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NINE i- High Spending Mark Posted By Congress fto Wwi Herm fir Session That Bcqan With Ideas Of Economy Sets Record Not Only for Funds Voted But for Time of Work. ROS68URS NEWS-REVIEW, ROSESURS. -WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1940, Tate By ALEXANTtEll Jl. OEOIinR ' AP I'Vufucf Service WrJ(r WASHINGTON. Tim- 7IU con Kraut sliiitfil lis 194H grind an a "briof, btidgot mimlwi" sossion Jmt it has turnml out to bo the 1111 challpnged No. 1 spender In U. S, peacetime history. Originally figured to corn to a close in Jmio, the session Imb con tinued luter into the full thitn any In a general election year since 1888. Hvo months ago, economy minded members voiced aii henslon at prospective total aii propriatlons for th year of 57,- Came the conquest of France. Congress started voting speedy and aimost unanimous approval of billions for defense. Appropriations for tha session will run around $17,00.fl()(l,W0. Previous peacetime murk was $13,351,100.(100 set by tho samo congress at its session last year. Highest In 1918 Highest wartime mark was $27, , (i.(,000,0o0 voted by Colli con gress In 1918. Somo $12,149,000,000 of this year's $17,000,000,000 will go for nntional defense. This does not in clude future expenditures for the two-ocean navy athorlzed by congress which would bring the total arranged for defense outhy to about Jl(!,OW),i)00,000. Thirty-odd legislative measures provide for military and uav.it equipment ranging from buttons to battleships and from forks to flying fortresses. From June 1 to October 1, con gress voted defense funds at the rate of $S2,536 a minute for every minute, night and day. The 7fith congress also made history by ordering the mobiliza tion of military manpower on a scale heretofore unapproaehed in peacetime. The conscription law called for the registration of more than 1U. r00,00u men every eight person in tho country for selective mili tary service. More Income Taxes Tho defense tax law, designed to raise $1,006,000,000 a year, puts the heaviest federal tax load on U. S. citizens since the world war. An additional 2,050,00ft. persons Willi small Incomes will become federal taxpayers next March 35. Kxemptlons are reduced and a . "super-tax" of 10 per cent is . added, . . Congress also boosted by 10 per cent most of the excise taxes on tobacco, liquor, autos, tires, ra dios, etc. A rfVno - war - millionaires' law puts' a graduated tux of 25-10-50 per cent on excess profits. A 3.1 per cent levy is added to the nor mal income tax rate for corpora tions earning more than $25,000 making tho effective rata 21 per cent. Congress voted $01S,000,000 for farm aid; $1,157,000,000 to finance relief for at least eight months beginning last July 1. It tightened the Hatch act, ex tending to federal-state employes restrictions on political activities and limiting single campaign con tributions to $5,000. The administration's reciprocal trade program was extended for three years. And congress began hearings on proposed anti-third term legislation. BEGINNING ANO END GRAYSON, Ky. AP) The number "14" had an important role In the life of the late S. I!. Stamper, farmer, living near here. Stamper was born on the 14th day of the month, married on the 14th. was baptized on the 14th, had 14 children, saw his home de stroyed by fire on the 14th and died" on the 14th. The Rev. Harlan Murphy deliv ered the funeral service. His text: 141U chapter of St. John. For Senator t t'-LH ,, :r: .;t After having served with distinc- tlon in the Oregon state senate. C. W. Clark, above, is a candidate for ,: reelection as state senator and is unopposed. He is a veteran of the Spanish-American war and served In the army intelligence service in China for a number of years prior to coming to Hoseburg. where he '; has been engaged In professional photography for many years. Prior to his election to the state senate, '. f he served the city of Roseburg as councilman and later as mayor, i Your Freedom is Threatened NOWI Study this Time-Table of Dictatorship Of these 22 steps to Dictatorship we. the United States, have taken 171 THE STEPS , FRANCE GERMANY ITALY MEXICO UNITES STATES Wntcful Public Work , Y Ya Ya Y Y , Concentrate Power in One Min . Ye Yt Y Y . . Yrf Undermine tnd Control Count , ... Ye Ye Y Yet Yet Excewive Subsidies . . Vet ' Yes Ye Yes Yet HB m MMMW MMHHMHM Government by Executive Orders Yet Yet Yet Yet PJiy Encourtge.Subvertive Force Yet Ye Yet t Y Yet Impote Confiscatory Tixet . Ye Yet Yet Yet Yet Keitrict Privjte lovertusentt . Yee Yet Yet i Ye Yt Pile Up Dtbtt id Deficit . Yet Yet Yet Yet Yet Impoie Pltnned Economy . Ye Ye Yt Yet Ye FotterCiiit Conflict Yet Ye Ye Ye Yet Government Control Back Yet Ye Ye Ye Ye i'araivsrt Industry .. Ye Y'e Ye Ye Ye Excessive liorrowing . 1 Ye Ye Ye Yet Ye Increatet Government Jobholder..- 1 Ye Ye Ye Ye Ye Huge Ntionsi Debt Yet Yet Yet Ye Ye Conscript Army Ye Ye Ye . ' Yet Ye Wetkent Private Butines.. Ye Ye Ye Ye Destroy Labor Union. , , Ye Ye Yet jrtf W Regiment! Farming-, 1 Yet Ye Ye Ye Q Segimentt Labor Yet Yet , Yet Ye Curtailoieot of Free Pr . Ye Ye Ye ' Ye DICTATORSHIP Yet Yet Ye Yet nStrVtVr,""r IT IC I ATtTD TUJItU VAII T LI ltd It 1 Ery dieWerthip lhHss fcses ebKAd mSMlst ft kittX'Shf' h -m9 - 1M 1 -i 1 tlHll -.-.I-WV-v lIi"pptni f Isgclity in ft ieantrV la ldt i itt! Rrt)nuJ icrn Vtf(! in Conjteniocul Rvof J Mifttioi- READ what James Truslow Adams says against a THIRD TERM FOR ANY PRESIDENT I am utterly opposed to a third term, not simply now but for any President whatso ever. This is not because of the beliefs of the Founding Fathers, although they were prob ably the wisest group of statesmen ever assem bled here. Times change and we ourselves are now Founding Fathers for the future. Times change, as I SBid. The original Found ing Fathers, in a hastily drawn cJause in the last few days of the Constitutional Convention trying to limit both the powers and the method of election of a President never con ceived that some day he would have billions of money at his disposal; that he would have powers undreamed of and yet demand more and more while relinquishing none; that he would try to control both Congress and the Supreme Court ; that there would be a million Federal employees and many more millions of voters receiving money from the government and the President's appointees. Yet these things have come to pass. They are here today. And now for the fsrst time in a hundred and fifty years a President asks for twelve years of office on the ground of his indispensability and of a crisis. The evident egotism is enough to give us the measure of his self-opinion and political desires. What has happened to America AND WHY if out of a population of 130,000,000 only one man can lead us? Again, in this fast-changing1 world it can c' ys be said that there is a crisis. In four years, if t ;s war is over, however it may end, there will probably be a crisis, social and economic, of the first magnitude. So, if a President on that ground now demands twelve years in office and more powers, why not, in 1944 sixteen years and yet more powers, or for life with all powers? If this is allowed there is no more American Dream, no more America. Now, and now only, is the time when possibly America can be saved by defeating the third term and the trend to government by one man and his satellites. Make t o mistake. Practically all Europe except Britain, has set the pattern and we have been following it step by step. The only chance left to save our way of life and the liberties of your selves and your children and children's children is to vote against the permanent retention of Sice by any President by whatever name. The clock strikes for America, for its freedom and Ha Bill of Rights, as you cast you; ballots on Election Day Cod Sic America, READ what Norman Vincent Peale, d. d. says in an open LETTER TO THE CLERGY I am presuming to write to you and to my brethren of the ministry only because the subject at hand is of such grave importance. As ministers of the church we are vitally con cerned with the present decision regarding the maintenance of the ancient tliird-term principle. Religion gave birth to democracy and religion depends upon democracy for its strength in the future. The church has always been the cradle and citadel of democracy. Now we face a threat to American Democ racy. No man has ever before attempted to perpetuate himself and a vast political machine in power by seeking a third term. Bars are being let down, forces are being set in motion which can result in dictatorship. An American dictatorship would probably be more subtle and less crude then elsewhere, but none the les totalitarian The technique is always the same. Five thousand years of recorded history reveal the method. Well inten tioned at first, benevolent in appearance and perhaps in purpose, it inevitably results in the loss of the people's liberties. Freedom of speech, freedom of assembly freedom of worship, these cannot be tolerated by dictatorships, for their exercise would under mine their power. It is obvious why dictators cancel them- Regimented business, regimented labor, destroyed labor unions, regimented farm ing, dependence upon vast cynical city political machines in the name of idealism, all of these are in the picture of a developing American styled dictatorship, . When a President after eight years can im pose his will upon a bewildered and fundamen tally unwilling party once famed for it freedom of thought, it is in essence a dictatorship rationalize it as we will. We are not approaching this matter as parti sans. Ministers ought not to engage in partisan politics, most of us believe. Nor is this an issue regarding the Executive as a man who many ministers personally admire We are dealing with a principle involving something far more fundamental than partisanship. The question is, "Shall we lower the bars and permit a ven ture that can lead this nation in the future under unknown personalities who may be motivated not by our traditions of freedom but by the cynicism of power, to the abrogation of democratic and religious institution?" I personally feel this so strongly that I would not vote for my own brother for a third term. No man or men have immunity to the corrosion of power upon their souls. No man or men should take a staod g3jn$t ft basic Uadttion of our democracy. READ what Samuel B. Pettencill says about a THIRD TERM The third-term tradition is part of the armor of Freedom. 2 Us a restraint against the abuse of power , , as such it finds many forms, written or unwritten. Free men have always sought means to prevent political machines from perpetuating themselves in office. The chief value of constitutions, written or. unwritten, aside from prescribing the jurisdic tion of various officers, end so preventing con ihet and chaos, is that they place limitations upon power. Human liberty may be legally defined as a restraint upon governmental power. When it is without restraint, there is no liberty, as witness Germany today The anti -third -term tradition is one of those restraints. Washington, Jefferson and Jackson formulated it, but the three or four hundred million Americans who have lived since have silently ratified it. Jt is like the common law In not lets than 34 states it is expressly written in their constitutions. If there is any section of the country that has the obligation of history and party loyalty to oppose a third-term-fiir-any-Frcskiffit, it is the Southern states. Although most of the states of the Union have constitutional provisions limit t the tenure in tsmce of their chief executives, tins principle was extended to the presidency itself by the Const it utksi of the Confederate Sfates. They made it impossible, even in war time, for President Jeh"erson Davis or anyone else, to fasten himself upon the sovereign nation they were attempting to create. They intended lo make it impossible for any man to obtain an unbreakable grip upon government. It is not strange, ihtrtforet that the Demo crats of the South are especially concerned et the threatened violation of what they have always considered an important principle of free government Not only is there this hlsf oriea! background but it it also the truth that the principle has been urged more powerfully by the Democrat than by Republicans. No two men did more to establish it as the unwritten law of the whole country than the two greatest names m the Democratic Party, Jefferson and Jackson, both of whom had two terms and could easily have had third. Both of them repeatedly urged that the principle be expressly written into the Federal Constitution, igF' V Far a xmdrtd and nfty year it has been the Democratic Party which has made the chief fight against building up too great power in the centra! government. A a party, it was the first to declare in its platform of that it is the "unwritten law of this Republic that no man should be eligible for a third term of the Presi dential ofBce" This principle, was agaia asserted in the p&Uorm of 1912, NEVER IN YOUR LIFETIME has your SIGHT to vote been so important to YOU. Never before in the history of this Nation has the citizens freedom of choice been so imperiled as it is today, Elections are a farce in dictatorships. Germans, Italians and Russians have only one man to vote for We have not reached that stage yet. r Bat that stage Is nearer than some of us think. Look at the Time-Table of Dicta torship at the left. Check each step. See how far we have already traveled down the road, See how little there Is left to go. What are YOU going to do about it? The first thing to be done is to close that road -NOW! Our fathers thought they closed it when, realizing that the Constitution did not specifically forbid a third term, they set up a no-thlrd-term tradition. They could not foresee the vast powers that any President now holds. The power to use the executive political machine to keep himself in office three times five times or for life, If the ne-third-term tradi TAKE THESE 5 PRESERVE YOUF MAKE 11 If I fa f mm your loyalty to your country and its form of yf ff aS-. goverrsment in this criikai year a posi tive, affirmative farce, The men whs tnade It risked their lives and their property in the cause of free govern meat. Is it not worth a few hours of your time and sacrifice ef some of your earnings to save what they made? Co into action! 2P fl this page to year family, your friends arid IjflF associates. Telephone ten friends Urge them Mcft to rail ten more, Get tea or aiore espies of this page for your neighbors and members of your unfoa and year church. Make yourself a committee of one to get as many citizens as possi We to discuss the Third-Term issue, I lave them read what James Truslow Adams, Rev, Norman Vincent Peale and Samaei 8, PeMeagili say on this page against a Third Term for artv President, 3 AC L your party's candidates for the Senate and Con f gress to vote for a constitutional amendment that shall remove the Third-Term danger far- tnvr. Andrew Johnson urged Congress on two occasions to pass such an amendment which Andrew Jackson had sponsored. DO mm 1 your full duty M Ihty, Arouse others to do likewise. Your own pre- csous heritage of is at stake. Act while there is stilt HELP (av mjm ( I to carry iJUBfasI Constitutional Amendment to end the gress convenes In January, Unless this is a people's fight, it is lost. The growing nationwide response to the constitutional issue of no-third-term-for-dny-President shows that the light em be won, Send 11, $2, $.$, $5, $18, $25 or MORE as much more as, you can possibly afford ! i inly with your support can this message reach millions more! Make checks payable to Sumner Gerard, Treasurer, and mail today to the National Committee to Uphold Constitutional tsvernaient, 285 V.ant 42tid Street, New York City, NATIONAL COMMITTEE TO UPHOLD CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT 255 East 42nd Street UpboW ConMHasionaJ Go- cai party &f candidst?. It f&hts oniy far 6nUft?tf&&ai principle whiclt irsiaesrad past? line, tt U wpfxattd hf Democrat) a H BepiibUcsss, asd tt imitct the c-opra!ion of si! ih to pnwm our cojM tujiona! cytiem of csmpeti ttw aarprt Sth eqosrf opportunity lot sS CSty tion goes by the board, the people's freedom to choose their own government Is gone, Only the no-third-term tradition stands between you and that menace today. The principle of no-third-term-for-any-President Is not a mossback tradition, Thirty-four states limit the tenure of their executives, So should the United States and block the final step to permanent one-man rule. The American people must amend the Constitution so that it forbids definitely and finaiiy more than two consecutive terms or more than one sis-year term), Otherwise sometime. If not now the last protection, against the Man on Horse back will be gone. STEPS TO FREEDOM as an American eithten on Election freedom and that of your cniidrea time. on the fight now and to work for a New York, H,Y, SUMNER KSA, TresBr 5Sfirem, 2SS i&as 4itfci Street( Yarit, H, V; THE CASE AGAINST A TBSRB TE8M asd olhtr BwrattH. lp So its repget FREE!. Mv csstrftstloa I- fx
