Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-24

and the Rock Island Argus argues: SIT
is significant that such a warning
should emanate from one who Is GER
tainly better informed than most peo-
pie in regard to the operation OF the
Federal bureaucratic system. When he
declares that the Federal power, In
trusted with too many functions, threat
ems the whole system of local govern
ment, the Nation should give serious
heed to his warning"
Hope that his speech is evidence OF
"a determined swing back to his former
convictions that the people should make
themselves independent of Federal aids
and subsidies" is expressed by the At
lanta Constitution. The Bloomington
Paragraph agrees that he sounded q
sensible note" while holding that "the
liquor traffic regulation Is in q class by
itself, and it was in relation to other
matters of many kinds that the Presi-
dent advised less, rather than more,
Federal meddling." The Savannah
Morning News is convinced that his
fear of superstate is one that ought
to be present in every Americans
mind"
Raising q query as to the ultimate
result of the adoption of the policy set
forth by President Hoover, the Fort
THE Constitution defined the author
ity of the Federal Government and
then retained as States rights the
tenth paragraph of the Bill of Rights,
The powers not delegated to the
United States by the Constitution, nor
prohibited by it to the States, are re-
served to the States, respectively, or to
the people, The great American ques-
ton is, what are those powers and how
oh Il 10 ha
regained by the States? The growth
of industrial and transportational re-
lations takes away all resemblance to
the States and their populations as
they appeared to the lawmakers who
wrote the Bill of Rights into the Con-
stitution. The Civil War changed the
complexion of most of the political
Interpretation of States rights Prog
ress in education, finance, commune
cation and productivity has wreaked
its havoc with the intent of the Gov
eminent entertained by the founders.
The 48 States might well raise their
voices in unison and ask, What are
those burdens We are expected to as
sume?'"
1T is always a practical question"
urges the DeS Moines Tribune-Capi-
tai, "as to how far we can invoke
general principles, sanctified by tradi-
States rights can be pressed in 1881
is such question. Our presei.t trou-
bleS, We have learned, resulted, in ~
from overproduction in certain lines
and from the failure of private enter
prise to adjust production to consump-
ton. Already the Government has
made a few efforts to aid in the
stabilizing of production. The
Presidents warning against drifting
into a DatPrnaliStic TYNE Of rovern-
ment is timely enough. Perhaps that
is the thing that most needs emphs
sizing. But it should not be looked
upon as all that needs to be thought
about. The President himself made
his real appeal for work, not for utter
ing shibboleths and calling it a day
indicating our old principles must
be by accomplishments"
Quoting a part of the speech which
local government responsibilities lays
the foundation for the destruction of
liberty" the Memphis Commercial APP
peal continues: ut needs no inter-
prefer of these words for any reader
to realize that they refer directly to
conditions prevailing in the drought
stricken regions. 1t has been the
presidential contention that these
regions should bear the responsibilities
and obligations of the situation that
has been forced upon them, despite
the fact that the forcing was a vista
ton Of nature over which they had no
control. This position of the President
has seemed unfair, contradictory and
even cruel when it is taken in con-
nection with his anxiety on other oc-
caSions to furnish food to peoples Of y,
other countries visited either by war;
drought, earthquake or other ealamstN