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Show HOME TOWN REPORTER Political Leaders Have Failed To Inform the People on Issues By Walter A. Shead wilson once said, Woodrow trouble In the United States Is that the people have not been the real force back of the government." This reporter feels that statement is largely true today in spite of the fact that great new mediums for the dissemination of news and information in the radio and television have grown up since Wood-ro- w Wilsons time. It is true people are today better informed than they were on current issues 35 or 40 years ago although the government has been bitterly criticized and charged with lobbying in its feeble attempts to inform the people on what it is doing. As a matter of fact, these attempts are feeble, in many instances not wholly frank on the part of government, and the leaders of today in the two great poliUcal parties have failed miserably to inform the people at the grass roots on the aims, purposes and accomplishments of their government or their party. That this is true was brought home to this reporter in a trip through a large section of the country prior to the recent election. The vote in that election was not the result of any fundamental knowledge on the part of the voters on either side of the real issues in that campaign. After talking to scores of people, we concluded they were information, woefully igof what their government norant was doing. The tremendous force of the independent voter largely went Republican, not because of faith in a Republican program, for there was none. It went Republican because of a lack of faith caused by a lack of information on the Democratic program. The people picked up extraneous issues, local issues which they understand, and voted accordingly, Democratic in one state, Republican in another just across the line. The Republican party and the Republican leadership branded Democratic principles as socialistic. They demanded Dean Achesonfs resignation because they contended he protected Communists. Neither the socialist nor the Communist charge was true. Arid Achesons resignation would not help the people. But they didnt know that because they had no reliable information otherwise. seeking al organization on the real issues of the campaign. A dozen different pressure groups were at the same time cramming the air and the newspapers with propaganda, each with an axe of his own to grind. So how could the people be a real force back of government when they were confused, worried about high prices, fretting over foreign affairs and the Korean war, when no voice, no information, nothing they could tie to pierced the fog of uncertainty in which they were moving? It seems to this reporter that this administration, or any administration in power, should recognize the duty and the responsibility of truthfully, honestly and forcefully letting the people of the United States know just where they stand. In no other way can they become a real force. Snyder Says Nation Hasn't Felt Defense Py, Snyder added that congress has street Snyder says Treasury Secretary .hat the impact of the United States mobilization program will exje stronger than most citizens crisis pect, even if the Korean develops' into nothing more serious. Snyders opinion was given recently to the annual convention of the Bankers association in New York City. He said: Tax increases all along the line are inevitable. People do not have any notion so far of the size of the defense program. The bankers at their meeting warned in resolutions that inflation s the nations primary economic danger and called for a cut in non defense spending. committed about 30 billion dollars to defense spending and foreign aid in the fiscal year ending June 30, 1951. He said that the figure i wholesale his week posted foj, y drop of the yea! ' appreciable nf , - dec&f1 8 nr. 7 would probably rise materially the have tended to ea.:GraN following year. showing heavy Snyder disclosed that the house ways and means committee and the senate finance committee have virtually committed them selves to an excess profits tax measure in a stand for pay as you go financing to preserve the dollar. With the end of the Korean war apparently in sight, prices of some commodities have tended to ease, but this weakness is not regarded as significant. 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