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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-02-11
Amendment Eight

Unless my memory Is altogether at fauIt 1t seems to me that Amendment Eight Of the Congti- tution of the United States pF0- vides that Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual plinishinesits inflicted" It may be that isi the labor of LlscardiiiR tile New Deal legislation the Nine old Men overlooked the Eighth Amendment. or it may be that they do not consider hanging for running off with 6 cop as 6 cruel and unusual plnish- ment. Its 6 copper Flvetted cinch that Mfr. dooch and Mir. Mix, as well ag ordinary citizens who are not even misdemeanants, think itis. "
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-02-11

Hard as 1t is to be neutral in war, it's harder in politics.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-02-11
A Thought for Today

Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in.- Isaiah 26:2. Truth is always congruous and agrees with ftself: every truth in the universe agrees with all otherS.-Daniel Webster
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-02-11
Chats and Camels

It is difficult for the average layman, the writer ct least, tQ fol- low tho line Of reasoning laid down by Justice MeIteynolds nnd the eight other members Of the court. If it would not, Do con- stTued as contempt of court the decision might well Do called Waeky and Q fine example Of straining at Q knat and swallow ing 6 camel. To compare tho car- Fying of and detention of a per- son for reward or ransom with the transportation of an officer Of the lew across state lines to keep him from making on arrest seems to the writer to Do the very pinnacle of abgurdity. The Supreme Court decides that "Ifoiding on officer to prevent the captors' arrest iB something done with tho expectas ton of benefit to the tranBgrcsBor' and "so also ig Kidnapping with the purpose to secure money The Court admits that tho benes fits while not the Baine are "siin. liar in their general nature" but the admission is rendered futile because tho Nine old Men afe Of the unanimous opinion that "lf the word reward, aB commonly understood, is not itself broad enough to include benefits expect- cd te follow the prevention Of aii arrest, they fall within the broad term otherwise. So # MessfB. deoch and Nix wind Up on tho gailowg with . rope knot under their ears it will Do because tho Supreme Court Of tho United States hes decided that tho inelu. sion Of tho word "othefwise" ill the Federal statute makes their execution conBtitutionally legal.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-02-11
BY WAYof NO HARM 1t.ts. by
 James William FitzP Patrick

txhe oomsnes opinions conclusions appearing below are thoso They no necessarily those oe Che editors Of THE DEMOCRAT they Co Do construed
 Invariably Ms . reflection oe their vlewpOtnt
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-02-11
Kidnapping Cops

Two enterprising youths named dooch and Nix picked ID 6 pair Of policemen in Paris, Texas and gayo them Q ride over tho state ilno into the town of Snow, Okla- hofna. Tho cops did not want to Do enforced guests in tho dooch- Nix fnotoFcaF because they had n mind pinching tho iads for soEne- thing they had done contrary 70 tho law of The Lone Star State. If there Was any riding to DO done it was intended to use tho local Black Maria for 6 vehicle With tho Paris policemen acting aB hosts. There ig no record ! have seen that MT, Nix or MT. dooch took 50 much ag the shine or the copg buttons or badges. They jiBt transported tho officers into snow end turned them loose. The ufis duly hospitable motorists, deoeh and Nix, may at some future date ind themselves being hanged py tho neck until they are very, very dead indeed.
 Enter the Lew le,
 fn i032. as an aftermath Of tho LindbeFgh case, c Federal laW Fe- iating to Kidnapping was enacted. TWO years later its teeth were sharpened by adding the words, "heldi for ransom or reward or otherwise" When, ultimately, tho gay cabalieros who tfanspoft- cd tho Texan bloodheufids Of the law from Paris and plunged them into Snow were appfehended they were tried for Kidnapping, found guilty, and sentenced to death. The record is silent as to how Motorist Nix felt about tho sens tence but Motorist do0ch had no intention Of taking the verdict tying down, 0r standing iiI. lIe appealed to the United States
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-02-11
Just Suppose

Just Suppose
 To what limits the opinion of the Supreme Court may DO stretched passes ordinary iIiag. inatien, Just suppose your gifl promised to 90 to . show i1 New York with you, that you bought the tickets from . eelcieneeiess gpecuIatoF, who set you back plen. ty, and ct tho last minute tho girl backed out of making the trip be- cause her feet ached. And gup- pose you coaxed her Into your cor, drove her across the state line to New York, and there unable to eii- duTe her sqtiaWkg you turned ger loose. Is she was . meanie Ahe might have you arrested for ,kids mapping under the LindbeFgh statute and under the ruling ot the Supreme Court on the use 0f the word "etherwige" you might find yourself in the unenyiable situation of MT, 0Ooch and MT. Nix. It sounds ilonsensical put just keep in mind that the youths who took the Texas policemen for Q ride into Oklahoma never dreamt they were irdulglng iii Kidnapping. They know better now but what help the acquired information will Dc to them 1g' pr0blematicai. It iA unpleasant enough t0 De hanged for the cof1- mission of 6 murder or c kidnai,- ping, ag that crime is, in the lan- guage Of the Supreme Court Scomnaoniy understoodv. But to Do Dit out of existence on she strength Of asl Adverb is not only unpleasant but an anti-climax.
Evening star., 1936-01-17
HILDEBRANDT DENIES
SULLIVAN'S CHARGE
South Dakotan Calls Attention
to Letter Concerning
School Probe,

Representative Hildebrandt, Demo-
crat, of South Dakota wrote another
letter yesterday to George E. Sullivan,
chairman of a Special Anti-Com-
munism Committee of the Federation
of Citizens Associations, denying he
had accused the organization of being
reactionary.
Hildebrandt called attention to a
paragraph in his recent letter to Chair
man Norton of the House District
Committee, commencing her for op-
posing an investigation Of alleged
communism in the public schools.
The paragraph read:
1T is my observation that the noise
and fuss about communism in the
schools comes mainly from reactionary
or plutocratic interests that want to
distract attention away from their own
exploitation of the people. Unfor-
tunately, it is abetted by well-meaning
citizens who are miSinforned and
frightened by faxed yarns in the
poison-pen type of newspapers. Per-
sonally, I fear no danger from radicals,
although I consider there is real
danger from the forces of what Presi-
dent Roosevelt ably called 'entrenched
greed
/. Hildebrandt explained that since his
letter to Mrs. Norton was not pub
Ilished in full, misunderstanding Of
its purport resulted.
/; II still think, however" Hildebrandt
.declared, that Mrs. Norton's position
lis correct in refusing to sanction such
ian investigation as you favor"
Evening star., 1936-01-17
INCREASE IN NAVAL
: RESERVE REQUESTED
Rear Admiral Andrews Urges
Maximum Peace Limit of
$4,000 Men.
by the Associated Press.

sBy the Associated Press.
. A maximum peace-time Naval Re-
s:serve of 10000 officers and $4,000
men, compared to present strength
: of $500 officers and 1925 men, was
RECOMMENDED to Congress yesterday
I by Rear Admiral Adolphus Andrews,
chief of the Bureau of Navigation.
. He told House Committee Presi-
sdent Roosevelt had approved an in
crease of about $1,200,000 in next
syear's budget for expanding the
sReserve.
: The committee is conducting hear
sings on q bill to increase the Reserve
to the full strength permitted under
sexisting treaties.
Andrews asserted that in event of
swar the Reserve personnel would have
: Important roles, particularly during
! the first 120 days.
He recommended an expansion Of
3 Reserve Officer Training Corps regula-
tions to permit 2,400 men instead of
] 200 from that group to affiliate them
selves with the Navy. This idea was
sattributed by him to the President.
Evening star., 1936-01-17
KNOX HALLS COURT.
AS LIBERTY GUARD.
Chicago Publisher Claims
Socialist Platform
FoiSted on U. S.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
EAST LANSING, Mich, January
17.-Col. Frank Knox charged last
night that the Democratic admins
tration seeks "to handcuff the Su-
preme Court Of the United States and
to make over the Constitution"
I'VE remain Q free people today for
only one reason" he asserted, "the
presence Of the Supreme Court"
The Chicago publisher, who invited
Republicans to support him
Cor the Republican presidential nomi-
nation II Senator Arthur H. Vanden-
berg, Republican, Of Michigan, does
not seek the nomination. spoke at the
annual dinner Of the Michigan Press
hook-up.
The majority Of American news
papers are critical OF the administra.
ton, he said, because OF their dis
illusiopment in the President and his
New Deal"
Col. Knox charged that the admin
istration has "foisted" upon the
united states, "Wn0ily or IN part, Cne
IL principal planks OF the Socialist
platform
"The American people may well be
afraid of what is at the end OF the
road Of business and industrial regi-
mentation," he said 1T is one thing
and only one thing. That is So
cialism, with its inevitable dictator.
Left in q defenseless position by
It's own failures, the administration
now seeks to regain the offensive by
attacking an unnamed enemy in an
unnamed place" the publisher said.
There is a refusal to meet issues in
the open .. Instead it seeks to
confuse people by the moth-eaten
method of calling names, Of making
unfulfillable promises, just as for
nearly three long years 1t has been
doing"
Evening star., 1936-01-17

died by the land grant colleges in order
to free agriculture Of politics and the
vast bureaucracy now loaded upon the
farmer. This work should be CO.
ordinated by a non-political national
board. The cost should be borne by
the general taxpayer and not loaded
upon the poorest Of the country
through some tax Ike the processing
tax Otherwise this method will again
be subterfuge Of pinkish national
planning under another alphabet.
Subsidy Does Not Destroy
Initiative Of Receiver.
Somebody will shy at the blunt
word subsidy" And, in fact, the
American people have been going all
around Robin Hoods barn rather than
use it. Over q century ago we began
it in canals and turnpikes. Since then
We have kept it up in railroads. high
ways. ships and aviation, and silver
mines and land reclamation--agricul
ture-we usually do it under some
other name than subsidy. We had
better begin to use straight words and
We will act straight. A subsidy is q
burden on the taxpayer, but 1t does
not regiment or destroy the initiative
or freedom OF the receiver-it Ia to
stimulate that.
In conclusion may I offer q word
Of personal emotion. It lies far be-
yond the land Of economies. I have
spent years in public service in many
countries during this most fateful
period of human history. I saw as few
men the backwash OF war upon the
common man of these countries. ]
saw at first hand revolution creep
ing in under promises of relief from
the agonies Of war destruction. I
have seen the insidious destruction Of
liberty by propaganda. have seen
suffering humanity sacrifice that lib
erty. the greatest Of all human
achievements, for an illusion Of Sc
curity. The farmers Of Russia sup
ported the Bolsheviki against the
newborn democracy on the promise
Of the land. Today they have the
choice of Siberia or the collectivist
| farms
I have seen freedom, the most
priceless heritage, torn from children
that this generation might escape its
responsibilities. I wish to say to you
unhesitatingly that our country has
been following step by step the road
through which these millions Of peo-
pie in foreign countries lost their lib
critics. Our farmers have had the
blessing of individual liberty in
greater fullness in their lives than
any other part OF even our own peo-
pie 1t was the farmers who fired
the first shot at Lexington. It must
be the farmers Of America who de-
fend that heritage ask you to
stop. look, and listen.
Evening star., 1936-01-17
ICKES SENDS TART
/ REPLY TO HOOVER
Admits Error Regarding Un-
: constitutional Laws, Hit.
!! ting Do-Nothing Regime.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Admitting he was under mis-
taken impression" when he declared
recently that three laws signed by
Herbert Hoover were declared uncon-
stitutional, Secretary of the Interior
Ickes yesterday sent a tart acknowl-
edgement to the former President. VINO
had demanded a correction.
"I am all the more willing to ac-
eept your statement that no law
passed during your administration has
been declared unconstitutional in view
of the fact that that administration
was notable as a do-nothing admins
tration.
"I should have recalled that at
tempts to meet any Of the critical
economic problems were negligible
during your administration. 1t is en-
tirely constitutional to do nothing"
Speech at Rochester.
IN a speech at Rochester, N. Y. be-
fore A. A. A. was invalidated, Ickes
had said the Supreme Court had ruled
out five New Deal laws, and called
this "a fine showing when one con-
siders the desperate plight Of the
country on March, 4, 1888. and the
remedies to save the life of the
patient"
The cabinet member had added
that three laws signed by Mr.. Hoo
yer were invalidated, seven under the
Harding administration and seven
under the Coolidge regime.
In his letter, which he. told re-
porters he wouldn't characterize as an
"apology." Ickes said his statements
were based on figures, that had al
ready received wide currency and
which had been uncontradicted."
He has since learned, he continued,
that three adverse decisions rendered
during the Hoover administration
were against statutes enacted prev
aously. and added:
II am sorry indeed, no less on your
account than on my own. that this
information was not reliable, as had
every right to expect it to be-"
Allegations Extreme.
The Ickes letter continued, with
reference to the Hoover telegram seek
ing a correction:
IF I may say so the allegations
and untruthful statement and 'falsity'
are extreme. They do not admit that
there might be an honest mistake.
IckeS explained that Mr.. Hoover's
telegram of January II was received
during his absence from Washington
and that he had postponed a reply
until he could see the original. The
letter was sent to Mr.. Hoover's home
at Palo Alto, Calf.
Evening star., 1936-01-17

Fourtner has announced that Ann
Cooper Hewitt, who accused her
mother, Mrs. Maryon Cooper McCar-
ter, Of duping her into q sterilization
operation, probably will be q witness
when mayhem accusations are pre-
sented to committing magistrate.
Fourtner said other witnesses would
include nurses who attended the
young heiress after the operation,
which she charges was part Of O plot
by her mother to gain control Of .
trust fund,
Evening star., 1936-01-17

You'll profit in style and quolty as we'll
os in octuoI cash sovinesi Among the
fomous names on sale ore Brittany Weoves,
BrombIe Twists, DuffIin Tweeds, Lomonoro,
Worunbo, PoIoro CIoth-in every style
worth wearing.
Evening star., 1936-01-17

1dIAOH Iido AiduC PlOSicSS SO!cly IIlIOuSH
producing more and more of varied
things. The whole history Of human
ity has been struggle against famine
and want. Within only the last half
century America achieved triumph
in this age-long struggle by the crea-
tion of a system which at last can
produce a plenty for a reasonable
living for all of us. We have not solved
the problem of its distribution, but in
this plan Of scarcity we are surrender
ing the very foundations of human
hope.
The third reason was that the proc
essing tax levied to support this pro-
gram bore most heavily upon the
15,000,0 600 workers homes. It was an
undeserved burden to those women
struggling to feed their men and their
children. But the worst of that
scheme was that it set boiling the
witches cauldron of class conflict of
town against, the farmers. This tax
should never be revived.
PART II.
rarm depression came
From War, Not Hoover.
The causes Of the farmers troubles
must be honestly faced If we are to
have common-sens remedy. Economic
patent medicines require no diagnosis
except decision that the patient Is in
pain.
The difficulties of our agriculture
came mainly from the war and It's
hectic aftermaths. Wars always do
that to the farmer. Decentralization
lasted 20 years after the Napoleonic
wars and a dozen years after our own
Civil War.
I am glad that the President at
last admits that the war had some
thing to do with the farm depression.
At Chicago. on December Q, 1885, he
says, In referring to farm prosperity
Evening star., 1936-01-17
YOUNG G. O. P. TO MEET
National Directors to Plan Pro-
gram for Republican Groups.

gram for Republican Groups.
National directors Of Young Repub-
licans will meet at the Mayfower
Hotel February and 4, it was an
nounced yesterday by J. Kenneth
Bradley and Miss Dolly Madison, di-
srectors of the Young Republican
division Of the Republican National
Committee.
The purpose of the meeting, 1t was
said, Is to perfect program Of pub
iicity, organization and other actiyi-
ties for the. young Republican organi-
cations throughout the country, which
will carry the work UP to the time OF
the Republican National Convention.
Evening star., 1936-01-17
HEWITT GIRL EXPECTED
TO APPEAR AT TRIAL

Mayhem Accusations Against
Mother Charged with steril-
ization Fraud.
NJ the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, January IT.
Assistant District Attorney August
Evening star., 1936-07-22

dent, New England should supply the
Vice President. 80 they nodded to.
ward the patriot Of the first Cont.
mental Congress, Americas first Min
lister to Great Britain. despite that
some didn't like him. They called him
vain, q lover Of nobility. certain to
make q fuss over ceremonies.
Under the system that then existed,
the electors Of each State chose two
men. When all of the votes were
brought together into the Electoral
College and tabulated. the man who
received the largest number Of votes
was President. The man receiving
the second largest number was Vice
President. The electors voted unani-
mously for Washington and split their
votes for Vice President Washing.
ton got SO electoral votes from the
10 States. Adams had "a. The re-
mainder were split among 10 men.
A few months after the election,
Washington went on a tour of the
Eastern States. He was received with
tokens of extrayagant affection
throughout New England.
Despite that the party lines were
taking shape during the first four
years of Washington's administra-
ton, even the anti-Federalists did not
oppose him when the time came
around for the electors to rededicate
the presidency to him. Even they
did not want him to follow his own
desire and retire to Mount Vernon.
Alexander Hamilton, Federalist
leader, now favored Adams, whom he
had fought before the opposition, now
! beginning to take the name of Re-
! publicans, concentrated In an effort
to elect George Clinton Of New York
instead of Adams. No record has
been unearthed of any caucus or
meeting at which such a decision was
reached, but the word was passed
around.
Fifteen States took part in this
election Of 1872, Rhode Island and
North Carolina having ratified the
Constitution by this time and YER
mont and Kentucky having been ad-
mitted. Washington was reelected
uIldIllIllUuSly Will loS tleCVOIdl NOtcS.
Adams came back with n electoral
votes, representing. in the main, the
strength of the Federalist party.
Party Favored Adams.
The result drew distinct line be-
tween Washington and Adams. Wash
ington was the choice of the whole
people, Adams the selection of q party.
1t was the last time that the country
was to have a President who was re-
| sponsible to no party.
And SO Washington might, perhaps,
have remained until his death. Many
still were hoping that he would accept
third term and retain the presidency
as late as September. 1895, when he
issued the first 'I-do-not choose to-
run" statement in the form of his
farewell message.
Despite this apparent desire for
Washington to remain in Office, how
ever, the course of his administration
had whipped up better antagonisms
Evening star., 1936-07-22

and set the partisan fires to burning
brightly on q hundred hills.
And In Q campaign that turned dev-
astating flames upon the national hero,
there were no cooling draughu Tor
lesser persons.
At the base Of the Republican plants
was John jays treaty with England
which Washington had put through
to Senate ratification, and the insist
ence of the President upon neutrality
toward France.
Even before the farewell message.
popular agreement, without the AID
OF caucus or convention, was point
ing the course of the campaign.
The Boston Gazette Of September,
1898, q Republican paper. said:
1T requires no talent at divination
to decide who will be the candidates
for the chair. Thomas Jefferson and
John Adams will be the men"
When the votes were counted In the
Electoral College. Adams had been
elected by three votes. And Jefferson
was the runner-up, thus giving the
Federalist President Republican Vice
President.
Curiously enough. four Of the votes
were of questionable legality. And
they were the four that decided the
Evening star., 1936-07-22

presidency. Vermont had not enacted
. law specifying how the electors
should be chosen. But the Legislature
had named four electors and sent them
down to vote.
They voted for Adams, thus giving
him three more votes than Jefferson.
Adams. presiding over the Electoral
College as President Of the Senate,
stated the result and then sat down to
await Q protest against the Vermont
vote. Hearing none, he then declared
himself elected President of the United
States.
Evening star., 1936-07-22
Colored Catholics Picnic.

Several thousand colored members
of Catholic churches in Washington
and Baltimore held picnic and OUT
ing Sunday at Carrs Bearch, Md. It
is planned to hold the event again next
year.
Evening star., 1936-07-22
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Evening star., 1936-07-22
|:ElIll.lJl3 3J'l|:l;I;!
Avoid Intestinal
Fatigue

Many people suffering from In.
fCes.inal C Fatigue. commonly called
sonstipation, do not know what
It Is to feel good. One or two
E-Z Tablets for a day or two are
JUST what these people need. Thev
nave more pep" and step livelier
tnan IN years. Dizziness, tired
FEELING, headaches, when due to
constipation, disappear. Surely
makes difference. See for YOUR
self. You get so little E-Z Tablets
xor zse. At all good drug stores.
The Washington times., 1936-02-04

men to roll duckpinS, though he
never cared much for them.
Pop" Kreh, an old-time rival
and friend Of "Scotty," has q clip
ping which shows that Leutbecher
was high man with 329 in a duck.
pin match rolled at Stag Hall al.
leys on July %, 1908, and that he
averaged 1921 for the season, high
average for the league being $3.50.
'Scotty" participated in many
A. B. c. tournaments, winning his
share Of prize money. Having a
small hand, he had a special ten.
pin ball made which even now is
in the possession Of his son, Wal
ter Scott, jr., a Cleveland business
man.