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Letter 'Votes’
May Decide
Court Issue
Pro - Roosevelt Voters
Might Swing Him
From Course.
BV DAVID LAWRENCE.
OP THE 27,000.000 persons who
voted last November to re
elect President Roosevelt, ap
proximately one-fourth — or
®ne out of every four—will decide
whether the American constitutional
system as It has existed for 150 years
u to M cnanged
through the prec
edent set by Mr.
Roosevelt of
ehanglng the
Justices of the
Supreme Court
when, as It is now
off Icially ac
knowledged, their
decisions are not
satisfactory to the
administration in
power.
If 6,000.000 per
sons who voted
for Mr. Roosevelt n„ld
were to tell their
Representatives In Congress that they
favor changes In the constitutional
aystem only by the process of consti
tutional amendment with each speci
fic issue voted upon as heretofore
when the Constitution has been
amended, the plan to make the Su
preme Court subject to the will of
other branches of the Government
Would be defeated.
Such a group of 6.000.000, when
added to the 16,000,000 who voted
against Mr. RoosevelR In the last
•lection, would constitute a majority
of the electorates. The' figures are
Used, however, not to indicate bv any
means how the final line-up might be
If the President's plan were put to a
referendum vote, but to point out how
many are the people holding the bal
ance of power today in the controversy
which has arisen over the proposed
ehange in the Supreme Court.
Democratic Reaction Sought.
Members of Congress are being
flooded with letters and telegrams,
and unquestionably many of the 16.
i 000,000 Republicans who voted against
Mdr. Roosevelt are now protesting, for
r they still have a right to petition Con
gress no matter how they voted last
November. But It is, on the other
hand, a fact that members of Con
gress are carefully analyzing their mail
to see how many Democrats are writ
ing them in addition to the Repub
licans in their district*
Thus far there has been no or
ganized campaign of letter writing on
any large scale by either side and It
Is generally admitted that the letters
are the spontaneous expression of the
voters. This week and next week,
however, when the labor unions and
the John Lewis organizations get busy
with their pressure from back home,
there may be plenty of evidences of
organized campaigning to Influence
Congress in favor of the plan, •
It will be assumed, however, that
the pressure groups can be lined up
for anything that their leaders tell
them is for their own interest and
bence the spontaneous expression of
citizens. Democrats and Republicans
•like, who do not protest as a result
of pressure group action will become
even more Important in the next 10
days in gauging public sentiment.
Could Solve Crisis.
Are there 6,000,000 persons who
Voted for President Roosevelt in No
vember who do not wish him to tam
per with the Supreme Court and who
prefer the constitutional amendment
process to attain true liberalism? If
there are and they tell their Repre
sentatives and Senators about it, the
American constitutional crisis will
pass with a greater stimulus to the
cause of liberal reform than it has
pet received, because conservatives will
be impressed with the fact that lib
eral reforms can no longer be blocked
by court action and must be voted
upon concretely by the people In elec
tions separated from partisanship or
the personality of rival candidates
or the intermingling of State and
Federal political issues.
It will be asked whether 6,000.000
News Behind the News
Politicians Sigh With Relief as Winant Quits After
Patronage Squabbles.
BY PAUL MALLON.
THE Capitol dome was tilted 2 Inches by the sigh of relief from con
gressional politicians at the departure of Chairman Winant of
the Social Security Board. There has not been such silent enthus
iasm among the politicos since Pror. TUgwell left for Wall Street.
Winant may not choose to say so, but it was an updraft from this
same source which lifted him out of his seat here and blew him back to
New Hampshire
It seems Mr. Winant had the naive notion he could appoint his own
men for merit In the key positions
of his new board, and regardless
of Senators and Representatives.
He might have had a comfortable
and long existence In the new
order, but he made the unpardon
able mistake of Including in his
disregard the people’s Senator
from Pennsylvania, Joe OufTey.
He was even rude to the people's
choices on the telephone, telling
B>uT»o.u^
OPirtioN^
iiieixi to go to tue mu.u icuiutc --
places, etc. Consequently his nomination has languished in the Senate
Finance Committee since January 8, when it was submitted by President
Roosevelt. There is reason to believe it would have languished there
until Mr. Guffey dies, which, presumably, will not be soon.
Winant is one of those independent cusses, a species which is
practically extinct in Washington. Only a few other Government
officials have independent means and temperament sufficient to sus
tain them in ease they lose their job- here. Another notable example
is Chairman Eccles of Federal Reserve. He, too, will walk out and
return to his Rocky Mountain financial interests any time the air
becomes too close for comfort.
* * * *
Those who were near Winant suggest that Mr. Roosevelt might have
gone to bat for him In his misunderstandings with the Senators, except
that this happens to be a very bad time for it.
The President is known to have backed some other Government
officials in their patronage tussles with Senators, but just now he is trying
to beg, borrow or force every possible vote in the Senate for his court
. packing program. He cannot afford to fight with august Senators.
Apparently, all that could safely be done for Winant was to give him
a presidential letter addressed: "Dear GUI,” thereby making him a mem
ber of .that great fraternity of "The Dear Dash" boys who, upon their
departure from the new order, have received familiar notes of gratitude
from the President.
There is some talk of holding a national convention of the D. D.’s,
now boasting such names as "Ray,” "Hugh,” "Red,” "Giir and a doeen
others.
Note—This interpretation of the 'Winant resignation is being dis
puted by a mass of rumors to the effect that Winant’* job was too heavy,
that his health wa,s suffering, that the Republican* were responsible for
the delay in hi* confirmation because he bolted to Roosevelt in the last
campaign, etc., etc., but his work, health and politic* would not have
proved fatal were it not for his senatorial patronage difficulties.
* * * *
The most widely circulated newspaper clipping in Washington is from
the Wall Street Journal of February 17, reading:
“Roosevelt sons in oil industry.
"McNamey. Tex.—Newcomers to the oil industry of Texas are Elliot
Rooaevelt of Port Worth and James Roosevelt of Washington, ions of
wesiaent koo seven; jonn u. tie rz
of New York, Tommy Hitchcock,
internationally known polo player,
and others. They recently have
acquired extensive leases in wild
cat and proved territory in Crane
County and other localities of
West Texas.’’
The story behind it is that El
liot and a group of his Texas
friends acquired rights to some
rather speculative oil land, but
they needed money to develop it.
He attempted to borrow the money from James, but, in lieu of that,
a corporation was formed and James bought some stock. James acquired
the stock before he accepted an official position as secretary to the
President.
So far there have been no dividends.
Note—Elliot has always insisted he is freer than the air to go
where he pleases and do what he chooses in a big way, but James
has renounced business since accepting his official position.
A wise observer in Alabama says that President Roosevelt concedes
to each member of the Supreme Court all the Christian virtues except
resignation.
(Ooprrifbt, 1887.)
I persons out of the 27,000,000 who
voted for Mr. Roosevelt are at all dis
turbed by the Supreme Court contro
versy. at least sufficiently to take the
trouble to write to members of Con
gress or even to listen to the urgings
of friends who may persuade them
that they have a duty in the present
crisis far beyond the casting of any
vote heretofore on an election day.
Many Phases to Vote Decision.
There is no way of telling Just what
arguments caused different groups In
the election last November to vote
for Mr. Roosevelt, but it is quite prob
able that among the 27,000,000 were
many millions who never received an
A. A. A. benefit or a relief check, who
had no connection with Democratic
national or State political organiza
tions and who exercised in 1936 the
same independent judgment that they
have exercised in previous elections.
This group did not believe Mr. Roose
velt would be more radical in his
second term than In his first. They
did believe that Mr. Landon was in
experienced and that Mr. Roosevelt
had had the benefit of nearly four
years of familiarity with Government
problems, and that it was unwise to
change Presidents anyway in the mid
dle of the stream of economic re
covery.
In that same independent group
were millions who did not take seri
ously the Republican argument that
a change in constitutional forms was
in the mind of the Roosevelt admin
istration and they, indeed, resented
any such charges as pure campaign
alarm
Numerical Comparison Unknown.
Of the letters being received on
Capitol Hill, there are thousands from
all parts of the country written by
persons who voted for Mr. Roosevelt
because they did not think he
planned any such change as Is in
volved in a precedent whereby the
Chief Executive asks for a change in
Justices because their decisions are
unfavorable to hi* projects. But no
body knows as yet how these letters
compare numerically with the others.
(Coprrlcht. 1937.)
CTHE opinions of the writers on this page are their own, not
necessarily The Star’s. Such opinions are presented in
The Star’s effort to give all sides of questions of interest to its
readers, although such opinions may be contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Star’s.
One Hope to Avert War
Armament Race May Force Realization That Negotia
tion Is Only Alternative.
BY DOROTHY THOMPSON.
THE announcement that Great
Britain is about to spend
$7,500,000,000 for rearmament
purposes, hardly less, ac
cording to Neville Chamberlain, and
possibly more; the estimate of the
London Banker that Germany’s mil
itary expenditures in the last four
years nave been
3 1.000,000,000
marks — $12,.
000,000,000; the
course of steel,
copper, lead, sine
and other such
stocks on the
American stock
market; the rev*
elation that our
Government is
concerned with
whether It can
get steel from
our own Indus*
tries under the _ .. _
Dorothy Thnmyon.
Walsh - Healey
act—all these are only straws Indi
cating the outstanding and most im
portant fact in the world today—
namely, that an armaments race Is on
which has no parallel In history, and
very importantly that the whole proc
ess of Industrial recovery is bound up
in this race.
Two facts: First, the nations In
dulging In this orgy of armaments
have not yet paid for the last war;
second, the effort comes at a time
when the nations are slowly recover
ing from the most violent depression
of modern times and when there Is
enormous pressure upon them for
large expenditures for social services.
Modem armies are the most expen
sive in history. They are mechan
ized. This means huge capital out
lays for trucks, tractors and tanks.
The air arm is all important. Air
planes have an especially high rate of
obsolescence, because of hard use,
crack-ups and changes in design.
Not only must there be tremendous
numbers of planes on hand, but also
factories capable of turning out thou
sands of machines during war. Mili
tary experts agree that the first line
air personnel and machines are likely
to be annihilated at the very outset
of hostilities.
Reserve Supplies Freese Capital.
Modem expenditure for war has
taken a new turn in that all the na
tions are storing gigantic reserves of
food and essential raw materials. In
so doing, some of the countries, such
as England, are vitally influenced by
America’s neutrality policy. They
fear that in wartime they could not
buy from us.
Other oountnes, such as Germany,
remembering the experience of the
Great War, when the blockade cut
off their overseas supplies, are taking
no chances and also laying in huge
supplies. Vast amounts of capital
and goods, therefore, are being frozen.
In London recently as a direct
, result of England’s vast rearmament
program, government bonds have
| fallen sharply In price, and armament
1 shares have risen proportionately.
Holders of bonds have sold them in
order to buy shares in companies that
will benefit from the arms program.
Because or me pressure on me
money market, arising from govern
mental needs, private industry will
have to pay higher rates of interest,
and higher rates of interest for raw
materials. This will tend to handicap
the export industries of England and
thereby retard all recovery based on
normal business activities. Moreover,
London is the money market of the
world. Borrowers will find it increas
ingly difficult to obtain money there,
because the money will be needed at
home. They cannot obtain it in New
York because the Johnson act prohib
its our lending to nations in default
to us, and that includes most of the
great powers
The point that I am trying to make
is that the armaments race is disrupt
ing all normal business activities, and
concentrating an enormous propor
tion of the entire wealth of the world
into a single channel.
Our naval policy is to build up to
England, and the British have just
announced that they will spend
$3,000,000,000 on their navy, build 25
new battleships and put a squadron
into the Pacific. The Japanese in
turn have announced that they will
try, at least, to build up to each of us.
Under these conditions, it is impossible
to see how one can bring about a bal
anced economy in any country, with or
without complete dictatorial control
over it. Furthermore, this kind of race
is impossible to stop once it gets well
under way. So vast a number of
workmen, such prodigious amounts of
basic materials and industries will
eventually be Involved in it, that its
sudden liquidation, even in universal
disarmament, would bring about a
general economic collapse.
It is at such a moment that the
United States, in its foreign policy, is
carrying water on both shoulders.
The policy of Cordell Hull, backed
by the President and the Congress, is
economic internationalism. The pol
icy of a large body in Congress is
political isolationism. The two are
incompatible.
The translation of political isola
tionism into economic isolationism
would mean economic dictatorship. II
the people of America want that they
ought to get it perfectly clear in their
minds that that is what they are
heading for. The translation of eco
nomic internationalism Into political
internationalism would mean that we
would have to take a stand in the
world. For if the present situation
drifts, war. or world economic collapse,
are the only two alternatives, and we
shall certainly share in the latter,
whether or not we share in the
former.
Origin of Race.
The armaments race was started by
Germany, Italy and Japan. Japan has
seized China, and threatens the Eng
lish. Dutch and French possessions
in the Pacific. Italy has seized Ethi
opia and has forced British rearma
ment by her policy in the Mediter
ranean. Hitler has put all of Germany
upon a war basis, with the avowed
intention of expansion, exactly where
and exactly how not being indicated.
England and France have repeat
edly offered Germany and Italy to
negotiate economic readjustments In
return for a halt in armaments and
the offers have been ignored or re
fused. The rearmament of the dem
ocratic countries follows because of
those refusals, and because it has
become quite clear that negotiations
will only be possible at all If the
democratic countries stand witl^
swords in their hands. These are the
unhappy International realitias.
If within the next few months the
nations prepare to seek their aims by
negotiation, with the inexorable real
ization that the alternative will be
war, catastrophe may be averted. That
is the only hope. And that hope is
forlorn as long as the United States,
the greatest single power In the world,
clings to a totally unreal theory of
isolationism.
Once before In history we cast the
deciding vote. And cast It too late,
after the catastrophe was upon us.
(Copyright. 1937.)
Art Dictator Urged.
In Capetown, South Africa, a move
ment hu been started to name an ar
chitectural dictator for the city. The
leader of the movement Is Jan Juta,
who hu won high distinction as a
mural decorator. Capetown is ex
periencing a building boom, but no ef
fort hu been made to obtain harmony
of design. Juta urges that South
Africa try for a national style of ar
chitecture and ornamentation, com
bining the dignity of the old Dutch
settlers with the simplicity of modem
needs.
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This Changing World
War Plants Reaping Enormous Profits Amid Talk of
Stopping Race of Armaments.
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.
FOR the first time In 30 years the Krupp Works, one of the greatest
armament factories in the world, is paying a dividend. The
Vickers*Armstrong Co. in England, the Schneider-Oreuzot fac
tories in Franoe and the 8koda Works in Czechoslovakia have
been paying fat dividends for the last two year*. The United States Steel
is back to its old prosperity.
Thus, while European taxpayers are groaning under the Increasing
burden of armaments, the lucky shareholders of stocks dealing with in
struments of destruction are reaping once more enormous profits.
Everybody talks about the urgent
need of stopping this mad arms
race, but so far there has been
nothing but talk, while facts have
denied the unctious words of the
International politicians.
There Is no denying that Ger
many Is suffering severely from
lack of food. But its leaders are
doing their utmost to prevent peo
ple from starving.
#•> - ■ » Thus most German restaurants
have doubled the prices of their menus. The profits, instead of going
Into the pocket of the owners, go into the German treasury, which In
turn spends them on feeding the needy.
A fairly decent meal in a fashionable restaurant in Berlin cost
about 23 marks <35.SO at the ordinary rate of exchange or til at
the present rate). The meal consists of an oyster cocktail, a soup,
a piece of pork with two vegetables, some cheese and a bottle of
good wine. The restaurants get 11 marks, the balance goes to the
government.
On the streets of the non-fashionable quarters of the city there are
popular kitchens where the needy population can obtain for a nominal
sum a filling meal, consisting of soup, potatoes and some fish. Once in a
long while there is a little meat added to the menu. The menu is not
Lucullian, but it satisfies the hunger of the German people, and that Is
all that they ask for the time being.
In a democratic country such hardship would undoubtedly create
social disturbances. In Germany, however, the population is so hipped on
the idea of ‘'Germany’s mission" in the world that it prides itself for pre
ferring airplanes and guns to food. Just at present the entire nation is
wrought up about territorial expansion. Hitler has fed his adopted people
piecemeal. First there was only a question of breaking the shackles
which tied their hands—the Versailles treaty. This was done by Ger
many creating a powerful military machinery. Hitler got away with
everything by merely showing France and Great Britain the Reich's brand
new mailed flat.
Now the general idea is throughout the country that another
demonstrative showing of the mailed fist will bring back colonies
—more than Germany had lost after the World War. And the
German nation, like one man, shouts, “Lets do it: lets show them
that we are willing to make any sacrifice in order to obtain our
rights."
And with that kind of a population there seems to be nothing in the
Fuehrer* w»7 to atop him from achieving whatever he want*.
• » • •
Score* of British and French newspaper men have been flocking to
Monte Carlo, the greatest gambling town in the world. Their presence
there vu not due to a desire to
try their luck at the wheel or bac
carat, but to see what will happen
when the British foreign secre
tary, Anthony Eden, and the Pol
ish foreign minister, Col. Joseph
Beck, met.
The two statesmen are in the
little gaming town now. But the
newspaper men were disappointed
Eden and Beck have been playing
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tennis—not wun eacn otner—nave ■
going their own way and the only meeting of which the news men were
aware was a casual how do you do when they met in the restaurant of -the
Hotel de Paris, where both men and the news hawks are staying.
The shrewd Polish foreign minister is apparently avoiding a
heart-to-heart tails with his British colleague. Poland has promised
Hitler to remain In a friendly neutrality in the event of another
war, and has promised France and Great Britain the same thing.
The latter promise brought the eastern republic a substantial loan
to increase Polish armaments.
The situation in Europe is such at the present moment that nobody
can guess whence the rabbit will Jump. So the Pole prefers to enjoy
life leisurely at Monte Carlo, rather than get into some political discussions
with Eden.
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SORORITY SISTER, 91,
URGES CO-ED CRINOLINES
On* of Pi Beta Phi Pounders Sug
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Save Modern Girls' Health.
By th« Associated Press.
TACOMA. Wash., February 22.—
America's oldest sorority “sister,” Mrs.
Ines Smith Soule, 91, yesterday sug
gested college girls try crinolines and
woolen underwear.
“They’d be healthier and better
looking if they returned to the old
style of clothing and the old ways,”
.. ■
she Mid. “These modem girls,
dressed in practically nothing at all,
certainly aren’t pretty, and I should
think they would freeze to death.”
Mrs. Soule is one of the two surviv
ing founders of Pi Beta Phi Sorority,
established at Monmouth College,
Monmouth, HI., April 28, 1876.
Plane Take-Offs Aided.
Aviation will be revolutionised by a
device he has invented to enable air
planes to rise vertically, declares
Hlrohisa Nlshi, who has demonstrated
it in Tokio. Called the "jettoplane,”
It permits a lift straight up without
Impairing the ship's ordinary effi
ciency.
Headline Folk
and What
They Do
Archibald MacLeish Is
First Resident Poet
in U. S.
BY LEMUEL f. PARTON.
NEW YORK, February 22—This
writer has known aeveral
“poets in residence." One was
Herman Gottwaldt, the sage
brush poet of the Nevada desert, a
huge, lusty bard who, for a sprinkling -
can full of beer, would bellow Im
promptu dithyrambs in the manner of
the Beowulf rhymsters. Another was
the late George Stirling, a real poet,
with a Dantesque medallion face, who
was the quasi-offlcial poet of San
Francisco, and of the Bohemian Club,
where h'e lived for many years. An
other was a stately old man in an
old pot-house off the Rue St. Germaine
in Paris, who turned in a rhyme for
his dinner every night. Still another
was a one-legged former railroad
brakeman, earning-ins living as a
minnesinger at the' Tropical Tramps
Club in Callao. Alec McGreggin also
kept a poet for a while In his prize
fighters’ stable in San Francisco.
Although several medieval univer
sities had poets in residence, Princeton
is, I believe, the first modern school
to install one. Archibald MacLeish is
so titled and installed at Princeton,
under a grant from the Carnegie
Foundation. Judging from Mr Mac
Leish’s poetry, Princeton's novel idea
of exposing undergraduates to a real
poet for whatever he may communi
cate of “brave translunary things” is
a good one. There is a lot of loss in
transmission in the ordinary teaching
of literature.
Poet of Integrity.
While his bitter critique of the
world as it is might have jolted the
old steel master who is now his
patron, he Is known as a poet of
integrity and distinction, still In the
ascendant. He is a modem, but he
wears no Oregon boot of stylistic
versifying. He is keenly, poignantly
aware of the world up to the 6 o'clock
street edition, and Princeton is being
congratulated by knowing observers.
He disregarded sage and elderly
warning about there being “no gold
mines on Parnassus.’’ Leaving Uncle
Billy Phelps’ class at Yale In 1915,
he began writing poetry. “Con
quistador” was given the *1,000
Pulitzer Prize in 1933. Among his
published volumes are "The Poet of
; Earth,” “Nobodaddy,” "Union Pacific”
! and “Streets of the Moon.”
Mr. MacLeish is a short-haired poet
j and can’t dance, but "Union Pacific”
| is a ballet, put on here by the Monte
Carlo Ballet Russe. He is a native
of Glencoe, 111., now a contributing
editor of Fortune Magazine. He says
he doesn't think he has much taste
for either Marxianism of capitalism—■
that he believes we in America, par
ticularly, will find our way without
extremism, one way or the other.
Lowden Backs Wallace.
Former Gov. Frank O. Lowden o!
Illinois indorses Secretary Wallace's
political-economic alliance between
the South and the West. He is an
interesting "balance brought forward'’
in the day’s news accounting and an
interesting example of how alive a
man can be at 77—with all this lon
gevity talks stirred up by the court
argument.
He has refused more jobs he didn't
want and missed more that he did
want than any other man in Ameri
can public life. Three times, he has
barely missed the presidency, the
last in 1920, when two underlings
used his money carelessly, without
his knowledge. President McKinley
! offered him a place in the cabinet,
i Harding wanted him to be Secretary
of the Navy. Coolidge and Hoover
offered him the British ambassador
ship.
f Copyright 1937.)
The
GENERAL ELECTRIC
SUPPLY CORPORATION
Announces
The Purchase of
WHOLESALE ELECTRICAL BUSINESS
Formerly Conducted by
The
NATIONAL ELECTRICAL
SUPPLY COMPANY
71/fOST of the personnel of the National
IVl Electrical Supply Company will be re
tained by our organization. Your friends will
• still be here to welcome and serve you; and we
hope that the effect of the new ownership will
serve to strengthen the confidence that our
representatives have already earned. It is
our pleasure to announce that Mr. E. C.
Graham, president of the National Electrical
Supply Company, will be associated with the
management of our organization.
We Solicit Your Business, And Assure You Of Our
Wholehearted Support and Co-operation
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