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Page 2 THE DANBURY REPORTER. N. E. PEPPER, Editor and Publisher Issued Wednesdays at Danbury. N. C., and entered at the Danbury postotfioe aa second class matter, under act of Congress. Danbury, N. C., Thursday, March 25, 1937 Why Is A Supreme Court? 1 Is it infallible ? Then why does the constitution refuse to give it the power to defeat the will of the people by DECLARING A LAW UNCONSTITUTION AL ? Is it safe for the country that the power of overriding the Congress and the President is being exercised by the Supreme Court ? Then why did Thomas Jefferson say: "It is a very dangerous doctrine to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all questions. It is one which would place us under the despot ism of an oligarchy." Do Supreme Court justices themselves be lieve it safe for the court to wield the supreme power ? . Then why did Justice Harlan, a member of the court, say: "When the American people come to the con-, elusion that the judiciary of this land is usurping to itself the functions of the legislative depart-j ment of the government, and by judicial con-j stitution only, is declaring what shall be thej public policy of the United States, WE SHALL FIND TROUBLE." And then Justice Harlan went on to say: "Ninety millions of people—all sorts of people—are not going to submit to the usurpa tion by the judiciary of the functions of other, departments of the government on the power \ on its part to declare what is the policy of the United States." (Since the Justice said that, the people of the; United Stales have increased from 90 to 130; millions.) And Justice Brown, another great member of the court, said this: "I cannot escape the 1 conviction that the decision of the court in this ( */reat case (Income tax case,) is fraught with; immeasurable danger to the future of this country, and that it approaches the proportions of national calamity. I feel it my duty to enter my protest acainst it. (****) I hope it may not prove the FIRST STEP TOWARD THE SUB MERGENCE OF THE LIBERTIES OF THE PEOPLE in a sordd despotism of wealth." And now listen to what Gov. Baldwin, of Connecticut, a former chief justice, said: ! "THIS RIGHT OF THE COURT TO SET ITSELF UP AS THE LEGISLATURE, IS SOME THING NO OTHER COUNTRY IN THE WORLD WOULD TOLERATE." j The AAA decision was a TRAGEDY FOR THE FARMERS and you know this who profit ed from the relief afforded the tobacco growers by that great piece of constructive legislation. j 1 And yet this act of Congress was killed by the court when three or four of the nine mem bers declared it WAS CONSTITUTIONAL. Do you believe that four or five partisans, or ex-corporation lawyers, should have such trans cendant powers vested in them ? You are afraid for the President to have the, power to pack the court, are you not ? Then why are you not equally fearful for it to stand packed to the tragic displacement of le rights of the vast army of farmers who never j before the AAA had a square deal, and whose relief came as an act of public policy which the court knew, but THWARTED ? 1 !' !.':*»• \frs. OJell Palmer and baby are W. S. Hart, of Lawsonville was I ' I v. icing relatives at Elkin. here Wednesday. •"* ** A THE DANBURY REPORTER Political Complexion Supreme Court •j | Brandies, Dem., appointed by Wilson. I Butler, Dem., appointed by Harding'. r i Cardoza, Democrat, appointed by Hoover. Hughes, Rep., appointed by Hoover. ; Roberts, Rep., appointed by Hoover. ! Rep., appointed by Coolidge. Sutherland, Rep., appointed by Harding, i Van de Vanter, Rep., appointed by Taft. Mcßeynolds, Rep.. appointed bv Wilson as a liberal Democrat. Votes Republican, is a bitter foe of Roosevelt and the NPW Deal, and has offered personal affront to Roosevelt. II - Ji " ' I »*■ HfF' ißi ' * keep the tfawttle / ONE of Uie brightest records of one benefits—the railroads, railroad 1936 was the progress of rail- employes, travelers and shippers, roads toward recovery. other industry—the public at large. Freight tonnage registered a notable For Prosperous railroad, mean a advance. travel stepped prosperous nation, ahead. Railroad purchases of new One hundred thousand railroad men equipment were greater. Employ- have been put back to work within ment increased. Payrolls increased. the past twelve months, with the In part, credit for this improvement average earnings per hour of rail goes to the upswing of general busi- road employes at their all-tune peak. ness conditions. Thoughtful Americans must wel- But in part this advance of the rail- come these signs of recovery after roads comes as the reward of hard so many lean years. To insure the wcrk and resourcefulness of the continuance of this progress they roads themselves—their determina- w y] study carefully all proposals i tion to go ahead. affecting transportation support- Thus they went after and won in- ing those which give the railroads creased freight with faster sched- freedom to meet competition on an ules, anJ -uch special services as equal basis discouraging those collection ar.d delivery of less-than- which will add to the cost of rail carload shipments. They attracted operation, impair the standard of greater passenger traffic with faster service or reduce efficiency, schedules, courteous service, a . . steady improvement in comfort, as *' v e increasing business a well as lower rates. chance to bring more jobs, as well _ ... . .as better service and fair earnings. From these betterments in service and economies in operation every- Let's keep the throtUe open! NORFOLK AND WESTERN RAILWAY The Cause Of the New London Explosion ; 1 | New London, Tex., March 22. A military inquiry into the New London school explosion which killed 455 children and teachers ended dramatically today with j the formal opinion of Dr. E. P Schoch, explosions expert, that accumlated gas under the base ment floor caused the blast. Martial law, in effect since the few hours after last Thursday's disaster, was lifted fro m the com munity immediately after the ' close of the hearing. Evidence presented in the three !days of the inquiry included testi mony that the oil-wealthy school had connected its gas line to a , waste gas carrier, without the ' j formal consent of the owning 1 l 1 company, and that heating sys tem plans were changed when the school was built, for reasons of economy. i Occurred Under Floor. j ' "All indications point undoubt ably to an explosion under the floor," Dr. Schoch said in an nouncing his conclusion. The pro fessor of chemical engineering at the University of Texas did not give a formal opinion as to what set off the blast, but said there was a 3trong possibility an elec tric spark ignited it. ■ John Dial, high school student, had testified the explosion occur i .red immediately after his manual training teacher threw a light switch. The closing sensation was pro vided by Gordon c. Hawley, chief 'engineer of the state fire insur ance department, who strode into the hearing and announced es caping gas had bee" found under another nearby school "only a few hours ago." ' "A test a few hours ago at the Carlisle School, near here, show- I ed gas was escaping underneath the place at the rate of 720 cubic 'feet a day," Hawely said. Could Have Been Averted "In my opinion this tragedy Join At Winston. The Winston-Salem Army Re cruiting office has announced that during March it will accept 38 young men from this section for duty in the regular army. Sev eral boys from this county have joined during the past few months and others have an op portunity of doing so f they will apply at the Winston-Salem of fice. located in room 219, Post office building, Winston-Salem, N. C. would not have happened if cer tain regulatory measures had j been taken. 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