Evening star., 1933-11-17

all ovec American voters by rolling up
percentage of 9315 of the qualified
electorate in the Nazi plebiscite poll.
The net potential electorate in the
United States in 1882, according to
Michelet, was not less than 65, 1000 900,
counted for all presidential candidates
represented only about So per cent of
the number of citizens who might have
voted. Mr.. Michelet figures that the
Roosevelt landslide vote was therefore
not so impressive by 30-odd per cent
as the Hitler avalanche. Says Mich
elet: There is no such thing as
lack OF American patriotism in the
matter Of voting provided the cam
paign issues are plain and voters are
not barred from the polls by registra-
ton laws. These are things which can
be progressively improved, and are be-
ing improved
Now that a certain plutocratic angel"
OF the Republican party Is no longer
potent In Washington, American dairy
interests are hopeful of inducing Con-
gress to take butter and other agricultural
rats and oils off the free list. Recommen-
dationS to this end are being made to
the Ways and Means Committee, which
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Philippines, British West Africa, Java,
Ceylon, Japan and other cheap-labor
countries are at present able to send
non- -dutiable fats and oils to the United
States on terms with which American
farmers cannot compete. The G. o. p
angel in question heads a business
which consumes vast quantities of for
eing fats and oils and has long been
regarded personally responsible for keep
ing them on the free list. With his pull
at the White House removed, the dairy
people now confidently aspire to the
protection" for which they vainly
clamored under Republican rule. AS far
as the tariff is concerned, they say they
are Americas forgotten farmers.
DIR. Howard Lee McBain, professor of
constitutional law at Columbia Univer-
sity. thinks the United States Supreme
Court faces one of the most troublous
problems In its whole history in inter-
preting the constitutional issues arising
out OF the new deal. Writing in Co
lumbia,s Independent Journal" DR..
McBain says: "It may be that the
questionable doctrine of emergency will
save both the day for the new deal
and the face of the court itself. If the
new structure proves successful, it will
be almost unthinkable that the Su-
preme Court should strike the props
from under it because Of established
rules, doctrines and interpretations that
are largely of its own making But
since the court does not enjoy reversing
itself, 1t is probably in for very un-
happy and soul-searching experience"
DR.. McBain recently returned from
Havana, where he drew up new code
Of laws for Cuba.
\
British members of the National Press
Club are wreathed in smiles these days.
They receive their salaries from Lon
don In pounds, and are now enjoying
the luxury of getting anything from
$5.25 a pound up for their money. For
the past two years, before the dollar
began its slide down the exchange to-
boggan, the Britishers haven't been sit
ting nearly so pretty when they cashed
their pay checks in Washington. Their
Yankee colleagues suspect that the
Londcn newsmen have become pretty
enthusiastic supporters of the Roose-
velt gold-purchase program.
Copyright. 1881