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RULING PERILS
OTHER LAWS
Continued from Page II

argument. Within three weeks it
is expected that an appeal will
be filed on the Wagner labor re-
lations act. The court. too, has
request that it consider validity
of the securities act of 1888.
The possibilities of the decision
are almost boundleSs. 1t may al
feet virtually every law in which
the Administration reached out
to control activities within the
States.
The high court approached its
task of declaring the Roosevelt
farm program unconstitutional
with reluctance. Justice Roberts
pointed out that the court hest
tated to interfere with acts OF Con-
gress but that duty required 1t.
The majority opinion found that
the AAA processing tax-which
had been attacked by receivers Of
the Hoosac Mills of Massachu'
setts-was merely part OF the
scheme to control farm crop pro-
duction and to raise prices.
Aim Held Unconstitutional
Congress, the court said, has no
power to control agriculture. That
was left to the States by the Con-
stitution. Thus, it held, the act
was void. The majority opinion
said:
"The act invades the reserved
rights of the States. 1t is
statutory plan to regulate and
control agricultural production,
a matter beyond the powers
delegated to the Federal Gov
eminent. The tax, the apprO-
priatiOn of the funds raised,
\and the direction for their dis
burSement, are but parts Of the
plan. They are but means to
an unconstitutional end.
From the accepted doctrine
that the United States is q gov
eminent of delegated powers, it
follows that those not expressly
granted, or reasonably to be i'm
piled from such as are CON-
ferred, are reserved to the
States or to the people. To
forestaIl any suggestion to the
contrary, the Tenth Amendment
was adopted.
''The same proposition, other
wise stated, is that powers not
granted are prohibited. None
to regulate agricultural prOduc-
ton is given, and therefore
legislation by Congress for that
purpose is forbidden"
Nor can Congress, the court
said, purchase compliance with
acts otherwise unconstitutional.
1t cannot pay benefits to farmers
for doing something that they
could not be compelled to do
under threat Of prosecution.
Although the general welfare
] clause of the Constitution gives
broad power to tax and to spend,
the court held, it cannot be car.
ried far enough to cover the AAA.
The opinion said:
Hamilton himself, the lead
ing advocate of broad interpre.
tatiOn Of the power to tax and
! to appropriate for the general
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-07
MISSING
FOUND, PAIR
SOUGHT

With two children reported miss
ing yesterday, located, police to-
day continued search for a 16-year.
old girl and a 15-yesr-old boy.
Thirteen-year-old Betty Louise
Croft, who left her home at 1908
Farragut st. N. w. yesterday morn
ing to attend classes at Macfar-
land Junior High School and
failed to return home, was located
last night by police in a bus ter
minal in Philadelphia. It is be-
heved she was on her way to New
York.
William Trollinger, It'll, who
disappeared from his home at
913 Eighth st. s. e. day before
yesterday because he was afraid
Of a whipping for attempting to
crash" q neighborhood movie,
returned home last night. His
father said the boy told him he
had spent the night in a vacant
house.
Police were continuing search
for Clyde Elmer Smith, Is, who
yesterday became lost from his
mother, Mrs. Ethel Smith, of
Philadelphia, while they were in
the Greyhound Bus Terminal at
1409 New York Ave.
Police also we're looking for
Doris Fort, 16, who lives with her
sister, Mrs Rose e. Harrison, of
1920 Macomb st. N. w. She left
yesterday, leaving a note saying
she was leaving because she
thought she was q burden on her
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-07
50 Bad Checks
Due to Bounce
On Motorists

Rubber checks can bounce back
against the writer's as well as
against the recipients.
AT least, such is the case in
the passing Of so bad checks here
by motorists who gave them to
the Traffic Bureau in payment
for their 1886 license tags.
The bureau isn't worried about
getting its money.
Traffic Director William A. Van
Duzer has supplia1 police with
the tag numbers Of the so mo
florists. with instructions to arrest
the drivers.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-07
One Killed, 3 Shot
As Safe Crackers

SEATTLE, Wash, Jan.
Q.NSO.-One man was dead,
one dying and two others wound
ed following a gun battle between
detectives and safecrackers. Carl
Thomas, asserted leader, was slain,
and Joe Neal, former city patrol
man on parole, was believed
dying.
Attorney John Frank Garvin,
former special Assistant U. s. At
torney General, was arrested at
his home and held in technical
custody. He told police two men
fled to his home, seeking advice
after being wounded.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-07
.eenan Nominated
As Cummings Aide

Joseph B. keenan,, Of Cleveland,
was nominated yesterday by
President Roosevelt as assistant
to Attorney General Cummings.
The promotion was foretold last
week exclusively in the Washing
ton Herald. Keenan's nomination
was one of several hundred sent
to the Senate. Brien Mcmahon,
of Connecticut, was nominated as
successor to keenan, as Assistant
Attorney General.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-07
N. Y: Judge Deeries
Exile Of Lindberghs

NEW YORK, Jan. 7 (U.SO.
Supreme Court Justice Gothic yes
terday deplored the recent depar-
ture from this country Of the
Lindberghs. He told a grand jury:
"Crime is prevalent. Crime
takes too great q toll of the
time, money and lives Of the
1aw.abiding.
"The recent Lindbergh de-
parture cannot help but evoke
o nausea at such . shame upon
our heads.
"This land of the free. can
not help but be considered
ShackIedyand held by the gang.
Ster' racketeer and gunman."
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-07
Colorado in Grip
OF First Real Snow

DENVER, Jan. Z Q.N.S0-Den-
yer today was in the grir Of its
first real snowstorm Of the
winter. Temperatures dropped to
10 degrees above zero and a strong
wind whipped icy snow before 1t.
Montana and much Of Wyoming
are under snow. At Havre, Mont,
the temperature was IA degrees
below zero.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-07
College Of Cardinals
Reaches High Point

VATICAN CITY, Jan. with
the death Of Cardinal Legs and
the recent creation Of 20 new
cardinals, the membership Of the
sacred College Of Cardinals now
has reached its highest point in
years.
The total Of SO cardinals, Of
whom 36 are Italian, brings the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-07
Man, "a, Found Dead

HAGERSTOWN, Jan. THE
body Of Harvey e. Rowe, "a, was
found curled beside a cold stove,
the contents Of which was an I'm
burned map Of Maryland, in his
little cabin along the BoonSboro-
Maplehill Road yesterday.
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number within two Of the legal
limit Of 10.
Impressive scenes marked the
confirmation Of the new princes
Of the church. No Americans
were among them, but at the con-
sistory Pope Plus named MSgr.
Joseph Gilmore, new bishop OF
Helena, Mont, to succeed Bishop
Ralph Hayes, who was sent to
another diocese.
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welfare, never suggested that
any power granted by the Con-
stitution could be used for the
destruction Of local self govern
ment in the States. Story
cOuntenances no such doctrine.
ut never seems to have Oc-
Cured to them, or to those who
have agreed with them, that
the general welfare Of the Unit
ed States (which has been
aptly termed AN indeStructible
union, composed Of indestruct-
ible states') might be served by
Obliterating the constituent
members of the union. But to
this fatal conclusion the doc
trine cOntended for would inev-
itably lead"
Joining Justice Roberts were
Chief Justice Hughes and, Jus
tees Van Devanter, McReynoldS
Butler and Sutherland.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-07
State Society Group
Headed by Tulsa Man

w. L. Clark, Of Tulsa, president
Of the Oklahoma Society of Certi-
fled Public Accountants, was
elected chairman Of q council of
State societies yesterday by 81
presidents at q meeting at the
Shoreham Hotel. Alfred N. Hill
ton, Of Norfolk, was named Sec
rotary.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-07
Engineers to Dine

American Engineering Council
win mark the highlight Of its con-
vention this week with its third
annual Good Fellowship dinner
Friday night at $50 in the May
flower Hotel.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-07
THE REPUBLICAN OFFENSIVE

NIHOM will the Indiana Republicans nominate
" for Governor? That question becomes more
acute since the Supreme Courts decision outlawing
the AAA
There has been talk of bringing Everett Sanders
back from Washington, where he practices law. Mr..
Sanders, former congressman and President Cool
dges chief secretary is held in high esteem by the
elders of the Republican Party
Another Republican mentioned is Eli F. Seebirt
of st. Joseph County He happens to be the law
partner of the Third District chairman.
The reason refer to the Republican possible
ties is this: The G. o. p. from all Indications is
going to put up the best man for Governor it can
find That, apparently, is true of the presidency.
The idea of setting up straw man. the theory
that the election is lin the bag for the Democrats
seems to have been discarded since the various SUI
preme Court rulings. Therefore, the selection of
Democratic state ticket takes on more serious
aspect.
Recently the Democrats have shown signs of their
characteristic tendency to divide within the party
With the Republicans definitely on the offensive the
party in power may realize the dangers of divisions
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-07
LONG.TERM HOME LOANS

INDIANA is gradually benefitng from whole
some policy of the Federal Housing Adnnistra-
ton Where necessary it is departing from the old
custom of fixing a short term for mortgages.
For years the rule was to write a mortgage for
three or five years Both buyer and fnancier knew
that in majority of cases the loan would not be
paid in that period and would have to be renewed.
Banks used to carry these loans as overdue paper
rather than take new mortgages.
The Federal housing organization is now holding
what it calls clinics to determine the ability OF
home purchaser to pay and what term of years is
best suited to his financial status. This sounds
sible and humane. Many families could pay out in
10 years. Being worried by the necessity--and some
times the impossibility-of paying in a short term
many in the past got into difficulties with their OBJ
legations.
Since home is thought of as permanent thing,
long term financing not only applies but will also
encourage more and more families to undertake a
purchase.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-07
A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT
BY Mrs. Walter Ferguson

NEWSPAPER reading may make the full mind
but it also make the heavy heart. Our
facilities for getting information are so numerous
and powerful these days, and so much OF the in
formation is sensational, bizarre or morbid, it's a
wonder have any shred of faith in humanity left.
When this form of universal blues grabs you, it's
good idea to narrow your vision. Take your eyes
off the world to focus them upon the neghbor-
hood. For the closeup view of men and women is
usually pleasing; where human behavior is con-
cerned, distance does not lend enchantment.
There's Mrs B who lives across the street
and what a sweet somebody she isl With her own
children grown and gone she's bringing UP two
phans, yet has time to run and then with
bit of freshly baked CAKE or little poem whose
message she wants to bring to
Next door to the right is young couple of great
charm who lost their money three years ago. Lately
the wife has taken job so that their home. nearly
paid for, will not be lost The way her little chin
has gone up after i'll fortunes every blow has been
an inspiration to all who know her widower with
three children lives on our left He is breadwnner
and mother as well as father to his youngsters.
Making no great stir in the world he's doing some
thing much more valuable in keeping home against
tremendous odds
So it goes. This year wrote New Year letters
to my friends trying to put into words what most
admired in each. This task has two advantages.
1t forces you to make list of the people you know
best and to look directly at their admirable quail
ties. The results leave you with lightened heart
Suddenly you see that, bad as civilizations plight
may be, it viii not be desperate long as you can
look in any direction at the roofsops of so many
brave. steacfast and honest people. Perhaps after
all humanity is no worse than the neishbors
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-07
THE OLD DISORDER PASSES

INDUSTRIAL employers, whose high-priced law
yers are using injunction judges to bind the gov
ernments hands from enforcing the Labor Rela
lions Act should read what similar Federal law
is doing to prevent strikes and disorders the
country's far-hung railroads
The record will be found in the annual report of
the National Mediation Board Herein it is recorded
that since 1926 when the Railway Labor Act was
passed, there has been almost unbroken record
of peaceful settlement of labor disputes the rail-
roads" The act recognizes the right of free and
Voluntary collective bargaining and sets up machin-
cry for making and administering agreements be-
tween the carriers and raimens crafts There are
now more than 5000 such agreements These con-
tracts have the effect of laws governing industrial
relations between the men and management. There
have been plenty of disputes but they seldom reach
the point of strikes
Those who recall the years of interrupted rail-
road traffic public inconvenience, economic loss and
human suffering that marked the old disorder will
admit that this law has brought great boon to
America. Wisely Congress has adopted similar
program for the rest of interstate industry Instead
of fighting such program other employers should
welcome a reign of law in their relationship with
the workers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-07
Questions and Answers

GLOW many universities were
represented in the Western Chg
Tenn Football Conference when it
was founded, and which ones are
now included?
At was founded in 1896 with
seven members. In 1899 Indiana and
Iowa were added, making it the
Big Nine" In 1905 Michigan re-
signed from the Conference, leaving
eight members. Ohio State was adj
mitted in 1918 and Michigan re-
turned in 1917, when it became the
big Ten Present members are
Chicago, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Pur-
due, Illinois, Ohio State, Northwest
ern, Iowa, Indiana and Michigan.
Q-Do the stars change color?
A-The United States Naval OBJ
servatory says that the stars twin
kle and cause people to think that
they see them change colors There
is a slight change due to atmos-
pheric conditions surrounding the
observer, but most of the assumed
change is psychological.
Q-Who was Lady Teazle7
AA character in Richard Sheri-
dams play, The School for Scan
68I.%
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-07
A BOOM IN BAND INSTRUMENTS

INDIANA, the center of the band instrument bust
L ness, is enjoying the fruits of the radio. night
club talking picture and theatrical upturn.
Manufacture of instruments is concentrated in
Elkhart where II companies turn out all kinds
of horns Employment in one of the companies is
up 80 per cent 1885.
The increase in high school bands and orchestras
college and university bands and the hope OF fond
parents that their children will reach and make good
on the air. stage and SCREEN are factors in helping
the instrument trade.
The industry is one of which the state should be
proud No other state equals Indiana in the number
of band instruments manufactured.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-07
PREDICTS THIRD TERM
FOR ROOSEVELT

BY r. S. VanNuys, Frankfort
All the hullabaloo by Republican
leaders about President Roosevelt
broadcasting his night message to
Congress makes it appear. they are
afraid to have the people hear it.
In all probability, that is what
rankles them.
I find many Republicans who
disapprove of such tactics deploring
the action and antics of Chairman
Fletcher. Certainly, no better adj
vertisement of the event could have
been otherwise obtained.
The Republican leaders appear to
deplore what they term the political
phase OF the event; yet, none have
done more than they to inject the
political phase into every legislative
and administrative act. The see
nothing but politics, and in their
eager desire to get into the fray
opened the campaign approximately
a year ago. Now, as they are on a
hot spot let them sit on the blister.
They can blame no one but them
selves. Acting like a chicken with
its head off will get them nowhere.
Probably they already realize that,
and are proceeding on the theory
that they have all to gain and Moth
ing to lose.
With platforms like BEAT Roose-
welt" and Turn the RascaIs Out, %
they show plainly their sole objec-
tive.
They offer nothing and I never
knew of any party getting anywhere
with nothing more to stand upon.
They realize too well that Mr..
Roosevelt is able to take care of
himself and that he proposes to do
that very thing. 1t is q safe bet
that we will never see another Re-
publican president; that Franklin
D. Roosevelt is likely to serve not
only a second but third term.
Smoke that in your pipe Mr.. 'erbie
'oover.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-07
TODAY'S SCIENCE
BY SCIENCE SERVICE

EIREPROOF lumber-dream of
Il man since the Trojan hero.
Aenea, in 400 B. c., suggested
soaking timber in vinegar to prevent
burning-is at last a reality.
The laboratories of the National
Board of Fire Underwriters have
placed their seal of approval on
chemically treated red oak and ma
pie, which can not be burned in a.
practical sense and is an obstacle
to the spread of fire instead of
path for its travel.
ePractically non-combustible and
non-inflammable" is the verdict of
the laboratory after months of test
ing in real fires and under rigidly
controlled conditions.
Walls and floors of the flreproof
wood act as fire-stops, prevent the
passage of fire and confine a con-
flagration to its point of origin.
The approval report also notes
that the fireproofing properties last
throughout the life of the timber.
The successful fireproofing is
effected by method not unlike
that used in the treatment of tele-
graph poles, railroad ties, fence
posts, etc, with creosote for protec-
ton against decay, except that in
combustible salts are used in the
case of the fireproof lumber. The
technique of the process is exact
ing, as its success depends largely
upon getting just the correct amount
of salts into the wood as a greater
or lesser amount fails to give the
desired results. Protexol Corp. cf
Kenilworth, N. j., is the manufac-
turer of the hreproof lumber in<
vestigated.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-07
TUESDAY. JANUARY 4. 1895.
THE AAA DECISION
a scRIpPs-HowARD NEwspApER,

NTE are right back where we started from. The
" farm problem is with us again
The puzzle with which every Administration has
wrestled since the World War ended is now as un-
solved it when it first appeared in the crash
of prices that followed the close of the great con-
flict.
Agricultural prices may stay steady rise
for while or they may drop sharply. If they drop
the problem becomes Immediately acute If they
stay steady rise, that will mean eventually
Increased and uncontrolled acreage and hence "the
surplus, seat of the infection that has caused eco
nomic illness to 40 million of population,
directly, and remoter though none the less real
malady TO the rest OF the nation, because of the
farmers inability to buy what the industries of the
cities produce
There will be cheers for while from the Repub
1can side The decision will first be seen in the
light of its effect on the 1896 campaign. But those
cheers will soon die down. For this problem isn't
the exclusive property of any political party.
1t is broader than that and longer than 1886 It's
the hairshirt that plagued Harding, pestered
Coolidge bedeviled Hoover.
TINE net of the Supreme Court majority decision
is that the farm problem is state and not
national one. AS to this exercise of judicial power
we personally like the comment of Justice Stone of
the minority when he says:
For the removal of unwise laws from the statute
books appeal lies not to the courts but to the ballot
and to the processes of democratic government.
Courts not the only agency of government that
must be assumed to have capacity to govern.
Interpretation of our great charter. Which pro-
ceeds on any assumption that the responsibility for
the preservation of institutions il the exclusive
concern of any one of the three branches of gov
eminent or that it alone can save them from de-
struction, is far more likely, in the long rum to
obliterae the constituent members of an indestruc
tible states than the frank recognition that Ian
guage even of Constitution, may mean what it
says: That the power to tax and spend includes the
power to relieve nation wide economic maladjust
ment :"
But after all, that was language of the minority.
And in court affairs, the majority rules So the sit
uaton as it now stands is that AAA is out and the
farm problem is "in again."
Where do we go from here? Too early to say.
Probably first an attempt to make law that will
fit the views of the Supreme Court. If that fails
then there is just one other route If the problem
must be handled, as we believe it must ma
tonal one that route is constitutional amendment
Should that finally prove necessary, we predict both
Republicans and Democrats will be found joining in
support. We believe the farm problem can not be
solved along state lines and that it will continue to
plague Administrations of whatever political faith
until it is settled on country wide scale