Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1935-02-14

the first to place the finger on names.
The New Yorker charged on the floor Of
the house that Robert Marshall, field
director for the bureau of Indian af-
fairs and Gardner Jackson, deputy ad-
ministrative counsel of the consumers
division in the Agricultural Adjust
ment administration, among others,
had made cash contributions to the
veterans rank and file committee. He
asserted that these contributions were
made 'for the purpose of instigating
a bonus march Of communists on
Washington" and it is to be remem-
bered that the great bonus march
of three years ago was headed by the
veterans rank and file committee.
Mr.. Fish described Mr.. Marshall as
one of the younger members of the
brain trust and asserted that most Of
the members" of the brain trust are or
have been active in the American civil
liberties union.
The representative cited among
those in the brain trust who, he said
were active in the civil liberties union
the following: Prof. Rexford Guy Tug
well, undersecretary Of agriculture;
Donald R. Richberg, director of the
National Emergency council and the
so-called No. 2 man in the administra-
ton; Robert Fechner, Director of the
Civilian Conservation corps; Prof. Paul
II. Douglas, of the National Recovery
administration DR.. Frederic G. Howe,
consumers counsel of the Agricultural
R. Margold, Of the Interior depart
ment; James NJ. Lands, a member of
the Federal Securities and Exchange
commission and a former member of
the federal trade commission; and
John A. Lapp, described as an i'm
partial Presidential representative in
the National Recovery administration.
After some II years of consideration,
the senate has refused to approve
American member
FIRST Big ship in the World
Setback Court. In rejecting
the Presidents re-
quest for ratification of American adj
herence to that court the upper house
Of congress gave the administration
Its first important setback. And it was
an important defeat for Mr.. Roosevelt
because no one can tell now whether
the President is going to maintain the
firm grip hitherto held on the senate.
-Four MISUNDERSTANDING Coolidge,
and Hoover, Republicans, and Roose-
velt-have requested senate ratifiea-
ton and four Presidents have had the
tHing tossed back TO them after bitter
battles. This time, as heretofore, the
senate rejected the proposal on the
ground that the United States was be-
ing led into the back door OF the
League of Nations and all will remem-
Der how stubbornly the senate resisted
entry into the League<of Nations when
Woodrow Wilson was President. The
same arguments were used as have
been used before, namely, that if the
United States adhered to the per-
manent court of international justice
(the formal title of the COURT the
country would be catapulted into the
midst of all of Europe's entanglements,
jealousies and diplomatic chicanery.
Senator Borah of Idaho, one of the
leading opponents of court entry, con-
cluded his argument in the senate with
the assertion that the World Court was
a court of war and not of peace.
Proponents Of the court have main
tanned constantly that the United
States could accomplish much toward
world peace by participating in court
adjudication of controversies. Oppo-
nents insisted we should let well
enough alone and maintain our isola-
ton. Only through that manner, they
argued, can the United States avoid
loss Of its sovereignty through the die
tates of the court decision.
Joseph B. Eastman. federal co-ordina.
tor of railroads, has proposed to con-
gress a new plan
EdstnldHs for control of the
Plan whole structure of
transportation in this
country. With the approval of the
President, Mr.. Eastman has offered
bills for federal regulation of motor
buses and trucks, for the reorganiza-
ton of the Interstate Commerce COM
mission and establishment of a fed
eral co-ordinator of transportation as
a permanent office, compensation for
dismissed railroad employees dis
placed through coordination of opera
ton, a revision Of the bankruptcy act
relating to railroads, provision for the
commission to prescribe minimum as
well as maximum joint rail and water
rates, provision for elimination of al
legged benefits or prejudice as to ports
and gateways and to limit the right to
reparation for damage due to violations
OF the interstate commerce laws.
The co-ordlnator's proposals resulted
from a comprehensive study of the
general problems relating to transpor-
tation. It was probably the most ex-
tensive report On these questions that
congress ever has received. Certainly,
there can be no lack of information
available for use by congress If 1t de-
termines to enact railroad legislation
at this session. Whether such leoisla