BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
Two New Deal Upset*
25,000 Watch Frogs
In School Until 22
Round Trips to Europe
Big news from the Supreme Court
ef the United States and the United
Arthur Brisbane
States Court of
Appeals for the
District of Co
lumbia. Two
“far-reaching ex
perlments” of
the Roosevelt
New Deal are
declared uncon
stitutional.
“The Supreme
court in a sweep
ing decision
killed the Guffey
coal act; the Dis
trict of Colum
bia Court of Ap
peals held the
Resettlement Administration under
Professor Tugwell violates the
fundamental law of the land."
The decisions set forth that
“these major experiments In sociali
zation Involve unlawful delegation
of powers vested In congress and
violation by the federal government
of the rights of the states,” the
Washington dispatch avers.
The resettlement decision affect
ed only that part of the relief ac
tivities under Professor Tugwell’s
administration, leaving undecided
the remainder of the $4,800,000,000
voted to the President last year.
Much of the resettlement money
has been spent and much more al
located, cancellation of which will
raise problems.
At Angels Camp, Calif., 25,000
persons watched the annual Cala
veras county frog-jumping contest
and saw “Can’t Take It” cover a
distance of 12 feet 3 inches in three
hops. Another frog, raised on the
ranch of the late Will Rogers, was
second, with 12 feet 2 inches.
Twenty-five thousand humad be
ings watched some frogs hop; ndt
half as many would have gathered
to hear Einstein lecture on rela
tivity.
It is suggested that every Ameri
can be compelled to go to school
until twenty-two years of age to
cut down the competition for Jobs.
It might be simpler to keep every
body in school until sixty and then
give everybody a pension of $200 a
month. What could be simpler than
that?
The average sensible American
starts making a living long before
he is twenty-two and would do well
to continue on that basis.
* Sir Hubert Wilkins, who has flown
in the Arctic, Antarctic and other
queer regions by plane, crossed the
Atlantic by dirigible recently.
Says Sir Hubert:
“From almost anywhere in the
United States, a business man could
spend Wednesday and Thursday go
ing about his business, catch the
dirigible by airplane Thursday mid
night, spend two business days in
Europe and be at his desk the early
part of the next week.”
New York police arrested a mid
dle-aged woman begging near a
church and “acting strangely.” She
wore men's shoes, five dresses, one
over the other, and carried bank
books showing deposits of $25,000.
This should not discourage wise
charity. Not every old woman, beg
ging, has four extra dessses and
$25,000. But it might well discour
age thoughtless, indiscriminate giv
ing, which encourages professional
beggary and causes young beggars
to graduate as criminals.
Following an old Roman custom,
Mussolini Is taking a census of the
Ethiopians that remain. The total
number Is between six and fourteen
millions. Exact figures are wanted.
The able-bodied will be put to
work with plows, spades and shovels
supplied by Mussolini, with Italians
telling the Ethiopians where and
what to dig. That need not horrify
us, for it is what we have been
doing in this country for • long
time. It will be better for the Ethi
opians than killing and selling each
other into slavery.
Americans ask three questions:
"What is the news? Who won the
game? Have you heard the story
about—?” For that reason, the suc
cessful newspaper pays attention
first to the news, told accurately
and vividly, then It concentrates on
sport, then on humor. Such dry
things as opinions, editorials, books,
in the rear. Fiction ought to be
number four but good fiction is
scarce and the other kind not worth
printing.
Anti-religious hatred persists in
Spain. While Pope Pius in Rome
was addressing representatives of
Catholic newspapers deploring Com
munism and the Hitler attitude to
ward tbe Catholic church and the
Catholic press a Spanish mob in
Valencia was burning two Catholic
churches, beautiful monuments of
early days. Former indifference to
religion has turned to actual hatred
In many countries, and In those that
were most deeply religious.
• KISS rratum Syndlests, law
■ - . . . - - - - - T - - — ' ■ - ■ —
Ancient Temple-Fortress Near Mosul
___ '.-..
Part of the circular prehistoric temple-fortress which archaeologists of the Joint expedition of the |
University of Pennsylvania museum and the American School of Oriental Kesearch recently uncovered 15
miles northeast of Mosul The And climaxed the seventh season of work at the “great mound.” The temple-fort
Is believed to have been built by a people antedating the Sumerians, who lived In this area about 3000 B. a,
by 600 years.
Roosevelt Starts Annual Memorial Poppy Drive
President Gets
First Poppy From
Michigan Orphan
The annual sale of the buddy
popples by the Veterans of Foreign
Wars was officially started when
President Roosevelt received the
first poppy from little Miss Irla Ar
lene Hildebrandt of Eaton Rapids,
Mich. She came from the home for
widows and orphans of ex-service
men.
Can Keep Age Secret
Berkeley, Calif.—rAs an induce
ment to universal voluntary finger
printing of the city’s entire popu
lation, Police Chief J. A. Greening
has ruled that no woman will be
obliged to tell her age.
Hindu Belief
In Vedlc mythology, the Hlranya
garbha was the golden egg or germ
whence the universe came.
Twenty Pound Lobster Is Caught
Little Ralph Fagin of East Boston shown with his mother, Mrs. Anna
Fagln, as they look over the giant 20-pound lobster caught by Ralph’s
daddy, a fisherman, off Cape Cod.
Mayor of Buffalo
Is Indicted for
Pre-Election Promises
Mayor George J. Zimmerman ot
. uffalo, N. Y„ who has been In
dicted on three counts charging vlo
latlon of a stale law prohibiting a
candidate for public office from
making pre-election promises of
jobs In return for support He was
elected Democratic mayor In 1933.
Indian Bible Found
Edmonton, Alta.—A copy of St
Mark’s Gospel, translated in the
Cree Indian language 40 years ago,
has been found In a parcel of sec
ond-hand books sent to a book ex
change here.
World’s Apple Capital Celebrates 1936 Blooms
Wenatchee, Wash, which dalma to be the apple capital of the world, celebrate* the aprlng blooming of
the apple tree* elaborately. Here la Queen Jean Q with the ladle* of her court aboard the royal boat
Scenes and Persons in the Current News
.' •I-. , ' ' '' > • ' ? \ : '• ;
1—Scene at Lakehurst, N. J„ when the great German dirigible Hlndenbnrg arrived. 2—Armored car*
of Troop A, First armored car squadron, Dnited States army, taking part In “cavalry” maneuvers at Fort Rus
sell, Texas. 3—Mustafa Nahas Pasha, leader of the Wafd party, who Is the new premier of Egypt.
Naval Air Chief
Will Improve
U^SjJFl^ingJForc^
Capt Arthur B. Cook, command
er of the aircraft carrier Lexington,
who was selected by President
Roosevelt to direct the navy’s drive
to lift Its air force on a par with
any naval armada In the world.
He will advance to the rank of
rear admiral when he assumes his
new post Expanding the flying
force Is one of the steps in the
program to Insure Uncle Sam a
completely adequate navy.
Four Million Pound Span Hoisted
Balanced by counter-weights, the four million pound center span of
the Tri-Boro bridge over the Harlem river In New York was hoisted Into
position to link Bandall’s Island with -Manhattan at One Hundred and
Twenty-flfth street This bridge Is one of the units In the gigantic Tri
Boro bridge project which will link Manhattan, the Bronx and Queens.
The span was floated into position on a barge.
Rulers of the Cotton Carnival
John Sneed Williams, prominent cotton factor, and Mary Ann Poston,
debutante, aa kin* and queen of the Memphla Cotton carnival which at
tracted about 100,000 visitors to the Tennessee city.
HOUSEWIFE’S MASK
The newest safeguard to the
health of a busy housewife la this
respiration outfit which slips over
the mouth and nose and prevents
dust from entering the throat It
was demonstrated at the Midwest
Safety conference In Chicago.
Stream-Lining Is Taken Up by Japan
This Is the recently completed streamlined electric locomotive of the Japenese government railway which
will run on the Toksldo line from Tokyo to Numasu. It Is the first of inch locomotives built la that country.
I • .. ; ' .:i : *•
V .. . - 1.M : .. ■. , 'i-?.:--'.'■■ ■ -.ifcr,., • a.... ,