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ROOKIE JOE
By Joe Hinmon and Owen St.bbtns
WHAT HAPPENED ... to the big Earl Carroll
beauty contest that almost hit the campus early
this week'.' The plans were all ready to go but
jJJ; It seems that President Thomas, before leaving
 i  for New Jersey, took time out to turn thumbs
B. ph3"*df^JZ8 down on the contest, which was originated by
ws   .a  in.. ^ ^^ known undergraduate here.   It is said
 ~  that the latter still expects to put it over—
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EDITORIAL BOARD
Mcaioaina Editor
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LAST WORD ON 1776
New fates come .ind go in the palaver palace
on Washington's Capitol Hill, but some of the
deans ol the Senate stay on forever. A paradox
of politics, they have the trust of their constit-
Even- once in a while, some fairhaired young
genius rides into the limelight on the crest of
some emotional phobia. Bolstered by an investigation appropriation, like the witch-hunting Mr.
Dies, he becomes front-page newspaper copy in
a fortnight.
Mr. Dies, a beardless chap, who drums at
night of the OGPU. the Gestapo, and fifth columnists wearing datk glasses, has worked the
public into the same ecstatic phobia, so that they
lay in bed at night and dream of slinking, bearded
foreign agents who are agitating half of our population to blitzkrieg the administration and the
other half of the people.
But. fortunately. Mr. Dirt' light, which he is
NOT hiding under a bushel, compares to that ot
Johnson. Wheeler, Nye. Vandenberg. Clark, and
other tried veterans of public service as does rhe
intense, soonto-cxpirc railroad flare to the faithful coastal lighthouse. »
Vet. these deans in whom the voters have reaffirmed their confidence
WE'RE NOT . . . accusing the Sigma Taus of
starting a measles epidemic just to get their
ing up you can never tell. Anyway, the quar
antine sign was not up there a half hour until
a member—who doesn't live there—came run-
ning up to us singing "we've got the measles.
we've got the measles."   We hadn't seen this
LATEST . . . game of campus ramrods is called
"start your own club." When you can't run any
of the organizations you now belong to, start
one of your own. If you're interested, there are
several starting this week, and even if you're
not the entrepreneur, get in on the ground floor
anyway: there's a lot of minor offices to be
passed out to the loyal supporters.
jbial  2>0f^e
By Hod Shepherd
If the HR 1776 bill merely provided for lending to Britain without charge the arms we are
now selling her. the opposition would probably
consist only of those of who arc asking. 'What's
it going to. cost us?"
But, sadly, this popular misconception docs
recognize die far more dangerous, dictator-creating provisions attached to the original idea in
the numberless riders and amendments.
These vicious provisions were outlined by Senator Clark, Democrat. Missouri, in opposing passage of the bill:
"It is- a bill to authorize the denuding of
American defenses.
"To authorize suspension of any American law
inconsistent with the dictatorial power of the act.
"To authorize the arming and feeding and
supplying of any country in the world at the
expense of American taxpayers in the sole discretion of the president of the United States.
"To authorize rhe making of foreign alliances
"without the concurrance of the Senate as required
by the Constitution.
"To authorize the underwriting of tlie cost of
maintaining the British -Empire around the world
at the expense of the taxpayers of Ameaica.
"To bring the war to our very doors by affording access to our navy yard arid ship yard facilities
for the warships of belligerent powers.
"To abandon the Monroe Doctrine by the abandonment of its vital principle of not participating
in Europe's wars."
And these do nor include the vague authority,
which President Roosevelt admitted would be
within his powers under the bill, to give our
navy to the British.
Senator Johnson, in his minority report from
tbe Senate foreign relations committee, declared,
"It makes the chief executive a dictator, and
Itllly Mills, muslr dlrec
One youth circled a tou-n uilh
his finger, and said. "Boy. Sanger; a suvll place for m, an-
porl—gad. it'll be good lo drop
in on Margie when I want lo.
the only trouble about airplane
ride, though is (Colonna pauie,
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"No one can read this bill and doubt that its
ultimate effect, if not its declared purpose, will
Senator Clark said that the- bill was "equivalent to a declaration of war." Senator Vandenberg declared that it would make the president
"power politician No.  I of the world."
Yet, this opposition, it appears, is almost certain
to be overwhelmed in the final vote on the bill
by the administration band wagon boys, the bright
little temporary flares, unless the public can convince those band-wagoners that it doesn't want
to sacrifice its sons in Europe's embroilment.
Is America going to disregard the wise counsel
of its Senate veterans who were in Congress before the "third termer" started his first term? Is
America going to put in the hands of one man
the power to take us into war without even Congress reserving its constitutional right to declare
war?—Owensby.
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