington peared the account given me in a private per. He also told the story to his neighbor, Mrs. Southworth, letter, and in the papers of the time. who w'as then living in GeorgeLater an article was published town, D. C., and she wrote to In the Century magazine denying Whittier at his home in Ames-burthat the poem had any foundation Mass., as follows: in fact and to this Whittier rearmy occupied Fred"When Lee erick the only Union flag displayed ln plied: Barbara Frietchie was the city was hcid by Mrs Barbara in good faith. The story Fritchie, a widow lady of ninety six written Such was the paragraph which was no invention of mine. It came years" went the rounds of the Washington pato me from sources which I retime Some last September. pers garded as entirely reliable. I had from friends who were ln Frederick at the time. 1 heard the whole no reason to doubt its accuracy story. It was the story of a womans then, and I am still constrained heroism, which, when heard, seemed as much to belong to you as a book to believe that it had foundation picked up with your autograph on the in fact. If I thought otherwise, I So here it is should not hesitate to express it. Mrs. Southworth then gave an I have no pride of authorship to account of the entrance of Lees interfere with my allegiance to army into Frederick erul their truth." official cod reception, quoting the Barbara Frietchie was stricken record that the town wore a with conpneumonia soon after the She churchyard aspect. of her ninety-sixtcelebration tinuedand died two weeks later, birthday Fritchie. Mrs Paibara taking on December 18, 1862. But If, as the one of the Union 1W1. went up to the d a garret winfamiliar song has it, "John top of the house. op dow, and held it fuith Th urrel army Browns body lies saw the flag, marchd up the sUcet ' Halt! Fire' in his grave, but his soul goes and tl p order was pi( n on" then it is equally a volley was disi harped at the window marching The flag from which It was displayed Barbara Frietchies that true so that the stafT was partly broken m her It In body lies flag drooped, the old latfy drew in Mount Olivet cemetery broke off the fragment, and taking the grave atlarhtd to It in Frederick. But the controversy stump with the dig s'lll herself as far ln her hand. s'rcUhid over her deed, as reported in could held she ac wirdow out of the t arms linglh. Whittiers poem, goes merrily on the Mir' an1 M'ir of a waving over lienr! rebels, and cried out even after drtd f Lintinn m a voice it is old herid, bens, this century. at tn. Fire Union our no Alonzo B. YORK. elevator man, has long been this readers favorite eplstolarlan. His letters to the newspapers caused more people to hit See a Lettera the celling than Make People dIi ht8 elevators. tax-eate- after-war- Then the officer rode on a short distance and returned wuth another officer. This officer said to her Give me your flag, Granny, and Ill stick it m my horses No, you cant have it, head. replied Dame Barbara, whereupon one of the s Micrs shouted Shoot her damne head off! The officer turned angrily upon him, saying If you harm a hair of her head, I 11 shoot you down like a dog!" Then, turning to the old lady, he said "Go on, Granny, wave your flag as much as you moment later gae please, and a the order for tne tuops to march on. Tins is the story v. h ch is given Friet-chi- e in A Sketch of Barbara a booklet written by Miss Eleanor D. Abbott, a great grandand it is niece of Dama Barbara, substantiated by the later testi soldiers who mony of Cf nfederae i' Garbled Versions. From this it will be observed that Mrs. Southworth had received from friends who were in Frederick at the time a garbled version of what had actually taken place or perhaps had reported it inaccurately herself in wnting to Whittier. She has Barbara climbing "up to the top of the house (something of a feat in itself for a woman!), whereas the testimony of is that the old elHe la a woman stood on her front porch. She has the Confederates firing derly gentleman, with at the flag, whereas their testi- spectacles and white hair, living mony is that not a shot was fired. in a nice house in Brooklyn, where Then Whittier, either relying on he has lived all his life, building the Southworth version of the his elevators and registering dissent. yarn or adding some imaginary This writer never caught himself details of his own, transforms Barbaras Fire at this old head agreeing with Mr. See ononanything, but hopes he will keep kicking then, boys; it is not more venerable than your flag into "Shoot, Most businessmen, when they get if you must, this old gray head angry about something, sluice it off but spare your countrys flag." in some dessicated chamber of commerce committee which takes all the Whittiers poem appeared in th out of it. Dissent Is too refined October, 1862, issue of the At- sap these days. I once got all the Letlantic Monthly. Almost immedi ters to tiie Editor" contributors at a picnic and published the y, An Old Maid. Despite Barbara Hauer's not seem ty, however, she does to' have been much sought after Frederick. by the young men of At any rate, in an era of early hers unmarriages, she postponed of maid old til she was an 1806, she was 6, On May forty. married to John Casper Fntchie, who was the proprietor of 14a glove years factory and, incidentally, younger than his bride. Shortly before the Civil war, when Dame Barbara was past her cousin ninety years of age, was installed Miss Harriet Yoner, in her home as a companion, probMrs. Kitty ably by her nieces, and Miss Caroline Hanshew As previously related, Ebert. loyDame Barbara was intensely Union. the to al Lee's Invasion. On September 5 Lee s army rossed the Potomac, singing front nessed KT EW 0 s Western Newspaper SENATOR ELLISON D. (COTTON of South Carolina still follows the cotton boll as his political lode star. Like other southern senators, he "Cotton Ed" has been shaken base by the re- Far Off-Bas- e cent Dpmocrat in Party Split split, but now he is out for the New Deal subsidy medicine, to keep excesses off the market. Seventy three year old Senator Smith, In congress 29 years, has a sizable cotton patch which was granted to his family by George III in 1747. In the senate, he has been the leading champion and defender of cotton. With his southern colonels blow-torcmustache, and his chivalrous defense of southern womanhood, he Is the most authentic survival of the dajs of Titch-forBen" Tillman. He walked out on the Democratic convention last year, because they had a negro speaker. He remarked, I dont believe in the Fourteenth or Fifteenth amendments. As chairman of the agricultural committee of the senate, he Is an important figure in the reshaping of farm legislation, to be taken into account in the new agrarian drive for subsidies. h k EBBUTT, Berlin J ORMAN respondent of the London x Times, loses his four year battle against Nazi opposition. The German foreign office Boot of Nazis asked the Times la Applied to to withdraw him and makes it clear Herr Ebbutt that, if this is not done, he would be expelled. This Is the culmination of continuous disagreement between Mr. Ebbutt and the Reich. The foreign office asked that he be replaced by a correspondent who will more nearly reflect the official version of the achievements of the regime." Mr. Ebbutt has written his own and not the official version of events in Germany. In 1933, Mr. Ebbutt was president of the Association of Foreign Correspondents in Berlin The day before the election which put Hitler in power, he wrote a dispatch in which he said many citizens were afraid to vote for fear of watermarked paper or invisible ink vh:ek would reveal tnem as oppositionists. This angered the Nazis and they demanded He sent another disretraction. his story. patch, substantiating Many times threatened with expulsion, he nas stayed on the job until now. C Consolidated New Feature. H.NII Service. |