The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 19, 1937, Page 4

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 1937 é Au independent Newspaper f THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER CEatablished 1873) ‘State, City and County Official Newspaper Published except Sunday by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bis- sareh, H. Ds and euverea’ at the possoitice ot Bismarex es eeccod claw mad 3 Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of the Associated Press Tho Associated Press is exclusively entitied Tom of the news dispatches credited to it or not Bewspaper and also the local a of spontaneous origin all rights of republication of all other matter hereia are a! be use fol rwise cred! abil he reserved, Supreme Court Change Retirement of Willis Van Devanter as associate justice of the United States supreme court is just as likely to change the direction of America’s development as any other incident which could have occurred at this time. It insures to President Roosevelt the opportunity to appoint at least one new member to the nation’s highest tribunal, no matter what happens to the court packing bill, and one may well be enough to change the course of our destiny. Recent important decisions have been returned by a vote of five to four, with Van Devanter always on the conservative side. If his successor affiliates with the so-called progressive wing in the court’s membership—and it is a pretty safe bet that he will—laws which might have been ruled out before Van De- he vanter left the bench may be approved in the future. For example, a child labor Jaw, if one is enacted and tested after Van Devanter leaves the court, is almost certain to win approval. On the basis of the trend as established in the Wag- ner Labor Relations act, such a statute probably would be ap- proved even now as a result of the changed attitude of Justice Roberts. With a liberal in Van Devanter’s place the outcome would hardly be in doubt. The retirement of this man and the appointment of his successor will signal a new era in American affairs. It will mark the beginning of more encroachment by government upon the rights of private individuals than we have ever before Henhe SCENES Washington Amount of Retail Steck on Hand. By RODNEY DUTCHER (Tribune Washington Correspondent) Wwe , May 19—The influen- waged a preventive war agninet price waged a preventive war inflation Sees, off the record, to Prophi trouble. These viewers-with-alarm are en- couraged by what they consider the healthy ote of several presidential . price of copper, for instance, has declined and it is widely believed here that what was to have been another steel price increase has been headed off. Various White House advisers, , | however, will continue to urge further action. It is likely that Roosevelt, before long will move toward & re- duction of certain tariff duties which of the copper import tax which will lapse in June unless something is effect on the commodity markets, as well as administration efforts. But there is alarm over @ big in- brated government Higher retail prices are anticipated by fall and the viewers-with-alarm assert that the country is getting to the point where there will be @ de- ficit in purchasing power. Then, they say, there will be more unemploy-, ment piled on top of the present large unemployment—in the face of ‘®& $35,000,000,000 national debt “The only answer is to get prices down and wages up,” says this group. known. For better or for ill, it will mean that a new America is in the making. Proof lies in the recent history of the court. Three of the nine justices have been consistently liberal in their attitude, and this despite the fact that they were appointed by conservative presidents. They were not and are not New Dealers but they have voted to uphold many important New Deal laws. These are Justices Brandeis, Stone and Cardozo. = Four have been consistently conservative. They are Jus- . tices Van Devanter, Sutherland, McReynolds and Butler. Two have been the determining force on most controversial " questions, They are Chief Justice Hughes and Justice Roberts | and of these Hughes has shown a tendency to side with the | liberals more often than his colleague. } It should be remembered, also, that appointment of a new justice may affect somewhat the attitude of the remaining judges. With a solid liberal bloc of four, Justice Hughes prob- ably will be more inclined to side with it than when there were only three. The same may be true of Roberts. Some rather tortured decisions have been handed down in the effort to maintain harmony among the court members. There is reason to believe that Hughes favored the invalidated | AAA law but went with the majority to prevent a five-to-four decision with himself in the minority. In cases like that one, future decisions of the court probably will be diametrically opposite to those made with Van Devanter on the bench. | In prospect now are such statutes as new child labor laws, | minimum wage and maximum hour enactments and railroad _ retirement laws. The change of one member of the supreme | court is likely to find all such innovations approved, whereas + Van Devanter’s voice might have been the deciding factor in | ruling them invalid. . | The Van Devanter resignation takes-half the steam out of | the court fight now raging in the'senate. If Justices Brandeis | and Sutherland resign, as it is rumored they: may, that argu- | ment will have become a sham battle entirely. For President | Roosevelt’s purposes, the elimination of Van Devanter and | appointment of his successor is as good as the appointment of _ two new justices had the aged jurist remained in the harness. if Sutherland quits that resignation will be as good as two more, , Thus time will have worked to change the court in line with the president’s desires. There have been other resignations from the supreme court larly \ but none is of more historic importance than that of the former Wyoming man announced Tuesday. 3 H 5 i From the Right Source Farmers cannot be blamed for resenting the almost’ unt- versal tendency of city men to give them unasked advice. Men who would starve to death on the richest and best-watered land | in the world have not hesitated to point out the errors of the husbandman. As so often is the case, the fellow who doesn’t have to do the job can qualify as a curbstone ‘expert without difficulty. Because of this fact it was refreshing to note the analysis _ of our present conditions made by Dr. John H. Worst, former | president of the state agricuftural college and himself a farmer. By training he is qualified to discuss farm problems with the most highly skilled technician. By reason of experience he 0 a? them over with other farmers on an over-the-fence E During the course of his interview and after he had voiced | his own ideas as to what should be done, Dr. Worst offered an _ that there is “no one answer”; that no matter what we do, » ome of the things will be wrong but that additional experience | and new discoveries would disclose these errors. | ~ In that-he probably is right. There still is truth in the saying about youth being needed for action and age for wisdom. Moscow esys Russia’s death rate has been cut in half in the last 20 years. This is exclusive of executions. rab et observation gleaned from his years. That was to the effect | © “Now is the time to tax and balance the budget af a high level of spend- Fits Sivice suay be bed comme however, from persons 1 wi FP D. R. has been accepting advice for several months. see Can't Let France Lose Distillation of recent confidential vices re Spain, as received and in- tavrctied be the War and State de- partments: Mussolini and Hitler have agreed Franco lose, and eventually they will see. to it that he doesn’t Meanwhile, E i g z g & 3 EE the . Mediterranean situation all at-once.” By force af necessary—and 4t 4s believed force will be necessary. Much more.than the immediate sit- uation ss,to Spain is*involved. Ita- German influences have been et work in Nogth Africa, Egypt, Palestine, Greece, Iraq, Arabia, and ‘Trans Jordania, Predictions as to what will happen ‘make life interesting. ‘fools are bumped off, I don’t want to) nim, in 8 should not be taken too rath Lares even when based on this Soe anything may happen, and not most may all the officials who have read regu- To the bereaved I give my warmest sympathy but anew the slogan must be “Nevertheless, Forward.”—Former Kaiser Wilhelm, after Hindenburg se * zeppelin disaster. Nurses can inspire love, stimulate learning, and create beauty ... They can prevent spiritual delay and con- se s : ge ee z£ epet Yeie 8 | __ One way to slow down child marriages is to remind the would-be's of ‘ 18 RELISHED BY — THE BEST OF MEN Sidebottom—They say Sourbrier is going to get married, Middletop — Serves him right. I never did like that fellow. Daughter — Daddy, what is your birthstone? Daddy—I don't recall, but i¢ must, be a grindstone. a . seriously is Norman—Sure I did. So I didn't. Jimmy — After all, fools help to When all the be here. Gracie—Don't worry, you won't. Michael—That fellow Harold is 30 at both ends, Proud Father—Now look here, Per- cival, if you aren't a good boy you will never go to heaven. Percival—Aw, gee, I don’t want to go to heaven, Dady. I want to go with you and mother. Fogmore—But I asked you, darling, to keep our ment a secret. Sylvia—I couldn’t help it, dear. ‘That hateful Ethel said the reason I ‘wasn’t married was that no man had ever ‘been fool enough to propose to me. So I told her you had. Fanny—Don’t tell anybody for all the world, but see this ring? George slipped it on my finger last night, Ethel—Yee, it’s a nice looking ring, but it will make a dark mark around "STORIES IN STAMPS _BY 1. S. KLEIN sequent physical relspse—Dr. 8. E.| “ounger. 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