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I BRISBANE THIS WEEK Humpty-Dumpty NRA Many Damocles Swords | Biggest and Fastest Gangster Ingenuity Refusing: to admit the resemblance between NItA and Humpty-Dumpty, that "all the kinc's horses and all the king's men" could not put together again, Washington will gather up the pieces of Nit A and try to reconstruct "something as good." The process may remind recon structors of the boy who took his watch apart, put It together and proud ly said to his friends, "Not only Arthur Ilri.ban. ,jaV(, j put ? gether, but I have quite a number ?f pieces left over that I do not need." i The Weyerhaeuser kidnapers, bow ever "hard-boiled" they may be, must feel nervous when they hand out one ?f the 1200,000 ransom bills, knowing that the number and series of every 1)111 are in the possession of govern ment detectives. It will not make spending the money more agreeable to learn that thirty ?'G-men** from the attorney general's office will devote their entire time to hunting for those bills and tracing the spenders of them?$200,000 worth of Damocles swords. The giant French ship Normandle Is here and pleasing to Americans who like superlatives. She Is the biggest liner ever launched, the longest, broad est, heaviest, costliest. And, crossing In 4 days 11 hours 42 minutes, she Is the fastest. She is built, not for profit, hut for glory and to advertise French supremacy. England will soon send her Queen Mary after the Normandle's record and, doubtless, Mussolini will soon enter the race. Uncle Sam? Well, he Is busy with other things, very busy. Just now. In the line of viciousness, modern gangsters show ingenuity. Police give these details of the death of Danny Walsh, head of a bootleg-rum syndi cate who was kidnaped, ransomed for $40,000, later murdered. Enemies took him to sea In a boat, made him sit with his feet In a tub of wet cement, and watch while it hardened. He was then thrown overboard with the tub of cement hard around his feet Sev eral times, while he watched the jcement harden, It must have occurred to Danny Walsh that a criminal ca reer is not profitable. , To say, "Man is half tiger and half monkey" is sometimes unjust to the :monkey. At High Point, N. C? J. It. .Biggs, middle-aged, operating a filling station, was found, with tenpenny nails ?driven through each hand and each foot, fastened to a rough wooden cross. The man, having been nailed to the cross only for a short time, will probably live. Itiggs admitted he had engineered the crucifixion to regain his wife's affection. Sometimes gangsters show signs of intelligence. Volney Davis, arrested in Chicago in connection with the Bremer kidnaping, was "flown" to St. Faul, and. arriving there, confessed complicity in the kidnaping, saying to the Judges: "I knew I could not get away from the 'G-men.'" Land ownership is the best founda tion of prosperity and security, under Just government Those seeking to establish refugees from Germany in Palestine decide, wisely, to begin with land ownership. A fund expected to exceed $5,000,000 Is being raised for that purpose. The ground under your feet cannot run away, cannot be stolen. Kin* George, seventy years old. cel ebrated his birthday reviewing troops, wearing the uniform of colonel-ln-chlef of the Irish Guards, lie rode to Buck ingham palace on horseback, all four of his sons riding with him. while thou sands cheered. Recently the queen celebrated her sixty-eighth birthday. It Is desirable that the husband be a little older than the wife. That gives him an excuse for complaining. He can always say. "Walt until you are as old as I am and you will un derstand." A Brooklyn girl, ten years old, paid $1 for a sweepstakes ticket. Won $30, 000. It will cost other little girls and big men and women many dollars for every dollar accidentally won. ' Uncle Sam Is presumed to get his share of the winnings In Income tax. He and his country would be richer If he could find a way to prevent the gambling Invasion. ? The United States has Important work to do outside of NRA and Its revision, work with which the Su preme court would not Interfere, and that Is the control of floods, protection of population against them. Two hun dred and fifty ere reported killed In southwestern Nebraska, following flood and tornado. C. Kiss Sradicals. lac. WM Mr vies. . St- , National Topics Interpreted by William Bruckart Katlonal Pre?? Building Waahtngton. D. C. ^^SBMiMTF Washington.?What of the future? Where are we going now that one of the keystones of the What to Be New Deal?the Na Done Now? tlonal Recovery ad ministration ? has been largely outlawed? The national capital never has wit nessed such confusion, even in the midst of the World war, as has pre vailed here since the Supreme court of the United States had its final say as to the constitutionality of the NUA and Frazier-Lemke farm mortgage moratorium law. The lack of constitu tional authority for the Frazier-Lemke law was recognized by many but until the highest court in the land had spoken concerning NRA, views were divided and the Blue Eagle continued to fly, albeit in a lower circle. New Dealers generally were con fident to the last They appeared to expect some unseen force to guide the Supreme court in upholding the fan tastic program which they had devised and which the President made a part of his New Deal plans for economic j recovery. The adverse ruling made tbem sick at the stomach. Most of them have not yet recovered. Hence, confusion continues to reign. You have heard much discussion In the past two weeks as to how the breath of life may again be breathed Into the Blue Eagle. As far as I have been able to gather from authoritative quarters in Washington, there is noth ing left to do but perform the funeral ceremonies for the ill-fated bird and me so-eanea national pian wmcn 11 represented. The reports of Presi dential conferences, of meetings of statesmen and executives of the Ad ministration, of this plan and that plan and statements and expressions of opinion respecting the future course, mean absolutely nothing. When the Supreme court said that the congress had unlawfully delegated to the Presi dent power to draft codes of fair prac tice and enforce them upon private business. It took away the heart and nerve centers of the NRA structure. On top of this body blow, the NRA principle Is looked upon In many quarters, and hy men who know and understand the problems of govern ment, as being thoroughly discredited In the public mind. It Is not too much to say that when a national law does not hold the confidence of the bulk of the people Its usefulness has ceased. So It was with the prohibition amend ment. Equally, I believe It can be stated. If opinion of statesmen of long training can be trusted, no attempts to revise the NRA will get to first base. Even the Brain Trust movement to obtain amendment of the Federal Constitution making such laws as NRA proper can win country-wide support ? ? ? Enough Indications already have be come visible to warrant a statement that the summer More Hope months will see ehis for Future pllnk. pr'cc cutting nnd other nefarious and Improper business practices going on and that these will be disastrous to countless business Interests. The congress will strive In a half-hearted fashion to offset the loss of strength and prestige suffered by the New Deal at the hands of the Supreme court. But the effort plainly will be only half hearted. So It Is made to appear that the country must submit for several months at least to a bad condition. After that. If the opinions of experi enced men are worth while, there ought to be a substantial change for the bet ter. Careful surveys, close examina tions of the problems at hand and candid thinking has brought to un biased observers the conclusion that there Is more hope for the future now as regards the economic situation than there was while the Blue Eagle con tinued to soar and ballyhoo artists continued to preach about Its powers to restore prosperity. I believe this statement which Is the consensus ought to be tempered with one sugges tion. There Is likely to be a restora tion of confidence generally If the Ad ministration turns aside from Brain Trust theories and employs the prac tical Instead of the theoretical method of government ? ? ? To the agricultural community the decision Invalidating the Frazler Lemke mortgage Just an moratorium law proh Idle Dream ab>7 b?? greater In terest It should not be so. The Frazler-Lemke law from the first was an Idle dream and was predicated upon shortsighted under standings of basic economic laws. Bv erywhere I have Inquired concerning the probable end or result of the work ings of that statute. Informed persons declared It meant eventual destruction of credit for agriculture. Supporters of the Frazler-Lemke Idea cannot lean, as do supporters of the NRA principle, upon an accusation that the law was badly administered. It was administered, according to the Farm Credit Administration, In the spirit and letter of Itsdntent Tet be cause It was fundamentally unsound ; It never could succeed. My own guess 1 is that the Supreme court by Its ruling in this case has rendered a great serv ice to American agriculture. Simmered down, the law which was proposed by Senator Frazier and Rep resentatlve Lemke, both of North Da kota, was designed to give purely ' temporary aid to distressed owners of j mortgage farm lands. The things which apparently neither of the co authors foresaw was the effect the temporary arrangement would have as to the future. By this I mean that, for example, If a farmer wants to buy a home and had only a small amount of cash, he must borrow money from someone else. If the holder of that money were made to feel that at any time during the life of that mortgage congress could pass a law telling the lender he could not force payment of the debt few there would be who would be willing to lend their money. It is not human nature to lend money un- j less there Is a reasonable assurance ; that It will be repaid. Thus, It seems to me the Frazler- j Lemke law contained elements of j danger that were overlooked In the j stress of depressed conditions. As laws now stand, lenders of capital will ' have some assurance that the security i they take will continue to be security and that the Individual who borrows, whether he be the owner of a farm or the owner of a business in town, either will make payments on the principal or surrender the property. ? ? ? Perhaps the worst blow dealt Pres- ! ident Roosevelt personally was the Su- I preme court decision The Woret which held that the ) Blou) Presidential power did not extend to re moval of a Federal Trade Commission member except for the reasons pre scribed In the law Itself. It will be re membered that Mr. Roosevelt forcibly ousted the late William E. Humphrey from commission membership because. It was openly stated at the time, Mr. Humphrey was a conservative repub lican and he, therefore, did not see eye to eye with the President and his New Deal plans. Mr. Humphrey sued the government for the salary for his term. I After his death his executors carried on the litigation which has just now ; been decided in their favor. j. It Is the principle Involved here that Is Important The Federal Trade Com- : mission was set up as a quasi-Judicial body, one endowed with powers to reg ulate against Improper business prac tices and to determine the propriety of general business dealings where those dealings afTected country-wide business or the interests of the public. It takes no stretch of the imagina tion to see how Presidential interfer ence with the commission personnel would result In changes of commission policy. One business practice might be held proper by a commission whose majority was conservative while that same practice would be considered il legal by a commission dominated by a liberal or radical membership. It be comes obvious then that If the Presi dent were permitted to disturb the J personnel of the commission, especially Judges, there could be no continuity of policy and business itself would hardly know from day to day when it was abiding by the law or when it was I noL Several months ago, I recall, I re ported to you In these columns some thing In the nature AAA Comes of a prediction that Next the Supreme court would become better known to the general public before the current Administration had ended than It had been known since It rendered the famous Dred Scott decision In civil war days. It was a perfectly obvious circumstance. Sooner or later the questions of a constitutional nature In volved In the New Deal procedure ob viously were going to be tested In court. Now. I feel warranted In reporting that the highest court again will be In the public eye. The next momen tous decision likely to come from the1 bench of the nine austere Justices will be a ruling affecting the Agricultural Adjustment Administration and there fore of vital Import to the American farmer. There will be other cases In volving New Deal plans, of course, but their Importance cannot possibly be as great as any decision affecting the AAA. because It Is an Integral part of the New Deal program for recovery. There la no possibility of a ruling on any AAA questions before next Oc tober. No test cases have yet reached the Supreme court for argument but there are half a dozen wending their slow way through minor courts. Con sideration by the Supreme court even tually Is, of course, certain because they Involve constitutional questions. Notwithstanding the fart that a Su preme court decision on the AAA Is con siderably distant. It Is to be noted that after the NRA was outlawed, there was considerable scurrying around among AAA officials. Fresh considera tion was given to many points of law over which there Is doubt Amend ments which the AAA have asked congress to enact to strengthen the original Adjustment Act were suddenly withdrawn from the senate floor by those who sponsored them. The reason given was that there were Imperfections which should be corrected. The real 1 reason for the action was fear of sud den development of litigation over the controverted points. C W altera Newspaper Dales. Philippine Independence Won After Struggle of Centuries ? ? President Roosevelt Handing Signed Philippine Constitution to Manuel Quezon, President of the Philippine Senate. Inset, Emilio Aguinaldo, Who May Be a Candidate for President. By WILLIAM C. UTLEY IN 1898, when Admiral Dewey's guns had hardly concluded their pronouncement that America had become a world power, and the echoes were still rumbling over Ma nila bay, the 10,000,000 inhabitants of the Philippines were already demand ing complete political Independence. Ten years from this coming Fourth of July they may get it at last, after a long struggle, both physical and diplo matic. President Franklin D. Roose velt signed his name In ink to the con stitution of the new Philippine gov ernment So did Manuel Quezon, pres ident of the island senate. Six weeks before that, members of the Philippine bouse of representatives signed it one of them In his own blood. Philippine independence has not al ways been our worry. The struggle had Its beginning centuries before the United States ever existed. The story really opens, so far as the white race is concerned. In the year 1521, when Fernando Magellan, that most Irrepressible of all gadabouts, "discovered" the archipelago of the eastern Pacific. It may be well Im agined that Skipper Magellan's heart ies, with many moons on the open sea having depleted their food supply to the extent that the dinner menu con sisted of fricassee of leather riggings and boiled tongue (of shoe), hailed the Islands with delight The native rice and sugar, which would have been just another Tuesday night dessert at Mrs. Gomez' Seaman's home back In sunny Spain, must have looked to tliern like a banquet for the gods. Senor Magellan is still there, but not because he fell In love with the scen ery. He was killed by natives on the Island of Mactan. And what remained of his stout-hearted crew continued around the globe without him. When the boys got back home they were pretty much the toasts of their respective communities and were in vited to address the local Kiwanis and Rotary and the Iberian equivalent ot what we call the Hot Stove league. Egged on with bribes of hot tamales and rare Castlllian wines, they were not above spellbinding wide-eyed se noritas with reluctant admissions of their daring deeds. Mixed in with their revelations there was probably a little truth and the word eventually got out tiiat there were Philippine is lands somewhere in the Pacific, say about two mutinies and three famines out from Barcelona. Bullied the Natives. At any rate, Spanish sailors of the next generation again found the Phil ippines, and began bullying the na tives into submission in 1565, gaining complete control in 1570. It is doubt ful If these Spaniards knew, or any body else knew until the Rand-McXal ly map makers got busy, that their new colonial holdings included 7,083 is lands?two of them, Luzon and Min danao, 40,000 and 38,000 square miles In area, and nine others more than 1,000 square miles apiece. However. Filipinos, like elephants, never forget, and the idea of complete Independence kept rankling in their minds for quite a spell until in 1S96 it swelled forth In open revolt under Emlllo Aguinaldo. The Spanish rul ers pacified Senor Aguinaldo with threats, promises and goodness knows how many pesetas, and he and his principal henchmen retired to the het erogeneous obscurity of Hong Kong in ISP7, there to plan their subsequent revolt of 1S98. In that year America won the war with Spain and Spain ceded the Islands to the United States for J20.000.000. The Filipinos thought they ought to be given Independence at that time, and when they failed to get it they broke out again and were not pacified until July 4. 1001. The United States still later arrest ed an Independence movement by granting them an autonomous gov ernment under the Jones act of 1916. The islanders were quick to offer their aid to the United States in the World war, and as soon as it was over be gan a consistent petitioning for inde pendence which has never subsided. Must Wait Ten Years. They made some headway in Decem ber of 1932, when congress passed the Hawes-Cutting bill. This provided that, subject to the approval of the bill by the Philippine legislature, the Is lands would be allowed to draw up a republican constitution which would have to be acceptable both to them and to the President of the United States. Then, after a period of ten years, the islands would be granted complete Independence. During the ten years, exports and the number of Philippine immigrants to the United States would be restricted. After that the islands were to be outside the American tariff wall. President Hoover vetoed the bill January 13, 1933, on the grounds that it had been selfishly planued to protect American agriculture against Philip pine labor and products; it did not satisfactorily discharge American re sponsibility towards the Islanders, who were unready for independence ("Eco nomic independence of the Philippines must be attained before political in dependence can be successful" was the way he put it); and it would lay the Islands open to the dangers of turbu lent conditions in the Far East. Con gress overrode the veto four days la ter. The Philippine legislature rejected the bill nine months afterward. The new constitution was prepared under the conditions of the Tydings McDuffle bill, which was passed by the last congress and signed by President Roosevelt. Its chief differences from the Jones act are in the manner in which it allows the islands a gradual ly increased dosage of economic di vorcement from the United States for their people to taste before they de cide finally to cut away all ties on July 4, 1945. At present all Philippine exports to the United States come in duty free. The Tydings-McDuffle bill provides that In the sixth year of the ten-year commonwealth period a duty of 5 per cent will be levied. This will be grad uated annually until at the end of five years the duty would be 25 per cent Economic experts are generally of the opinion that this would cut terrifically Into Philippine exports, some even con tending that the islands would be eco nomically ruined even before they gained their complete independence. Varied Resources. The Philippines are not, as many folks in the metropolitan centers of the states might believe, a nation of elevator operators, bus boys and pro fessional ping-pong players. They raise great quantities of rice, sugar cane, hemp, manila, coconut, corn, to bacco and maguey. Their forestry, fishing and mining is important They manufacture sugar, cocoa, coconut oil, cigars and cigarettes, chocolate and coffee.. In 1895, before the American market was opened up to them, the exports totaled about $19,000,000. In 1929 it had reached $164,000,000, although everything but sugar slumped to a considerable degree during the depres sion that followed. While only 3 per cent of the exports reached the Unit ed States before the Islands became an American possession, 61 per cent of them are today sold in American markets. The present agreement Is not what the Philippines bave long hoped for, but in their enthusiasm they bave ap parently decided it is about all they will get, for in the island plebiscite which followed the signing of the con stitution by President Roosevelt, they approved the document by an over whelming vote. Women voted for the first time in the history of an oriental country, as the result of a bill passed by the legislature last December and signed by Gov. Gen. Frank Murphy, former mayor of Detroit. The new Philippine constitution, which now becomes effective as soon as the existing government is terminat ed by a proclamation of President Roosevelt, Is much like our own Con stitution. with the following important differences: The president may serve only one term, six years. He can veto any part of any bill The legislature, with two minor exceptions, cannot appropriate more money than his budget calls for. The vice president is a member of the cabinet, and cabinet members may speak before the legislature. There will be only one legislative body, the assembly. In times of war or other great national emergency It can vote to make the president a dic tator. The Supreme court will have eleven justices, automatically retired at seventy, who can declare a law or treaty unconstitutional by a two-thirds majority vote. Women to Vote on Suffrage. Literate men over twenty-one will be allowed to vote. A plebiscite will be held in two years on woman suf frage, and if 300,000 women vote for it they will be given the right of suf frage. All natural resources are to become the property of the state, not to be leased for longer than 25 years. The state may operate and establish indus tries and systems of communication and transportation, in the interests of national defense. The state will pro tect labor and regulate relations be tween landlords and tenants and be tween labor and capital. It may pro vide for compulsory arbitration. Treaties will be ratified by a major ity of the assembly, and that body alone may declare war. Although the plebiscite on May 14 was a landslide in favor of the new constitution, it was held In the wake of an uprising which was the bloodiest the Islands had seen In 15 years. There were several actual battles. Constabu lary officers ultimately quelled the up rising, but not until 61 rebels were dead and 54 rebels and 10 constabu laries wounded. Quezon and Murphy were in the United States at the time. Dissatisfaction with the trade re quirement of the Tydings-McDuffle bill was one of the things upon which the revolt was blamed. It Is thought In many circles that the Filipinos will not be so anxious for Independence as they are now, when 1945 rolls around, if the bill Is followed to the letter. Economic Future. A congressional committee headed by Senator Millard F. Tydlngs of Maryland, co-author of the bill, has just returned from the Islands with recommendations which will probably provide material for a study of their economic future. The bill calls for a I conference on that subject one year before the commonwealth period ex- | plres, but It is probable that this will take place at an earlier date. The final outcome, It is thought, will | result In one of the following possi bilities : (1) Complete Independence, exactly as proposed, which will involve (ac- j cording to most authorities) economic ruin and probable absorption of the i Philippines by "an Oriental power." (2) Independence, exchanging tariff preference to the Islands for free en try of American goods. (3) Dominion government of the Is lands, allowing them trade preference, but keeping a political string attached to them. The islands are determined to have independence, complete and at any cost, according to Quezon, who has fought for it in diplomatic circles in this country for many years, served as president of the island senate since 1916, and will In all likelihood be its first president. The dapper little diplomat, some where about sixty years of age, ad mitted that his nation was' setting out on a great adventure and would prob ably make mistakes. "What nation does not?" he asked. "But we have been prepared for our adventure by a great republic. We have trusted you in the past and have been rewarded for our trust We have depended upon you and we have not been disappointed. We know that we can count upon you in the future." Mentioned as a possible candidate to oppose Quezon for the presidency Is Aguinaldo, the same Emllio Aguinaldo who led the revolts and guerilla war fare more than thirty years ago. Quezon then was his trusted lieutenant ? Western Newspaper Union. ALSO HARDER WAYS What boys aent to the woods hy Uncle Sam find out is that there ;,r'e more ways In which they might make a living than they auapected. BOYS! GIRLS! Read the Grape Nuts ad in another column of this paper aDd learn how to Join the Diay Dean Winners and win valuable free prises.?A.lv. 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