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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-21
Do You Remember Those Daus?

RUT with the arrival of prohibition the Constitu-
- ton and the authority of the government be-
gan to suffer in the opinion of the people Under
prohibition an amendment to the Constitution was
made the for the most brutal violations of the
constitutional rights of the ordinary people.
1t also turned out that his home could be raidcd
not his speakeasy, mind you-but his very home
where he lived with his wife and children on the
mere suspicion that he there possessed as little as
dram of liquor containing more than one-half of
one per cent of alcohol by volume
AT the slightest show of resentment the agents
OF the Constitution might slug him the head and
If the agents got excited they might kick his wife
IN the stomach before the eyes of the children That
was the sort of thing which the Constitution came
to represent to the people during Mr.. Hoovers many
years In Washington as cabinet member and Pres-
dent. And never, to this very day. has he been
heard to utter so much as a syllable in dsapproval
AS a result the people developed very cheap
opinion of the Constitution. Even Army officers who
are required, to renew their to the Constitution
every year, would do so with lie in their hearts
and go on drinking contrary to their word of honor,
which is serious matter to an Army officer.
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We Need RECOMMENDATION

IF the fearful ton Of death upon The highways is to
i be reduced we must cheerfully submit to far
greater RECOMMENDATION than exists at present. More
over the automobile in a Highly practical way, does
bring up the problem of states rights. In TACT,
think it shows them up.
Take for instances state which has strict law
about licensing drivers. It's neXtdoor neighbor may
be a state which goes the theory that anybody
who can buy car should have the privilege of get
ting in and trying drive it without let hndrance
Now this state which has endeavored to protect its
citizens more particularly its children. from incom-
petent motorists may find its road filled with the
tyrOs from the neighboring state.
Indeed 1 not any way in which we can
achieve reasonable regulation against reckless driv-
ing without some sort of Federal supervision And at
that precise point the Constitution would be bar
rier I am not even legal-minded layman but
venture to say that any sort of Federal licensing
system would be thrown out a violation of the
rights of the individual states
Copyright 1880.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-21
AbiLitu Deternlininq Factor

IT is exciting, suppose, to know that your can
Il go 90 miles hour or 100, and certain types of
individuals, as they legally entitled to
drive step on the gas and try it out.
The notion I have in mind is something like the
claSsifcations used by National Guardsmen. Each
year every member of the Guard goes to a rife
range and after his is counted up he is listed
maTksman sharpshooter or expert rifeman Why
not, then issue licenses in such terms freshman
driver" adequate driver, "skillful driver" and Eek
pert?
The classification could be shown on the license
plate itself and there might well be definite speed
limits for each class Thirty miles an hour under
any condition whatsoever ought to be enough for
the freshman driver. For the other classes you
might in a graduated process, go as high as legal
limit of so miles hour under certain conditions.
What 1 getting at is the undoubted fact that
speed which is not dangerous to an expert driver
may be highly perOus for a beginner. l think 1t
would not be impossible for the law to establish
these limits proportion to the ability of the man
at the wheel
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-21
WHO'S That Knocking at Ny Door,

DEOPLE who had never consciously violated the
Il Constitution in any other way violated it thou
sands of times the prohibition years and took
pride and delight in their defiance of the authority
OF the United States government. They even SYM
pathized with professional criminals They loathed
the brawling grating political vermn who were sent
out by Mr.. Hoover and his two predecessors to make
a pretenSe Of enforcing the law
1t was not partisan amendment Prohibition
originated in the Democratic South and drew from
the Southern clergy some of its most boodthirsty
advocates. But they more brutal than
tain Northern Republicans who were constantly offer
ing implements of torture to make the law more
painful and the Constitution more contemplate.
And throughout the life of the Eighteenth
Amendment its enforcement was in the hands Of
Republican Presidents including the one Who with
in the past week. deplOred the tendency to take
liberties with the Constitution.
Mr.. Hoover is right in respect-the Consti-
tuition certainly has lost dignity. Huey Long demon
strated that the people no longer regard it as a
sacred thing. But there is no man on earth or I'M
der it who has more individual responsibility for
that than Herbert Hoover.
Copyright 1885. by United Feature Syndicate Inc)
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Arrangements for just such a
role are already in the making.
The strapping, red-headed Ken
nedy has been one of the Presi-
dents advisers here, and he was
an influential acknowledgements
factor in the 1882 campaign.
Mr.. Kennedy is regarded as
peculiarly fitted for this mission
airy service because of his stand
ing with business and finance and
because of his belief in the fun
damental detectives of the PreSi-
dent. He makes an ideal 60
between.
However hopeless it may seem
at this time, Democratic strate-
gists are determined to try to
win back aienated business men
between now and the election. The
Presidents promise of a breath
ing spell" is not the only gesture
that will be made.
Mr.. Kennedy said here, in max
ing his farewell. that he was
through with politics. But by
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that, he made clear, he meant
government jobs such as the one
he is leaving. His prospective
missionary job will be as a private
individual. He said here that he
had no plans other than trip to
Europe with his family.
WIHEN Mr.. Kennedy former
w stock market operator,
came here he faced a din of
criticism from those who had
helped put through the stock mar
ket regulation act. He leaves with
commentator from those former
critics for a thoroughgoing job,
as we'll as from stock market off,
Gals for his fairness in admins
tering the law.
Speculation turned today upon
the Presidents choice to fill the
commission vacancy, and upon the
succession to the craftsmanship.
Commissioner James M. Lands,
who helped write both the stock
market and securities acts, always
has been acting chairman when
Mr.. Kennedy was absent. Another
prospect is the newly appointed
commissioner, James D. Rosa
utility expert-slnce utility regu-
lation is henceforth to be the
SECS major job, under the utili-
ties holding company act.
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ings, and thereby earning the
cordial dislike of some of the
veterans.
Strolling one day past the ros-
trum where sat Senator George
Moses of New Hampshire, presi-
dent pro tenn, the Michigan Sem
ator was addressed by that sena-
torial wag as "Kemal Pasha.'
The name stuck for quite a time.
TT reveals something Of the grow
u ing stature of Vandenberg, of
the respect and favor which he
has gained from his colleagues in
the intervening years, that he was
selected as his party's candidate
for president pro tenn, to succeed
the defeated Moses, when the
Democrats took over at the open
ing of the seventy third Congress.
1t was an empty honor, but a
tribute.
1t also was final vindication, in
a way, for the Michigan Senator's
attempt to clip the wings Of the
reactiOnary Moses for the insult
he offered to the western insur-
gent Republicans led by George w.
Norris of Nebraska.
At a dinner here to New Eng
land business men, Moses referred
to the western irregularS as 'sons
of the wild jackass." The riled
insurgents started a public back
fire in the Senate that cracked
for days. The party was split wide
open with a phrase.
Resentful of Moses supercilious-
ness, Vandenberg gathered the
Young Turks about him in a move
ment to GUST Moses from his
Craftsmanship of the Senatorial
Campaign Committee, the group
which directs campaigns for re-
election of Republican Senators.
A meeting of the campaign cot
mittee was called and Vanden-
berg and other representatives of
the custer movement filed in, their
scimitarS sharpened, to take off
the head of Mr.. Moses. Three
hours later they filed out, a some
what shame-faced Vandenberg at
their head. Moses head was still
intact.
HOWEVER, shortly thereafter
L l. Senator Moses was deprived
of control over Republican cam
paigns west of the Mississippi. SO
Vandenberg's venture had a meas
ure of success.
In other ways Vandenberg re-
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less man and given to lazy generalities. is merely
taking advantage of their missionary work. 1t might
be possible for him to put his program into effect
within the Constitution but that would be the hard
way.
Those of us who are old enough to remember the
period before the prohibition amendment will recall
that the Constitution seldom mentioned in
those days. 1t there like the air for our benefit
but was just taken for granted. Similarly, the au-
thority of the United States government was ma
jeStic thing Children grew up believing that any
one who willfully opened letter addressed to an
other person made chalk marks on green letter.
box was violating the Federal law and would surely
be tracked down and sent to prison
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fused to follow tradition and
keep himself in the background.
He found an issue in the failure of
Congress to reapportion its mem
bership. There had been no re-
apportionment since 1910.
His own state deserved four adj
ditional members on the basis of
it's growth in population. He
drafted what came to be known as
"the Vandenberg plan" and cam
paigned for it day in and day out,
finally taking his cause to the ma
ton over the radio. The reap
portionment was voted.
Another reform for which the
Senator is given much credit is
the bank deposit guarantee act.
Democratic financial experts, led
by Senator Glass of Virginia,
frowned on this proposal. But
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by Vice President Garner.
The Michigan Senator is al
most constantly in motion;
a tall, compactly fashioned
bundle of vigor at 81 who
puts meaning in his scowls
and good nature in his
grin.
His well-trained nose for news"
is still manifest in constant pry-
ing into the multifold problems
which the depression heaped high
about the Congress.
Because of his engaging person
atty, because he came from the
middle part of the country, be-
cause of his achievements, SEN
ator Vandenberg was talked of as
a possible presidential candidate
many months ago, even when the
New Deal was a national anthem.
n II
VXTHEN he was reelected in
w that dark Republican year
of 1884, one of the handful of
survivors of the Roosevelt by
election tornado, his name was
tackled up high on the list to stay
there until the Republican Party
in convention assembled renders
its decision.
Vandenberg's friends speak per-
suaSively of his availability" as
the politicians term it. He comes
from the right section geographic
cally, since 1t is now generally con-
ceded that the Republican NOM
inee will come from the Middle
West.
He is described as a moderate
liberal. neither a radical nor yet a
reactionary conservative. The re-
forms he has championed have
been along orthodox lines, such as
the bank deposit guarantee bill,
con e + eSsional reapportionment,
control of the munitions industry
and adequate neutrality statutes
to keep the United States out of
wars.
LIE followed the New Deal on
Il l. such reforms as SOCIAL security,
stock market regulation, help for
distressed farm and urban home
owners, but SHE'D away from some
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many political prisoners today as
it did under the hated deSpot. At
one time since Machado there
were more.
At BowbeIle. N. D., the CCC has
created a swimming lake, but
Harry Hopkins has turned down
PWA sewage and waterworks
projects. Local residents COM
plain: I'VE can swim two months
of the year and go dirty for the
next 10 months" Water has to be
imported for drinking purposes.
At the request of the State De-
partment, the Department of
Commerce has been keeping a
close check on the export of war
materials to Italy and Ethiopia.
1t shows that Italian purchases of
scrap iron, shell-making machin-
cry and motor vehicles have
zoomed skyward.
Ex-President Hoover has gone
air-minded. He recently made the
first flight of his career in this
country. He flew from his Palo
Alto home to San Francisco.
THE Administration is getting
Il a little uneasy about the ter
rifle battle between north and
south Florida over the canal, re-
Gently approved by Mr.. Roosevelt,
which will cut across state from
Jacksonville to the Gulf. Oppon-
ents of the canal. originally in the
South, now have spread to the
canal route, where they claim
thousands of acres will be ruined
by salt water.
Two prominent American am
baSsadors are waging a merry
little war down in one corner of
the hemisphere. They are Hugh
Gibson, ambassador to Brazil
Career diplomat, and Alexander
Weddell, ambassador to Argen-
tina Farley appointee) Trouble
arose when Mr.. Gibson was sent
to Mr. Weddell's post-Buenos
Aires-to help settle the Chaco
war. Mr.. Weddell resented the
intrusion.
A lot of interest attends the
sudden elevation of Paul Best,
messenger boy in the FILA, to be
administrative assistant to Stewart
Mcdonald. FILA administrator
He had been on the job oRly six
months. Some attribute the me-
teoric rise to the fact that Mr..
Best is president of the District
of Columbia Young Democrats.
Others claim it is his close friend
ship to ex-Administrator James
Moffett's younger daughter.
Copyright, 1885. BY United Feature
Syndicate. Iae.l
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Questions ard Answers

Q-Has Chicago passenger subway systemP
A-No.
Q-Give the past particple of swim.
A-SWum.
Q-why are orange blossoms worn by brides?
A-As a symbol of fertility because orange is one
of the most prolific of the fruit bearing trees.
Q-Can an American citizen be married in
Canada without losing his citizenship?
Ayes.
Q-Is man who deserts from the Army in time
Of peace liable to arrest?
A-For three years following his desertion, he is
liable TO arrest. and after that time he is not liable
TO arrest, providing that during those three years
he has lived within the United States under his
true name
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BY THOMAS L. STOKES
Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, Sept 21-NIichigan offers for the Re
publican presidential nomination Senator Arthur
II. Vandenberg, "a typical American who forced his way
prominence in the energetic pretty much according
to the Horatio Alger tradition.
He sold papers as youngster; began his long jour
naisc office boy the newspaper which he
served later reporter then editor and publisher advo
Gated and achieved reforms in the of his home
town Of Grand Rapids by persistent editorial budgeoning
and personal activity then stepped into the United States
Senate, where he fast became a national figure.
There his restless spirit and Unsuitable curiosity have
not been curbed by musty tradition He has reputa
ton busy aggressive fellow who gets things
done than many of his colleagues and is called Dynamite
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of the measures enviSaglng a
planned economy, such as NRA,
AAA, the Bankhead Cotton Act,
holding company regulation, the
Wagner Labor Act, the Guffey
Coal Act. He voted for the World
Court and against the $4,880,000,-
900 work relief bill.
He is for economy in govern
ment and advocated increased
taxes all along the line to begin
paying the cost of the depression.
Altogether he should be salts
factory to the eastern conservative
leaders, his friends assert.
He has been against much of
the New Deal, but is distinctly
against the Old Deal, and thus,
his friends say, he fits nicely into
the niche which the younger
element who would liberalize the
party are trying to fill.
His Republicanism is native and
instructive, and is colored with that
touch of idealSim which one dis
Germs in his colleague and friend,
Senator William E. Borah of
Idaho. His grandfather was a
delegate to the convention which
nominated Abraham Lincoln. He
has written three books about
Alexander Hamilton, his ideal. In
his youth he worshipped Teddy
Roosevelt.
LIE enjoys forays with new
4 i ideas, but never darts very
far from base.
Vandenberg has undergone q
slight metamorphosis since he
came to the Senate in 1923. He
still has a jaunty air, but is not
quite the same cocky figure who,
on his debut, was dubbed by
some observers as "a pouter
pigeon"
In his early senatorial days he
became identified with the Young
Turks" as they we're called, a
group of Senators fresh in the
yoke who resented the lack OF CO.
operation of the regular G. o. P.
leaders with President Hoover
They formed loyal guard that
journeyed frequently to the White
House for breakfast, promising
what they could not deliver,
soothing Mr.. Hoover's ruffled feel
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hPOAA OAlC VI O1AClli.
Notwithstanding their bitter
differences on legal and economic
issues, the nine members of the
Supreme Court seem to trust each
other personally. Their ward
robe cabinets in the robing room
of the new court structure are
without locks.
Inner circle New Dealers are
telling friends that one of the
most significant points of the
Presidents breathing spell" let
ter to publisher Roy Howard was
almost completely overlooked.
They say the letter contained an
implied, but very pointed, warn
ing to big business that the de-
mand for heavier taxes on large
corporations will be renewed. The
caustic expression sterile accu-
mutations" used by the President
in referring to corporation sur
pluses is considered of tell-tale
significance.
THE American Legion meeting
Il in st. Louis next week will
re-affirm overwhelmingly its 1884
demand for immediate payment
of the bonus. However, the veter-
ans will turn thumbs down on
proposals to link the bonus with
currency-inflation. Rep. Wright
PatmanS greenback bonus-paying
bill. passed by Congress this year,
is slated for a vigorous humping.
Over 35 state departments of the
Legion have rejected it in favor
of the Legion backed Vinson bill,
which would raise the needed
money by special bond issue.
So heavy has been the demand
for the special Boulder Dam
Stamp. to be issued Sept. %, that
the mail on that day from Boul-
der City, New. is expected to ex-
coed New York City'S.
Senate liberals. aroused over the
action Of Gov. McNutt in clamp
ing martial law on two Indiana
counties and using local police to
enforce the military rule, are talk
ing of a Senate investigation. Mr..
McNutt. a former law professor
who privately fancieS himself a
future Democratic presidential
possibility. finally has eaSed the
rigors of his bayonet- government.
although he has not withdrawn
his order.
THE State Department has
Il been able to bring back pros
perity to Cuba. but not to release
political prisoners. Although Mr..
Roosevelt interviewed for the pur-
pose Of Kidding the island of Ma
chado tyranny, it has about as
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EUEnouh
BY
WESIBROOK

HERBERT HOOvER'S low rumblng appeal for
L L the United States Constitution had a very
incongruous sound though a rooster had mooed
a duck had warbled. He is about the last man
from whom I would expect to hear defense Of the
Constitution unless he were meaning to be funny
And Mr.. Hoover never has been accused of owning
a sense of humor.
Looking back over Mr.. Hoovers Administration
President and the Administrations of his two
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-21
CITY FIRM AWARDED
2 BRIDGE CONTRACTS
Schutt Company to Build Span Over
Lick Creek.

R. L. Schutt Co., indianapolis
contractors, received two of five
bridge contracts awarded today by
the State Highway Commission.
The firm received a s10,A5755 con-
tract to erect one-span bridge on
State Road 40 over Lick Greek near
Cambridge City and an 80-foot
bridge on State Road 81 over Lick
Greek near ingalls, at q cost Of
sl3,625.73.
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immediate predecessors, L dlStlnct-
" recall that the Constitution and
the authority Of the United States
were first brought into popular
contempt by them. This is not to
contend that Mr.. RooSevelt's pro-
gram is constitutional. As Mr..
Hoover suggests, the New Deal
does look slightly unconstitutional
around the edges. But who is Mr.
Hoover to complain of that? On
the contrary, it seems to me that
Mr.. Hoover and the Messrs.
Coolidge and Harding before him
prepared the public to accept un-
constitutional government and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-21
Kennedy to Serve as
Missionary to Business
BY THOMAS L. STOKES
Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON 2Joseph Kennedy retes Monday
w Securities and Exchange Commission
missionary role in the 1886 Democratic
campaign He will support
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His touch and his COORDINATION
we're so superb that he was able to
keep the car under control. But We
know that in the case of many
drivers serious accidents result
from blowouts at speeds of 40 or
so or even 30 miles an hour. 1t all
depends upon the reflexes Of the
man or woman at the wheel.
Accordingly. might it not be
sensible to grade all drivers and
issue various kinds of licenses? We
do that to a certain extent in New
York City already. The test for taxi
drivers is far more severe than that
for a man who wants to drive his
own car. But I am thinking of