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Evening star., 1941-03-04

people was the object. This. our
convention understood to be the most
oppressive of all kingly expressions,
and they resolved to so frame the
Constitution that no man should
hold the power of bringing this op-
preston upon U.s.. But your view
destroys the whole matter and places
our President where kings have
always Stood"
There are other important ques-
tions of constitutional law raised by
this bill, which I shall pass over with
bare mention. To an extent rarely
If ever attempted before, the bill
attempts to have Congress surrender
its legislative powers to the Presi-
dent.
Instead of specifying what articles
we intend to cover by the bill, we
leave 1t to the President. Instead
of specifying what laws we intend
to displace by the bill, we leave it
to the President. Instead Of enum-
Grating the countries to be aided,
we leave it to the President. In
stead of determining what compen-
sation or other undertakings or
promises we shall take in payment
from the countries aided, we leave
1t to the President. Instead of re-
serving the power of Congress to
determine whether this country
shall go to war, we leave it to the
President.
So long as this bill shall remain
Evening star., 1941-03-04

know, we cannot learn from our War
Department to what extent Amer
lean defenses have been stripped,
but it is published In British papers.
Is this the American way?
My conservative friends and the
captains of finance throughout the
Nation have preached and talked
and preached and talked about pre-
serving the Constitution and the
necessity of balancing the budget.
Balance the budget was the theme
song Of the international bankers
when we appropriated money to
feed and to aid our own hungry.
our own widows and orphans and
our cwn' drought-stricken farmers.
Urged to Accept Sham.
But now we find those same in
ternational bankers joining with
their friends the royal refugees and
with the Sassoons of the Orient
and with the Rothschilds and the
Warburgs of Europe in another
theme song-to hell with the budget
and the American Constitution.
Our investments in India, Africa
and Europe must be preserved!
Save democracy. gold help the king!
What hypocrisyl What sham! And
you people are urged, through the
motion pictures, by radio commen-
tators and through the columns of
some papers, to accept it! Are
you going to listen to these politi-
cal and economic royalists or will
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to get $4,000 an acre for your land?
This is not for rich farm land, but
swamps of Bermuda.
And for what? For the right to
fortify certain British bases-for the
right to defend certain British is
lands-for the right to spend billions
of the United States taxpayers
money upon British colonies. The
next raid on our Navy may be for
naval and air bases in Singapore or
Dutch Borneo, which would GER
tainly involve us in future Asiatic
quarrels. The President can give a
foreign power all of our air force
and much of our Navy without ask
ing that governments war aims or
without satisfying even himself that
these transferred planes would not
later bomb American cities.
Under this bill, the constitutional
right and power of the United States
Senate to examine and ratify
treaties becomes a mere shell. Oh,
but the proponents say the Presi-
dent will not use them. I hope so,
but If he won't use. these powers,
why does he want them. Certainly
not to vie with Hitler or Mussolini.
1 have outlined only a fraction
of the possibilities under this bill.
The President, before loaning or
giving our property to some foreign
country could insist upon the form
of government they might enjoy:
who could be their ruler, what they
could import or export, what laws
they could pass or repeal, ct centera.
This DILL would permit a super
barter system that would make
Hitler's look pale and insignifi-
cant. The President could. under
this bill, exchange the products of
our factories for the surplus farm
products of South America-and
nobody could stop him. The farmers
of the Midwest might complain, the
cattlemen of Wyoming might pro-
test but nothing and no one could
prevent it.
Could Procure Ships.
Remember, these vast and un-
limited powers given the President
in this bill without checks or bal
ances are vested in one man and
extend to practically every con-
ceivable article which may be given
to almost any conceivable country
on almost any conceivable terms.
Time will not permit me to describe
all these powers but I can mention
a few examples. The bill authorizes
the President, through his agents,
to manufacture or otherwise pro-
cure any and all kinds of articles.
This includes the merchant ships
of Germany, Italy and Japan that
may be in our harbors today-and
their seizure would constitute in
any language a simple and direct
acJ of war.
Possibly the war-like nature of
the bill can best be established by
amendments rejected rather than
those accepted by the administra-
ton. Notwithstanding the solemn
pledge of the President at Phila-
delphia that he would not send
American boys to fight and die
abroad, the Democratic leaders in
the House killed an amendment to
the bill which would have prevented
that very thing. A similar amend
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ment has been offered in the
Senate by Senator Ellender. Again
it Is encountering stiff White House
opposition. What kind of a foreign
policy do we have that makes it
necessary to use the threat of
American troops in Asia or any
where else.
The Presidents opposition to an
amendment prohibiting sending
American boys to foreign lands
certainly lends credence and gives
great force to the current rumor
that American boys are being
trained at Fort Bliss, Tex, and San
Diego, Calf. in methods to defend
Singapore, and that the orders for
embarkation to that British strong
hold in the Orient are expected
momentarily.
Such is the nature of the H. r.
1776-with false and misleading
title-a bill ito promote the defense
of the United States" 1t could
better be termed bill ito promote
war for the United States" or a bill
Ito disarm. and to bankrupt the
United Sites by giving our war
supplies to a foreign country" A
bill, we are told, to keep us out of
war and to preserve democracy. 1t
is the most dangerous legislation
in my opinion ever introduced in
the Congress.
If there is any test of democracy
more important than any other, it
is the right of the people-through
their chosen representatives-to de-
termine between peace and war. 1t
is no accident that in framing the
Constitution in 1887, our forefathers
insisted that the power to make this
fateful decision should rest in the
Congress and not in the President.
No one can read the Constitution
without being convinced of this.
And yet New Dealers in and out
of Congress point to the provision
in the Constitution which says that
the President shall be commander in
chief of the Army and the Navy and
claim that this authorizes him to
send our Army or our Navy wherever
he pleases. II this is correct, of
course, he need not stop at conveys.
He may set up necessary naval
bases in an English port and he may
even order our troops to Singapore
or Dunkerque or the deserts of
Lydia. On the fact of it, this school
of thought seems ridiculous. But
these new philosophers think they
have found an opening wedge in the
Constitution through which to set
up dictatorial powers in the name of
the commander in chief. -
If time permitted, I could quote
authority after authority to show
how unfounded these arguments are
I believe, however, that the author
ity of one voice will be enough foe
you, as it is for me; the voice of
Abraham Lincoln. Back in 1848,
when a similar question was raised,
this great American wrote to
friend: THE provision giving the
war making powers of the Constitu-
ton. to Congress was dictated, as I
understand it, by the following rea-
sons; Kings had always been in
volving and impoverishing their peo-
pie in war, pretending generally, If
not always, that the good of the
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you heed those Americans who
stand for peace?
We, as a Nation, must build our
national defense stronger and
stronger. We must solve our prob
lems-economic, social and political.
But above all else, we must remain
free from foreign wars.
At peace, we will cast the SUM-
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world At peace, we will be a light,
toward which the suffering and
unfree of other nations may turn.
This is our destiny, this is our
duty, this is our obligation to all
people. We cannot and must not
dissipate in killing and destroying,
we must and we will build and
build and build stronger, mightier,
and more free this republic of ours.
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Milford chronicle., 1941-01-31
Kiwanis Club Backs
Airport For Milford
Mayor E. C. Evans, DR.. N. r. Wash.
burn Speakers At Dinner Meeting

The membership of the Milford
Kiwanis Club at dinner meeting on
Tuesday evening of this week, went
on record as officially endorsing a
municipal airport for this city. Ac-
cording to information revealed at
the meeting by Mayor Edward C..
Evans, the city of Milford can OBJ
tain from the federal government,
100000 to construct an airport, if
they will procure the field, and ac-
cording to Mr.. Evans such a field,
five miles from the center of the city,
can be purchased by the city for
approximately $4,000.
At a recent meeting of City Coun-
Gil this same matter was discussed,
but no action was taken. The Rotary
Club also has had the governments
offer explained to them and the men,
bership seemed eager to see the
proposal carried through to a sue
cessful ending.
DR.. N. R. Washburn, M. D., local
enthusiast, also address
sed the meeting, describing in de-
tail the type of field which would be
by the government and
how such a program would aid the
city.
Milford chronicle., 1941-01-31

rooms in which the plaster is loos.
ening, constituting a hazard to the
children, blackboards that were out.
moded before the Civil War, and
rooms that are never able to be used
for study unless they are lighted ar
tifically, a playground that becomes
sea of filthy stinking mud after a
rain, and the location of the build
ing itself, practically in the center
Of the city, with attendant danger
from cars at four crossings, are some
of the conditions against which the
mothers and fathers of this COM
munity have protested, and which
were disclosed to the legislators
during their tour.
According to DR.. Walter L. Grier,
a bill is being prepared for presen-
tation to the General Assembly, ask
ing for $S50,000 for a new building.
DR.. Grier further stated that the
board has available the necessary
land on which to erect the new build
ing. Milford is the third largest
school district in the state outside
of the city of Wilmington, but in pro-
portion to its size, does not receive
as much state funds as schools with
little more than half the enrolment.
Following the tour the legislators,
comprising fourteen Senators and
thirty Representatives were lunch
con guests of the local group at the
Windsor Cafe.
Milford chronicle., 1941-01-31
Vice-Mayor Of Dover
Grover c. Frear Dies
WeIl.KnOwn Business Man Victim OF
Heart Attack

Grover c. Frear, vice-mayor Of
Dover, city councilman, businessman
and civic leader, died. suddenly of q
heart attack late Tuesday afternoon
January %, at his home, 229 North
Bradford street, Dover. While death
was sudden, he had been ailing about
month and was confined to his
home.
Born near Dover, Mr.. Frear, who
was So years old, lived in Dover all
his life. He and his brother,-J. Allen
Frear, Jr, had operated ]. A., Frear
Sons as partnership since 1897.
The business was founded by their
father, ]. Allen Frear, Sr.
Mr.. Frear was a director of the
Farmers Bank OF Delaware and a
member of the Dover Rotary Club
and the Peoples Church. He is sur
vived by his wife, Mrs. Beulah Frear;
his brother, ]. Allen Frear, Jr.; a
sister, Mrs. Ella Wilson, and his
father.
Funeral services will be held to-
day friday at 2 p. m. from the
Conner Funeral Home in Dover with
interment in Lakeside Cemetery. The
Rev. Roscoe F. Metzer will oficiate.
Milford chronicle., 1941-01-31
Christian Service
Group Meets Feb. 5
Avenue Church Society VIII Present
Patriotic Program

The regular meeting of the Wo-
mans Society OF Christian Service
will be held in the social hall of the
Avenue Methodist Church on We'd
nesday afternoon, February s, at 3
o'clock. The temporary change Of
Time Is due to the covered dish sup
spef which follows the meeting.
The following patriotic program
win be in charge Of the Volunteer
Circle:
ePiaro duets: March" by Victor
Renton and "El CAPTAIN" by Sousa,
Mrs. Edward Hurley and Mrs. Eliza
beth Riggs.
Reading, Miss Minerva Sipple.
Singing, God Bless America"
Two-act play, Our First Flag"
with the following characters:
Betsy Ross, Mrs. Elizabeth Riggs;
Mistress Green, Mrs. Clarence M.
Welch, Jr.; General Washington,
Mrs. John M. Scott; Robert Morris,
Mrs Osborne Scott; George Ross,
Mrs. /. ]. Tease; Lieutenant Osborne,
a colonial soldier, Miss Thelma Jew
ell; fife and drum corps, Jack Tease
and Bobby Wakefield.
Reading, How the 'Star-Spangled
was Written" Mrs. W. X.
Vocal solos, Miss Florence Horn.
Piano duet, "The Stars and Stripes
Forever" Mrs. Hurley and Mrs.
Riggs.
Al $3.50 p. M, covered dish sup
per will be served for members and
'riends.a A covered dish and 25c.
Milford chronicle., 1941-01-31
Legislators Taken
On ToarOfMiltord
Elementary School
SOIOns Entertained At luncheon By School Board and
Chamber OF Commerce Following Trip Through
Antiquated School structure; Bill Being Prepared.

Forty-four members of the 1854
General Assembly Of the State oi
Delaware obtained first hand In
formation of the need Of a new ele-
mentary school building in Milford
when they were taken on q tour OF
the antiquated structure at North
and Second streets, North Milford,
on Tuesday. Greeting the legislators
upon their arrival in the city were
Mayor Edward c. Evans, who also
represented the Rotary Club; pr.
Walter L. Grier, president OF the
Milford school board, and Irwin g.
Burton, president Of the Milford
Chamber Of Commerce, which orr
ganization co-sponsored the tour in
connection with the local school
board
A heating system, the central por-
tion of which is directly under the
main stair case Of the building and
the only point Of egress for hum
dreds of small children; a lavatory
system noticeably insanitary, and
totally inadequate to meet the de-
mands placed upon 1t, especially
during the noon hour; a cafeteria,
Is by 80 feet in dimension, serving
125 pupils daily, located in a section
of the building. dating back TO 1910;
the presence OF fumes from the heat
ers in several of the class rooms,
especially those in the western wing,
Milford chronicle., 1941-01-31
ENGINEER MACK
URGES FIVE YEAR
ROAD PROGRAM
Expenditures OF $1O,37O,-
900 Are Involved In Pro-
posed Recommendations
INCOME rs a,OOO,OOO
Suggestion Is Also Made
That Legislature Grant
Right For Speed Zones.

Extension of the Governor Print;
Highway from Claymont to the Penn.
sylvania line and the construction Of
dual highway from Dover south tc
the Maryland line are among the
recommendation OF w. w. Mack
state highway engineer, who pro-
poses five-year s10,370,OO0 road
program.
Also included in the report of Mr..
Mack to the State Highway Depart
ment is the suggestion that the Leg
islature grant permission for the
establishment Of additional speed
zones.
Projects Listed
Projects put on the preferred list
by MIR. Mack are:
/. A dual highway from Dover
south to the Maryland state line via
either Route 113 along the coast or
Route 13 through Seaford to cost
$S,SO0,000. The State Highway Com
mission is conducting a survey to
determine which route is to be used
2. Extension OF the Governor
Printz Boulevard from Claynont to
the Pennsylvania state line at Ridge
Road, costing $1,000,000.
3. Eliminating railroad crossings
Of the B. & o. and Reading lines
at Elsmere and construction of a
new highway in Elsmere via Will
mington avenue over the bridges to
connect with Union and Lincoln
streets, to cost 100000.
Other recommended road con-
struction projects are:
Concord Pike, two miles, 800 900.
Lancaster Pike, three miles. $780,
600.
Limestone-Newark, seven miles,
$500 900.
ogleton, one and ope-haif miles.
S60,cO0.
Ogleton underpass, 0,000.
Stanton-C Christiana and Stanton
tlffaeFpas8 $zIb .o60 y
Two Million Yearly Cost
This large general appropriation
of $fO.370,000 Mr.. Mack explains in
his report, is just about the same
as the budget has been running an
nually for 10 years--about $4,000, 900
yearly.
One-third of the appropriation
would be supplied by federal funds
under plans to be submitted over
the period of years.
The motor vehicle fees and gaso-
line tax will cover the cost of the
program, Mr.. Mack said.
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Milford chronicle., 1941-01-31
261ST TOR REPORT
AT FORT DUPONT
TO TRAIN FEB. 4
Men Of Big Gun Unit Be
ing Modified at George
town And Laurel.
ROSCOE IS IN CHARGE
Delaware Outfit Will Re-
tain It's Distinctive
Name After Induction.
ROSCOE IS IN CHARGE

The 261st Coast Artillery, Battal-
ion, Harbor Defense, Delaware Ma
tional Guard, will go to Fort DUPONT
for one years active military train
ing on Tuesday, February 4. Lieuten-
ant-Colonel Henry X. Roscoe, COM
manding officers, said this week.
Induction of the Delaware battal-
ion, composed of about $50 men and
"a officers, was started at armories
at Georgetown and Laurel this week
More than 700 officers and men
from Delaware and New Jersey Ma
tional Guard units will go to Fort
dupont for training on February 4.
They are a part of $500 guardsmen
from four states who are being in
Quoted.
Colonel Roscoe said the 261st
Coast Artillery Battalion will retain
its distinctive name and be a unit
composed of Delaware men. The
New Jersey National Guard unit,
the 122nd Coast Artillery, Anti-Air-
craft, consists of 345 men and "a
officers. Lieutenant-C Colonel Alfred A.
La Fountain is commanding officer.
To equalize the distribution of men
at the Laurel and Georgetown ar
mories, nearly 100 men of Headquar-
ters Battery were transferred from
Laurel to Georgetown armory. They
made the 16-mile trip in private au-
tomobiles under command of Captain
Albert w. Adams.
Move Up Fast
At Georgetown: Battery B, Cap
tain Thayer L. Royal, 80 men, and
Headquarters Battery, Captain Ad-
ans, nearly 80 men.
An induction team" consisting of
First Lieutenants Henry H. Stroud,
J. Szatkowski, and BENJAMIN
F. Burton, Jr.. at Laurel, and First
James r. Durham, Jr.,
Oscar N Stern, and Anthony Pine,
at Laurel. were ASSISTING II the in
Home Guard Expected
Departure Of the 261st Coast Ar |
tillery will leave the state without |
any National Guardsmen, but for
nation of a state home guard is
expected soon.
The 261st Coast Artillery was
formed in 1926 with Battery A at |
Laurel. Units of the battalion added |
since include Batteries B. G, Medi-
cal Detachment, and Headquarters
Battery Last June the regiment
spent three weeks at Fort Hancock,
Y. Y.
An advance detail of 66 men and
'our officers of the 122nd Coast Ar
.illery A. A., New Jersey National
Guard, left Jersey City Armory for
Fort DUPONT by motor convoy yes
erday. The rest of the Jersey bat
aIion will go to Fort dupont on
February 4.
Milford chronicle., 1941-01-31
Freak Log jam Is Fatal
To Georgetown Youth
Driver Sideswipes Auto And Lumber
Pins Him In Cab

A 22-year-old truck driver was
killed in a freak accident last Fri
day night when his load of 3S-foot-
long logs crushed him in the cab OF
his truck after he had sideswiped
another car.
New Jersey state police identified
the dead man as Roland j. Cooper,
% years old of Georgetown.
Cooper, bound for a Camden, N.
j., shipyard, was driving his truck
trailer on Crown Point road near
Red Bank avenue, Verga, when he
collided with a car driven by DR..
Louis Ruttenberg, "a years old, of
Woodbury., N. j.
After the accident, Cooper's truck
crashed into an advertising sign, the
trailer buckled, and the logs pitched
forward into the cab.
DR.. Ruttenberg escaped injury.
Young cooper was the son of Mr..
and Mrs. Robert Cooper. Funeral
services were held Tuesday after
noon and interment made at Bethes-
da Church cemetery, near George
town.
Milford chronicle., 1941-01-31
Incorporated TOIOHs Right
To Regulate SeLUes Is
Commissions Plan.
MOUies, Auctions, Theatri-
Gals, Dances Alone Bar
red in Other State Areas

Repeal Of the ancient blue law and
substitution of a local option Sab
bath statute were recommended by
the special Sunday Law Commits
sion In its report to the General
Assembly on Tuesday.
The proposed law would prohibit
only public auctions, public dances,
theatricals, and motion pictures on
the Sabbath. These prohibitions
would apply particularly to unin-.
corporated areas. Incorporated
towns would have the right to mod
ify them, or make them more strin-
gent, by local option.
No incorporated town, however,
could in any way change the exist
ing statutes controlling the sale Of
liquor and beer, hunting or fishing,
the law states.
Three Proposals
The three recommendation OF the
special committees are:
Repeal the present law (Which
dates almost intact from at least
1740).
Substitute a series of laws having
special statewide prohibitions.
Give incorporated municipalities
power to prohibit activities further
on Sunday or to modify application
of any of the general prohibitions
in their particular areas.
Sunday activities in unincorpor-
ated towns and areas would be con
trolled only by the general state
law. Residents of such sections who
wish to liberalize that law or to
provide additional prohibitions would
have to incorporate as city or
town first, according to the Rev.
Ralph l. Minker, chairman OF the
Attorneys said that articles Of in
corporation are granted To q town
bE Tie aeeis fHEa and that he sfata
oonsututi0n does not provide fof
any minimum number Of property
owners or Inhabitants for any such
town.
Mr.. Minker stressed that neither
he members of the commission nor
he other citizens of Delaware are
Interested in a "wide-open Sunday, 2 (,
Tut rather In a law that is enforce
lble. Under the proposed statute
he people of each community, he
aid, would have the right to deter
nine just what type of law they re-
Iuire
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