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plode," was the frank comment of
one legionnaire who knew Nc
Mutt in those days.
More dinner engagements, a
widening of his range of friends,
more speeches, train jumps to
make classes at the law school
after Rotary luncheon, nights
porting over lecture notes, romps
with Louise, evenings at home
with the biographies of great men
and the smoothing of the ripples
with the calm. CHEEKY smile of
Mrs. McNutt.
THE white hair grew. SO did
n the man.
Then checkmate! Suffering
came to live in the McNutt home
for a child.
-Four years old she was that
day that nurses and doctors
placed Louise on a board in bed.
tuberculosis of the spine raw
aged her.
Hope for her recovery ranged
up and down with her fever.
A mother guarded, watched
over. A special nurse supervised.
A professor of law worried, was
Snappish perhaps, at facetious
cOllegian's class remark.
McNutt had plans to complete
his work for a doctors degree at
Harvard.
Mrs. McNutt's mother died.
McNutt gave up thoughts of a
degree with, Wen make home
for you, dad, and your mother"
in talk with the man who gave
him a daughters hand during
those war days at San Tone.
Il
LIE was offered the deanship
i Il of the Indiana law school,
due to a resignation He accepted.
Critics later whispered that he'd
sought the job. His friends an
swer, He turned it down several
times before he accepted"
Graduation speeches, long trips
to give addresses, swift jumps
back to the law lectures, to a day
or so at home smoothing the brow
of his belfast Louise as she adj
mired dolly he'd brought her.
The law school enrolment
jumped from 1T the year he be-
came dean-1925- to 165 when he
left it to become Governor in
1882.
But he spends most of his time
making speeches on university
time" complained the carpers.
And he taught five hours a week
while other professors were teach
ing seven in addition to handling
the administration work.
He advertises the university.
He's giving it prestige. He's built
the faculty. He's made Indiana's
law school recognized,' retort his
friends,
A ND the record is that no mat
L N ter where McNutt went to
make Speech-be it Sioux Falls
or OshkoSh-he always was back
on time for his class or he made
up the lost hour if detained I'M
avoidably.
Believing heart and soul in the
motives of the American Legion,
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hairs Streaked and fringed his
Sideburns.
THE posts boom started Each
Il of the ninety members was
held responsible for a list of war
veterans. Each had to sell Legion
to as many on his list as humane
ly possible.
The campaign grew One hun
dred, 200, 300, and on until 500
were on the rolls.
The American Legion weekly
carried stories of the feat. Legion
politicians in Indiana visited
Bloomington, heard the deft
speeches of the Bloomington COM
mander, were charmed by his
manner, ability, coordination of
work and membership.
"FireWorks-and about to ex-
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surrounding the new commander.
The din was terrific. Indiana men
we're so excited that they forgot
the room numbers of their hotel.
And. as customary finale. the
election turned into a general
rough-house Of stripping insignia
and signs from the convention
floor for souvenirs.
In a hotel room a few blocks
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he was hurried to the forefront
in the state department.
State commander was his in
1927, He duplicated his member
ship organization feat in the
Bloomington post by increasing
the states department from 49,
600 to $4,000.
Legionnaires close to national
headquarters in Indianapolis
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Times Stan Writer
"TILL the bows come home

lines stan writer
"TILL the boys come home"
i The song ended. The
legions of the lame, the lone
some and the lost came back to
spend $50 bonuses on "civvies"
and jobs.
Leading the cavalcade Of World
war veterans was tanned actor
lawyer colonel-profeSsor.
The fair of his hair. the grip
OF his voice, sureness of his walk,
gave of the actor.
The methodical mind snot forth
the lawyer.
The crispness of orders pegged
him the colonel.
And the mien of a professor
mantled Paul v. McNutt again
when he returned to the faculty
of Indiana university as professor
of law.
Organization Of claSsrooms and
lectures we're easy now for the
man VINO had written his own
pamphlets on how to fight" while
at Camp Jackson, S. C.
He grasped the law school and
its work. 1t snuggled TO him.
THE American Legion got its
l. natal eye-waSh. McNutt
Joined Burton Woolery post,
Bloomington, Ind.
Luncheon clubs invited him to
speak. He dropped the mill
taristic. He exercised his vocal
powers. He swayed bored dry
goods merchants with witticisms
and logic
The McNWt home, near the
campus lived neighborly under
the glow of the gracious, genteel
hand Of his bride of war days.
She brought friends to him.
They brought friends to her. He
was closed in upon by the towns
legionnaires as a man going
places"
He always was going places
swiftly when in the business dis
trlct Of the town. No small-town
lettering over a cigar at a drug
store or gabfest with a courthouse
hangar-on for the professor.
Some took his hurry, his failure
to see them, as "ritzing" in a day
when it was called "uppish"
Just something on his mind"
defended his legion and college
friends.
81" LIKED him in equities! He
n taught me contracts! His SUBJ
jects always were well prepared.
He had copious notes. He had
the practical court experience of
the faculty." was the verdict OF
his students.
The FLU" walked with him in
the war, but it never bothered
him.
In February, 1920, the plague
that made white masked bandits
OF a warning nation Scourged him.
His weight dropped from 2O5 to
18O pounds. Clothes hung on him.
One year later Louise. their
only child, was born to parents
who are only children"
She never can have any aunts.
uncles or cousins" muses. Mrs.
McNutt in the gubernatorial man
sion
The Bloomington legion post set
him in the commanders chair.
They rallied around him. White
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away, a wife might have been
seen looking down at a wedding
ring that was put there ten years
ago in that same town by the man
who had given her her greatest
thrill in new title of National
Legion Commander Paul V. Nc
Mutt.
(Next-McNutt, the Globe Trotterl
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BY ARCH STEINEL

This is the fourth Of series Of stories
on the life OF Governor Paul v McNutt
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Government . man who recognised the
perils Of the period and meant not only
to meet them but to conquer them.
Now, If we on Capitol Hill fail to put
into effect the requisite measures to
overcome the unparalleled unemploy-
ment, to bring back our financial system
to order and efficiency. to bring the
Government the revenue necessary to
balance the budget, and to SO reduce
the costs Of Government that they can
be met by the taxes an impoverished
people can pay, feel sure that Con-
gress will meet the Presidents desire
and give him wartime powers. I be-
lieve this because 1t is manifestly absurd
to ask the President to do the things
that must be done and at the same
time to deny him the authority for do
ing them.
I. for one, have no idea of this re-
sulting In dictatorship, other than the
dictatorship Of hard common sense,
courage and concern for the whole peo-
pie. Yet I suppose we frequently hear
the term applied in its despotic sense
by partisanS without a plan OF their
own, and who are perhaps fearful that
the interests with which they are par
ticularly concerned may have to share
IN the sacrifices that will have to be
made In the interest Of all. I am
thinking particularly of those who had
| reason to SILVER when President Roose-
welt said on Saturday:
Finally in our progress toward q re-
sumption Of work, We require two safe
guards against return Of the old
order; there must be strict supervision
Of all banking and credits and invest
ments; there must be an end to specu-
lation with other peoples money, and
there must be provision for an ade-
quate but sound currency"
Nobody who has followed even cur
sorily. the testimony adduced before the
Senate Committee on Banking and
Currency can have any doubt Of the
necessity for the safeguards the Presi-
dent invoked. There. 1t was disclosed
that men We had been accustomed to
regard as the highest type of citizens
took advantage Of the opportunity Of
their possession Of their depositors'
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Roosevelt told you that this was war
period, no less because the enemy
forces were the battalions of fear in
stead of tangible foe in arms against
us. He revealed that he would ask the
authority given to the Chief Executive
in such an emergency. There are not
many men who would unheSitatingly
seek such responsibility. but If we are
to make progress, only such a man
can accomplish the restoration Of in
dustrial and financial order. He must
have not only the vision to see what
Is required to straighten out system
now all awry, but the courage to apply
the remedy, no matter how drastic.
Time Vital Element.
Nor do I look for any reluctance on
the part Of Congress to grant him the
powers requisite. Congress, too is look
ing for leadership. The process Of get
ting a majority of sc Senators and 435
Representatives to agree on a particu
lar course is usually difficult, and in
such a labyrinth of possible paths as
are possible in such situation as that
we face, must be long drawn out. There
Is no abdication of congressional au-
thority in delegating the President to
act, any more than there was when
We clothed another President with war
powers. 1t is not case Of passing
the buck'-to use one expressive COL
loquialism. Congressman with their
varying local interests. biased by the
point Of view-or what they think is the
point of view of their constituencies
are reluctant to yield to the opinions
Of other congressman whose minds sug-
gest a different idea than their own.
Perhaps it could all be threshed out in
debate, but think of the time that
would be consumed in the process
Time is a vital element in the existing
emergency. With every bank in the
country practically under suspension
not because these banks are not SOL
vent, but because the psychology of an
alarmed population makes it impossible
for them to convert their assets into
cash swiftly enough to enable them to
meet the demands-we cannot wait
until the varying views of hundreds of
Independent minds can be brought
into harmony. The business paralysis
must be treated promptly lest it be-
come chronic. do not feel called
upon to apologize for Congress. The
session that just terminated operated
under certain fixed rules, perfectly ade-
quate for ordinary times perhaps, but
not entirely suited to a period when
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cure the duplication Of services and
therefore cutting down the expense Of
Government and such matters. He isn't
seeking the power to Cypress any citi-
zen; he has no project for putting in
nocent people in JAIL he does not con-
template martial law. He does not pro-
pose usurpation Of the functions OF the
courts or interference with their de-
cisions. All he has in mind, as un-
derstand. is that he be permitted to
make a machine efficient again, that Is
laboring badly. and that might bring
wreck II repairing is not done promptly.
And he wishes to do this without the
hampering certainty Of having an I'M
limited debate every time he substi-
tutes sound bolt for a flawed one or
attaches brace to a part that has
demonstrated its weakness.
1t isn't lust Of power that moves
him: 1t is desire to get things accom-
plished before the machine collapses.
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funds to use them for their own pur-
poses In the stock market; capitalized
their own standing to market to the
public securities that they knew were
Of precarious worth, and have since
turned out to be practically valueless.
Certainly the old order that made these
things possible must be changed.
It Is nothing new to grant the Presi-
dent wide powers beyond those he ex-
ercises ordinarily. 1t has been done
In every war in which we have engaged.
So far as my reading Of history en-
lightens me. the broader powers have
never been abused. Nor has there ever
been a President who showed any re-
luctance to yield his per-authority
once the emergency had passed. On
the contrary, all of them were glad to
be rid Of the excess responsibility.
The President Is not likely to ask for
anything except as applies to balancing
the budget. making changes that will
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stringent legislation necessary for the
other phases Of restoration. We saw
repeatedly heads Of the great Govern
ment departments at the Capitol lobby
ing against cuts in their own establish
ments when Congress was seeking to
carry out the suggestions Of the then
President who was their chief. 1t Is
unnecessary to ascribe to these high Of
ficials either lack Of patriotism or con-
scious characterization. To every man
interested in his department the status
quo Of that department seems OF more
Consequence than anything else. He Is
perfectly willing there should be econo-
mics, but he wants the cuts to come In
other, and what he considers less vital
branches. Nor Is 1t always easy to
controvert their arguments. It Is the
same way with Congressman. There
will be less of this sort Of opposition in
the new Congress than there was In the
last, where neither party had . work.
Ing majority and the membership of
which was complicated by the pres
ence Of scores of legislators who had
lost their seats In the election and were
.hus less subject to party or admins
Necessary DISADVANTAGES.
The disadvantages indicated are In
separable from representative govern
ment, even though the value Of the
system compensates q thousand times
for its drawbacks. These are homely
details In the complications Of action
by large representative bodies. but they
illustrate some Of the reasons why it is
necessary to repose authority In some
body who can disregard individual in
terests for the sake of the greater good
Of helping the whole country. 1t does
not matter whether the contention OF
the hypothetical Congressman is called
selfishness or self-interest or loyalty to
his home folks, somewhere must the
power be given for an unbiased judg-
ment and there is no place to put that
power but in the hands of the PreSi-
dent Of the United States.
A variation Of this theme Is the case
Of blocs Of voters determined on special
legislation Of one sort or another. The
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the sternest measures are required to
bring the budget into balance, and thus
remove the key-log from the industrial
and fiscal jam, and the perhaps equally
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ideal Congressman would be Indifferent
to the pressure Of such influence, but
it would be foolish to deny that in the
past It has dictated legislation. or to
assume that It will be impotent in the
coming Congress. II Congress proves
UNEQUAL to the task of resisting the
pressure, there Is another reason that
the President should be given tempo
rary but extraordinary powers.
Perhaps all this discussion Is unnec-
essary; perhaps there will be no occa-
sion for the exercise OF executive super
power, and that Congress will do its
part with sufficient celebrity to relieve
the President Of some Of the burden he
il so CALAMITY willing to assume. The
existence of Q real party majority in
both Houses promotes this thought.
There Is real potency in party spirit.
Many legislators have bowed to a eau
Gus decision in preference to continuing
ON their own course. The outlook Is
for q harmonious Democratic majority
eager to carry out the wishes Of its
President. Mr.. Roosevelt himself ex-
pressed this hope In his inaugural ad-
dress when he said he would recon-
mend to Congress the measures he be-
lieved were required. and he said at the
same time that such measures as Con-
gress might itself offer along similar
lines he would seek to bring t , speedy
adoption. Then he added:
But in the event that Congress shall
fail to take one Of these two courses,
and In the event that the national
emergency is still critical. shall not
evade the clear course Of duty that will
then confront me. shall ask the Con-
gress for the one remaining instrument
to meet the crisis-broad executive
power to wage q war against the emer-
gency as great as the power that would
be given to me If we were in fact in
vaded by foreign foe"
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Leadership Recognized.

think every American citizen who
heard or read those words felt the thrill
OF them. They were the answer to his
prayer for leadership, for they told him
that there had come to the head Of the
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An ideal combination for
the small apartment or
home. Covered in attrac-
tive cretonne. Three pill
lows included.
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LUCKY Beat Washington and Harvard and Ddt0ut
COLGATE'S STREAK
ENDED BY % TIE
Lafayette 0utpIayed, Wards
Off Five Thrusts Near
GoaI-Punts Tell.
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
T HAMILTON, N. Y, October
Fl 28.-Colgate's record of
/ i consecutive victories was
snapped today as fight
ing Lafayette eleven held the
Raiders to a scoreless tie.
Although Colgate was in posi-
ton to score at least five times,
each time the Leopard defense
Stiffened and throttled every COL
gate scoring play.
Colgate definitely outplayed the Leop-
ards. but lacked the scoring punch
whenever it came close to the goal line.
The Red Raiders passing attack was
about the only effective weapon Charlie
Soleau could call upon, but even this
weakened whenever it might have pro-
duced a tally. Lafayette took the ball
away from the Raiders on downs, on
intercepted passes and grounded passes,
and generally played all air-tight de-
fersive game when it had its back to
the wall.
WITH Soleau, Fritts and Lyon
w doing some great running, the
Raiders brought the ball down
to the Lafayette 11-yard marker in the
f1rst period, only to lose the ball on
downs. Lafayette altered its defensive
tactics of the first period and launched
dangerous ground-gaining attack in
the second quarter, with Wright and
Mas doing most of the running. In
the closing minutes the LeopardS took
70 the air and ended the period by
advancing the ball SO yards.
Two great punts by Irwin and Mas
drove the Raiders from the goal line
IN the third period, even though it
looked as If the Raider attack were at
last functioning. Colgate had the ball
for the greater part of the last period
and spent most Of its time throwing
passes in an attempt to push across a
score. interruptions by the alert Loop
ard secondary ended both Raider
threats in this period.
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AUBURN IS winner
OVER TULANE, 1}7
Losers Have Ball on 5.Yard
Line After Long March
When Tilt Ends.
BY the Associated Press.
n IEW ORLEANS, October 28.-

n EW ORLEANS, OCTOBER ID
M Tulane went down to de-
l Y feat, Is to 7, before Auburn
here today but two more
minutes of play might have told
another story.
With five minutes to go and the ball
in midfeld, Tulane opened a vicious
attack that carried the ball to the 5-yard
line when the whistle blew ending the
game. Auburn was paralyzed before
the passing and line attack, and time
alone prevented a touchdown that would
have tied the game and might have won
1t for Tulane by point.
Until the fourth quarter the Plains
men were clearly the masters, making
Tulanes game appear listless and at
times stupid
Auburn opened the game with fast
cracking attack and scored a touch
down in the first and second quarters,
while the Tulane stands groaneo' and
"beefed' Neither side scored in the
third quarter and the fourth opened
with simple straight foot ball.
Then Little Preacher" Roberts, who
was almost on the black list for his
costly fumbles in previous games, was
sent in. He opened a passing attack
and Tulane came to life. Roberts made
a 45-yard run that would have been
good for a touchdown but for the spec
tacular safety work of Williams, Au-
burns quarterback But from this run
by Roberts Tulane scored its one touch
down on a pass, Mintz to Hardy, and
Roberts kicked the extra point.
Evening star., 1933-10-29
''Irish" ScOreless Two Games
In Row for First Time in l0
Years as Pitt Wins by 40

quent throughout the last half, but
Pittsburgh's defense up forward, as well
as its ability to interrupt aerial attacks,
proved decisive in keeping Notre Dame
from scoring. Pitt intercepted five
enemy passes at critical moments and
knocked down as many others.
In the final quarter, after O'Dell had
broken up Notre Danes first real
threat by intercepting short pass on
Pitts 10, the Irish gave their supporters
a thrill with sweep to the Panther
8-yard line, touched off by a 54-yarG
return Of punt by Andy Pilney. sub
stitute back.
This put the ball On Pitts 33. A
pass, Lukats to Banas. gained 10 yards
and another missed a touchdown by
inches when Mazziotti raced into the
end zone only to have the ball skid
of his fingers. Pitt was penalized, Civ
ing Notre Dame another chance with
the ball on the opposing 8-yard line,
but Ormiston intercepted the next
pass few seconds before the final
whistle.
The ground gaining of Sebastian and
Izzy Weinstock, Pitt fullback. con-
tributed chiefly to the Panther margin
of 13 to in first downs and an ad-
vantage of 251 yards to 81 yards gained
by rushing. Pilney and Fullback Don
Elser were the only Notre Dame backs
able to penetrate the big, rugged Pitt
forward line which dominated most of
the pay and repeatedly broke up the
uncertain Irish formations.
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W0LFPACK MARKS UP
THIRD STRAIGHT TIE
All Scoring in &c Battle With
Davidson Is Done Within Space
of Three Minutes.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
n AIEIGH, October 28.-The North
X Carolina State College Wolfpack
came from behind in the third
quarter today to push over a touch
down against Davidson and gain a g.
to-6 deadlock. the third tie game for
State in the last three Saturdays.
Johnny Mackorell, Davidson quarter
back. in the third ouo rter snatched a
State pass on the Wildcat 15-yard line
and ran 85 yards to score
Stephens. State end. blocked Wing.
fields try for extra point by place kick
and Davidson held the lead by 6 to O.
The wolfpack. swapping into action,
pushed over a score within the next
three minutes Of playing time 10 tie
the score.
Receiving the kickoff. State drove
from midheld to the Davidson 17-yard
line, when Bob McQuage cfrcled his
own right end for score Rex began
the drive with two plunges through the
line for a first down. McQuage then
passed to Don Wilson to put the ball
on the Wildcat 17-yard line and Nc
Quage's dash around end for the score
was next In order.
Evening star., 1933-10-29
COLUMb|A'S LION
MAINS N|TTANY'S
Four FumbIes by BackfieId
Star Prevent Larger
Score Than $50.
BY tie Associated Press.

BY tie Associated Press.
n YEW YORK, October 28.-The
nj Columbia foot ball Lion
l Y tanned the Penn State Nit
tany Lion today into a
parlor cat with a 33-to-0 victory
over the visiting gridiron felines
before $4,000 shivering spectators
at Baker Field.
Beset with five fumbles and num-
Der of penalties in addition to an un-
pliable Penn line, Columbia ball car
riers were unable to gain impressively
in the first period. Plays that might
have developed into scores were marked
down in the debit column as the result
of four fumbles by Quarterback Cliff
Montgomery, ace of the team.
The law of averages eventually IA
vored Columbia, and from the second
period on the sky blue-shirted little
team rode at will over and through
Penn State
Al BarabaS Of Jersey City, N j., one
Of Little's brightest sophomore pros
poets. accounted for two Of Colunnbia's
i've touchdowrs- The 19o-pound half
Of the game and in the third period
plowed 8 yards through center for an
ether 8 points. He also played a stout
defensive g2rlc.