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Show YOU ARE A POLITICIAN The word "politician'' is usually linked with graft, corruption and moral squalor. "Politicians" are apt to 1)0 associated with . big city "machines," captained by gangsters and criminals. Vet, every citizen is a politician. The party "machine" comes into existence only because be-cause the voter refuses .to fulfill his obligations as a politician. poli-tician. The party "machine'' is built upon a definite number of votes, a definite number of followers to de- i bungling foreign policy; oppres- sive taxation; deficit spending; Republicanism as opposed to Socialism; the need for political changes in all levels of government govern-ment . . . The issues are political. We are all politicians. Let us be good ones. liver that vote. The calibre of the "machine" or you may call it organiza- j tion depends upon the number of votes in an election. If voters are few, the "machine" can be captured by the few. If the voters are many, the machine must have candidates and policies poli-cies that meet the demands of the public victory is always the aim of any political organization. organiza-tion. In 1950, only slightly more than half of those who were qualified voted. Reluctant politicians among us sometimes think they are better bet-ter off as Independents. In this way, many avoid what is called partisan politics. The answer to this of course is: Only by working work-ing withift a party can a citizen-politician citizen-politician have any weight in tletermining policy and candidates. candi-dates. The Independent, sitting sit-ting out the preliminaries, often finds himself faced at election time with candidates he cannot support. Politicians now are faced with critical political issues: Communism Com-munism and corruption in government: gov-ernment: the Korean stalemate |