The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-13

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 Mondays and Wednesdays the dish of the day is "Our Unbal- anced Budget with chicken live ers"; on Friday comes "profiteer- ing on Poverty with noodles; Sat- urday's special is, lately, "The Per" secution of General Hagood un- der glass; and on Sunday the piece de resistance is Roosevelt Dictatorship with dish gravy. But, whatever is headlined on the dinner card there is always, "The Destruction of the Constitution" boiled, fried, broiled, or ham, burgered. Whenever the g.o.p. short-order cooks run short of uncommon victuals the poor, old Constitution is dragged out of the ice box. pounded with 8 bung starter on the party meat block to render it digestible, and served sizzling hot in the particular style which the chefs urge of the moment suggests. Republican food specialists discovered shortly after the first year of the Democratic national administration unsus- pected nutritive values in the Constitution. They found 1t filled with vitamins A, B, o, D, and r, to say nothing of calcium, iodine, and captive carbonic acid gas. So they rescued it from the store- house of neglect where 1t had been hung on the hook of obsoleteness by past Republican governments. scraped the accumulated mould of It's exterior, tossed 1t on the radio and platform skillet. and have made 1t the standard item of Grand old Party diet ever since. The difficulty which the dietitians are now facing is that the custofll- CTS have been so fed to the teeth with the same stuff that they gag every time they hear the Consti- tuition mentioned.
 Inedible.
 You have to hand 1t to the paper which is the charter of our liberties for sheer refusal to be eaten. President Roosevelt's crit- ics have accused him 50 long and so constantly of chewing up the Constitution bit by bit that 1t seems incredible that any section of 1t has managed to escape his grinders. And what escaped the presidential incisors has been maSticated by Democratic con- gressional inolars and bicuspids. Section after section has been nibbled and amendment after amendment has been gnawed until the document looks like 8 slice of Sweitzer cheese. That is if you take any stock in the kitchen rumblings of The Crusaders, The Sentinels of the Republic, the Re- publican National Committee, the duPont Liberty League, the United States Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufac- turers, the Unkissed Dowieites, and the Amalgamated Association of Constitutional Tub Thumpers. In One Gulp.
 It was something of @ shock, therefore, to learn last week from the articulate representatives of the Republican party in the United States Senate and the House of Representatives that the Fourth Amendment which had hitherto avoided Democratic teeth had now been bitten of in @ hunk and swallowed in single gulp. The Fourth Amendment, let 1t be said, is quite 8 rnouthful to get away with as you will realize upon re-reading 1t.
 "The right of the people to be
 secure in their persons, houses,
 papers, and effects, against un-
 reasonable searches and sei-
 xures, shall not be violated, and
 no Warrants shall issue. but
 upon probable cause, supported
 by Oath or affirmation, and
 particularly describing the place
 to be searched, and the person
 or things to be seized".
 How come this priceless para graph of freedom to be engorged by the Constitution-devouring Democrats. It is @ long sad story but an effort will be made to tell 1t briefly and with due regard to the readers tear ducts.
 Don't Write, Wire!
 It will be recalled that during