Evening Star Newspaper, May 1, 1940, Page 11

Businessmen Must Fight In Congress ‘Selling’ Ideas To Voters Also Seen Necessary . By DAVID LAWRENCE. This is the week in which bus-| fnessmen from all parts of the country come to the annual meeting of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States and hear§ speeches and de- bates on the sub- ject of govern- mental policy. And this is the week in which as a rule the left wing radicals d here point sar- castic shafts at the businessmen The Capital Parade Experts Here Say Only a Miracle Can Save South Norway From Nazis; Call Invasion a ‘Decoy War’ By JOSEPH ALSOP and ROBERT KINTNER. Among t experts liere, the ceepest gloom: prevails as to the probable ouicome of the tragic campaign around Trondheim .in South Norway. While the British are expected to drive the Germans out of Narvik and to hold the north, it is now thought that nothing short of a miracle can save all South Norway from' German domination. The experts may be wrong; the miracle may come, but there.is little hope expressed among those whose optimism would be significant. A primary current error, of course, is exaggeration of the Norwegian campaign's importance. In the first place, American military and naval experts agree in calling Germany's invasion of Norway chiefly a “decoy war.” The object of the attack on Norway was to draw the British Navy within range of German bombers, and to create a diversion for the allied armies before some such more seri- ous incident as a German assault onthe Low Countries or an Italian movement into the Balkans. The British Navy has stood the test and the ddcoy has not worked., In‘\the second place, this is no war to be won in a week. From the start allied strategists have been preparing for a prolonged and bitter struggle, in which success or failure in the Norwegian campaign could be no more than an incident. In truth, except for Germany's gain in hat happened in Norway is likely to be g both the position of other European as obstruction- air bases, the significance of w fsts of social largely psychological, affecting progress. neutrals and semi-neutrals, But some day | when the busi- | nessmen gather in Washington there will be an appreciation of what the job-makers of America really do— | the risks they take and the problems | David Lawrence. and the position of the British and French should decide to fight bv Germany's side, or he war would still go on. governments. And if Italy if Chamberlain should fall, t| Details of Campaign With this brief \ preface, it is worth transciibing the detail of the best available ex pert analysis of the South Norwegian campaign. In that beset them in meeting pay | South Norway the allied objective was to establi 3 g 3 S sh a front just below rolls. Unfortunately most business- | Trondheim, across the bulge of the Scandinavian Peninsula, there the men know every little about politics | Germans would have to defend their gains, and where the allies would and hence they are not adept in| be ready to help Sweden if necessary. meeting the barrages of political The Germans held Trondheim, and the alli i 3 intrigue that are leveled through | was accordingly landed at the t ' N e Congress and the whole legislative process at the management of Amer- lcan enterprise | The atmosphere this vear is not | much different from other years. The delegates, of course, reveal a sense of awareness of the extent to which public regulation has entered into or encroached upon private management. But ‘it is doubtful whether the businessmen realize the true extent to which public ownership and public regu- lation doctrines have become en- trenched in Congress. Workers Become Dictators. Today more than ever there is dictatorship by one class of voters— ! the organized workers. The average American workman is not interested | €xposed position, holding the line from Dombas in radicalism nor does he want to | troops had advanced up a valley parallel to the Dom At this writing, the Germans have crossed the but the oligarchies which | points, and now offer a muitiple threat which may see the system upset, have control of millions of workers of free enterprise wo small ports of Namsos and Andalsnes, T necessarily The Star’s eflort to give all sides readers, although such By FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Beginning tomorrow in Room 357, Senate Office Building, the “Joads” and the natlonal aspects of a de- veloping “farm labor” problem—as dramatized by John Steinbeck in “The Grapes of Wrath”"—will have fheir day in court at Washington. The subcommittee of Senator La Fol- lette’s Commit- tee on Education and labor, which explored the civil liberties plight of the migratory farm workers on the spot in Califor- Frederic William Wile. nia last fall and winter, will now | hear from expert Government wit- nesses. Bob La Follette and his colleagues, Thomas of Utah and Walsh of Massachusetts, are con- vinced that the California situation is not an isolated one, but only a striking symbol of a much more far- reaching problem. They describe it as “national in scope,” involving HE opintons of the writers on this page are thetr own, not Star's. Such opinions are presented tn The opinions themselves and directly opposed to THE EVENING STAR, 'WASHINGTOI\', D. C, WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1940, of mi quabt‘tou lg mterut to its aj contradictory among thu Star’s. Washington Observations The ‘Joads’ to’ Get Théir Day in Court In Senate Hearings Starting. Tomorrow annual living wage from casual seasonal employment in agricul- ture.” * ok ok X Norse Statesmen in Washington. Norwegian Foreign Minister Koht and Parliament President and For- eign Affairs Committee Chairman Hambro are well and agreeably re- membered in Washington from vis- its here a couple of years ago. Mr. Koht came to discuss a reciprocal trade agreement and to pave the Wway for the $10,000,000 credit granted Norway last February by the Export and Import Bank. The credit has been suspended because of our rec- ognition that Norway is at war with Germany. Secretary Hull presented Foreign Minister Koht at a luncheor gathering of con- gressional and other Government leaders, who found him a modern, progressive statesman. Mr. Ham- bro’s visit was sponsored by the Oxford Group, of which he Is one of the eminent European leaders. He did much to popularize moral re-armament in the United States. Messrs. Koht and-Hambro;, by the irony of fate, were prime movers in formation of the so-called Oslo Group, organized in 1937 for mutual to the north and south respect down to Steinkjer an northward as far as Storen. Trondheim was threatened froj Unfortunately, however, the bases in the hope that the Landing facilities for start, and what destroved by German air raiders, to fight without needed weapons. Only a Miracle Meanwhile the German columns, with all vantage of ample mechaniz the enemy. The allied ad at least, at Steinkjer. The force BEAT 1vely. had got ashore, they moved into the heavy artillery, like could be sent on after them in time Andalsnes lie in the deep fjords, and are hardly After a certain number of troops Norwegian interior, from Namsos d from Andalsnes inland to Dombas, and thence Thus important bases were taken, and m two sides. troops had been sent ahead to take anti-aircraft guns and the for defense. Namsos and more than fishing towns. r heavy war supplies were extremely poor at the facilities existed are thougit to have been all but Thus the expeditionary force was left the tremendous ad- ed equipment, dashed northward to encounter vance from Namsos was s topped, temporarily es was caught in an to Storen. German bas-Storen line. mountains at three force the abandon- ment of the Dombas-Storen line and aretreat down the valley from Dom- bas back to Andalsnes. The only mir- acle that could change this picture to landed at Andalsn protection of the neutral rights of small European countries. * * Kk X X Our Envoy to Iceland. Iceland having proclaimed her independence after the Germany oc- cupation of Denmark, the United i s | States is about to send our first| Indicative of the gravity and|enyoy there. He is Bertel Eric wide ramifications of the facts]Kuniholm, 39, native of Gardner, | elicited on the Coast, Senator La|Mass, of Danish extraction, and | Follette sums up his committee's | 192¢ graduate of West Point. Mr. | Kuniholm, who has just arrived findings in these thought-provoking | from his latest post at Zurich, will words: proceed at once to Reykjavik, wim‘ ‘There are ominous signs that |rank of Consul, but virtually wn.h‘ » diplomatic authority. He not only | typical Norseman, with sky-blue eyes, “family farm” toward industrial- |light blond hair and rugged in sta- | ized or co-operative agriculture. Farming as a way of life is nothing more or less than “the pres- | ent and future welfare of a large | proportion of our rural population | in many States other than Califor- | nia.” * ok % X Farm Life “Threatened.” This Changing World British Setback in Norway Seen Likely To Have Severe Repercussions By CONSTANTINE BROWN. Dark days are in store for the allies. The setback suffered in Norway berause thewr troops showed themselves unprepared to meet the German | up-to-date war machinery is likely to have severe repercussions in the military and political figids. In Britain there is indignation against the government. The oppo- nents of Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill say the government should have known the type of opposition the allied expeditionary force would meet in Scandinavia and the expedition should not have been a haphazard one, since the general staff had time to-prepare it. The allies considered sending assistance to Finland; these opponents point out. * * ¥ % If the defeat in Norway is conclusive, the neutrals are bound to lose faith in the ability of the allies to come to their rescue when Germany puts forth some new demands on them. In every neutral country of consequence there is a small group of Nazi sympathizers. This applies to Holland, Belgium, Switzerland and the Balkans. These pro-Nazis, whose main political activity is to tell the people of their country to accept the Nazi terms and not risk their welfare for the sake of the allies, are now strengthened. As long as Britain and France do n8t do anything active for the protection of & neutral there is a strong feeling that once the Ger- mans decide to move the neutrals will be the loser. * % ® % Mussolini seems to be leaning more to the side of the Reich. The proposed rerouting of British shipping from the Mediterranean around the Cape, a much longer and more costly trip, is a clear indication of the feeling of the British government about the safety of the Mediterranean and the role Mussolini is likely to play in the next few weeks, According to reports from the allied capitals the British and the French intend to make it hot for Il Duce if he decides to stick his neck out. British and French warships can have superiority over the Italians if Britain is willing to detach a number of heavy units from the Atlantic to| the Mediterranean. The fact the merchantmen flying the British flag | have received instructions to return home by Cape Good Hope indicates that | there may be some naval action In the Mediterranean in the next few | weeks, * % % % In official British quarters there is apprehension regarding Gibraltar. To keep Gibraltar British it will be necessary for an allied force to enter Spain. The Spanish batteries in the mountains dominating the British stronghold in the Mediterranean could make Britain’s hold on that highly important military and naval base untenable. | For the time being it cannot be ascertained whether Italian sub- marines and airplanes are still at Majorca. Dispatches from Paris in- | | dicate the TItalians have withdrawn completely from those strategic | | bases. But in certain quarters in Washington there is a doubt as to how correct those reports are. It is pointed out that Franco's genuine desire to keep out of this war may not be fulfilled. Spain happens to be an important asset for Mussolini and Hitler and despite Gen. Franco's pacific tendencies he. or some other ruler of Spain, might be compelled by circumstances to throw his lot with Mu: solini if Il Duce decides the time has come for qtaly to join her ally. Mechanization Declared Hope 0‘ coal Indus'ry | rence, yesterday designated Senator BY the Associated Press. | Guffey's running mates. F. Clair Ross CINCINNATI, Ohio, May 1.—Fu- | of Butler and G. Harold Wagner of | Wilkes-Barre, to meet the Senator { when Senator Guffey comes here for | a meeting tomorrow night | The anti-Guffey faction, headed | by State Chairman David L. Law- and can influence their voting at Taar! the polls Keep t salaries by promising things r beyond the capacity of management to satisfy. The result is that Congress is | constantly being urged to permit | costs to be raised to one set of workers which the consumers as a whole cannot afford to pay. Output | per man is not being increased. These disparities in the economic svstem are on every side adding to long ago demonstrated the British the complications of economic life. Take, for instance. the decision this week by the Supreme Court which says the head of a Government department can “localities.” The smaller steel com- panies which were in competition with one another thought that they might have some redress before the courts because the word “locality” | was arbitrarily interpreted. Thus “locality” might seem to the average them in a Congress dominated by person to mean a certain region or geographical area, but as inter- instance, can be lumped with the termination. The Supreme Court upheld the Secretary’s right to interpret the word according to any such as the expedition to South Norway. some bad management. army on the spot already. an interior line of difficult conditions, North and if the gamble is lost, as the to despair of the allied cause. avert disaster would be the bring- ing up of sufficient artillery and other supplies for the allied forces. But if the report of the destruction of the docks at Namsos and An- dalsnes is correct, it is hard to see how the miracle can happen. As Walcheren and Corunna genius is not for isolated expeditions Unquestionably, there was At the same time, the Germans had a large , controlled the most important ports, enjoyed communication from Denmark to Norway, fix the wage rates sessed large air fields at Oslo, Stavanger and Trondheim. Thi on Government Contract work by ' had to transport troops a great distance, and pos- e British land them under the most protect them with an air force operating over the Sea, and fight in cruelly unfavorable terrain. They took a gamble, experts now expect, that is no reason (Released by the North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) class interests Businessmen may not like politics, preted by the Secretary of Labor | but they will find that active partici- it means that a city in Alabama, for | pation in political affairs and a pre- sentation of their case enterprise syvstem. They will not save it by speech-making or denun ciations in Washington, but b, Spelling Club Plans {‘Free-for-All’ Match Picking words from the news col- to their umns of The Star, the Capital City State of New York and called a respective communities is about the | Spelling Club is planning a “locality” for purposes of wage de- |only way they will save the free | for-all” “free- spelling match at the Mount Pleasant Library at 7:30 p.m. today. Avoiding such jaw-breakers as triakisocosahedron,” President El- standard a bureaucrat may set up. | legitimate debate with and persunl mer C. Helm of the club said only Shifts Fight to Congress. | This merely means that the courts no longer act as a check on arbi- trary interpretation of existing laws. | This means also that hereafter the citizen cannot depend on the courts, but must fight his battles before Congress and see that the vague language of discretionary power is carefully defined and specifically outlined. Congress alone remains the only place where the citizen can expect a fair deal. Under such circumstances it . is important to know whether Congress sion of their fellow citizens back home, especially in electing the next Congress. (Reproduction Rights Reserved.) Alsop-Kintner Book Interests Roosevelt President Roosevelt yesterday de- scribed as extremely interesting “The American White Paper,” a re- cent book by Joseph Alsop and Rob- ert Kintner purporting the inside is in the clutches of a certain class story of American diplomacy since “practical words” would be used in the contest, though they probably would be “of more than usual diffi- culty.” The public is invited. ture—a real Viking. He completes | threatened. This transition chal- lenges long-accepted national ideals of the farmer on his own land. If our national agricul- ture faces the same cycle that changed the form of industry from 1870 to 1930, the problem should be fully recognized, if it is to be checked and revised. New patterns of security and opportunity that preserve the native values of our traditional system must be provided for those who are about to be displaced. For them there must be some alternative protection, in har- mony with democratic methods, from the harsh workings of com= petition in a crowded labor mar- ket. The Nation faces again, as at the time of the Homestead Act in 1862 and the inquiry of the Commission on Country Life in 1909, the periodical necessity of restating our national ideals of the place of agricultural work- ers in society. * X ok % “Okies” 50 Miles From D. C. Other regions than Caljfornia, which are breeding “Joads,” Accord- |ing to the La Follette committee, | include Idaho, Arizona, Washington, | this month his 12th year in the for- | ture’ success of the coal industry eign service, having held various | lies in mechanization, W. J. B. Mayo T r‘,g g':‘rt‘;‘hi‘-;‘;‘“;-“R‘;:;‘:;hl;;j of Pittsburgh told delegates to the ranks as one of the State Depart- | American Mining Congress today. Mr Ross is the nominee for auditor general and Mr. Wagner for State | treasurer. | Mr. Lawrence, who has said he ment’s experts on Baltic and Scan- | divian questions. * X * X Industry's Big Profits. ‘ In this neutral corner it looks | as if the G. O. P. is going to have | a tough time making the country | believe that 1940 still finds Amer-‘ ican industry wallowing in the | dumps of depression. Profits of the | first 250 corporations to report for the initial quarter of the year were 50 per cent greater than in the 1939 period. Their net income was | 284,000, compared to $181,375 | last year's first quarter, an increase | of roundly 50 per cent. A. T. & T. earnings were 60 per cent higher. | All major industrial groups showed | larger incomes than a year ago. Biggest gains were scored by rail- road equipment, petroleum and steel. Twenty-six steel companies amassed profits of $25,134.000 against $6,865,000 in 1939, despite the de- cline in operations since November, Sears-Roebuck reports a new quar- terly high in mail order business. Unemployment remains the big fly $272.- | ,000 in | | | He said a real challenge was pre- | Would not seek re-election as chair- | sented to mine management by shrinking markets and declining prices and “mechanization is the brightest hope for the coal indus- try’s future.” Mr. Mayo declared mechanization in the mining industry started in 1890 when 190.000 men were em- ployed in bituminous fields. com- pared to 490,000 in 1935, indicating a steady increase in employment, J. P. Horne of Red Ash, Va., told delegates that installation of small coal-cleaning units would help them | to effect economies. Penns;lvaniaibgn;o—crals Move fo Unite Factions By the Associated Press. HARRISBURG, Pa, May 1. Pennsylvania Democrats are trying to heal the wounds of the recent primary battle in preparation for a State Committee meeting May 21 or 22_nnd a vigorous presidential cam- paign. % i man, announced yesterday that “T| am a straight party man ‘and will support the Democratic ticket.” Another former Guffey foe, State Senator Mundy, listed himself among “the Democrats who are in .a receptive mood to promote harmony along the proper lines.” | ;Lunhom Man Seeks ? | Pardon for Polygamy By the Associated Press. BOSTON, May 1—Harry Mitchell of Lanham, Md.. asked Gov. Salton- stall yesterday for a full pardon of | a polygamy conviction to avoid de- portation to his native England. | The Governor turned the petition over to the State Advisory Board of Pardons, which scheduled a hear- | ing May 8. | Mitchell wrote the Governor that | he left his first wife and married a second after the first had sold the furnishings of their home on three different occasions to obtain money for her own use. He served Oregon, Colorado, Texas, the Mis- sissippi Delta and Texas cotton area, the berry sections of Louisiana, == Mississippi. Arkansas and Michigan, | . . the Florida vegetable and ci(rus!TOIk on Tires Listed area, and the truck and vegetable| “Tires, Past, Present and Future” farms of Eastern Virginia, Maryland | will be the subject of a lecture at and New Jersey. All of these local- | the Commerce Department audi- in the industrial ointment—10,000,000 more or less. Mrs. J. T. Nicholson Named Mrs. James T. Nicholson, former vice chairman of the knitting for the District Chapter, American Red | Cross, has been appointed chairman | to succeed Mrs. Robert L. Walsh, | who 1s leaving the city with her | husband, Lt. 'Col. Walsh. Under the chairmanship of Mrs. Walsh, this committee has made and shipped ities—some not 50 miles away from | torium at 3 p.m. tomorrow by C. E. 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Again the dicision runs in favor of ju- dicial self - re- straint in deal- ing with the work of the ex- ecutive agencies. “The record here,” says the court, “discloses the ‘confusion and disorder’ that can result from the delays necessarily inci- dent to judicial supervision of ad- ministrative procedure developed to meet present-day needs of govern=- ment and capable of operating effici- ently and fairly to both private Charles G. Ross. | and public interests.” In the case in question, the court, by 8 to 1, sustained an order of the Secretary of Labor fixing the mini- mum wages which seven “Little Steel” companies, under the Walsh- Healey law, must pay in order to qualify for Government contracts. Justice Black gave the opinion of the court. Justice McReynolds was the lone.dissenter Autidote for Nostalgia. Associating themselves with the views of the five “Roosevelt judges” were three of the “old” court—Chief | Justicé Hughes and Justices Stone and Roserts. So it may be said again thdt the present direction of the court’s thought was beginning to be fixed before any of the Roose- velt appointees went on the bench. That's a point for the lawyers with a nostalgia for the “old days” of the court—by which is generally meant the days before the Roosevelt ap- pointments—to remember. But whatever the “old” court might have decided. the present court is definitely committed to the theory laid down by Justice Frank- furter in the Pottsville Broadcast- ing case last January, namely, that court procedures and administrative procedures necessarily differ, and that to impose upon the latter the rigid formulas of the courts would bring confusion and undue delay to the functioning of government, All the members of the court sup= ported the Pottsville opinion ex- cept Justice McReynolds, and he concurred in the result reached. Apropos to Logan-Walter Bill. In view of the current controversy over the Logan-Walter bill, the at- itude of the court toward the ad- ministrative agencies has special in- terest. Here is what the court said, among other pertinent things, in the Pottsville case: “To be sure, the laws under which thesc agencies operate prescribe the fundamentals of fair play. They re- quire that interested parties be af- forded an opportunity for hearing and that judgment must express reasoned conclusion. But to assimi= late the relation of these administra- tive bodies and the courts to the relationship between lower and up- | per courts is to disregard the origin and purposes of the movement for administrative regulation and at the same time to disregard the tradi- tional scope, however far-reaching, of the judicial process. Unless these differentiations between the furctions of judicial and adminis trative tribunals are observed, courts will stray outside their province and read the laws of Congress through the distorting lenses of unapplicable legal doctrine.” And again: “Interference by the courts is not conducive to the de- velopment of habits of responsibility in administrative agencies. Anglo- American courts as we now knpw them are themselves in no small measure the product of a historic process.” Interference of Courts. This is the line of thought that runs through the “Little Steel” de- cision. “The case before us,” says the court, “makes it fitting to re- member tnat ‘the interference of the courts with the performance of the ordihary duties of the executive de- partments of the Government would be productive of nothing but mis- chief; and we are quite satisfled that such a power was never in- tended to be given to them.’ “Our decision that the complain- ing companies lack standing to sue does not rest upon a mere formality. We rest it upon reasons deeply rooted in the constitutional divi sions of authority in our system of Government and the impropriety of judicial interpretations of laws at the instance of those who show no more than a mere ible in- gury to the public.” P o N BI:‘I Held Badly Drawn. oW does all this bear u, Logan-Walter bill? Loy Though this bill, which the House has passed by a three-to-one majority, has the support of the American Bar Association and a great number of other legal bodies there is at least a respectlhle' body of legal opinion to the effect, that the bill is badly drawn: that it Boes altogether too far in per- mitting appeals to the courts from the findings of administrative bodies and therefore would produce the ‘“confusion and disorder” in government against which the Supreme Court has warned: that the chief result would be a fleld day for the lawyers such as never before, not even in the litigious days of the N. R. A, has been seen. The purpose of the Logan-Walter bill is splendid—to assure the citizen of fair play at the hands of the boards, bureaus and commis- sions of government. That some= thing of the sort is needed, in ad- dition to the existing safeguards, may be granted; there seems to be tacit admission of such a need in the fact that a distinguished com- mittee has been set up by the At- torney General to canvass the whole difficult subject of adminis- trative law and recommend im proved procedures. But s suficient case has been made out against the methods proposed by the Logan- Walter bill (see the reports of the House debates) to warrant the con- clusion that the bill should be scrapped and a fresh start made after the forthcoming report of the Attorney General's committee. ¥