\etrs Btevioir of Current Events
REED FOR SUPREME COURT
Solicitor General Is Nominated by the President . . .
Roosevelt Would Wipe Out All Holding Companies
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Drags Wolf and Foolish Bear, aged members of the aneient water
buster elan of North Dakota’s Gros Ventre Indians, are shown being
greeted by “The Great White Father,” President Roosevelt, whom they
visited on a trip which they hope will bring a merciful rain to end the
long drouth in their parched country. The Indians were on their way to
the Heye foundation of the Museum of the American Indian where George
G. Heye was to return to them a sacred bundle, a “medicine” they believe
will make their lands fertile again. Since the loss of the bundle in 1907,
their country is slowly turning into desert due to lack of rain.
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SUMMARIZES THE WORLD’S WEEK
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Choice of Reed Liked
NOMINATION of Stanley Formen
Reed of Kentucky, solicitor
general, as associate justice of the
Supreme court met with general ap
proval and it was
predicted in Wash
ington that he would
be speedily con
firmed by the sen
ate with little or no
opposition.
Republicans and
Democrats alike
were quick to praise
the Kentuckian,
who, while a de
fender of many New
Deal measures, has
acquired a reputa
tion for being realistic and a liberal
with '‘moderate” tendencies.
Senator Ashurst, chairman of the
judiciary committee, named a sub
committee which planned quick
public hearings on the nomination.
. Mr. Reed, who will fill the va
cancy caused by the retirement of
Justiee George Sutherland, is fifty
three years old and has never be
fore been on the bench. In 1929
Herbert Hoover, then President,
made him general counsel of the
federal farm board. Later he was
shifted to the same capacity in the
Reconstruction Finance corporation.
He retained his post at the outset
of the present administration.
Then President Roosevelt picked
him for solicitor general to defend
the New Deal cases before the Su
preme court. Of these he won 11
and lost 2.
In the opinion of lawyers Mr.
Reed's legal philosophy is orthodox.
His liberalism is not that which
would do away with legal proce
dure in establishment of untried
schemes, yet he feels that congress
and the President would shirk their
duty if they did not venture into
legislative fields of untried constitu
tionality.
Stanley F.
Reed
Hits Holding Companies
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, in •
* press conference, declared he
was determined to wipe out all hold
ing companies. The method to be
used in eliminating them, he said,
was still under discussion; he in
dicated it might be done through
legislation and the exercise of the
taxing power.
The “death sentence” imposed on
holding companies in the utility in
dustry in the 1935 act is a step to
ward the new purge. The Presi
dent revealed that Wendell L. Will
kie, head of the Commonwealth and
Southern corporation, recently had
urged him to relax this restriction
and that his plea had been rejected.
Senator Norris, who has proposed
that most holding companies be
taxed out of existence, holds that it
might be desirable to retain first de
gree companies, or those which hold
securities in operating companies
only.
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Tax Changes Planned
CHAIRMAN DOUGHTON and his
house ways and means commit
tee began hearings on proposals for
63 changes in the revenue laws
which would exempt small corpora
tions, constituting 90 per cent of
American business, under the undi
vided profits levy and grant large
enterprises only part of the relief
demanded from harsh rates.
These changes were formulated
by Fred Vinson’s subcommittee,
which in a long report defended
them as fair and predicted they
would stimulate business without re
ducing the aggregate federal reve
nue.
In addition to changes in the tax
structure the sub-committee urged
recodification of the complex maze
of internal revenue statutes to clar
I ify their meaning, speed tax collec
! tions, and simplify enforcement.
The most important individual
change recommended was the pro
posed exemption of small corpora
tions—those earning $25,000 or less
annually and comprising about 90
per cent of the nation's 200.000 busi
ness concerns—from the undistrib
uted surplus tax.
The report proposed as a “general
rule" a tentative tax of 20 per cent
on corporations' earnings more than
$25,000 per year, but allowing a
credit of four-tenths of 1 per cent for
each 10 per cent of earnings de
clared as dividends.
Kidnaped Ross Was Slain
CCORE another for J. Edgar
^ Hoover and his “G-men". They
have solved the mysterious case of
the kidnaping of Charles Ross, elder
ly retired manufacturer, in Chicago
last September, arrested the kidnap
er and obtained his confession that
he killed both Ross and his own con
federate after getting $50,000 ran
som money from Mrs. Ross.
The murderer, Peter Anders, was
taken at Santa Anita race track,
near Los Angeles, where he had
been passing some of the ransom
money through the pari mutuel ma
chines. Full details of his confession
were not at once made public.
Dodd Angers the Nazis
WILLIAM E. DODD, until re
cently American ambassador
to Berlin, has put himselt in a class
with Mayor La Guardia so far as
the Nazis are con
cerned, by a speech
in New York. It was
violently anti-Hitler,
and German Am
bassador Hans
DieckhofT immedi
ately made a bitter
protest to Secretary
of State Hull, saying
Dodd had insulted
the Reichsfuehrer.
In particular the
ambassador was an
gered by Dodd's statements that un
der Hitler “almost as many person
al opponents were killed in five
years as Charles II (king of Eng
land) executed in 20 years of the
Seventeenth century,” and that Hit
ler is “now more absolute than any
medieval emperor of Germany."
Mr. Hull informed Dieckhoff that
Dodd was now a private citizen
and that our government does not
have control over the utterances of
individuals; also that Dodd's utter
ances do not represent the views
of this government.
No Peace with Chiang
JAPAN is determined to bring to
pass the complete downfall of
Chiang Kai-shek and his Nationalist
government of China. Following a
meeting of the imperial council in
Tokyo in the presence of the em
peror, it was announced that Japan
would withdraw its recognition of
the Chiang regime and would en
courage the Japanese-dominated
government set up in Peking.
The official statement continued:
“Needless to say, this involves no
change in the policy adopted by the
Japanese government of respecting
the territorial integrity and sover
eignty of China, as well as the rights
and interests of the other powers in
China.
"Japan's responsibilities for peace
in East Asia are now even heavier
than ever before. It is the fervent
hope of the government that the
people will put forth still greater
effort toward the accomplishment of
this important task incumbent on
the nation.”
Shanghai was informed that Chi
ang had ordered his troops "not to
retreat a single inch."
W. E. Dodd
' Canal Toll Fighf On
SENATORS and representatives of
the Mississippi valley were lin
ing up for a determined fight
against a bill sponsored by Senator
McAdoo of California to exempt
coastwise shipping from payment of
Panama canal tolls. The opponents
feel that the measure would endan
ger the prosperity of Middle West
industries, many of which already
have been crippled cr wiped out
since the opening of the Panama
canal and the establishment of tolls
lower than rail rates from the Mis
sissippi valley to either coast. This
cheapening of transportation for
seaboard industries made it impos
sible for enterprise in the interior of
the country to compete in seaboard
markets.
Public hearings on the McAdoo
bill were opened, and it was pre
dicted there would be a great strug
gle in congress between seaboard
and interior interests.
Six Million III Every Day
BECAUSE of illness or injury, an
average of G.000.000 of the coun
try's 130.000.000 men. women and
children are each day unable to
work, attend school, or pursue other
usual activities during the winter
months.
This state of affairs was revealed
by a report of the federal public
health service.
Seventeen per cent of all the peo
ple, according to the report, loses at
least one week in a year because of
illness.
“In the light of current attempts
to determine the extent and causes
of unemployment, and its relation to
inadequate food, shelter and medi
cal care, further revelations of this
survey should be of extreme im
portance.’’
Big Flying Boat Destroyed
SAMOAN CLIPPER, huge Hying
boat of the Pan-American Air
the Pacific ocean
ways, fell into
near Samoa, carrying the seven
members of the
crew to their deaths.
There were no pas
sengers. for the ship
was making one of
its pioneering flights
on the newly estab
lished route across
the Pacific, It was
on the way from
Pago Pago harbor,
American Samoa, to
Auckland, New Zea
Capt. Edwin C. ian(j ancj had turned
Musick
back toward Pago
Pago because of an oil leak. Pre
sumably it was dumping gasoline to
facilitate landing and the fuel ex
ploded, destroying the plane.
First in the list of victims was
Capt. Edwin C. Musick, considered
the most experienced ocean flyer in
the world and chief pilot of the Pa
cific division of Pan-American. Ha
was one of the most conservative
of flyers and officials of the com
pany said he and his flight crew
were entirely blameless for the dis
aster.
Those who perished with Musick
were First Officer Cecil G. Sellers.
Junior Flight Officer Paul S. Brunk,
F. J. MacLean, J. W. Stickrod, J.
A. Brooks and J. T. Findlay.
Plane Crashes in Rockies
/~\NE of Northwest Airlines’ new
Lockheed Zephyr passenger
planes, flying from Seattle to Chi
cago, struck a snow-covered peak
of the Rocky mountains near Boze
man, Mont., and was smashed and
burned. All aboard, including eight
passengers and two pilots, were
killed, their charred bodies being
found by a party that made its
way through a raging blizzard to
the scene of the accident.
Officials of the company could not
explain the disaster but said all
ships of the new type were ground
ed pending investigation.
France in a Crisis
C'RANCE was indulging in another
*■ of its periodical governmental
crises. Financial and labor troubles
forced Premier Camille Chautemps
and his Popular Front cabinet to
resign, and the customary search
for a man who could command a
majority of the chamber ensued.
At the present writing President Le
brun had turned again to Chau
temps. but the situation was chang
ing with each hour. Georges Bon
net, who has been serving as am
bassador to Washington, tried his
hand, but was blocked by Leon
Blum, socialist leader and former
premier. Then Blum undertook the
job but gave up because of conserv
ative opposition.
Naval Building Race
FRANCE S reply to the recent an
nouncement that Italy would
build two 35,000 ton battleships is
the decision to construct two battle
ships of 42,000 tons each, exceeded
in size only by the British battle
cruiser Hood. The navy committee
of the chamber of deputies was pre
paring to ask Minister of Finance
Georges Bonnet to supplement the
1938 naval budget by 2,000,000,000
francs from the sorely pressed
treasury to keep ahead of Musso
lini's forces at sea.
Marriage Mills Slopped
INDIANA’S notorious marriage
mills were given a death blow
when the State Supreme court up
held a statute enacted 86 years ago
forbidding county clerks to issue
marriage licenses to women who
are not residents of the county in
which the license is issued.
Washington.—Many times. I have
written in these columns about the
confused state of
“Big Shots99 affairs in the fed
Consulted eral government
and the Roosevelt
administration. I wish I were pos
sessed of sufficient wisdom to un
dertake an analysis of them, as they
exist now, for it probably would be
helpful to all. But having no such
vast wisdom. 1 shall have to con
tent myself with the service of re
porting on several circumstances of
recent development and let it go at
that.
For several weeks now, w'e have
witnessed a steady stream of call
ers at the White House. There have
been some labor leaders but mostly
the list of callers whom the Presi
dent invited were the greatest of
American industrialists, the “eco
nomic royalists” whom Mr. Roose
velt has so roundly denounced from
time to time, or whenever it served
political purposes to attack them
publicly. The purposes of having
these men visit the President, as
announced at the White House, were
to consult and try to And ways and
means of checking the current de- (
pression.
As I said, these White House vis
itors were the very “economic roy
alists" whom Mr. Roosevelt has at
tacked with such apparent satisfac
tion throughout the last five years.
Indeed, among their number were
some of the “sixty families” upon
whom Secretary Ickes of the Inte
rior department, and Robert H.
Jackson, trust busting assistant at
torney general, have been heaping
abuse as the folks who “control"
America. Anyone who wall take the
trouble to review the President’s
speeches and the more recent bar
rage of attacks by Messrs. Ickes
and Jackson cannot help wondering
if those men are crooks and if they
crush the “common pee-pul,” as
charged, why their advice can be
any good now.
Noxtly, it is hard to understand
why or how anything is to be gained
by consulting with men of that type
in a serious effort to solve the prob
lems of the current depression and
set off dynamite under them at the
same time. That is what happened.
Mr. Roosevelt announced with ve
hemence at a press interview that
all holding companies “must go.”
Tiiey must be eliminated from
American economic life and at
once; there can be no toleration of
corporations that are organized to
hold the stock of other corporations,
etc., etc. He has taken a definite
position on that before as regards
power companies and drove a bill
through congress to eliminate them.
This time, he wants to go much
further. Which is proper, if that be
his policy. But here is the peculiar
thing. Two hours after he made
his announcement, he had a dozen
men in conference who represented
the very thing he was denouncing
and was seeking their advice. It
seems paradoxical, to say the least.
On top of these conferences that
have brought scores of prominent
industrial captains to Washington at
the President's invitation, there is
to be noted an entire absence of any
administration action looking to re
lease of business to do its part in
taking on unemployed workers. I
have talked to men in congress of
every shade of opinion and they are
all awaiting some word as to the
President's views. Their position is
that the President wants to take the
lead in mapping a program and
most of them, I believe, will help
him carry it out. They feel also
that for them to start development
of a program of their own makes
them subject to White House criti
cism if the legislation fails to meet
New Deal specifications. So they
simply wait!
In the meantime, the depression
has sunk deeper and deeper. I
frankly believe that in some locali
ties it is right now as bad as any
thing we saw in 1932. Business men
are frightened to death and will not
expand their businesses because of
the danger that they will lose every
thing they have, and individuals are
frightened and will not spend more
money than is absolutely necessary.
In other words, there is again a
lack of confidence that is appalling,
it seems to center on Mr. Roose
velt as it centered on Mr. Hoover
in 1933 and 1931.
1 can judge the whole situation
only by attempting to compose the
observations that 1 gather from
countless conversations. If this con
sensus be accurate, then it would
appear that current fears result
from an inability of anyone to know
what Mr. Roosevelt will do next.
That is to say, the expressions
stressed statements that his poli
cies "lack continuity;” that he
changes “overnight;" that he “at
tacks business with one hand and
kicks it in the pants with one foot
and asks it to take the load off of
the government at the same time;”
that he takes advice "of a lot of
nincompoops on finances who can’t
even balance their own household
oudgets;" that he “won’t let pri
•ate initiative do anything without
aving a flock of government spies
on our trails,” and so on. 1 could
supply fifty more from my notes,
but they would be of the same ten
or. And mind you! a large per
centage of these came from repr»
sentatives and senators in congress.
Democrats and Republicans alike.
Another phase of the general situ
ation:
There has been a tremendous
drive against monopoly. This was
lead largely by
Drive on Assistant Attorney
Monopoly General Jackson,
but Mr. Ickes and
lesser lights have helped carry the
ball. The attacks have been gen
eral. There has been no distinc
tion between good business and bad
business. The result has been that
every man who has some money
tied up in business is wondering
whether he is going to have to de
fend himself in some way, how
ever careful he has been about
complying with the federal laws.
The fact was called to my atten
tion also that many of the busi
nesses charged with monopoly are
doing just what the government
forced them to do. The unlamented
NRA can be recalled without ef
fort. Under the NRA, every unit
or every line of business was told
what to do and how to do it. Codes
of business practice were laid down
for them, bearing the approval of
the President. Since NRA was rele
gated to the ashcan, we find a dozen
suits being prosecuted against busi
nesses for continuing to do the
things they were forced to do when
NRA was the law of the land.
Then, I would like to ask what is
wrong that real trusts are not being
broken up. The Department of Jus
tice has some able lawyers who
have been assisting Attorney Gen
eral Cummings since the inception
of the New Deal. It appears to a
layman like me that five years ought
to be ample time in which to make
some headway against trusts and
monopolies. I am moved to ask,
therefore, can this new outburst
against monopoly be a bit of poli
tics?
But the turning of the New Deal
wheel has brought one magnificent
appointment to
Praise the Supreme court
for Reed ol the United
States. I refer to
the nomination of Stanley Reed to
succeed the retiring Justice Suther
land. Mr. Reed has been solicitor
general of the United States and as
such has directed the nation’s legal
affairs under Attorney General
Cummings. His service there, and
before that with the reconstruction
finance corporation, has been meri
torious. There has been nothing but
praise of his ability and of his char
acter. He stands out as a great
lawyer and fine personality.
The appointment is worthy of con
sidering from two standpoints. Jus
tice Sutherland's resignation and
the subsequent appointment gives
the present President control of the
court. That is to say, the known
division of the court between con
servative and liberal thought has
been switched from the conserva
tive side to the liberal side by the
appointment of two men. Actu
ally, it accomplishes for Mr. Roose
velt the very purpose he sought to
accomplish by demanding of con
gress that it pass the so-called court
reform bill a year ago, a piece ol
legislation on which the President
received the worst licking of his
political career.
The second important considera
tion in the appointment is the high
type of man named by the Presi
dent. Mr. Reed is progressive in
thought. The New Dealers always
have counted him as one of theii
number, but I find many people who
contend that Stanley Reed believes
first in the law of the land and in
obeying it, rather than indulge in
wishful thinking on a lot of silly,
untried schemes. The country is for
tunate, indeed, to have a man like
Mr. Reed on the court.
And, continuing the theme of un
usual circumstances, 1 think refer
ence ought to be
Take a made to the ter
Beating rific beating thal
is being handed
the southern Democratic members
of the senate. They have been mak
ing a brave fight against passage ol
a piece of utterly assinine legisla
tion—the so-called anti-lynching bill,
Men like Harrison of Mississippi,
Byrnes of South Carolina, Connally
of Texas, and others, have beer
holding the fort against this vicious
legislation. They ought to win, bul
they probably won’t.
I have seen something of the race
problem in the South, and I can un
derstand what the basis of south
ern objection is. On the other hand,
there is only one basis for the pres
sure which Senator Wagner, New
York Democrat, is putting on the
bill and the reason why the senate
was tied up in a deadlock of the
filibuster type for days. That rea
son is that Senator Wagner is try
ing to get control of the negro votes
in New York city’s Harlem area.
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Mistaken Identity
At a New York restaurant the
colored waiter was handing
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“Waiter,” said a fair young
thing, “I will have that chocolate
eclair.”
Sambo looked surprised, and
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“Madam, dat’s not an eclair,
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"This is Mr. Snodgrass, our in
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Identified
The teacher was putting ques
tions to the class.
“What do we call a man,” he
asked, “who keeps on talking and
talking when people are no longer
interested?”
“Please, sir,” replied a boy, "a
teacher.”
THE TROUBLE
Rastus—What dis troubled old
world needs am somethin’ to rem
edy de status quo.
His Wife—Dat, Rastus, am
what we’s been hearin’ so much
’bout lately. Jest what am de
“status quo?”
Rastus—Dat am Latin fo’ de
mess de world am in.
Matched
It was during a big sale, and
tempers were getting frayed.
“If I were trying to match po
liteness,” said one customer, glar
ing hard at a saleslady, “I’d have
a job to find it here.”
“Have you a sample?” the
saleslady asked.
Good Night
Bore—Talking about Africa
makes me think of the time—
Bored One—Good gracious,
you’re quite right. I must be going.
Fair Warning
"What’s happened, George?”
the wife inquired as her husband
got out of the car to investigate.
“Puncture,” he replied briefly.
"You should have been more
careful,” she said. "The sign
said: ‘Fork ahead’."
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