The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1935-06-06

economic organism. Nov, after nearly
two years, the court says it was all q
mistake. What a waste OF time, brain
power. and energyl
Why is it not possible for the Su-
preme Court, within limits, to do what
the President is required to do in veto
ing legislation? If the court is TO retain
this power, why should it not be re-
ouired to render IT'S opinion intrnedf-
ately, as the President is required to
do?
Lawyers doubtless can suggest many
reasons why it is not practicable, but
common sense will tell most people
that if the Supreme Court was going
to throw Section of MIRA into the
river it might as we'll have done it in
June 1888, as in May, 1885.
Not all questions could be decided in
advance. But to pass on the statute
itself would not preclude further tests
as now-on specific points arising
through the lower courts.
Certainly what the Supreme Court
said on the vital Section 8 of MIRA,
without a dissenting voice, could have
been said two years ago. 1t was not
necessary to arrest a poultry dealer
and put him through the wringer in
order to provide pretext for the court
to render basic opinion such as it
did in the Schechter case.
Were Congress Lawyers Asleep?
On the other hand, there is some
merit in the wonder of the man-in-
the street at system which permits
a law to be passed and approved that
later on meets the unanimous condem-
nation of nine disinterested intellectual
luminaries representing liberals as we'll
as conservatives.
Congress is overwhelmingly made up
of lawyers, and the President has an
other army of lawyers at his elbow in
the attorney generals office. Why pass
and approve law that is later to be
condemned to 0 by third set of
lawyers-all hired by the same tax
payers
A New Way Must Be Found.
Out of the confusion of the Schech-
ter decision rises an overshadoWing
problem for the nation: Can way be
found to reconcile the conflict between
the Constitution as interpreted by the
court with the requirements of in
dustrial America?
Most thoughtful persons will hold
that the answer must be found. This
goes to the vitals of our modern eco
nomic life. Our economic organization
is bursting our political bounds. 1t can
not be confined to them, any more
than the genii can be pushed back into
the bottle
Back to Industrial Anarchy.
The court says that wages and hours
in interstate business can not be regu-
lated by the federal government Does
this send the labor question back to
the stage Of guerrilla warfare? Is there
to be no way out except continuation
of industrial anarchy, varying between
collective bargaining at the whim OF
employers or coercion by strikes? 1t
is incredible that the United States will
continue to lag behind Europe and
subject itself to the economic waste
of pre-NRA anarchy.
Is business going to be forced back
into the hypocritical status Of the pre-
MIRA era9 Then it was pretended that
antitrust laws were in force, but
everyone knew that combinations op-
Grated openly--and with the tacit APP
proval of the government except when
some group incurred the displeasure OF
the department of justice and was put
on the spot.
Or Try Again.
Or is congress going to try to enact