Show Politics POLITICAL reprisals invariably mark an clec- clec election P Jl POLITICAL tion year but this time the punitive machinery machin machin- ery is getting in motion earlier than usual usual usual- starting starling in fact on the heels of ot the first primary primary primary mary returns Already one state chairman representing representing representing rep rep- resenting a major political party has announced that all aU state who failed to support the governor in the primary will be bo discharged for disloyalty usual of course explained this particular particular par par- particular politician The boys who are not loyal will have to go That Thae does not apply to civil service service ser ser- vice naturally Neither is this a reprisal But what else is it Surely the wholesale dismissal of state because they choose to vote as they please looks no better in America America America Amer Amer- ica than it does in nazi nazi Germany Moreover one of the certain dangers of this infamous practice practice practice tice is that it can undermine the merit system It is defenseless on any grounds |