Dale News, Volume 5, Number 52, Dale, Spencer County, 12 February 1943 — Page 3

LOOKING AHEAD

in, accepting assurances ; that the President would take care of Wages. Now certain congressmen complain that the law they passed is being used, not as administration men led them to believe when they voted, but quite differently.

Church

METHODIST CHURCH Rev. Barthol Rogers, Minister Church School, 9:15 a. m. A. J. Wedeking, superintendent. Morning worship at 10:05 a. m. Evening service at 7:30. Our evangelistic services will start the first of March. Our slogan will be “March to Church in March.”

by GEORGE S. BENSON President-Harding College Searcy, Arkansas

Flouting the Senate

Then, too, there was the- circumstance about, salary limitations. Three times Congress had silenced with decisive vote, proposals to name a top figure for anybody to draw as a Salary. Then an administration bill came along to give James F. Byrnes potent authority over payrolls. Some. of its backers said, the bill would not be used to lower existing salaries, but soon after passage, it WAS used for just that. Moreover the high limit was pegged at the very figure Congress had three times disapproved : $25,000. Probably the most comment grew out of the construction of a certain building in Washington, D. C., after the “Senate Had refused authority to erect it. Subordinate executives used money obtained from one of the “blank checks” Congress had given the President, and built it anyway. Naturally the Senate, is a little particular, about who “goes over its head.”

No I lore “Blank Checks” Out with the December sweepings of the 77th Congress went H.R. 7762, its revisions, modifications and amendments, bag and baggage. If this bill had passed it would have authorized the President to suspend federal laws at will, in whole or in part, “for the effective prosecution of the war,” to give free movement of people, property and information into or out of the United States.

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UNITED BRETHREN CHURCH Rev. O. A. Beanblossom, Minister Unified worship service at 9:15 a. m. A. J. Brown, superintendent. Ladies Aid will meet Wednesday afternoon at 2:00. Revival services are now in progress, with good crowds coming each evening. Miss May Paul is doing a good job directing the music and Miss Mary Olive is bringing some mighty fine sermons. Come each night at 7:30.

Formerly this Congress had given the administration everything it asked. H.R. 7762 was the first declined request from the President for a war measure. What caused Congress, at the year’s end, to deviate from its unbroken record of granting all war legislation requested by the President? I have tried earnestly to get the truth, and I will report what I have heard. Why the Change?

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Rev. W. S. Martin, Minister

After talking with a number of congressmen and studying discussions of the measure in meetings of the Ways and Means Committee, I am satisfied that Congress has experienced a complete change of sentiment about passing out its legislative powers to others. I predict that bureau chiefs aspiring to make their own rules this year will be disappointed. Even those who have been doing so for ten years may encounter difficulty. Many congressmen, without casting the least shadow of blame in the direction of the Chief Executive, claim that subordinate executives have used the President’s influence to obtain, through legislation, powers which Congress did not want them to have nor imagined they would get. The President is busy every waking minute with numberless complicated problems of a world-wide war. Obviously he can’t watch everybody. He must trust a great many people. Fear Carte Blanche

Congressmen Speak

May I present some hand-picked utterances? Rep. Gearhart of California said, “We have begun to lose faith in some of the promises made, in the light of what has transpired since.” And, with reference to the anti-inflation bill, Rep. Disney of Oklahoma remarked, “We have learned a lot of things since we passed that bill that we did not know then, and which we do not like now.”

Sunday School at 9:00 a. m., with Harold Martin as superintendent.

Take it for Headache, Muscular Pains and for Indigestion, Gas on Stomach, when caused by excess stomach acid. At your drug store — Large package 60c, Small package 30c, by the glass at soda fountains.

SELVIN METHODIST PARISH Rev. Paul Howard, Minister Selvin: Sunday School, 10:00 a. m. Worship service, 8:30 p. m. Young People's meeting, 7:30 p. m. Prayer meeting, Thursday, 8:30 p. m. Garrison Chapel; Sunday School, 10:00 a. m. Preaching on the 1st and 3rd Sunday mornings at 11:00. Prayer meeting, Wednesday, 8:30 p. m. Pleasant Hill: Preaching on the 2nd and 4th Sunday mornings at 10:00. is cordially invited to attend any or all of these services.

Opposition to giving the President authority to suspend laws controlling the importation of undesirable food products brought representatives of 4,500 farm associations to Washington. This has strengthened the conviction of congressmen that they should retain all of the legislative powers of Congress. A Still Worse Example Probably the shoddiest suit of second-hand law making power, with which a bureaucrat was ever clothed, came with a law providing for re-negotiation of war contracts. It gives power, not to bureau chiefs alone. It permits thousands of auditors and other special clerks to exercise many authorities which the Constitution gives to Congress alone, even to break government contracts and revise prices as they please. I predict the authority of these underlings will be reduced sharply by the new Congress.

Richard Carroll, having completed six months training in Air Craft Radio at the University of Illinois, has been transferred to Wrights Field, Dayton, Ohio, where he is employed.

Mrs. Bertha Fuller of Chrisney visited relatives here Tuesday.

Roy Stone was a visitor in Evansville Wednesday.

Congressmen express belief, not without resentment, that some of the President’s adviser have taken advantage of his preoccupation. They point to a series of disappointing experiences with laws requested by administration executives; eases where congressmen found quite a little difference between their understanding of a bill before it was passed and the uses made of it after it became a law. Consequently they are reluctant (not to say unwilling) to keep on giving a free hand to miscellaneous executives.

Mrs. Paul Knott is ill at her home here.

SANTA CLAUS METHODIST Rev. Millard Brittingham, Minister Church School at 10:00 a. m. Morning Worship at 11:00 a. m.

Today is Abraham Lincoln's birthday.

Bertha Wertzberger vs Rosalind M. Lubbahusen., Names of Leonard Ashley, F. A. Hearing and L. N. Savage submitted to try the cause, defendant strikes name of Leonard Ashley leaving the other two names from which the plaintiff is to choose.

Our Job Is to Save

Dr. and Mrs. J. H. Barrow and family had as their guest over the week end Mrs. Barrow’s sister, Miss Ruth Wheeler of Indianapolis.

Dollars Buy War Bonds Every Pay Day

The price ceiling miff makes a good example: For some time, House members pensed an effort to force them to place legal price limits on food (products of the farm) without permitting them at the same time to fix an up-stop on wages— fruits of the laborer’s toil. And final ly last September Congress gave

Floyd Williams spent the week end with his mother Mrs. Wallace Wellmeyer in Huntingburg. Floyd has employment in a defense plant in Evansville.

Miss Mabel and Bill Wedeking visited Mrs. Bertha Fuller at Chrisney recently.

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