Show QUOTES COMMENTS ON CURRENT TOPICS BY NATIONAL characters RESILIENT constitution by HENRY P FLETCHER PLETCHER chairman republican national committee 0 OVER VER a year ago president roosevelt spoke lightly of our constitution as resilient now that it Is shown that it cannot be stretched to cover the socialistic politics of the new deal the issue becomes clear either the constitution must give way to the new deal or the new deal must give way to the con ution the president has solemnly sworn to preserve protect and defend the constitution but his political dreams and desires are embodied in the new deal he was at the crossroads on oil the last of may he could then have reaffirmed his devotion to our funda mental law did he he ile did not he ile clearly his preference for hia his new deal which neither he nor any one else had sworn to preserve pro hect and defend and which was never heard of until after his inauguration the new deal seeks to pervert or subvert the constitution we stand ready to meet this challenge AMERICAN hostilities by GENERAL SMUTS south african minister of justice I 1 IT T IS possible the british may be able to keep out of this so far as europe is concerned but a great conflict in africa on the borders of british territory must have serious repercussions on british territories in africa such as Sud anand egypt there Is no doubt in my mind that an invasion of ethiopia by italy will arouse anxious feelings all over africa between whites and blacks we have seen what effect the busso russo japanese war had in raising feeling between eu rope and asia and this ethiopian ad venture by italy may be most far reaching in its effect on the african mind the african does not look upon the european as an enemy but this trouble may raise intense racial and color feeling and make the position ol 01 the european much more difficult it may spread all over the african conti nent you may find that every african will sympathize with ethiopia SOUND TAXATION by DR NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER president of columbia university IF TF A tax be fairly and equitably JL levied upon india individuals I 1 and undertakings in accordance with their ability to pay and with the lowest possible exemption to the end thai that every one who votes tor for those who are to spend public money shall be tax conscious and therefore quick to resent and rebuke governmental extravagance i we are on sound and wholly defensible ground when however the power to tax la 14 used for the purpose of punishing in divi duals or groups or for the purpose of effecting whether consciously or unconsciously economic social or po revolution then every principle which the american people hold most dear is under attack and in danger of fatal damage or overthrow CLOSING THE SUEZ by GEN SIR HENRY PAGE CROFT member of british parliament THE HE lighthearted manner in JL which some suggest that the suez canal should be closed to italy displays an irresponsibility which appalls me for they can only intend that the british fleet should be used for this purpose there Is no othel other naval power capable of such action italy would of course fight the pm power er which thus attempted to cut off her armies from their supplies just as britain would fight if any power in the world so abused its position as to at tempt to close that free waterway to british shipping by amendments CULLY A COBB AAA official the good offices RECENTLY of the constitution have been invoked as the chief weapon of the opposition AAA program but certainly no one can subscribe to the doctrine that the constitution Is a document which was intended to pre vent us from doing anything at all about anything at any time if it turns out that agriculture cannot have equality with other groups as the con ution now stands then as a mat ter of justice to say nothing of na lional security there must of course be such amendment as Is necessary to render it an instrument of the living present instead of a thing of the dead past PASSING THE BUCK by WILLIAM E BORAH U S senator from idaho E HAVE bills pending and WE which will likely be passed that will call for heavier expendi expends tures than the tax bill will provide tor for there Is nothing more conducive to waste extravagance and economic de moralization than the unconscionable system of passing expenditures over to our children and our children s cbill dien then in the kay of bonds and Inte interest resL NN NU service |