Evening Star Newspaper, July 11, 1937, Page 14

A—14 Norris Still Looks to Future, Marking 76th Birthday Today Nebraskan to Celebrate Quietly in Naval Hospital. Bs the Assoclated Press. Senator Norris of Nebraska will be 76 todav, but still is thinking about the future. The veteran legislator will spend his birthday anniversary quietly at Naval Hospital, where he has been recovering from an attack of indigestion. Al- though recuperating, physicians have advised him to take things quietly. | Within the next few days he \\’!111 feave the hospital, and Washington, for | the hot months. Just were he will go has not been definitely decided, but | it probably will not be Nebraska be- | cause that State is a little warm, too, rizht now At 76, Norris is probably the most successful legislative advocate of po- litical change. For 35 vears he has been going about the solving of na- tional problems as a member of | either the House or the Senate. Ten vears he served in the House; for the | last 25 in the Senate. Likes to Walk Hatless. His shoulders are a little stooped now and his hair is white, but he still likes to walk hatless across the concourse from the Senate to the office building. | And, in spite of his accomplishments | n the Senate, he looks back to those | days In the House, a quarter of a SENATOR NORRIS. which did away with the so-called lame duck sessions of Congress in which members who had been beaten in election served through a session before the man who had beaten them took office. In Nebraska, he backed the one-house Legislature which was designed to simplify law making. And he is looking toward a future which, if it follows the pattern he has suggested, will give the people a direct vote on constitutional amend- ments, making them effective when century ago, to find his most interest- | ing experience. That was in the fight which he led to strip the late Speaker Cannon of the virtually autocratic | power he exercised over legislation in the House, i “That victory for a principle marked | 8 turning point for the better,” Norris | says. “We can see the gains from it | operating today “We are making headway for other | important principles today. Now and again some gains are impaired but in | the long run our gains more than | make up for what is lost along the way | “However this dispute over the| sourts powers be settled, I believe it must and will be settled in a way to | wmake possible a more equitable dis- | tribution of wealth"” In & broad sense of the word, Norris | has been an independent in politics for a long time. Although for many years his name carried the Republican party label in the Congressional Di-| tectory, he long ago stepped out of the party ranks to blaze his own trails. He put his feelings this way: “Of all evils of government, the one tha reater than any other {s partisanship. Political jobs have been the nation of many great statesmen Opposed War on Germany. He is the only one remaining of | the six Senators who voted in 1917 against the declaration of war on | Germany—and still thinks that vote was right. i “I said then that we were surren- | dering the policy of the country to! the money power and putting the dollar sign above the flag,” he says. “And I have never seen any reason to withdraw the statement, but, on the contrary, much evidence that eonfirmed it as the years have passed.” | Many things have written back of his name since he set out as a iarm boy in Ohio. He was born in that State in 1861. His onlv brother was killed in the Civil War. His father died soon after he was born. He helped his mother as a chore boy on farms, earned his education by teaching and working as a farm nand, won admission to the bar in 1883. In 1885 he went to McCook, Nebr,, where he has lived since. There he served as prosecuting attorney and district judge until elected to Con- | gress just after the turn of the eentury. | In Washington, he is best known as | “father of the T. V. A,” and author | of the constitutional amendment | | 600D TONE the voters of two-thirds of the States munities; will require a unanimous vote of the Supreme Court to in- validate an act of Congress; will do away with the political appointment of postmasters and require their selection by the merit system. It has not been very long since he said in the Senate that the political choosing of those who run the post offices was based on hyprocrisy and entirely wrong. CONVENTION ANNOUNCED Association of Food Chains to Meet in Washington. The Greater National Capital Com- | mittee of the Washington Board of Trade today announced that the | National Association of Food Chains | will hold a three-day convention at the Mayflower Hotel October 11-13. 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