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A4 ww ELY AND LOWDEN VISION AUTOGRAGY See Issue of Attack on Con- stitution Settled in 1936 Vote. By the Associated Press CHICAGO, September 17.—The voices of Joseph B. Ely, & champion of Jeffersonian democracy, and Frank O. Lowden, mentioned as a possible Republican presidential nominee, were joined last night in a common defense of the Constitution. The former Democratic Governor of Massachusetts and the erstwhile Re- publican Governor of Illinois warned | that revision of the Nation's basic | Jaw would pave the way for the es- | tablishment of an autocracy at Wash- ington. They addressed the Union League Club of Chicago shortly after approxi- mately 550 members had voted to reiterate its “four-square stand for the Constitution.” The membership | “denounced as unpatriotic any and | all efforts to substitute a dictatorship™ | and pledged the support of its influ- ence and resources “to maintenance of the American system of govern- | ment.” Dissenter Explains Vote. But one dissenting ballot was cast. | That was by Floyd Thompson, former chief justice of the Illinois Supreme Court and once a Democratic aspirant | to the Illinois governorship. He ex- | 0 plained his action thus: “I do not believe that the States | and Nation are separate sovereignties. | The States are not sovereign. The | people are sovereign. It is & union | of the people of the United States, not a union of the States. I feel that this enunciation of principles | 15 partisan and I vote no." | Thompson's statement was greeted in silence. But the dinner-jacketed | assemblage accorded extended ap- | plause to the remarks of EI- and Lovden | The New Englander asserted it would make “the Federal Government mas- ter of our souls.” The Midwesterner declared it would give “the central Government com- plete control of the economic life of the people everywhere.” They urged a strong defense of the Nation's basic document on the eve of the 148th anniversary of its in- dorsement in addresses before a gath- ering at the Union League Club. See Settlement of Issue. Both speakers foresaw settlement of the issue at next year's presidential election. “To sustain New Deal policies.” Ely gaid, “the power to regulate agricul- ture, mining and industry must be taken from the States and given to the Federal Government. | “This is the complete reverse of the | Jeffersonian theory of government. “It creates a government engaged {n bringing us all to the will of the man who decides just how much cot- | ton and wheat shall be raised, how | many yards of cloth shall be manu- factured, how many hours we shall work. what shall be paid, and how we shall spend our money.” He listed the N. R. A, A. A. A, the Guffey coal and Wheeler-Ray- | burn holding company bills and the | Bankhead cotton control act as un-| constitutional and claimed that, to make the measures operative, con- stitutional authority must be grahted the Federal Government to enact| them. Lowden stated the magazine Today, | *believed to be the official organ of | the administration,” proposed that the | 1936 election should be made a refer- endum on a constitutional amend-| ment empowering Congress to regu- | late hours and conditions of labor, | to establish minimum wages and to regulate production, industry, busi- | ness, trade and commerce. Cites Long Struggle. He added: 1 “If this amendment should be adopted, it would substitute for the union of States an absolute autocracy | at Washington and destroy the very corner stone of our institutions. | “The bill of rights is in jeopardy | if the proposed amendment should prevail,” he said, and with it “prin- | ciples representing a thousand years of struggle for liberty.” The Illinoisan pointed out that all | amendments save the eighteenth pro- tected State rights and individual liberty. Failure of the eighteenth, he added, should warn Americans not to present control over their State affairs to the central Government | sgain. The American system, he | stated, had withstood the test of time. | GEN. FRIES TO SPEAK BEFORE OPTIMIST CLUB' Constitution to Be Discussed at Luncheon Meeting Tomor- ' row at Noon. I Maj. Gen. Amos A. Fries will be guest speaker at a lunchecn-meeting | of the Washington Optimist Club at | the Hamilton Hotel tomorrow at 12:30 | p.m. His subject will be “To Uphold and Defend the Coastitution of the United States.” The meeting will be in the form of a Constitution day rally. Invited as honor guests are Frank | B. Steele, executive secretary, Sons of | the American Revolution; Joseph J. Malloy, commander of the District | Department, American Legion, and Dr. W. L. Darby, who will speak on | the annual Red Cross roll call. | Maj. Joseph E. Rice, president of | the Optimists, has made special ar- | rangements for the patriotic rally. delivery— Star 1S, CONSERVTION | projects anywhere and for any to the Constitution. Addresses G. O. P. Women MRS. THEODORE ROOSEVELT, Widow of the former President, as she spoke yesterday to the National Conference of Republican Women in New York. She urged strict adherence NG STAR, WASHINGTON NEW ROOSEVELT ¢ ‘STRANGLING' SEEN Senator Steiwer Brands “Breathing Spell” Tighten- ing of “Death Clutch.” By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 17.—Sena- tor Frederick Steiwer, Oregon Repub- lican, said today that President Roose- velt's promise of a “breathing spell” for business “implies the strangle- hold will be tightened again.” The President's promise, Senator Steiwer told a Constitution day con- ference of Republican women, “con- cedes that America is being strangled by administration agencies,” and “the Nation has a right to demand that un-American death clutch be entirely removed so that its recovery may not longer be retarded.” Prefers Louisiana Dietatorship. ‘The Louisiana dictatorship of the late Senator Huey P. Long presented “a greater respect for constitutional authority” than the New Deal, Senator Steiwer declared. “In subtle method and furtive ap- proach the New Deal excels,” he said. “In candor, in consistent purpose and in fulfillment of promises it suffers by the comparison.” Citing what he said were “infer- ences” from the Communist Interna- tional Congress at Moscow last month, Senator Stelwer warned that “Amer- ica is not yet thoroughly aroused to the danger which confronts us.” “A united front against Fascism contemplates support of the Roosevelt THE EVENT —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto: DARLING ATTACKS War on Malaria Mosquitoes Will Destroy Fowl, He | Declares. By the Associated Press PHILADELPHIA, September 17— J. N. (“Ding") Darling. chief of the Federal Bureau of Biological Survey, scores Federal conservation and recla- | mation activities of the Government | Library of Congress Building, and Nor- | for their effect on wild life, in a | magazine article. Writing in the October issue of the Country Gentleman, Darling savs the | Government's Public Health Service campaign to exterminate malaria mosquitoes will destroy wild ducks and geese. “To some of those who are trying | to promote it. the conservation ma- chinery seems to be in reverse,” he says. Destructive of Resources. Darling contends that War De- | partment engineers design dams and locks “in the name of fictitious navi- gation, power dams and flood-control one who will exert enough influence on Congress to provide the necessary propriations.” These engineers, he says, have “de- stroyed more aquatic resources than any known agency in the United States Government.” Of the Reclamation Service, Darl- | timore. | enterprise as a public service,” p- | | ing holds: “The Reclamation Service of the Interior Department * * * has more biological deserts to its credit | than any other three agencies of the Federal Government.” | Fowl Feeding Ground Ruined. | | ment New Deal by Communists in America,” he said the congress implied, “and the undeniable fact remains that lead- COPY OF CONSTITUTION | PRINTED IN HANDY FORM {8 oDt tencency tomare com: = | mupism.* Reproduction of Declaration of Finds Some New Deal Merit. Senator S v/ = Independence Also Available Der Bictan: sl hie Sl ouc 4 Low Cost. laws forming the basis of the so-called ! New Deal * * * were wholly lacking At last—clear, distinct, legible, read- 1 in merit,” but some indicate a “willful able copies of the manuscript originals | disregard of constitutional restraints of the Declaration of Independence |and a resolute purpose to exercise and the Constitution of the United | arbitrary power.” States! “More sinister than unconstitu- Practical reproductions of these basic | tionality is the spirit which the New charters of American freedom have | Dealers have exhibited in referring been wanted for many years. They | to the courts and their gay and in- have been made possible by a combi- different attitude in seeking further nation of the genius of Dr. Herbert unconstitutional Jaws,” he asserted. Putnam, librarian of Congress; Wil- | liam C. Bond, superintendent of the at e 'CAPITAL EDUCATORS AT CHICAGO MEETING man T. A. Munder, art printer, Bal- These men conceived, per- fected and now have executed reduced | facsimiles of the precious documents which are suitable for general library or school room use, are beautiful ex- | nrr.ples of graphic art, and yet can bc ers Is in Session. sold at cost at the Library souvenir stand—price, 75 cents for the Decla-| A rumber of Washington educators ration and $1.25 for the Constitution. | are in Chicago to attend the semi- “The Library has entered into this annual meeting of the board of man- Mr, | agers of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers which opened today and will continue throughout the week. Washington members attending are Charl Williams, school education chairman; Ellen C. Lombard, home education chalrman: Alice Sowers, parent education specialist: Mrs, | Charles E. Roe, national field secre- | tary; Frances S. Hays, secretary of | the information division; John T. Webner, general secretary, and Isa Compton, publications secretary. T RESUMES | 12 in Labor Riot Fatal to 1 Face Preliminary Hearings. ROME, Ga., September 17 (#).—Op- erations were resumed at the Rome Board of Managers of National Congress of Parents and Teach- Bond sald. “Any profits there may be from the sale of copies will go toward reproducing other documents of national importance.” RESTRAINING ORDER IS DENIED BY COURT Georgia Tribunal Rules Depres- sion Does Not Authorize Inter- ference to Balk Judgment Sale. By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, September 17.—A gen- eral financial depression does not au- thorize interference of courts to pre- vent the sale of property under judg- | the Georgia Supreme Court sert the “succession of extraordinary | DG TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1935. Constitution OQak Planted ceremony. Edmunds and Elizabeth Hall. A “Constitution oak” is being planted on the Mall in this city. Constitution and water from the fountains of 48 State Capitols and the Capitol here are being used in the Left to right, are: Edwin F. Hill, international trustee of Kiwanis; Margaret P. Hunter, Robert H. Soil from the graves of framers of the —Harris-Ewing Photo. 'l Constitution (Continued From First Page.) the Constitution. Immediately after- ward the members made a pilgrimage to the Library of Congress to see the Constitution. Mrs. Freiot made a brief | address there. Parade Starts at 7:30 P.M. ‘The day’s climax will come tonight, however, with the parade and pageant. | William N. Morell of the American Legion, chairman of the Parade Com- mittee, announced today that all units will assemble by 7 p.m. so that the march may begin promptly at 7:30 o'clock. ‘The formation area will be south of Constitution avenue between Third | and Sixth streets. Military units will enter the assembly area via Mary- land avenue. Other uhits forming east of Fourth street will enter Third street and those forming west of Fourth street will enter the route of march via Sixth street. | The route will be west on Constitu- | tion avenue to Fifteenth street, scuth | on Fifteenth street to North Monu- ment drive, west on the drive through | the Monument Grounds. to points of | disbandment at Sixteenth street. All floats will continue on North Monu- | ment drive to the John Paul Jones! | Statue and turn north on Seventeenth street. Troops—including units from the Army, Navy, Coast Guard, National Guard and Marine Reserves—will | leave North Monument drive at Six- | teenth street and return to Constitu- | tion avenue. Other organizations, rep- | resenting civic, veteran and fraternal | | groups, will turn south from the drive into the Monument Grounds to re-! | main for the ceremontes there. { The reviewing stand is located on! the left side of North Monument drive, about 250 feet west of Fifteenth street. Nine prizes will be awarded marching units, and the judges are Benjamin Aronsohn, chairman; Miss | Church, { farm land which canot be worth, at | + Dorothy Blizzard, to remain standing ' 1 vesterday. The Federal Public Health Service's TUic0 Yesterdas drainage of lakes and marshes, he | Ernest C. Knotz, Atlanta. sought writes, “is rapidly destroying the & Testraining order against the Citi- natural home and feeding ground of |Zens & Southern National Bank as ducks, geese, other migratory water | tr fowl and muskrats.” ‘\nlued at $240,000 under a judgment Darling, the noted cartoonist who Of $62,383 for debts to the First Na- accepted the Federal post to “save the Nation’s wild life,” is bitter on drain- age projects, citing the “current en- deaver of reclamation agents to re- | claim Tule Lake in California.” | “They will spend $824,000 this | year,” he states, “to complete the | destruction by drainage, to make | Southern National Bank of Atlanta. the maximum estimate, more than | $300,000.” ‘ BANK LOOTED OF $1,000 UNADILLA, Ga., September 17 (#). —Two men held up the Exchange Bank of Unadilla yesterday and es- caped in an automobile with about | $1.000 in cash. | T. E. 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We hope you can pay day celebration, will deliver the open-| Attending will be delegations rep- ing address, resenting Kiwanis, Rotary, Lions, Civi- The Junior Citizens' Group will give | tan Exchange, Reciprocity, the Ma- a pledge to the Constitution and close | ¢ with the singing of the first stanza of | °nic Order, Sons of the American “America.” Mrs. Lloyd Biddle, presi- | Revolution and Sons of the Revolu- dent of the District Federation of | tion. = Vg)me;:;s Clubs, will read the mem‘x!::::i (Y;":;l:flsneéhfi:k:?-l;";lflt‘ni “Our Flag.” ‘ s e Amer- ican Revolution, in a special Consti e e B Ol Jational| tution day statement addressed to & ers, will speak in behalf of all mothers | ITO¢TS of the 1. A, T utged them of Americans who have fought in our |, oL .00 dooiment Y wars and will introduce the principal | e - speaker, Justin Miller, Assistant United | States Attorney General. His subject | will be “Constitution Day and the Con- | | stitution. A series of pageant numbers then will be presented. ‘“Magna Carta” | will have Herman Reese as the Arch- | bishop of Canterbury, Henry Folmer | as King John, Eugene Kressin as the Earl of Chester and Theo Freter as Robert Fitz Walter. ‘Thirty dancers, trained by Maurice Winthrop, will present an Indian ballet. and a group of 13 Marian Chase dancers will present the Ballet of the Thirteen States. “The Mayflower Compact” will be presented by the Black Friars Guild, and a group of executives of the Federal Power Commission will re- enact the “Constitutional Conven- tion.” Rev. John C. Palmer, pastor of the Washington Heights Presbyterian will pronounce the bene- diction. The fireworks program will be pre- ceded by a solo by Mrs. Flora McGill Keefer. She will sing “The Star Spangled Banner,” accompanied by the Army Band. A number of fire- works set-pieces will show the Ameri- can Flag, the picture of George Wash- | ington, and will spell out in colors: | “For God and Country,” “Law and Order,” and “U. 8. Constitution.” Across the river at Alexandria Ed- win F. Hill. trustee of Kiwanis Inter- national, will act as chairman at the meeting to be addressed by Secretary Roper. Rev. Percy Foster Hall of Alexandria will pay tribute to the framers of the Constitution and Rev. ban’s Church, will say the invocation Fred East, Willlam F. Raymond, Clyde B. Melville and William R a handsome, modern Richard Prince manner. gram. about Banks By Stetson Borsalino Charge Accounts Opened— Monthly Settiements —or Our Convenient 12-Payment Plan, AN ESQUIRE FASHION LOCH-LOMOND SEVENLIVES LOST INBRITISH STORM Captain Dead, Ship Disabled as 100-Mile Gale Sweeps Islands. By the Associated Press. LONDON, September 17.—Seven persons were known to be dead today as the result of the most violent gale of recent years. 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