Evening Star Newspaper, October 16, 1937, Page 9

Fall Election Machinery Grinds Special Session Seen Move to Get Funds to Farmers. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. HAT'S the hurry about the extra session? Why couldn’t farm legislation be taken up in January just as well? These questions have been asked quite often in the last few days since Presi- dent Roosevelt announced that he would summon Congress back here for Novem- ber 15, The ostensible answer and the § one given offi- cially by the ad- ministration is that the ma- chinery of the new crop control law, which it is sought to have passed, shall be in operation in time for the Spring planting. Quite a number of political ob- servers, however, have figured it out that the real reason which the New Deal has in its mind is to get the ma- chinery of check giving in full opera- tion so that the flow of funds to the voting precincts of the farm areas will be well under way by the Summer months and in time for the congres- sional elections in the Fall. $500,000,000 to Hold Vote, It is estimated that the administra- tion needs about $500,000,000 a year to hold the farm vote in line, this sum ‘having been spent on the average each year heretofore either for A. A. A. or #oil conservation or for the other schemes which the New Deal uses to bore into the Republican strongholds of the farm States. Mr. Roosevelt’s political combina~ tion has been to invade the cities with Jabor policies and relief money and to win the country districts with farm dubsidies. It isn't necessary from an edministration standpoint to carry the farm districts by as big a vote as the cities, but merely to make such a big dent in the Republican vote as to insure in 1938 a substantial majority of Democratic Congressmen in both Houses and by 1940 a sufficient ma- Jority to win the electoral college. ‘The President has not produced a farmer-labor alliance in the sense of & new party or combination which is consciously woven together in a politi- cal way, but he has managed to derive his major support from both the cities and the farm areas in bigger voting numbers than other Democratic Presidents since the Civil War. G. O. P. Once Held Farm Areas. The Republicans for many years held the farm areas and the cities, too, but the Democrats in the past 50 years have gotten more and more of = foothold in the cities. Under the A. A. A plan of direct distribution of public funds the Democrats have definitely cut into the Republican vote in the agricultural States. Statistics show that wherever the A. A A funds were substantially allo- cated last year and in the years be- fore the results in the 1936 election gave Mr. Roosevelt a higher per- centage than Landon, whereas as the amounts of the A. A. A. contributions declined the peroentage of the vote David Lawrence, While such a scene is a little this much of a prediction: from now until doomsday may The petition about to be sub- mitted will demand that a “quo warranto” writ be issued to show cause why Mr. Black is qualified to sit on this particular case. ‘There is less likelihood that it will be refused on the basis of “no in- terest,” other than that of a tax- payer and attorney, than in the Levitt case, since this petitioner will have a case before the court. if a hearing is allowed the argument much less than an impossibility. * % not subject to judicial review. If instance. That it had no right of review; it had done it. % The basis for this hope was an ranged, it is said, at the President's Representatives. obtained by the Democrats also de- clined. This should not by any means be taken to mean that the farm areas are influenced improperly, but merely that Government paternalism has be- come a paramount factor in present- day politics, and that the party in power derives a considerable benefit nowadays from the fact that it pos- sesses & machinery for the actual dis- trimution of benefit checks direct to the voters. In the last campaign the former Nature"s Children Barking Deer (Muntiacus muntjak malabaricus). BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. ESIDES their strange habit of barking or giving a queer cry, these animals are interesting in many other points. They are small Asiatic deer, known as muntjacs. They have been placed in a distinct genus and are dis- tinguished from all other members of the genus Cervus, because of their simple, short two-third antlers. These antlers are mounted on pedicles of the skull that are as long or longer than even the antlers. They diverge Srom the center line of the lower part of the forehead and from this point begin as riblike bars. Because of this unusual feature they are known among many as rib-faced deer. You can see that the brow-tine of the antlers is short and that it is directed skyward while the tip of the undivided heam has a tendency to point inward. > The bucks are somewhat larger than the females and they are equipped with long projecting tusks in the upper jaw that are handy tools for snapping twigs and in battles. The barking deer is not sociably in- elined toward his fellows. He some- times travels with a mate, though more often he is alone. His beautiful fur coat is a rich chestnut brown, inclined to be darker on the back and less glossy and bright below. His chin, upper throat and under surface of his body are white. The tail, what there is of it, and the inner sides of the thighs are white, The creature loves the deep forest and especially the thickly wooded hills. His range may be from India, JACK Ailarious singing star of “Wake Up and Live,” HALEY Ceylon and Burma, if his beloved districts can be found. The hoarse cry or bark may be heard in the early morning hours or at eventide. It is the form of be the most startling so far. bility that it will present the scene of a justice of the Supreme Court appearing before that body to defend his own case. expression when frightened or hurt and by his voice he betrays himself 2 to his foes for he has the unfortunate habit of voicing his emotions for an hour or more, which is & very foolish | thing for him to do. Kakars or barking deer are speed- | sters of the jungle. They have a| technique when running that has proved most successful. The head is held low and their hind quarters are slightly elevated. They make a weird rattling sound (it is thought with the mouth) when they race along. Hunting dogs and neighboring ani- mals that trouble them are often routed by & snap or two of their sharp tusks, which are their pnly weapon of defense. The lovely fawns are June or July babies. Their older brothers and fathers shed their antlers in the month of May and have a complete new set by August. (Copyris 1937) THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON What’s Back of It All Hearing May Be Granted on Petition This Fall Designed to Unseat Black. BY H. R. BAUKHAGE. TH! affaire Black is by no means over, and the next chapter may There is more than a faint possi- difficult to picture, those’ who know Chief Justice Hughes say that it requires but little imagination to make It is highly probable that this Fall a hearing will be granted on a petition already drawn up, but not yet submitted, challenging Justice Black’s right to sit on a certain case. The reasons for the prediction are these: The Chiet Justice has always been«a stickler for orderly proce- dure and the preservation of the dignity of the court. Unless the Black matter is settled once and for all, litipants be cluttering up the place with petitions to unseat the new justice. While this petition, of course, will refer to the specific case pending, will go straight to the general ques- tion: The constitutional provision prohibiting a member of the Congress from accepting any office whose emoluments he has voted to increase. Such a hearing, if it takes place, will write new history for the court. The high spot, of course, would be the moment when Justice Black stepped down from the bench to defend himself. be & unique occurrence, it is admitted by those who ought to know to be And while this would * Mr. Justice Black may have an “out” in his defense. There are those who believe that he could successfully plead that the provision of the Constitution in question was for “guidance” only, and is the appointment was made by the President and confirmed by the Senate the deed is done, it would be argued, and beyond the jurisdiction of the courts. Precedents are scarce all along the line when it comes to the career of Mr. Black, but there is one that might be used in this Judge Ritter of Florida, impeached by the Senate, sued in the Court of Claims for salary on the grounds that his impeachment wasn't legal. ‘The Court of Claims turned down the judge's plea, apparently yielding to the argument against the claim, namely: That the law concerning impeachment was for guidance and no one could pass on what the Senate had seen fit to do with Mr. Ritter, after * *x Farmer-Laborites cocked a sharp eaj when the President spoke on Tuesday last,’ thinking they might catch some familiar phrases. They hope, although they aren’t talking about it in advance, that sooner or later the President is to em- body in some of his public utterances some of the ideas which brought the late Floyd Olson, Governor of Minne- sota, into the public eye. unpublicized meeting in St. Paul, ar- Tequest. Present at this meeting were Gov. Phil La Follette, Gov, Benson of Minnesota and members of the Farmer-Labor delegation in the House of If the President used in his speech any of the ideas contributed as a result of this gathering, the phraseology is difficult to identify. He did refer to “balanced abundance without waste.” The Farmer-Laborite plat- form of 1936 mentioned “a system of planned plenty” and was captioned, “For an economic order of abundance.” (Copyright, 1937.) A. A. A. committees were a far better political organization than the Demo- cratic National Committee and man- aged to make more personal calls on beneficiaries than any openly political organization ever made. Mr. Roosevelt wants to maintain his majority in the next Congress and even increase it. He has set out to get his task done, and the special session is step No. 1 in assuring him, if possible, of a larger farm vote than heretofore. (Copyright, 1937.) Estate Put at $1,050,000. PHILADELPHIA, October 16 (#).— The will of William Boyd, former vice presidént and advertising director of the Curtis Publishing Co., probated yesterday, showed he left an estate of $1,050,000. The, entire estate will go to three daughters and a son except for an- nuities of $2,000 each to his sister- in-law, Miss Frances L. Tarr of Los Angeles, and cousin, Mrs. Edith Ogelsby Peale of Newton Square, Pa., and small gifts. ART SCHOOL—REGISTER NOW! FILIX MAHONY, Director Day—Evening—Children’s Classes Simplified Methods in Commercial Art, Costume Design, Fashion Mlustr: Interior Decorating, Cartoonin, paper Ilustration. 'Fine Art. Famou Graduates Placement Bureau. 22d vear, 141 B. L Ave. N.W. NA. 2656 D. C, SATURDAY, OCTOBER -16, 1937. '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 m%' be contradictory among themuives and directly opposed to T e Star’s. Stocks and Politics Leaders of Administration Will Seek to Avert Business Recession With Elections in the Offing. BY MARK SULLIVAN. ROPS in the stock and com- modities markets, when they are as severe as the ones presently taking place, al- ways have, as they say, a “political angle.” To the administration in power they are a liability. To the opponents of the administration they are an asset. Someuimes the use made of a de- : pression by the opponents of an : administration, is ruthless. When President Hoover was carrying the liability of the 1929 market drop end the succeed- ° ing depression, the Democrats ;‘l”k‘ ;d‘;:‘:"‘cu’f Mark Sullivan. gressional campaign of 1930 and the general election of 1932. After the 1930 congres§ional election the Demo- crats had control of the House. For defense against the depression, co- operation by President and Congress was extremely desirable. At that time a distinguished Democrat was re- ported to have suggested for the Demo- cratic House a course discreetly balanced between politics and patriot- ism. The formula was that the Democrats should do just enough to save the country, but not enough to save Mr. Hoover in the then approach- ing election of 1932. After the elec- tion, during the four months until Mr. Roosevelt was inaugurated in 1933, reluctance of the President-elect to co-operate with the President in office was put on the ground that the Democratic party and the Democratic President could not assume responsi- bility until after they acquired com- plete power. In political gossip at the time, the attitude was described 88 to the effect that the depression Was “not the Democratic party's baby.” All Agencies Are Alert. The depression continued to be not the New Deal’s baby during the whole of the early part of the New Deal ad- ministration. It was the New Deal’s asset. Steps that were taken were based on the ground that they were necessary to bring the depression to an end. And in the 1934 congressional election and the 1936 general one, the New Deal appeal to the country for continuation in power was put fre- quently in the form of “We saved you from the Hoover depression.” But the New Dealers realize that any depression which might come now would be not the Hoover depression but a Roosevelt one. For this reason practically every agency of the ad- ministration concerned either with markets or with business conditions is anxious and alert, To the business men, however, and the public generally, all this “political angle” is a little disgusting. What they want to know is whether a de- pression or a recession of any serious degree is ahead. If a recession comes, and if it has anything near the same proportions as the drop in the mare kets, it would be serious. Drop May Be a Cause. Market drops are sometimes, though not always, indexes to business condi- tions. As the able and well-poised Mr. Jesse H. Jones, chairman of the Reconstruction Pinance Corp., put it the other day, “business conditions are frequently reflected by the trend of the stock market, but it is not an in- variable barometer.” But a drop in the markets as severe as the recent and present one can hardly take place P i e e il y Say “Yes” to the invitation to join the 'Y’ now, and give yourself the ad- :antages of its modern facilities or Hand Ball Squash Volley Ball Basket Ball Classes Boxin %/rnfling as well os its interesting lectures, forums, etc. A Membership does it all. “You Caw't Keep Going If You Dow't Keep Fit” Y. M. C. A, 18th & G Sts. Na. 8250 Swimming Gym without being accompanied by some degree of business recession. Such market drops, even if they are not a result, can become a cause. They be- come a cause both in actuality and in the psychological sense. A busi- ness man or a farmer or an investor who a few months ago added up the values of his inventories or his ripen- ing crops or his securities and found himself in comfortable circumstances —such a man would contemplate building a house oy buying a car or some other outlay. The same man, adding up the values of his commodi- ties or securities today, finds his net worth disturbingly low compared to what it was a few months ago. Such a man is likely to conclude not to make the outlay which a little while ago he contemplated serenely. Recession Is Forecast. |, That there will be some degree of recession is a reasonable inference and a commonly held opinion among per- sons of good judgment. It is the equally general judgment of well-in- formed persons, however, that the drop in the securities markets (as dis- tinguished from the drops in the com- modity markets) have been more ex- treme than would be justified by any likely lowering of trade. The regula- tions of the Securities Exchange Com- mission set up by the New Deal ad- ministration are in all cases well in- tended and in many cases useful. It is clear, however, that some of the regulations have the effect of making the buyers’ side of the market abnor- mally thin, and therefore causing a drop in prices to be more extreme than is justified by conditions outside the Stock Exchange. This cause within the stock market may, as Mr. Win- throp Aldrich puts it, distort the barometer. Will Seek to Avoid Recession. One cause there is which is not within the control of the administra~ tion. The war between China and Japan, and disturbed conditions else- where in the world, are likely to re- sult for the time in some reduction of our foreign trade. A school of thought and business has grown up in America which “pooh-poohs” our foreign trade, says that it ordinarily accounts for only some 8 per cent of the country's total business, and that therefore it is negligible. gBut the balance wheel of a watch is less than 8 per cent of the whole, and decidedly is not negli- gible. If the leading men of the admin- istration, the responsible ones, can avert recession, they will. If the lead- ers of the Democratic party in Con- gress can so conduct the legislative program of the coming session as to avert recession, they certainly will— their self-interest is involved, for the whole of the House and a third of the Senate come up for renomination and election next year. (Copyright. 1927) Rain Causes Fire. Rain falling in torrents through a | window onto a heap of lime caused | a fire which destroyed farm buildings | near Hohengoehren, Germany. We, the Peoi)le Want More Light on Far Eastern Policy and Diplomacy Which Threatens Entanglements. BY JAY FRANKLIN. ! LMOST since I can remember, there has been talk of an “inevitable” war between Japan and the United States. Before that, I recollect a period when we liked and admired the Japanese, when Admiral ‘Togo was one of my boyhood heroes and we all rejoiced in the fall of Port Arthur. And, of course, I know the history books which tell us how Commodore Perry opened Japan, not seeking any special privileges for the United States, and of how Theodore Roosevelt made America a “silent partner” in the Anglo-Japanese alliance which insured Japanese victory over Russia in 1904-5, and of how he promoted peace negotiations just when Japan had reached the limits of her financial capacity to fight the Russians. I know that there have been squabbles since then, that the Japanese blamed us for their fail- ure to secure better terms of peace, that T. R. sent the battle fleet around the world for “a fight or a frolic,” that California school and land laws infringed Japanese rights to equal treatment, that there was a gentleman’s agreement on immigration, that New York bankers tried to get a grip on the Manchurian railroads, that the 21 demands of 1915 scared Wilson into a hig Navy program, that we opposed Japanese occupa- tion of Shantung and Siberia at the peace conference, that we reached a friendly all-around settlement at the Washington conference of 1921-22, that we insulted Japan by our immigration act of 1924, that we bickered over raval ratios at Geneva in 1927 and at London in 1930, and that in 1932 Henry Stimson committed us to moral condemnation of Japan’s con- quest of Manchuria and thus produced a hostile tension which still persists and now threatens to align us with Great Britain in a policy of strangling Japan economically by a long-range blockade called “sanctions” at Geneva or a “quarantine” at the White House. In spite of all this, I still do nat see why we cannot get on as well with Japan in Asia as we do with Great Britain in Europe. When England ruthlessly conquered the Boer Republics nearly 40 years ago, we heartily disapproved, but did not feel it our international duty to protest, much less to interfere with British imperiglism. And history shows that it has worked out all right and that the beaten Boers are among Britain’s most loyal subjects today. * kK ok The fact is that British sea-power controls the approaches to Europe from the West and that our European commerce is at the strategic mercy of the royal navy. We may not like this, but we have found it possible to get along with it just the same and without too much bitterness. Now Japanese sea power controls the approaches to Asia from the east and our trade with China, Siberia and the East Indies is at the strategic mercy of the imperial navy. We may not like t&is, but I fail to see why we should not find it possible to get along with it more or less amicably. . It is even possible that a policy of friendly co-operation with Japa: would produce a greater measure of peace and prosperity in Asia than our pedantic insistence on the status quo and our attempt to revive the sick man of Asia by maintaining the integrity of China. * X % % Since 1931 the Japanese have assumed that we would be guided by & hard-headed sense of our true interests and not reach across the Pacific at the risk of war in order to put Humpty Dumpty together again. At the same time, the British—with vast trading interests, billions of investments and extensive colomal possessions in Asia—have assumed that we could be persuaded to defend Eu- ropean interests east of Singapore. President Roosevelt'’s Chicago speech suggests that the British know our State Department all too well, Every one tells me that it is “impossible,” but I would like to know why we should not try to strike a friendly agreement with Japan, without asking London’s permission or Geneva's approval. I should like to see Congress convened at once, to put a drag on Mr. Roosevelt's “Rooseveltian” diplomacy. I should like to see our immigration act amended 80 as to §ive Japan a quota—what is it? Two hundred immigrants a year, I think—which would wipe out her sense of insult and still protect the ‘West Coast from its fear of cheap, efficient Japanese labor. 1 should like to see us take the conquest of Manchuria as realistically as England and France took our annexation of Teras ninety-odd years ago. I should like us to stop encouraging the Chinese to a tragic resistance in the belief that we are going to come to their rescue. And I should like to know exactly what it is that Japan wants in China which is so menacing to our “interests” that we are prepared to risk economic—and perhaps complete—warfare with Japan in order to prevent the success of Japanese designs, (Copyright, 1937.) Headline Folk and What They Do Frank Morrison, A.F.L. Statesman, Follows Lead of Gompers. BY LEMUEL F. PARTON, In a $48 telegram, at nearly twice day leiter rates, the A. F. of L. offers to meet the C. I. O. in a get-togetner talk. Frank Morrison, elder states man of the A. F. of L, who signa the message, wouldn't mind, the expense in a case like that. As secretary of t h e federation. for many years, he has been a brisk executive and likes to get action. Friends of| industrial peace: are hoping -the % % hurry - up mes= " sage will be ef- fective. Mr. Morrison is 78 years old. He has held his present office 40 years, taken part in all the major federa- tion battles of this period, and thrown his influence unfailingly on the side’ of conservatism and in line with the policies of the late Samuel Gomperss Together they oppesed entangling po= litical alliances, alien and domestic social philosophies, the intrusion of labor theorists and all strategy and- policies other than labor solidarity in its own camp for higher wages and shorter hours. Up to 1910 Gompers and Morrison were militant labor leaders. In that year the Supreme Court sustained against them a contempt charge grow= ing out of the Buck Stove case. Gom- pers was sentenced to one year in prison and Morrison to six months. The sentences were never served and all this was forgotten with the Los Angeles Times explosion in that year. This event, says Louis Adamic in his book, “Dynamite,” ended the opening period of militancy in the American labor movement. Mr. Morrison continued in the field of what is now traditional A. F. of L: doctrine, an able expounder of craft union theory. A native of Frankton, Ontario, he received the degree of LLB. from Lake Forest Universicy and later was graduated from the Chicago Law School. He entered law practice, but became a printer and joined the Typographical Union in 1873. He is & member of the Execu- tive Council of the Churches of Christ in America. For 40 years he has represented the federation in Wash- ington, the author of many ‘“state documents™ of American labor. WILL BE HONORED Joseph B. Keenan, assistant to the Attorney General, will be honored at & testimonial dinner and dance to be given by the Justice Department Post, No. 41, of the American Legion at 7:30 o'clock tonight at the Willard Hotel. Post Comdr. Joseph Idler wiil preside. Frank Morrison. 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