The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-02-07

welt, until today they have loaded
him with authority for the making
of nearly all the really important
rules, for the administration Of the
rules he makes, and for their inter-
probation.
President Roosevelt could not, and
did not, grasp these powers and re-
sponsibilities. Congress conferred
them upon him as an easy way OF
getting out of the job senators and
representatives were paid for doing,
and as an easy way OF evading
their responsibility.
KING BUT A. SYMBOL,
PRESIDENT HAS POWER
81 HAVE no authority. ! am but q
symbol. am to the British people
what your flag is to you Americans,
while the President Of the United
States has more authority than any
other man in the world today"
That statement was made by King
George v to small group Of Amer
lean newspaper men, of which was
one, in September, 1918. It was in
response to a complimentary conn
ment made to the king by the late
Edgar Piper, then editor of the Port
land Oregonian.
The statement was true as to the
authority of President Wilson. It
would be doubly true today If applied
to the authority of President Roose-
welt.
SOLD OUT
TO ME it seems we have sold our
birthright Of democracy for a mess
Of relief porridge.
And the responsibility lies with
majority of those men, majority
we Americans sent to Washington
as senators and representatives.
Congress sold us out.
JUICY RELIEF
EACH of the two or more million
soldier boys who are being called
to the colorsi are to drink eight
ounces Of orange juice every day.
Because of that simple edict, there
is rejoicing in California, Florida
and Texas. Citrus growers have
previously been overlooked in the
distribution Of government subsidies
and. relief. Now the soldier boys
come to their rescue. Il
EACH TO HIS TASTE
THE Widest wild animal I
know is Clyde Beatty, the wild ami
NAL trainer. Any man who will de-
lberately lock himself in cage with
40 savage, snarling, fighting African
and Bengal cats-lions and tigers
must be wild.
Before Clyde and Harriet Beatty,
Clyde's charming little wife, were
married, Harriet was trapeze per-
former, but after their marriage,
Clyde would not permit her to con-
tinue any such dangerous vocation.
If she insisted on working, it must
be at something which would keep
her out of harms .way-something
as mild as animal training. So to-
day Harriet does her own little stunt
with elephants, lions and tigers, and
Clyde sleeps better at night.
IT is GONE
BECAUSE Of the action Of con-
gress, for better or worse, the Unit
(. ed States is today, to all intents and
purposes, q totalitarian state with
zone man rule"
What our future philosophy Of gov
eminent may be, time only viii tell.
It may be state capitalism, or state
socialism, or communism, but the
democracy and the American sys-
tenn, under which we have grown
great, the democracy provided by
the Constitution, is gone.
NOT ONE-SIDED
FROM June IS, 1910, to January
l, 1871, German blitzkrieging in Eng
land resulted in the killing of 2S,081
English civilians, men, women and
children. In a two weeks scrap In
Africa, the Australian Aussies ac-
counted for more than four times
that number of Italians, who were
killed or captured. Evidently it Is
mot an entirely one-sided war.
JAPAN HAS HANDS
FULL WITH CHINA
If WAR between the United States
and Japan should come, it win not
be of Japan's making. The little
brown brother Is not looking for
trouble with any major power, at
least until some years after he has
patched up a peace with China.
SERVICE
FOR EACH one American who OBJ
jects to serving in the armed forces
Of the nation for q year, two or
more are clamoring for an oppor-
tl1nity to do SO. 4.