Show roosevelt has never wavered follows path laid out in inaugural court clarifies rules of game by EARL GODWIN ASHINGTON will the supreme washington courts decision agal against force the new deal dea I 1 to abandon its principles will it now low have to content itself merely by a routine management of the government ern ment will roosevelt turn conservative at the next election many people believe so many people have ave declared the new deal Is dead many reactionary leaders are ready right now to mole moe into the white house without walting waiting for an election people iho hold bold that idea evidently look on the new deal as a sort of racket outlawed by the court because of some inherent dishonesty the fact Is the court did not touch on the motives of the new deal it merely restated the rules of the game game it did not say that child labor Is right that chiseling chi is right that the oppression of employees by employers Is right that forced working tor for six days a 4 week for ten hours a day Is right but it did say that it if congress wants these things corrected it must not depend on the white house it cannot delegate the lawmaking law making power to the president but must set up its nister own laws tor for the president to administer the new deal moves on now with the laws clarified with that in mind remember that roosevelt has never wavered from the path he indicated in his inaugural address ile he Is just as liberal just as progressive just as mindful of the forgotten man and the home builders as lie he ever was with the 04 court defining the road by which the new deal can proceed the next new deal platform will be a much more definite document than the one on chich the democrats ran roosevelt against hoover people know now cow what the new deal stands for and there have bare been definite nite signs of progress accomplishments in the first place the people were fed the false squeamishness that made in ade people shudder at the united states government richest in the world feeding its poor people has disappeared the reduced hours outlawed child labor stopped piratical price cutting increased wages and by these devices increased employment by three million men and women which hugh johnson first chief says Is more than will be employed by the big work relief program policies increased purchasing power 30 per cent which Is partly responsible tor for the increase in farm incomes this year isra Is looked on as a refuge for the men who work in factories labor looked on as its friend agriculture was closely bound up in the court decision may adversely affect fact AAA but not cot in principle merely as to the routine methods by which these new deal principles were administered now it is folly to assume that any political party will dare go to the people for votes on the mere fact that the court declared the new deal was handling bandling these beneficial principles the wrong way because in the first place by the time the next election comes around the new deal will have found the right way to keep up wages keep down chi selling guarantee decent hours safeguard the working mans rights one ode of the developments to watch Is the growing conviction that it if the constitution ution and the high court hamper the progress of social justice a change must be made there Is already a resolution pending in congress by senator costigan of colorado providing for an amendment to the constitution which would put the new deal right back where it was before the court decision it would give the federal era government the right to supervise business trade manufacture guarantee labor rights fair practice et etc it would be the amendment there are also a flock of bills in congress curtailing the power of the supreme court many liberals believe the veto power of the high court la Is a dang cri ous curtailment of liberty on the day the court wrecked representative e Monog ban of montana delivered a masterful speech on the powers of the supreme court taking the view that the court has in many instances destroyed liberty rather than granted grante d it this sounds revolutionary but it was also the view of thomas jefferson the elder la follette former senator owen of oklahoma and others a a s troublesome RADICALS I 1 hasten to say however that there Is no present strength that would permit a prediction that the courts powers are in danger of immediate curtailment but on the other hand band there Is plenty of indication that it if the social justice program of the new deal cannot be put through congress again because of ole constitution there will be a serious campaign to amend the constitution Roosevel ts greatest gr eanest trouble Is going 9 ai ng to be with the radicals this coun coull try ry Is not going to follow a conservative leader for some time to come put but roosevelt will have to keep his lock flock from running off behind every pled riper piper who offers more than the other fellow for a time in the next campaign it will look as aa it if the country were going to be sold to the highest bidder and where roosevelt will have to use and he be will every resource at his command to maintain his victorious following and their faith in his bis common sense humanitarianism people are likely to forget that the courts slap flap at was only one of several large happenings about that time on the constructive side of the new deal the american wheat farmers had just voted about six to one to continue the AAA wheat reduction contracts in the face of predictions from the opposition that the AAA would crash as h congress also 2180 extended the life of if the home owners loan corporation er congress po the 1 new do doal deal al de device v 1 c e edo to k keep e e p americans m e ricans from orn being r routed 0 u t f from r 0 m their homes by the sheriff under mortgage ga ge f foreclosures fore closures 1 0 s u T the ia now 0 w res ice ex has 1 0 0 0 0 0 m more or e credit red to 0 extend t e D d to distressed home owners it came just jost at the time too that the new deals work relief program started with its objective ot of jobs instead of the dole it will be a clever opposition leader who can hide bide these things from public appreciation the frazier lemke act outlawed along with was not a part of the new deal but the attempt ot of western liberals to help the distressed farmers who were losing their farms because they could not pay interest during the depression the act extended a five year moratorium on interest payments and scaled down prices so that farmers could redeem their farms at a reduction undoubtedly a drastic performance for mance and roosevelt believed it would never stand up in court cut but the idea of preserving tile the farm homes of the country Is socially r sound and this government will be asked tl by the farm community for help in some way sooner or later it if the farm debt cant be paid by bringing down the debt figures there will be a most de determined effort to produce a lot of cheap money by which the debts can be paid with less effort WHAT TRIPPED the case which tripped t the he was a quarrel that five new york city poultry men named Seh lecter had with the authorities because it was charged they were selling sick chickens in interstate ter state commerce rather a small matter to upset a whole governments government but the way things happen now the supreme court did not say it was 0 K to sell sick chickens it merely refused to say that the business ot of slaughtering chickens for distribution in new york state Is interstate business and it it Is not interstate business then the federal government has no control over it IL the court laid down a very narrow definition of 0 interstate ter state commerce one that Is going to cause trouble in future law making THE NEXT CAMPAIGN the suggestion that the constitution may play a part in the coming political campaign rampa ign does not arise alone within the ranks of the new deal A group of wealthy and powerful interests have been conspiring to spring a new political ical party to be known as the tion party on the voters this group Is ty typified pilled by the various power magnates by jouett shouse liberty leaguer by senator harry byrd of virginia by bainbridge colby wall street lawyer alfred E smith and by numerous republicans who see in a third party a chance to ruin roosevelt the main usefulness of a constitution party would be among southern voters the men who favor it think because the south will not vote republican again for a long time lt it ever the constitution party plot includes the poisoning of tile south against roosevelt after that has been accomplished complis hed the constitution party intends to put up a ticket of electors in each southern state there w would be no national constitution party ticket simply a chance to send electors from the south to washington to vote for a president just as was arranged for by the constitution but the trick la Is that when the electors arrive here they would all vote for the man whom the republicans ran as candidate for the presidency it is a gum shoe method I 1 of making the south vote republican without know it and Is about as crazy as they come and I 1 would not waste time on relating it to you were it not dot for the fact that it Is actually being plotted in high places it has gone so far that al smith blu himself iseff has been consulted lie gives the plan his blessing in private and refuses to be identified with it in public the constitution party would put forward a theory that the constitution Is being strained by the new deal when as a ma matter tier of fact that constitution Is bein being g by the progress of the nation the opposite view one which la Is being taken by a great many of the best minds Is that the constitution will have to be eased up a bit so that the trend toward uniform and national treatment of national questions can be undertaken by the federal government without question the same school of thought which believes all problems should be solved on a states baates rights basis was at one time quite positive that the federal government had no DO right to erect lighthouses on the coasts of t a state to guide and protect shipping to have maintained that idea in practice would mean that there would have to be varl organizations and dif ous lighthouse ferent coastwise shipping rules tor for each C coastal a atri 6 state t a t e A actually C dually states matter are die rights as 88 a practical appearing |