Evening star., 1934-08-01

On Friday of this week at Plymouth,
VT, will be staged ceremony which
Vermonters refer to as State wide.
This is exaggerated understatement.
The observance, unless all signs and
portents fail, will be Nationwide. The
chief speaker viii be a figure of ma
tional prominence-JameS M. Beck,
famed as lawyer legislator, orator and
authority on the Constitution of the
United States. Moreover, the radio
hook-up will be Nationwide No
American, after scanning the fore
going, will need to be told that the
ceremony will be a tribute to the
memory of Calvin Coolidge. The date
chosen is the eleventh anniversary of
his induction into the presidency.
There is a notable fitness. and time
illness as well, in having as the orator
of the day an eminent student and
expounder of the Constitution, for the
outstanding trait of Calvin Coolidge
throughout his long public service was
an answering devotion to the great
charter of our liberties, the Constitu-
ton.
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Gov Black of the Federal Reserve
Board was slated to resign and retire
July l. but is still holding on, pending
the naming of his successor. These
are busy days for the Federal Reserve
Board, which is called upon to sustain
the Government bond market and to
prevent any precipitate decline in
Government bond prices, as we'll as to
facilitate the floating of additional
bond issues. Gov. Black, according to
his friends. is exceedingly anxious to
rehnquiSh his burden. Tom K Smith.
st. Louis banker-who recently served
for time in the Treasury Department
as special. assistant to Secretary Nor
genthau.may be Gov. Blacks sue
cessor. He is highly regarded Dg the
administration. and in some quarters
is said TO be under serious considera-
ton" fer the headShip of the Federal
Reserve Board.
The echoes of the speech of Gov.
Ely of Massachusetts at the Cover
nors' Conference in Michigan last
week, calling for a return to rugged
individualism" and assailing many of
the new deal policies, which ne char
acterized as Socialistic, are still rever-
berating throughout the land BY
publicly lifting his voice in criticism
and advocating return to normalcy
Gov. Ely is putting himself in a
strategic political position when, as
and if the country SourS on the new
deal. Should any such turn eventuate
by 1886 and the Roosevelt policies be
in the discard. Ely's friends believe
the Democratic party might very well
turn to him TO be their presidential
standard bearer Gov Ely. voluntarily
rehnqmshing public office this year
and oStensibly returning to private
life. has nothing to lose by criticizing
the administration. He Is beyond the
reach of political punishment because
he is asking nothing politically So
he can cast himself in the role of
Moses with impunity mot ex-senator
George H. Moses of New Hampshire
but Moses of the Old TESTAMENT.
Friends and admirers OF Senator
Clarence c. Dill Progressive-D Democrat
AAOtIl w " SPSCu-
late respecting his announcement that
he proposes to retire from the Senate
at the end of his present term this
year and quit public life entirely.
| Whether Senator Dill actually returns
to his old home in Washington and
actually retires from politics remains
to be seen. Stranger things have hap
pened than for him to turn up some
day in the Roosevelt cabinet. Dill
was exceedingly active and effective in
rounding up delegates for Roosevelt
before the Chicago convention and at
that time was reputed to have been
promised second place on the Roose-
| velt ticket
The first installnsnt of Ted JOS
Inns recollectionS Of Herbert Hoover