Show QUOTES i COMMENTS ON CURRENT TOPICS BY NATIONAL characters THE constitution by JAMES BECK pennsylvania congressman IT THE HE great reality is that we JL are to today day a totalitarian socialistic state and differ in degree although not in kind from the governments of germany and italy it Is true that on rare occasions as recently in the oil cases the supreme court will remind the congress and the american people that a given law Is in violation of the constitution but such occasional decisions are merely the bubbles that rise to the surface when the swimmer has sunk for the last time beneath bene illi the surface of the waves the fact Is that our constitutional form of government Is as the titanic was when it was ft as struck by a submerged lee ice floe I 1 our conati constitution aution has suffered a like wound but it could still be kept affolt if the captain and the crew by which I 1 mean the american people were willing to defend their constitution at all hazards and to make any sacrifice necessary for that purpose of that disposition posit lon I 1 can see no evidence TREND TOWARD liberalism by JOSEPH P DAY neal heal estate developer HETHER we are trending ato WHETHER to a state of communism communism or a state of extreme conservatism I 1 cannot tell but it does seem to me that we are certainly shifting in the direction of liberalism or in the tha direction of socialism and wo we have to be prepared to take matters as they come if that be true it certainly does indicate that for the man at the bottom of the heap the next nest 40 years will surely be easier but for the man who wants to be on top of the heap and to accumulate and particularly to hold on to millions things will be much much harder it seems to me that the future will give reward to the man who produces some useful thing by dint of hard work but it does not promise nearly so much for the man who relies on accumulating a fortune by pure speculation LABOR TROUBLES by nobert F WAGNER U 3 senator from new york HE national labor relations THE bill does not encourage any employee to join any union against his will it does not favor any special form of unionism it does absolutely nothing to disturb in any state the now existing law cs as to the legality of the closed shop it does not compel agreements nor dictate their terms it does not legalize any strike which Is now illegal it does not vest the labor board with arbitrary power but merely authorizes the issuance of orders similar to those of the federal trade commission and a host of other administrative agencies all of which are enforceable and fully in the federal courts the bill confers upon workers those rights which employers now enjoy FREEDOM OF THE PRESS by HAROLD ICKES secretary of the interior I 1 WOULD like to say that no man here would go further than I 1 not only in protecting but in fighting for the right of a free press and by the same token I 1 hope that every man here would go ns as far as I 1 would in insisting that those equally valid and vital rights of free speech and free assemblage be given their full intendment your right to publish within the limits of the truth whatever y you 0 u may please about me ma la Is no g reater greater than my right to say again within the limits of the truth whatever I 1 may please about you and my right to libre a hall or go on the air in n order to express my opinion about you Is not Infer inferior lor to your right to print freely about me REPLACING TAXES by SIMEON 9 LELAND professor ot of economics N SOME communities it has I 1 IN been necessary to replace property taxes with poll taxes special assessments and special charges for police protection sewage disposal garbage removal street lighting and the like some of these are more of a nuisance than an advantage and have taken in a new and often inequitable manner many of the savings from limitation plans the new expedients affect various groups differently many taxpayers in the end may find themselves worse off than they were before some may get an undeserved benefit but those people who profit by the change are not always the small property owners in whose behalf the limitation schemes are allegedly proposed BRITISH AMERICAN UNION uy by VISCOUNT HAILSHAM british war minister ITH britain and america in WITH wco operation cooperation co no other country or countries in the world would attempt to disturb the peace of tin world in a closer understanding between britain and the united states we have it a perfect solution for the problems 0 01 peace and war thit beset this distract ed world today alere you have the surest assurance of the peace of the world servalo ser vicle lo |