Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-03
FOURTH TERM CAMPAIGN
AND INExPERIENCE

Iead-OII campalgnerS truman ana
Senator Pepper, Truman in his vice presi-
Dental candidacy acceptance speech and
the 1000 per cent new dealer from Florida
in his opener, have sounded the keynote
evidently And judging from the en-
phasis they both give this blast to name
the commander-in-chieff for fourth time,
il is about their full stock in trade, to-wit,
the country must not trust itself to 'in-
experienced leaders.
This is worth looking into. 1t is the
argument the new deal party currently
the labor party, is using in this vital presi-
Dental election year, an election that also
names all members of the lower house
and one-third of the senate. 1t should
be taken for what it is worth.
Although the new deal tries to make the
people believe we are reelecting the COM
mander-in-chief, the fact remains that we
are electing president. And no high
sounding talk can Snake it otherwise.
Naturally a president must be elected in
order to have commander-in-chief.
If these campaigners mean by expert
ence the new deal plunged the nation in
debt more than 60 billion dollars through
the years in experimenting before the
war, then the argument stands; if they
mean the creation of almost numberless
bureaus which usurp all departments OF
government = legislative, judicial and
executive in order to regulate and regi-
ment individuals and business to death,
then they are the white-haired boys; if
they mean federal payroll of close onto
four million employees at top salaries,
paid out of heavily burdened taxpayers
pockets, then they are experienced; II
they mean the inStigatlon and nursing
of great power-poitics groups to whom
they bow in all humility and whose votes
they invite through faVors promised and
already granted, then let's grant them
the heft of the argument; II they mean
the creation and continuing policy OF
aligning class against class and putting
premium on class hatred, then they know
their onions; if they mean foreign pol
icy so vague and obscure as to amount TO
worse than no policy, then they win again,
if they mean the Inauguration and carry
ing out of a good-neighbor policy pre-
dicated upon giving away everything and
which has destroyed the good feeling and
confidence of the nearby neighbors, then
mora power to them: and if they mean
that the only thing their experience has
taught them is to keep on spending and
spending, continuing forever the strangle-
hold that regulations and RECOMMENDATION
have on industry and business and IN
diyidual initiative then they must be be-
lieved.
On the other side of the picture, if by
the inexperience they mean new leaders
who have enviable and unimpeachable
records as wise and safe administrators
of the peoples business and lives; new
leaders who will reduce the multitudlnous
and useless bureaus to the bare need Tor
the always recognized need for certain
amount of governmental supervision; new
leaders who will put an end to the limit,
less waste in public affairs and who VIII
begin at once to pare down national dept
rapidly approaching the 300 billion marx;
if they mean new leaders who will put
an end to power politics and insure ALL
big and little, creed or no creed, an honest
deal and restore the God-glven rlgnt Oh
free enterprise, unshackled by totalltar,
ian rules and laws, free of the hands and
acts of a dictatorship; new leaders VINO
will remove every cause for class natred
and wipe out the monster of class against
class and who will return the government
to the WAYS of the constitution and II they
mean new leaders who will apply the pro-
qressive phases Of legislation IN the way
thev were intended to be used for the fu-
ture greatness and prosperity OF all the
people-if they mean, in short, new ieao-
ers who will honestly attempt to meet the