Show GRASSROOTS Government Employees Vole Selves Above Nation T By Wright A. A Patterson I II WAS RIDING through the California California Cali Cali- I fornia southland south of f Los Angeles with a friend and we passed one of the two large larie marine camps in that section As we approached approached approached ap ap- it a long string of automobiles automobiles automobiles auto auto- mobiles was passing through the gate outward bound It was four o'clock quitting time for the civilians civili civilians civili- civili ans employed at that camp As we waited for a break In that line of cars that would let us pass I noticed my friend was counting the occupants of the passing cars When he had reached a number well over I asked his reason for what he was doing He explained that the men in the cars were civilian civili civili- an employees of the camp they were in no way a part of the armed forces of the nation they would not ii th h st f n th wear un U rno ULU o tu UL em were ere of military age The Their T homes and families were in the surrounding surround surround- ing towns and they vote where they live live- Their votes are cast for Democratic Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic candidates for tor congressmen R United States senators governors t members of state legislatures 6 President and vice president and l r for any and all whose names appear on a Democratic ticket The in men those automobiles he continued are arc but a small part parl of the greatest political machine t ever known in this nation Such machines machines machines ma ma- chines as Tammany in New York r. r city the Hague machine in New Jersey those in Chicago Memphis or the machine in Kansas Kan Kan- sas City the operations of ot which L sent Tom to prison no not before he had taught his students the he methods of organizing and operating operating operating op op- such organizations were but bu local The rhe Truman machine covers the nation and effects the elections in every state The many thousands a total otal of more than who pour out of such buildings as the enormous Pentagon represent the Democratic machine and the members members members mem mem- bers are scattered from coast to coast For example There are more people on the federal l payroll in California than all the employees of the state government those of the counties and the municipalities including including including in in- all the school teachers and andall andall andall all the police Those on the federal payroll their relatives and friends will vote the Democratic ticket in effort eUort to hold onto government jobs They Thov Th v know whir which strip side of nf their br bread arl the butter is on For all of ot it we the American tax payers must provide the wages that run into billions of dollars each year W VIp We are paying for tor the votes with which the president hopes to be re-elected re and the election of ofa a Democratic Congress It means a terrific handicap for tor forthe forthe the Republicans to overcome The occupants of those passing cars were but a small part of that ma ma- chine As we waited and watched those civilian employees pouring out of the El Torro gates I realized as I t never had be before Core what a handicap faced the Republicans in the elections elections elections elec elec- of ot 1952 more than nine million million million mil mil- lion purchased votes that civilian jobs were buying though they actually actually actually actu actu- ally represented but a small fraction fraction fraction frac frac- tion of the total of job purchased votes in Cal California ornia They will be cast for for Harry S S. S Truman for dent t The Farm Journal wi wished hed to print the facts regarding the potato marketing marketing marketing mar mar- agreement of last year The department of agriculture had all the facts but refused to let them be known even to the farm t ons The Farm Journal at much effort and great cost dug them out Those facts reflected on the judgment judgment judgment judg judg- ment of ot the administration and the department of agriculture ture and the President did not want the people to have them We are rapidly developing secret methods in the conduct of govern govern- ment The people will be told only what the administration wants them to know The shady transaction of government officials will be covered up in so far as government departments departments departments depart depart- ments are able to cover them and that will encourage more such legal or moral shortcomings on the part of government officials Secrecy in government means an invitation to corruption in government Beware of those who propose indiscriminate in- in Indiscriminate Indiscriminate In In- discriminate paying of doles to all willing or who can be induced to accept It will not be long until there will be nothing left lest with which to pay those doles Industry will be dead and there will be no jobs for those willing to work for their sus IUS- sus- sus |