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BRISBANE THIS WEEK ' War? Who Know*? Hanging " How Old Is Graft? What Are Life and Death? Lloyd George says there will be no war “this time,** hot some in Europe

do not agree. MusIsolinl wants France and England to join him in an agreed ment to any outbreak affecting them. France is said to have moved troops for defense to the German frontier, although it is hard to guess what those troops could do. If Germany declared war it would be with planes dropping explosives and

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poison gas on Paris. No nation at war will sit In trenches for four or five years, now that flying Is real. Britain, going a long way around, wisely, sends a suave statesman. Op* tain Eden, to Moscow to see Stalin of Russia. The talk, not published, may have been like this: If England agrees to help you fight Japan, will you help against Germany, in ease of need? A British naval officer cut the throat of a shipmate. In England they hang you for that When hanging time came, Mrs. Violet Vandereist. prosperous widow, opposed to the death, penalty, hired two planes to fly back and forth above the gallows, trailing banners reading, “Stop the death sentence." ■While airplanes flew overhead, trucks drove back and forth before the jail, with loud speakers bellowing “Abide With Me." The man that “killed his comrade steeping,*' or however he did it. did not “abide." He went through the trap. The British believe In' discouraging murder, and prompt punishment seems to do IL Graft and dishonesty are old. as old as human need and cunning. A papyrus written 1.200 years before Christ tells of three men tried for robbing a royal tomb. Egyptian kings were descended from the gods; to,rob their tombs was sacrilege, the punishment death. A dishonest jeweler, putting base metal in a supposedly “pure gold" crown for King Hiero, was exposed by the great Archimedes, who thought out a method In his bath, and started the word "eureka" down through the ages. Michael Angelo, building St Peter’s at Rome, complained to the pope of the materials furnished by contractors. reminding his holiness that he, Michael Angelo, would make no profit from St. Peter’s except “benefit to my soul." and urged the pope to punish the grafters. There is even graft now In this modern, enlightened republic. What la life? What Is death? What are we? An English gentleman "dies"; doctors pronounce him dead. He returns to life, says he has been tn heaven, tells what he saw—a dull account, clothing the same as we wear here. How far. how fast, did his spirit travel while he was “dead”? What does the soul do while the body Is supposedly dead? Does It go away and come back, or just wait around Inside the body? What is death? Some say It Is only a “belief," and there Is no such thing. In New York’s American Museum of Natural History la shown a drawing of the largest land mammal that ever lived, named Raluchlterium. Thia huge animal, which vanished from earth 25,000,000 years ago, stood 17 feet 9 Inches high at the shoulder, was as big as two big elephants, weighed 20,000 pounds or more. It was not as Mg as a dinosaur, but the dinosaur laid eggs and was no mammal. A food problem might be solved if the “biggest mammal" could be brought back and raised by cattlemen. It ate 500 pounds of food a day; that must be considered. In America it might be necessary to drown the mammal Balueh!terium, with her unborn babies Sir John Simon, returning from an unsatisfactory talk with Hitler, reports “certain divergencies” of opinion. That is going pretty far for a British' statesman. There is a bigger fly than that In the ointment: Sir John learns from Hitler that Germany “already has a« larger air force than that of Great Britain." Britain thought Germany had only half as many planes. A wise statesman gets his fighting airplanes ready before he starts to fight. In France three persons “sterilised" at their own request by **a mysterious Austrian doctor" because they did not want to have children have been arrested. France, striving for more population, believes that “sterilization" can bo overdone. The mysterious Austrian performed 19 operations on men and women before disappearing. - gk Shar FMtwvs Sr»4 teat*. las. WNU Sscvtot. Foreign Lsgisaa - * ea - j— n LuMan In® w® •*li>*®**® übs ion* been used tor irregular volunteer corps of foreign sympathisers raised by nations or states at war. Many such Jogtoas existed during the wars of independence of the South American cornstrie*. -Don’t imagine." said Uncle «Mat you shows s— artniss by bein’ deceitful Ono of de hardest things in d. world is to tell nuffin’but de exact truth and st«l bo good company • ■

News Review of Current Events the World Over! JVye’s Committee Offers Drastic War-Profit Bill—Anstiui Decides to Enlarge Its Army—Progress of European Peace Negotiations. By EDWARD W. PICKARD ©, Western Newspaper Union.

OENATOR GERALD P. NYE’Smunitionz committee, which has spent •even months investigating the doings of the manufacturers of arms and

armament, reported to the senate its measure designed to take the profits out of war and provide for the conscription of Industry in the event of another armed conflict involving the United States. The bill is decidedly drastic. giving to the President in war time powers that are prac-

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tically dictatorial, permitting him not only to fix prices but also to license all Industry and control raw materials. It also has taxation features that will arouse considerable opposition. It would raise individual Income taxes to 6 per cent In wartime, levy surtaxes up to M per cent on incomes In excess of SIO,OOO, and seize profits of corporations In excess of 6 per cent return on invested capital. The Nye bill gives the President very broad powers to fix prices of commodities, to license Industry, to enjoin profiteering and to prevent the hoarding of goods. It provides for the drafting of industrial leaders, who would be permitted to remain with their companies, subject to military law and given rank and compensation not exceeding that of a brigadier general Meanwhile the house military affairs committee reported the McSwain bill, similar to the senate measure but without the tax features. This lack made the more radical members angry but when they tried to amend the bill they were routed. 258 to 71. The Nye senate committee, after reporting Its bill, continued Its Inquiry. It heard a rather sensational bit of evidence to the effect that Roger S. McGrath, an insurance company agent who was described as a friend of the President’s son James, had sought successfully to obtain two naval building contracts for the Bath Iron Works up in Maine. FOLLOWING the example set by Hitler. Austria has decided to disregard the limitations on its military strength set by the treaty of St. Germain and to increase Its armed forces Immediately. The official communique issued by Chancellor Kurt Schuschnlgg did not say how big the army would be or whether -Conscription would be restored. The annual spring parade of the army at the Ringstrasse In Vienna was revived, and the troops appeared In fine hew uniforms. It is believed Hungary and Bulgaria soon will ask permission to increase their armies and re-introduce conscription. SOVIET Russia is ready to line up with Great Britain, France and Italy in promoting the general European security pact which Is the basis

of England’s plan for peace. This was brought out by the visit to Moscow of Capt Anthony Eden. British lord privy seal, and his conferences with Dictator Josef Stalin and Maxim Litvinov, Soviet foreign commissar. According to the joint communique given the press, these states

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men “were of the opinion that in the present international situation it Is more than ever necessary to pursue the endeavor to promote the building up of a system of collective security in Europe as contemplated in the AngloFrench communique of the third of February, and in conformity with the principles of the League of Nations." It was made clear that Germany and Poland would be welcome to enter the arrangement, but that it would go ahead even without them. Captain Eden then went on to Warsaw to talk things over with the Poles; and even as he was departing from Moscow the Soviet press launched another fierce attack on Germany. Michael Tukhachevsky, vice commissar for defense, in an article In the newspaper Pravda, declared Germany would have an army of 849.000 by the sum mer. exceeding the French army by 40 per cent and almost equaling the Soviet army in size. He charged Hitler with "lulling France to sleep** with ant! Soviet ww i talk in the hope France would not . realize her own periL Tukhachevsky’s view that Germany contemplates attacking France was i supported by an authorised article In : the weekly Journal de Moscou which . asserted the leaders of the relcb realised "the exceptional risk to which Germany would subject herself by invasion i of the tremendous territories of the U. 8. S. R.—a country possessing powerful , armaments and unlimited opportunities ‘ for improving and increasing these •ramments." “It Is almost probable," tbd Journal said, “that under certain circumstances Hitler will prefer other fields of eg* gresslon. and an intensified revtstan : of the map of will be started i not In the east but in the west," PREMIER MUSSOLINI to highly ' * Skeptical of the success of efforts to * persuade Germany to enter into general peace plans for Europa. In his Popolo dTteUa, appeared an editorial, probably writtea by tt > dace himself, warning his fellow that no mlracutom results 1 asay be expected from the conference ’ of foreign ministers in Utm* It aso

ers “must stabilise their line of common action against several eventualities which can be foreseen, and they must take definite responsibility." It then charged that the French and British are impeding Mussolini’s wish to take action against Hitler because of their preoccupation about their own Internal policy. Premier Flandin and Foreign Minister Laval of France were reported ro ; have devised a vast, new, flexible plan j to organise the peace of the continent within the framework of the League of Nations. DOLAND appears to have decided to * play a lone hand in the European embroglio, though she remains friendly to Germany. It is reported that Captain Eden’s visit to Warsaw was as disappointing as was that of Sir John Simon to Berlin. The Polish government Is determined to sign no pact that would commit the nation to fight for Russia against Germany or for Germany against Russia and France, nor will it permit either German or Russian troops to be transported across Poland. The Polish statesmen say they will sign a series of bilateral pacts, and will go as far as any other nation in parallel disarmament. They assert that they have no alliance with Germany, though their mutual troubles have been settled for the next ten years, and that the alliance with France still holds good. C'ROM Tokyo there came a stater ment Indicating that Japan would give at least moral support to the European powers that are seeking

agreements to counteract Hitler’s move for the re-armament of Germany, It was given out by Eiji A man, the frequently quoted spokesman for the foreign office. He said Japan will hold aloof from the European crisis and that there would be no far eastern Locarno pact, but that “we cannot

think of any alliance with Germany." Tokyo, asserted Arnau, is ready to discuss with Russia some degree of demilitarization of the eastern frontiers. 4 tpoREIGN nations that discriminate * against American imports have been warned by President Roosevelt that they must discontinue that practice uhder penalty of economic reprisals by the United States. In a letter to Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau the President outlined his foreign trade policy and disclosed the fact that ths administration is considering denouncing existing trade pacts with Germany. Italy, Portugal and Denmark because of discrimination. He proclaimed the new Belgian-American reciprocal trade agreement, and also decreed that, pending the conclusion of negotiations for new pacts now in progress, the reduced duties and other concessions granted Belgium will be extended to Canada. Spain. The Netherlands. Switzerland and Lichtenstein for six months. jTh EBATE on the Copeland-Tugwell food. drug, cosmetic and advertising bill was lively in the senate, and the opposition was led by a Democrat. Josiah W. Bailey of North Caroli .a. who urged the retention of the present food and drug Ihw with such amendments as changed conditions require. “I understand the Department of Agriculture was created to foster agriculture and not to govern advertising," Senator Bailey said. “It is Inconceivable to me that It should take charge of medicine, cosmetics, and advertising. There might be an argument that the department has made such great triumphs in agriculture that it is seeking new worlds to conquer. But I believe that If some one should make that boast, I should agree that it had exceeded Samson in the slaughter of pigs, but had fallen far short of doing as good work in the matter of cotton as has the boll weeviL" BELGIUM’S new deal program, derived from President Rooeevelt’s policies, was launched by the young premier. Paul Van Zeeland, and he was given an overwhelming vote of confidence by the senate and chamber of deputies. The effect of going off the gold standard already is being felt, for prices of food staples are going up. The government warned traders that any undue Increases in prices would be punished severely. Premier Van Zeeland said: “I am a keen admirer of President Roosevelt, who obtained essential results mainly in allowing his country to work tn peace. He certainly committed errors. Had he based his program of economic expansion upon gold the world crisi s would be ended noo. But I apply those Rooseveltian measure* to Belgium which I consider good." STANLEY REED, the new solicitor general, obtained from the Supreme court permission to dismiss the government’s appeal In the Belcher lumber code case. Therefore there probably still be no decision as to the coustitetionaUty of the national industrial recovery act by the chief tribunal before congees* take* action on the bill to extend the recovery law. Belcher was indicted tor violating the hour and wage provisions of the lumber code bat Judge W. L Grobb <rf the Federal District court in Btrmtnyhtm held acalnrt the The indictment was dtsmlsssd. Oriihh ruled the NRA law unconstitutional. The government appealed to the Supreme courL

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VITHEN the Illinois legislature, nt ’ ’ the behest of Governor Horner and the federal administration, passed a state recovery act the New Dealers hailed this as an example that all states should follow. Now County Judge Homer W. Hall at Bloomington has held that the act is unconstitutional. He also declared the national automobile code Inoperative as applied to Dllnoia Under the state recovery act, the judge remarked, an unlawful delegation of the authority of the state legislature has brought about a situation whereby violations of the state act can be prosecuted by the state only through the sanction and by the authority of the federal director of codes. “Delegated authority may not be redelegated.” the judge said. “Authority delegated by the people to the legislature permitting the making of laws may not be fedelegated by the legislature to communities, bureaus, code authorities or executives, allowing these agencies to make rules with the effect of laws, the violation of which makes the individual amenable to the criminal statutes." THROUGH the efforts of Donald Richberg, chairman of-the NIRB, an agreement was reached by the b bituminous coal operators and the United Mine Workers, whereby the prevailing coal code is extended to June 16 and a threatened strike of about half a million miners averted. The present wages and hours of work are continued. President Lewis of the miners insisted the union had not yielded to the operators; but the fact remained that if it had not consented to the agreement Mr. Richberg could and would have extended the code by executive order. , SCORES of agents of the Department of Justice’s division of Investigation were carrying on a concentrated search for three men now listed as the worst “public enemies” at large, according to Chief J. Edgar jjbover. The three are: Alvin Karpis, twenty-five, a leader in the notorious Barker-Karpis kidnap and bank robbery gang; Raymond Hamilton, twenty-two, killer who broke jail while awaiting execution, and Thomas H. Robinson, Jr... twentyeight, kidnaper of Mrs. Alice Speed Stoll, wealthy young society matron of Louisville, Ky. f'ANE of America’s leading sculptors, Augustus Lukeman, died in New York at the age of sixty-four years. After Borglum was ousted by the Confederate memorial committee in 1925, Lukeman took over the work of carvIng the huge memorial on the face of Stone mountain in Georgia, completing It in 1928. He was chief of sculptors at the World’s fair in Chicago. OBEYING alleged directions from the yacht on which President Roosevelt was fishing in Florida waters, the majority in the house refused to accept the restrictions injected In the work relief bill and sent It back to conference to have these removed. The restrictions objectionable to rhe administration were those requiring senate confirmation of administrative officers of the program and that in loans and grants to states at least onethird of the money should be expended for direct labor. The latter requirement, according to Secretary Ickes and others, would result in the exclusion of rural electrification, slum clearance and similar projects. Defending the move to send the bill back to Buchanan of Georgia said: “The President is assuming responsibility. All we ask is to give him a bill that he can work on in shifting from dole to employment." In replying to Buchanan. Representative Robert Bacon (Rep., N. Y.) contended that the labor provision was needed in order to “kick out pet local projects” and afford as much direct relief of unemployment as possible. "Congress has reached a pretty low ebb,” declared Minority Leader Bertrand Snell (Rep., N. Y.), “when it can’t even pass on a conference report without receiving orders from the Chief Executive.” rpOR the second time the United 1 States Supreme court reversed the convictions and death sentences of two of the Scottsboro negroes who were accused of assault on two white girls. The court held that Since negroes in Alabama are Dot permitted to servo on juries, they are denied “equal protection of the laws" In violation of the Fourteenth amendment. It declared the state court erred in not quashing the indictments. Phis was a big victory for the colored race, bur in another decision by the Supreme court the negroes were the losers. The tribunal ruled that the Democratic party in Texas Is a voluntary association, not subject to control by the state legislature, and as such may exclude colored persons from voting in its primaries, DIRECT negotiations with Italy over the border dispute were broken off by the Ethiopian government, which sent a new note to the League of Nations. Special measures were taken to protect foreigners In Addis Ababa. The Italian government did not take this rupture seriously, still hoping a peaceful arrangement might be reached without the intervention of the league. It was reported in Paris that most of the Italian troops that started for Eritrea and Italian Somaliland have been diverted to Rhodes and Libya because of Germany’s sadden rearmament plan. KJ INETEEN card-uaH met with Pope Pius in a secret consistory. and to them he delivered an emphatic denunciation war. which, ho said, “would be so enormous a crime, so foolish a manifestation of fury, we believe tt absolutely impossible" If. taswssrAWAbea ffssMßto Im eomnnnn --*-*■ - UHOV KHNVUQQ woo WISMSB to commit “this nefarious crime," then, the holy father said, he could do nothing else than prey to God to “destroy those people who desire war." ixation of Blessed Thomas MorZ*Ktag Henry VlH’s chancellor, and Bishop John Fibber tost their beads for opposing Henry’s marriage to Anne Boleyn. | f

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ll "IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL SUNDA> I chool Lesson <Bv REV. P. R FITXWATKR. D. Du Member of Faculty. Moody Bible Institute of CblcaaO;) a ft. We-tern yTowananar Uniwn Lesson for April 14 CHRIST THE SAVIOUR LESSON TEXT—John 3:14-1?; Romans 5:4-10; Philippian** 3:5-11. GOLDEN TEXT—For God so loved the world, that he save his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:13. PRIMARY TOPIC—Why Jesus Came. JUNIOR TOPlC—Jesus the Saviour. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC—What It Means to Be Saved. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC —How Christ Saves Ue. It Is not feasible to consider all the texts proposed by the lesson commlti tee, but It Is desirable to select the I three suggested to be printed and to I introduce several others. I. The Saviour Predicted (Gen. 3:15; i Isa. 9:6. 7). ' t In connection with the fall of man and consequent pronouncement of judgment upon the woman, the man and the serpent, and the announcement of the undying enmity which was to exist between the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent, ultimate victory was predicted of the woman’s seed. On the cross of Calvary the stroke was made which imposed the death sentence (John 12:31; Heb. 2:14). In due time the unlawful ruler of the world will be displayed by the coming of the king and the establishment of a universal and everlasting kingdom. 11. The Saviour Born (Luke 2:11. 30, 32). That which had been predicted was . historically fulfilled tn the birth of Jesus Christ in Bethlehem. When Jesus was brought to the temple as a child the Holy Ghost revealed to Simeon that Jesus was the Messiah. 111. The Saviour Described. L A seeker of the lost (Luke 15:37). This seeking of the lost is illustrated by the man leaving the ninety and nine sheep and going after the one which was lost and his rejoicing over his success tn Great, Indeed, is the joy in heaven over the salvation of a lost soul. 2. He died for the lost (John 3:1417). God gave Jesus Christ to die to make an atonement for the sins of the j world. As the brazen serpent was lifted up In the wilderness bv Moses, so Jesus Christ was lifted up on the cross. As the Israelites only needed to look at the uplifted serpent, so the lost soul needs only to look to the crucified Christ for salvation. All who believe on him as their Saviour receive eternal life and, therefore, escape condemnation. i 3. He knows his own (John 10:14). The good Shepherd has a definite knowledge of the lost ones. He therefore seeks them out and gives his life for them. 4. He keeps his own (John 10:2729). Believers are Christ's sheep, and because they are his sheep, they hear I bls voice and follow him. He not only | knows them personally, but they, in turn, know him. He not only gives unto them eternal life, but holds them In his omnipotent hands. IV. Some Blessings Received | Through the Saviour. L Justification (Rom. 5:1-11). The one who receives Jesus Christ is by | the living God declared righteous. His guilt is removed and he is given the same standing as Jesus Christ himself. Because of this, the very peace of God settles down upon his soul. He has the assurance of God’s love and is able, therefore, to have joy in God himself. 2. Freedom from the power of sin (Rom. 6:1-7). It is not enough to be freed from the guilt of sin. there must be a dynamic which will enable the believer to live a life of victory over sin. Being vitally united to Jesus Christ in the power of his resurrection life, the dynamic is provided which enables ‘ the believer to triumph over sin. 3. He to free from the law as • means of sanctification (Rom. 7:1-6). Christ’s death nailed the law to the : tree. The one who has been vitally united to Jesus Christ by faith died j with Christ The law, therefore, has , no more dominion over him. 4 Victory over the flesh through the indwelling Holy Spirit (Rom. 8:2-6). j The introduction of the law of the spirit of the life in Christ Jesus enables I the believer to free himself from the ! dominion of the flesh. 5. Christ is the supreme example to ; the believer (PhlL 2:5-11). Because j the Saviour becatoe incorporated with I the race through the incarnation he is able to impart life to those with whom* : he is identified. Furthermore, because he thus imparts life, the believer is able to make the Saviour his grand exemplar. r -t- m , Always Being Judged May it not be that at this very hour you are being proved? Do not look around, or within, or down to the earth, but look Into his face, calm in the consciousness of divine sufficiency, and say. Lord, human resources have given out, now show what Thou canst do! Jesus always has an expedient: He Is never non plussed, never at His wits’ end, never troubled with the slightest hesitation. He always knows what he will do.—P. B. Meyer. The World’s Throe Evils The three great evils of the world are Impurity, inequality, and hopelessness. The world doesn’t know the character of God, therefore tt Is unclean. The world does not know tike love of God and therefore men are not brother& The world does not know the life of God. therefore men despair alike of the present and the future. Greafess and Humility I believe that the first test of a truly great man is his humility. I de not mean by humility doubt es his own power. baMtethm of speak!ng his opinions. but a right understanding es tike relation of whst he can do and say to the rant ot tire world s doings and saylugs,Omlm

National Topics Interpreted wWMtf by William Brudort fflllllßw National Press Building ~ Waahington, D, C.

Washington. — President Roosevelt has submitted to congress a list of the

legislation h e deems necessary to have

Lays Out Work for Congrooa

' passed before the present session adjourns. He has divided it into two categories—“must” and desirable. If congress enacts only the list of “must” legislation and passes over the other group of bills which the President considers desirable, it is made to appear that the membership of the house and senate is due to suffer some of the torrid temperature and the uncomfortable humidity of a Washington summer. The President said he must have legislation extending the National Recovery administration, providing social security, eliminating public utility holding companies. Increasing the loaning power of the Home Owners Loan corporation, extension of the so-called nuisance taxes which expire by limitation of law on June 30, and revision of the banking laws. In addition, the President made knbwn that he would like to have enacted legislation to take the profits out of war, whatever that may mean. He previously had sent a message asking enactment of a law providing for expansion of the American merchant marine through the use of ship subsidies. and he also desires to have enacted legislation setting up machinery for the settlement of labor disputes. This legislation is in the congressional hopper in the form of a bill by Senator Wagner, of New York. The President would like to have amendments to the agricultural adjustment act in order to eliminate some of the weaknesses which the AAA people admit exist. The airmail contract situation is another matter with which Mr. Roosevelt has been concerned. Seasoned observers recognize that this list of “must” legislation; not to mention the desired legislation, is sufficient to keep congress grinding away far into the summer. They recognize likewise that If the desired legislation later becomes of such concern that the President wants to place it on the preferred list as well;- the membership of congress must be prepared to forego summer trips of any kind. • « • Since a good many members of congress have grown tired of being

called rubber stamps for the administration, they naturally have turned atten-

Pets of Their Own

tion to legislation which they think will be helpful to their own bailiwicks, to themselves personally or from a party standpoint Thus there hare been promoted numerous pieces of legislation for which some individuals, at least, entertain greater fervor than they do for measures that were drafted by President Roosevelt’s official family and transmitted to congress as administration legislation. It is the general observation that an Individual, representative, or senator frequently will go much further in fighting for legislation that is his own brain child than for legislation placed before him on a silver platter such as administration proposals have been. Consequently, individual orgroup measures are constantly cluttering up house and senate legislative calendars. This is- a factor meaning delay for administration bills. It is to be remembered, as has been reported in these columns, that Mr. Roosevelt is unable to ward off criticism of some of his proposals. Indeed, there have been Democratic criticisms and Democratic opposition to a greater or lesser degree to all of the legislation he has proposed since congress convened last January. All of which is byway of saying that congress faces weeks of committee work and floor debate despite the fact that ! the house Democratic leaders still retain rather solid control of a sufficient majority in the lower bouse of congress to drive through any pet measures for the administration. In the senate the situation to decidedly different Included In the legislation being fostered by individual members Is the bill that would permit cabinet officers to appear on the floors of congress for questioning and explanation, such as occurs under the British and French parliamentary systems. The administration dote not want this bill. It will have to exert some pressure to avoid passage. The reason is that the Roose- , velt administration Is no longer one in which the cabinet is dominant. Cab inet officers are only part of the scheme, and If congress wanted to inquire about the handling of relief money, which it probably will desire, it must talk with Administrator Hopkins. Mr. Hopkins is not in the cabinet. The same is true of NRA and to some extent to the AAA. although Secretary Wallace of the Department of Agriculture theoretically is a superior officer to Administrator Davis. The administrator la definitely opposed to the passage of bonus legislation for the former soldiers, sailors and marines and it looks like a Presidential veto will be necessary there. The same is true of inflationary proposals of which there are many. The situation is one, therefore, in which Mr. Roosevelt must be constantly on his guard to prevent action which he does not want as well as being fortified at all times with pressure to put through the legislation he has described as necessary. Thus it la seen he to confronted with many complications which did not disturb bin in the first two sessions of New Deal congresses and these complications mean a longer lite for the current session. • • • Let us examine the status of the leKlslatlon which the President said

must be passed, ine outlook is something like this: The extension of

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the National Recovery administration I* still far off. Senate hearings are ■

just ended and the house Is still further behind. No action can be expected in either body for several weeks. The present law expires June 16. Recently Mr. Roosevelt sent to congress a very bitter message denouncing public utility holding companies and demanding legislation eliminating them from our economic structure. The house committee considering this legislation is just winding up Its hearings and the senate committee which will* have jurisdiction has taken no action at alt It must be said that a hard fight is In prospect if and when this legislation reaches the stage of debecause investors in these companies tire not going to have their equities destroyed while they sit idly by. These Investors are doing more now than just making faces at congress and the volume of letters which members are receiving in opposition to the holding companies legislation transcends anything that ever has happened in the memory of this correspondent. The banking legislation which Mr. Roosevelt has proposed, or which was proposed for him by Governor Eccles, the New Deal and radical governor of the federal reserve board is faced with opposition equally as bitter and as well organized as that confronting the holding companies bill. Perhaps it can be said that opposition to the banking legislation is even stronger „ because in that fight the President will be opposed by Senator Carter Glass of Virginia, who must be regarded: as the most virulent of all the Democrats in the senate. The house banking committee has about done its job with hearings on this bill but the sen-, atp committee where the full force of the Glass opposition will be felt has not even set a date for committee consideration. The social security bill about which Mr. Roosevelt has done much talking, because it is distinctly a reform measure, has finally been redrafted in the house while senate leadership is unable to get together on any policy respecting it Some senators want to split np this bill and pass the section providing for old age pensions, allowing the other parts of the bill to die a slow death. On the house side of the Capitol there is a vigorous factional dispute going on with some of President Roosevelt’s official family on one side and some on the other. They have been unable to reconcile their differences and the President has left the job of reconciling the two factions in the hands of his house lieutenants. It was the only way, according to astute observers, that he could avoid being dragged into a personal row among members of his official family. The legislation to increase by $1,750,000,900 the loaning power of the Home Owners Loan corporation probably will get through the senate without much more ado. The house passed the bill because it could not do otherwise with individual members realizing that there was a chance that some of this money would go.into their particular districts. Included in this bill is a line that promises a good many hundred jobs for politicians and it is natural that the party in power is not going to overlook this possibility. 'There remains on the “must" list, then, only the proposal to extend the nuisance taxes which expire at the end of June. It is probable that the bulk of these levies will be accepted by congress as necessary but I understand there is some tendency to delay enactment of the bill until members can see how much money the Roosevelt administration proposes spending. They want to be prepared to raise some additional taxes against this increasing outgo because there can be no doubt of an increasing fear in some quarters about the size of the national debt Besides, it will be much easier to lay new taxes in this session of congress than in the next session convening January 3. 1936, where new taxes can be used against the party laying them in campaign speeches by the opposition. • • • One cannot fail, in tramping around Washington these days, to note the fre-

quent expressions concerning the outlook for the New Deal and for Presi-

About the Future

dent Roosevelt’s personal political future. In fact, some hardboiled observers lately have been heard to say that Mr. Roosevelt Is suffering from too much ballyhoo. He was put up on a pedestal that made of him in the eyes of many persons something of a superman. He himself is regarded as having contributed to this condition by his many campaign promises, some of which he has found absolutely impractical as remedies in leading the country out of the morasses and on to a more satisfactory economic plain. In truth, the President’s own political colleagues have continued to depict him as an individual capable of things which no human can accomplish and this combination of circumstances is declared by many keen minded persons as likely to bring, if indeed It has not 6 already brought, a definitely bad poreaction from the President’s standpoint. It is still fresh in the minds of men and women throughout the country how President Hoover was over-adver-tised as a superior person in an administrative way. Mr. Hoover suffered ■from too much ballyhoo to an extent greater than any other man who has served as President with the possible exception of Woodrow Wilson. When the depression came and the current turned against Mr. Hoover he was utterly powerless. With a recalcitrant congress on his hands and a dissatisfied people, Mr. Hoover met the fate that must have been expected but which was the more bitter in this instance because of the over-dose of glamor that bad been constructed around him. * Weatera NevaeepM-tMtak.