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~ "1936 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 1043 '1'0 BE LIEUTENANTS . (JUNIOR GRADE) NORTH DAKOTA Ensign Chester L. Harding, May 15, 1934. Lincoln A. Hanson, Aneta. Ensign Roy E. Stockstill, May 15, 1934. Helen Morton~ Manning. Ensign Harold B. Roberts, May 15, 1934. Veronica F. Bimler, Munich. Ensign James R. Hinnant, May 15, 1934. Carl Jahnke, New Salem. Ensign Richard C. Foutter, May 15, 1934. Carl L. George, Sarles. Ensign Charles 0. Ashley, May 15, 1934. Bridget A. Hennessy, Tolna. Ensign Quentin McK. Greeley, May 15, 1934. omo Ensign Randolph Ridgely, ill, May 15, 1934. Ensign Arthur M. Root, Jr., May 15, 1934. Charles H. Mullen, Pomeroy. Ensign John T. Stanley, May 15, 1934. Lema M. Collins, Proctorville. APPOINTMENT . IN THE REGULAR ARMY WISCONSIN John F. Clancy, East Troy. DENTAL CORPS Anna Kettering, Glen Flora. To be first lieutenant with rank from date of appointment Charles E. Martin, Medford. First Lt. Edgar Gunther, Dental Corps Reserve. Exilda L. Greildahl, Sheldon. APPOINTMENTS BY TRANSFER IN THE REGULAR ARMY Samuel Dewar, Westfield. TO QUARTERMASTER CORPS Capt. Henry Hapgood Fay, Infantry, with rank from Jan WITHDRAWALS uary 8, 1929. Executive nominations withdrawn from the Senate January TO CORPS OF ENGINEERS 27 (legislative day of Jan. 16), 1936 Second Lt. Salvatore Andrew Armogida, Field Artillery, POSTMASTERS with rank from June 12, 1935. MASSACHUSETTS Second Lt. Paul Elton LaDue, Field Artillery, with rank from June 13, 1933, effective March 1, 1936. Mary A. Fallon to be postmaster at West Stockbridge, in Second Lt. Ivan Clare Rumsey, Field Artillery, with rank the State of Massachusetts. from June 12, 1935. OKLAHOMA Second Lt. Sidney George Spring, Coast Artillery Corps, Leonard C. Wiley to be postmaster at Glencoe, in the with rank from June 12, 1935. State of Oklahoma. TO ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT PENNSYLVANIA Capt. Emerson Leroy CUmmings, Corps of Engineers, with Russell E. Reese to be postmaster at Fredericktown, in the rank from August 1, 1935. State of Pennsylvania. · Margaret E. Malley to be postmaster at Wyncote, in the CONFffiMATIONS State of Pennsylvania. Executive nominations confirmed by the Senate January 27 (legislative day of Jan. 16), 1936 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES NATIONAL EMERGENCY COUNCIL . Lyle T. Alverson to be Acting Executive Director of the MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 1936 National Emergency Council. The House met at 12 o'clock noon. FEDERAL HOUSING ADMINISTRATION The Chaplain, Rev. James Shera Montgomery, D. D., Stewart McDonald to be Federal Housing Administrator. offered the following prayer: FAR.M CREDIT ADMINISTRATION 0 God, our everlasting Father, we thank Thee for the Samuel D. Sanders to be cooperative bank coriunissioner fidelity and for the surpassing wonder of divine love. We of the Farm Credit Administration.· pray Thee to clothe us with that spirit of charity that thinks POSTMASTERS no evil, that loves not suspicion and is slow to detect it in men. We pray Thee to deliver us from downward-weighing IDAHO temptations that root us in pride and selfishness. Heavenly James W. Christensen, Downey. -Father, the cries of suffering ones are in our ears; they are U.LINOIS overcrowded with privations and driven out of courage. Do Jacob Feldman, Batavia. Thou direct human hands to turn their way, lingering early Harold F. Kuettner, Dundee. and late with rich blessings. Crown the Congress, we beseech INDIANA Thee, with wisdom and with the wealth of mind and heart Bessie L. Gage, Ashley. that bring forth the fruits of happiness and contentment. MAINE Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Fred S. Littlefield, Brooks. The Journal of the proceedings of Friday, January 24, Adrian F. Kelleher, Camden. 1936, was read and approved. Carlton R. Barlow, East Boothbay. MESSAGES FROM THE PRESIDENT Arthur H. Carpenter, Limerick. Herbert L. Osgood, Mattawamkeag. Sundry messages in writing from the President of the Clara M. Colcord, Stockton Springs. United States were communicated to the House by Mr. Latta, one of his secretaries. MARYLAND Mr. WOODRUM. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent Lena S. Townsend, Girdletree. to address the House for 30 minutes on the state of the Union. Jacob H. Reinhardt, Lansdowne. The SPEAKER. The Chair wishes to state that we are Turner B. Waters, Severna Park. about to take up an appropriation bill on which there will be MASSACHUSETTS general debate. The gentleman is a member of that com Maynard N. Wetherell, Chartley. mittee, and I think, with all due deference as a Member of NEW JERSEY the House, the Speaker has the right to interpose an objec tion. Edmund H. Carpenter, Woodbury. Mr. WOODRUM. Mr. Speaker, I am quite willing to with NEW YORK draw my request and ask for time in general debate. Henry Karchmer, Kiamesha. The SPEAKER. The Chair thanks the gentleman fox: Helena F. Cuatt, Mohegan Lake. withdrawing it. 1044 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-. HOUSE JANUARY 27 WffiCH CONSTITUTION?-AL SMITH KNOWS, OR OUGHT TO KNOW. stone. The Constitution of the United States is a living THE ABSURDITY OF HIS STATEMENTS document, affording a general statement of basic ideals and Mr. HILDEBRANDT. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous con- outlining a framework for our Government, but specifically sent to extend my remarks in the RECQRD. authorizing adoption of new articles and sections to meet The SPEAKER. Is there obj~ction? new conditions. There was no objection. "Reverence!" . Tha~ to my common sense I have too Mr. HILDEBRANDT. Mr. _Speal;ter, "Alfred E. Smith, of much reverence for the authors of the Constitution to believe America"-as he was characterized in the introduction, that they did not expect it would undergo numerous altera although his conception of America is now plainly that of a tions in the course of decades and centuries. To contend plutocratic, Wall Street owned America, rather than the lib otherwise would. be to accuse them of intellectual inferiority eral America he once championed-made a speech the other to the average high-school student. night, with 12 members of the Du Pont Powd~r Trust in the When they provided for changes they thereby established audience. the clear contrast between the new American Republic and The man we have so generally liked personally and· for the governments of the Old World, which had rested upon whom we have had such affectionate regard in the past came the assumption that every government was ordained by the before the Nation in the role of a foe of social-security legis Almighty and should continue without modification unto the lation and a defender of reaction. Mask his motives as he end of time. might, praise the purposes of the American Liberty League Contrast the remarks of Governor Smith with the state and its clique of millionaires and billionaires as he might, ments of Thomas Jefferson-also of America as well as of there could be no mistaking why he was speaking and what Democracy-when Jefferson asserted that no society should he was attempting to accomplish. Glittering generalities and have a perpetual constitution or a perpetual law; that a new bombastic boisterousness about one's patriotism do not prove constitution would be desirable about every third of a cen that what he is championing is best for his country. Because tury; and that sometimes "a little revolution is a good thing a man has come from humble beginnings on the sidewalks in any country." of New York it does not follow that he is now allied with the Contrast. Mr. Smith's words with those of Thomas Paine, poor and the exploited. In this case quite the contrary is who ranks with-Jefferson, Patrick Henzy, and James Madi true. It is a far cry from the AI Smith who once fought for son as ·-one of the greatest oi- the founders. All of us are the victims of hard-hearted industrialists to the AI Smith of aware what a vast part Paine played in the formation of an 1936, who consorts alniost exclusively with the Bourbons and independent nation here on the Western Hemisphere. Paine, Tories of the United States. answering those who held that the Colonies should not sever Conspicuous was the slight mention of workers and relations with Great Britain "because America hath flour farmers. He talked about the Democratic platform and ished under her former connection", wrote in his trenchant sought to prove that its promises have not been kept, but style: he did this not in the sense of urging more progressive and Nothing can be more fallacious 'than this kind of argument. We social-justice laws but in a deliberate vein of fault-finding. may as well assert that, because a child has thriven upon milk it It was his obvious object to tear to pieces the administration is never to have meat, or that the first 20 years of our lives is to by harping on expenditures for the hungry and homeless and become a precedent for the next 20. tryi.Iig to brand them as evil and extravagant. His attempt An excellent presentation of the view that the Constitution to raise a red scare by calling the moderate reforms of the is not static. but subject to alteration in the course of prog Roosevelt administration "communistic" and "coming from ress was made by Atorney General Homer s. Cummings in Moscow" was what the better AI Smith of the olden days his address on The American Constitutional Method before would have bluntly stigmatized as "the bunk." the New York City Bar Association December 18, 1935. In AI Smith knows the absurdity of statements about the the closing paragraph of General Cummings' speech is found Supreme Court settling the significance of the Constitution. more wisdom, more vision, and more democracy than could He orated in raucous roars about the legislation that, accord be discovered in a thousand violent outbursts like that of ing to him, did not conform to the basic law.