Milford chronicle., 1944-09-01
Milford, Friday, September l, 1914

THE TWENTY-SIX Republica
Governors who met i'm st. Loui
Mo-, on August and 3, under tn
leadership of Governor Thomas
Dewey of New York and Governo
John w. Bricker of Ohio, gave tn
nation a sample of the kind of CO
operation that will characterize tn
national administration after mex
January 20.
While the Democrats were bus
lily telling people that the Repub
lican ticket is immature and in
experienced. Dewey and Bricke
were proving that they are just thu
OppOsite-by their actions. If any
thing either immature or ineXper
fenced happened at the conference
it escaped the wary eyes of scores
of experienced Washington report
ers who were on hand to record
any fumbling of the ball.
AS a matter of fact, one trained
Washington reporter was heard to
observe, IF this is inexperience
and immaturity. we need some OF
il on the Potomac"
A study of the IA points in the
Statement of policy" adopted by
the Republican Governors shows
that, contrary to what New Deal
ers say, the Republicans have an
experienced eye and a practiced
hand in national government af-
fairs as these are related to state
problems.
First OH the list, as could be ex-
pected, was the problem of full
employment. The Republicans
came out firmly for solving this
problem through private business
under an enterprise system" and
considering the record of the Gov
ernors who were present, few per-
sons will doubt that this will be
the route followed by the new ad-
ministration.
ITO allow continuance of the
present listlessness, negligence and
lack of leadership in Washington
is to invite national disaster at the
conclusion of either of our two
major conflicts" the Governors de-
clared. THE national administra-
tion is now standing squarely in
the path of the future employment
of our returning veterans and mil
lions of displaced war workers"
Few informed Americans, who
know of the bAngling of the bu-
reaucrats and the failure of the
administration to offer adequate
transition-to-peace legislation, will
question this statement. Certainly
the Governors who must dovetail
their work with the work of the
national government must know
whereof they speak.
With their open statement on
private business as starter, the
Republican Governors went on to
outline intelligent and far-seeing
statements of policy about veter-
ans legislation, highways, the Ma
tional Guard, agriculture, unem-
ployment insurance, insurance, la
Dor, public expenditures, State
Federal tax coordination, social
welfare, education and public
health and water resources.
Aside from the actual findings of
the Governors, there was much to
praise about the conference. For
one thing, it was an example of
Governor Dewey's determination TO
consult with other leaders, after he
is elected President, instead of 60
ing on the prevailing theory that
all knowledge, intelligence, ability.
as we'll as power, rest in Wash
ington.
Further, the conference gave EN-
phasis and added publicity to the
fact that today, despite the great
power of Federal patronage, the
citizens of the twenty-six most pop
ulous states in the nation have
chosen Republican leaders. There
are 90,000,000 Americans living un-
der Republican state administra-
tiOns and these Americans produce
more than three-fourths of all war |
materials. 1t would require a very
partisan mind to think that there
would be any danger" in placing
in control of the Ma
tional Government.
All in all, there is good reason
to believe that Governor Dewey
pulled a master political stroke
when he called the conference.
A STRING of "easy payments"
certainly makes the months gallop
along.