Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1948-08-20

WHEELS anu RdQSeLS LIldL nave D3eu
essssssl added to the origi-
s nal mechanism
were, to some ex-
tent, the work Of
congress, but most
M of them were the
results of executive
orders to provide
a for some minority
szIzsaEs for which the orig
inal machine never was intended.
They were added also to provide
places of employment for those
seeking government jobs.
THAT OLD, worthless, highly
complicated monstrosity should be
torn down. The only part of it that
should be salvaged is the founda-
ton on which it was erected-the
Constitution. All of the fantastic
additions that have been made to
serve partisan political purposes,
to provide for minorities, to make
government a master rather than
a servant of the people, should be
discarded. 1t has become a power
consumer which calls for too many
taxpayers dollars to keep it oper-
ating. 1t is serving no legitimate
purpose today.
WE NEED A NEW mechanism
that will be simple in its opera
tons; that will be serv-
ant and not a master; that will
not tax us with the making Of
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ports; that will re-synchronize
government with the needs of
the people as whole; that will
remove the army of bureau
Gratis now employed in opera
ton of the present monstrosity;
that again will restore to us
government of. by and for the
people.
THE PRESENT mechanism has
been many years in building. 1t
and its innumerable additions have
been the products of political
shop in which the employed poll
ticians looked more to party adj
vantage than to the authentic needs
of all American citizens. Today it
Oil ChpSllolVGly OpGl-
ated monstrosity that causes break
downs in our production, retards
American progress and prevents
solution of our internal problems.
THANKS to legislation passed by
congress some months ago we now
have at work a crew of master
workmen who are designing a new,
simple and efficient government
mechanism. That crew of master
workmen is headed by former
President Herbert Hoover. With
him are working men versed in
statecraft, government, politics, in
dustry, business and labor. They
have keen knowledge of what a
government mechanism should &C.
complish and how it should operate
to best serve all the people of the
nation. They know that it should
not be so constructed as to make
possible the playing of favorites
with minority groups. They know
the province and legitimate func-
tons of government. The new me-
chanism, when completed, will use
much less of the taxpayers money
in its operation and will dispense
with many of the present bureau
cratic attendants.
That crew of master work.
men has been instructed to SUBJ
mits its blueprints to congress
next January. 1t is hoped, and
expected, when those blueprints
are submitted, that congress
will quickly approve them.
THAT OLD MONSTROSITY,
seemingly on the way to being dis
carded, always reminds me of
ghost house located near San Jose,
Calf. 1t is a mammoth structure,
with the appearance of a mansion
from the outside. On the inside it
consists of rooms within rooms; of
stairways that lead to nowhere.
1t is an utterly useless structure,
the product of a disordered mind.
Such is the governmental mechan-
ism we are now, and have been
for many years, attempting to oper-
ate. 1t is as useless as that ghost
house.
WE MAY HAVE to pay a real
price to eat, but nature this year
is supplying food to take care of our
needs with an abundance left over
to provide for the hungry of other
nations.
THERE is NO such thing as
"something for nothing" Some
one must pay for what the other
fellow receives without paying.
. HARMONY! In politics you find
the semblance but seldom the
reality.