Show 00 HT A i PATT E RS N lRe released leased by western newspaper union WE THINK TOO LOCALLY NOT ENOUGH nationally THERE IS in america too much local and not enough national political thinking we fall fail to realize that the foundation on which the republic is is national in scope that the national government can and does dominate our entire system national legislation can take from the states and through them from the counties and municipalities many of the rights and privileges we have felt belonged to us locally in our two party system those of each party are in interested terestea in controlling the state county and municipal patronage and the election machinery of these political subdivisions we pick candidates tor for representatives and senators on the basis of local service to the party rather than on their ability as statesmen we continue them in office so long as they produce national funds for local use or support such minority legislation in which we have a selfish interest the result of it all is a wild orgy of spending and government by and for minorities if we do not learn to think nationally along political lines we will some day awaken to the fact that washington controls us locally a 0 0 A MIGHTY FACTOR IN COMMUNITY SERVICE THERE IS no institution or business enterprise that does so much for the community in which it operates as the newspaper directly and indirectly it promotes the interests teresta of the community it produces d ces a acquaintanceship friendship and good will between people of the town and the surrounding farm homes it works week by week year after year for the interests of all it keeps each individual informed of the joys and sorrows the comings and goings the activities of his neighbors that is a service which promotes the welfare of the community as a whole it makes of the community the people of the town and surrounding farms a homogenous whole e 0 PARITY PRICES FOR THE FARMER IN 1941 THE government is to see that the farmer gets the 1904 to 1914 parity price for what he raises that means they tell me that what he may raise this year is to pay proportionately for as much and as many things bought per year during the years from 1904 to 1914 just how they figure it out I 1 do not know and it is a safe bet that the average farmer will take the governments word as to the answer it is estimated that it will take close to half a billion of government dollars to make the difference between what the public will pay for the 1941 crop and what the farmer is to receive it certainly will take mathematical experts to arrive at the right answer for each farmer but I 1 do not know how much these experts are to get for the job ernsteins Ein steins probably come high BOTH PARTIES NOW SUBSCRIBE TO DEMOCRACY OUR FOUNDING FATHERS organized and wrote a constitution for a republic not a democracy the term democracy does not appear any place in the constitution washington and hamilton believed in a republic with a ruling class jefferson insisted upon a democracy with the power of government in the hands of all the people today both major political parties subscribe to a democracy despite all the complexities of government america can survive as a democracy if the people au all the toms dicks and harrys as well as the oswalds per civale and warrens are given accurately cura tely all the facts about the operation of government the american people can be trusted but american leadership refuses to take the people into its confidence and that lack of information will in time do for us just what it has done for Eur europe olpe a 0 prosperity regardless OF how the war may end or how long it may last william A irwin educational director of the american institute of banking says america is in for a long period of prosperity he sees this country as the one great creditor nation that will be in a position to rehabilitate the world it sounds plausible and may it prove true tor for us and for the rest of the world 0 0 0 EXECUTIVE CRIMES 9 THERE ARE several thousand federal laws not enacted by congress the violation of any one of which can send you to jail or subject you to a fine these are executive orders issued by more than different departments bureaus or commissions many american citizens have served jail terms or paid fines or both because of a violation of these executive order laws lawrence sullivan in the dead hand of bureaucracy tells us new ones are being issued one each day |