The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-01-08

Roosevelt granting Of
emergency pow
ers TO the president. Continuing
to whisper, they say they favor the
emergency powers AS emergency
powers" hut land here they be-
come almost inaudiblel can they
be sure that such executive powers
will be relinquished by the White
House tenant after the emergency
is over2
Woodrow Wilson -elinquished his
when the me came, but he never
particularly advertised himself as
the forgotten mans" champion,
so Alexander's dietum didn't fit his
case with any especial appropri-
ateness. Thus the whisperers.
Benito Mussolini's mentioned,
out loud, as having been a vocifer-
ously proclaimed leader of the
Italian masses when he started,
and the guess is ventured that
maybe il was in good faith that he
so proclaimed himself. developing
dictatorially subsequently more or
less unconsciously. He's a joke
now "a bad one), to be sure, but
for a while he was 100 per cent
absolute.
Adolf Hitler announced himself
as an anti-plutocrat also, and still
so calls himself Nobody gives
Adolf credit for ever having had
any good faith in his system. Still,
he made his initial appearance as
Germany's popular idol.
Kerensky Meant Well
Russias original revolutionary
leadership professed to be in behalf
of about nine-tenths of czarism's
oppressed subjects, and I'm in
clined to think it really meant well
by 'em at the outset. Alexander
Kerensky wasn't a bad chap, but
things got away from him.
Lots Of Latin American auto
Gratis have slid in as hberators,
gradually to be evolved, perhaps
partly without their own volition,
into desrots. Porfirio Diaz was
conspicuous specimen. He was 2
great upbuilder OF Mexico during
his earlier years, but wound up as
so arbitrary a ruler that his coun-
try had to rebel and chase him into
exile.
With Russia among the democ-
racies today and with the Latin
Americans all more or less aligned
with US, it isn't very good taste to
rfer to any of 'em currently as
having had historical characters
who tended to bear out Alexander
Hamilton's thesis. Nevertheless,
they've had EN-.
SPANS Dictator Francisco Fran
CO doesn't support the whisperers'
argument. He broke into his job
dictatorially, from the jump, and
therefore hasn't undergone any
transformation. Possibly he's one
Of the exceptions that proves the
rule, though.
Japan never has had a liberator,
either, to designate into absolut-
ism, but maybe tin have one in
due course, and then HE. win de-
generate.
Senator Harry F. Byrd of Vir-
GINA is a lawmaker who's ex-
pressed himself above a whisper,
though he did it before we actually
were in The war. What he said was
that we've menaces at home as
great or greater than those
abroad"
The home menace" he was re-
ferring to was the expansion of ex-
ecutive authority at the national
legislatures expense. Congress is
jealous of the executive govern
mental branch; there's no mistake
about it, and it's as much so now
as it was before Uncle am became
out-and-out involved in the conflict,
though its utterances on the sub
| 1ect are more soto voce than they
were.
Not Very Vocal
President Roosevelts third term
has accentusted legislative uneasi-
ness in the matter. but it's hesitant
TO admit it very vocally under the
circumstances.
II certainly would boil over, the
war to the contrary notwithstand-