Show GRASSROOTS President Truman Will Be Hard To Beat in 1952 By Wright A. Patterson the editor JONATHAN of the S. C. a friend of President a one time employee In the White says in the August American Magazine that Harry S. Truman will be the Democratic nominee for President next and gives a of reasons why he will be No one of his reasons are as potent the one that he falls to That Is the assured Truman vote of the Democratic army of now numbering and their relatives and who want to see them hold onto their federal government In the days of Tammany control of New York sachems claimed that each Job was good for eight Tammany votes In any city and demonstrated the correctness of that But should each bureaucratic job be good for only half of that four for the pi to start Is more than eight that Is some handicap for any Republican nominee to Especially the party Is only against what the opposition has but for nothing with which to appeal for while the Democratic stands for a ani well defined program That is one reason for the Daniels assurance of uc- The Republicans can take lull credit lor that t or handicap they must overcome II their candidate it to In the they had a majority in hoth houses of and might have forced the disbanding of that bureaucratic army by not appropriating money to pay but they did not do and now ibey must face the That army will be rather than when the 1952 election day For each new Job there will at lea t. four more Truman I would sn that betting against the President is in no sense a sure A California state it said to m Warren is the Republican the state will be in the Truman It hardly seems but Daniels could be Anyway let's wait until the votes are The people and state official of California think It is quite proper for the federal government to spend billions in build-u. Irrigating land and preventing floods In from only the people of California but they seriously object to the same procedure I The central valley project of is as much a state project as Is the central Arizona The oue difference is the smaller cost In Neither project will benefit any one if the state In which the money is But It is the tax-payers In all the states who will pay the bill for and the people of both states eventually will sacrifice much of their local sovereignty through accepting and using the billions the federal government pours into such For those states it means the death ol constitutional state's Congress should p all such other than those that can be sell liquidating over s reasonable number ol The Hoover dam in the Colorado while in one way or another five stales and though built with government was not a The cost is being returned to the federal and within a reasonable number of years it will all be plus Others should be financed in the same including the central Arizona but the wealthy land owners are like all the other Indigents who want their water supplied to them at no We pay a terrible price In dead and crippled f r each weekend Too much hurry to get British born Secretary of State Acheson is a heavy load to carry into a political campaign report of the Senate investigating committee was not specially pleasing to those responsible for the firing of Douglas |