Evening star., 1937-09-27

ground OF prejudice It's said the point
has been occasionally raised in lower
Federal courts, as well as in State and
local Jurisdictions. and generally been
held to be well taken. A somewhat con-
trary view respecting the new justice
likely attitude is also actively canvassed,
as the Alabaman approaches q show
down on the BLACK and Klan" PROPOSE
ton. 1t is to the effect that in all prob
ability he would lean backward in a case
involving racial or religious liberties, in
order to vindicate his liberalism. y
Recalled in this connection is the fact
that Justice Brandeis. bitterly opposed
for confirmation in 1916 because OF his
"reactionary" corporate law practice,
forthwith became one Of the liberal bull
warks OF the court. Chief Justice
Hughes, fought almost as persistently in
1880 on the same ground, blossomed out
as liberal in some of his earliest
opinions.
When President and Mrs. Roosevelt
and their royal encourage visit lovely
Victoria, British Columbia, this week,
they'll probably hear something about
the ten-year-old controversy between the
State of Washington and British Colum-
bia over the sulphur smoke or sulphur
dioxide emitted from the big chimney in
the Trail Smelter. This famous plant,
situated on the Columbia River just over
the line in Canada, has damaged and
was damaging American forestry and
farm crops of all kinds in a territory
extending some so miles down the Co.
lumbia Valley. Under the Anglo-Amer-
1can treaty establishing the Interna-
tional Joint Commission for Settlement
OF Canadian-Anaerican Boundary Dis
putes, the sulphur grievance had to be
referred to that body. Following ex-
tended hearings, the three Americans
and three Canadians composing it by
unanimous verdict awarded $3.50 900 to
the complainant residents of Washing
ton. After delay of two or three years.
the United States decided to take an
appeal from the award It's petition is
still pending, although hearings have
been held before q special tribunal
approved by Washington and Ottawa.
American members of the Joint Com
mission are former Senator Stanley of
Kentucky, chairman former Gov. John
H. Bartlett of New Hampshire and
Newspaper Publisher Eugene Lorton of
Oklahoma
In one Of his first Washington public
appearances after his election in 1882.
Mr.. Roosevelt poked some high-powered
irony at Mr.. Hoover's overgrown new
Department of Commerce Building. The
mammoth pile was destined. neverthe-
less. to be space life-saver for the New
Deal bureaucratic octopus. The N. r. A.
and Its vast brood of Blue Eagles nested
there. Other abundant-life commissions
and agencies found refuge under the
same far-spreading roof Lately the
United States Maritime Commission
dropped anchor in the Commerce laby-
rinth. The latest intruder will be Mr..
Biggers' unemployment census organi-
zation.
Hyde PARK College Yell" is the legend
emblazoning pink slip now making the
Washington rounds. It goes as follows:
Nov! Now! Now! Bow! Wow! Wow!
Going Red! Getting Black! And How!
How! How! Preside! Wow!!"
Very latest quip about Justice Black
IS that he's pussyfooting home "Klan-
destinely' and may land at . "Klan-
destination" in order to evade reporters
and cameras.
ossrssht. 1887.