The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-12

11I6 GueCbS Vl tltS wal VIII 1lhCly result in a tangible culmination of social and economic forces which have been boiling for the past ten years in this country and through out the world so that we will be able to view the personality of our world with more insight as to it's identity. Summed briefly these forces may be found in such changes as the positive emergence of labor and labor relations, the spreading paternalism of our federal govern ment the feverish attempts to de- termine racial differences, the grow ing awareneSs of the people as to their place in the world, and other factors. What We will do about it, personally, each and everyone of us, is something for consideration.
 Field of Politics
 Choosing the factor of politics" for consideration among all analy- sis reveals there is little under standing of the true nature of poli- tics and little attempt made to grasp it's conditions. Yet politics is going to become more important than ever in the administration of all our social and economic affairs. Government in this era is no longer something apart from our everyday lives; political decisions soon will affect most important phases of our personal existence.
 Yet the majority of us have lit tie personal interest in the political organizations in our hometown. Come election time, the topic is one for general conversation-usually in- terSperSed with Wise-cracks about politicians and their ancestors-and on election day We might, or might not, go to the polls and vote. Fol- lowing that election and during the years before the next one, we loudly deplore the shennanigans of the men whom We voted into office or failed to vote out.
 It is those of us shouting the loudest who take little active part in our home town political affairs, and hence, our government. We have but 8 vague notion as to the meaning and processes of party cau- causes. primaries and even elections. We not only, in most instances, do not know how a party functions we do not know why.
 Our Own Failings
 Politics in America has come to mean something separate from gov ernment which should not be the case. Politics as first formulated in America was means toward bet ter determination of the wishes of the majority, and the beliefs of the minority, as to the form of govern ment being sought. It is true that politicians themselves have brought down upon the structure the greater share of prevalent ridicule and shame. Yet the voting public either voted and continued to vote those same men into office, or by not vot- ing failed to vote them out or away from the office.
 The result is that most of us who have taken such an attitude now regard politics as an outlaw vocation, or, even, avocation. A place for men who were failures elsewhere or men who sought the quickest way to notoriety or for tune. While this latter condition is not true in the majority of cases and the best proof is our present city administration-there have been those who served who fitted perfectly within the frame of such portrait. Yet we were the ones who voted them in and their failings are our failings-our neglect.
 Choosing a Career
 Best proof of the erroneous at titude taken by many of us toward the field of practice is that old chestnut of story, by now Ameri- can fokelore, telling of the father who tried to determine what the future held for his son by way of a career.
 He placed Bible. deck of cards and a bottle of whiskey on table in the boys room and then oon- cealed himself awaiting the boys ar rival. His theory was that if the son took the Bible he would be .