Show I I Released by Western Newspaper Union VALUE ALUE OF or A TWO TWO- PARTY GOVERNMENT With a one party system of gov gov- government government one man rule is inevitable America hever hevel has had and does not want such a government Under our two party system when It hap happens pens that the legislative branch and find the administrative branch brunch are arc controlled by different parties there e are ar occasional occasion a times when It would seem party advantage Is con conn considered as above national good Of Ot two comparatively recent In Instances stances of that character one was WI in the winter of 1918 98 A compulsory compus ry military training bill was before belore con congress gress ress and the Republican majority would pass it To those who had originally sponsored the meas measure ure urt President Wilson let it be known that when the bill was passed pas ed by bythe bythe the majority he would veto eto it unless it was withdrawn given n a new now number and reintroduced by a member of his own 11 party as an nn administration meas measure ure ire When that was done the Re Republican publican majority I to pass BS ps a Democratic administration what it would have passed OK rw n a Republican measure Had there not net have been that clash of 01 party interests the nation would have had hada a o trained citizenry from which to draw an army for World War II 11 In rn 1032 1932 the th Democratic party con conn controlled trolled congress and we had a R Republican president Immediately a tely following the he national election of that year rear when the Democratic party had Hild fleeted elected the President to be in inaugurated in the following March the incumbent Republican President Herbert ibert Hoover proposed legisla legislation tion to stop the alarming bank fail tall ures ures lie He could close the banks but without legislation he could not re re- reopen reopen open pen them The Democratic major majority majority ity in congress refused to pass the legislation without Instructions from tt tin l incoming Democratic president which instructions could not be se cured curd The banks continued to fall lall until immediately after the In Inauguration of a Democratic president dent on March 4 1033 when n a special cial cia session of oC a Democratic con COil congress gress passed the identical bill Intro as an administration measure it it had refused to pass in January Such Instances can nn happen only when different political parties control the legislative and administrative branches branch's of 01 the federal government go Under such stich conditions both parties may maybe be guilty of placing party ad ad- advantage advantage vantage antage above national good o 0 0 ECONOMIC SET UP FOR FOIt POSTWAR EUROPE MUCH OF OP POSTWAR EUROPE Including France Belgium the Bal Bal- Balkans Balkans I kans and possibly England and oth- oth other other other er countries will have as an nn eco ceo economic system a cross between state socialism and private enterprise It will in reality be the present day communism of Russia mixed with a greater amount of private enterprise than Is now found In Russia but to which Russia is moving The De government of France has nationalized the coal mines with the announced purpose of the same program pro gram for all an Industry dealing with natural resources and national de de- defense That means nationalizing all transportation and heavy Industries such as steel and steel ste products In Inmany many ways It is the economic system tern tem of against which the Allied nations have been fighting It Itis Itis Itis is a system toward which we too have hav been drifting It is a long way to the left ett of what we have had for our last years It is where we will land unless land unless and I do not know what that unless uness may be that might save us or how far Car we may go if it It does docs not happen 0 ANOTHER REQUEST FOR FOn SUBSIDY IT IS EXPECTED THE CALL CAL FORNIA summer orange crop though unusually large in numbers will be small in size and California citrus growers growelS are fearful fea of the price they will Im get Some of the growers have proposed tusking Asking the government for a subsidy to com com- compensate compensate them for any loss in value because of the small size Why Wh not they say everyone else ex cx- expects the government to carry their losses why not we orange grow grow- growers growers growers ers Others propose they ask the government for a higher ceiling price so the consumer will make up the loss Instead of passing it on to all the taxpayers The former Amer American ican scan way would be to take the bitter with the sweet and let the Increased quantity make up so far as It would for any decrease In quality The new way with all of us is to ask the government the tax payers to carry the load 0 IN THE ALLIED PEACE PRO PRO- PROVISIONS PROVISIONS VISIONS as announced by the Big Three nothing was said about an American loan Joan to Germany with which she could pay for thO th devastation devas devastation tation she has caused We se a pre pre- precedent precedent at the close of World War I that Germany will expect us to fol follow 10 fol- fol follow low with the close of World War II 11 She would much prefer to pay reparations with American money monty I than with German labor but bul pos possibly I sibly there Is a limit to our gen gen- generosity generosity We were hearted good boobs once and that should be enough I |