On the TV A Decision; and On Sundry Other Topics
Lee, Algenon
On the TV A Decision; and On Sundry Other Topics AT first glance many person* , I l I h g t T tlsft -''T Supreme Court's decision in the TVA case was s substantial defeat for...
...use but also confuses it with production in excess of what we can buy...
...that, if...
...and that, in such sale of surplus power, it is not necessarily bound to hold the price I up to the figure charged by pri- vate power plants, j There is nothing in this to warrant a hope that the court would i hold it constitutional for the gov| ernment to do anything that would | effectively break the stranglehold j which the super-capitalist power | interests, closely allied with the ' masters of high finance, now have 1 upon the country's industrial life...
...The section for deportation of aliens on relief reads: "Whenever the President shall proclaim an emergency to exist in the United States, the Secretary of Labor shell take into custody all aliens subsisting upon public or private relief and deport them forthwith to the country of their origin...
...Blood Transfusion TVA, e "Socialistic Experiment...
...ft The present problems of *» New York Public School tytSs* will be discussed by expertt sad officials in a forum meeting to S* held at the Rand School at S:3S»> m. oh F e b r u a r y 28...
...Tie speakers selected to discuss the vital topic include Professor Joe* Dewey, America's leading aether i ty on education...
...Other just as keen (if not keener) observers see in it a clever move on the domestic political chessboard, rather than any international considerations...
...V And now, harking forward (if the dictionary permits that expression) I am reminded that there are some Socialists who 'make an exactly parallel mistake...
...This is a wholesome s t a t e ef affairs...
...And still they are surprised that many people hold Congress in contempt...
...Government ownership, government operation and government competition in anything has been labeled "socialistic...
...Tht adndst** fee will be 26 cent...
...Mississippi is an offshoot of the Middle Ages When a defenseless man can be seized and thrice hung, then tied to a tree and brutally whipped...
...There was a party organization set up by the party membership in both city and state...
...decision of the U. S. Supreme Court in the Ten» nessee Valley Authority case holds that the construction of Wilson Dam at Muscle Shoals and the transmission of surplus power as provided in the contract Itpfcween the TVA and the Alabama Power Company are ^atwtitutionai...
...4. He knowingly encourages or aids any one to violate the immigration laws...
...The TVA decision does not lessi en, rather does it emphasize, the I necessity of amending the Consti| tution so that the government can j function as the people's agency in {the field of w e a l t h production I whenever and wherever the growth • of giant industry and the concen: tration of cap.i tal .m ak.e it desirable...
...That makes it O.K...
...It is not surprising that the accused Negroes "con.Teeaed" and that their "confeaaions" were used to convict them...
...There is little doubt that if the ownership and operation by the government of such power and distribution systems in general were brought before the court the decision would be a negative one...
...Tha| is the contradiction in the capitalist system of prot e c t i o n and distribution which the Senator either does s>Rt understand or ignores...
...was "confronted with two Socialist organizations in New York City and State...
...of North Carolina filed the bill in the Senate, and a companion measure was presented to the House by Representative Starnes (D...
...Maybe it is...
...Drawing a X cle on t h e blackboard and rnaranv it off into twelve spacer at atjB dial of a clock, he asked as to thj% of the twelve hours a s reprssaatjpr the quarter of a milhoa fmo which, according t o the "*Hnsli estimate of scientists, have safaM since t h e human race began...
...exploitation of labor, te usher j aa i Socialist system, without civil an* and m i n o r i t y dictatorship 3 bloody t e r r o r . ^ We may forgive them, oa % supposition that they know 3 what they do...
...Two others "were laid over chairs and their backs cut to pieces with ,a leather strap with buckles on it...
...It would be held that this does not come within the interstate clause of the Constitution...
...They must renew their registrations annually, paying a fee of 50 cents...
...Simultaneously with the registration and fingerprinting of all aliens in the country beginning July 1, 1936, there would be inaugurated a system of intelligence tests for immigrants...
...The soldiers got their bonus...
...There can be and there if production in excess of the purchasing power of the rpnssrn while this same volume of production does not exceed what the masses can consume...
...The unfortunate men had been tortured in order to obtain confessions of guilt...
...There is some caus^ for cheering...
...Ia otJet words, he made us t e e t h a t we a rt living, not in t h e gathering t e l . light of a worn o a t world, but at the very dawn of a s agelong day Robinson was a n optimist...
...Bensonhurst Branch to Hear Goldberg February 25 The members of the Bensonhurst Branch have a special treat in store for them on Tuesday evening, February 25, when they will be addressed by Louis P. Goldberg on the subject, ''Lawless Judges...
...not in Supermen...
...BR there are two kinds of optimlK...
...He proposes an extraordinary PanAmerican Conference in the near future, to determine ways of maintaining peace in the Western Hemisphere, and he hopes that this "would supplement and reinforce the effort of the League of Nations" to maintain peace in all the world...
...retarj -Treasurer of the Aaakjt> mated Clothing Workers and nt|S» ber of the Board of Higher- IMfr cation, and J a m e s Marshall, n nw ber of the Board of EWuenWfc The public i* invited to attend «•» to put questions both to thed*" perts and to the members of Board of Education...
...This illegal organization was encouraged and supported by a majority of the N.E.C., which decided to disfranchise members of the party in the city and state unless they registered their "loyalty" to the illegal organization...
...In support of this view he declares that even in 1929 there were 12 million families with incomes of leas than $1,500 a year...
...as an incidental result, it produce* i more power than it needs, it may sell the surplus...
...Two officers of the law participated in this brutality and the outrage was committed in a jail where the men were waiting to be tried...
...The court explicitly confines its ruling to the i s s u e s directly involved in the case before it...
...The lecture will be delivered at the branch headquarters, 6618 Bay Parkway...
...And then comes Representative O'Connor with hie afar to kick F a t h e r Coughlin the length of Pennsylvania Avenue...
...They also think that it it dangerous to undertake peace moves in the European or the Asiatic situations which may endanger some German or Italian votes...
...No visa3 could be granted unless the recipients were able to pass an intelligence test "equivalent to or higher than a normal rating of an average native born American white stock, or whose reputation or personal characteristics in the judgment of the council could render the applicant not readily assimilable among the preponderant element of the population of the United States...
...If i t works it is clever...
...It noius mat tne government may erect, own, and operate dams for certain purposes, such a s flood control, or improvement of inland navigation, or the generation of power to be used in I producing war munitions...
...Although government figures show that everv vear aiiu» th* «t pression began more aliens are leaving than entering this country, the bill seeks to cut existing immigration quotas to one-tenth of their present allotment...
...3. He has violated any Federal or State narcotic law...
...Congress "on t h e state of t h e Union...
...Under this bill aliens would be required to pay a fee of $1 to register and-be fingerprinted...
...The only issue decided by the Supreme Court was that the Fed• eral Government has the authority , to.sell in a manner deemed efficient and in the public interest surplus i power generated at Wilton Dam, constructed under the national deI feme and commerce powers of Congress...
...Some observers see in that a revision of the Monroe Doctrine which might involve very significant changes in the traditional foreign policy of the United States...
...On t h e o t h e r hand, whatever there seems reason to btbew that any church—be H Cathohc Lutheran, Methodist, or what yos will—is t r y i n g to function at » political body, it should and wS be looked upon with suspicion tot dislike...
...This is not the first time that party records have been distorted by the national office...
...If the Senator will observe men in breadlines lacking purchasing power and note stores and warehouses filled With unsold commodities he will understand Jthat overproduction is possible and that it does explain induag-ial crises...
...Ajg then he showed ut that on tits scale it is' l e s s than a minute §& a half since the Renaissance, wB* the idea of human progress beset to take possession of men's nriS, and not m o r e than forty ssndS since the Industrial Rcviitutka...
...Peace moves within the Western Hemisphere, however, appear to have unanimous support...
...meetings have been '"doctored*' in the interest *of this unholy alliance...
...It is to solve the unemployment in this country...
...t • * A "GPO" Proposed IT is called an immigration bill...
...Underproduction is little stressed ancUnot worthy of attention...
...The other theory is important and the Senator rejects it...
...j The news (let us hope it is true) ; that a treatment has been discovi ered which enables a woman "to ; pass through the process of labor | in sound sleep and awaken rej freshed after childbirth," the mind i harks back to discussions which i took place almost thirty years ago, j when "twilight sleep" was first announced...
...Aliens who are anarchistic, communistic or who are associated in any way with the Third Inter - I nationale would be barred, j According to Senator Reynolds I this is a "recovery measure...
...and of making aw future of society something beak than i t s p a s t has been...
...He declares: "An overabundance of goods might account for a wider enjoyment of comfort and leisure, but it could not explain the typical destitution of the -unemployed...
...I have no desire to dampen the I over-enthusiastic jubilation of the New Dealers with that TWA decii sion, but I am afraid that when lawyers begin to analyze and digest that court opinion the "great victory" will shrink considerably...
...Labor is a physi| ological process" was their catchj word, and they could not approve ! of interference with physiological ! processes...
...Those who cannot free themselves of this Sadist hist are contemporary with our shaggy forebears, who killed and then enjoyed a hot stew of their victims...
...Information as to age, occupation and intention of remaining in this j country would have to be supplied by them...
...Held Constitutional by Supreme Court—Page Al Smith!—Worst Immigration liii in History Offered as Solution of Unemployment — President Roosevelt to Revise the Monroe Doctrine —Is It a Change in Uncle Sam's Traditional Policy or Merely a Sop to the Pacifists...
...The whole proceeding was intended to disfranchise the party members in the state in'order that the "miU"rant"-Communist alliance may control the next national .convention...
...If any member of a family fails to meet the intelligence requirements that fact would exclude the whole family from admission to the United States...
...Out of deference to their ! scientific training they had to translate this primitive legend into somewhat more modern terms...
...Again and again such hideous reversions to our barbaric ancestors occur and even northern states are not free of them as race wars within the last twenty years reveal...
...with some hundred-percenters, but the principle is the same whether it concerns some or all of the inhabitants on this "Gem of the Ocean...
...Here is some of their reasoning: Roosevelt was always a big navy man...
...They may be reading too much into that TVA decision, but there in it...
...for transmission lines, and does have the right to sell its hydro-electric power, even though it competes with private power companies...
...I Revising Monroe Doctrine j D R E S I D E N T ROOSEVELT sent i A invitations to the heads of all Latin American powers to cooperate in the "consolidation of peace machinery in the Americas...
...It seeks to establish in this "land of the free and home of the brave" a passport system equal to that of Russia under the czars, with the exception that it is for aliens only...
...EXPLAINING DEPRESSIONS SENATOR WAGNER' S article on the depression in the New York Times Magazine last Sunday rejects the idea that overproduction or underproduction "can explain the phenomenon of unemployment...
...He is thinking of production in excess of what wc car...
...It will prevent aliens from taking away jobs from native Americans, he explains...
...The militarists have all the reasons in the world to be satisfied Now, good political strategy dictates that something he done to appease the tens of thousands of men and women throughout the country allied directly or indirectly with the pacifist cause...
...I recall a lecture which he gsaj in the Rand School several yakm ago...
...Dewey to Speak at Form On School System Feb...
...The Senator is wrong...
...Only one...
...All the more reason why the Hillquit porkers* Rights Amendment should be pressed so that Ihete will be no doubt regarding the power of the governrhent • to nationalize industries...
...In such books at "The New H i s t o r y " and "The Mini in the Making" he left ua s precious legacy, and perhaps his direct influence upon hundreds of students who have in t u r n become teachers wiH count even more than that of his w r i t i n g s . It it a bntye and wholesome influence throughout...
...But i t certainly sounds more like a declaration of the KKK than like a legislative project...
...There is a vital difference between the two...
...5. He has been engaged in espionage for a foreign government...
...He stated: "If under the thin mask of dis-i posing of property the United States can enter the business of j generating, transmitting and sellj ing power, as, when and whenever ! some board may specify, with the ! definite design to accomplish ends wholly beyond the sphere marked out for them by the Constitution, I an easy way has been found for ; breaking down the limitations heretofore supposed to guarantee protection against aggression...
...Joseph Schlossberg, See...
...The bill authorizes the Secretary of Labor to deport an alien if: 1. At any time after entry he is convicted of an offence which may be punishable by imprisonment for one year or more or a crime of moral turpitude or if he is convicted of two misdemeanors...
...In order that there may be no misunderstanding, the court specifically asserted that "the question : of the constitutional right of the i Government to acquire or operate j local or urban distribution systems is not involved," and added that "We express no opinion as to the : validity of such an effort, as.to...
...And with seme pacifists it m a y work...
...The question df the government acquiring ownership and operation of distribution systems was not involved...
...1 Still, the New Dealers had been I buffeted about in the courts so [ much that they are willing t o cheer ! any little victory...
...Very likely what was in the back | of their minds was the story in ! Genesis, that because Eve ate the I forbidden fruit, God laid a curse upon the whole female sex—"In sorrow shall ye bring forth chil| dren...
...Robinson was a democrat—ht has a reasoned confidence l a Men...
...There a r e t h o s e who "keep «sm ing" because they are afraid *jt» look evil and danger in the faav And there are t h o s e who grappa with the f a c t s , pleasant and u n alike, analyze them, ttudy tht process of their development, and by understanding them find tot way to guide and control them...
...Here and there it may be able to ' sell excess power in such a way as , to inflict a pin prick or a slap on I the wrist to the Power Trust—and j even that only by a subterfuge which the courts may at any moI ment tear away...
...the status of any other dam or power i development in the Tennessee Valley, whether connected with or apart from Wilson Dam, or as to the validity of the Tennessee Val1 l ey Authority act or of claims i made in the pronouncements and program of the Authority" apart from the case directly before it...
...Thus ' t h e President has a free hand to pursue peace objectives a t his inj ter-American conference, and these he can recite as achievemnts of his foreign policy, just as he did ' i n his message to...
...Instead of calling it God's will that childbirth should be painful, they , got as far as the point of view of the eighteenth century rationalists and called it a law of Nature...
...Then there was an illegal organization set up in defiance of the membership, first in the city and then in the state...
...He valued knovrWogt^l the p a s t as a means of understate!, ing the present and looking l a* the future—yes...
...The un-American Liberty League, therefore, ought to have another dinner with a dozen dnPonts as its guests, and page Al Smith to denounce eight of the Supreme Court justices as i "socialists...
...Believe it or not...
...Senator Reynolds (D...
...All this cannot be called insincerity, or hypocrisy...
...By Benjamin Meiman Our Washington Correspondent ' T H E Supreme Court decided I that tlx...
...But wc need aft accept t h e i r bad logic...
...T h a t was t oo sanquine a view...
...The sebjaw will be "The School System tad the Present Social Situation...
...This decision restricts TVA within this aarrow field which is held to be within the power of Congress to regulate interstate commerce...
...2. He has been convicted of possessing or carrying any concealed or dangerous weapon or a machine gun...
...few Americans who have any d e position to q u a r r e l with the Catholic Church, or with any otbS" church, over questions of rehrwni belief...
...Justice McReynolds, dissented...
...there i were physicians who, not questionI ing that by the new process the | pains of childbirth could be greatly • diminished, and not anticipating some disadvantages which were afterwards observed, but accepting at face value the claims that were made for twilight sleep, yet condemned its use...
...The bill provides: "That any alien or group of aliens, whose presence in the United States is proclaimed by the President to be inimical to the public interests, shall upon a tcarrant of the Secretary df Labor be taken into custody and deported forthwith...
...and On Sundry Other Topics AT first glance many person* , I l I h g t T tlsft -''T Supreme Court's decision in the TVA case was s substantial defeat for the wa^'sueh^broad interpretation of the Constitution a s would permit the federal a o v e r nment to extend its economic functions in response to t h e people's n ew economic needs...
...Government did have a right-to construct the giant Wilson dam, a t Muscle Shoals, Alabama, did have a right to make a contract with t h e Alabama Power Co...
...which started that evergrowjtk mastery over the pewoif of wesS production, making it practieaflh to think of a purposeful rlrrttsff ment of the soeial system...
...It'6 just called clever politics...
...MISSISSIPPI JUSTICE T*| ECLARING that 'the rack and torture chamber may i«r not be substituted for the witness stand," the U. S. Supreme Court has reversed the conviction of three Mississippi Negroes who had been sentenced to death for murder...
...In no place did the court ! go a line beyond the tpecife instance of the Wilson Dam...
...The narrow range to Which the government is restricted by the above decision shows the educational value of working for the proposed amendment...
...Observing !'1.hat throughout the past every social revolution, every adaptation of old laws and institutions to new ; economic conditions, has been ac companiesl by tjnlaaai and' bJtaj > shed, they infer t e n t what ahS > has been so m u s t ami shall a sm s forever, and so t h e y mock ami a i l • a t thane of a s who think that a i least in some countries it msa - pro ve possible t o socialize pnajS tive property, t o do away Wftfc...
...H e n r y -* Linville, President of the Teacaay Guild, Mr...
...James Harvey Robinson, watte long and honorable life came tow end last Sunday, was more that a great historical scholar he 3 8 a scientist in the n eU of Hiatajm Bread ami accurate as waadif learning, what distinguished § 5 yet more was his keen and b a t thinking...
...DISTORTING RECORDS THE press service of the national office of the Socialist Party distorts the facts by saying that the N.E.C...
...Therefore, he concludes, it is absurd to Say that unemployment can be explained on the theory df overproduction...
...of Alabama with appeals for speedy passage...
...Even the isolationists are not inclined to ' object to proposals that smack of entangling alliances with the Latin-American republics...
...Had their minds as well as their bodies been living in the twentieth century, they would have held that ' what we speak of as natural laws are not decrees which men ought to obey, but just statements of observed fact, by understanding which we are enabled to make life safer, easier, richer, to increase pleasure and avoid pain...
...and which oe ' called 4 b Lesson of History...
...i McReynolds added that the question places the court "face to face" j with the problem whether the Federal Government can destroy every private electric corporation...
...There are companatMs...
...oh, God, no...
...We can use what arc cannot buy but we cannot buy all that we can use...
...He showed no strong opposition to the increased army appropriation adopted by Congress— the largest ever made in peace time...
...THE TVA DECISION ^ *1rfr1...
...The notion that the Soman Cats) olic Church in t h i s country stead) as a solid unit e i t h e r f o r o r agtjnjt any program of labor and setts legislation has received three M l shocks within the l a s t few days, Monsignor John A Ryan, heed e! the Catholic University at Wtsfington, characterises Alfred L Smith's reactionary Liberty Leaf* speech as " s i l l y . " Frank P Wat* sets out to organise Ctiholic/ wht, like himself, are in favor ef tf amending the Constitution at a permit federal legislation again* child labor, which a number at prominent churchmen have denounced...
...Even minutes Of N.EX...
Vol. 19 • February 1936 • No. 8
