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The Coolidge examiner. [volume] (Coolidge, Ariz.) 1930-current, 1939-02-23
Bruckarts Washington Digest
Age-Old Fight Between President
And Senate in Vicious Revival
Current Squabbe, Involving Senators Glass and Byrd
Invited by President Himself; Mr.. Roosevelt's At
tempt to Discipline Senate Political Mistake.
By WILLIAM BRUCKART
WNU Service, National Press Bldg, Washington, D. c.

WASHINGTON. - Through nearly
all of our nations history, there
has been a continuing controversy
concerning the respective rights and
prerogatives of the President of the
United States and the senate. 1t
has alternately smouldered and
burst into fame. 1t has been char
acterized by vicious outbursts from
one side or the other at various
times and it has made or destroyed
the political fortunes of great
many men.
Washington has been RECALLED with
a fresh revival of the controversy in
the last several weeks. The funda-
mental differences are the same as
they always have been. There are,
however, new names and new faces
and obviously the political fortunes
of individuals who have entered
upon the public stage in recent years
are bound up in the boiling kettle.
Like the earlier embitterments over
these rights, this one will prove
nothing in the way of a tangible
solution.
The current fight must be said to
have been invited by President
Roosevelt. Perhaps, his course of
action was urged by some of the
Inner circle" which so often has
wrongly advised him lately, men
who do not know politics and who
ignore political history-but the fact
remains that the President carried
the fight to the senate, and there
are more than a few observers who
expect that he will come off bad
loser.
Mr.. Roosevelt, as l have reported
in these columns earlier, was insist
ing upon his own selection for po-
litical appointments where the sena-
tors from a particular state were
not receiving his smiles. The pro-
cedure was not pleasant but there
was no sensational cutlery from the
senators concerned until the nomi-
nation Of Judge Floyd Roberts, to
United States district judgeship, was
sent to the senate. Mr. Roberts
was picked without consultation
even over others recommended
with Senators Glass and Byrd of
Virginia. 1t proved to be the signal
for a riot.
The Coolidge examiner. [volume] (Coolidge, Ariz.) 1930-current, 1939-02-23
Judiciary

A rare privilege is that of the U. S.
President who can appoint four Su-
preme court judges. Already Frank
lin Roosevelt has named Hugo
Black, Stanley Reed and Felix
Frankfurter. liberals like himself.
Next will come appointment of a
new liberal to succeed liberal JUS
tice Louis j. Brandeis, retired at full
pay to help his fellow Jews and en-
Joy old age Expected is an appoint
ment from the middle west, now rep
resented only by Minnesota's Pierce
Butler. Since many plainsmen felt
short-changed last December when
Mr.. Roosevelt appointed Justice
Frankfurter, an easterner, middle
west appointment is considered in
cumbent.
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Senate Is Thoroughly
Embittered at Roosevelt

Thus, after several weeks of this
flashing back and forth-because
Senators Glass and Byrd did not fail
to tell the country what they thought
of Mr.. Roosevelt's action-We find
the senate thoroughly embittered at
Mr.. Roosevelt and Mr.. Roosevelt
saying, repeatedly, that the senate
is trying to usurp the powers of the
Chief Executive AS l sail, that
fundamental difference has existed
since the formation of our govern
The Coolidge examiner. [volume] (Coolidge, Ariz.) 1930-current, 1939-02-23
Advisers Reckoned Not
With Senatorial Courtesy

After the manner of senate pro-
cedure, Senators Glass and Byrd
rose in their places in the senate
and pronounced Judge Roberts
personally offensive" to them
That was enough. The senate, as it
has done so many times before,
promptly rejected the Roberts NOM
ination by the terrific jolt of 70 to 8.
1t was such slap that even the
Virginia senators were surprised at
its overwhelming character. 1t
surely made the fact abundantly
clear that Mr.. Roosevelt could not
get away with his theory, namely,
that President can pick nominees
without "the advice and consent of
the senate" as the Constitution spec
ifies. But ii did not have that effect
And here was where the President
made a great political mistake. He
sought to discipline the senate by
publication of letter to Judge Rob-
erts in explanation of the senate's
action. He scored Senator Glass and
he tarred Senator Byrd. They were
almost guilty of conduct unbecoming
gentlemen.
1t was rumored that the strategy
of the Inner circle" was to have
Mr.. Roosevelt smear the two sena-
tors and thus create serious defec-
ton in their own political machines
in their native Virginia-which any
one acquainted with Virginia poll
tics will tell you is much easier
said than done. 1t was reported
even that Mr.. Roosevelt would send
up another name without consulting
the two senators and if that were
rejected to send up still others.
That, believed the Inner circle"
would slowly force disintegration of
the GlassByrd support.
But the President and his un-
trained political advisers reckoned
not with senatorial courtesy Now,
senatorial courtesy is an intangible
thing. No one ever has been able
to define or describe it. One simply
has to say that it exists and let time
prove the statement The proof al
ways can be found, and the action
of the senate on the Roberts nomi-
nation, and since, certainly seems to
demonstrate that the senators will
fight for their rights, or what they
believe to be their rights, on a col
lective basis. Each sticks by the
others; none knows when he may
need the same kind of help.
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Religion,

Last August President Roosevelt
proposed the ntergovernmental ref
ugee committee which subsequently
elected American George Rublee its
chairman. After almost six months
of disheartening effort, Mr.. Rublee
handed the committee his resigna-
ton and the net result of an almost
single-handed battle. The result:
A temporary plan for taking care
Of Germany's unwanted Jews,
wheedled from Reichsfuehrer Hit
Ter. Points: ID German Jews
could return to their jobs until the
committee solves its problem; 90
Young German Jews can emigrate
provided they arrange to finance
later emigration of kinsmen; 90
older Jews would be protected until
emigration is completed; "a emf
grating Jews could borrow from a
trust fund.
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ASIA

Three hundred miles southwest Of
Hong Kong and directly in Britain's
communication path lies tiny but
important Hainan island, generally
considered within Frances sphere
of influence. What both France and
Britain have long feared is jap
anese seizure of Hainan, despite a
1897 agreement that Tokyo would
stay out so long as France blocked
munition traffic to China via French
Indo-China. But Japan has now
violated that agreement, occupying
Hainan on temporary" basis SO
long as military necessity demands.
Most observers fear that military
necessity will demand permanent
occupation.
Significant is the fact that France
has just rejected Japan's ambassa-
The Coolidge examiner. [volume] (Coolidge, Ariz.) 1930-current, 1939-02-23

NEW YORK.-The WPA barrel
l isn't like the widows cruise OF
oil in the Bible They expect to be
scraping the bottom by next June.
Who gets fired
WPA Trouble and when is a
Shooter Finds naturally dis
Relief in Clouds tressing prob
lem, fallin G
mainly on Dean Brimhall, trouble
shooter and handyman for the
WPA, who looks and talks like Sim
clair Lewis and who used to hunt
bears in Utah. Officially, he is di-
rector of the section on employ
ment problems of the WPA, and
just now these problems loom up
like the peak range of his native
Rocky mountains.
Ax-grinders, angry congress
men, union disputants, kickers,
fixers. utopians, and what not
see Mr.. Brimhall, and, when he
isn't taking this rap, he is eX-
porting and editing administra-
ton outputs on labor relations
and employment. making sur
veys on relief technique, or flying
In his own plane to some spot
where employment is ebbing. A
trap-drummer is just SnOOZing
along compared to Mr.. Brim-
hall. Merely getting bear by
the tail was never like this. For
relief or nerve tension, he hops
into his plane now and then and
makes a getaway in the clouds,
which seems like a nice idea.
Reared in the Church of the Lat
ter Day Saints-hiS grandfather
trekked west with Brigham Young
he was one of a group of twelve
Utah business men, Mariner Ec-
cles among them, who craved New
Deal action for some of their ideas.
Six of them are still active. On
the side, he still maintains a live
interest in four different concerns
an airplane company, railroad
company. a lumber business and
extensive real estate interests. Og
den is his home town.
He hauled coal to pay for his
education at Brigham Young
university, and one winter he
maintained his family nicely
with a shotgun, hunting large
and small game. Under Nc
Keen CattelI at Columbia uni
versity, he studied experiment.
al psychology and later taught
that subject at Columbia and
Brigham Young. He saw the
Wrights make their first Euro
pean fight and he has been in
terested in flying ever since
flying and hunting. On every
weekend and holiday he's high
in the sky, his plane poised and
pointed toward his beloved
Rockies. But there seems to
be no likelihood of his doing a
''wrong-way Corrigan."
He says he still could get living
with a shotgun, but instead of his
gun he has to shoulder the troubles
Of citizens less versatile.
The Coolidge examiner. [volume] (Coolidge, Ariz.) 1930-current, 1939-02-23

-FetC uifh IL; none lUithouf it,
ed an effort to remove patronage
from the hands of congress. Though
the senate supported the Byrd-Glass
contention ~ to 8. it appeared Presi-
dent Roosevelt was only beginning
an effort to discredit his congress
sional foes by overriding their NOM
nations for choice political jobs.
AS the rebels prepared to throw
out Wisconsin's allegedly red-tinted
Thomas r. Amlie, White House in
terstate commerce commission
nominee, several other startling ap-
pointments were announced. A slap
at Ohio's Sen. Vic Donahey was the
naming of Herschel w. Arant, Ohio
States law school dean. to the cir
cult court of appeals. Next came
,Philadelphia's Francis Biddle, also
named an appellate Judge over OBJ
jections of Pennsylvania devout
New Dealer. Sen. Joseph F. CUT
fey. This was also blow at John
Lewis c. l. O., because the Guffey
nominee Judge Michael A. Mus
manno of Pittsburgh is an ardent
pro-Lewis man. In New York the
President appointed a Republican
federal judge, and in Philadelphia
he gave another judgeship to Harry
E. Kaldoner, whose legal experience
was limited before he joined the
cabinet of ex-Gov. George H. Earle
in 1884. These were but a few SAM
pie Presidential appointments that
ruffied congressional nerves.
Legislation. Though Democratic
house majority leaders have accept
ed a modified form of government
reorganization defeated last year,,
and though the Presidents 1852. 000,-
600 extra defense appropriation will
probably pass, White House-con-
gress friendship ends there. AL
ready eliminated is a $1,000 600
appropriation for IVA at Gilberts-
vile, KY. The Presidents request
for a new start on Florida's ship
canal and the Passamaquoddy tidal
project is doomed. While a rebel
lious senate foreign affairs commit
Tee threatens to publicize all its fu-
ture hearings Gas brake on secret
administration plans the Export
Import bank has been restrained
from making large credit loans to
foreign nations. This will forestall
embarrassment over unofficial al
liances."
While social security's reserve
fund is under fire because the U. S.
borrows all reserve funds, the New
Deals vast relief program is en-
dangered by growing COMPRESSION
al economy bloc. The Presidents
demand for restoration of $3.50, O00,-
600 Topped off his deficiency relief
appropriation is now sidetracked in
favor of a long range welfare study.
Virginia's Rep. Clifton A. Woodrum
has asked a cut in next years relief
budget to S1,120, 900, 600 (half the
Presidents request and assign
ment of relief control to congress
sional hands. But relief will prob
ably be settled by adoption of the
bill designed by South Cardinals
Sen. James F. Byrnes, following
last years senate inquiry.
Miscellaneous. Anti-White House
sentiment took voice in continuation
of the house committee to investi-
gao un-Americanism, under which
The Coolidge examiner. [volume] (Coolidge, Ariz.) 1930-current, 1939-02-23
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pleasant game. Travelling through
Bolivia, Correspondent John T.
Whitaker of the Chicago Daily
News found that nations oil deal
ings make Mexico's appropriations
look like child's play. Specific ex-
ample was Bolivian seizure of ST.
100000 in Standard Oil properties
early in 1887 on trumped-up fraud
charge.
The Coolidge examiner. [volume] (Coolidge, Ariz.) 1930-current, 1939-02-23
Miscellany

Announced, by Secreatry of the
Treasury Henry Morgenthau,
$4,000, 900 profit since January 80,
1884. for the highly secret $1,000
600 900 sterilization fund.
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EDITORS NOTE-Wben opinions
are expressed in these columns. they
are those of the news analyst, and not
necessarily of the newspaper.
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ne OHlttu OldteS SelldIe, pos
l. sibly "standin' in the need of
prayer" does away with piece-work
supplication and puts praying on
the regular
Senate, in Need, daily schedule.
Puts Daily Task Last year, the
On Its Chaplain occ a S o |
prayers by the
official chaplain, the Rev. Re Bar
ney Thorne Phillips cost the govern
ment S420 prayer. Now the rate
for each will be about SIC, as Mr..
Phillips gets 81. $50 a year.
The change was brought
about by a resolution by Sena-
tor Nicely, by which the senate
will be opened by prayer on
every calendar day, instead of
only on Legislative" days as in
the past. The latter are a fic-
ton by which the senate may
free itself from things diurnal,
as effectively as did Joshua.
But, since the senate is entitled
to a good prayer on every real,
not figurative, working day, it
is going to get it. Possibly as
a tribute to Chaplain Phillips
prayers, the vote on Senator
Neely's resolution was unani-
nous.
While both parties in the senate
have on many occasions claimed
divine guidance and inspiration for
their side, Mr.. Phillips, although
Republican, appointed by Calvin
Coolidge in 1927, has been strictly
non-partisan. He is distinguished
Episcopalian clergyman, rector of
the Church of the Epiphany of
Washington, and has discharged his
office with simple eloquence and
dignity.
Chaplain Phillips, Sc years
old, is a native of Springfield,
Ohio, educated at Wittenberg
college and the General Theo-
logical seminary. He engaged
in special studies at Oxford in
1910 and 1911 and has served
pastOrates in Cincinnati, Chi
cago, st. Louis and Philadel-
phia. His children are named
Faith, Deacon and Sallie Hews.
Consolidated News Features.
WNU Service.
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People

Arrested, DIR. Logan Clendening,
nationally known physician, for
welding an ak on WPA air COM
pressor in ST. Louis because it in
terfered with his efforts to work.
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Play in Time

When you play, play hard; when
you work, don't play at all.-The-
odore Roosevelt.
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THE United States senate, pos
sibly "standin' in the need of
prayer" does away with piece-work
supplication and puts praying on
The Coolidge examiner. [volume] (Coolidge, Ariz.) 1930-current, 1939-02-23

the r e G u | a r
daily schedule.
Last year, the
o C C a S i on a |
prayers by the
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WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
u II n N ~
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON

by LEW OEL r. L AN lON
NEW YORK.-The WPA barrel
1 isn't like the widows cruise OF
oil in the Bible They expect to be
cnrnrin q tho nn+4nrnn by nnXf Il1np
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-12-14
SANG RUN

The fact that amateur hunters
aren't always the unfortunate ones,
was demonstrated here on the first and
second days of the deer season when
John Sharps, 10, Oakland, and Jack
Hinebaugh, Sang Run (also 10 years
old, each bagged fine buck, 10 and
8 points respectively. The two boys
have a cozy cabin in typical deer ter
ritory and it was from this cabin that
young Sharps and limbaugh accom-
panied by Jack Browning, formerly of
Oakland, but now temporarily a resi-
dent of Sang Run, set forth to vie with
the cunning deer and the superior skill
of competitive veteran hunters.
When the current season closed six
successful veteran hunters who were
fortunate enough last year to get one
deer each, found themselves holding an
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-12-14

with her husband, who underwent an
operation in a hospital of that city on
Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry ]. Black spent
Friday evening at Confluence with
relatives.
Mrs. Donald Chisholm and james
Lininger spent Friday at Grantsville.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bayard Liston and
son Billy spent Sunday here with w.
w. Savage and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wade Schlossnagle, of
Allison, were weekend guests of rela-
tives in Friendsville.
Ernest Friend and members of his
family and Miss Elizabeth Skunk
spent Saturday in Frostburg.
Mrs. Cecilia Spear and daughter
June and Mrs. James Hart, of Oak
land, visited Mrs Clarence Wicklow on
Saturday.
Ted FiIsinger, Cumberland, was d
weekend guest of his grandmother,
Mrs. Hattie Casteel.
Miss Eleanor Wicklow spent Satur-
day night and Sunday in Oakland with
relatives.
NJ. ]. Forsythe was a business caller
in Uniontown on Saturday.
Miss Hope Welch, Terra Alta, was
here over the weekend with her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs J. E. Statler.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alex Grove and daugh-
ter were in Uniontown Saturday.
Clarence Spear and family, Oak
land, visited Mr. and Mrs. VIM. E.
Durham on Sunday evening.
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ACCIDENT
Sunday Church Services

Church of the Brethren-Sunday
school, $50; divine worship, 1920 am
Zion Evangelical Lutheran-Sun
day school, $3.50 and worship service a
1920 a. m.
st. Pauls Evangelical Lutheran
Sunday school, $3.50 a. M; divine wor'
ship, 1920; Luther League, 1880 p. m
Gifts for LOUISVILLE Orphans Home
should be in not later than Sunday
Christmas entertainment at the Cove
church on Friday eveneing, December
%, and at Accident Saturday evening
December %, at 1870. On Sunday, De
cember "a, at HOO o'clock there vii
be candlelight service held in the
church
Personals
Mr.. and Mrs. Charlie Miller, Of
Friendsville, and Mr., and Mrs. NJ. G
Calls were dinner guests on Sunday Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Foster Yost.
Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd Zehner ani
Frank Zehner, Grantsville, VISITED
Mrs. W. A. Speicher on Sunday.
Nicholas Zabanco, of Delaware, anC
Mr.. and Mrs. Clark Schlossnagle anC
son, of Hoyes, visited Mr.. and Mrs
Howard Schlossnagle recently.
Mrs. Robert Alexander entertained
with a birthday dinner on Sunday II
honor of Mr.. Alexander. Those present
were the immediate relatives of the
couple.
Mr.. and Mrs Harrison Kamp anc
daughter spent the weekend at Nor.
gantown. Mrs. Charles Curtis accom-.
panied them home and will remain as
their guest for some time.
Mrs. Rhuie Rush is visiting rela-
tives and friends in Morgantown.
Stewart Bowman and family have
moved to the Ray Turney farm.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. R. Weitzell, River.
dale, Md; Miss Ethel Cook and Ray
Lannertson, Washington, D. c., were
/ guests at the home of Mr.. and Mrs
H. NJ. Speicher during the deer hunting
season. Mr.. and Mrs. Colt Spicher anc
son, of Cumberland, also spent the
weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Speiche,
Mr.. and Mrs. C. C. Goehringer anC
Mr.. and Mrs. Aubra Goehringer anC
son were guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Har.
old Kahl.
Mrs. Howard Skidmore, Friends
vile, was a guest of Mrs. Melvin Kes.
ner on Thursday.
DeLeon Rush, Washington, D. C.
is here with his family for brief visit
Mr.. and Mrs. Ross Speicher visited
Mr.. and Mrs. Nelson Brenneman al
| McHenry on Sunday.
Miss nellie Alexander, Miss Dora
Schlossnagle, Mrs. Nettie Shank anc
| Misses Gladys and Mabel Schlossnaglt
were in Cumberland on Saturday.
Emory Georg and family were the
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Richter
on Sunday.
Juniper Teets, who has been {
patient at Walter Reed Hospital, il
Washington, D. c., has returned to his
home. Mr.. Teets has been in poor
health for some time on account of hi:
army experience overseas.
Arnold Still, Harvey Earl and Clay.
ton Smith were visiting at Clarks.
burg, w. Va, on Sunday.
Mrs. Emma Speicher is spending
| this week with her son Hobart and his
family at Grantsville
Mr.. and Mrs. Alvin Rodeheaver have
moved to the George Lohr farm.
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empty sack with a score of 0, while the
novice hunters proudly found them
selves holding a score Of 66 Psf
three kids, two deer.
Not bad when matching with a
game animal whose faculty Of craftl-
ness is ever on the alert.
Miss Louise Savage has gone to Bal
timore to visit her mother, Mrs. Mary
L. Savage, who is privately employed
there. Miss Savage, after few weeks
of visiting, plans to seek employment
in Maryland's largest city.
Mrs. Anna Mary Blamble, near
German, visited Mr. and Mrs. J. Alvin
Friend here on Sunday.
Mrs. George NJ. Browning, Jack
Browning and Miss Villa Browning
spent the weekend in Baltimore and
Washington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Everett VanSickle, Of
Bruceton, w. Va, spent Sunday with
Mrs. VanSickle's parents, Mr., and
Mrs. Fred. Hoye.
hrs. Ora Thomas, German, is visit
ing Mr.. and Mrs. Parker Dewitt in
Sang Run.