The Seminole Sentinel (Seminole, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 27, 1938 Page: 4 of 8
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IVvirs Mleview of Current Events
REED FOR SUPREME COURT
Solicitor General Is Nominated by the President . . .
Roosevelt Would Wipe Out All Holding Companies
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Drags Wolf and Foolish Bear, aged members of the ancient water-
buster clan of North Dakota's Gros Ventre Indians, are shown being
greeted by "The Great White Father," President Roosevelt, whom they
visited on a trip which they hope will bring a merciful rain to end the
long drouth in their parched country. The Indians were on their way to
the Heye foundation of the Museum of the American Indian where George
G. Heye was to return to them a sacred bundle, a "medicine" they believe
will make their lands fertile again. Since the loss of the bundle in 1907,
their country is slowly turning into desert due to lack of rain.
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SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK
© Western Newspaper Union.
Stanley F.
Reed
Choice of Reed Liked
NOMINATION of Stanley Formen
Reed of Kentucky, solicitor
general, as associate justice of the
Supreme court met with general ap-
proval and it was
predicted in Wash-
ington that he would
be speedily con-
firmed by the sen-
ate with little or no
opposition.
Republicans and
Democrats alike
were quick to praise
the Kentuckian,
who, while a de-
fender of many New
Deal measures, has
acquired a reputa-
tion for being realistic and a liberal
with "moderate" tendencies.
Senator Ashurst, chairman of the
judiciary committee, named a sub-
committee which planned quick
public hearings on the nomination.
Mr. Reed, who will fill the va-
cancy caused by the retirement of
Justice George Sutherland, is fil'ty-
three years old and has never be-
fore been on the bench. In 1929
Herbert Hoover, then President,
made him general counsel of the
federal farm board. Later he was
shifted to the same capacity in the
Reconstruction Finance corporation.
He retained his post at the outset
of the present administration.
Then President Roosevelt picked
him for solicitor general to defend
the New Deal cases before the Su-
preme court. Of these he won 11
and lost 2.
Hits Holding Companies
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, in a
press conference, declared he
was determined to wipe out all hold-
ing companies. The method to be
used in eliminating them, he said,
was still under discussion; he in-
dicated it might be done through
legislation and the exercise of the
taxing power.
The "death sentence" imposed on
holding companies in the utility in-
dustry in the 1935 act is a step to-
ward the new purge. The Presi-
dent revealed that Wendell L. Will-
kie, head of the Commonwealth and
Southern corporation, recently had
urged him to relax this restriction
and that his plea had been rejected.
Tax Changes Planned
CHAIRMAN DOUGHTON and his
house ways and means commit-
tee began hearings on proposals for
63 changes in the revenue laws
which would exempt small corpora-
tions, constituting 90 per cent of
American business, under the undi-
vided profits levy and grant large
enterprises only part of the relief
demanded from harsh rates.
In addition to changes in the tax
structure the sub-committee urged
recodification of the complex maze
of internal revenue statutes to clar-
ify their meaning, speed tax collcc-
jtions, and simplify enforcement,
t The most important individual
change recommended was the pro-
posed exemption of small corpora-
tions—those earning $25,000 or less
annually and comprising about 90
per cent of the nation*! 200,000 busi-
W. E. Dodd
ness concerns—from the undistrib.
uted surplus tax.
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Kidnaped Ross Was Slain
CCORE another for J. Edgar
^ Hoover and his "G-men". They
have solved the mysterious case of
the kidnaping of Charles Ross, elder-
ly retired manufacturer, in Chicago
last September, arrested the kidnap-
er and obtained his confession that
he killed both Ross and his own con-
federate after getting $50,000 ran-
som money from Mrs. Ross.
The murderer, Peter Anders, was
taken at Santa Anita race track,
near Los Angeles, where he had
been passing some of the ransom
money through the pari mutuel ma-
chines. Full details of his confession
were not at once made public.
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Dodd Angers the Nazis
\yiLLIAM E. DODD, until re-
* * cently American ambassador
to Berlin, has put himself in a class
with Mayor La Guardia so far as
the Nazis are con-
cerned, by a speech
in New York. It was
violently anti-Hitler,
and German Am-
bassador Hans
Dieckhoff immedi-
ately made a bitter
protest to Secretary
of State Hull, saying
Dodd had insulted
the Reichsfuehrer.
In particular the
ambassador was an-
gered by Dodd's statements that un-
der Hitler "almost as many person-
al opponents were killed in five
years as Charles II (king of Eng-
land) executed in 20 years of the
Seventeenth century," and that Hit-
ler is "now more absolute than any
medieval emperor of Germany."
Mr. Hull informed Dieckhoff that
Dodd was now a private citizen
and that our government does not
have control over the utterances of
individuals; also that Dodd's utter-
ances do not represent the views
of this government.
No Peace with Chiang
JAPAN is determined to bring to
pass the complete downfall of
Chiang Kni-shek and his Nationalist
government of China. Following a
meeting of the imperial council in
Tokyo in the presence of the em-
peror, it was announced that Japan
would withdraw its recognition of
the Chiang regime and would en-
courage the Japanese-dominated
government set up in Peking.
The official statement continued:
"Needless to say, this involves no
change in the policy adopted by the
Japanese government of respecting
the territorial integrity and sover-
eignty of China, as well as the rights
and interests of the other powers in
China.
"Japan's responsibilities for peace
in East Asia are now even heavier
than ever before. It is the fervent
hope of the government that the
people will put forth still greater
effort toward the accomplishment of
this important task incumbent on
the nation."
Shanghai was informed that Chi-
ang had ordered bis troops "not to
retreat a single inch."
Washington!
Digest j|k
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NATIONAL PRESS 8LDG WASHINGTON D C W
Washington.—Many times, I have
written in these columns about the
44D- cl * » confused state of
Big Shot« affairs in the fed-
Conaulted eral government
and the Roosevelt
administration. I wish I were pos-
sessed of sufficient wisdom to un-
dertake an analysis of them, as they
exist now, for it probably would be
helpful to all. But having no such
vast wisdom, I shall have to con-
tent myself with the service of re-
porting on several circumstances of
recent development and let it go at
that.
For several weeks now, we have
witnessed a steady stream of call-
ers at the White House. There have
been some labor leaders but mostly
the list of callers whom the Presi-
dent invited were the greatest of
American industrialists, the "eco-
nomic royalists" whom Mr. Roose-
velt has so roundly denounced from
time to time, or whenever it served
political purposes to attack them
publicly. The purposes of having
these men visit the President, as
announced at the White House, were
to consult and try to find ways and
means of checking the current de-
pression.
As I said, these White House vis-
itors were the very "economic roy-
alists" whom Mr. Roosevelt has at-
tacked with such apparent satisfac-
tion throughout the last five years.
Indeed, among their number were
some of the "sixty families" upon
whom Secretary Ickes of the Inte-
rior department, and Robert H.
Jackson, trust busting assistant at-
torney general, have been heaping
abuse as the folks who "control"
America. Anyone who will take the
trouble to review the President's
speeches and the more recent bar-
rage of attacks by Messrs. Ickes
and Jackson cannot help wondering
if those men are crooks and if they
crush the "common pee-pul," as
charged, why their advice can be
any good now.
Nextly, it is hard to understand
why or how anything is to be gained
by consulting with men of that type
in a serious effort to solve the prob-
lems of the current depression and
set off dynamite under them at the
same time. That is what happened.
Mr. Roosevelt announced with ve-
hemence at a press interview that
all holding companies "must go."
They must be eliminated from
American economic life and at
once; there can be no toleration of
corporations that are organized to
hold the stock of other corporations,
etc., etc. He has taken a definite
position on that before as regards
power companies and drove a bill
through congress to eliminate them.
This time, he wants to go much
further. Which is proper, if that be
his policy. But here is the peculiar
thing. Two hours after he made
his announcement, he had a dozen
men in conference who represented
the very thing he was denouncing
and was seeking their advice. It
seems paradoxical, to say the least.
On top of these conferences that
have brought scores of prominent
industrial captains to Washington at
the President's invitation, there is
to be noted an entire absence of any
administration action looking to re-
lease of business to do its part in
taking on unemployed workers. I
have talked to men in congress of
every shade of opinion and they are
all awaiting some word as to the
President's views. Their position is
that the President wants to take the
lead in mapping a program and
most of them, I believe, will help
him carry it out. They feel also
that for them to start development
of a program of their own makes
them subject to White House criti-
cism if the legislation fails to meet
New Deal specifications. So they
simply wait!
In the meantime, the depression
has sunk deeper and deeper. I
frankly believe that in some locali-
ties it is right now as bad as any-
thing we saw in 1932. Business men
are frightened to death and will not
expand their businesses because of
the danger that they will lose every-
thing they have, and individuals are
frightened and will not spend more
money than is absolutely necessary.
In other words, there is again a
lack of confidence that is appalling.
It seems to center on Mr. Roose-
velt as it centered on Mr. Hoover
in 1930 and 1931.
I can judge the whole situation
only by attempting to compose the
observations that I gather from
countless conversations. If this con-
sensus be accurate, then it would
appear that current fears result
from an inability of anyone to know
what Mr. Roosevelt will do next.
That is to say, the expressions
stressed statements that his poli-
cies "lack continuity;" that he
changes "overnight;" that he "at-
tacks business with one hand and
kicks it in the pants with one foot
and asks it to take the load off of
the government at the same time;"
that he takes advice "of a lot of
nincompoops on finances who can't
even balance their own household
budgets;" that he "won't let pri-
vate initiative do anything without
having a flock of government spies
on our trails," and so on. I could
supply fifty more from my notes,
but they would be of the same ten-
or. And mind you! a large per-
centage of these came from repre-
sentatives and senators in congress,
Democrats and Republicans alike.
• • •
Another phase of the general situ-
ation:
There has been a tremendous
drive against monopoly. This was
. lead largely by
Drive on Assistant Attorney
Monopoly General Jackson,
but Mr. Ickes and
lesser lights have helped carry the
ball. The attacks have been gen-
eral. There has been no distinc-
tion between good business and bad
business. The result has been that
every man who has some money
tied up in business is wondering
whether he is going to have to de-
fend himself in some way, how-
ever careful he has been about
complying with the federal laws.
The fact was called to my atten-
tion also that many of the busi-
nesses charged with monopoly are
doing just what the government
forced them to do. The unlamented
NRA can be recalled without ef-
fort. Under the NRA, every unit
or every line of business was told
what to do and how to do it. Codes
of business practice were laid down
for them, bearing the approval of
the President. Since NRA was rele-
gated to the ashcan, we find a dozen
suits being prosecuted against busi-
nesses for continuing to do the
things they were forced to do when
NRA was the law of the land.
Then, I would like to ask what is
wrong that real trusts are not being
broken up. The Department of Jus-
tice has some able lawyers who
have been assisting Attorney Gen-
eral Cummings since the inception
of the New Deal. It appears to a
layman like me that five years ought
to be ample time in which to make
some headway against trusts and
monopolies. I am moved to ask,
therefore, can this new outburst
against monoply be a bit of poli-
tics?
• • •
But the turning of the New Deal
wheel has brought one magnificent
. appointment t o
Praiae the Supreme court
for Reed of the United
States. I refer to
the nomination of Stanley Reed to
succeed the retiring Justice Suther-
land. Mr. Reed has been solicitor
general of the United States and as
such has directed the nation's legal
affairs under Attorney General
Cummings. His service there, and
before that with the reconstruction
finance corporation, has been meri-
torious. There has been nothing but
praise of his ability and of his char-
acter. He stands out as a great
lawyer and fine personality.
The appointment is worthy of con-
sidering from two standpoints. Jus-
tice Sutherland's resignation and
the subsequent appointment gives
the present President control of the
court. That is to say, the known
division of the court between con-
servative and liberal thought has
been switched from the conserva-
tive side to the liberal side by the
appointment of two men. Actu-
ally, it accomplishes for Mr. Roose-
velt the very purpose he sought to
accomplish by demanding of con-
gress that it pass the so-called court
reform bill a year ago, a piece of
legislation on which the President
received the worst licking of his
political career.
The second important considera-
tion in the appointment is the high
type of man named by the Presi-
dent. Mr. Reed is progressive in
thought. The New Dealers always
have counted him as one of their
number, but I find many people who
contend that Stanley Reed believes
first in the law of the land and in
obeying it, rather than indulge in
wishful thinking on a lot of silly,
untried schemes. The country is for-
tunate, indeed, to have a man like
Mr. Reed on the court.
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Stone, Harry N. The Seminole Sentinel (Seminole, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 27, 1938, newspaper, January 27, 1938; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth440560/m1/4/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Gaines County Library.