The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-01
TOUGH GUY
WITH GRIN is
BACK AT HELM
RooSeVelt'S Voice Has Buoy
ant Note as He LaSheS
Court Verdict.
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Are We 20 have a centralized gov
eminent 70 deal with social and
economic problems?
Previous presidents in crises called
of their meetings with the press
Roosevelt holds them and lengthens
them His two conferences this
week have been the most dramatic
of any since the banking crisis.
About 300 reporters swarm into
his oval Office 10 hear his unpre-
Ccdcnted 80-minute talk about the
Supreme Court.
Majority Leader Joe Robinson Of
he senate. portly and grave. turns
up as the conference starts. and Is
shown 20 a chair behind the Presi-
dent.
First Lady at Window
Mrs Roosevelt. who attends press
conferences only when important
matters are afoOt. sits at a window,
listening. Presently she takes her
knitting from a bag and sends her
needles shutting through the sleeve
n a man-sized blue sweater. With
her sits Mrs. Felix FTankfurter, wife
Of one Of the New Deals idea
sources.
Behind the crowd Of reporters
stands lanky. long-nosed Charley
West. former member Of Congress
and now the Presidents congress
sional liaisOn man.
In midsummer heat the sweating
newspaper men scribble 70 keep up
with the even delivery Of the man
AZ the desk He throws back his
head 10 emphasize a point. pauses TO
light a cigaret.
Dig Up Old Envelopes
Unprepared for the avalanche Of
news reporters wear out pencil
points and use up their pads. They
dig old envelopes. unmailed letters
and even postage stamps out Of
their pockets. and make notes on
them.
Finally the President remarks that
it Is past / p. m, daylight time, in
most newspaper offices. After a
correspondent asks and is given per-
mission 70 quote the President di-
rectly on the phrase horse and
buggy era" the rush for the wires
begins This plain phrase represents
the Presidents opinion of where the
Supreme Court decision would re-
turn the country.
The President has a cheerful jibe
for enemies Of mis- philosophy. but
a deep intensity in expOunding his
belief that the biggest domestic is
sue since the Civil War is presented
by the Supreme Court. And this
fight. like that bloody arbitrament.
is over state rights and over the
rights Of human beings to be pro-
teCted.
Party Split Likely
some observers believe Mr.. ROoSe-
welt may have driven the wedge to
split his party. If Old-line south
ernerS stand on their state rights
tradition. IL might. they think. be a
Schism as serious as that created by
Woodrow Wilson's battle for the
League.
But the histories show that in
seeking to undo the Supreme Court,
Mr.. Roosevelt is standing With both
a Democrat and a Republican. with
jefferson and Lincoln.
jefferson attacked the court for
domination Of Congress and the
President Lincoln said Of the
courts decision in the bred Scott
slavery case which some historians
say made the Civil War inevitable:
We think the bred Scott deci-
sion is erroneous. We know the
court that mace 1t has often over
ruled its own decisions. and We
shall do what We can to have it
override this. We offer no resis-
lance TO II"
Sounding the War Cry
Chief Justices Hughes. author of
the NRA decision. once wrote that
following the bred Scott case. 1T
was many years before the court
C~en under new judges. was able
10 retrieve its reputation
Like Lincoln but unlike jefferson.
Roosevelt is sounding a war cry
for Alexander Hamilton's doctrine
or Capitalization. II the Republi-
cans challenge his position they
may have to defend state rights
And the President. apparently an
tiCipatinC this. stresses the inabil-
itv Of any one state TO stand alone
for reforms that competitive states
reject
All the Administration issues
appear 70 be Jumped into one Win
or lose. Roosevelt has started "on
cur way" 10 attempt great re-
organization of national political
thought