Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 230, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 December 1935 — Page 13

It Seems to Me HEYWOOD BROUN AT least one recpnt decision by the United States Supremp Court now can be shown to have been against the public interest. According to the annual report of the National Child Labor Committee, all gains made in the last three years in the matter of reducing the labor of immature workers have been swept away. Conditions are a„s bad as they were in 19,32 and they seem likely to get worse as employers in sharply competitive industries seek the cheapest labor they can obtain.

Children of 13 and 14 again are being used in the Paterson silk mills. Moreover, production is being farmed out so that thousands of homes are once again set up as sweatshops. The entire trend now is toward the re-employment of children, and since they work extremely long hours at very low' wages adults are being added rapidly to the unemployment rolls. In fact, child labor acts as a brake against re-employment and the restoration of wage cuts. It is, indeed, one of the mast successful devices ever discovered for keeping

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purchasing power down and spreading poverty. And the movement is cumulative. As low wage scales spread, more and more children are drawn into the web. Voluntary agreements among employers have been found to be w’holly inadequate. In 19.il the experiment was made in the cotton textile industry to limit child labor without the backing of law. Eighty-two per cent of the employers agreed to do so. Twelve per cent refused, and under the whip of competition and comparative labor costs the whole thing broke down within a few months. tt tt a “Backward,” Commands Court And now the command is “Backward,” and it was issued by the United States Supreme Court in the Schecter case. That decision, among other things, invalidated the child labor provisions of the industrial codes. The nine old men upheld the sanctity of the letter of the law and all the commas. The Schecters drank champagne to celebrate the fact that business was free again. What Mr. Hoover calls “liberty” had been restored. The dead hand of tradition waved the children of America back from the schoolhouses and the playgrounds. Like business, they, too, had been freed. Little boys and girls were now free to go back to the mills and work long hours for low pay. No longer were they regimented in the classroom. A.s rugged individuals they were at liberty to walk in single file back through the factory gates. It has been said frequently by advocates of the old order-and seemingly they mean the old, old order—that it enfeebles youth to be protected. Twelve hours a day at a machine keeps idle hands out of mischief. The school of hard knocks makes men and women out of the boys and girls of America. Indeed, there are some kindly employers who are quite willing to let the brighter scholars skip several grades and become old at 16 or 17. I think that the members of the United States Supreme Court, like other men upon this earth, must be judged by their deeds and the effects of their deeds. I think that in the case of decisions which vitally war against the health and even the lives of American children it were better that a millstone were hung about the neck of the high court. And that millstone should be the mass protest of Americans. tt tt tt Not Actualln Olympus THE air of sacredness and sanctity which has been built up around the proceedings of the nine has no sanction in reason or tradition. When some ancient lawyer who once served his party well is elevated to the Supreme Bench he does not suddenly become all virtuous, all merciful and all wise. . I have heard much talk about the balance of power, but if the Supreme Court has the last and the irrevocable say, there is no balance. The judicial branch has outstripped the executive and the legislative branches. The presidential veto is curtailed by the provision that it can be swept aside by a twotlhirds vote of the House and Senate. A similar provision should obtain in regard to the Supreme Court. If it is balance we are after then _it should be provided that when the court invalidates a law the very same law can be set up again by a two-thirds vote of Congress and the President’s acquiescence. Indeed, if the court is to be saved, it must first be saved from itself. (CopyriKht, 1935)

Your Health -BY DR. MORRIS FISIIBEIN

ONE of the most prevalent fads today is vegetarianism. Vegetables, to be sure, have much significance in the daily diet, but don’t let a vegetarian give you the idea that meat is harmful to the human body. Discovery of the fact that liver contains an important principle which overcomes pernicious anemia; that the pancreas or sweetbreads contain the substance called insulin, which is necessary tor digestion of sugars; and that other glands in the human body also contain important principles, has made vegetarians realize how essential meat may really be in the human diet. Asa result of these discoveries, moreover, liver, which used to be just cat meat, given away by the butcher to any one who bought a roast, now is one of the highest priced meats in the shop. The final answer, of course, is the fact that the famous explorer Stefansson lived on an exclusive meat diet for many months and found himself at the end of this time in just as good physical condition as when he started. a b a IN the past it used to be argued that eating meat would be particularly harmful to the kidneys, but there is no evidence that this food, if taken in moderation, will harm the kidneys in any way. There is also a notion that the white meat of chicken is less harmful than thin red meat, yet there is really little, if any, scientific evidence to justify this belief. The evidence that meat docs not cause high blood pressure, rheumatic or kidney diseases is much better than the evidence that it is in any way related to causation of these conditions. The doctor preaches moderation, it is just as immoderate to avoid meat as it is to overeat. In choosing meats we must remember that Eskimos and others, who live largely on meat, eat not only the lean meat, such as steaks, roasts and chops, but also the various glandular organs and entrails which civilized men throw away. These organs are particularly useful for their glandular extracts, the vitamins, and mineral salts.

Today s Science BY DAVID DIETZ

SCIENCE, accused by some of adding to the woes of the world by making war more horrible and unemployment more pronounced, is defended in the annual report just issued by the Smithsonian Institution by two famous British scientists. Sir James Jeans and Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins. Sir James, chiefly famous as an astronomer and a philosopher, admits) that science has put more terrible weapons in the hands of the war-makers. His defense, however, is that science is making greater contributions toward the ideal of a warless world. a bo HE points out that the economic or the hunger motive can usually be found beneath the numerous overt causes of the wars of the past. Directly or indirectly, wars have been due to pressures of populations, the militant group seeking more land to produce food for more people. The scientist, in Sir James opinion, is working foi the elimination of war by * enabling ever larger populations to live in comfort and contentment on the same limited area of land." in this way, he hopes, science will remove the fundamental cause of war, after which there will be less likelihood of the secondary causes operating.

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LISTENING TO HITLER’S GERMANY

Mussolini Left Out on End,of Limb by Nazis, Declares Hunt

For a quarter of a century the name of Frazier Hunt has stood for newspaper and magazine correspondence at its best. Now Hunt is in Europe, on assignment to send back uncensored cab le dispatches that will comprise a true word-picture of peoples and events in muddled present-day Europe. Today's dispatch, from Berlin, is his first. tt a a it a a BY FRAZIER HUNT (Copyright, 1935, NEA Service, Inc.) B KU LIN, Dec. 4.—Despite official denials and subterfuges, Hitier has definitely let down his brother dictator, Mussolini. By supporting in fact, if not in precise terms, the League of Nations’ embargo against Italy, Germany completely isolates the Italian powder keg and checks all possibility of a real world war for at least an-

other year. She has left Mussolini out on the end of a limb—with England ready to saw it off. Hitler has authorized a list of unexportable articles under the guise and partial fact that they are necessary to Germany’s own economic life. The list includes foods and chemicals. The Hitler government has definitely banned war materials and decreed that there shall be no war profits or speculation. Coal is the single important item still

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permitted for export to Italy, but as Italy already owes Germany money, trade is bound to be small. Italy has almost no credit and a small gold reserve.

Hitler has definitely made up his mind to gain time at any cost to build up a great war machine. He will throw down Mussolini, with whom normally he is friendly, play gently with France and secretly accede to England's wishes for peace. He will check the anti-Jewish radicals in the Nazi Party, give the Jews a fresh breathing spell and let up pressure on the church. He will eat international crow, by handfuls, for the sake of realizing his army dream. a a a AT least five years of peace is needed by Hitler to build his war army. Then he can bide his time and develop his “grand plan.” He would have Germans give up all thought of revenge against France. He gladly would will the seven seas and the world’s empires to England. And he wants Germany to turn

Mighty in Law, but Humans Otherwise, Go on Parade; Hughes and Roberts

The Supreme Court speaks, and the South breaks its age-old tradition to put Negroes on its juries. The court speaks, and the mammoth organization of industry that was NKA collapses. The court which wields this great power is a constitutional entity, but it is also a group of nine men, who wear pants and sometimes eat in the cafeteria. This is the first of a series of sketches telling something about the men behind the decisions. BY HERBERT LITTLE WASHINGTON, Dec. 4. Chief Justice Hughes on the' bench looks like a God of the Sunday school kids —an energetic. forceful deliverer of judgment. In law. of course, the decisions of the court over which he presides have much the same effect as the tablets of Moses. There is

no further appeal. Charles Evans Hughes rose to this post. more powerful than the presidency in some ways, from an ailing childhood through a lifetime of strenuous work. The son of a Baptist preacher, born 73 years

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ago ip little Glens Falls, N. Y., he attained prominence and leadership by aggressive tactics in his chosen profession, the law. His spectacular entry into public life through the New York insurance investigation, which made him Governor of New York, his six years on the Supreme Court from 1910 to 1916, and his tragic loss of the presidency in 1916 by the bungled handling of California's campaign, are all well known. Men associated with him in his early public life knew him as a stuffy, on-his-dignity sort of fellow. The truth is he was shy, and his mind was on law rather than politics. He is happier since 1930 when President Hoover put him back on the Supreme Court. He maintains the high dignity and abracadabra of the court's ritual, but he also mingles in social life and frequently displays wit and humor. He takes walks, wearing a derby and carrying a stick, and automobile rides for diversion. tt tt tt SURPRISING the Senate liberals who tried to block his nomination because of his ultra-Republi-canism and his corporation clientele. the Chief Justice votes more often with the left-wing liberals than with the conservative Right, on the big questions which split the court. He was one of the majority of five which upheld the Administration's gold policy, and one of the dissenting four who bitterly attacked the social implications of the 5-4 decision which knocked out the Railroad Retirement Act of 1934. But he held with the court majority that the oil section of NRA, the Frazier-Lemke Farm Mortgage Act. NRA itself, and the removal of Chairman Humphreys of the Federal Trade Commission

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back on all western and southern Europe, and instead cast her eyes eastward. Dcr Fuehrer not only feels that Communism is the Reich’s greatest enemy, but he sees the sparsely settled lands of western Russia as the one hope for new lands for pure German peoples. He would clear out the present population and send in German settlers and build a great inland power in middle eastern Europe. a a a HITLER believes the greatest pre-war mistake was the German challenge against Britain's naval, mercantile and colonial supremacy. He now wants a tightly knit European land and only in western Russia can this be found. Germany does not want the return of her old colonies. She wants lands she can develop and where she can implant Germans. If Poland plays along, she can have Russian Ukraine and Ger-

were unconstitutional. The last three rulings were unanimous. In addition to presiding over the court and administering its affairs, Hughes writes more opinions in big cases than any other justice. He wears down his youthful law clerks, and works nights as well as days when necessary. His jovian beard, powerful face, and incisive courtroom voice combine to make him as impressive a Chief justice of the United States as any one could imagine. B B B A BIG-JAWED, handsome young man of 60 is the Supreme Court’s question-mark, even after five years as a justice. If the three liberal justices and Chief Justice Hughes make a fight

for any of the New Deal laws coming before it, Owen Josephus Roberts’ vote will be decisive, as it has been on most of the 5-4 decisions in recent years. The youngest of the nine, Roberts has aroused con-

siderable fear among New Dealers by voting last spring with the four Conservative judges and delivering the sweeping opinion which destroyed the Railroad Retirement Act as a violation of due process and an interference with employe-employer relations. He is a life-long Republican and literally a Philadelphia lawyer—a

SAFETY PLAY MARGIN OF VICTORY

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Solution to Previous Contract Problem BY W. E. M'KENNEY Secretary American Bridge League TO be selected as one of the 10 outstanding bridge players in America is indeed an achievement, and there is no doubt that Louis H. Watson, New York, will

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Nazi Germany unfurls her new Swastika-and-iron-cross war flag . . . symbol of anew military power in the making.

many’s ally, Hungary, who’s secretly rearming, may look southward and eastward for expansion. Hitler knows Austria will eventually fall in Germany’s lap like an overripe apple. a a a BUT first Germany must build a mighty army. This means a war army three times the size of the peace army she is building now. Germany’s military plan includes complete mobilization, new

phrase which when in quotation marks suggests a legalistic mountebank. But the Senate liberals and Southerners who successfully blocked President Hoover’s nomination of Judge John J. Parker for a vacancy in 1930 willingly took Roberts because of his able prosecution of the men accused in the Harding-Coolidge oil scandals. Roberts got all the land ancf oil back, and Harry F. Sinclair and Albert B. Fall were sent to prison. His legal background also includes service as a corporation lawyer and as a law professor in Pennsylvania. In the courtroom Roberts rivals the Chief Justice in the clear,

Mrs. Roosevelt Least Perturbed of All Candidates in '36 Election

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BY RUTH FINNEY Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.—Of all the candidates for election to high office in 1936, Mrs. Roosevelt appears the least perturbed. Neither her name nor her office as First Lady will appear on the ballots, but many a vote cast for or against her husband actually will be a vote cast for or against her. The way the nation’s women —and the men—regard her might, in a close race, determine the next President. Criticism is not causing Mrs. Roosevelt to change her ways. She is making no apparent effort to compromise with those who think

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be included in the first 10 this year. Asa matter of fact, Mr. Watson has a chance of winning the title of America’s outstanding player of 1935. He will have to win one of the championship titles this week in the national tournament, which is being held in the Stevens, Chicago. So far this year Watson has finished first, second, or third in every major team of four or pair event that he has entered. He has just finished anew Culbertson System Self-Teacher book. I believe it is the simplest and most complete book I ever have read on bridge, and I am going to give you a series of articles taken from this book, which I believe will teach the beginner how to play a good game of contract and will also improve the bidding of the advanced player. In explaining today's hand. Mr. Watson said that too many players blame bad luck for their losses. They do no stop to analyze the different possibilities. The hand is not complicated, yet it is surprising how many players will lose their contract. When West opens the queen of clubs the trick is won in dummy with the king, and East drops the nine. Now, of course, the natural play is to lead the queen of hearts from dummy and when

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roads, barracks, oil sources—a self-contained nation. All this is being rushed at the cost of tremendous sacrifices. Nothing, not even the threat of an early breakdown of her own internal industries and finances, would check Germany’s determination. She is sorry to let down Italy, but friendship with England is 10 times more important. A score of Germans said to me: “We will never go to war again with the British navy against us.”

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eloquent delivery of opinions. A remarkable thing about his delivery is that he never looks at the printed document before him—yet he never deviates from the words he has written. B B B HE sits next to conservative Justice Butler on the north end of the big bench, and they often joke and laugh like a pair of schoolboys while the seven others are trying to maintain the dignity which the public expects of a Supreme Court. Roberts’ diversion is gentlemanfarming on his 700-acre “farm” outside Philadelphia, with the accent on gardening and horseback riding.

a President’s wife should be a remote and silent figure. There are many women and men who say: “We didn’t elect her. Why is she trying to run everything?” They resent her talking on the radio, though her defenders explain that she does it to get money for the Friends’ Society to use helping people in districts where there has been unprintable suffering. They resent her traveling about, yet friends say that half the time she does it to keep in touch with her family and the other half 10 be eyes and ears for her husband, who can't go see for himself how matters are proceeding.

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East plays the four spot, should you take the finesse? Watson said, “Absolutely not.” Count your losers. You can not afford to lose two hearts and still make your contract. You must consider the possibility of East's holding. If it is a singleton club and you take the finesse. West will give East a ruff in clubs. You should make the safety play by going right up with the ace of hearts and then lead a small heart to dummy's nine. In this way you can not lose your contract. (Copyright. 1935. NEA Strvice. Inc.)

WHAT Hitler believes today all Germany believes tomorrow. The army credits him with their resurgence. The people generally credit him with reviving their self-respect by throwing out the Versailles Treaty, leaving the League ana renewing Germany's great dreams. The opposition against him is smouldering and uncertain. Everywhere there is a whispering campaign, but it is no more than that. Germans themselves fail to appreciate the socialistic side of this revolution. Millions of lowly people have been given anew conception of equality and of their importance in the new state. Something strange and elusive has entered the hearts of most German youth. Semi-socialistic doctrines, coupled with an intense nationalism, give young Germans a mystic power and new religion. I don't find anything except the ultimate internal financial crash due to lost world trade that will seriously embarrass Hitler. Even this will not end his dictatorship though it might put the country on a boycott basis. Only a complete change of popular feeling and an unwillingness to continue sacrifices such as were endured at the end of the World War could destroy him. a a a IT’S a hard international game Hitler plays, and as the cards run now, Mussolini must accept isolation and suffer his own fate. Italians at best are only incidental to Germany’s future. It probably will be a tragic future, for the truth is that Germans are a first-class people in a second-class land. Germany has neither sufficient raw materials nor food to warrant her great ambitions to become a dominant power. She can neither build a war army nor live comfortably without world trade to provide a constant inflow of raw materials. The bitter Jewish persecution has been stupid. Interference with the church brought ruinous boycotts. These have been Hitler's greatest mistakes. Hitler bluffed the world with a false show of aerial might, but, as Frazier Hunt also reveals in the second of his uncensored cable dispatches from Berlin, the growing power of Germany’s regular army is no myth. Read Hunt’s illuminating article in this newspaper tomorrow.

He is more than 6 feet tall, and broad of shoulder, but still youthfully slender from the chest down. He is clean-shaven and still has a head of hair. He is genial and social, and sometimes walks around the big court building to chat with doormen, newspaper reporters and other friends. Sometimes he rides to work by street car—two or three miles from his handsome home in Georgetown. He is one of the few among the nine who do their work in the magnificent suites reserved in the new building for them. TOMORROW—Sutherland and Mcßeynolds.

'T'HE aversion of some men (o Mrs. Roosevelt is explained by her friends in terms of masculine ego. Feminine hostility is not so easy to understand, to one who has watched her in Washington, for Mrs. Roosevelt has done more to improve the lot of women, both physically and legally, than most persons alive today. Her chief political crime, says one admirer, consists of having been born a Roosevelt, with all the Rooseveltian energy, all the enthusiasm for people, and sympathy with their problems, and all the family disregard for precedents. When the White House spotlight was turned on her she was doing only what she had done for years. She holds press conferences for the women paid to write about her. and it saves her time as well as theirs. She doesn't discuss politics at these meetings. BBS SHE does not slight the social duties that go with being First Lady. In fact, she receives more people than any of her predecessors. She presides over formal dinners and receives at formal and informal receptions. She speaks French, and other languages. She has been hostess to the usual number of executive mansion house guests. In addition, she has entertained groups of men and women not accustomed to official notice. She drives her own car, walks about the streets without Secret Service men, and travels as inconspicuously as she can. When she influences national policy she does it in the way any wife influences her husband's affairs—by making a suggestion which may or may not bs acted on. It was she who thought it would be a good idea to process the hog surplus into food for the needy instead of into fertilizer. New Deal officials kicked themselves for not having thought of it first; and New Deal opponents, who had started building up AAA's “sinful waste” into a campaign i issue, turned their guns on her instead.

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Entered as Seenndols Matter at Pnstoffiee. Indianapolis. In<l.

[dir Enough WESTBROOK HOUR ENOA. Dec. 4 —There were five submarines tied up inside the breakwater at Naples—three of them big, long boats, with high freeboard, the other two smaller, but each one mounting a gun with a big round eye which looked dead at you as the big lonesome luxury liner Rex gentled herself up to her berth and began to unload. Most of the 35 first-class passengers got off ther* after a strange voyage frcm New York, with 52,000 tons of boat beneath them and hundreds of servants to draw their baths and bring them

thimbles of coffee and brandy in the lounge. The gala night after the Rex passed Gibraltar had been a ghastly flop, not because people were necessarily disinclined to get tight under favorable circumstances, but because there weren't enough of them to make a gala. The table stewards came around that evening as the passengers were making their last weary strokes at the rare viands and exotic delicacies, passed out paper hats and Halloween horns, and poured a small drink of Italian champagne with the compliments of the cap-

tain. as they said, which was intended to prime the party, a a a l American Lady of Abundant Years T>UT we were an ill-assorted lot of Americans and Italians, including, of course, the inevitable American lady of abundant years, but girlish, who insists on speaking table d'hote French, blows smoke through her nose and prefers to live in the old world because they do things so much better over here. There was a performance of uncommonly bad amateur vaudeville by members of the ship's company in the theater in the third-class quarters and the gala fizzed out in three or four distant pairs sitting around the grand salon built for 300 and conversing in whispers like conspirators. Not a cork popped and by midnight the only people abroad were the deck force hosing down the promenade and the stewards gathering up the paper caps and horns to be returned to the ship's store for another gala, God alone knows when. The party died for lack of numbers, for a party is not made of wine alone nor is it a prize fight which makes a Battle of the Century. Had I been the only spectator at the Tunney-Dempsev fights. I doubt that I would remember them at all. And if there was nobody to admire and cheer the young European officers in their bird of paradise uniforms, they might feel as ridiculous as the man wearing a paper cap and blowing a horn all by himself and decide to wear more sensible and manly clothes.

B B B War Boats Not Worth Their Paint 'J''HERE was a miscellaneous fleet of little war boats tied up near the subs in Naples, apparently old yachts, one with a torpedo slung from a crane at her stern and the whole lot of them hardly worth their paint, much less a listing in the naval force, except perhaps as patrols. The only really professional warship in sight aside from the. subs was a cruiser and she had such an untidy look on her decks in contrast to the clear, burnished aspect of the British ships at Gibraltar that but for her colors and absence of ship’s crew she might have been mistaken for a Greek flagship. A small freighter pried itself loose and went walking off to sea without a tug and with men crowding her decks. The lounge steward said she was a mule boat bound for the war. as they call the great emancipation project in unguarded moments. This would mean a few more shillings for the British government, which owns nearly half of Suez Canal and receives an annual dividend of 75 per cent on her original investment from tolls. The Rex stood high above the landing at Naples and as soon as the planks were down there came a hurried clumping sound as a file of 60 Italian laborers from Canada and the United States rushed out of a hole in the ship's side, carrying their bundles like the immigrants who used to pour through Ellis Island. Probably out of jobs and homesick anyway, they had volunteered for service as civilian laborers in Abyssinia among their own people, combining patriotism with the prospect of a pioneer’s life and a pioneer’s farm in anew country under their own flag. tt tt tt No 111 Feeling Toward Americans T HIRED a car from an aggressive young man, the son of an Italian father and an American mother, who spoke English well and remarked with ecstatio enthusiasm that his number had turned up and he would be going off to emancipate the slaves himself in a short time. He said that there was no ill feeling toward Americans in Italy, but when we passed a funeral a little later I remembered the adventure of the American musicians in Rome who had their ears punched off when they failed to lift their hats to the hearse. So I lifted my hat with deep reverence and considerable ostentation. And why not? Is there anything wrong about a little respect for the departed? I have made a conscious effort to temper my spiritual independence with an ingredient of tact in this, understanding they have censors in Italy and hoping to spend a few weeks in the country. Up to this moment I have not found my flycop and I am not even certain that my flycop has found me. although he might be the waiter, the concierge or the taximan. Maybe it isn’t true at all that they put a flycop on a visiting journalist. You can hear anything you want to hear on the outside and the only way to check up is to come and see.

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IN his “Stumbling Into Socialism” (Appleton-Cen-tury, $1.50) David Lawrence has written a political tract which is sure to be widely used by Republicans in the campaign of 1936. It is a spirited and insidious diatribe against Roosevelt and the New Deal. The Roosevelt Administration is portrayed as making a stealthy attempt to set up a socialistic regime under the guise of restoring prosperity, as creating a vast and expensive bureaucracy, as having surrendered to the spirit of political venality and as having conspired to destroy our sacred and venerable Constitution. Hence the volume is an anthology of absurdities and misinformation, the like of which has rarciy emerged from the pen of a writer of as high a degree of literacy and repute as David Lawrence. It is the harder to forgive him because we can be certain that he knows better. tt a a MOREOVER, it is significant to remember that Mr. Lawrence was once fervently devoted to Woodrow Wilson and the New Freedom. Doctrines similar to those of ?dr. Roosevelt do not seem to have aroused in him between 1913 and 1917 any such attitude of anguish and alarm as now rends his soul. Flying in the face of the best political- knowledge, legal opinion and the recent decisions of the Supreme Court. Mr. Lawrence contends that recovery might be achieved within the limits imposed by strict constitutionality of procedure. It may be fairly observed, however, that it Is doubtful that Mr. Lawrence's reform program would achieve recovery or if even this inadequate platform would get by the Supreme Court. (By Dr. Harry Elmer Bsgnpes).

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