The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-02-22
Observations
Returning Troops
Cause Concern TO
Politicians
BY Charles p. Stewart

BY Charles p. Stewart
Today's politicians already are
guessing on the probable voting
tendencies Of returning war vet
Grams The presidency isn't 50
much a personal issue among EN-
Few OF their number have any
hopes OF getting into the White
House. They think that maybe
Franklin d. Roosevelt will be
chosen for a fourth tenancy. o.
Henry \. Wallace or Herbert
Hoover. or somebody else, Old
enough 10 be eligible for the chief
magistracy, but TOO old 10 have
been conscripted or accepted for
military service.
It's generally agreed that +. d.
wants TO succeed himself, TO finish
the war. il its still raging in 1914,
or to superintend peace-making
if it's ended. He'll have conside,.
able Democratic opposition for the
nomination. however and certain
ly plenty of Republican opposition
on election day Hov - 'hatll
come out not even the slickeS
politician ,-.es TO pIediCl YET.
Then a-ain. perhaps SOM va.
hero1l be back, covered with laT-
els and unbeatable in convention
or az the polls General Douglas
MacArthurs frequently mention
ed. A presidential possibility
though as early as 1914. will have
to be one OF the present higher
ups. the current rank -and-tilo
won't any OF 'em be old enough
TO qualify for the executive man.
sion. 4 decade from now, doubt
less their records OF the 1905
plus will be politically helpful to
EN- for exalted office. but not as
soon as year-after-neNt.
Quite a body OF the lads will be
suitable candidates for congress
sional seats, nevertheless. That's
what gives our comparatively
half-iunior and half-senior legisla
tors the filters. They're fearful
OF tremendous influx OF relative
ly young kids. yet old enough to
occupy lsw-making jobs. who'll
vote EN- out OF office
The theor is that these iuve-
nile chaps will run the postwar
country. They did it after the
Revolutionary War. the War OF
1912 and the Civil Struggle, the
Spanish War and World War No.
l.
This thing, still pending, is
problem. Naturally it is, since
nobody knows just when or how
it'll terminate The theory is
that is approaching its finish and
that the United Nations will win
conclusively. Those two conclu-
sions are accepted about unani-
mously The when" though. is
open to discussion as yet. And
the how" is discussed also. Rus
sia's what perturbs everybody
The initial assumption was that
the Soviets had been asslmilatel
by the democracies. II doesn't
look so much like It as OF TO date.
How are We going to get along
with EN-?
Then again. We Americans are
accused OF planning kind OF
democratic dictatorialism. Ours
Is more pronounced than Britain's
is. What'll the returning vets
saw
The New Dealers have tried 10
educate 'em into the New Deal
way OF thinking. and wartime is
good time to regiment folk. How
ever, Americans are different from
Chinese and such. Maybe it
won't take with Us. Maybe
democracy is too ingrsined in our
nationality to be affected. Per
haps it'll stick with our boys. as
they come home.
It'll be an oranization OF mil
llons-in comparison with the
Sons OF the American Revolution.
the lS12's. the Spanish-American
Veterans, and the celebrated Civil
War Neterans-the GAR. 1t
hasn't been established yet, but It
will be. Congressman OF today
are trying TO make medicine
with Il They figure that returned
vets will run the country But it'n
all depend on how long the war
lasts. II it ends in short order.
the current big bugs will get the
credit. lit ends later the pewees
will count, because the mag.
nates'll be dead OF old age.
The immediate bunch will be IN
politics. Later?
But that's for a future genera
ton, That's what today's poll
ticians are stewing about.