Friday, June 14, 1935.
THE PILOT, Southern Pines and Aberdeen. North Carolina
Page Thrw
John J. McHugh Dies,
Lived Here 15 Years
Well Known Resident of South
ern Pines Was Born in Ire
land in 1861
John J. McHugh, aged 74 years,
well known resident of Southern
Pines for the past 15 years, died at
11 o’clock Sunday morning in the
Mercy Hospital, Charlotte, where he
had gone for treatment ten weeks
ago. Funeral services were held in
St. Anthony’s Roman Catholic church
at 10 o’clock Tuesday morning, the
Rev. Father E. J. Donnelly coming
from Cairo, N. Y., to celebrate the
High Mass of Requiem, and to offi
ciate at the grave in Mount Hope
cemetery.
John McHugh was born in Ireland
in 1861, and came to Southern Pines
from Hamlet, being for a time selling
agent for automobiles. He soon be
came a well known figure with his
taxi service and hearty greetings. He
leaves a widow, the former Miss Mary
Keith and one adopted son.
Pallbearers were L. V. O’Callaghan,
Charles J. Sadler, Dante Montesanti,
E. J. Lorenson, Harold* Maloney and
Omer Williams.
The President’s Decision andjthe^
Defense of the Constitution
By \V.\LTER I.II*FM.\NN
The President’s announcement
comes to this: the question of what,
if anything, is to come after the N.
R. A. for industry in general, is not
to be decided until the country has
had about ten months to study the
situation and make up its mind. In
order to assist that study the N. R. A.
organization in skeleton form is to be
transformed from a law-making and
law-enforcing agency into a fact-find
ing agency. This is a fair and sensi
ble decision ,and it ought to satisfy
every sincere critic of the N. R. A.
HERE FOR PE.AC'H SE.ASON
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Silks of Lake
land, Florida, have leased and moved
into the Wrenn house at 55 South
Ashe street. Mr. Silks is a peach buy
er and expects to be here until the
middle of August. The lease was ne
gotiated by E. C. Stevens.
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Southern Pinrs, N. C-
Mrs. Millicent A. Hayes, Principal
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It should satisfy those of us who
believe that the N. R. A. went wrong
because it was set up thoughtlessly
and in a frantic hurry. We should
make ourselves ridiculous if we now
complained, as some partisans are al
ready complaining, that the President
has not pulled a rabbit out of his
hat and in a week produced a new N.
R. A. with all the virtues and none
of the vices of the old one. We can
not have ti both ways. If the right
course in the summer of 1933 would
have' been to make haste slowly, then
it is surely the right course in the
summer of 1935.
It should satisfy those of us who
believe that the N. R. A. has retarded
recovery by introducing an undesir
able rigidity into prices and wages.
The President’s policy puts this belief
to a practical test, and we should be
lacking in intellectual intrgrity if,
after criticizing the N. R. A. for its
"artificial rigidities” we now became
alarmed about "competitive chaos.”
It should satisfy those who profess
to believe that industry can regulate
itself by voluntary agreement. For
the President’s announcement has the
clear moral implication that he will
not start wholesale prosecutions un
der the anti-trust laws before April
1st of next year.
^yCBHSBman
will be in his office ov«r the
Post Office, Sanford, N. C., •rery
Wednesday, fpom 10:00 a. m. to
8:00 p. m. Don’t fail to sea him if
your eyes are weak,
It should satisfy Senator Borah,
who asked that no changes in the
Federal chaiacter of the American
government be undertaken until the
people have made up their minds.
It should satisfy those who do not
wish to see important constitutional
changes brought about by indirect
means. Any scheme which would have
sought to revive the Poultry Code by
some indirect device would have been
open to this objection.
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It will not, however, satisfy the
partisans who are interested primar
ily in finding an issue to beat Mr.
Roosevelt in 1936. They would like
to have had Mr. Roosevelt go off the
deep end, propose some half-baked
amendment, and make them a pres
ent of the next election. They will be
disappointed. Mr. Hoover, too, will
be disappointed. His statement about
"administration proposals to change
to a European form of government”
look.s wishful in the light of the fact
that there are no proposals to change
to any other form of government. It
does disclose Mr. Hoover's ambitions
and his hopes; what a windfall it
would be for an eager candidate of
the opposition if only Mr. Roosevelt
would propose to abolish the Federal
Constitution! But it is the idea of an
incurable amateur. Mr. Hoover must
think that the Piesident is as lacking
in political insight as he is himself.
He must think the President does
not know that an amendment to turn
over to the national government omni
potent powers to regulate wages,
hours, working conditions, trade prac
tices and prices would not be ratified
by ten American states, that it would
divide and wreck utterly the Demo
cratic party, that it would be just
about the most superlative piece of
idiocy by which any public leader
ever sought to cut his own throat.
regulation of industry is in fact nec
essary to the natural welfare. Much
of it, like the regulation of the wages
of chicken-killers in New York, is not
necessary, as General Johnson ad
mitted in his excellent speech on
Tuesday night. Some of It, such as
the regulation of the coal-mining in
dustry, is by common consent recog
nized as necessary. Between these
two poles lie all sorts of cases, some
of which may and some of which may
not need Federal control. Each would
have to be decided on its merits pre
cisely as the coal and poultry cases
are being decided on their mertis.
This first question is not a ques
tion of law but of fact and of pub
lic policy. When it is decided, the
second question arises, which is
whether, when Federal regulation is
deemed necessary, the Federal power
as the Court interprets it—exists.
Senator Borah thinks that the power
will be found to exist, and our whole
constitutional history justifies the be-
lief that where the need of Federal
regulation is clearly demonstrated
and the method of regulation care
fully considered and reasonably ad
ministered the Court will sustain
Congress. If it did not do that, we
should have a dangerously rigid gov
ernment whereas, in fact, we have a
prudently flexible government. If we
did not have it, a nation of 120 mil
lions would not have retained and
continued to revere a Constitution
which has endured longer than any
other in modern history.
It can hardly be doubted that im
mense powers exist for regulating any
industry which is truly national in
its character. The anti-trust laws are
an arsenal of powers which can be
used to encourage socially desirable
combinations and to discourage so
cially undesirable ones. Who can
doubt that where Congress can pro
hibit a combination in restraint of
“BIX’K” T.ARLTOV IMTIATED
BY THE KIWANIS CH’B
Richard (Buck) Tarlton was intro
duced as a new member of the Ki-
wanis Club of Aberdeen on Wednes
day noon by the Rev. J. Fred
Stimson of Southern Pines. The
club has taken in nine new
members since the first of Jan
uary. Kiwanis met this week in the
Community Church at Pinehurst, with
Past President E. M. Medlin presiding
in the absence in Raleigh of Presi
dent Willard Dunlop. i
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trade it can permit one under certain
clearly defined conditions? The right
to tax and to spend is another great
complex of powers. Then there is the
tariff: We hear much about the in
terstate competition of sweatshops.
Is there any doubt that Congress can
say to sweated industries, all of which
are now highly protected, that an in
dustry which cannot stabilize itself
by voluntary agreement, trade union
regulation and state laws, is a parasite
and should be allowed to compete with
the sweated labor of Europe and Asia.
If, to obtain tariff protection, indus
tries and the states (where those in
dustries are located) had to meet de
cent standards, the tariff might be
come, what it is always supposed to
be and so often is not, a protection to
labor.
There is nothing whatever in tne
idea that the Supreme Court has
stiipped the national government of
all power over national economic
problems. It has stripped it of un
limited and undefined power. Those
of us who are glad this has been
done must now show that sufficient
and exact power do exist in the Con
stitution. For in the long run no Con
stitution can bi defended except by
demonstrating to the people that it
preserves their liberties and promotes
their weirare.
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"Odds and Ends.”
JUST AS ANXIOUS AS MR SMITH
TO KEEP fIT. SOI SMOKE CAMELS,
TOO A CIGARETTE THAT I KNOW IS
MILO. AND THEY TASTE JUST RIGHT.
IMPORTANT
TO ME THAT
CAMELS ARE
SO MILD THEY
NEVER GET
MY WIND
HAROLD (“DUTCH") SMITH
Olympic high diver
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The defense of the American Con
stitution is a serious matter, not one
to be made the football of partisan
politics. It cannot be conducted by
adjectives, slogans, catchwords and
small potatoes. The real defense de
pends upon demonstrating by actual
results that the division of powers
between the national and the state
governments is such that every real
need of the people, in emergencies
and in normal times, can be dealt
with. Sound constitutionalists, like
Senator Borah, hold that all necessary
power can be found. For they realize,
as Alexander Hamilton pointed out
when he was arguing for the consti
tutionality of the Bank of the United
States, that unless adequate powers
exist somewhere in our system “the
United States would furnish the sin
gular spectacle of a political society
without sovereignty, or of a people
governed, without government.”
There are two questions which are
now before the people. One is to de
termine how much of the N. R. A.
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