Evening star., 1934-01-03

Maine, and Robinson of Indiana. Re-
pub1canS, and Copeland Of New York.
King OF Utah. Walsh of Massachu-
setts. Wheeler of Montana. and Nc
hellar of Tennessee, Democrats.
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Ratification Of the long-pending
child labor amendment to the Constitu-
ton is now making steady progress
Pennsylvania recently became the
twentieth State to give assent. having
been preceded q few days before, in
turn, by Minnesota and Maine Its
advocates hope that 1884, or 1885 at
the latest, will see action by the l6
remaining States required to make the
amendment law. Abolition of child
labor under N. r. A. has given a strong
spur to favorable legislative action by
the States.
Some vigorous criticism of the new
deal is embodied in The Economics of
the Recovery Program" volume in
which seven Harvard professors COL
laborated and which is just off the
press. 1t sounds like reprisal on the
part of President Roosevelt'S alma
mater for the fact that the brain
trust was recruited from the Columbia
campus instead Of the Crimson yard"
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To initiate farmers and other rural
leaders into the complex mysteries of
N. R. A. and A. A A, Rutgers Univer-
sity, which is endowed by the State of
New Jersey. has just created an Insti-
tute Of Rural Economics as a new ex-
pertinent in adult e6-cation. The in
stitute will be financed by a special
Upon no political minority managers
in our time has more delicate re-
sponsibility devolved than now rests
upon the shoulders of Senator McNary
Of Oregon, Republican leader in the
Senate. and Representative Smell, who
captains the shrunken G. o. P. forces
in the House. They are torn between
the conflicting emotions of party duty
the business of an opposition to oppose
and conviction that the hour is not
ripe for aggressive partisan attack on
the national recovery program. Both
Messrs. McNary and Smell snort at the
enemy theory that there Is no more Re-
publican party worthy of the name.
They remember how Republicans talked
in that strain about the Democrats
after the Hoover landslide in 1928, only
to live to see the elephant mangled
almost beyond recognition four years
later. They are convinced that the
donkey. sooner or later, will face like
fate. Both McNary and Smell. holding
the Understanding offices now in Re-
publican possession, rate as 1886 presi-
dental timber. If they contrive to
steer the G. o. P. bark successfully
through the congressional shoals and
WV t,-oI
VIII substantially enhance the political
prestige they already enjoy.
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Emma Goldman, exiled in Europe
since the World War, will not be per-
mitted to come back under President
Roosevelt's recent amnesty proclama-
ton If the Federal Grand Jury Asso-
ciation of New York can prevent it.
The secretary of the association has
formally demonstrated at the White
House that Miss Goldman. after a
notably fair trial by a jury of 12
responsible citizens, was found guilty
and recommended for deportation,
which was ordered by President Will
SON." and should not be permitted ever
again to set foot on American soil.
To counteract the campaign against
the Reserve Officers Training Corps
recently launched by the National Stu
dent League in Washington, support
ers Of military training have called a
National R. o. T. c. Conference" to
be held in Washington on January 81.
1t is sponsored by group of patriotic
societies which are bent on combating
"a combined attack on the r. o. T. G.
by communist, socialist and pacifist
organizations"
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