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Show Making the World Safe For Bureaucracy Never before has politics played so dominating a part in our lives. Almost every possible act of the individual in-dividual is controlled or supervised by some official body. The right's of the individual, like State's righrs, are dwindling away. Instead of government by thep eople, we have government by commission. If ever this nation needed less political hot air and more calm and collected statesmanship on the part of lawmakers, it needs it right now. It is going to be difficult for the servants of the people to disregard the basic problems of the country and devote most or their time to thinking up schemes to further their own political ambitions, without arousing public resentment. The people are sick of too much politics and too little business. They are tired of accusations against business for political effect with resulting discouragement of investments and employment.. Probably nothing would do more to relieve the strain of depression than to have the various state legislatures leg-islatures and Congress meet and adjourn and permit business to recover re-cover without any artificial stimulants stimu-lants and political patent medicines. medi-cines. The design of politics has leaned too strongly toward making the world safe for bureaucracy. |