Evening Star Newspaper, September 18, 1936, Page 37

'HAGOOD SPEAKS FOR CONSTITUTION Basic Law Held Nation’s Safeguard in Speech by Vandenberg. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 18.—Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, Republican, of Michigan and Maj. Gen. Johnson Hagood last night urged preservation of the Constitution before a Consti- tution day gathering in the Chicago Stadium. ‘The Senator, in an address prepared for delivery, cited the Natlon's basic law as the only safeguard of freedom of speech, press, religion, assemblage, elections and enterprise, and added: “We intend to keep this Constitu- tion sacred against all impious hands. Let those challenge it who may. Let even petulant Presidents contemptu- ously consign it to an out-moded horse and buggy age. Still it will remain the triumph of our great dead, the shield of the living, the heritage of the unborn. Otherwise, the Republic [ dies.” “Member of No Party.” Gen. Hagood, who was removed from eommand of the 8th Corps Area last Spring after he had described W. P. A, funds as “stage money,” subsequently was given command of the 6th Corps Area and then voluntarily retired, said he was a member of no party and had abstained from voting during his ¢4 years of Army service. “The Constitution permits man sufficient latitude to meet his cur- rent needs,” he declared in a pre- pared address. “Beyond that he should not go without mature delib- eration, We are suffering from the tension of the depression and the! great political upheaval that followsd. We cannot trust ourselves at this time to tinker with the charter of our liberties. “Political power has been taken over by self-appointed political bosses. The interests of party have been | placed above the interests of the country. “Failed” in War Motives. “We fought the great war t- - " the world safe for democracy. We {ailed in that and now we must make America safe for Americans.” Declaring “we are challenged to our teeth,” Senator Vandenberg asserted: “I am thinking of the President's | frank declaration that he and his associates have created instruments of power in the last three years, which, in wrong hands—mark you, his words —'would shackle the liberties of the people.” “I am thinking such extraordinary | Funeral Today ENGINEER TO BE BURIED IN RICHMOND, CAPT. PHILIP ST. JULIEN ILSON Chief engineer of the Bureau of Public Roads, who died yes- terday .at his home, 1851 Columbia road, was to be buried at 2:15 p.m. today in Hollywood Cemetery, Rich- mond, Va, Rev.Dr.H.T.Cocke, rector of All Saints’ Episcopal Church, Chevy Chase, Md., officiated at funeral services this morning at Capt. Wilson’s late residence. ROMNEY IS SPEAKER Kenneth Romney, House sergeant- at-arms, last night told 75 Montana residents who live in Washington he believed that Montana was safely in the Roosevelt column. Romney re- cently returned from Montana, He was the principal speaker at the Montana gathering, composed of mem- bers of the Montana Democratic Club of Washington. Maj. C. T. Estes, in charge of the National Co-operative Committee for the Democratic party, also addressed the meeting. John P. Burke, secretary of the club, and Harvey Thirloway, president, made brief talks. Saddlery and TRUNKS-~22. Repairing of Leather Goods G. W.King, Jr., 511 11th St.N.W. powers are not calculated to lie dor- | [ mant in an era of world-wide tyranny. “We do not want our lives regi- mented from Washington by a gi- gantic political bureaucracy which is | 8t war with the constitutional spirit.” | Col. Robert R. 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