Nogales international., 1942-04-17
annual T0MATER0 FIESTA TOMORROW
Make Your Campaign Promises Now!
This is election year.

mud-spatters from their campaign apparel. few
workouts in the gymnasium will restore steely tension
to the trllsty handcasp and several fast games or
pingpong should put the cverready backslap IN line
working order But when they renew acquaintance
with that necessary evil-ther almost forgotten con-
stituency, they will discover they face a repair JOB
far more strenuous than the mere rebuilding OF their
fences Their platforms have rotted out from UNDER
them.
Obviously they cannot run the basis of having
filled all campaign promises, and to make others
would be futile. Letters and wires to Washington
bring back alibs and explanations Of why the recpl
ens adhere to policies of the powers that be, rather
than promises conform to the wishes OF the voters
so there can be no reasonable claim of having served
the people.
Only one thing remains to those gentlemen-n-a-
jam who to be tried by ballot the tme-Worn plea
Of ''dont switch horses in the middle OF the stream
If Great Britain hadn't sWapped Chamberlain Tor
Churchill . we'll you think about it while we shud-
der. One thing must be said to Mr.. Chamberlain
credit He did prepare properly to certain extent
. he carried an umbrella and was always ready for
rain.
Fortunately for the Senate few seats i'll that
chamber are to be put on the block this year. For
unatey for the people, they choose new ballast
for every seat in the House of Representatives II they
feel such drastic move is necessary to wash the
sludge from effort.
Personally, we like most of those guys III the
Capitol. We think they got where they are largely
y proven ability instead of silver palaver II
around while Rome ct al burn the world as the eX-
pected reaction of bunch of country hicks leo astray
by the glitter of the most powerful city III the world
But there's to win and Congress which seems
to think power politics. patriotic speeches. buck pass
ing social gains and fright appOintees III key posi-
tions are enough to enable to mudde through from
one bloody heroic defeat to another.
Just as an employer can fire an incompetent
worker the American people can discharge men VINO
represent them inefficiently. However this takes
eo.I u. don't
want to fire them The men wouldn't all be
Churchills and we don't like changing horses Cor
should we say burros?) i'll all emergency.
A coasiderate employer lays the law down to
lax employe and gives him opportunity to stragnt-
en- up rather than let him 60 letter to your WASH
ington representation can possibly them, your
self and our nation lot of tragic events Which Will
have to be paid for in lives and gold.
Curiously enough we pay men to lead us More
and more it becomes apparent that we need through
out every branch of government the KIND OF leader
ship Macarthur gave his men in France in World War
and in Bataan i'll World War H.
A local business woman told us this week: / IL
do anv kind of work the government asks OF me- ana
Pm perfectly willing for them to take everything
earn so long can have bread and beans TO eat ana
matched clothes to wear The only thing ask is that
everyone else from the top to the bottom makes an
equal sacrifice" Conversations with other run-ot-
the-m people convince this is the spirit OF the
average American citizen today. Harshy realistic
leadership of the type which inspires followers by
setting the example would unleash freely given
flood Of activity and support that would drown AXIS
dreams of conquest in quick order. Cumbersome ra-
tioning would be superfluous.
Plenty of men in Washington could provide the
kind of leadership want if they can only be forced
to give They notorously blind to everything
except their own reflection in the mirror and deaf to
everything but the sound Of their own voice thun-
derng through Capitol corridors and the whisperings
of party higherups. Their perceptions become more
acute in election years, however
Stop thinking about your ideas the prosecu-
ton of the war thoughts alone only worthless
dav dreams This is the time for action, and if YOU
can't get it any other way it's interesting gamble
ton day For the present send your contribution to