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SUPPORTS CHINESE TROOPS Chungking. — American aircraft attacked objectives in Western China and Burma yesterday in support of Chinese ground troops, a 14th ' U. S. Airforce communique announced today, as winter gripped the China fighting fronts. A river ferry on the Salween in western Yunnan Province was shot up and bombers hit Japanese installations at Pingka. Fighter bombers destroyed enemy equipment on the ground at Kengtung airdrome in east Central Burma. WAR FRAUD TESTIMONY Indianapolis. —r Col. George Daughbert, army disbursing officer, testified in a Federal war frauds trial today that the U. S. general accounting office suspended 14 claims paid by the government for machinery used on the $26,000,000 Hoosier ordnance depot at Charleston, Ind. Daughbert was a government witness in the trial of six men, including an army lieutenant colonel, on charges of conspiracy to defraud the government by $190,000 in overcharges on construction equipment. o NAZI AIR FORCE DEFEATED London.—Maj. Gen. William E. Kepner, chief of the Eighth Air Force Fighter Cpmmand, said today that the German Air Force had been defeated “at every turn” and the Nazis no longer were capable of building enough fighters to stop the Allied bombing offensive. “We have already defeated the Hun's strategy in the air,” Kepner said at a press conference. “He believed he could build sufficient fighters to stop our bombing, but he did not count on our use of Thunderbolts and Lightnings for escort.” o NAZIS ATTACK SAMOS London.—Axis reports said today that German forces have opened an attack on Samos Island, last major Allied position in the Aegean sea, and that the Nazis already had recaptured a number of smaller islands held by Italian troops. A radio Ankara broadcast, quoting German sources said that Nazi troops had effected a landing on Samos in a swift follow-up to their conquest of Lero, 30 miles to the south, early this week. o TO JO ON PILGRIMAGE New York. — Japanese Premier Hideki Tojo has left on a pilgrimage to the Shinto shrine of Ise at Uji Yamada, where Emperor Hirohito worships, to “pray for successful prosecution of the war and report war results,” Tokyo radio said today. OWI interpreted the trip as an attempt to convince the Japanese people of the validity of recent Tokyo claims of great successes at sea. Ranking Japanese statesmen visit the shrine whenever any event of major importance to the Empire occurs, OWI said. o RETURNS MINES TO OWNERS Washington. — Solid Fuels Administrator Harold L. Ickes today terminated government possession and control over the mines of 43 bituminous coal companies seized on Nov. 1 when a general coal strike went into effect. Ickes acted after he had been advised that no strikes or work stoppages had occurred in these mines since Oct. 25, and that none is threatened. Th^s released mines are located in Illinois, Kentucky and 13 other states. o TO CONFER ON CRISIS Cairo.—Richard G. Casey, British minister of state for the Middle East, arrived in Beirut today to confer with Gen. Georges Catroux, negotiator for the French Committee of Liberation, on the political crisis in Lebanon. Britain has taken a serious view of the situation, making it plain that the disturbances are a threat to Allied interests, and presumably Casey so advised Catroux. o LEGISLATIVE CORRECTION Washington. — Chairman Frederick Van Nuys, D., Ind., of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said today that his projected liquor shortage investigation, scheduled to start next week, already has him thinking about a possible legislative correction. Van Nuys said he was considering the possibility of legislation to regulate the trading in whisky warehouse receipts. o UNSPENT MONEY Washington.—The Office of War Information said today that during the second quarter of 1943 there was $2,600,000,000 of “unspent and unemployed” money in the United States. That was $900,000,000 more than the $1,700,000,000 of idle money in the same quarter of 1942.

Fall Tax Collections Approximate $1,024,000

Percentage of Payments Better During Present Year Indicating Greater Incomes; City Taxpayers Account for $778,000 While Balance of Delaware County Taxing Units Remit $246,000; Distribution of Taxes Being Prepared for Latter Part of

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Final computations are being completed in the office of county treasurer Lester E. Holloway from the second installment of 1942 taxes, payable this fall, and with nearly all the mail receipts being posted the total collections will amount to approximately $1,024,000. Of this total approximately $778,000 was collected from City of Muncie taxpayers and $246,000 from sources within the twelve townships and five towns of Delaware county outside of the city.

The tax settlements made during 1942 both from the spring and fall collections amounted to $2,350,982.83. The spring tax payments for 1943 amounted to $1,185,538.23 which added Tb the present fall collections would approximate the full year of taxes received this year at $2,210,000. The tax rates in the city of Muncie as well as throughout the seventeen other taxing units of the county were considerable higher last year than for the present and therefore the tax collections during 1942 would amount to a greater sum than

they could for 1943.

It may be estimated that at least an eight per cent reduction in tax rates were made for the collections this year over 1942 and based upon this fact the taxes paid in Delaware county for 1943 would amount to a better percentage of collections than actually made last year. At the present rates the total tax collections made during 1942 would have amounted to approximately $2,163,000 as compared with $2,210,000 received during 1943. The treasurer’s office will soon turn to the tax duplicates for auditing and preparation of the December tax settlement. It may be concluded that taxes parid in Muncie and Delaware county have been the best percentage during this year than during any previous years at least for a number of years ' past. This would indicate that incomes have been greater and due to such taxes have been paid on time together with the cleaning up of numerous former

delinquent taxes.

The practice of mailing tax statements instituted by Treasurer Holloway in 1941 is being continued and has been successful both in lessening time and final payment congestions of taxpayers as well as preventing a large amount of ordinarily delinquent taxes due to inability of getting to the office or overlooking the same. Mailed tax receipts have steadily increased which has eliminated large crowds in the treasurer’s office during the final days of payment. The tax rates for 1943, on which taxes are payable next year, have been increased so that the total

during 1944 should exceed the present payments although the percentage of collections may not .be as high. It is estimated that nearly 95<y r of taxes shown on the tax duplicates have- been received during this year. During former years the percentage would amount from

85 to 90 per cent.

All uncollected taxes remaining on the tax duplicates will bear an 8% penalty for those due during 1943 and an additional 5% on all former year delinquents as provided by law. The tax settlement will include funds distributed to the state, county, civil city of Muncie, school city of Muncie, library, each of the twelve townships and five towns of Delaware county. Such distributions are usually ready shortly foUasring December 20th. closed I the last dat^'.fnr tax payments, and will remain closed until all records have' been finally checked which is expected to be another full week.

Allen Co. Jailer Foils Jail Break

Fort Wayne, Ind., Nov. 19.—Allen county jailer Alvin Hitzeman, 51, recovered today from several head and eye lacerations and bruises after he foiled an attempted jail break by two juvenile in-

mates last night.

According • to authorities, the youths, 14 and 15, fashioned crude blackjacks of pieces of metal which they stuffed in socks and slugged Hitezeman when he opened the juvenile block to take the youth prisoners to chapel services. Hitzeman explained the metal was tak-

en from a toilet.

The prisoners recently were convicted on charges of auto theft and were awaiting removal to the boys school at Plainfield. The aged jailer, dazed by their blows, fought off the attackers. The violence attracted deputies to the second floor of the jail and the would-be breakers retreated to

CITES SCIENCE WITH MONOPOLY

Price Of Vitamin D. So High That Poor Could Not Get It

collections of taxes to be collected their cell.

CHICAGO TRIBUNE A SABOTEUR One of the worst of the privileged saboteurs of the war effort and of every possible scheme for uniting the world in mutual insurance against future wars, is the rich and prosperous Chicago Tribune, which is the voice of a single ultra-wealthy plutocrat. To judge by the editorial ravings and the unscrupulous news distortions in which this dictator causes his journal to indulge, the whole American administration must be engaged in a conspiracy for the overthrow of the republic. A stranger reading the Tribune would glean the impression that our real enemies are our Allies; also that we could have kept out of the war if we had chosen and, therefore, that the President and his advisers are responsible for our being involved in it. Everything the government has done has been wrong. How such a gang of bureaucrats, starry-eyed dreamers, crypto-Commun-ists, crackpots, wasters and incompetents could have created a vast and splendidly disciplined Army, Navy and Air Force, provided them with brilliant leadership, furnished them with undreamed-of floods of munitions, ships, aircraft and every other provision for successful operations by land, sea and air, and in less than two years brought us from shocking unpreparedness to the verge of total victory over the two most powerful military dictatorships in the world—all this, to a reader of the McCormick press is an unfathomable mystery. The whole barrage of innuendoes and slanders against every American who does not believe in the Tribune’s brand of jingo isolationism belongs to Cloud-Cuckoo-Land. But serious harm may be done to the future policy of our country, and the seeds of yet a third World War may be sown, if our minds, and those of the whole American people, are not freed from the fundamental fallacy on which all these ravings are based. That fallacy is the idea that any form of international co-operation is against national self-interest, and entails a sacrifice of national selfinterest.

Further evidence that Big Business has made science work for monopoly rather than for the average man was laid before a Senate military affairs subcommittee this week by Assistant Attorney General Wendell Berge. He charged the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, cooperating with some of the country’s biggest food and drug companies, had kept the price of the sunshine vitamin D so high as to put it beyond reach of the poor who most needed it. The vitamin is necessary to prevent rickets and tooth decay. The Foundation, Berge explained, is not connected with the Wisconsin University and is not under its control. It was formed in 1925 to “prevent commercialization” of a process invented by a Dr. Steenbock, then a professor at the university. “Somewhere along the line,” Berge said, “this laudable objective was lost.” The Steenbock patents, Berge asserted, never had any validity, and the courts so decreed a few months ago. Nevertheless, Berge said, the Foundation granted licenses to several American manufacturers and to the Nazi-controlled I. G. Farbenindustrie and frightened off competition with threats of patent litigation. Meanwhile, the Foundation collected millions in license

fees.

Foundation Tried to Prevent Research On the basis of Serge’s evidence, mator Harley M. Kilgore fr»e W. Va.j, chairman of the subcommittee, issued a statement assert-

ing:

“To keep prices high, the Foundation even considered plans to adulterate vitamin D preparations, j The Foundation prevented truth- ' ful advertising. It tried to prevent the publication of scientific research which endangered its

money-making power.

“Obviously, vitamin D was needed by our lower income groups more than any other. But, by maintaining high prices, vitamin D has been cut off from precisely the very people who need it most. Once again we find that monopoly interest runs counter to public in-

terest.”

This and other disclosures of the same nature, Kilgore, said, convinces him of the necessity of enacting his bill setting up a national office of scientific mobilization and making available to the people the advances of scientific research. The bill also provides that a billion dollars’ worth of patents seized from enemy nations shall not be parcelled out to manufacturers, but shall be held in trust for all the people and made available to any manufacturer who wants to use them.—Labor. — o Thanksgiving Menu for Overseas Men Allied Headquarters, Algiers, Nov. 19. — Turkey and apple and pumpkin pies were included today on Thanksgiving Day menus and receipes being sent today to U. S. army mess officers throughout North Africa and the occupied portions of Italy. “Only extraordinary battle conditions can interfere with the delivery of the turkeys for nearly every soldier,” the quartermaster corps announced. “The turkeys started arriving in refrigerator stored in refrigerator warehouses ships many days ago and now are —thousands of tons of them in every part of the theater.” The menu includes: Chilled grapefruit juice and cream of tomato soup. Roast turkey and nut dressing with giblet gravy and cranberry

sauce .

June peas, boiled fresh onions, and candied sweet potatoes. Pineapple and cheese salad with mayonnaise. Sweet pickles and hard candy. Pumpkin or apple pie. Coffee, bread and butter.

MORE ORANGES IN ’44

Los Angeles, Nov. 19.

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will be more oranges for civilians next year, but you won’t notice it because more people are buying them, the California Fruit Growers Exchange said today. General Manager Paul S. Armstiong told the board of directors the California Navel orange crop, now appearing on eastern markets, will top last year’s crop by S.OOOv 000 boxes. But, he added, steadily increasing consumer demands will absorb the surplus.

BOMBING FLEET BATTERS BERLIN

Rain Bound Italian Front Remains More Or Less Static

Green-Lucas Bill Opposed By Bepublicaa Leaders

London, Nov. 19.—The greatest RAF bombing fleet in history battered Berlin and the Rhineland Chemical center of Ludwigshafen last night, and today U. S. Flying Fortresses struck at western Germany while far to the east powerful Russian armies beht down the last German strongholds barring the road to pre-war Poland. The rain-bound Italian front remained more or less static, but front reports indicated the weather had begun to improve and German and Allied patrols were active all

along the line.

More than 1,000 of the RAF’s four-motored bombers launched the staggering double blow at Germany last night, giving Berlin its 87th and possibly heaviest battering of the war and Ludwigshafen its second pounding in 24 hours. Upwards of 3,000 tons of high explosives and fire bombs crashed down on the two cities, with Berlin apparently receiving the slightly larger share of the tonnage. Buildings were flattened over a vast area. Fires leaping through the doomed cities were visible for scores of miles as the bombers

roared away.

The German DNB news agency said the Brlin raiders had jettisoned their explosive over crowded suburban areas of the capital, indicating the Nazis were preparing their people for heavy casualties. On the Russian front, Soviet troops plunged westward beyond captured Korosten to within 50 miles of the old Polish frontier and closed in on the Germans’ White Russian stronghold of Gomel

from three sides.

Korosten, a five-way railroad junction 94 miles northwest of Kiev, was the main enemy bastion on the approaches to Poland and the speed of the Red army drive indicated it might be across the

frontier in less than a week.,The the n

ollapse of the town released Rus- lege; sian forces to help stem desperate German counterattacks 50 miles to the south where large Nazi forces had temporarily stalled the Soviet

advance near Zhitomir.

Above Korosten, other Russian forces broke into the northern suburbs of Gomel and prepared to smash across the Dnieper river into the city from the west after capturing Rechitsa, 25 miles west of Gomel. Rechitsa fell after three days of fierce street fighting in which hundred of Nazi troops were driven to their deaths in the

Dnieper.

Two other Russian columns threatened Gomel from across the Sozh river to the east and south. Rain-swollen rivers in Italy hampered operations on both sides, except for patrol clashes, but German artillery continued to pound the Allied fronts in an effort, to break up preparations for a new drive against the Nazi winter line* o —

HENRY WALLACE RAISES STORM

Creates Sensation By Charging Railroads With Monopolies Vice President Wallace went down to Dallas, Texas, recently to address a gathering of railroad and other labor men and make a ated a sensation. speech on transportation. He creHe charged that the railroads, through unjust rates, have strangled the industrial development of the South and West and insisted that the same old financial interests controlled the carriers. Reactionary newspapers jumped on Wallace with both feet insisting he was digging up “old stuff.” John J. Pelley, president of the Association of American Railroads, accused him of “merely rattling the dry hones of ancient prejudices.” Wallace came back with a statement admitting the conditions he criticized have been of long standing, but contending they continue to exist “because the Wall Street bankers rule the railroad empire today as they have in the past.” Wallace found supporters in Congress. Senator Henry Shipstead (Rep., Minn.) said that every charge made by the Vice-President has been supported by sworn testimony recently given before a subcommittee. He insisted for “three solid weeks” the committee had developed tremendously important facts, but that nothing appeared in the daily newspapers. His indictment did not take in LOBOR, which published reports of the proceedings. Newspaper Suppress Information. “The information which the Vice-President gave,” Shipstead (Continued On Page Two)

CHRISTMAS SING TO OPEN SEASON

Lt. Col. E. Arthur Ball Is Named Honorary Gen-

eral Chairman

The citizens of Muncie and Delaware county will again usher in the Christmas season with the annual Christmas Sing. The date set for this Yuletide event is Sunday, December 12th, and will be held at the Field House. It will begin at 3:00 p. m. Lt. Col. E. Arthur Ball has been named as honorary general chairman of the

program.

Arrangements were made for this celebration at a meeting held in the office of Superintendent H. B. Allman Thursday afternoon. Mayor John C. Hampston presided. Acting president W. E. Wagoner of Ball State; Rev. J. Marion Smith; Merritt Reed, Sup. of Co. Schools; and Prof. H. B. Allman were appointed co-operating chair-

men.

As announced by Mayor Hampton the general committee members are: The Rev. Smith, Miss Clarena Hunter, supervisor of music in the city schools; Omer E. Mitchell, principal of Blaine Junton High School; Glen Stepleton, bead of the music department of Central High School; Earl A. Johnson, principal of Burris High School; John V. Maier, principal of Wilson Junior High School, the Rev. E. J. Cyr; Ernest Boyer, teacher of music at Central; Neil Certain, teacher of music at Burris; Paul Goebel; the Rev. R. E. Boyle, Claude E. Palmer, head of music dqpat;tmenfc qj^BaJlfCol-

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and Mrs. Lawrence FarJie Smith. Professor Claude E.“ 'Palmer is chairman of the general program committee, assisted by Miss Hunter; Miss Anna Olin, head of the music department at Burris; Miss Elizabeth Meloy, instructor of music at the college;’ Mr. Stepleton; the Rev. A. E. Habgood and iWil-

liam Ball.

Mrs. Lawrence Parke Smith is chairman of the choral committee, the members of which are Mrs. Eva Kern, co-chairman, JVlrs. Mildred George Cecil; Mrs. E. F. Daugherty, Mrs. Alfred Kilgore, Miss Hazel Shutt, Mr. Boyer, Miss Virginia • Deen, Miss Mary Alice Cox, Mrs. Margaret Cecil-, Miss Luella Weimer and Miss Frances

Deen.

Neil Certain is chairman of the orchestra committee, which is composed of Mr. Stepleton;' Harry Graddick, county superintendent of instrumental music; King Norsworthy; Harry Thomas; Mrs. Howard Cecil and Miss Luella Weimer. The decorations committee is headed by O. D. Smith, Miss Marcella Hayes, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Hubbard, Sewart Price, Walter Fisher, Launcelot Rhodes, Leonard Sowar, Emmett Grady, Robert Collins, Jerry Keever, Harry Eestabrook, A. C. Clyne and Harry Zeig-

ler.

Publicity is under the direction of Miss Kathleen Meehan, teacher of English at Central, chairman; and Miss Mary Alice Clark, Mrs. Patrircia Shaffer, Mrs. George Dale, Don Burton, the Rev. R. E. Boyle, J. Elwood Watkins and Lester C. Bush. Chairman of the arrangements committee is Charles Hampton, principal of McKinley Junior High and his committee workers are George Roth, Roscoe Shaffer, principal of Central High School; Mr. Mitchell, Mr. Maier; Mr. Wagoner; Mr. Collins; Mr. Fisher; James Jenkins, director of the Trade School; T. B. Calvert, director of budgets and research for the city schools; Chief Police William Vaught, of the police department; Chief Archie McCabe, of the fire department; and Sgt. A1 Gizzi, of the police department. Members of the radio committee are Seward Price, chairman; William F. Craig and Mrs. Robert F.

Murray.

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FREE METHODIST CHURCH.

W. 1st and Pierce Sts. Geo. M. Wiegand, Pastor. Sunday school, 9:30 a. m. Morning worship, 9:45 a. m.

Young People’s meeting, 7 p! m. Evening service, 7:30 p. m.

Prayer meeting, 7:30 Thursday at the James home, 2007 E. Willard St

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Chairman Spangler and Governor Bricker Have No Faith in Their Senate. By Opposition Are Refusing Men and Women-On Fighting Fronts the Greatest Privilege of Country—The Right to Vote—Bricker, Presidential Candidate if Elected Might Prove Another Harding.

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Inciianapolis, Ind., Nov. 19.—A good many Republicans have been paying “lip service” to the oftexpressed Democratic demand that men and women in the armed forces be allowed to vote in the next election—but it’s interesting to note that some of these same top ranking Republicans are putting a lot of obstacles in the way of such a program. It has been estimated that of the 10,000,000 men and women expected to be on overseas duty next year, 7,500,000 will be of voting age. That is no small number of voters, and certainly the men and women who are offering their lives should share in the privilege of saying who are to be the public officials of the country for

which they are fighting.

But does legislation to permit the soldier to vote gets GOP backing? It does not. Let’s take the reaction bf two Republican leaders, Gov. Bricker of Ohio, announced candidate for President, and G. O. P. National Chairman Spangler as an’ example. Chairman Spangler is opposeing the Green-Lucas bill, which provides for setting up of a bi-partisan fourman.. cqmmission approved by. the Senate, on the-grounds that the President might name a board partial to the Democratic party. The bill provides that two of the com' missioners must be Democrats and two~Republiefms, and* since the President’s nominations would have the approval of the Senate, Mr. S-pangler is placed in the position, not of distrusting the President, but of distrusting the Senate. The Senate has turned down Presidential nominations in the past, if we remember correctly, and there’^ no reason that the Senate could not do it again, should the President (as we’re sure Hh wouldn’t) make a mistake in this nomination. If Mr. Spangler has any faith at all in the democratic form of government that is ours, certainly he should be willing to go along with a bi-partisan four-man board chosen with approval of our highest

legislative body.

Mr. Brickers objection is that all of the names of candidates will not appear on the ballots, and he holds that the ballots the soldiers use should be exactly the same printed balolts that tre to ibe used at home. The Green-Lucas bill provides that blank ballots will be distributed in advance, names of candidates would be posted when available and soldiers would fill in their choices. And there’s a reason for that. Several states do not have their primaries until late September or October. And that yould be much too late to print the ballots, ship them off to Bougainville or China and get them back in time. We can’t see how there would he any more chance of anyone “stealing” the election with write-in ballots on which only an X was marked, but Mr. Bricker, somehow, doesn’t like the thought. The number of men allowed to vote would be reduced by approximately half if the printed, rather than the write-in ballots are used. All of which makes us wonder

if Mr. Spangler and Gov. Bricker and some of the other Republicans who are saying the soldiers ought to vote ibut who are opposing legislation to make it possible, really want the soldiers to have a vote. It seems to us if they were sincere; they would either go along with the program provided by the Green-Lucas bill or offer a substitute which would accomplish the aim of the present bill; to allow the men and woman at the front to enjoy one of the great privileges of the freedom for which they are fighting, the right to cast a ballot. An election in-- wInch those—on— whom the failure of our nation depends take no part certainly would be a hollow mockery of the true democracy of which the Rpublican party prates. We have faith in these boys and girls who are fighting our battles-—we insist they have a voice in the election, na matter which party they may favor; that is their right. Are the Spanglers and the Brickers afraid •of a true expression of all of our people? -Speaking of Gov. Bricker reminds us that he no longer is in the Ohio governor’s race. His first announcement was that he would seek a fourth term as governor at the same time he was seeking the GOP presidential nomination. That caused no little excitement in his own state. The ohter night he had a little dinner meeting with some of the other gubernatorial hopefuls, in which it was repotred he asked them to get out of the way. All four refused to get out of the governor’s race, .telling Mr. Bricker he couldn’t have his cake and eat it too, So. Goy. Bricker is now a presidential candidate only. And we might add, he doesn’t have clear sailing in his own state on that either, for clubs are organizing and headquarter^ are being set up in Ohio for some of the other G. O. P. presidential hopefuls. It looks like Mr. Bricker, the “honest Harding” had a tough row to hoe, a very tough row, indeed. And anyway, who’d want another Harding, even if he was honest? o— Hart’s Location, N. H.—This tiny mountain village is really pitching in to help win the war. Of it^ 17 inhabitants, eight have joined the armed forces.

SUGGESTED LETTER

Representative (or Senator) House (or Senate) Office Building Washington, D. C. Dear Sir: It is unthinkable that the boys and the girls who are offering their lives for their country should be denied the right to participate in the next election. No one is more entitled to a voice in the election than those who are fighting the nation’s battle. Regardless of political affiliation, won't you lend your full support to the GreenLucas bill or other legislation which will assure our fighting forces an opportunity to cast their ballots? They must not be deprived of one of the greatest of the freedoms for which they are fighting.

Signed.

Indianapolis, Nov. 1—Mrs. Kenneth Moore rushed through flames yesterday to rescue her three-month-old son Loren who was sleeping in the kitchen when a kerosene stove exploded. The baby suffered minor burns and Mrs. Moore was uninjured.

JIM WATSON’S BIRTHDAY Judging from the Jim Watson birthday party in Indianapolis the other night, Jim and his fellow Republicans are all set to lead another fight against any kind of international cooperation which might result in a permanent peace. An isolationist senator introduced him and lauded Watson’s efforts in sabotaging Wilson’s program a quarter century ago for peace. A lot of nice things were said for Jim, but certainly that wasn’t one of them. If that’s what the GOP believes in, then America had better have no part of the GOP.

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