Evening Star Newspaper, March 15, 1937, Page 11

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, MARCH 15 1937 ) s *r Al 2 News Behind the News HE opinions of the writers on this page are their own, not necessarily The Star’s. Such opinions are presented in The Star’s effort to give all sides of questions of interest to its readers, although such opinions may be contradictory among G. O. P. May This Changing World |[Headline Folk Save Court by Sacrifices Pledge of Support to David Lawrence. Democratic Foes of Plan Séen Vital. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. LTHOUGH party lines are not drawn in the Supreme Court A controversy and there are about as many Democrats in the United States Senate opposed to the President’s plan as Democrats who favor it, there is little doubt that something definite and fun- : damental in the evolution of American politi- cal parties has occurred For years the prediction has been made that sooner or later there would be a realignment of DArties in Amer- ica along con- = servative and radical cleavages. But most of the prophets have been wrong in just how such a realignment would oe brought about—that is, what method would be used and what would be the provocation. The coming of a realignment is much clearer today than it has been for two decades but €ven less clear. To put all the the Republican party, for example, and all the non-conservatives another party does not happen fo meet the political specifications of the day. The last campaign eonclusively that Democrats of con= servative leanings will not join the Republican party in any great num- bers. For one thing, the latter party showed at Cleveland that it did not understand the importance of coali- tion. Throughout the campaign the Cleveland platform was a distinct handicap toward the acquisition ot Democratic votes except on a few issues Some See G. 0. P. Gain. Conversely, the name means a gre deal servatives, ma eventually the Nation will turn away from the New Deal Party and embrace the alternative party even if it con- tinues to be called the Republican party. Such conjectures, however, relate to some hypothetical election in which the misdeeds and misdemeanors of the Democratic party are to become crystal clear to the electorate. Any guch appraisal of the future fails to take into account that the mediate situation precipitated by the for if- that way staunchi pian o to lots of con- Supreme Court sance, cennot ‘"he Democrat, epposing the esident’s “pack” the Supreme six weeks ago, before the pian Was revealed, have any sympathy for the Republican party platform and they o not have any more sympathy today for Republicanism just because they are opposed to Mr. Roosevelt's court proposal. As a matter of fact, the question going to be decided by mere ipation of some future cam- aign in which the errors of the New Deal will supposedly have ac: cumulated enough opposition o ewing an election for the Republicans. What will decide the fate of the American political parties is the im- mediate situation growing out of the controversy be who sre solvad fact that when 30 or 40 Senators| elected as Democrats and supporting Mr. Roosevelt in the regular election Jast November come up for renomina- tion or re-election in the Spring of 1938—about 12 months hence—they will meet head-on the political ven- geance of the New Deal. G. 0. P. Must Map Policy. ‘What kind of sacrifices are the con- mervatives of the Republican party will- ing to make for the Democrats who will have sacrificed themselves on the altar of devotion to the American system of government? Will the Re- publicans adopt a militant attitude of support for these Democrats, or will they be swayed by local factional squabbles and the desire of some for- mer Republican office holders to run for office? Out West inside the various States where one party or the other in the last quarter of a century has become | dominant almost to the extinction of the opposition party, situations com- ‘parable to what is ahead today have been solved in the primaries of the dominant party. In North Dakota, Democrats who wanted a voice in State affairs entered the Republican pri- maries. Likewise, Republicans and Democrats have gone over in large numbers from time to time to the Farmer-Labor party in Minnesota. In many Western- States former Repub- lcans have gone in and voted in the Democratic party primaries. This is not only true of the rank and file, but it is also true of the so~ called local leaders here and there. Thus in the present-day Democratic organization in the city of Phila- delphia, for instance, many a local precinct leader who used to hold forth in the “good old days” under the Penrose and Vare euspices of Republican landslides. Fight Hinges on Future Action. 1f the Democrats who are opposing the President’s plan to “pack” the Su- preme Court were to be sure that Re- publican conservatives would vote in Democratic primaries and assure their renomination and then would stick to these Democratic nominees in the party election, there would be no doubt of the outcome of the present fight. This is because many of the Demo- cratic Senators who are marked “non- | committal” are wavering toward the court plan because they do not dare risk their political future by breaking with the New Deal. If the Democrats in the Senate were to feel politically justified in voting their convictions, not only would the President’s plan be beaten, but many other measures that are con- sidered to be unsound from an eco- nomic standpoint would also be de- feated. Republican conservatives, however, would have to show a willingness to g0 further than they have indicated heretofore. They cannot have their cake and eat it. They will be com- pelled to recognize that, in a nutshell, President Roosevelt’s broad purposes are right, but his methods are wrong. Will the Republicans accept the Roosevelt purposes—to make a Nation better nourished, better clad and bet- ter housed? Will they agree that a better definition of interstate com- merce is needed even if a constitu- tional amendment is the only way to get it? Will they furnish a progres- » Many Candidates for 1940 Democratic Nomination Making Appearance. BY PAUL MALLON. HE presidential bee seems to be an insect with a bite but no sting. It leaves a very pleasant but obvious rash on the bitee. On some victims lately it also appears to have developed symptoms of the advanced stages of White House mald's knee. No political health survey of Washington is needed to disclose that an epidemic, both of the rash and the knee, is current here, How far the disease has spread became evident the other day when one whose name has been among those mentioned for the Democratic nomination took off his coat and frankly discussed his chances with friends. He disclosed he had gone to the extent of lining up State delegations, and could now count several as sure. He even named them. The situation is de- veloping so fast that far- sighted political doctors plainly foresce a scramble for the Democratic momination among many favorite sons of many States. In that event, they know the burden probably will fall upon President Roosevelt of meeting a draft-Roosevelt movement as the obvious compromise, or else he will have to designate a successor who will be acceptable to all the clamoring factions. The matter, of course, is being much discussed backstage in connec- tion with Mr. Roosevelt's repeated recent renunciations of any such am- bitions for himself. * Kk Kk % Some inside developments also have been noticeable lately which bring at least two new favorites into the picture. A politician high in the new order, who should know what he is talking about, is idly mentioning the name of Senator Moore of New Jersey. Also, since the steel strike was settled before Gov. Earle of Pennsylvania had a chance to get to it, a group of well-informed politicos is asking why Senator Guffey himself is being overlooked as the favorite of the Keystone State. Philippine High Commissioger McNutt of Indiana likewise left behind him here a number of friends who are suggesting he will not remain in the formula is | conservatives into | into | demonstrated | Republican | im- | Court did not | will be found | facts indicate the reverse. appropriation bill, Rayburn to have it killed. the Philippines long enough to spoil his contacts. home ground looking after his chances in a year, they say. When you add these New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Indiana names up with those of Iowa’s Henry Wallace, Michigan's Gov. Murphy and other local political characters in other sections whose State banners are being waved freely, the trend of the coming fight is obvious. EE The House boom for a disarmament conference caused some inter- national observers to suspect it was an administration trial balloon. He will be back on The The resolution suggesting that the President call a disarmament conference sprouted from a hot debate on the floor over the Navy It was introduced only as an answer to a Republican taunt about large maval expenditures. partment did not let the balloon get off the ground. It declined immediately to support the measure, sent word to Floor Leader The State De- What was suspicious was the later statement of House Foreign Af- fairs Chairman McReynolds that it might not have been a bad idea, and the story in a London weekly stating flatly the United States would call a conference. v of whom think that | 1 The fact seems to be the powers that be here have something indefinite in mind and do not want their hands forced * ok % The scramble for preferred positions in Mr. Roosevelt's prom- ised series of diplomatic appoint- ments is becoming rather hectic on the inside. The fever of some who believe they deserve promotion is running so high that one or two vacant jobs may be left open in- definitely. If they are not, there | will at least be one resignation from the service, * % * * The mutual exchange of insults between Mr. Hitler's press and Mayor La Guardia of New York is said to be causing considerable mental anguish to State Secretary Hull. wsory that such tiii conclusion. Those ar He leans to the wise ol only sur troudls without arriving at o and Ium say e would not lave presenicd tae protest against the German mewspaper articles we t not for the fact that demands were made upon him by two ladies. Mr. Hull is a traditional Tennessean. is simply this: always running for re-election. The frank way in which officials here privately look at the situation Mr. La Guardia is running for re-election. Mr. Hitler is (Copyright, 1937) sive program of their own, if they are not willing to support Democrats | of liberal conservative views? And i\k‘l]l such a program be of political value unless aggressively pushed by Republicans now in the Senate and | the House? Situation Awaits Solution. These are practical items in a | political evolution and they have | waited long enough for Republican leadership to solve. So the next step is likely to be the mass movement of Republicans into the Democratic party primaries everywhere to support libe eral conservative Democrats and to help elect them as against New Deal machines. If such a movement is be- gun now it may absorb the Republican party into a Constitution Democratic party as opposed to a Socialist Demo- | cratic party, first suggested in Febru- ary, 1934, by this correspondent as the way to describe the inevitable division inside the Democratic party which many people foreseen ever since the New Deal came into power. The Republicans may not like this formula, but if they want the Con- stitution preserved by an independent Jjudiciary they will have to pay a AN ‘\/\wavj political price for this, the most crucial test of Americanism, they have ever known. If the Republicans really believe the Supreme Court issue has brought a grave crisis, they will find it necessary to answer soon and in practical terms the question of whether they consider the preserva- tion of the Republican party more important or less impertant than the preservation of the Constitution. (Copyright, 1937.) HEARINGS TO REOPEN Senate Probers to Turn Attention to Goodyear Dispute. The Senate Civil Liberties Commit- tee announced today it would resume hearings Wednesday with an inquiry into recent labor disputes in Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. plants, Investigators, who have conducted & prolonged study of strike-breaking and labor espionage, said they would summon witnesses from Goodyear plants in Akron, Ohio, and Gadsden, Ala. Names of the persons subpoe- naed were not disclosed. themselves and directly opposed to The Star’s. Darts of Opposition Battle BY DOROTHY THOMPSON, F THE Supreme Court justices are guilly of half the things that F. D. R. and Homer Cummings have said about them, there is & simple constitutional solution for the dilemma. Impeach ’‘em. Cummings says the Supreme Court needs a constant stream of new blood. If the President % puts in bright young college stu- dents of about his own age, where will the new blood be in 1960? The President says he does mean to pack the court. He means to pack it with men who will give his leg- islation “the ben- efit of all reason- able doubt.” We all know what a reasonable fellow is. He is some one that agrees with us. “The Nation” shrills that although the President’s solution is “unfortu- nate from every angle but one” all Iiberals must rally in the anti-Tory front. Behind such advanced and radical thinkers as Homer Cummings, Joe Robinson, Pat Hdrrison and Jim Farley. | How about calling the | front the Hortatory front? We want a Supreme Court, accord- ing w the President, which isn't tied to outworn ideas. But we want the Democratic party to be ioyal to the Dorothy Thompson, Antitory | good old gang spirit. Yes, It's Been Packed Before. The President says the Supreme Court has been packed before. It's packed it, and the net effect of that was that we got the Madison-Mar- bury case which first gave the Su- preme Court the powers Roosevelt is now kicking about. Jackson packed Roger B. Taney into the Supreme Court as a great liberal. And he'’s the Random Observations on | gress who are over 70 years old feel an old American custom. Well, Adams | packed the court and Jefferson un- | fellow who handed down the Dred | the Front. Supreme Court Scott decision that we're hearing so much about these days. Grant packed the Supreme Court and “The Nation” raised sand about it. But, of course, in those days, “The Nation” was young. The President says that social forces are moving swiftly. A social force is often something & politiclan sets in motion in order to be able to in- vake special powers to deal with it. If those great radicals, Joe Robin- son and Pat Harrison, lick Congress into line for the President's proposals they'll probably insist on having a 8ay-so about naming the judges. And look out, then, for Father Christ- mases with their beards shaved off and their birih records faked. What has become of that other plan of the President for reorganiz- ing the executive department and putting all important offices under the strictest Civil Service? We'll hear about that reform again after they have used patronage to help buy the judicjary reform and the disin- terested and non-partisan civil serv- ants to help the radio campaign. But apparently one part of the executive reorganization plan is al- ready in operation—the six presi- dential advisers “with a passion for anonymity.” They got up the judi- ciary proposals, What of Others at 707 1 wonder how the members of Con- about this. Maybe they think 70 isn't t0o old to write the laws but it's too old to check them up in the book. John Nance Garner, the President’s understudy, will be 70 in two years’ time. Does the President intend, then, w ask for his resignation? Or will he get an understudy for the under- study? Why not put the whole Govern- ment under the National Youth Ad- ministration? “We face a crisis,” said the Presi- dent, “fundamentally more serious than that of four years ago.” The trouble is the American people don't believe it. They were convinced the other way by the Democratic cam- paign speeches (Copyright, 1937.) HEALTH INSTITUTE SCHEDULED APRIL 5 ! 'Program Is Announced for Meet. ing of Teachers snd Piincinals. & Joint commitice from tne Beard of Education aud the Tuberculosls Association today an- nounced the program of the first school “Health Instruction Institute” for Washington teachers and prin- cipals, to be held April 5. At that time, the association also will launch its “early diagnosis campaign.” District Schools Supt. Frank W. Ballou will preside at the administra=- tors’ conference at the Franklin Build- ing. Speakers will include Dr. Allen G. Ireland, New Jersey, director of health and physical education, and Dr. Iago Galdston, executive secretary Dr. Bess Goodycoontz, assistant United States Commissioner of Educa~ tion, will lead the discussion for ele- mentary teachers, while Miss Fanny Shaw, school health secretary of the National Tuberculosis Association, will conduct the secondary teachers’ con= ference. Assistant Supts. R. L. Hay- cock and Garnet C. Wilkinson will pre- side at divisional sessions. Alabama Editor Dies. MONTGOMERY, Ala., March 15 (#)—Kenneth A. Miller, 31, editor 0° publications for the Alabama Con- servation Department, died yesterday al a Montgomery hospital. Before joining the conservation de- partment in 1931, he was Associated Press correspondent at Montgomery and a capitol reporter for the Ala- bama Journal. "SEND YOU obligation when you phone CURTAINS NN =3 [ Army Officer Who Died at Walter of the New York Academy of Medicine. | | R LAUNDRY TO &“_:'DUP‘;QNT and save money.” 've shown thousands of women how to get the best in laundry services at the same time keeping costs within the family budget. |f you have @ laundry problem . . . if you want to know all about some laundry service, phone me at Co. 7020. Helping housewives save on laundry costs is my job. You incur no FECONO GEN. BUTNER RITES HELD AT FORT MYER Reed Recentlv Relieved of °s0emz "ox runsral st ¢ for Maj. Gew. Fenry W. 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The activities of the professional Jews—there are quite a few in the liberal profes- sions in the principal towns of the Reich—will be further limited, while many Jews suspected of hav- ing indirectly something to do with Jewish organizations in the United States will take the hard road to concentration camps. In the meantime, the strong language—so strong that the in- structions given Ambassador Dodd by the State Department could not be made public—is being interpreted in many European capitals as another sign that this country is morally on the side of European democracies. This is 100 per cent true. Not only the administration, but the over- whelming masses in the United States dislike intensely the dictatorial methods of Herr Hitler. In Europe, however, this dislike of the executioners of democratic institutions is being interpreted in the sense that we shall be once more a “push-over” in the event of another conflagration. x koK % The new Prench loan—the bulk of the proceeds will be devoted for natlonal defense-rearmament—has met with an unprecedented success. The first slice has been oversubscribed and it is selling at a premium. ‘The reason for this eagerness of the French investors to buy the na- tional defense loan is not only that the government is willing to pay the interest in foreign currencies. The French people realize that unless Ezio Pinza, they come across with some real money from the well-known woolen stock- ing, France will be placed in permanent inferiority to Germany and Ttaly. The “union sacre” jor which all governments have been striv- ing since the end of the World War has once more been accom- plished under the Blum government, When the French premier came into office 10 mor experts gave him a maximum 3 months. Yet, because of circumstances, besides his unguestionable ability as a leader, he was the first French political leader to accomplish this sacred union, which political observers considered an utter impossibility in now-a-day France. Blum, the almost-Communist politician, Blum the Jew—the first Jew to hold the office of premier in the French Republic, has succeeded in accomplishing things which neither Poincare, Tardieu Laval, Herriot, nor any other popular French leader has been able to accomplish. iths ago, politicat * K K x The German government is guilty of another breach of the treaty of Versailles. They have never fulfilled article 264 of that famous de- ceased treaty. The article provides that “the skull of the Sultan of Makaua having been stolen by the German authorities of East Africa, should within six months of the ratification of the aforesaid treaty be handed over by Germany to his Britannic majesty’s government.” The Sultan of Makaua was once upon a time a powerful chieftain ruling over certain Negro tribes. His subjects believed that the skull of the deceased potentate had miraculous powers and was used by the witch doctors throughout the EENIE N realm. wEeiE ‘The German officials of the = former colonial department sent # box to London, but to the horror of the British foreign office offi- cials, when the box was opened, it contained three skulls. The director of the Colonial Museum in Berlin sent a letter with the hox containing the nrecious skniis humoly thet “rhe condi- 27 Dave ¢ o % ecitain fLsion ia hi , SNCe Ne Wit 0oL surs woica was Le Sullan's neaa, no tack ine Ligerty of seaqing tnice saulls.” “ne h2d 0o doudt,” Lae airecior adaed, “that the foreign office experts will be sdie to seiect the rignt cranjum.” Now there is trouble brewing among the subjects of the deceased Sultan. They want their skull back and the foreign office does not dare fool them because of the danger of being exposed by the German authorities. sters, Chauffeurs, Stablemen and Help- TRUCK DRIVERS STRIKE ers’ Union, Local 299, of the American DETROIT, March 15 (#)—A city- | Federation of Labor, called the strike Cc wide strike of truck drivers affected | this morning. the transportation of all but perish- able goods here today. Laughlin, business agent for the Team- ' dock helpers. ‘The union demanded wage increases J. M. 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He was | Years of pedaling had given him legs and bellows of iron. It was the pay-oft for & long stretch of hard work. He pulled out of the ruck, passed some of | second. It was the first prize he ever had won | The sun was bright, the sky was blue, the birds were singing and the piest day. In the shower bath, he | fetched a song of delirious joy clear up | from his ankles. It was “O Sole Mio.™ The song had tremendous volume and In the last lap of the song, there was a vell of “bravissimo!” in the next | booth. “What a voice! What a voice!" | The other bather had friends and in- | expertly coached and | through to t | At best Y | tenor if the long g | But. being full sorry the villain the down to a ba f the joy of life, he 1 basso 50 often has t “The tenors get the bassos get the ax He snappy | shirts His p i lady-killing mata December, 1935, tunes at yhe Met. 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