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News Review of Current
Events the World Over
President and Attorney General Defend Supreme Court
Packing Plan—Open Warfare Between C. I. 0, and .
A. F. of L.—Franco Threatens Madrid.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
G Westers Newspaper Union.
President
Roosevelt
II/ITH the repercussions from
the PresidenVe flee tide radio
address and the opening of hear*
ings by the senate judiciary com
mittee, the contro
versy over the prop
osition to enlarge
the Supreme court
took on renewed
heat. Mr. Roose
velt’s talk was s o
generally heard over
the radio that no ex
tended report of it
is needed. He made
an extraordinarily
bitter attack on the
majority of the Su
preme court that
has repeatedly upset New Deal leg
islation, and avowed frankly his de
termination to .have a tribunal that
"will not undertake to override the
judgment of the congress on legisla
tive policy.” If the phrase ‘‘packing
the court” means that, then, said the
President ‘‘I say that I and with me
the vast majority of the American
people favor doing just that thing—
now.”
“The court, in addition to the
proper use of its judicial functions,”
said Mr. Roosevelt, “has improper
ly set itself up as a third house of
the congress—a super-legislature,
as one of the justices has called it—
reading into the constitution words
and implications, which are not
there, and which were never in
tended to be there.
‘‘We have, therefore, reached the
point as a nation where we must
take action to save the constitution
from the court and the court from
itself. We must find a way to take
an appeal from the Supreme court
to the constitution itself. We want
a Supreme court which will do
justice under the constitution—not
over it. In our courts we want a
government of laws and not of
men.”
Mr. Roosevelt divided the op
ponents of his plan into two classes.
The first, he said, includes those
“who fundamentally object to social
and economic legislation along mod
em lines” and opposed him in the
last election; and of them he spoke
with supreme contempt. The second
group, those “who honestly believe
the amendment process is the best,”
were told they could not expect
faithful support from their “strange
bedfellows,” and that even if an
amendment were passed and rati
fied. its meaning would depend on
the “kind of juaticea who would
be sitting on the Supreme court
bench.”
Attorney General Cummings ap
peared before the senate judiciary
committee to speak for the Presi
dent’s court bill, and he used much
‘the same arguments Mr. Roosevelt
had employed. Senators Borah and
Burke questioned him sharply and
aearchingly. but he was agile in
evasion. However, he did satisfy
the opposition senators by admit
ting bluntly that the purpose of the
measure was to change the com
plexion of the court, to get men
with “liberal, forward - looking
views.”
Senator Dieterich of Illinois sought
to curb the questioning of Mr. Cum
mings but was squelched by Borah.
Dieterich has not committed him
self on the bill but is now classed
among its supporters. His candidate
for the federal circuit court of ap
peals in Chicago, District Judge J.
Earl Major of Springfield, has just
been nominated by the President.
Assistant Attorney General Rob
ert Jackson was the second witness
heard, and the foes of the measure
sought to prove, by questioning him,
that there is no actual need for the
judiciary bill to relieve congestion
of federal dockets and therefore that
the only purpose of the measure is
to change the viewpoint of the high
tribunal.
CATISFIED with the way his ad-
^ ministrative plans are going for
ward, President Roosevelt left Wash
ington for a two weeks’ stay in
Warm Springs, Ga. He went directly
to his white cottage on Pine moun
tain from which he looks down on
the foundation for infantile paraly
sis sufferers. It was announced that
he would see few officials or other
visitors there, conducting all essen
tial public business by telegraph
and telephone. Temporary execu
tive offices were set up in Kress hall
at the foundation.
Before leaving Washington Mr.
Roosevelt said at a press conference
that he and Prime Minister W. L.
Mackenzie King of Canada had dis
cussed the St. Lawrence waterway
treaty during King’s visit. Whether
the treaty will be submitted to the
senate at this session, he said, is
not yet known. It was rejected a
few years ago.
'T'HE Committee for Industrial Or-
* ganization has declared open
warfare on the American Federa
tion of Labor by authorizing its ex
ecutive officials to issue certificates
of affiliation to national, interna
tional, state, regional, city and cen
tral bodies and'tor al groups «*hen-
ever it is deemed. John L. Lewis
says the C. I. O. haa hundreds of
applications for affiliation and that
he will take in any A. F. of L. unions
that wish to join hia organization.
At the same time half a hun
dred organizers of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor met with
President William Green to plan
means of protecting the body
against the C. I. O. and to hold the
ranks of the craft unions in line.
They arranged for an intensive
campaign to organize unions in steel
to rival the C. I. O.’s Amalgamated
Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin
Workers; considered spreading the
charge that Lewis is allied with
communist interests, and the
launching of plans to oiganize in the
cement, aluminum, cereal, and flour
mill industries. The organizers also
discussed organization of gas sta
tion attendants, which would over
lap with Lewis’ plans to organize
the petroleum industry.
The Carnegie-IUinois company
union, which is bitterly opposed to
the C. I. O., has not yet reached
an agreement on affiliation with the
A. F. of L.
General Electric and come of the
other big concerns that yielded to a
certain extent to the demands of
the C. I. O. followed the example
of the steel companies in asserting
that they still reserved the right to
deal also with other unions or
groups of employees.
Eight thousand employees of the
Westinghouse Electric and Manu
facturing company’s Pittsburgh
plant demanded a 20 per cent raise
in wages and it was feared they
would start a strike if the demand
were rejected.
Because the Chrysler motor com
pany refused to recognize the United
Automobile Workers of America aa
the sole bargaining agency for all
its employees, a strike was called
in all its major units in Detroit, and
other plants of the company were
closed because of dependence on
Detroit production. More than 90,000
workers were thus thrown into idle
ness.
The union also called a strike at
the Hudson Motor Car company be
cause. they asserted, officials of the
concern were stalling in negotia
tions on working conditions.
rj EN. FRANCISCO FRANCO,
^ leader of the Spanish Fascists,
was reported to be about ready for
a Anal grand assault on Madrid. He
assembled a tre
mendous force of
tanks and artillery
before Guadalajara
and captured sever
al towns near b y ,
threatening the im
mediate cutting off
the capital’s last
road to the east.
Military observers
predicted that the
greatest battle o f
the war would soon
be fought on the line between the
Tajuna and Tajo rivers.
Gen. Jose Miaja. loyalist com
mander in the Madrid area, charged
that 7,000 Italian troops were taxing
part in the attack on Guadalajara.
These men, he asserts, were landed
in Cadiz on February 22, two days
after the international neutrality
committee’s ban on permitting "vol
unteers” to enter Spain was de
clared effective.
The shelling and capture of the
Spanish liner Mar Cantabrico by a
rebel vessel was a spectacular
event in the war. She was carrying
a cargo of planes and munitions
from the United States for the loyal
ists and sought to evade the
insurgent cruisers by taking the
name of an English ship. But, ac
cording to a story printed in New
York, the complete plan of her
movements was revealed to the
agent of the rebels in that city and
cabled to their headquarters in
Spain. Also, according to the only
member of the crew who escaped
capture, the crew found the captain
was pommunicating with the in-
surgepts and executed him at sea.
The Maf^Cantrabrico, with fire in
her holds, was taken to Ferrol. It
was presumed most of the
Spaniards aboard were slain.
pLARENCE A. DYKSTRA, city
^ manager of Cincinnati since
1930, was selected as president of
the University of Wisconsin by the
executive committee of the insti
tution’s board of regents. If he ac
cepts the place he will succeed Dr.
Glenn Frank who was ousted be
cause he was not satisfactory to
the La Folletje regime. Dykstra (s
fifty-four years old and • graduate
of the University of Iowa.
\A/ ITHOUT a record vote the
v v house passed the new Duffey-
Vinson coal bill, which takes the
place of the measure knocked out
by the Supreme court. It would set
up government regulation of the
soft coal industry through a com
mission in the departmant of the
interior.
ill
'JJfumhd about
Twilight if Knee Pants.
S ANTA MONICA, CALIF. —
Since our diplomatic group
must shed the half-portion
breeches they've been wearing
at official functions abroad,
that means others present will
quit mistaking them for foot
men and start in again mistak
ing them for waiters, as for
merly.
But the under-rigging doesn’t
make so much difference anyhow.
In the best plenipo-
tentiarying circles,
it’s the top dressing
that counts — the
gold - plated cocked
hat; the dr£ss coat
loaded with bullion;
the bosom crossed
with broad ribbons;
the lapels and the
throat latch so deco
rated with medals
that, alongside one
thus costumed, Sol
omon in all his glory
would look absolutely nude.
Irvin S.Yk>bb
End of the Holdont Season.
TP HE baseball season couldn’t
start off properly unless a cer
tain catastrophe impended before
hand. Every self-respecting player
who made a hit last year insists
on more salary for this year, else
he’ll never soit in the palm of an
other glove. This makes him a hold
out. The manager declares the play
er will take what’s offered him and
not a cent more. This makes him
a manager. 1
But fear not, little one. TheyTl
all be in there when the governor
or the mayor or somebody winds up
to launch the first game and tosses
the ball nearly eighteen feet in the
general direction of the continent of
North America.
• • •
Changing Style Capitals.
LJ OLLYWOOD and not Paris is
* * now the world center for fash
ions, if you can believe Hollywood—
and not Paris.
At any rate, both for men and
women, we do originate many style
creations which, in the best movie
circles, frequently make the women
look mannish and the men look ef
feminate, maybe that’s the desired
effect; an oldtimer wouldn’t know
about that.
However, there’s a new hat out
here for masculine wear which fas
cinates me. It is a very woolly hat
—a nap on it like an old family
album — and the crown peaks up
in a most winsome way, and there’s
a rakish bunch of tail-feathers at
the back which makes it look as
though it might settle down any
minute and start laying. I think
hev got the idea for it from the
duck-billed platypus.
• • •
Clvlltslag Ethiopia.
pONQUERED Ethiopians attempt
to assassinate their rew over-
ord. Viceroy Graziani. Nobody is
killed, but several individuals get
bunged up.
So the conquerors arrest all na
tives of Addis Ababa in whose huts
weapons are found. They round up
2,000 “susrects” out of a total popu
lation of 00,000.
So promptly 1,800 of these black
prisoners are put to death in
batches. In former days the fir
ing squads would have worn them
selves to a frazzle in a rush job
of this sort, but no — well, who
would deny that the machine gun
is the crowning achievement of
white culture? Poison gas is also
much favored for pacifying rebel
lious savages, and plane-bombing
likewise has its advocates.
• • •
The Public’s Short Memory.
A FINANCIER, whose exposed de-
** vices are as a bad smell in
people’s nostrils, summarily is oust
ed from his high place and the
shadows swallow up his diminished
shape. A little time passes, and, lo,
in a new setting, he bobs up, an
envied if not an exalted personage,
^o-called exclusive groups welcome
him in; newspapers quote him on
this and that; he basks again, like
some sleek and overfed lizard, ; n
the sunshine of folks’ tolerance-
yes, the admiration of some.
No evidence that he has repented
of his former practices; no sign bf
intent to repay any broken victim
bf those fiduciary operations. The
private fortune which he took with
him when he quit is still all his.
And maybe there’s the secret of
this magical restoration to the fa
vor of the multitude.
f$VIN S. COBB.
c—WNU IServic*. ' ‘ i,
Budapest Catacombs
The Budapest catacombs ddte
back to the days when the Fort of
Buda was held by the Turks, mark
ing the farthest fortified advance of
the forces of Islam into Christen
dom. They were probably intended
as avenues of escape for a belea
guered garrison, butjthey also have
fresh water wells in tnem, and some
of the chambers were used as re
positories for great numbers of hu
man skulls and bones, as in the
case of the catacombs at Roma.
~ Ntttonsl Tfipics Interpreted
by Wdlitm Brudart
NXUeaal Preae BalMlas Wauhlnstan, IX C.
Washington.—It has always been
•aid that politics makes strange
bedfellows. Histo-
Strangt ry has shown this
Bedfellowu statement to be
true because in
every political battle one can note-
unusual combinations, odd types
working together, personal enemies
fighting side by side—in truth, bed
fellows for the time being.
Never has the truth of this old
adage been better demonstrated,
however, than in, the current politi
cal fight that was precipitated by
President Roosevelt’s demand that
congress pass a law which will al
low the Chief Executive to add six
new members to the Supreme court
of the United States. The real con
gressional fight on the President’s
bold move has not yet gained full
headway. But time enough has
elapsed since Mr. Roosevelt offered
his history-making demand for
power to add enough judges to the
Supreme court, judges of his own
selection, to give him a majority,
that those close to the congressional
scene are now in a position to pre
dict probably the most heated con
troversy since the days immediately
preceding the Civil war.
Already, it can be stated, one can
see senators and representatives
who are known for their liberal
views standing side by side with
hard-boiled conservatives in opposi
tion to the President's plan, which
they describe as a move “to pack
the Supreme court.” Likewise one
can see conservative Democrats
from the old South following Presi
dent Roosevelt and joining hands
secretively with the wildest radicals
in the senate. One will see Demo
crats and conservative Republicans
in earnest conversation planning
ways and means to halt the Presi
dent’s drive for control of the court
and at the same time one can see
radical Republicans planning with
Democrats in support of the pro
gram—strange bedfellows, every
one.
While this condition is interesting,
it is by far less striking as I watch
the proceedings than the extreme
bitterness that is now developing.
While, as I said, the controversy is
hardly under way. there is even
now personal animosity evident in
the senate to a degree that I never
have seen before. I had the privi
lege of observing the famous
League of Nations fight at close
range. There was personal bitter
ness in that senate battle. Old
friendshios were crushed and close
relationshipe tom asunder. Yet. I
think that the current controversy
is likely to cause the League of Na
tions bitterness to pale into insig
nificance. In other words, there lies
ahead for the congress a raging fire
that is bound to destroy pol'tical
lives and political ambitions. Which
lives and which ambitions derend. I
think, upon the answer which the
country’s citizens give to the now
direct question;
Are we to have a system of courts
and judges, independent and free of
politics, or are we to have puppets
that will do the bidding of political
masters?
• • •
I said above that the result of the
Supreme court battle in congresa
will be deter-
Up to th* mined by the atti-
Peopl* tude of the coun
try. It is vital that
the citizens realize this fact. Since
President Roosevelt made no men
tion during the campaign for re-
election in 1930 of plans to reform
the Supreme court, there has been
no public expression on the subject.
There will not be another opportu
nity for the voters to express their
views until November, 1938. The
only way, then, open to those who
want to express an opinion for or
against the court change is by send
ing their views to their congress
men and senators. Conversations
that I have had with members of
the house and the senate convinces
me that the representatives and
senators will appreciate word as to
how their constituents feel.
Further evidence of the desire of
congressmen and senators to know
the feelings of the voters is given in
the tremendous propaganda that is
going on. Friends and foes of the
Supreme court reform program are
on the air nightly; scarcely a day
goes by that some senator and usu
ally several of them and numerous
congressmen participate in debate
or issue statements concerning the
great controversy, and from the tre
mendous source of propaganda sup
ply at the command of the Presi
dent come countless statements and
interviews and radio speeches prais
ing the President’s plan. Even the
President himself)has made one of
his famous “fireside chats” telling
why he should be given the new
power.
In the meantime—and some more
strange bedfellows—we find the
most peculiar cross currents operat
ing. Among some of the religious
groups, there are many who fear
that the court packing plan will void
constitutional guarantees of re
ligious freedom. They fear even
tual control of the churches by the
state, having in mind, no doubt
what haa happened to religious
groups in Germany and Soviet Rus
sia,
Editorials from the Catholic press
are. being circulated privately
among many legislators and against
these are some Protestant preach
ers who take the position that the
Supreme court is out of date
ought to be reformed. Numerous
Jewish leaders are opposing the re
form but among the Jews are many
who feel that President Roosevelt
is right.
Then there is the split among
farm leaders. I refer to farm Or
ganizations with national spokes
men. Some are for the change arid
some against it.
Uppermost in the minds of all of
the opponents seems to be a funda
mental fear that to change the
court will open the door through
which dictators may walk. To il
lustrate the type of statements com
ing forth from observers of national
reputation as regards this point, I
am going to quote from a recent ex
pression by the distinguished colum
nist, Westbrook Pegler. Lately he
wrote:
“All of a, sudden, Mr. Roosevelt
discovers that the Supreme court is
largely senile and demands quick
action on a proposal which, if adopt
ed, would create an easy precedent
for the most cynical packing of the'
Supreme court by someone of the
type of Huey Long or Warren Hard
ing, Mussolini or Hitler in years to
come. It might not be many years
either ... All dictators pack the
courts by legal means as a pre
liminary to the promulgation of
their dictatorial laws. After that it
is comparatively easy to take over,
because the courts belong to the
dictator and do as he orders."
There can be no question, of
course, that the thing Mr. Roose
velt proposes to have congress do
for him is legal. Since, however, it
is legal in this instance, it will be
legal, of course, for someone else
to come along after Mr. Roosevelt
and pack the court with men of his
own choosing, men who will decide
questions as the then President de
sires them to decide. There is no
limit to what may come if once the
door is opened. Senator Wheeler,
the Montana Democrat who has
long been outstanding in the libera!
character of views he holds, has
added to this thought the expres
sion that if the door is to be opened,
the people must do it—not the con
gress that was elected without vot
ers having heard the proposition
mentioned.
• • •
As the fight of packing the Su
preme court waxes warmer, one
—. a* • c * n no * h «lP not-
7 hey At awe ing how even
clever politicians
make mistakes.
There are many who believe that
Mr. Roorevelt made a grievous er
ror in proposing revision of the Su
preme court in the fashion he chose
while there are others who say that
he was elected by such a tremen
dous majority that he will have the
people behind him regardless of the
character of proposition advanced
to congress.
It is interesting to note how many
congressmen and senators are dodg
ing the issue. Their silence is posi
tively thunderous because they do
not know how the people back home
feel about the general proposition.
There are others who have come
out boldly for one reason or an
other in support of the plan and
there are some 33 or more in the
senate who have determined their
position already and are ready to
fight to the finish to stop passage
of such a law.
Then there was the mistake which
Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the
Democratic leader, made in the sen
ate the other day. He vigorously
denounced what he termed propa
ganda and a conspiracy to defeat
the President’s plan. He called at
tention to much newspaper and edi
torial comment in opposition and ac
cused all of those people indiscrimi
nately with being part of a gigantic
conspiracy against the court pack.
The humor of the Robinson out
burst seemed not to be apparent to
the otherwise kindly mannered sen
ator whom I very much admire.
What he did by an hour-long attack
in the senate was to re-emphasize
all of the criticism of the Presi
dent’s plan.
One might refer in this connec
tion also to the explosive type of
speech made by Harry Hopkins, re
lief administrator. Of course, ev
eryone knows that Mr. Hopkins has
made his life’s work that of looking
after suffering humanity. He is on
the government pay roll in such, a
job. Mr. Hopkins attacked all op
position to the President’s plan be
cause he said it was in the interest
of humanity to do so. The relief
administrator made his appeal di
rect to all of those receiving federal
money through relief rolls and that
obviously will be taken up by oppo
nents of the President’s plan who
undoubtedly will say as some al
ready have hinted that Mr. Hop-
kint is trying to muster relief
classes to bring pressure upon cow
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4 offs
1 cupful of flour
taaapoonful of cinnamon
Pinch of cloves
Dash of allspioo
5 teaapoonfula of bakinf powder-
Beat the yolks of the eggs and
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several times, adding the baking
and I powder. Tb«n add the flour and
baking powder to the mixture and
bake in layer tins ten minutes in a
hot oven. This cake is very deli
cious if made with a date filling
between the layers.
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