The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-10
M'NUTT STATE
SETUP SCORED
BY ATTORNEY
Groninger Attacks One
Man Government in
Talk to G. 0. P.
ASSAILS BEER HANDLING
Municipal Utility Pledges
Forgotten Speaker
Tells Club.

Governor Paul v. McNutt is con-
Quoting the state government
along the lines of new thought
school Of Democracy in the raw"
members of the Irvington Repub-
ucan Club were told last night.
The club speaker was Taylor E.
Groninger, local attorney and au-
thority on utility law.
He termed the present Indiana
administration a "one-man govern
ment" and criticised the entire state
program from laws to personnel.
only text book in the new thought
school is McNutt's Primer of State
Government Mr.. Groninger de
clared. But the text book study is
supplemented with frequent lee
lures by the dean-Governor Nc
Mutt.
Governor Is Everything"
"One of the first subjects taught
is Managerial Prowess. This
stresses the Importance of the chief
executive being everything in some
thing and something in everything
that has to do with state govern
ment
Another chapter, designed to
give Solace to the dryS and at the
same time bring good cheer to the
hearts of the liberals is the chap
ter on Beer
This makes it emphatic (for the
benefit of the drys) that saloons are
a curse and are gone, never to re-
turn, and that gin fixes and high
balls are forever taboo.
Bottles and Kegs
But, for the benefit of the lib
erals, the primer states that beer
depots and beer emporiums have
been established, ad libitum, and
that brewed liquor with its white
collar, whether drawn from keg or
poured from bottle, may be sold
any place, and where and any time.
provided it is accompanied by
guardian pretzel.
There is some faint suspicion
that the guardian already has re-
signed his trust.
THE primer very cleverly explains
that while the law originally re-
quired beer to be sold in bottles
only, the legislature actually had in
mind, at the time of the passage CT
the act, the sale of it also in kegs.
Famous Bung Ruling
"This explanation was Endorsed
by the clairvoyant division of the
state department of law. 1t en-
abled mind-reader in the attor-
ey-generals Office to advise the
Governor to issue his famous eXecu-
tive order to pull the bung at 9
in the morning.
you understand, of course, that
ours is a government of laws and
not of men and the legislature
alone has the power to make, sane
ton, suspend or give effect to laws
1.-THE primer also presents a very
fine reason why the beer importer is
necessary in distributing beer
among it's users.
THE reason is difficult to find.
Many have become sighted in
their search for it. But many,
after sympathetic search, believe
they have discovered why we do not
have scent stein.
Scores Utility Plan r.
"They are asking the dean to
answer this question: Why beer
Importer"
Mr.. Groninger charged that the
Democratic platform was not car
ried out in regard to utilities when
municipal plants were left under
public service commission jurisdic-
| ton.
After dealing with each adminis-
tration leader, the speaker closed:
Surely with the new thought
school thus equipped and securely
established, with its dean and other
faculty members snugly ensconsed
behind an impregnable rampant Of
new and elastic laws, Indiana's new
democracy will go forward to greater
and grander achievements than
those realized under the admins
tration of any former Democratic