Evening star., 1933-06-30
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Iowa. Garst declares that If Wallace had
not made q present to the American
farmer OF his invented type OF So
called inbred seed-corn, which produces
high yield per acre, the young czar
of agriculture could easily have made
private fortune of million dollars.
That Wallace isn't built that way is
evidenced by his break with custom
gayly practiced by nearly all his prede-
cessors. He has notified the depart
mental dairy at Beltsville, Md, that he
will not accept free cream and ice
cream, and the department green
houses have been informed that the
Wallace family doesn't want any
graft" flowers.
Representative James M. Beck. silver
tongued Republican, of Pennsylvania Is
fitting vigorously at the ALLEGATION OF
what he calls the Roosevelt admins
tration's "monstrous'' road building
fund (s4o0, 600, ,000). He claims that the
ALLEGATION "despoils" the industrial
States of the East for the benefit OF
the agricultural States Of the South
and West. Thunders Beck: New
York State contributes nearly 40 per
cent and gets about $22,000,0 900; Penn
svlvania contributes about slO0, 600, 900
and gets back $4,000 900; Texas con-
tributes very little to the S400, 900 600
and gets more than any other State
1924, 900 O00)." Beck adds that If the
industrial States ever awaken to the
way they have been pillaged for the
benefit of Southern and Western States,
whose combined contribution to the
common fund Is far less than that OF
New York, there will come-When the
present hystegia passes-a great reac-
ton"
One of the sagest comments on the
new Federal control OF industry comes
from George H. Gushing. whose Wash
ington publication, Survey, for years
has been the acknowledged voice OF
the coal industry He says: Under
this legislation legitimate business is
given an opportunity to protect itself
against the throat cutters. But 1t also
is put on its mettle to organize IN sucn
way as to improve its own efdciency-
that Is why the antitrust laws were
modified. It is the opportunity busl-
ness has wanted for a, generation. The
opportunity is here. This law Is to
length of time q new routine can be
established in coal. It Is my expert
ence that, when q routine is once es-
tablished, it is not abandoned. even
though the occasion for the 'organiza-
ton disappears. Standard Oil. for ex-
ample! The essential thing today,
therefore, Is to use the permitted Or
ganization to establish the routine
which will make the coal business
profitable hereafter. II we can get
that much out of it we can afford to
forget all Of the fine legal questions
raised by the critics"
Speaking Of legal questions In con-
nection with the industrial recovery
act, lawyers and jurists seem persuaded
that sooner or later the Supreme Court
mine the constitutionality OF endless
issues which the act raises, as well as
many other laws enacted In the name
of the new deal. A lawyer constituent
of this column voices the prediction
that it may fall to the lot of Chief
Justice Hughes to hand down a one
man Interpretation Of many Of these
ticklish points. The attorneys reason
ing Is that the Supreme Court, as now
constituted, consists broadly Of two
divisions conservatives and four
progressives, with the Chief Justice &C.
cupying middle ground, plus a strong
inclination toward the liberal group,
in whose opinions he has concurred
more often than not. This prophecy
foreshadows that Mr.. Hughes will be
found favoring the constitutionality OF
the vast majority Of the measures
which have become law under the
dictatorship"
(CopyriRht, 1933)