Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-29
COP Must
Be on Alert
AS Minority
Sidestep Cheap PoliticsN
: Safeguard Rights
BY GEO. ROCKWELL BROWN

major political Importance in
this country for the first time
in an even dozen years.
So great is the speakership
span between those two eminent
Texans, Cactus Jack" Garner,
and the un-nicknamed Sam 4.
Rayburn. "
The Democrats and their New
Deal allies operating, generally
falsely, under the Jeffersonian p
label, by the end of the seventy
eighth Congress will have been
in power about as long as the
American people have ever been.
willing to keep one political
party in continuous power in the
House of Representatives. BY
all the precedents of history. by
1914 they should be on their
way out. 70
An unmistakable trend APP
pears TO be definitely under way
north of the Ohio and Potomac
rivers, and in the Middle and
Far West, a trend that began
in 1888.
All the lessons of our political
history teach US that, except for
the unforeseen, this trend will
continue until there has been a.
complete reversal of legislatiN
and administrative control in
Washington, and that - except.
as stated. for the unforeseen
nothing that parties can do. pro
or con, can stop that trend.
THE unforeseen is, OF course.
always possible. just as moth
ing is so commonplace as coin
cidence. The unforeseen hap
pened in 1910. when Mr.. Roose-
welt availed himself OF the war
in Europe and Asia TO arrest
tendency that otherwise would
have terminated his presidency.
and along with it the New Deal
and all its social reforms, for
which billions had been spent.
The unforeseen in 1914 NAV
be some contingency growing
out of the war not now fore.
Swallowed.
Against the element of acci-,
dent and fate. the Republican
Party, and the conservative
Democratic Party, in the House
OF RepreSentatives-not 10 deal
now with the Senate-cannot be
on their guard.
But both Of these elements in
the House of Representatives
can be on their guard against
the things which lie within their
own control, and if they disre.
gard them. both may come
choppers.
For the conservative Demo
Gratis, they may find themselves
with representation in the
House pushed back 10 the states
Of the old confederaey, in
hopeless minority. and one likely
10 last for another cycle OF -
dozen years.
THE Democrats from this sec
Il ton should so conduct
themselves in the seyenty-eighth
Congress as 10 insure the safe
guarding OF their minority rights
in the House in such an event.
They can do this by insisting
upon an honest recognition OF
Republican minority rights in
the new Congress, based
squarely and fairly on the per-
centage of membership in the
House.
As for the Republicans, they
could easily destroy their pros
poets for a complete vindication
of their party's basic principals
by the people two years hence.
by playing cheap politics during
the seventy-eighth Congress.
Some Of them unfortunately
are already showing a disquiet-
ing tendency TO raise their sights
too high.
Their proper target is not the
presidential campaign of 1914.
but the day by day business of
the seventy-eighth Congress!
COME OF these Republicans
~ appear TO be bent, at all cost.
at gaining. or winning back.
certain cliques and groups Of
voters. II they pursue this policy
they will find the cost prohib-
itive-a reaction against them
which will cost them what they
have, and what they so fondly
expect.
Both the Republicans and the
conservative Democrats should
meet every question which arises
in the seventy-eighth Congress,
as il comes up, on the basis OF
what is best for the United
States of America. not what is
best for their respective politjA
parties. ~
If they begin by catering 70
special privileged and rapacious
sections of the people, they will
end by losing all the people.