The Cass County Sun (Linden, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 8, 1937 Page: 2 of 8
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By Edward W. Pickard
(J) Western Newspaper Union
Supreme Court Upholds
Three New Deal Acts
THREE New Deal acts of legisla-
tion were upheld by the Su-
preme court in decisions that in-
dicated that tribunal was becoming
almost liberal enough to suit the
administration. Two of them were
unanimous. The third and most sig-
nificant was rendered by five of the
justices, with four dissenting. This
last opinion was given in the case of
the Washington state law establish-
ing a minimum wage for women and
the court reversed its position taken
a year ago in upsetting similar leg-
islation passed by the New York
legislature. Justice Owen J. Roberts
had swung over to the other side,
but Justices Sutherland, Butler, Mc-
Reynolds and Van Devanter dissent-
ed from the present judgment, de-
claring that "the meaning of the
Constitution does not change with
the ebb and flow of economic
events." This was a slap at the
majority opinion, which was read
by Chief Justice Hughes.
The court unanimously upheld the
provisions of the railway labor act
requiring railroads to engage in col-
lective bargaining with their em-
ployees for the purpose of settling
labor disputes. The opinion was read
by Justice Stone and was closely
studied by leaders of the ad-
ministration who hoped to glean
from it an indication of what the
court might decide concerning the
Wagner labor relations act, now in
litigation. The Wagner act does not
apply to railway workers.
The decision was handed down in
the case of the Virginian Railway
company and upheld a ruling by the
Fourth circuit court of appeals di-
recting the company to engage in
collective bargaining.
"In considering the propriety of
the equitable relief granted here,"
Justice Stone said, "we cannct ig-
nore the judgment of congress, de-
liberately expressed in legislation,
that where the obstruction of the
company is removed, the meeting
of employers and employees at the
conference table is a powerful aid
to industrial peace.
"Moreover, the resources of the
railway labor act are not exhaust-
ed if negotiation fails in the first
instance to result in agreement."
If disputes concerning changes in
rates of pay, rules or working con-
ditions, the decision added, are not
adjusted, either party could invoke
the services of the national (rail-
way) mediation board.
The Supreme court also upheld
the constitutionality of the new
Frazier - Lemke farm mortgage
moratorium act. The decision, read
by Justice Louis D. Brandeis, whose
opinion condemned the earlier Fra-
zier-Lemke act, was unanimous.
Senator Hatch
Compromise Is Urged on
Supreme Court Bill
C &NATORS, some fifteen in num-
^ ber, who have not committed
themselves on the President's bill
to enlarge the Supreme court,
are earnestly trying
to bring about a
compromise that
would enable them
to go along with Mr.
Roosevelt without
laying themselves
open to charges of
supporting a plan to
pack the court. Sev-
eral compromise
measures have been
devised, one of
which is that of Sen-
ator Carl Hatch of
New Mexico, a Democrat and a
member of the judiciary committee
that is holding hearings on the ad-
ministration bill.
Mr. Hatch proposes to modify the
President's bill so that no more
than two additional justices could
be appointed in any one year. Furth-
ermore, it would provide for a flex-
ible court with a membership vary-
ing between fifteen and nine judges.
The additional appointments, made
upon the failure of justices past 70
to retire, would not become per-
manent increases. They would be
offset by failure to fill an equal num-
ber of vacancies caused by sub-
sequent retirements.
Further witnesses for the opposi-
tion, appearing before the judiciary
committee, included Dr. Irving Gris-
wold, professor of constitutional law
at Harvard; Dorothy Thompson,
prominent journalist; Walter F.
Dodd of Chicago, constitutional au-
thority, and Dean Henry M. Bates
of the Michigan university law
school.
No Government Action Yet
on Sitdown Strikes
T T NDER pressure from his advis-
ers to take a public stand con-
cerning the sit-down strike, Presi-
dent Roosevelt immediately after
his return from Warm Springs held
a conference with Vice President
Garner, Senate Majority Leader Joe
Robinson, Speaker Bankhead and
House Majority Leader Sam Ray-
burn. At its close Senator Robin-
son, presumably voicing Mr. Roose-
velt's views, said:
"The government cannot initiate
action under the circumstances-thus
far presented. It is felt that the sit-
down strike situation in a general
sense is improving.
"There are two conditions under
whiclj federal ' action may be in-
voked in case of acute strike condi-
tions; namely where federal laws
have been violated or where federal
property, including the mails, is in-
terfered with.
"Neither condition has so far aris-
en. Except in instances where in-
terstate commerce is interfered
with, where a federal law is disre-
garded, the federal government
does not, and cannot under the Con-
stitution, initiate action."
m
Sec'y Perkins
Contrasting Views of Miss
Perkins and Green
SECRETARY OF LABOR FRAN-
CES PERKINS, replying to criti-
cism of her views on sit-down
strikes by Representative McCor-
mack of Massachu-
setts, wrote him:
"I think that it is
the duty of the sec-
retary of labor to
point out the prob-
lems, purposes and
intentions, as well
as the conditions, of
the wage earners of
the United States of
America, so far as
these are under-
stood or expressed.
"So I think it is my duty to say
that careful inquiry indicates that
the sit-down strikes do not reflect
any widespread movement to defy
the law or impair civil government
or change current conceptions of
property rights. The objectives are
the usual objectives of unions in la-
bor disputes."
That the sit-down strike involves
"grave implications detrimental to
labor's interests" is the view of the
American Federation of Labor as
stated by President William Green.
This for two reasons:
"First, public opinion will not sup-
port sit-down strikes. That means
labor loses public support when any
part of it engages in sit-down
strikes. Without such support or-
ganized labor cannot win strikes or
establish and maintain itself as a
vital force in the economic and in-
dustrial life of the nation. Labor
cannot afford to lose the support of
public opinion.
"Second, temporary advantages
gained through sit-down strikes will
inevitably lead to permanent injury.
The public generally will not long
tolerate the illegal seizure of prop-
erty. If persisted in, it will through
state and federal law-making bod-
ies force enactment of legislation
providing for compulsory arbitra-
tion, the incorporation of unions and
other repressive forms of legisla-
tion."
Eminent Men Are Named
for the Coronation
'"pHREE famous Americans, with
their aides, will represent the
United States at the coronation of
King George VI of Great Britain
in Westminster Ab-
bey May 12. They
were selected b y
President Roosevelt
and pre: James W.
Gerard, former am-
bassador to Ger-
many, special am-
bassador; Gen.
John J. Pershing,
commander of t h e
A. E. F. in the war,
and Admiral Hugh
Rodman, U. S. N.
retired, special representatives.
Curtis Bok of Philadelphia will be
secretary of mission. Col. James L.
Collins will be aid to Gen. Pershing,
and Commander Frank E. Beatty
will be aid to Admiral Rodman.
The battleship New York, flagship
of the Sixth battle squadron with
the grand fleet in British waters
during the World war, will partici-
pate in the international naval re-
view off Spithead on May 20.
Gen. Pershing
Irvin S. Cobb
Departed Spirits.
SANTA MONICA, CALIF.—
Continued failure of medi-
ums to claim the reward offered
by the late Harry Houdini, who
provided a* test for proof of
communication with the spirit
world, makes me think of a
thing that happened at the first
seance ever held down in my
neck of the woods.
The operator was summoning the
spirits of departed dear ones to
order. A lanky youth
out of the bottoms
desired to spe'ak
with his father.
Presently, a shad-
owy figure appeared
between the cabi-
net's dark curtains
and a voice uttered
muffled sounds.
"Is that you,
Paw?" inquired the
seeker.
"Yes, son," an-
swered the voice.
"Paw, air you in heaven?"
Seemingly startled, the ghostly ap-
parition hesitated a moment be-
fore giving what might be taken
for an affirmative sound.
"Paw, air you an angel?" de-
manded the son.
Again an embarrassing delay,
then a diffident mumble.
"A regular angel with wings and
everything?"
Once more a low grunt.
"Say, Paw," cried the youth, perk-
ing up, "whut do you measure from
tip to tip?"
* • •
Matrimonial Adventures.
HERETOFORE some of the au-
thorities have held that the first
two years were the hardest in matri-
monial adventures, but the peak of
the danger period for married coup-
les is now set at the sixth year by
Los Angeles' city attorney. On the
side he runs a bureau for handling
the funds assessed for family sup-
port against separated or delinquent
parents. So he ought to know about
it, if anybody does.
Well, personally, I always did
have the theory that no woman
could stand any man for more than
five years unless she got numb.
After that it's just a long-distance
endurance test on her side—and per-
haps sometimes on both sides.
• * •
Senatorial Shifts.
^JAMING no names, a little bird
■^just in from Washington whis-
pers that one senator, under the in-
fluence of alternating psychic waves
or something, already has shifted
three times on the plan to make
the Supreme court over. First he
was against it, then for it, then
against it again, and is now threat-
ening to change once more. They'll
be taking bets on him at Lloyd's
next.
Once in a while we get a states-
man who reminds you of a hunk
of country butter in an icebox—
takes the flavor of everything nee-r
by, but not improved by any one of
'em.
« * «.
Maine's Statesmen.
rpHERE is but one answer to the
-*• attitude assumed by both of
Maine's senators, who show a pro-
nounced inclination to balk at what-
ever the New Deal calls for in con-
gress and especially at the plan to
mold the Supreme court somewhat
closer to the boy scout model.
If these here foreigners don't like
this country, why don't they go back
where they came from?
« « «
The Game of Poker.
CALIFORNIA'S attorney general
decides that draw poker, unless
played as a percentage game, is not
gambling.
Had he gone deeper into the sub-
ject, he might have ruled that draw
poker, as generally played nowa-
days, is not even a game. What vet-
eran would call it anything except a
sacrilege against an ancient and
once honorable sport when folks are
free to introduce at will such abom-
inations as deuces wild or one-eyed
jacks or barber's itch or spit in
the ocean?
To draw honest cards; to try to
play the other fellow's chances as
well as your own; to try to figure
when to raise and when to call and
when to quit; to try to pick the right
moment for bluffing, since the bluff
is the real soul of the thing—that's
poker, my masters, an American-
born pastime, hallowed with age,
ennobled by usage, beloved of the
fathers.
IRVIN S. COBB.
©-WNU Service.
^lew Suits Stress Contrast Wools
COUNTY SUN
thinks
about:
By CHERIE NICHOLAS
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A LMOST any suit is trumps in
spring fashions. The great va-
riety of woo! fabric has been an in-
spiration to the designers, who have
outdone themselves in creating ir-
resistible suits ranging in type
from the most casual sports mod-
el to the most formal dressmaker
I puits.
The outstanding appeal of suits
j this spring is their ingenious play
of contrast—the most fascinating
contrasts in weaves and in pattern-
j Ings, some plaided, some striped,
j others such as bright tweeds with
j multi-colored nubbings and other
I amazing novelty woolens, these
contrasted with plain most fetch-
! ingiy.
The old storyfot mannish tailored
suits is given several brand new
twists this season, greatly due to
revived fashion interest in fabrics
that were your grandmother's fav-
orites when she was a girl.
The old-fashioned, now new-fash-
loned twills which are showing such
strong revival are ac adaptable
to dressmaker suits, which are fem-
ininity itself, with their quaint
peplums and soft stitched lapels as
they are to strictly classic tailleurs.
TAFFETA WITH NET
By CI1EKIK NICHOLAS
Net enters into many phases of
the mode this season, not the least
important of which is its use for
daytime dresses and for tailored
themes, in contrast to its sprightly
bouffancy for full-skirted party
frocks. The very goodlooking tail-
ored afternnon dress here shown is
of black net of bemberg yarn band-
ed with black taffeta. You'll find
this gown a friend indeed all spring
and all summer. Just now it is ideal
to wear under your coat. Top with
a gay little chapeau and you will
be ready to go anywhere social ap-
pointments may call.
Gray, beige, postman blue and navy
are favorites in twills.
Sheer wools and wool crepes in
solid or novelty patterned fabrics
answer to the call for bolero and
eton jacket suits. Often the bolero,
or some such jacket type, is of the
novelty wool topping a suit or tai-
lored dress of monotone weave.
These feminine devices in refresh-
ingly versatile moods will be flour-
ishing the entire season through and
we've seen them with linings and
blouses in bright or pastel taffeta
with either swing or full-pleated
skirts.
For planning a spring wardrobe,
the three-piece suit is a logical be-
ginning. By three-piece we mean
any type suit or tailored wool dress
you may choose plus a weather-
resisting topcoat or a debonair cape
(capes are so very smart) in a gor-
geous woolen that accents color
glory and weave to an exciting de-
gree.
Your suit choice may be delight-
somely frivolous and youthful,
stressing a perk jigger coat, (the
young set adores this new type) es-
pecially if it is of gay tapestry plaid
woolen in colors of saddle-tan
and brown as centered in the group
pictured. Note the small pointed
collar and diagonal slash pockets.
The skirt in saddle-tan shetland-
type tweed has three stitched gores
in front, and the matching border-
stifched tuxedo of the coat buttons
down on either side of the collar.
Perhaps you prefer to top a lus-
trous fleece wool in saddle-tan with
a finger-tip swagger coat that fas-
tens high at the neck wih an un-
usual leather clasp, as illustrated
to the left. The suit itself has five
leather buttons down the front of its
jacket, because leather trimmings
are quite the rage this season.
In the model to the right the color
contrast theory is worked out stun-
ningly in that the collarless cutaway
jacket worn with this smart finger-
tip jacket-suit of men's wear flan-
nel, is of gray and red check woolen
with a red belt and ascot for ac-
cents. Topped with its jaunty swag-
ger coat in a gray herringbone wool
the idea of using three contrasting
wool weaves is demonstrated to a
nicety. And so in conclusion, what-
ever system you use, in a swank
suit, you'll lead in fashion-rightness
—and with finesse.
16 Western Newspaper Union.
WIIIMS OF FASHION
Redingotes are "tops" in early
spring coat showings.
Saddle-stitching is the last word
for high-lighting leather belts and
bags.
Forehead ringlets are sa'id to be
next in the general trend of hair
styles.
Cloth coat dress with fur neck-
piece competes with suits and top-
coats.
More and more braid trimming
details appeal on better dresses this
spring.
Tweed suits with suede coats are
being sold for spring and travel
wear.
It seems there's a possibility—al-
most a certainty—that knee-length
evening dresses are coming back,
with belts slung inches below th«
normal waistline.
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