The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-04-13
The Agricultural Adjustment


Administration (AAAl was desiga.
ed TO help farmers through crop
control measures. Laws were pass
ed TO insure bank deposits and 10
provide government aid for home
owners facing mortgage foreclos,
ures.
The Constitution was amended
TO repeal national prohibition. So
cial security benefits Swere pro-
yided by legislation. A wage-hoUr
law was enacted for labor A good
neighbor" policy was established
for the western hemisphere.
Congress stlrens
Alphabet agencies" were Great
ed in protusion. Such letter com.
binations as MIRA. RFC, AAA, Gee
iva. WPA, PWA. Hole, FILA
and many others became familiar
household terms.
A startling. unsuccessful Presi-
dental attempt was made to re.
organize tn United States Supreme
Court so as TO pump new blood"
into a tribuna which had ruled I'M
conditional some of Mr.. Roosevelt's
pet measures including the NRA
and AAA.
Hits Economic Despotism"
This attempt split the party wide
open. Opponents of the plan said
II was an effort to pack" the
tribunal TO make II see the Chief
Executives way.
II was TO hold aloft the New
Deal banner for a second term
that the President was unanimous.
ly renominated by the Democrats
in 1896 and overwhelmingly defeat.
ed Republican nominee All NJ
Landon. then governor OF Kansas.
in the election.
Acts Against Aaaressors
Unquestlonably Mr.. Roosevelt
had caught a glimpse OF war on the
horizon. As early as 1887, in a Chi
cago speech. he demanded the
Quarantine" OF "aggressor ma
tons"
He repeatedly advised America
to prepare for any emergency.
Europe went to war in September
1889, and Mr.. Roosevelt watched
the Axis run roughshod over coun.
try after country. The President
took realistic steps.
Arsenal OF Democracy"
He and his Congressional sup
porters remodeled the Neutrality
Act TO allow "cash.and-carry' pur
chase of arms by belligerents-a
step favoring the Allies, since Ger
many couldn't get through the Brit.
ish blockade.
After the Nazis swarmed through
Holland and Belgium in 1910. Mr.
Roosevelt set up a billion dollar
emergency arms program and a
National Defense Advisory Commits
sion which evolved later into the
War Production Board.
He laid down the principle that
the preservation OF Britain and
the British navy were necessary to
American safety, and in September
1910. traded so old destroyers to
Britain for naval and air base sites
in the Western Atlantic. The next
month. selective service became
law. A new army was drafted,
Naval and air programs were &C
CELEBRATED. industry put on a war
time basis, and America became
the arsenal OF democracy"
Japan's Treaehery
In March, 1914, the dollar sign
was wiped from munitions for the
Allies in a inhibition lend-lease
program. And, on May 81. 194l. a
few months after his third term be-
gan, the Chief Executive declared
an unlimited national emergency.
The United States had watched
uneasily the victorious sweep oil
Jauanese arms through the South
west Pacific and had attempted to
check 1t by persuasion.
But suddenly Japan, borrowing
a technique OF surprise and treach-
cry from her Axis partners, struck
Pearl Harbor with planes and sub
marines on that fateful Sunday
December 7, 194l.
1t was a day, Mr.. Roosevelt de-
clared, which will live in infamy."
Jabs A. Mussollni
For some time before the United
States entered the war there had
been trouble with Germany over
attacks on American ships helping