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It Seems to Me BEWOD BROUN IWAS talking In Washington with a second-string player on the New Deal team, a nd he showed me a rousing editorial from the Washington News. "That fellow has said,” he exclaimed, "Just what I'd like to say myself, just what most of us would like to say, if we only had the chance.’’ When I asked him why he didn’t make the chance for himself he mentioned something called “party discipline.” It seems to me that the tactics of Franklin Roosevelt at the moment are having a decidedly

chilling effect. To be sure, he may have some deep strategic plan. Perhaps he sees himself standing on Bunker Hill and reserves his fire until the foe advances a little further. But it is well to remember that, in spite of losses, the British got the hill. I must say that in my mind the most valuable member of the Administration forces is the very man who has often been called a handicap by the President’s more timid counselors- Guy Rexford Tugwell has always stressed the positive achievements of the New Deal. He has not apologized or

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equivocated. 000 T. R. Put Lip Battle ■jkii'R. ROOSEVELT himself spoke with a good deal of vigor at the opening of Congress, but he let the Jackson Day dinner pass without seizing the opportunity to launch a drive to curb the judicial oligarchy, And more recently he paid tribute to the memory of his fifth cousin and never mentioned the fact that T. R. was something less than slavish in his attitude toward the Supreme Court. It seems to me that the President’s legal staff has been a great deal less than masterful in its presentation of cases before the high court. Seldom has the court been asked frankly and directly to establish new precedents in order to meet new necessities. The Supreme Court should be pinned down specifically to rule whether or not we are to have a functioning national government or to go back to some sort of economic succession. Justice Stone, in his dissenting opinion, argued the case for Triple A far more eloquently than the government’s attorneys. Only recently I saw a Federal judge quoted in the newspapers as saying that economics have no place in a law court. They say that a friend once said to a venerable member of the high bench, “You really ought to know something about economics,” and he shipped the old gentleman a box of books. The learned jurist turned over the pages of one volume idly and then ordered his servant, “Take these down to the cellar!” 000 All Checks, No Balances NOW, surely, instead of a government of checks and balances, we have a government of balk and haul. The legislative branch must deal with economic necessity, and the judicial branch seems prepared to say that these are matters of no consequence. I have heard a good many say, “The Supreme Court will not be an issue in the 1936 campaign. President Roosevelt does not care to bring it up.” But election day is still a good many weeks away, and if Roosevelt and the Democratic Party reluse to make this fight there is nothing to prevent a Farmer-Labor Party from taking up the battle to make progressive and radical legislation possible. And even out of the ranks of the President’s own supporters there may come some who will say those things they want to say. Attackers can for a little while move through the wheat, but the moment comes when it is necessary to stand up and rush the enemy. This is the zero hour! (Copyright, 1936)

Sees Court Uneasy, Weary of Disputes BY RAYMOND CLAPFER WASHINGTON, Jan. 25—Is it possible that some members of the Supreme Court, if not a majority, would welcome orderly and appropriate action which would relieve that tribunal from reviewing such fundamental policies as those embodied in AAA and other recent legislation? This writer can not say that he know? such an attitude is entertained by any member of the court.

But it seems natural to suppose that some of the justices regret being placed in a position which involves the court in deep political controversy and aligns it against the other co-ordinate branches. It would not be surprising if even some of those who have felt impelled to decide against New Deal measures share this view as a matter of longrange judicial statesmanship. This is not to suggest that any member would shirk a responsibility. The thought is that in the interest of preserving the

prestige of the court action specifically defining its responsibility would clraify its authority. And thereby reinforce it. an n AVNCE before the Supreme Court was in similar difficulty, and welcomed relief from Congress—temporarily. Shortly after the Civil War when the Federal government was having difficulty enforcing reconstruction laws, Southern states went into the courts to protect citizens from the Federal military One Mississippi editor, McCardle, had been arrested. He started habeas corpus proceedings which eventually reached the Supreme Court. Thaddeus Stevens and other Northern extremists feared the court would use this case to invalidate the reconstruction acts. So 18 days after the McCardle case was argued before the Supreme Court, Congress passed an act—over Johnson's veto—prohibiting the exercise by the court of jurisdiction on appeals arising out of habeas corpus proceedings. * A year later the court, in a unanimous opinion, accepted this restriction, and dismissed the McCardle case for want of jurisdiction. Chief Justice Chase said: • * "The provision of the act of 1867 affirming the appellate jurisdiction of this court in cases of habeas corpus, is expressly repealed. It is hardly possible to imagine a clearer case of positive exception. We are not at liberty to inquire into the motives of the legislature. We can only examine into its .power under the Constitution; and the power to makq exceptions to the appellate jurisdiction of this court is given in express words. . . Without jurisdiction the court can not proceed . . . this court can not proceed to pronounce judgment in this cause, for it has no longer jurisdiction of the appeal; and judicial duty is not less fitly performed by declining ungranted jurisdiction than in exercising firmly that which the Constitution and the laws confer.” • mm However, it didn't last long. Thaddeus Stevens, the firebrand of the fight against the court, had Jied. The impeachment of Johnson had faile# nid the power of the Northern Republican extremists had been broken. So within a short time a cate aunost exactly parallel with that of McCardla came before the court and it took jurisdiction, on the ground that Congress, in its recent law, had intended to aim only at the McCardle case. Which, some would say, shows it takes more than Congress to keep a good court down M

EDWARD VIII—BRITAIN’S NEW KING • • • o#o mm* m m m m m m Horsemanship Helped Him Win Boers’ Favor on South Africa Visit

la till, the fifth of Milton Bronaer’t stories on the life of Britoin's new King, bis experiences in Africa are told. Mr. Bronner has served N&A Service in London for many years, and has followed the new monarch's actions closely. BY MILTON BRONNER Jan. 25.—(NEA) —In South Africa, where Edward VIII went after visiting India, Canada and other countries on his tour of good will as “Britain’s royal drummer,” his winning personality scored another triumph. Hardly had he arrived than he captured the old Boer element—and he did it neatly by a sudden inspiration. His train was to be met at a certain little way station whence he was to ride in an auto to the town some miles away, being escorted by a mounted command of Boers. The prince took one look and said he would like to ride with the commando. A horse was found for him and together they galloped

across the veldt. When they reached the town the Boers wondered where the prince was. They saw no mito with the distinguished guest. Then somebody recognized him as the young fellow whose face vas covered with sweat and dust. They went wild over him and ever after that whenever he visited a Boer settlement he had to ride with the commando. 000 HE also visited the war-like native Negro tribes like the Zulus and Bantus. At one place over 100,000 were in line. They danced their native dances. They made him one of themselves by their native decorations. From South Africa he crossed the Atlantia to visit Uruguay and the Argentine. He delighted the leading men of Buenos Aires by making a little speech in Spanish. It was recognized he had done a lot of good for British business, which was being crowded out by the Americans. In 1927 he made a trip to Spain and thence to Canada. Early in 1928 he started on his last empire trip which was to take him from Cairo, Egypt, down through Kenya, Uganda, and thence back to South Africa for Christmas. He was accompanied by his brother Henry, Duke of Gloucester. As the duke had never before crossed the equator, extensive preparations were made duly to shave duck him. The prince entered whole-heartedly into the proceedings. He himself was naned as assistant barber and go'- himself up in perhaps the funniest costume that ever the heir to a great throne was seen in. He wore ragged trousers and skirt and had a huge charcoal mustache painted on his face. He was so intent on shaving Henry that he did not notice what was going on behind him. At a given signal when Henry was tossed into the ducking pond, a huge sailor grabbed Edward and threw him in, too.

'Snow Trains' Take 'Em Off, Bring Them Back Limping

BY ERNIE PYLE NEW YORK, Jan. 25.—New York is going crazy over skiing. You can’t ski on Broadway, of course, go every week-end the railroads run “snow trains” to New England, and to upper New York state. And they’re packed. “Snow trains” are an old thing in Europe. But the idea came to America only 10 or 12 years ago. The first ones were in Canada. About six years ago they started running them out of Boston and Albany to the mountains. Last year a few were run out of New York as an experiment. The idea caught on instantly. And this winter a half dozen snow trains run out of Grand Central Station every week-end. Aboard them are from 2000 to 5000 very gay people who like to slide down hill with boards on their feet. On a recent week-end, for example, two trains of nine cars each left Grand Central just before midnight for ther seven hour run to North Creek, N. Y. an i tt THERE were hundreds of people in bright and foreignlooking skiing suits, with skis in their arms, packs on their backs, dark goggles for their eyes, stocking caps, mittens. There were Germans, with their short leggings; men who had served in German army ski regiments. There were Norwegians, and Austrians. and Italians; there were as many women as men. and whole families, men as old as 70, children as young as 8, all in their ski outfits. Each train carried five sleepers, three day coaches, and an equip-

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ONCE in equatorial Africa, the Prince did all the things he liked to do. He rode in several races and won with his mounts. Before that, while in Egypt, he had done something that perhaps nobody else in the world ever did. He climbed to the top of the great pyramid and drove a golf ball into the desert, using the pyramid as a tee . At one famous golf course in Uganda he played on grounds that are often wandered across by night by huge hippopotami. Therefore there is a club rule that if anybody’s golf ball falls into a hippopotamus’ footprints he may be allowed to lift the ball out before taking the next shot. Edward of Wales duly lodged one in one .of those impromptu hippopotamus bunkers and also duly availed himself of the privilege of the rule. , At Kamapala, in Uganda, a little port on giant Lake Victoria, he reviewed 20,000 native warriors. They had their big corps of native drummers with them and the Prince delighted them by inciting the musicians to thunderous efforts. Then he went into jungle country, where he bagged a couple of lions and a big bull elephant. It was while down there that he got the news of his father’s serious illness and hastened back to the coast to returp home. From that time on concern for his father's health kept him close to England. 0 0 0 DESPITE the tremendous wealth that was at his command had he cared to us it, Britain’s new Kirtg lived simply when he was Prince of Wales. His quarters were comparable to countless other young bachelors of well-to-do circumstances, although his position necessitated a large staff. When Edward was 21 he set up housekeeping on his own. One wing in St. James’s Palace, known as York House, became his, and he was given his own staff, consisting of equerries, a controller of his treasury and a clerical force.

ment car, where you could rent skis and boots and anything else in the snow line. Also, an instructor gives lessons on the train. Many of the people sat up all night, and had a great time. The round-trip fare was $6. Meals up there for two days, and room for one night, cost $4.50. You could rent skis and boots for $4. Skiing instruction cost $1 an hour. The 489 people on the two trains plodded and slid and fell all over the snow-covered mountains for two days. Late Sunday afternoon they piled into the train and came home. u u SOMEBODY nearly always is hurt. Serious injuries are rare, but someone in the party is apt to come home with a sprained ankle or knee. And most of them come back with muscles so sore they can hardly get to work Monday morning. Pew ride the “snow trains” for skating or bob sledding. It seems that skiers don’t like skaters or bob sledders. They get in the way. The “snow train” season will last until mid-MarcVi. The trains don't go to the same places every week-end. It depends on snow conditions. Sometimes they have to change at the last minute. The two-day trains have time to go farther north, where there is always good snow. One trip goes clear to Stowe, Vt. Huge bulletin boards in Grand Central station show conditions at a dozen mountain points in New York. Massachusetts, Vermont and New Hampshire. For instance it lists Stowe with the notation “good skiing.” Below is a painted thermometer showing

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The ground floor of York House contained the offices of his staff and his small and simple dining room. The next floor contained his own private quarters, consisting of two sitting rooms, a bedroom and a bathroom. There was an absence of luxury and pomp about his own quarters that marked him out as being more of a soldier than a Prince. None of the rooms was luxuriously furnished nor over-bur-dened with the souvenirs and gifts that have been showered on him in his world trips. Most of the decorations were photographs of his royal kinsmen and of close personal friends. 000 ONE of the sitting rooms was used as an informal reception room here he received his close friends and cabinet ministers. The other sitting room, to which outsiders werp rarely admitted, was used as a workroom. Its chief ornament was a big desk piled with letters and reports upon which he had to pass. His bedroom was far simpler

Washington Merry-Go-Round BY DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25—Inside word among A1 Smith’s close friends is that he is being groomed by Tammany to be Mayor New York in 1937. Al’s Liberty League speech is the touch-off in this drive. Tammany leaders, bitter at Roosevelt because of the way he has played ball with Mayor La Guardia in granting relief funds and patronage, are reported to be ready to gang up on the President. It is not unlikely that the 1936 election will find the Democratic machine in New York City throwing its weight against a Democratic President and for the Republicans. If so, Roosevelt will lose New York State. Certainly if A1 Smith has his way that will happen. nun Real Artistry FOR real artistry in gladhanding Senator “Jim Ham” Lewis is in a class by himself. While standing in a Washington hotel lobby the magniloquent, toupee-wearing Illinoisan was greeted by an acquaintance, who asked to present a friend. The friend had never met Lewis before, knew him only by reputation. But “Jim Ham,” ever the canny politician, took no chances. With great warmth he exclaimed: “My dear sir, so nice to see you —AGAIN” the temperature at 25, and the snow is reported 15 inches deep. It takes at least two inches on smooth hills for skiing. But it isn't really good unless there’s about six sinches. A real ski man I talked with said he doesn’t think of the snow necessary for skiing, but rather for falling. When you take a header into a hillside you need a lot of snow.

than that of many a less important and less well-to-do bachelor. It had something about it that by its neatness and even severity recalled that of an army officer with none too much coin of the. realm. The Prince was never nursemaided by a personal valet. His personal friend, Maj. Verney, a few years ago in a book about him revealed the fact that he shaved and dressed himself. He had no “man” hanging about him handing him things. His personal mail was handled by two private secretaries and his business affairs by his controller. 000 AS Prince he was quite a property owner, not only in his duchy of Cornwall, but also in the

Lofty Ideals OUIET-MANNERED W. Prank Persons, director of the United States Employment Service, is rapidly becoming one of the most unpopular executives in the New Deal. Two potent groups are after his scalp, but so far he has persisted unyieldingly in his policies. The cause of Persons’ disfavor can be summed up in one word —patronage. Democratic politicos are up in arms because he insists on Civil Service appointees in his bureati. Laborites are bitter because he is loading up his staff with college men. The union leaders angrily contend that practical men taken from trade ranks would make better employment directors than college graduates who may know little or nothing about workingmen’s jobs. Persons, a former Russell Sage Foundation researcher, can’t see the argument of either group. To the politicians he replies that the only way to build up an efficient, trustworthy service is to pick men solely on the basis of merit and give them permanence of tenure. To the laborites he retorts that directing an employment office requires more background and training than trade experience. How long Persons will be allowed to hew to the lofty line he has set remains to be seen. With the 1936 campaign looming he may find that the demands of politics are more powerful than those of principle. tt a Big Trouble IT TROUBLES Hallie Flanagan that she can’t put elephants on relief. “I have a friend who is a firstclass circus performer, but he can’t do his act without his elephants, and we can’t support the elephants. I wish we could.” Hallie Flanagan is a blond,

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Kensington district of London, all matters in connection with his property were carefully taken up by him with his controller. Early in his young manhood he became interested in the abolition of tenement slums. To that end he set a good example by tearing down a lot of his property in Kensington and putting up model flats and houses for the working class. Not only that, but he often rode over the Thames to Kensington personally to inspect his rebuilt properties and to see how his tenants were getting along. One of his tenement flats in Kensington, rented to working people at a very moderate sum, is far more up-to-date and far better arranged than some of the flat buildings inhabited by wealthier classes on the more fashionable side of London. Monday: Edward VIII and his bachelor state.

school-marmish little woman of 34, who left off being director of dramatics at Vassar College to become director of the biggest theatrical producing organization in the world. It is the WPA theatrical project. She has 50 plays in rehearsal at one time: employs 7351 actors and stagehands. Half of these are men and women who have been pounding the sidewalks of Broadway. The other half come chiefly from Los Angeles, Boston and Chicago. But by a recent ruling, they can perform outside their own states. Miss Flanagan says actors are getting over the sense of shame they had about being in a relief troupe. “We've got some of the best known actors in the country,” she boasts. “And playwrights, too. But they are working at research projects.” u tt u Writers * Trick THE trick here is that if a playwright writes a play on Uncle Sam’s time, the play becomes the property of the government. So they do “research work” for their relief wage, and creative work on the side. Hallie Flanagan i got a reputation for sternness when she once reprimanded President McCracken of Vassar for being late at a rehearsal. Fact is, however, she is timid and press-shy. Harry Hopkins drafted Miss Flanagan, because he knew her at Grinnell College, lowa, where they both studied. But Miss Flanagan prefers to speak not of Grinnell, but of Radcliffe and Vassar. When her study of the Russian theater is mentioned, she prefers to stress that she studied also in Greece and Africa. Like Frances Perkins, Miss Flanagan is a “Lucy Stoner,” uses her maiden name. In private life she is Mrs. Philip H. Davis, wife of Vassar’s professor of Greek. (Copyright. 1939. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

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Fair Enough MM PEtflt LONDON, Jan. 25.—A dead King was drawn through the streets of London, his coffin draped in the royal standard and surmounted bv his imperial crown. There is a touch of irony in the royal standard, for it contains, among other devices, the harp of Erin, suggesting the royal authority of this most affectionate King over a land where a dozen yeara ago he dissembled his love through the agency of the terrorists of the Black and Tan army, who burned

houses and shot men in the night. Among the many expressions of sympathy and sorrow which have been received from various units of the British empire and foreign lands that 0 f the Irish people has thus far eluded your correspondent. And though the English papers observe that the mourning is universal, that country known in song as the most distressful ever appears not to have been heard from yet. The London crowds which lined the way from King’s Cross to Westminster, where the King was placed to lie in state, were

solemn, silent and reverent but unemotional, and the somber simplicity of the progress through the streets was in dramatic contrast to the gaudy rites of ancient chivalry by which the King’s son had been proclaimed Edward the Eighth 24 hours before. 000 The King’s Companies •pOUR mounted men in black rode before the gun X carriage. A special guard from the King’s company of the grenadiers walked beside the coffin. There are five regiments of guards, and each regiment has a King's company composed of picked men over six feet. The escort wore tall fuzzy busbies designed originally to exaggerate the height of the soldiers and intimidate men in little hats. That, however, was before the day of gas and machine guns. Behind the gun carriage three civilians in formal black mourning strode along, the new King in the middle, his brothers the Duke of York and the Duke of Gloucester beside him. Then there was a 20-yaird space and a party of intimate friends of the late King and palace officials followed. At the entrance to the Savoy Hotel in the Strand for an hour before the cortege passed a gang of window washers with tall ladders had been making a few honest shillings helping people to climb up on the stout concrete awnings which cover the sidewalk, and a Swiss maitre d’hotel finally had issued from the lobby in a fury of officious dignity to order the customers down. They told him to gj on back inside and wash hia dishes and held their places, although the window washers disappeared with their ladders. And the problem of getting down had to be faced later. They may be up there yet. 000 Papers Are Sentimental Men and women perched among the gargoyles along the route and hung out of windows, and others stood on the roofs of parked taxicabs. The store fronts were not festooned, but th§ window displays were either dressed in black or marked with a black painted plank running from top to bottom through the middle. Although the feelings of the British people ar# sincerely solemn, the position of the King and the ballyhoo of the English press make it impossible to conduct so simple a rite as the burial of a dead friend without exaggeration and exploitation. The papers pursue a sentimental policy in the best of times, but with the death of the King they have become hysterical, and the most commonplace trifles in the life of a man who seems to have had neither vanity nor personal motives have been magnified into acts of sublime condescension, all of which betrays again the ineradicable snobbishness of the royal system and of those Englishmen who constantly protest their own democracy. Eight days will have elapsed between the death and burial of the King. And though the obsequies are much more tastefully done and with glorious pageantry, the purpose, after all, is no different from that of the funeral orgies which attended the burial of Abraham Lincoln and Warren G. Harding under the auspices of the Republican National Committee.

Gen. Johnson Says—

NEW YORK, Jan. 25.—Should the Nye Committee be choked off? Os course not. The Senator pulled a boner by mud-daubing an heroic figure. But suppression of the truth would be a bigger boner. When honestly marshaled and correctly appraised, all of the facts in the entire incident of our embroilment of the World War are to the highest credit of this nation and of Woodrow Wilson. In the second place, even if they were not. suppression merely magnifies what errors and blunder* there were, out of all proportion to their true significance, and leaves a smudge of national doubt, fear and misgiving over what, otherwise, is a brilliant chapter in our history. Did Woodrow Wilson know about all secret treaties? What if he did? As international law and practice then stood, we had been pushed to a point where peace was impossible much longer. If we had not taken the defensive against German encroachment** we would assuredly have been forced to defend ourselves against allied aggressions. a tt WOODROW WILSON’S knowledge of what th* allies promised each other to cement their allegiance is irrelevant. The important allegation, however, is that afterward he denied knowledge. In other words, the only point is: “Was Wilson a liar?” Stated that way, the whole thing is absurd. That tombstone-jawed covenanter has been accused of much, but never before of lying. What misunderstanding there may have been Is another matter. Misunderstanding there certainly was because some of the “secret” (i. e„ unproclaimed) treaties were nevertheless matters of public knowledge. and so, obviously, of Wilson’s. Others he couldn’t have known about. He almost shattered himself, and did destroy his deification in Italy, by battering down some secret engagements which had brought that country into the war. That was wholly inconsistent with any knowledge of them. Anyway! “Heir 'n Maria we won the war, didn’t we?” • Copyright, 1935, by Unit ed Feeture Syndicate, Inc.). *

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T> Y a very miracle of timeliness, anew book by -D Lincoln Ellsworth reaches the public just as that doughty explorer h?ads hack toward civilization after his rescue from the ice at the Bay 'tef w hales. This book—“ Exploring Today” * & Cos., $1.75) —is a pleasant, unassuming little vo.um# addressed to all ambitious young men who would like to become explorers themselves. Such people, says Mr. Ellsworth, commonly ask two questions: "How can I become an explorer?” and “What is there left to explore?" Answering the first, he advises: Acquire one of the skills that are essential on expeditions. Become a good aviator, or radio man, or geologist, or meteorologist; fit yourself for the job before you apply for it; interest yourself in the work of your local museum; in general, make yourself the kind of persond'who would be useful on an exploratory expe

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