Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1934-10-11
by William Bruckart


parasitic element be separated from
its meal ticket. With winter coming
on radicals can make fine case out of
refusal by relief managers to feed
this or that Starving family" I have
even heard suggestions that the COM
ing winter may see some riots of a
character more severe than anything
we have yet known. But If they do
come it seems to be agreed they will
not be due entirely to lack Of food but
to agitation on the part of some of
those who have desires only to wreck
our present structure Of government
With the return for the winter ses-
sion of the Supreme Court of the Unit
ed Sta teS, New
NeW Deal Up Dealers as well as
to High Court old dealers may have
some ground for be-
lief that questions respecting their acts
in the last year soon will be answered
In this country, we have always looked
to the courts as the last resort to tell
us when our legislative bodies as we'll
as executive officers of our govern
ments, state or national, have gone be-
yond bounds. All through the summer
there has been the mounting demand
for juridicial construction Of New Deal
acts. 1t appears we are about to get
them in numbers from the highest
court in the land. There are sufficient
petitions before the Supreme court to
provide a rather accurate dellmitation
Of the New Deal scope in it's constl-
tutional aspects.
Expert legal opinion here seems to
lean toward substantiation of most OF
the New Deal activities by the high
court. But at the same time some
of the best legal minds in the country
are maintaining that while part of the
New Deal props look good, they are
outside of what has hitherto been re.
garded as constitutional acts on the
part of government and so the consen-
SuS is that there will be many fve-tO-
four decisions forthcoming from the
Supreme court before it lays aside its
robes next spring.
AS the Supreme court now is con-
stituted, think it is generally regard
ed as leaning to the conservative side.
While the court is not supposed to be
Influenced by economic phases, the
economy Of the New Deal Is so
entwined with law that many as
tute observers tell me there can be
no segregation of those two ele-
ments when it comes to ruling on con-
stitutional phases of the New Deal.
The best available figures show that
the government has instituted about
40 cases charging violation of NRA
codes. 1t has won about 81 of
these, and has lost about Is of those
coming to decision. Private litigants
have brought action against the NRA
in 80 cases and the government has
won 20 of these.
Similarly, there have been some
thing like 20 cases in the courts in
volving Agricultural Adjustment ad-
ministration rules and regulations. OF
those that have gone through to
decision the government has won seven
and lost three.
While it must be remembered that
only small percentage Of these cases
represent clear-cut issues, the box score
certainly indicates the New Deal to be
the winner thus far. But as said above,
the lower court decisions mean next to
nothing on questions of such import as
these; none Of the litigants will stop
short of final decision by the Supreme
Court of the United States.
A situation somewhat unique in
American politics is developing in Wis
consin where the La
Wisconsin Toilette brothers are
Politics undertaking to con-
tinue the family dy-
nasty by marching under the banner
Of a new organization, the progress
sive party. 1t is all being done very
quietly but the facts seep through the
national political headquarters here In
Washington.
The regular Republican organization
sees an opportunity to knock OFF, the
LaFollettes by throwing their support
to John n. Callahan, the Democratic
candidate for the senate. Apparently
they have little or no hope of electing
their own senatorial candidate, the
Wisconsin publisher, John B. Chap
pelle, who ended the political career
of former Senator John ]. Blaine In
the primaries Of 1882.
If Mr.. Callahan does poll a sizeable
Republican vote the question is wheth-
er this will Offset the objections in the
Democratic party. He was one Of the
leading supporters of Alfred f. Smith
at the 1882 convention and neither the
President nor his lieutenants have for
gotten that 1t was the present Demo
cratic senatorial candidate In Wlscon-
sin who gave publicity to charges that
Mr.. Roosevelt's early campaign in the
South for Presidential nomination was
in part financed and supported BY the
officers of the Klu-Klux Khan in Geor-
gia.
All Of which leads to the observa-
ton that political leaders sometimes
do very strange things. They have been
known to throw their own candidates
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