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Scenes and Persons in the Current News 1? Papal attache bearing symbol of the Order of the Golden Rose conferred on Queen Elena of Italy by the pope recently. 2? Mrs. J. Borden Harriman appointed r?THl?ter to Norway by the President. 3? Masaaki Iinuma (left) and Kenji Tsukagoshi, Japanese flyers welcomed at Croydon airport after flight from Tokyo to London. The Nipponese flyers received an ovation from crowds gathered to see them land. William M. Jeffers, who will be come president of the Union Pacific railroad on October !, with the re tirement of Carl R. Gray, three days after his seventieth birthday and retirement age upon his own insistence that the company rules apply to him. Mr. Gray will con tinue his services with the railroad as vice chairman of the board of di rectors. Indians Honor Champ Jim Braddock Heavyweight Champion Jim Braddock was recently inducted into the tribe of the Lac Courte Orreille Indians near Stone Lake, Wis., where he did his preliminary training for the coming fight with Joe Louis. The champion was named "Che-Me-Ga-Ze-We-Ne-Ne," meaning chief fighting man. Next to him is Alex Martin, head man of the tribe. !> Milestone in Transcontinental Air Service I s' With inauguration of 15%-hour service from coast to coast by the United Air Lines, the evolution of trans continental air service in the past decade is pictured above. 1? Pioneer, single-engined mail plane, carry ing two passengers, which started first schedule in 1927. 2? Modern air-conditioned mainliner, equipped with two 14-cy Under engines with a top speed of 212 miles an hour. Invents "A nti- Jitter" Keyhole Ralph Ring of San Francisco, shown with his most recent invention, an "anti-jitter" keyhole. A funnel arrangement'oa kujlisl? is aimed to Mid* the key in unsteady hands into the lock without too many pre liminary attempts. Coming anywhere near the mark the key strikes on ttw periphery, and there you hare itl "GET A JOB, GIRLS" Every woman should have a pro fession whether she intends to marry or not, in the opinion of Mrs. Mary Roebling, herself a successful bank president in Trenton, N. J. She believes that women are be coming increasingly important in business, in fact, she predicts that "within the next ten or twenty years women will be doing the deciding." 5 Britain Launches New Aircraft Carrier Great Britain's new 3,000, OOn-pound aircraft carrier, Ark Royal, which Sir Samuel Hoare, first lord of the admiralty, declared was the "most up-to-date in the world" floats on the Mersey after being launched at Birkenhead recently. She has a displacement of 22,000 tons, and will carry 70 planes. She is the first ship of the British navy designed as an aircraft carrier. Priceless Madonna Gift to Toledo -> ? ? : 1 : "'?-?ii'lllw.t.l >wann? imm i? I rr ??????w.-.-.-a '.irtmmn ????? 1 The Adoration of the Child, regarded as one of the finest Italian paintings in America, recently acquired by the Toledo Museum of Art, is pictured above. It came as a gift of the museum's founder, Edward Drummond Libbey. This famous masterpiece, the work of Piero de Casimo, a Fifteenth-century artist, is supposed to have been painted for Lorenzo de Medici, patron of the arts in the Renaissance. Bonus for Babies Provided by New York State Emerson D. Fite, New York state assemblyman who is author of bill recently passed providing a cash bo nus of $75 to all mothers and fa thers, regardless of their needs. The money awarded to the parents is for the care of every child born in the state and unless rejected by the parents is to be used for pre-natal, hospital and general medical ex penses. Assemblyman Fite is also a professor at Vassar. BLOSSOM QUEEN Miss Alice Merson of South Ha ven, who was selected as Michigan Blossom Queen for the annual Blos som festival in Benton Harbor and St. Joseph. She was picked from a froup of 21 contestants represent ing as many cities in the fruit belt. Smithsonian Gets First Adding Machine An old macaroni box filled with an arrangement of wheels, rubber band*, meat skewers and staples, the grand-daddy of the present day calculating machine, which was designed and constructed 52 years ago by Dorr E. Felt, was presented to the Smithsonian institution by the family of the inventor. Photograph shows Dr. Charles G. Abbot (left), secretary of the institution, receiving the cherished relic. Jersey Quadruplets Have a Christening , Jersey's (amour foursome, the Kasper quadruplets, Frances, Frank. Felix and Ferdinand, born to Mr. and Mrs. Emil Kasper of Passaic, are shown following their christening recently. Their business manager. Mayor Benjamin F. Turner of Passaic, is shown en the extreme right. Governor Hoffman became the god father of the "quads" and was present at the ceremony. The SUPREME COURT : AND HOW IT WORKS The Need for an Umpire By ROBERT MERRILL THE men who in 1787 draft ed the Constitution of the United States had two great ad vantages in establishing a gov ernment that sought to assure personal liberty. In the first place, they had vivid personal recollections of the despot ism of King George III. In the sec ond place, they knew from bitter experience the weakness of the first government which they had set up to take the place of the repudiated king. Having renounced a one-man gov ernment that was unjust because too strong, they had suffered under an other ? established by the Articles of Confederation ? equally unjust be cause it was too weak. Their prob lem was to frame a constitution un der which the people of each state should be protected against any at tempt of federal officials to become tyrants, while at the same time making it impossible for the several states to cripple or hamper the cen tral government. Thus it came about that the very people who had actually suffered both from too much government and from too little were best fitted to find the safety-point half way be tween. Some Early Weaknesses. Illustrations of the despotism which they feared are effectively recited in the Declaration of Inde pendence. Among the many despotic acts there charged may be found, for example: that "he has obstruct ed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for es tablishing Judiciary Powers." On the other hand, among the many weaknesses which made the Articles of Confederation a failure, the following is a typical illustra tion: During the Revolutionary war, vessels of war, called privateers, had been fitted out by citizens of the several colonies and sent out to prey 'upon British commerce. A British sloop, the Active, had been seized by citizens of Connecticut who were bringing her into port as prize when an American privateer, the Convention, qtfiich had been fitted out in Pennsylvania, captured the Active and claimed the prize money which belonged to the men from Connecticut. A Pennsylvania court decided the case in favor of ths home claimants and awarded them the greater part of the prize money, but, upon ap peal to a court which the feeble Articles of Confederation had set up, the rights of the Connecticut claim ants were properly recognized and the judgment of the Pennsylvania court was reversed. Decision Not Backed. Then, to their dismay, the vic torious Connecticut men discovered that the order of the court was not worth the paper it was written on, because Pennsylvania refused to rec ognize or enforce it and the central government was without power to enforce the order of its own court. Conferences followed between a committee of congress and the gen eral assembly of Pennsylvania: but nothing was accomplished. As soon, however, as the Consti tution of the United States was adopted federal courts were set up, with the Supreme court of the Unit ed States at their head; and the federal government was given pow er to enforce their decrees. Accord ingly, after having waited years for such an outcome, the men from Connecticut were able to bring suit in a United States district court to enforce the order formerly made in their favor but subsequently dis regarded. v The district court granted partial but not complete relief; but, upon appeal, the Supreme court of the United States finally did complete justice among the parties. Court Stands oa Own Feet. With such experiences immediate ly behind them the framers of the Constitution were naturally careful to make rules to prevent their re currence. It was obviously insuffi cient, however, merely to make the rules: it was essential that there should be a judicial umpire to in terpret and apply them.Accordingly the Constitution safeguarded the ju dicial power of the United States by vesting it "in one Supreme court." With our form of government the Supreme court cannot be abolished by the congress or by the President any more than the congress or the President can be abolished by the court. Remembering that the King of Great Britain had made Judges here "dependent on his will alone for the tenure of their offices and the amount and payment of their salaries," the framers were careful to provide that "the judges, both of the Supreme and inferior courts, shall hold their offices during good Behaviour, and shall, at stated Times, receive tor their Services, a Compensation which shall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office." While, therefore, the men of 1787 were not super-men they were peo ple whose actual experiences made them think of many safeguards of liberty which otherwise might nave been overlooked.
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