Milford chronicle., 1952-07-11

"a biographer quotes Stain as having said: :
TO choose ones victims, to prepare ones
plans minutely, to slake an implacable ven
geance and then go to bed-there is nothing
sweeter in the world
Whether or not he actually said it, that's
the way it works out"
TWIN ENEMIES
Raymond Moley recently devoted one of
his NewSweek columns to the radicals and
reds-Of whom Alger Hiss became the most
nOtoriOus-whO managed by devious ways to
work themselves into strategic positions with
in the government. Of them, he said: '"These
people conceived themselves to be part of
a class struggle. They believe that free en-
terprise had neither the ethics nor the brains
to save itself and that it was doomed. They
with the aid of the left-wing labor leaders and
the politicians who held the balance of pow
er in the cities, were to be the ruling group.
''The concept of what form this rule
would ultimately take varied from person tC
person. Some called it liberalism; others
government planning; others, democratic so
cialiSlG. Hiss and some others chose Com
munism. But the motive, l want to empha
size, was in each case the same. The repudia
ti0n of our conservative traditions was the
same. And / believe the danger to our free
institutions will be the same unless we regard
socialism and Communism as twin enemies.
Every American should read and remem
Der that. Many of us, quite sincerely, have re
garded socialism with tolerance. We have ad
mired even when we have not agreed with
such high -principled socialists as Normal
Thomas. What we have forgotten is that so
cialSm has proven, in nation after nation, t.
be only way station on the road that end
inevitably in dictatorship. Men of the ThOma
stamp are always purged at a certain pOin
and the Stains take over all power
Free institutions cannot live long unde
socialism, any more than they can live unde
communism.
YOU ARE A POLITICIAN
The word politician" is usually linke
with graft, corruption and moral squalOl
Politicians" are apt to be associated wit
big city machines" captained by gangster
and criminals.
Yet, every citizen is politician.
The party machine" comes into exiStenC
only because the voter refuses to fulfill hi
obligation as a politician. The party ''mS
chine" is built upon a definite number {
votes, definite number of followers to d.
liver that vote.
The calibre of the 'machine"-Or yo
may call it ganizatiOn-depends upon til
number of voters in an election. If vOtel
are few, the machine" can be captured /
the few. If the voters are many, the M
chine must have candidates and policies tn;
meet the demands of the pubic-victory
always the aims of any political organizatiO
In 1850, only slightly more than half
those who were qualified voted
Reluctant politicians among us sOmetim
think they are better off as Independents.
this way, many avoid what is called partis3
politics. The answer to this of course i
only by working within party can a citize
politician have any weight in determinir
policy and candidates. The Independent, 81
ting out the preliminaries, often finds hir
self faced at election time with candidat
he cannot support.
Politicians now are faced with critic
political issues: Communism and cOrrupti
in Government; The Korean stalemat
bungling foreign policy; oppressive taxatiO
deficit spending; Republcanism as opposed
Socialism; the need for political changes
all levels of Government. D..
The issues are political. We are all +
iticians. Let us be good ones.