Show A Marquis Childs Restraint Needed h hIn In Politics As Crisis Grows of W WASHINGTON The The first gob of c cam mud is la here on my desk It I II book c called Missouri Waltz Walts o On u uis the cov COVer COVeris Is a n. convict photograph of the late Bost BO Tom of Kansas City with thi Uti number assigned to him when he went nt into Leavenworth penitentiary There is nothing very new that tit V ezI be told about Harry S Truman's ship with the maci machine But It can be dressed up again for campa purposes Just as the Moscow radio radl Is idres Ing up the wicked specter of ot bossi to corrupt capitalism for tor the purposes el o of a aa l. l other kind of campaign If II a time ever called for self restraint tr ln that time is now The Republicans with j ja a J little sober reflection will surely re rea that they can afford self restraint They can afford aford it because Mr tr Tru defeat is assured Two factors alona alon have assured his defeat one defeat one th the de defeo v tion of the right in the southern and the other the splitting of off of t the ex trem left with Henry A. A Wallace Wallac n j I Ithe the Communist manipulators Many other causes are at work but there Is In litt p note POint in discussing them Perilous Interregnum We are living In a perilous interregnum It will endure for more than nine month montiz Mr Truman might have decided at lOme point after November 1946 to demont demonstrate the Inherent weakness of our constitutional system by resigning in favor of ot a ReP can which would have been perfectly pc poi OI- OI sible and legal under the constitution r i He apparently never seriously considered that course So we see him standing before he- he fore a n congress that has repeatedly i Ign ignored and repudiated him The vote of no con cw in November 1946 has echoed again and again in congress and the world knOWl kno it as well as we do here at home Self restraint is to be sure a a- a rax rare tue The temptation at this point on the of ot the Democratic corpse party paty u 11 g understandable This kind of Interregnum invites the excesses of victory and the theR R publican regulars have waited a long After 1930 poor Herbert Hoover wag VII caught in the same trap In my opinion hi iii never even approached an adequate plan pins for curing and checking the depression But Bet if it he had had the most perfect and fir far reaching plan in th the world the Democrat riding high in the house would have ha thrown thron it out I 4 Crisis More Grave Gran In 1931 the crisis of depression threat thre threatened ened the entire nation Banks and were shutting down and food was rotting f on the farms while millions were hungry The crisis this time is if it anything moa mort grave s Itis the threat of ot a war that be avoided by steady firm finn resolution and aM aMa anda Mf a broad show of unity d From the screams reams of ot outraged that rise up one would think Mr Truma was the first product of machine fa fl the United States You get the Impression that a mathine machine never W existed W before took over In pursuing Mr Truman we may rat to forget that you you- and you and you and aM aMI I Imade Imade made the machine possible by our ence to and contempt of politics or politics or the machine served our own private as and profitable interests Machines Republican and Democratic have been a 8 too too- familiar feature of the political landscape The victory snake dance if it goes rca rea through the next nine months can do dom doin incalculable in- in calculable harm Self restraint Is not lux luxury lux- lux ury my because the Republicans can can ao well mn afford ifford af if- ford it And the need for tor it is so desperate Copyright 1948 United d Feature Syndicate tI |