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Show f O Released by Western Newspaper Union. INDEPENDENT TJ. S. VOTER IS DECIDING INFLUENCE THE INDEPENDENT American voter exercises the deciding influence influ-ence in political elections in the greater number of states and the nation na-tion generally. He owes allegiance to no party; looks beyond the party label; is not interested in party tradition tradi-tion or the glories of the past. He is interested only in the immediate present and in the future. Of the present he wants honest information in-formation definitely expressed as to what is being done, or has been done. He wants that in the form of facts, not as condemnation of one party by another. Given the facts, he feels himself fully capable of determining de-termining whether or not those responsible re-sponsible for a condition should or should not be supported. If there is to be condemnation he prefers to do his own "viewing with alarm." For the future he wants to know definitely what policies each party proposes. He wants those policies expressed in words that can have but one meaning. He is quick to detect "weasel" words in any platform, plat-form, and resents any effort on the part of any party to be "all things to all men." He demands honesty of purpose, honestly expressed. With these two things, an honest and definite accounting of the immediate im-mediate past and present and an honest statement of the purposes of the future, he will decide for himself what party and what leaders repre- sent tne Dest interests 01 nis state and the nation. When we have that kind of political po-litical action by all political parties we will obtain an expression of the wishes of a majority of American voters and the Republic will be safe. The independent voter demands honesty hon-esty in the party he will support. He will not knowingly countenance double dealing. ... 'PERMANENT' PEACE PLANS NEED SERIOUS STUDY VICE PRESIDENT WALLACE has proposed President Roosevelt as "permanent" chairman of the postwar post-war peace conference. That "permanent" "per-manent" would imply that the job of peacemaking is to be a long one, . and it should be. It would imply that the ideas for peacemaking as proposed by former President Hoover Hoo-ver will, in general, be applied. All of the many problems for which solutions solu-tions must be found cannot He considered con-sidered at once. They must be decided de-cided one at a time. They cannot be dropped into a hopper of hate and ground out as a peace product by a war-mad world. In his book, "The Problems of Lasting Peace," and in his addresses,- Mr. Hoover has pled for that cooling off period after immediate needs have been cared for. If we are to have, as we are demanding, a permanent peace, arriving at its final terms is a task that will last for some years, and one that will call for a high degree of statesmanship. To name President Presi-dent Roosevelt as chairman of that conference would accord him a high honor. . ATLANTIC CHARTER WE ARE INCLINED to think of the Atlantic Charter as defining the policies and purposes of 32 Allied nations. In reality, it is not that. It has been signed by some representative repre-sentative of each of 32 nations. It has not been officially approved by the government of any one of these nations, including the United States and England. President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill proposed pro-posed it as what, in their opinion, should be the policies and purposes of the Allied nations, but it cannot become effective and operative with- out the approval of congress and parliament. par-liament. It represents what President Presi-dent Wilson's 14 points represented, the policies and purposes of individuals. individ-uals. What congress and parliament may say about the Atlantic Charter is something else again. WHEN TOUR PAPER ERRS REMEMBER THIS ... JUSTUS CRAEMER is state railroad rail-road commissioner of California. He is also a newspaper publisher. As a railroad commissioner he deals largely in figures. As a newspaper news-paper publisher he must answer for errors in his newspaper. Combining Combin-ing the two vocations he did a bit of figuring, the astronomical kind he uses as a railroad commissioner, and finds there are more than three million chances for an error in producing pro-ducing one issue of an average eight page newspaper. He quotes those figures as an alibi for the occasional error in his newspaper. He can, and does, prove the statement to the satisfaction of any critical reader. - I SHOULD LIKE to pronounce the punishment for Hitler and Mussolini. It is that they be marooned together on a small, uninhabited, coral island, provided with sufficient food and water wa-ter to keep them alive if shared equally, and see which would live longer. We might make a sporting event of it and gamble on which one would die first, either from being talked to death or from failure to receive his share of the food and water. wa-ter. A percentage on the bets could help provide food for their victims in Europe. THAT EXPERIENCE has value was recently recognized by the house of representatives. It passed a bill in which the senate did not concur, providing that a bureaucrat must have had not less than five years of business experience before he could have a job as a bureaucrat. AMERICAN TROOPS in the South and North Pacific have necessarily applied the old Western Indian adage to the Japs. The only good Jap is a dead one, for he must be dead be- j fore he will quit. |