Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1950-08-04
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Ike For PRESIDENT!

Should General Eisenhower be
the nominee for President by either
OF the two major parties in 1852,
he will be elected.
If he wished the job, he can
undoubtedly have the nomina-
ton, by indicating that he would
accept and which party he
would prefer. am convinced
that a majority of the people of
the nation would cast their
votes for him, regardless of the
ticket he might head.
He is not politician. He is a
soldier, but as the commander of
the allied armies in Europe he
demonstrated his ability to handle
difficult situations between con-
tending governments and in the end
get his own way. The American peo-
pie are fed up on politics and politi-
cal wrangling. They would give to a
leader, powerful enough to domi-
nate, mandate to go ahead. 1t
would not be mandate from minor
tiles, but it would be representa-
tive of all classes, could not fail to
be recognized by both parties. The
people would prefer to take their
chances on a soldier with a def
initely known streak of American
ism. The feeling seems to be gen.
eral that with General Eisenhower
In the white house there would be
no more such international confer
ences as those of Yalta and Pots
dam.
With General Ike in the white
house. we would find let-up in
the cold war and less desire
on the part of Russia for fight
ing. Stain would find man in
Washington who talked lam
guage he would understand.
General Ike would not stop all
the spending, but he would
spend for defense. He would
spend for guns, planes and ships
because he believes in adequate
defense, but he would not spend
for those things that are in the
province of the states. He would
not create vast utility and irri-
cation projects: he would not
create new Twas.
He believes in and would encour-
age the private enterprise system;
there would be no talk of a well
fare state or any brand of social
ism. He demonstrated his eXecu-
tive ability in Europe dealing with
such conflicting interests as those
of France, England, Italy and the
Netherland states, and he also dem
onstrated his diplomacy. AS pres
ident of Columbia university he
has again, and on different line,
demonstrated executive ability and
the ability to get things done, with
out calling on the government for
financial assistance. He has placed
the teaching of America in the
forefront, the making of better
citizens of our youth, an under
standing for them of the meaning
to them of our freedom, our liber-
ties and our institutions, and their
relation to these things.
1t is not now only on the rec
ord as a soldier that the people
are turning to General Eisen-
hover as a national leader.
What he has accomplished at
Columbia has given them Wis
sion of another Wilson regardless
of the party he may choose to
trail with. and the party that
has the first chance at his al
legiance had better take the Op-
pOrtunity if it wishes to win. in
1852.
But General Eisenhower should
not expect to be drafted and should
not wait for a draft. He should say
that he will accept if offered the
nomination and name the party he
prefers. Ours is system of political
party government, and we have a
right to know the political alleg-
lance of those we venerate and
would select as leaders.
The American railroads, in both
peace and war times, provide from
30 to 81 per cent of all our freight
and passenger transportation, de-
spite tremendous subsidies paid, di-
rectly or indirectly to bus. truck,
airplane and barge competition
The buses and trucks are pro-
vided by either state or federal
governments with their right of
way with hundreds of thousands of
miles of paved, hard surfaced
roads, with bridges across all
streams over which to operate; the
airplanes are provided with hun
dreds Of flying fields. The federal
government alone has spent more
than one and half billion for such
fields, and in addition pays the
planes a much higher price for
carrying mail than the railroads.
The barge lines operating on inland
waterways are provided with many
thousands of miles of navigable
channels.
There is no such thing as some
thing for nothing. Some one must