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Show Edison on Politics In a recent interview Thomas A. Edison discussed government, politics poli-tics and business in characteristically direct fashion, and referred pointedly to the wastefulness of government bureaucracy. Speaking of the government's ventures ven-tures into the business field, he declared de-clared that the government never really goes into business, for it never makes ends meet, adding that it just mixes a little business with a lot of politics and no one ever gets a chance to find out what is actually going on. Mr. Edison is not pessimistic, however, how-ever, but expresses his belief that continued con-tinued progress and prosperity lie ahead of us. He referred to what may be expected during the Hoover administration ad-ministration as follows: "One of the highest duties of the President is to keep the government out of business. He would perform a great public service if he did nothing else. That is one of the many things that we can trust Hoover to do. That is his biggest job, and I should include in that job the clearing out of the bureaucracies which are growing up in Washington and becoming a wasteful waste-ful nuisance." President Hoover, may, indeed keep the government out of further disastrous dis-astrous excursions into the field of business, but he will find it very difficult dif-ficult to get rid of the armv of bureaucrats bureau-crats who harass the people whUe feeding at the public crib. They ap pear to be too strongly intrenched ever to be dislodged. |