Evening star., 1935-04-07
::sNEW ORDER" is THREAT
TO i. S. INSTITUTIONS
Free Press and independence of Courts
Doomed if Presidents Assurance
of Change Is Fulfilled.

Each country, as 1t adopts the new
order, modifles the new to its own
conditions. For example, in Russia
and Germany the new conception in
cludes universal state religion. The
government aims to control religion
as in Germany or the government is
merged with religion as in Russia. In
Italy, Mussolini has refrained so far
from trying to take over the church.
Probably the reason is that Musso-
llnls seat in Rome is close by the
world capital of the Catholic Church
in the same city and Mussolini hesi-
tateS to attempt what Stain does in
Russian and Hitler in Germany.
And so it would be in America. The
new order here would differ in detail
from the new order in Europe. But in
principle it would be the same new
order, for there is only one new order.
Repression of Minorities.
The new order in America would
not, for example, attempt to do any
thing about religion. Certainly it
would not for many years, until it
should become thoroughly established.
Yet it must be remembered that an
essential practice of the new order is
to repress minorities Already, in the
slight step America has taken in N.
R. A., minorities and dissenting indivi-
dualS in every industry are repressed
and hailed into criminal court. It is
fundamental in the new order, the
''totalitarian state" the authoritarian
state" that minorities shall be re-
pressed-in most cases suppressed.
The new order of society, wherever
it exists, gets rid of two institutions
which in America up to now we have
priced highly. The new order puts
an end to freedom of the press. That
might be considerable time coming
in America, but come it would The
new order the authoritarian state"
cannot exist where freedom Of the
press exists.
Likewise the new order, wherever it
exists. does not tolerate independence
of the courts. Where the new order
has been adopted the courts are mere
agencies of the government. The
characteristic of the courts in America
is that in their functioning they are
independent of the Government. To
the courts in America any one citizen
weighs just as much as the Govern
ment. We have seen lately, as re-
spects N. R. A., case after case in
which the courts have sustained the
citizens and condemned the Govern
ment. This present American condi-
ton could not continue if we adopt
| the new order of society. 1t can be
taken as automatic that the new eco
nomic order" President Roosevelt
! speaks of cannot come to fulfllment
/ In public without first, in some way,
| getting rid of the independence of
the court. The new economic order
can only go to fulfillment by either
making the courts subservient to the
administration, or else by, in some
way, evading the courts. getting
around" the courts.
Test Favors Individual.
Before us right now is a spectacle
Of the embarrassment which an inde-
pendent court is to the new economic
order. Because the administration
fears that the Supreme Court might
decide against N. r. A. the admins
tration refuses to take before the
court case in which the lower courts
have found against N. r. A. AT the
same time the administration asks
Congress to re-enact the N. r. A.
statute which the administration fears
to submit to court which. following
the American tradition, is independent
/ of the Government.
| I wonder how many Americans are
aware of the revolutionary implica-
/ tions inherent in Mr.. Roosevelt's pro-
posed new order? Why Is it that
no party and no individual seems to
have the capacity to make the issue
| clear to the country? Is it merely
that the issue is too complex for the
average man to understand? Or is it
| that America doesn't care? If America
is effete. if it has come to lack vitality,
then aSSuredly We shall Succumb to
| the new order. The new order is young
and vital and aggressive. In the world
for 18 years, since 1917, the individ-
ualiSt order of society and the demo-
cratic form of government have been
in retreat. The new model has eStab-
llShed itself in three great nations,
Russia, Germany and Italy, having an
aggregate population of some three
hundred million people. In the world
as whole is a competition between
the new model and the old, with the
new growing, the old receding.
Is that meeting of Republican edi-
tors and leaders about to take place
in Kansas City ready to see the real
issue? Have they the understanding
to see it? Have they the clarity of
thinking and the clarity of expression
that is necessary to make the issue
clear to the public? Have they the
vitality to defend the American sys-
| tenn?
We shall know about this after the
meeting has been held.