The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-10-21

can people, especially the voters, when
they will choose a president and vice
president on Tuesday, November g. In
former years domestic problems were
the prime issues. In the Forthcoming
election international problems equal
If not transcend domestic problems as
issues. In world grown so large and
SO closely associated, decisions made in
one nation affect people of other nations
even as far removed and at the OPP
posite side Of the world The United
States, has been catapulted in com
paratively recent years into so-called
world leadership, position for which
this nation was not prepared nor ready
to assume.
The period of colonization began to
deteriorate soon after World War l.,
the war in which the United States was
called upon by European allies to stop
Kaiser Wilhelm in his ambition to con-
quer and control the then recognized
world Nh Eastern Europe The "Yanks"
threw in the decisive power to crush
this ambitious desire. The powerful
monarchy of Germany had fallen, and
German government of freedom was
established The world was saved for
Democracy, so thought leaders in those
days
The League of Nations died "a
borning, principally because the United
States Senate, oddly enough led by,
Henry Cabot Lodge, grandfather Of the
present Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. rejected
the League on the grounds that Ameri-
can sovereignty was not properly safe
guarded.
The world struggled on and into
depression. The United States raised
tariff wall in the Smoot-Hawley tariff
bill, and other nations followed suit,
thereby stopping international trade,
which in turn brought on world de-
preston.
Herbert Hoover became president by
overcoming Al Smith, a campaign in
which religious issues far outdistanced
domestic and international issues. Hoo
yer demanded payment of war debts and
PREPARATIONS while Smith advocated re-
vival Of international trade by issuing
credits against u S. export duties The
world plunged further into depression.
Germany lost its financial balance, and
Hitler came to power, ambitious for
world domination
In the meantime the Italian monarchy
had been replaced by dictator Mus
solini, who with Hitler formed part
nership in conquest.
In Russia the Communists had over
thrown the Czarist regime, and made
a pact with the German dictorship.
Japan, under control Of militarists,
likewise Joined the Axis.
Friends left were England and
France, the latter weakened by inertia
and self indulgence, the former trying
policy Of appeasement.
The United States, singing from a
financial depression, pulled itself up by
its own bootstraps through socialistic
policies of the New Deal. Once begun
socialism has enveloped the principles
of individual initiative upon which this
nation was founded and built.
World War II. brought immense
wealth to the United States. An industri-
al giant was created. Agriculture be-
came big business. More socialistic prin-
ciples as war measures were embraced
to remain thereafter. Billions of war
dollars flowed freely, and the United
States, unscathed by the destruction of
war, was catapulted into position of
the worlds leader
Socialistic principles have continued
both at home and abroad in the post
war period, with the central govern
ment assuming more and more the
obligations of the several sovereign
states, exacting more and more taxes,
building a larger and more opulent
beauracracy. A phenomenal develop
ment Of pressure groups made possible
by the socialist moths in the constitu-