The Indianapolis times., 1932-06-27

the repeale OF Article XVIII OF
of the amendments to this Consti-
tuition. or to any future amend
ments thereof, which shall be
valid to all intents and purposes,
as part of this Constitution, when
ratified at an election to be held
in each Of the several states on
a certain day, to be designated by
congress, by the majority Of cleo
tors voting thereon in three
fourthS of the several states.
THE electors in each state shall
have the qualifications requisite
for the electors of the most nu-
merous branch of the state leg
islatures."
OF course, before the Byrd
amendment could be effective, it
would have to be passed by two
thirds votes of both houses and
ratified by three-fourths of the
states in the manner now con-
stitutionally provided.
DYRD was working for tele-
- phone company at the age of
Is when his father, a small town
publisher, announced suspension
of his paper.
Harry took it over and made
it pay. He was elected to a city
council before he was 81 and in
his early twenties began to in
vest his savings in apple grow
ing.
Today he has twenty-one Or
chards and about 175,000 trees.
He is said to have raised 900, 1000
bushels Of apples last year, per
cent of the whole normal crop
of the United States and Canada.
He has a cold storage plant
which can hold 100000 bushels,
the worlds largest, and markets
the fruit in a number of foreign
countries.
Elected to the state senate at
27, he stayed there ten years and
always was identified with the
party organization. At 33 he was
chairman of the Democratic state
committee.
In 1923 he headed a "pay-as-
you-go'' group which defeated a
lobby trying to put over $50
100000 bond issue for roads in a
state referendum.
Byrd showed that eventually
half the money would go to pay
for the bonds. He then became
a leader in development of Vir-
ginia highways.
He ran for Governor in 1925,
defeating Bishop Cannon's candi-
date, Walter Mapp, by a large
majority, and refused to wear a
silk hat at his Inauguration.
Road mileage nearly doubled in
his four-year term, supported
largely by scent gasoline tax.
Taxes on real estate and cap
ital investment were so reduced
that Byrd is credited with bring
ing many new industries and in
vestments into Virginia.
TIE inherited a 81 100000 deficit
l. Il when he became Governor in
1926 and changed it to a 100000
surplus by 1928 Even in depres-
sion 1881 there was a surplus.
He had at once demanded
sweeping changes in the state gov
ernment'S administration and or
ganization. He changed the tax
system completely, placed more
than 100 independent agencies
under dozen modern depart
ments and thus saved, with leg
islative ratification, an alleged
100000 a year.
In 1928 he put over a new con-
stitution with forty seven changes
which included the short ballot.
Some of the measures he spon-
sored required courage. He made
the oil companies report on whole
sale 1nd retail prices of gasoline.
He fathered the most drastic anti
lynching law passed in any south
ern state.
Virginia limits her Governors to
a single term, but Byrd retired to
his orchards with great prestige
and unequaled political power.
The Virginia assembly this year
recommended him unanimously
for the presidency.
His hobbies are bird hunting,
swimming and hiking.
He married AIMEE Douglas Bev-
erly of Londoun county and they
have four children-Harry Flood,
Westwood, Beverly and Richard
Evelyn.
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