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Show sPr .. . -v.. v i IlL-le.ised by Western Newspaper Union. VAI.CK OF A TWO-PARTY TWO-PARTY COVE R.N ME XT With a one party system of government, gov-ernment, one man rule is inevitable. America never has had, and does lot want, such a government. Under aur two party system, when it happens hap-pens that the legislative branch and the administrative branch are controlled by different parties, there are occasional times when it would seem party advantage is considered con-sidered as above national good. Of two comparatively recent instances in-stances of that character, one was in the winter of 1018. A compulsory military training bill was before congress con-gress and the Republican majority would pass it. To those who had originally sponsored the measure meas-ure President Wilson let it be known Hint when the bill was passed by the Reptiliran majority he would veto it unless it was withdrawn. Kiven a new number, and reintro-"liiced reintro-"liiced by a member of his own oarty as an administration meas-jre. meas-jre. When that was done the Republican Re-publican majority refused to pass 3.s u Democratic administration measure what it would have passed . s a Republican measure. Had there mt have been that clash of party interests the nation would have had a trained citizenry from which to Jraw an army for World War II. In lf;32 the Democratic party controlled con-trolled congress. anri we had a Republican president. Immediately following the national election of that I year, when the Democratic party had elected the President to( be in-I jugurated the following March, the incumbent Republican President, Herbert Hoover, proposed legislation legisla-tion to stop the alarming bank failures. fail-ures. He could close the banks, but without legislation he could not reopen re-open them. The Democratic majority major-ity in congress refused to pass the legislation without instructions from the incoming Democratic president, which instructions could not be secured. se-cured. The banks continued to fail until immediately after the inauguration in-auguration of a Democratic president presi-dent on March 4, 1933. when a special spe-cial session of a Democratic congress con-gress passed the identical bill, introduced intro-duced as an administration measure, 't had refused to pass in January. Such instances can happen only when different political parties control the legislative and administrative branches of the federal government. Under ; such conditions both parties may I be guilty of placing party advantage ad-vantage above national good. ECONOMIC SET-UP FOR POSTWAR EUROPE MUCH OF POSTWAR EUROPE, including France, Belgium, the Balkans Bal-kans and possibly England and other oth-er countries, will have as an economic eco-nomic system, a cross between state socialism and private enterprise. It will, in reality, be the present day communism of Russia mixed with a greater amount of private enterprise than is now found in Russia, but to which Russia is moving. The De Gaulle government of France has nationalized the coal mines, with the announced purpose of the same program pro-gram for all industry dealing with natural resources and national defense. de-fense. That means nationalizing' all transportation and heavy industries, such as steel and steel products. In many ways, it is the economic system sys-tem of Naziism against which the Allied nations have been fighting. It is a system toward which we, too, have been drifting. It is a long way to the left of what we have had for our last 150 years. It is where we will land unless, and I do not know what that "unless" may be that might save us, or how far we may go if it does not happen. ANOTHER REQUEST FOR SUBSIDY IT IS EXPECTED THE CALIFORNIA CALI-FORNIA summer orange crop, though unusually large in numbers will be small in size, and California citrus growers are fearful of the price they will get. Some of the growers have proposed asking the government for a subsidy to compensate com-pensate them for any loss in value because of the small size. "Why not," they say, "everyone else expects ex-pects the government to carry their losses, why not we orange growers?" grow-ers?" Others propose they ask the government for a higher ceiling price so the consumer will make up the loss, instead of passing it on to all the taxpayers. The former American Amer-ican way would be to take the bitter with the sweet, and let the increased quantity make up. so far as it would, for any decrease in quality. The new way with all of us is to ask the government, the tax payers, to carry the load. IN THE ALLIED PEACE PROVISIONS, PRO-VISIONS, as announced by the Big Three, nothing was said about an American loan to Germany with which she could pay for the devastation devas-tation she has caused. We set a precedent pre-cedent at the close of World War 1 that Germany will expect us to follow fol-low with the close of World War II. She would much prefer to pay reparations with American money than with German labor, but, possibly, pos-sibly, there is a limit to our generosity. gen-erosity. We were good-hearted boobs once, and that should be enough. |
