Milford chronicle., 1960-12-09
PURGE IN THE SENATE?

HORGE I'm IHE SENATE!
There is move afoot in the U.S. Senate
to purge one or two southern Senators, who
worked and voted for the Republicans.
The number one target is Virginia's Har-
ry Byrd, who voted for the Republican presi-
Dental nominee in 1852 and 1856, before
voting for Vice President Nixon in the re-
cent election.
Some Senate Democrats do not like the
Idea OF Byro getting the benefits of being
a senior member of the majority party in
the upper legislative body-while consistent
ly, in the last three presidential elections,
voting for the Republican nominees.
Purges are often talked but seldom in
voked. But occasionally they have been carr
led out. Byrd, for example, remains Demo-
crat but he does not support the national De-
mocratic presidential nominees or platform.
Yet he runs as Virginia Democrat in both
primary and general election in the Old Do
minion State.
The Senator, in effect, a state Democrat
and national Republican. This has become
his necessary course of action, as he sees it,
because of the leftward trend of the national
party in the past thirty years. The question
IS whether he should be penalized for refus-
ing allegiance to the national party.
Generally speaking, the strongest call on
the loyalty Of Senators and Representatives
has been that of state loyalty. 1t is the peo-
pie of state who elect a Senator, and it is
to them that the Senator is answerable. How
much loyalty each Senator owes to the natio-
nal party is, and always has. been, a debat-
able question
In this light, the coming fight over party
regularity, involving Byrd and possibly
Others is historically significant. But what
ever It's outcome Senators and Representa-
tlves will continue to be primarily loyal to
their states-which is as it should be.
CHANGING TIMES
1t seems incredible but the United States.
Just fifteen years after having helped smash
Hitler and Germany into submission and ut-
ger restitution, is now urgently pleading for
help from Germany = in the fight to main
tain stable dollar.
The Germans have responded by promis-
ing to spend billion dollars on foreign aid.
TINS will ease the pressure on the dollar in
The field of foreign trade to some extent.
put US. Treasury Secretary Bob Anderson
feeis this is not enough and recently flew to
Bonn to plead for further cooperation from
Germany.
One of the reasons for this pinch is the
III MIlldtion winch grlpped the dollar after
World War Ii and during and after the Ko-
rean Conflict When we took controls off the
economy: so precipitatey, under the pres
sure OF business men, after World War IT.
and when we failed to impose sufficient con-
trols during the Korean Conflict, costs of
practically everything skyrocketed.
Our products, such as automobiles and
steer products, rose so sharply in price that
lne Iney were priced out of the European market.
They were so high other people, in other
countries, could not buy them And we have
lost sales as result. While we still sell more
than we buy, the margin has narrowed 50
much that our large expenditures for mill
Tar" forces aboard are unbalancing the ex-
chahge and gold IS flowing out of this coun-
try - at rate this year of about four hill
lion dollars
Despite the excuses, it is a poor commen-
tary on the economic policies of the govern
ment in recent years that we - the richest
nation III the world - find ourselves in such
financial pickle at this time.