The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-08

tuous way to
 Edson decision even now fairly obvious.
 Ham Fish, opening arguments against the lease-lend bill in the three-day debate on the floor of the House, damns the whole busi- ness by calling it the Dictator War Bankruptcy Bill" Sol Bloom, answering for the administration, recognizes the effectiveness of this type of logic by mafshalling argu- ments to refute the charge that the bill empowers theP resident to give away the Navy"
 The mere names and nicknames given the bill are further evi- dences of the attempt to over- simplify. The "lease-lend" tag line by which the bill is most fre- quently identified is, if anything, too neat a summary. The bill's number in the legislative hopper, H. R. 1776, is seized upon to label the fight as another battle of 1776 to safeguard most sacred liberties.
 On top of these, however; is a whole glossary of bromides and cIches which creep into profess sional legislative or amateur back fence and street corner arguments carried on in any effort to settle this most important problem of foreign policy since the disarma- ment conference of 20 years ago. TOO, TOO
 CLEVER. CLEVER
 Bitter enmity, name calling and internal dissension we cannot afford are stirred up by Senator Wheel CTS designation of Roosevelt's policy as a plan to blow under every fourth American boy.'
 Yet it is no more misleading than to have that policy summed up by its proponents as plan to make America "the arsenal of de- mocracy."
 Behind such nifties as "an un- limited budget for arms!" and Billions for defense not mill nons!' the national debt limit is raised to 65 billions of dollars - 65.
 Complex problems of basic economy. of capital and labor, we attempt to solve with shrug and gag-line of "Conscript Wealth as Well as Men" or We Must Fight the War in the Factory as Well as in the Field"
 We must have an "All-Out" de- fense program. We must Do in Is Months What Hitler Did in Six Years" And we must not let the Business as Usual'' crowd inter- fere. Anyone who does is an "Ap-' peaser."
 All this is brought up here to point out that in. times like these tn ephrase- maker is 8 snake in the grass, and the good citizen who is hypnotized by him is sap. It takes deeper thinking than the mere coinage of clever bits and pieces to win an argument or a war
 WILLKIE GETS ON
 ANOTHER SPOT
 Wendell Willkie's appearance be- fore the Senate committee conduct ing hearings on the lease-lend bill will place the ex-Republican candt- dtae on another of the spots he has manifested a mania for getting on. He will be the first witness who is right fwresh from the scene of &C., tion, all the others having been long distance experts. As such, what MT. Willkie has to say will be more than the one day sensations earlier witt nesses have been.
 Members of the administration who lauded his pre-departure stand on aid to Britain are pre- pared to give him big hand, and Republicans who have been dam ming him ever since won't love hime more.
 Willkie himself is taking steps to see that what he has to say will not be forgotten. He is scheduled to make the Lincoln's Birthday speech before the National Re- publican Club in New York, and his before Philadelphia" packers. still loyal say that he will later make lectures and write magazine articles on his firSt-hand obserVa- tions in Europe.
 Willkie is reported totally unin- terested in who becomes G. O. P. national chairman when Con- gressman Joe Martin resigns on March "A. He is too much the free-swinging Hoosier to stay hitched to any set principles, party dogma, or program. And whatever his way, he will go it alone, the darling of the newspa- per photographers and teh head ache of the nnliticianS