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THE POST, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1940
Constitutions In Thirty-Four States,
Including Ours, Show Early America
Feared Perpetuating Political Rings
(A former Democratic Congressman from Indiana, Mr. Pettengill
is the author of three books, including the currently-popular “Smoke-
screen”. This is the first of a series of articles in which he discusses
the “Third Term Issue” for Post readers.)
By SAMUEL B. PETTENGILL
The other day an irate reader wrote me, with reference to
the third term. “What do we care for a mossback tradition?”
Apparently he does not care at all. His liberty came to him
without effort, and as old Tom Paine said, ‘What men obtain
too cheap, they esteem too little.” His patriot fathers won his
freedom for him. And now he who bore no arms in the conflict
SCIENCE MAKES SAUTERNE FROM MILK
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sneers that they learned nothing who fought.
High Adventure
With A Daffodil
It Was Gruelling Work
But It Paid In Beauty
By SARA EVANS KENT
Many years ago when I first be-
gan the difficult task of transform-
ing a wild rocky hillside, covered
shoulder high with brambles and
undergrowth, into a tame fertile
garden and was making slow prog-
ress with the job I read a magazine
article that described in enticing
terms the ease with which bulbs
-could be naturalized in woods and
open grass plots. Explicit informa-
tion was given concerning the varie-
ties to buy, and when and how they
should be planted.
I was so enchanted by the pros-
pect of a bountiful harvest of bloom
with comparative easy culture that
I straightway searched out the
bulbs and undertook to turn my
shaggy woods into what I imagined
would be something quite similar
to a beautiful English Park. Mag-
azine articles and the accompanying
illustration of garden subjects are
apt to be misleading and I have
learned by long experience to cross
my fingers whenever I undertake to
follow one explicitly.
Early in the autumn of my first
year after months of monotonous
digging and hauling, my garden
spirit from which much of the orig-
inal enthusiasm had departed wel-
comed the opportunity to have
abundant bloom somewhere on the
place without superabundant effort.
I opened a catalog that advertised
the bulbs I needed and found them
highly recommended and equally
highly priced. ‘Mixed Daffodils.
Standard Varieties.” It was suggest-
ed that a thousand bulbs would
make a modest show and since a
magnificent show was what I had
in mind I gave up several other
plans and ordered a thousand.
After they arrived I started out
one beautiful October day to plant
them with the help of a man who
seemed equal to so simple a task.
My plan at first was to use a trowel
The anti-third term tradi-
tion is part of the armor of
freedom. It is restraint against
the abuse of power. It is a part
of the general rule that limits
tenure in important office. As
such it finds many forms, writ-
ten or unwritten. Free men
have always sought means to
prevent political machines per-
petuating themselves in office.
In the brave days of old, the Ro-
man Consul could hold office only
two years. Julius Caesar violated
this law; caused himself to be re-
elected four times in succession;
and then for life. After him came
the Empire, and the fall of that Em-
pire.
The Fundamental Orders of Con-
necticut, the first American Consti-
tution adopted by her people 401
years ago, limited the term of the
chief magistrate to one year.
No generation of men were ever
so informed on government as those
who wrote and ratified the Consti-
tution of 1787. Nearly every one of
the first State Constitutions prohib-
ited the chief executive to hold of-
fice longer than for a short named
term—for example, Maryland, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia,
Delaware, Virginia and Massachu-
setts.
This principle, in one form or an-
other, is expressly written into not
less than 34 State Constitutions.
{Not less than 8o million Americans
{are today living in states where
| there are constitutional prohibitions
against governors and other officers
holding office indefinitely. It is more
than a ‘“mossback tradition.”
Recognized By States
For example, the Constitution of
Pennsylvania provides that,
governor shall not be eligible to the
office for the next succeeding term.”
New Jersey provides, ‘The gover-
nor shall be incapable of holding
| that office for three years next after
his term of service shall have ex-|
pired.” !
Louisiana says, “Nor shall the
governor be eligible as his own im- |
| mediate successor.” This prevented
|Huey Long from further ruining his!
' State when nothing else would have |
| prevented him. |
| Alabama, “The governor (and of
Ificers. are ineligible to! succeed |
|
to dig the hole for each bulb but | themselves.” Delaware, ‘the gover- |
that tool was soon abandoned for nor shall not be elected a third
an iron crowbar. To plant a thou-
sand bulbs in soft priable soil is | governor shall not be eligible for re-
punishment enough for the hardiest
gardener, but to ram a crowbar six
or eight inches into stone and hard
clay a thousand times was some-
thing I had never looked forward
to when I undertook the naturaliza-
tion of daffodils.
Eventually the holes were dug and
in the bottom of each one was put a
double handful of a mixture of half
sand and half bone-meal. The bulb
was placed on top of this mixture
and covered to the top of the hole
time to said office.” Florida, “The
election to said office the next suc-
see what blooms would come from
this blind date I had made in Oc-
tober. They came in ever increasing
numbers and lasted approximately
three weeks from the first to the
last bloom. They were equally
strong and hearty whether the
rains came or the sun shone. The
woods had not been transformed
into quite the park I had antici-
with loam and leaf mold. I had
selected a grass plot among some |
birches and pines, as soft and stone- |
less ground as I could find, but it
required days of plunging that
crowbar into the earth before the
job was finished. !
The following spring as soon asjcan be afforded.
pated but for me it was as beautiful
as any place could be in early spring.
No one needs a large piece of
land to enjoy naturalized daffodils.
Plant them along the stone walls
and fences, under shrubbery or ap-
ple trees and in as large number as
They are most
yeast and sugar to cheese whey.
Sauterne wine made from milk is sampled by F. C. Atwood of Boston,
J. W. Tickner (center) of New York and Dr. H. E. Barnard (right) of
Indianapolis, Ind., at the Mid-American Farm Chemurgic Council confer-
ence in Cleveland. The wine, produced by chemists of a large dairy cor-
poration, contains 15 per cent alcohol by volume.
It is made by adding
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LES WARHOLA APPOINTS
TWO ‘JIMS’ ASSISTANT
FIRE CHIEFS IN DALLAS
Chief Leslie Warhola of Laing
Fire Company has named Jim-
my Gansel first assistant chief
and Jim Besecker as second as-
sistant chief of Dr. Henry M.
Laing Fire Company of Dallas.
Add Woolbert, Jr., will con-
tinue to serve as an assistant,
too.
In making the appointment,
Warhola urged that more mem-
bers of the company turn out
to alarms and to meetings, so
they can be informed about reg-
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|
ceeding term”, Oklahoma, South
Carolina, Virginia and West Vir-
ginia have similar provisions. Geor-
gia, “The governor shall not be el-
igible to reelection, after the expira-
tion of a second term, for four
years.”
Mississippi, ‘The governor is in-
eligible to succeed himself.” Mis-
souri, “The governor shall be in-
«The | €ligible to reelection as his own
| successor.” New Mexico, “The gov-
ernor (and other officials) are for
two years ineligible to hold any
state office after serving two’ con-
secutive terms.”
North Carolina,
fice more than four years in any
term of eight years.” Indiana and
Kentucky have similar provisions.
In Oregon the Constitution forbids
a governor serving more than eight
years in any period of twelve years.
In Tennessee their fundamental law
says, ‘The governor shall not be
eligible for more than six years in
any term of eight years.”
From these and many other con-
| stitutional and statutory provisions
a principle is plain. Whether the
prohibition is one term or two
terms and no more, four years in
eight, six years in eight, eight years
in twelve, the men and women who
wrote and ratified these State Con-
stitutions wanted to put brakes on
political machines using office to
hold office. They wanted to prevent
the Tammanyizing of the State gov-
ernments. They were willing to take
the chance of losing the service of
a man they approved from entering
himself at the public trough for life.
It will be noted that the general
rule, as stated in these State Con-
stitutions, does not absolutely pre-
vent a man from running for a sec-
ond or third term. But only after
he has been out of office for two
or four years. Then, when he runs,
he runs as an individual. He does
not have the prestige, power, plun-
der and pap of an incumbent in of-
fice to reelect himself. He is pre-
vented from using the public trea-
sury as his campaign chest. It is
“Nor shall the this that some men call a ‘“moss-
governor be eligible to the same of- back tradition.”
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To Be Started Monday
The observance of/Fire Prevention
Week in Dallas Borough,” Dallas
Township, Jackson\_Towhship and
Lehman will be sponsored from Oc-
tober 7 to 12 by Dr. Henry M. Laing
Fire Company, which serves the
four communities.
At the regular meeting of the
company last Friday night Harry
Ohlman was named by President
Ralph Eipper to select a committee
which will arrange a program to
mark the observance. The week
will also see the opening of the fire-
men’s annual drive for member-
ships.
The same plan as last year will be
followed, except that it will be ex-
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man townships. Equipment will be
tested, school children will be given
inspection blanks to take home to
their parents, business properties
will be examined for fire hazards
and school buildings will be visited
for inspection.
For the first time in more than a
year, the firemen almost had to call
off their meeting last Friday night
because of an absence of a quorum,
but a few late-arriving members
supplied the necessary number.
Howell E. Rees was named chair-
man of a committee to plan a de-
fense corps for the younger mem-
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November 5 Presidential election.
Persons who want to register,
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correct their addresses can do so
at the court house. After Saturday
no new registrations will be taken
until following the election.
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Forty Fort cemetery after services
at Centermoreland.
A resident of Kingston for most
of her life, Mrs. Miles was a sister
of the late Rhys E. Miles. She is
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Edward Safford of Brooklyn, N. Y.
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