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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17. 1936.
THE CONSTITUTION UST 149 years ago the 51 “wise young men of 1787 the new-made American Constitution to Congress and the states to ratify. As with everything that humans create, the young Republic's new charter was a compromise. Its makers held grave doubts as to its workability. Hamilton called it a “frail and worthless fabric.” Jefferson found “faults that at first revolted me a good deal.” Washington thought it would not last more than 20 years, safest feature the provision for amendments;
’ had | finished their 86 days of labor in®*Philadelphia and sent |
Price in Marion County, | delivered | a i Mail subscription |
dress 214-220 W. Mary- |
and consi dered its |
“If it is good,” he wrote Lafayette, “I suppose it will
work its way ; If bad it will recoil on its framers.” It turned out to be good. (Gladstone, .who called it struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.” Time has approved it, Constitution in the world today. Why has it “worked its way”? Because, hold it too sacred for touching; in spite of great property
Most of us will agree with | “the most wonderful work ever |
for it is the oldest living written
in spite of fetish-worshiping legalists who |
and sectional interests that have used the courts to warp |
and bend it to their profit; crises as the alien and sedition laws, slavery,
in spite of such constitutional | war and pro- |
hibition, the American people have nearly always had the | courage and common sense to readapt it to their changing |
social needs. True, once a Supreme Court interpretation, the Dred Scott decision, plunged us into eivil war. 21 times we have gone through the hard and slow routine of amending the Constitution in response to popular will.
on » n ODAY America faces another constitutional "epitomized in these words of Senator Borah:
But |
crisis |
“We can not long maintain a government with 48 | states for purposes of government and an empire for pur- |
poses of exploitation.”
tled.
The issues involved in that statement are vet unset: |
The picture therefore, on the Constitutions one hun- |
dredth and forty-ninth. birthday, torian Charles A. Beard:
“Looking to history for guidance in the future, what | rete.
Some- | When changes |
do we find? We discover changes in human affairs. times they move slowly; at others, swiftly.
is well described by His- |
‘have reached a certain point of development a conflict in | ideas appears. It is at first dimly recognized that ideas ap- | propriate enough for the disappearing order are no longer |
applicable to the changed order of things.
“Hints that ideas must be brought abreast of the |
| ing to organize all business. | of business men and labor representatives, most of whom! apparently wished to co- -operate, but the con- | fusion was beyond imagining, because you can't realize |
movement of interests appear here and there in the thought |
of scattered persons.
tive. Their outlines become clearer and firmer. Finally
Hints’ become more and more posi- |
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General Johnson, 'Old Ironpants' of NRA, Recovers From Slump to Write Bang-Up News Column
NEW YORK, Sept. 17.—I have never met |
Gen. Hugh Johnson, so I don’t think I can be accused of log-rolling or back-scr ne ing when 1 remark that “Old Ironpants,” the boys ‘used to call him around the NEA.
is turning out a real good newspaper column these days. This is a bit of a surprise, because a year or two ago, whenever it was that Old Ironpants made his first attempt in this line of work, he seemed to be writing with his elbows, and apparently didn't have what it takes. He was hot for the first few days, but this is a long-haul job, writing a daily column, and pretty soon they began te shove him back toward the goiter cures and electric belts, as we say in our busi-
Then he suddenly found his stuff again, and now Old Ironpants is back in the regular lineup. Although I never met him, I used to see the general pretty — ¥ often in the Commerce Building Mr. Pegler in Washington when he was tryThe hotels were full
how many lines of business there are in this country until .you try to make hard and fast rules of com-
| petition-and employment for each one. }
some leader or statesman, such as Jefferson Davis or Abraham Lincoln, formulates these hints and outlines in a |
platform or program of action. . . tory an adjustment of some kind takes place—compromise, surrender or open conflict.
. At that point in his- "|
E- 2 n NE day, in a sort of theater in the Commerce Building, after a sand and gravel man had fin-
ished a little lecture on conditions in his business,
{ another man got up and began to protest that the
Fortunate is the nation that |
can prevent such tensions from snapping into revolution | or war and can ease them by acts of power within the
framework of law.”
GOOD-BY, JIM, TAKE KEER 0’ YOURSELF "THREE weeks ago, Senator James Couzens said: “Believing as I do that the most important matter
confronting the nation is the re-election resi loose- | x g € S e of President Roose { and he went down swinging with an immortal wise-
The outcome of my own can- |
velt, I intend to support him.
code proposed for the house to house canvassing and demonstrating business didn't fit his particular branch of that business. The code didn't want married women, working part time, for pin money, competing with full time men who had families to support. “Pardon the interruption,” said the chairman of the meeting, “but what did you say your business
{ is?”
“Corsets, girdles and brassieres.,” the man said. Right there it seemed that the problems involved
| in the NRA were too infinite for government control.
didacy for the Senate is neither important to the nation |
~ nor me.” We write today in sorrow for what has happened as the |
We hate to see Jim Couzens | Huey Long and Father Coughlin, knowing they boti
Our deep regret over the outworkings of Michigan | | Johnson, | sentimental httle piece about Huey.
We doubt if |
We knew he was kissing the tough guy from Mississippi, who was supposed to
result of the above statement. go. politics, as it affected the Senator, however, our own account, not on his. He's all right. he has any regrets whatever. farewell to” public life—or at least ‘to any hope of return-
is wholly on
President Roosevelt. a candidate in the Republican primary.
Nevertheless, Old Ironpants believed in the NRA
crack when he referred to the fatal lawsuit as the sick-chicken case] » » E was the only public man in Washington who wasn't afraid to take a full windup and belt
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fought tom-cat rules, vet, after Huey died, Hugh
on a trip through Louisiana, wrote a very
Maybe you haven't noticed that Theodore Bilbo,
| step In and slap Huey around one of those afternoons ing to the Senate—when he announced his support of |
For Couzens is a Republican and was | As it turned out |
there apparently are some 200,000 Republicans in Michi- | gan who'll take Couzens against all comers, even though |
he does support the Democratic presidential candidate. pretty fine tribute to Jim.
Al
So, nobody need waste sympathy on the retiring Sena- | tor. He has had a grand life to date and will continue to | have such a life. He hasn't sacrificed his self-r respect, the |
most precious asset any man has. We can save our sympathy for ourselves. deprived of a splendid public servant.
"FIT FOR A KING?
Vienna's famous restaurants, menu as follows: Breakfast—Fruit, toast and tea. Luncheon—Fruit (usually apples) and tea. Dinner—Fish or meat with green vegetables. Shades of the Stuarts, Plantagenets and all the valiant and great-paunched royal trenchermen of England's glorious history! Imagine a two-fisted eater like Henry the Eighth sitting down to three such meals. Men of unbounded
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stomach were these, who liked food with their meals. To
them a decent dinner included fish, fowl, venison and good | | can calculate in: advance with reasonable accuracy,
We've been
| Joe's ancient lament ‘is about to come true—“Gone |
in the Senate, never did get out of his chair. Anybody who fought Huey had te be prepared for a_free-style brawl with no personalities barred, and Ironpants alone was willing to take nim. Aside from his experience and reading, which are great equipment for his job, I like Old Ironpants’ column for the wild, somewhat hilarious joy with which he sails into an argument. Sometimes it is a little cruel, because he is such a tremendous puncher | and. like Dempsey, once that bell rings, he knows nothing but punch, punch, punch until] something | drops.
The Hoosier Forum
I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it— Voltaire.
| HAMILTON'S ‘PEDDLING’ | HELD F. D. R. TRIBUTE | By Jack Raper Republican Chairman, John Hamil- | ton, carrying a large supply of eye i wash and corn salve and a trunk { filled with promises of balanced budgets, lower taxes, especially -lower | income taxes for men with big in- | comes, higher tariffs, the gold stand{ard and states’ rights, is trying to { sell his goods. John's slogan is “no sale too small, inp sale too large,” which will take lin everybody from the workingman | with six children, and no job exceptling the one Roosevelt gave him, to {the American Liberty Leaguer who |can buy from $10,000 to $100,006 | worth of promises. | Hamilton's quest for campaign | money is a delicate tribute to Presi- | dent Roosevelt. It shows the big | boys have money, which is some- | thing they didn’t have for four years. | before Roosevelt went into office,
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| CHARGES CHALLENGE | TO DEBATE IS BLUFF
Charles Ginsberg, State Chairman, Socialist Labor Party
| In The Hoosier Forum, the: Socialist ' Party hurls a challenge to | debate. In the national campaign of 1932 | Verne L. Reynolds was the presi- | dential candidate of the Socialist { Labor Party, and Norman Thomas | was candidate for the same office | for the Socialist Party. | ® Under date of Oct. 10, 1932, Mr. | Reynolds wrote Mr. Thomas chal|lenging him to debate. In his letter he said: “There is room for only one party
10f Socialism in any one country. | Where two parties with the desig- | nation Socialist exjst, there are but | two conclusions possible: Either it is a disruptive duplication of the or- | igina] genuine Socialist Party, or {it is not a party of Socialism at ali, | despite its claims to the contrary. “I charge that your so-called Socialist Party is a petty bourgeois {reform party, fostered and boosted (as a party of socialism by capitalistic interests to prevent or delay the organizing of the working class {into the truly revolutionary party of socialism, the Socialist Labor Party... “I hereby challenge you to a public debate on the following question: ‘Resolved, that the Socialist Party is anti-working class and a procapitalist reform party.” The only word from Mr. Thomas | was that he was turning the mat- | ter over to his campaign managers. No further reply was received. { If the Socialist Party is so anxious ito clarify the issue, why. did Mr. | Thomas refuse to debate with Mr. | Reynolds? * | In the early part of the 1932 | campaign a candidate for the So- | 'cialist Party challenged Dick O'Neil, who was speaking for the Socialist | Labor Party in New Albany, Ind. to debate. Mr. O'Neil turned the | matter over to the State Executive | Committee of the Socialist Labor | Party. The committee immediately | got in touch with the state secre- | tary of the Socialist Party. Not | wanting to debate with the Social- |
General Hugh Johnson Says——
EW YORK, Sept. 17—News and comment eddy | It |
about the Rust mechanical cotton picker. is to change the sociology of the South. Old Black
{ are the friends from the cotton fields away”’—and
BRITAIN 'S King Edward, vacationing in the heart of |
daily |
red beef, topped off, perhaps with a roast wild boar and |
washed down with oceans of sack and port. fight, marry, drink and eat. And of all their sins the | test were those that pertained to the table. Svelt young Edward of Windsor will keep himself fit is.such food fit fo king?
They lived to |
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what will happen to the Negro population of the
cotton picker except by' reading, hearsay, and the opinion of agricultural implement engineers. But, for seven years he was responsible for a company that designed, tested, manufactured and sold farm implements. That is long enough to know that it is about as tricky an engineering field as there is, and that nothing néw can be accepted as practical until it has been in successful operation for two or three years, = = = Ye can design a machine for firing projectiles 17 miles, or for spinning a bucketful of viscous paste into the gossamer filaments of rayon yarn, you
what all the stresses, strains, variability of load, wear and all conceivable conditions of service will be. You can put something on a blueprint that will pan out in at least the tenth ér twelfth model, but a farm implement has do its work under all the infinite variety of the whims of nature and the BAmeiDorial Snaiviiuality of those who till the soil.
ballyhooing and publicity it has had state of its development.
(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. © Make your letter short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)
ist Labor Party, the state secretary of the Socialist Party began making excuses to back out of its own challenge. The Socialist Party is not sincere, but only bluffing, in making a chal-
| lenge to debate.
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FINDS SECRETARIES
GUARD LA GUARDIA
| By Jimmy Cafouros, at Baltimore . The first thing I did yesterday was to go down to the Empire State Building to see Al Smith. I went up to the thirty-second floor (it has 102 stories), where Mr. Smith has his office. But he was gone. . Then I went to see Mayor Fiorello La Guardia. First I went to the City Hall. I met a lot of people there, but the Mayor was not there. I was instructed to go to the summer City Hall at Pelham Bay. That was quite a long ride. I did that. I never saw a man so surrounded with such a cordon of secretaries and police officers. I got as far as Stanley. H. Howe, who (the card says) calls himself “Secretary to the Mayor of the City of New York.” But don't let that fool you. I'll bet La Guardia has more secretaries than the Governor of New York. I'll bet he'd give President Roosevelt a run for his money. Yesterday was a sort of dull day for me. I was every place from fhe Battery at the lower end of the island to Scarsdale and even to White Plains. The subway here is only a nickel, and you can ride all over the place—sometimes as much as fifteen or twenty miles in one hop. I was plenty hungry when I got out of that. I got some hamburgers anda cup of steaming java. Then I headed for Jack Dempsey's restaurant. He was gone. From there I crossed a couple of
STEP SOFTLY
Sleep, you are a gentle curtain Encasing hardness and despair, Who walks with such ungentle mien That he would wake the dreamer . there? Have care, step softly, sound— Stint not the rest the dreamer's found.
DAILY THOUGHT
For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, Joying and beholding your" order, and the steadfastness of Jour faith in Christ.—Colossians 3.
memset - AITH and works are as necessary to our spiritual life
make no
rienced implement man would have permitted all the
Christians as soul and body are to jour life as men; for faith is the soul | of religion, and. works the body. Colton, .
at this embryonic
" | publican friends, but I found their BY JOSEPHINE DUKE MOTLEY
as’| even to the Soviets.
\ streets and bumped right into | Rockegetler Plaza, where the Radio | Corp. of America and the National | Broadcasting Co. have their home. I {was amazed by that huge mass of | architecture, I presumé that native! | New Yorkers seeing me stand there | with that expression on my face thought I was a ninny. But there's no use lying about it; the buildings knocked me for a set of fence rails. . I got into the inner sanctum sanctorum of a very big chief in the place, Frank E. Mullen. He treated me most cordially, showed me around and then sent a guide wtih me to tour the studios. I met a lot of people. I saw the Fiddlers Three and Don Low. I saw Aristo-
cratic Rhythm. They played “My Heart Stood Still” and Hoagy Car- ! michael’s “Stardust.” . . I met Conrad Thibault on the street. I didn't know him. We just started talking. He autographed my note book. Talk about a handsome man! between Jack Dempsey and Ramon Novarro. Today I met the Mayor of Baltimore. »
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CAN NOT UNDERSTAND LANDON JOB PLEDGE By Warren A. Bendict Jr. “Vote for Landon and Land a Job,” reads a billboard sign, and | being somewhat of an economics student, I became interested in the congection petween the Kansan and more jobs: . Maybe this means political jobs, taken from Democrats, but from the picture on the sign, I gather nonpolitical jobs in industry are meant. Landon is evidently as opposed to war as is Roosevelt, so the work can’t be in the munitions field. Can it be that more workers will be needed to make the pot for that proverbial chicken or to build the garage for that extra car we heard so much about in 1928? To date, I have not heard of the Republican candidate's advocating the smashing of any labor-saving machinery. I asked a labor official for the solution. I take it he is Democratic for his reply is unprintable. Finally I questioned several stanch Re-
answers quite vague and unsatisfactory. Some of them claim most em‘ployers are just naturally peeved at the Administration, and are holding out. © When (and if) Mr.
He looks like a cross |
Landon gets in, they think these employers will go out into the | streets and pick up every idle man | and put him to work, just to show their gratitude and also to show up | this New Deal government. * Then, others opine “capital” is scared and needs the confidence only the Kansan and Mr. Hearst ican give it. But from newspaper advertising I fail to find any signs | of modesty or shyness. Big busi~ i nesses are claiming anything ahd | | everything for their products, and { are quite eager to sell their goods
connection between Landon and the shew jobs to be created. .Can some "one enlighten me? |
| So I'm still up a stump as to this
| new methods, machines and industrial
From what I ¢an learn, it is no more promising than at least three.other developments of the last 20 years, and the recent field tests are negative rather
{ than hopeful. If they are conclusive of anything it is
South and the tenant farmers down Tobacco Road? | that the economy of the proposed method to date is
This writer doesn’t knpw-anything about the Rust |
doubtful and the character of its work unsatisfactory. = - F the widely publicized test had been far more promising, the only decision of the old line implement company would have been: “Make 500 experimentals and sell 'em at cost return privilege in 500 separate localities.” - For another six years this writer's job was to pass on the commercial and industrial “practicability of with a view to their financing—and literally hundreds of them passed in review. Invariably they were going to “revolutionize” the this or the that industry. Ninety per cent of these ideas blew up upon superficial engineering study, and more than half of the remaining 10 Per cent broke down in experimental operation. Maybe that kind of a 13 years makes an observer
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| this writer wouldnt advise anybody té start
a mechanical misanthrope, but, for what it is worth,
the death of Gov. Floyd Olson would upset the political status quo in Minnesota appear to have been well founded. Confidential scouts have reported to Jim Farley that the Farmer-Laborite chiefs who inherited Olson's
“leadership secretly are scrapping among themselves
over the question of supporting Rodsevelt. Senator Elmer Benson and Gov. Hjalmar Petersor, Olson lieutenants, want the party to go to bat for the President. They say this is what Olson planned. But Rep. Ernest Lundeen, nominated to Olson's place as Farmer-Labor candidate for Senator, is balking. As a radical currency inflationist, Lundeen wants to come out for Lemke. So far, Lundeen has been restrained from an open declaration for ‘Lemke, but his colleagues have had a hard time doing it. At a secret meeting after he was nominated, the Farmer-Labor Central Committee met with Lundeen in his hotel room and proposed a | public statement announcing that he would support the “policies and pledges” of Olson. But Lundeen flatly refused, saying this would mean he Sas f accord with Olson's promis. 10 back Roosevelt.
engineer, ewer brother. of the candid
It Seems to Me
By Heywood Broun
Chinese Back Landon! Oh, Welil. Both China and America Display Characteristics Which Are Alike
NEW YORK, Sept. 17.—“Eighty per cent of Chinese back Landon,” was the some- - what disturbing headline which T read in the Herald Tribune. That certainly suggested a multitude.
However, after I got past the headline: and into the story itself there was less occasion for alarm. It merely turns cut that William P. Lee, head of the Chinese Eastern Division of tie Republican
+ National Campaign Committee, == Said out of 50,000 Chinese voters © in this ccuntry, 40,000 would support Landon. The rest, I suppose, will go for On Leon Lemke. '@
It may be that this celestial support is coming to the Republican camp in gratitude for thé suggestion made by Hong Le Mencken just before the Cleveland’ convention. Mr. Mencken wrote, as you may remember, that a Chinaman could win on the e= publican ticket. Itdproved impossible, however, to find any Chinesa who was willing to be a candidate for the Republicans. One of the difficulties lay in the fact that the Chinese can not pronounce the letter “R.” But I can readily understand why the Chinese wouid go for Landon in a big way. It is easy to sea the appeal that the Governor has for the Chinese.. China, like Kansas, is for the Old Deal.
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HAPPENED to be in Nanking one Saturday af'e ernoon a few weeks"ago, and the Grand Lama, or president, of the local university said to me, “The differences between America and China are grossly exaggerated. Except for plumbing, your Topeka is practically $he same as our Hankow. We understand rugged individualism and states’ rights even better than your own leaders.” : “Indeed,” he continued, “we have fought so bravely for liberty against any sort of centralization that] today a Chinese of Canton can not understand a. word spoken by a citizen of Shanghai. We hava not only local leadership but local languages. For thousands of years we have seen destructive deathdealing floods along the Yangtse River, and we sedulously do nothing. about it save in terms of village by village.” : “But,” I objected, “you carry that much further, You put bowls of: rice and little messages with curi= ous ideographs before the tombs. I am told that in many parts of your country it is impossible to put up telegraph poles because it would be displeasing; to the spirits of the departed.” or ” 2 un OU'RE tajling me,” said my Chinese host, “I see that a group of power companies in thes South is suing to prevent TVA from erecting trans-
| mission lines on the ground that such action would
be displeasing to ‘The Founding Fathers.’ Your Mr, Borah rushes to the grave of the illustrious Wash« ington and tosses into the wind slips of paper with. the ideograph meaning ‘no entangling alliances* whenever the World Court is mentioned. But let us theorize no more. Walk with me a little way.” Just outside his door a merchant was beating a coolie. A policeman stood and pdid no Ts I looked surprised. “It is very simple,” explained my host; “a rich man is thumping the breath out of a poor one. We Chinese do not believe that the gove ernment should interfere with business. We under stand your Landon, and we love your Col. Knox.”
The Washington Merry-Go-Round
By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen ASHINGTON, Sept. 17—New Deal fears that
w= William Campbell, ace Washington photog= rapher, returned from Topeka after “shoot ing” the Landon family, he brought these impressions: “Landon is a good subject. He'll do anything you want him to, except phoney Pictures. He won't do any phoney stuff. “By that I mean he won't stage an act for effect, like taking off his coat and digging in the garden, He doesn’t dig in the garden, 50 he-won't-pose tha, way. “The kids were hard to- pose, believe me. Wouldn't stay still a minute. cy Jo is 3, and John Cobb, 2. When I was finished, Nancy Jo got into my empty suitcase and wouldn't get out. Said she wanted me to stay and play with her.”
. . a 8 8 i NLY Nov. 3 will tell the story of whether John (Curly-Top) Hamilton hors national campaign mahagef, u one respect the Slender Kansan already has . proved mgelf coms, petent In three short HORS, a won Jag. developed a flashy technique for han re fen his wares at a press conference with a large num