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Ever since President Roosevelt called the first Governors' Conference at the White House in 1908 to discuss protection of national resources, state executives have been meeting periodically to discuss their executive duties, to eschew all controversial matters, to have a sociable time. This year's Conference, held last week by 22 Governors assembled in New London, Conn., bubbled with unusual excitement when Gov. Franklin Delano Roosevelt of New York injected into it a letter on Prohibition which he had obtained from no less a personage than George Woodward Wickersham, chairman of President Hoover's National Commission...
...borne the brunt of [Dry] enforcement. It seems to me the Governors' Conference might well consider approaching the Federal Government on some feasible proposal to share this burden. If the National Government were to attend to preventing importation, manufacture and shipment in interstate commerce of intoxicants, the State undertaking the internal police regulations to prevent sales, saloons, speakeasies and so forth, national and state, laws might be modified so as to become reasonably enforceable and one great source of demoralizing and pecuniarily profitable crime removed...
Thick and fast flew the questions at New London. Was Commissioner Wickersham demanding that all States give more material assistance to the U. S. on enforcement? Or did he hint at local option, with each State free to deal with Prohibition as local sentiment dictated? The words "modify" and "reasonably enforcible" caused Dry Governors to bristle with hostility...
...come from a State that rocked me in its cradle of States' rights and I stand for States' rights but the question of States' rights is not involved here. It is in the Constitution. ... I come from the great Democratic State of South Carolina but . . . the Republican party has given us a great President and I believe he is going down in history as one of the greatest Presidents [because] he stands for civic righteousness and enforcement of the law. ... I want to make this statement fearlessly while I stand on my feet: The great South...
Oliver Max Gardner, at 47, is North Carolina's youngest Governor. Cottonmill owner, lawyer, farmer, he plays a left-handed game of golf, is fondly called "Max" by most Tarheel voters. At North Carolina State College he was a famed football player. Twenty years in Democratic politics, grey-haired, handsome, easy-mannered, he was elected last year without turning Hoovercratic to please bitter little old Senator Simmons...