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THIS WEEK
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iNews Review of Current
f -mmrr
Events the World Over
Nobody Wa* Frorr n
One Strike Subaide* “
The Emperor Has Lions
1,000,000 Tiny Pigs
SerersJ bar* written to this eotama
offering to let themselves be “fraxeo
stiff and then ra
mmed to life* to
the interest of sci
ence. as suggested
by a Los Angeles
chemist. R. S. Wil
lard. They will be
nrrj to hMr.
the American Med
ical
Lobby Committees Quarrel Over Magnate Hopson—Presi
dent Signs Social Security Act—Tri-Power Confer-
• ' * • V '
ence on Italo-Ethiopian Question.
—-k
\
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
V
e w.
ILL ROGERS, famous actor and-
hamorist, and Wiler Poet, one
W
ef the best known filers In the world,
crashed to their death in a plane while
flying from Fairbanks to Point Bar-
row, Alaska. The two men. close
had been enjoying an aerial
association 11 ! trip in the North, and Pogt.
Ur wntarrl** later to fly to Asia. Nesra of
j. .jtfrrx xlnr the fatal accident waa tent to Seattle
.net'd fr«dDf . br stJJllbr Mo ^ -gMl
lard of freezing a ** id ** h * d «« T «ed the bodies from
the wreckage.
T“.,
deed monkey and
then soh^timtiag a
lire one. supposed
to have been frozen and thawed onL
Doctor Fishbein. editor of the Amer
ican Medical Association Journal, says,
anybody frozen stiff woold sorely die.
It waa an Interesting yam while It
W _ ^ m
lasted.
New York’s strike of onion men
•gainst President Roosevelt. General
Johnson and the WAP (“Works Prog
ress administration'*) seems tempo
rarily to hare collapsed. Mr. Meany.
New York labor leader, said ail onion
men won id go oet and stay ont and
nonunion men woold follow. The news
la that the nooanion men did not fol
low, and the anion men went back
•d work.
Robert Moses of the park depart
ment. who employs 25,000 workers on
park projects, reports only 110 de-
•ertera
An interesting photograph from
Addis J-haha shows two servants of
the Ethiopian emperor, riding on Ilona
one female, one male. In the palace
garden. The emperor's lions are
trained In this fashion for ase as
•watch dogat Too can easily be-
Bere that intruders “keep oat."
For war parposea however, lions are
pot particularly valuable. Tear gaa
and deadly poisonous gas would din-
courage the liona as they would men.
and lions cannot Jump as high as an
airplane. 1
c x
v-i i
In Chicago’s stockyards half the bog
pens are closed, prices are soaring,
men have lost joba all for lack of
hogs to posh around and botcher. The
yards are suffering.
And only a little while ago an ear
nest government, determined to help
the farmer and promote prosperity,
was batcbering tens of thousands of
•farrow sows* to get rid of them be
fore their little pigs could be born.
•Too many little pigs will make too
many big plga” said the government.
Too can imagine the ghost^\of a mil
lion pigs floating over the stockyarda
squeaking In their baby voicea “We
told you so.'
R IVALS in the matter of publicity.
the bouse and senate committees
on the activities of lobbyists got into !
a tangle that certainly didn't enhance
their dignity. How- j
ard C Hopson, the j
long sought head of
the Associated Gas
and Electric Utilities
system, permitted the j
emissary of the house
committee to find him,
and Senator Huso
Black flew into a rase
and had his committee
threaten Hopson wi r h
contempt proceedings
H. C. Hopson cn j^ 5 j ( appeared be
fore IL Chairman OConpor of the
boose body was angered by this an 1
declared: “Hopson is In my custody.
I've got him. Nobody else has got
him. Nobody else la going to get
him."
The elusive, chunky utilities mag
nate told the house committee about
f M(* various companies and related the
saga of his travels while he was be
Ing sought. But he politely refused toan-
swer questions concerning the sources
and amount of his income. He tes’l-
fied that f»e “believed" the Associated
Gas system had spent “eight or nine
hundred thousand dollars" In opposi
tion to the Wneeler-Rayburn utility j
control btlL
That’s just a small fraction of the
fSOOXOO.CCw equity ip our companies j
which would be destroyed If the bill i
becomes -law and remains law,' he de
clared. I
To one question by Cox of Georria j
Hopson replied: “I resent that In
quiry. No gentleman would have '
asked It." Whereupon Cox threat- j
eced to kick him out of the room on- ,
less he withdrew the answer, and Hop-
son mildly withdrew it/ : amount to a
. O'Connor Introduced in the boose a so that he
resolution that severely s:ammed the
senate, but it dropped when Word came
that Senator Black would wait to take
Hopson after OCoanor’s bunch
through with him.
of the population against 100 per cent
of the hazards and vicissitudes of bfe
but we have tried to frame a law
which will give some measure of pro
tection to the average citizen and to
bis family’ against the loss of a'Job and
against poverty-ridden old agcf.
This law, too. represents s' corner
stone la a structure which is being
built bat is by no means complete—a
structure intended to lessen the force
of possible future depressions, to ict
as a protection to future administra
tions of the government against the
necessity of going deeply Into debt to
furnish relief'to the needy—a law to
flatten out the peaks and valleys of de
flation and of Inflation-Tin other words
a law that will take care of human
needs and at the same time provide for
the United States an economic struc
ture of vastly greater soundness."
the Methodist Episcopal cborcb. the
Methodist Episcopal church. Sooth,
and the Methodist Protestant eh arch
have been in session la Evanston, ITL.
and have agreed upon a form of
-thet is to he aohodtt^* twAhe
conferences of the three churches and,
if ratified by them, to all the .annual
conferences. The new organization,
it was agreed, would be called the
United Methodist church and woold
consist of six jurisdictional or regional [
conferences. '
F ARMERS who believe (hat their
individual rights are being en
croached upon by the adaiinistration'a
agricultural policies are offered a
chance to get together by the organi
zation and incorporation ia Chicago of
the Fanners’ Independent Connell of
America. Dan D. Casement, a fanner
of Manhattaa. Kan. is president of
the body. Stanley f. .Morse, South
Caroline farmer and consulting agrl-
Washington!
Piaest
National Topics Interpreted
By WILLIAM BRUCKART J|||||pi|
Washington.—Wj)lle two congres
sional committees have b<<en seek ng
newspaper publicity
Legulation for themaelvMi In
promoting Investlga-
LoW ”" Uens of legislative
lobbies, the Fedeiral Trade Commission
has quietly taken the position that
v.«vu.u« * , 'legislative activities" onther>art fl ^
culturist, is executive vice president --Individuals or business ‘® ter . p
not so- ba<L. r Strangely enough, the
heretofore has been la-
and Chris J. Abbott. Nebraska stock-
man and farmer, and Clyde O. Patter
son. Ujlnois Jersey breeder, were In
corporator*. Dr. Charles W. Burkett,
agricultural authority of New York
and formerly director of the Kansas
agricultural experiment station, and
L. G. Tolies, farmer and past master
of the Connecticut State Grange, are
other vice presidents of the council,
and Dr. E V. Wilcox, representative
commission
beled as rather radical but In this In
stance it has taken a mnch more con
servative’ view of efforts of private
citizens to protect themselves than
have the members of congress.
The commission made known its po
sition In only one case, but the under
standing Is that It represents a view
of a majority of the commission r»em-
of the Country Gentleman. District of b»ra and thai in—all probability there
land. Premier Pierre Laval, of
France and Baron Pompel Alolsi of
Italy met in Paris, as arranged, to see
If they couldn’t de
vise a way to avfrt the
Italo-Ethiopian war.
due to begin in Sep
tember. Eden had a
plan all prepared and
after outlining It to
Laval he* laid it be
fore Baron AloisL The
latter, of coarse, had
no power to assent
but was compelled to
submit the proposals
to Premier Mussolini.
Columbia, is secre r ar> treasurer; Fred
L Crawford. Michigan coogtvss
man and farm owne-; E M. Dorsett
farmer and past n aster Penofylvania
Slate Grange, and Kurt Gre-mwald,
farm manager and arricair^r d engi
neer. New York, are directors.
To me there Is bat one Issue,
whether we are going to have a con
stitutional government or have a dicta
torial regime," said Charles E Col
lins. Colorado cattleman and president
of the American National Live Stock
association, regional vice president of
the new organization. j
Baron Alois!
War talk continues. Mussolini an
nounces a new air weapon ''over
whelmingly powerful." but does not
say what It la. Plain TNT and poison
gas are powerful enough.
Hitler, announcing that his country
Is “ready to meet any outside peril."
adds: "No power on earth can attack
us." That seems a little overconfi
dent. .
A prosaic financial telegram suggests
that the public debt of Germany haa
However. It gave .
opportunity for a ^iiculous quarrel ;
between the New Yorker awd Rank n
of Texas.
Late in the day Hopson calmly
walked Into Black’s committee room
and asked: “Is some fine here look i
Ing for me?" Black and his committee
then questioned the utilities man for
sn hour or two and got ^mighty little
out of him except smooth sarcasm that ^JOBODY liked the new tax
made the chairman quite furious: At j that congress waa w
That II Duce would accept It without
change was cons.dered unlikely, but it
formed a basis for discussion.
According to the best information,
the Eden plan embraced these chief
points: #
L Important economic concessions
for Italy In Ethiopia.
2. A proposal that Italy be given
the right to colonize and exploit rich,
sparsely Inhabited portions of the
Ethiopian uplands probably under a
League of Nations mandate as is pro
vided for former German colonies in
article XXII of the League of Na
tions covenant.
3. The offer of an outlet direct
to the sea for Ethiopia, as a measure
of compensation for its concessions.
It was understood in Paris that
Mussolini still demanded what would
mandate over Ethiopia
ould have political as
well as economic control over the coun
try. This Great Britain does not like,
and France ia rather on .the fence.
The British Insist that in. any case
there must be an Immediate show
down. One correspondent said If
Great Britain adhered to the policy at
which Eden hinted in his conrersa-
’tion with Laval, it would mean either
dissolution of the League of N'ai.ons
or else collective 'aaiictions against
MuasoLini. involving the risk of a Eu
ropean war.
Waliaca
S ECRETARY of Agriculture Wallace
has changed his mind about the re
stead of asking the farmers for a cut
of 15 per cent, as was
announced recently,
the figure is now
placed at 5 per cent.
Wallace told report
ers that the change
was decided upon after
the government's Au
gust 1 survey of crop
conditions indicated
.that total wheat pro
duction this year
would amount to only
0OEOOO.OOO bushels as S * c ' y
compared with domestic requirements
of 635.000000 bushels.
The step was taken, be asserted, to
assure smple supplies for domestic
consumers. He said that it fu* **-
peeled to place the country Id a
“strengthened position" in the export
market. He added the change in pol
icy will not result in any marked re-
juctfon in benefit payment to farmers.
He did not say what the exact reduc
tions in the payments would amount to.
AAA officials estimated that approx
imately 52.000.000 acres would be
placed under contract this year. They
asserted that the government Is given
“adequate powers" to deal with the
situat.on If a bumper wheat barvcri*
should result in 1306.
made the chairman quite
that time both Hopson and'his attor
ney had
citation.
been served with contempt
iOY. MARTIN L DA VET of Ohio
r has “pulled a fast one" on the
been increased by 20.000000.000 . Republicans in behalf of the Dqipo-
marka. That might represent an Interior
enemy of considerable proportions.
Uncle Sam, with all his spending,
make* a little something for hlmselt
His money-issuing privileges, paper
dollars worth about 50 cents: and
Mirer coins containing leas than half
their value in silver, have given the
treasury a profit of about *3,000.000,-
000.
And at this moment it d -es not ap
pear to have hurt anybody. W«ho un
derstands money? „
Stocks are better, prices higher, in
London and In Wall Street. The Lon- j
don Dally Mall »ayi: “A stock ex- -
change bo^m seems to do more tor
world trade than anything. The rea
son Is that it gives c^nfilence every
where.’’
Stmage anJ powerful Is “confl- O
deree." You cannot fee It. feel It,
weigh it, but you can easily destroy it
cratic party. The G. O. P. leaders
were demanding a state-wide by-elec
tion in Ohio to fill thg vacancy era- |
ated by the death of Representative-
at-Large Charles V. Truax. believing
the result woold demonstrate, even
more clearly than did the Rhode Is
land election, the waning strength of
the administration. But Governor Da-
vey went to Washington and consult
ed with President Roosevelt and then
announced that he would not call and
could not be compelled to call a spe
cial congressional election uc:i. next
year His declared reason was the
cost, not-fear of party defeat. Court
action to force the calling of the elec
tion
there Is no restriction of hi* discre
tion in fixing the time of the ejection.
bill
orking on.
and the senate finance committee had
hard work making up its mllKi aa to the
form it would recom
mend. First it altered
almost every provision
of the bill passed by
the boose add chanced
U from a “soak the
rich" measure to one
which would soak
practically every one.
This was done by low
ering personal income
(ax exemptions and
starting the surtax in-
S * nato ' Bonh creases st *3.000 In
stead of *50.000. The litter feature was
proposed by Senator La Follette and
was adopted to keep him -in line. Also,
the inheritance taxes which President
Roosevelt had asked for were eiinri-
nated.
Protests against increasing the taxes
on little incomes came Immediately,
W HEN the President’s -social se
curity bill was finally enacted in
to Law, the senate adopting the confer
ence report already agreed to by the
will not be quch fuss or furore again
respecting the efforts of private citi
zens to engage the attention of their
elected legislators when their pocket-
books are in danger.
No such attitude Is In evidence at
the Capitol Certainly, no such evi
dence has been given by Alabama's
Senator Black and his senate investl-
gatlug committee. The house'Investi
gating committee, under the chairman
ship of John J. O'Conner of New York,
has not been quite so ferocious but it
has not overlooked opportunities to get
on the front page of newspapers when
ever possible.
The two congressional Investigations
have come to be regarded bv Washing-
ton correspondents largely as farcical.
I reported to you some weeks ago that
the probable result of the congression
al investigations would be the smear
ing of many men of wealth and the
exposing of any shortcomings of cor-
porationa"Cn which the committees
could lay- their hands. That has been
the result to date and the^utlnok has.
been changed. As far as anyone
can see now. neither committee Is go
ing to adduce any evidence or testi
mony that will be helpful in the fram
ing of legislation—that Is 'the basis
upon which congressional Investiga
tions proceed and It is the only basis
in law they have for such inquiries.
In support of the assertion that
there Is much publicity sought, one
needs only to reflect on the circum
stance of those two committees en
gaged in a battle to obtain the testi
mony of Howard C. Hoj>son, the big
shot of the Associated Gas and Elec-
txisTPmpany. Mr. Hopson has been
sought to give testimony respecting his
company's lobbying activities and was
looked upon by the chairman of each
committee as a star witness—a star
because he Is one of the biggest men
to the utilities field and therefore good
headline material
We here in Washington saw the
spectacle of subpoena bearers from
each committee chasing through the
streets In a race to hotels where Mr.
Hopson was reported seen. The elusive
Mr. Hopson was not discovered In any
of the three hotels where rumor said
he was quartered. Then rumor got
busy again and a process server raced
•ion deals with literally thousand* ©i
Individual bnslneasea each year. It
has Jurisdiction to order elimination
of unfair trade practlcea and to expose
Just plain cheating In private bastness.
Therefore, the commission may be said
to have a vital influence on the Uvea
and businesses of those whose opera
tions may be characterized as small
and Important only .in small commuW
ties, as well as on the great masses
of capital and national trade associa
tions. Since the commission has shown
a willingness to consider the rights of
Individuals to foster their own Inter
ests, some observers believe that Its
prestige will be enhanced and that we
may find In the future that the com
mission will be a popular government
al unij rather than one which bosiness
looks upon with fear. N
4 v . •
Throughout iue KooeeveTf admin is-*
tratlon we have observed almost dai#
announcements that
Executive
Order »
house, probably many thousands of
men and womea al over the country * ftidlywer the Virginia roads'to” the
began figuring oa the pensions they Sfi® of Attorney Patrick J.
would receive under Us terms. It is
nnlikeiy that one in - a thousand has
any clear idea of bow the new pro
gram's pension system will work, so
we reprint here a neat summary pre
pared by the Associated Press show
ing its operation as applied to “Bill
Jones": >
“Suppose young Bill Is twenty when
the law goes Into effect sod makes an
average monthly salary of $K*} until
be is sixty five. He win get a monthly
pension, until his death, of *53.75.
“In detail, here ia what will happen
to him: '
"In the calendar years 1937, 19.&
and 1939 be will pay a salary tax. of
T pear rant or I ntal of *36 for the
Hurley, who waa -secretary of war In
President Hoover’s administration and
who has served as attorney here for
the Associated Gas and Electric com
pany at times past It turned out that
Mr. Hopson was not at the Hurley
home and the faithful process server
was forced to return empty handed.
• • •
Bat to get back to the Federal Trade
Commission. Its position may yet be
^ regarded as deter-
Oehcate minable only on the
Question merit of »» Individ
ual case or circum
stance. That Is to say the commission
probably dias not condoned sharp prac
tices In tnb relationships between pri-
tbree years. In 1940. 1941. 1912 be will
pay 1H pra cent, or *54. In 1943, 1944. vate business and official agencies,
and 1945 the tax will be 2 per rant-hr {
the President has l
done this, that or
the other thing “by
executive order." In the rush of legis
lation designed to help us over the
emergency In 1933, executive orders
came thick and fast. No one thought
a great deal about them. It was un
usual for them to emerge from the
White Hpnse In such numbers but I
believe It was the general desire to
forget the precedent that was being
established, numerically at least, in
the issuing of executive orders because
of the acute conditions in the country.
—Subsequently, attention was calledP
officially to the great number of these
orders and that they had. the force and
effect of law. It was the more Impor
tant because the Supreme court 6f the
United States called attention to the
facts. The court digressed far enough
In a weighty opinion which It rendered
to suggest that It was impossible for
the average individual to know what
these executive orders contained; what
inhibitions or prohibitions were pre
scribed and what rights. If any, a citl-
ien had left
The American Liberty league, which
is addressing itself consistently to
analysis of governmental affairs, in
forms me that between March 4. 1933,
and the end of July, 1935. Mr. Roose
velt issued more than one thousand
two hundred and fifty executive orders.
The league offices also say that this
is a greater total than the number of
executive" orders Issued over the pre
ceding 10 years.
Some fifty new agencies and addi
tional branches of existing agencies or
departments have been created by the
simple expedient of an executive order.
These new agencies have embarked
upon all sorts of projects, never even
discussed at the time of the enactment
of the law under which they were 1»
sued.
• • •
In addition to the executive orders, k
Is claimed that something like twenty
thousand administra-
Ordert Upon tlve orders have been
Ordert issued by officials of
various Agencies
whose sole legal basis for their sets'
was an executive order signed by the
President
"The examples of executive orders
which have been cited show clearly a
usurpation of legislative power," the
league commented in a statement Is
sued the other day. “By no stretch of
the imagination can many of these or
ders be regarded merely as ministerial
acts In execution of laws, enacted by
the congress. Policlei are Involved
which under the principles of democ
racy should be passed upon by the con
gress. members of which' reflect the
varying viewpoints of citizens of dif
ferent areas and schools of thought
So long as the judgment of the entire
membership of the congress is applied
to Important questions a balance will
be maintained In the public Interest It
URROUNDED by a group of not-
Fove’y woman, led by Paris fa?h-
lo* designers. 1* still trying to find
out what she really wan ? s. Universal
Service dispatches from Paris describe
•dresses as transparent as lace cur
Ons from the knee down; skin-tight
tvening gowns with ect-out designs aa
* Ng aa elm leaves from under the arm*
to the aip-line. Cape coats of white
fui\ slit wide open on both sides." One
gown"is made entirely of “plaited gold
braid."
When will women settle down finall?
to some one style, as men have done?
kas heep utartwMnir-Pxvey njl] f ^ ,l ,* eiu>tor *’ rtt * l<!JguutIrgl ~ >Bd ^ 1° •n* 19*8 d* tax
w\Y be 2H P** *enL or *90. From
J949 to 1981 Inclusive, the tax will be
3 per cent, or a total of *1.188.
"Thus, in 45 year*. Bill Jone* will
have paid in *1.440 All the time his
employer will have been matching his
tax payments, so the total paid to the
federal treasury will be *2-880.
“At sixty-five Bill Jones can expect
to live perhaps 10 year* more: If he
Hi get back *6.450.
country at large. Senator* Borah of
Idaho and Norris of Nebraska were
among the “independents”.' who ex
pressed their disapproval Mr. Borah
especially was vocal In oppoeition.
gbles and in the glare of photog- j - Fami!ie# w ' !lh tiiese income*
Interesting Items In taxation
For instance, government will collect
Income tax on “public relief." If your
generous Uncle Sam gives you *94 «
month, the amount that unions now
spurn, be will take back *13.12 in In
come tax:
That seems like giving your little
boy a stick of candy and biting ef
the end of IL
r—tr—eradicate lac
WXU"
raphefT • -flaahlightm, .President Roose-
velt put his signature on the social
security set, of-which he said: “If
the senate, and house of representa
tives in this long and arduous session
had done nothing more than pass this
biit tbe session would be regarded as
historic for ail time."
Among those who were present were
Senator Robert F. Wagner of New
York and Representative John Lewis
of Maryland, who jointly drafted the
bill; Secretary of Labor Frances Per
kin*. who had a hand In its making,
and Senators Pat Harrison.^ William
King, and Edward P. -Coctigan.
In a »alk intended for reproduction
! on the sound screens of the country,
the President said:
“This social security measure gives
at least some protection to 30.000.0i.iri
of our dtizens. who will reap direct
benefits through unemployment com
pensation. through old age pensions
and through Increased services for the
protection of children and the preven-
tioa of Hi health.
“We can never Insure 100 pa cen
tre now paying more than their pro
portionate share of taxes sod at the
same time are facing higher prices for
i food, clothea fuel and rents," be said.
So the committee suddenly reversed
itself abruptly, rejected the La Fel-
lette plan by a vote of 8 to 7,
The bill which the committee re
ported was passed by the senate by a
vote of 57 to 22. It contains new pro
visions to compensate for those, elimi
nated from the house hilt and the es
timated revenue is only Jl.UUU.UJU less
This is divided in the senate blip as
follows:
Graduated corporatloa In
come ta* f cs.soe.see
Corporation exce*s profits
and capital stock taxes «l|.ees,#45 *1.890 In pensions, what he actually
Intercorporate di^derd taxsp IS.m.MS , s ^ucttri from SI.890 and
Increased estpte taxes with I
related gift taxes, IM.SSS.M*
Increased sortases oa in
come i la excess of
«i.see.»«e
does, he
“When BUI Jones dies this Is what
will happen:
“His avertge annual salary will be
multiplied by the number of years he
paid taxes. In other words. If be dies
after he has paid taxes fqr 45 years.
*1.200 wftUbe multiplied by 45—giving
a total of *54.000. Arbitrarily, the bill
stipulates that Bill Jones’ estate shall
be entitled to 3% per rant of that or
*1.890—less any amount be received In
The XCTlon of the commission in this
instance'was with reference to a mo
tion of counsel for the International
Association of Ice Cream Manufac
turers. The attorneys asked that the
commission strike out of the complaint
against the association three para
graphs which charged association offi
cers and members -kith‘attempting to
urge legislation and local ordinances
“in bad faith." That question, of
course, Ts very delicate. It presents a
collateral question as to whether when
an individual seeks legislation of a
protective character for his own Inter
ests or legislation that xTTTnid film
in his business.xJieha/ done so ’In
bad faith." Undoutftbflly, there may
be times when bad faith could be prop
erly charged. But In discussing this
phase of the situation In many quar-
I ter* in Washington. I found the con-
senstis to be that protection of prop-
| can h»rdly be cataloged as effort
k, see, tee
Total 9:c».eee.eee
NO thus more doaely follows
the demands of President
than the
pensions before be died.
“If Jones dies before he gets hack J made in bad faith.
Nevertheless, the politician* at the
Capitol take a different attitude and
they do not hesitate to follow through
the remainder paid to his heirs. If he
fives until be gets back all of the
*1.890 and more, hi: heirs get nothing.
“If Jones should die before he
reaches Mxty five, his heirs would be
mtitled to • payment of 3Vi pa rant
if the total wages oa which taxes had
pahL"
H-
any scent they obtain of Information
which, when published, will hit news-
papa front pages. "
The reason I regard the action of
the Federal Trade, commission as be
ing so- significant is that the commit
ts contrary to our scheme of govern-
ment to place supreme power in the
hands of a single ^dividual as has
bran done in European countries wherfe
parliamentary bodies have become non
entities. Encroachment by the execu
tive uwon legislative prerogatives, in
viola ti (Tty of the letter or even of the
Intent of the Constitution, smacks of
autocracy and despotism. It Is sub-
verslve of popular government"
So long as executive orders and ad
ministrative regulations issued under
them Involve only administrative prac
tices, there Is seldom much public in
terest l«> them. Always, after enact
ment of logisla^on. the administrative
agencies designed to carry out the pro
visions of the legislation Issue rules
and regulations Interpreting the stat
ute. But It Is to be remembered that
In such cases, the authority is in a
statute and that statute Is in printed
form and widely distributed. In other
words, Individuals have an opportunity
to know what the law Is and have no
excuse tor violations of IL Such-is not
the case, however, wlttT*ex*cufi(ve or
ders. They are Issued from the White
Utilise and copies are filed with the
Department of State. Ordinarily, they
get no further publicity and the aver
age man In the street. harHttle oppor
tunity jo know what they afe. * ^
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