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j:SBjy:wurN3WZTXLY, HERTFORD. N. C. FRIDAY, JUNE 9. 1950 IN POLITICS V- N : .There' are 'eigns that the big buM - .ness interests, which raft roughehod over the country before the great de pression 01 the ThirtieB, are getting ready: for another attempt to take charge of the destinies oJ the United States, r-.-..'-r-i Anybody , familiar with Hhe history of i this country knows' that the re forms initiated by. President Theo dore Roosevelt, Woodrow WUboii and . Franklin Roosevelt were necessary to . check the greed, rascality and rapaci ty of certain big bueinase interests in this country, s ; With the abysmal collapse of the ration's economy, following the epo chal plunge of stock market prices to ' , the cellar in 1929 and1930, the ty- coons and- autocrats of. the business world lost considerable face. . After having their fling and wrecking the v country, they found themselves over whelmed by an aroused public opinion and while they fought bitterly in the 1 . courts,' vital reform legislation was - enacted. . . The people of the United States , might as well keep their eyes' open , x in the field of political affairs.. It is not beyond the realm of possibility that business interests will provide funds for candidates favorable to their schemes. It might also .be a good idea for intelligent Americans tp weigh carefully the presumptuous claims put out by, for and in behalf of business. The drive for lower tax . at ion, despite' the unbalanced budget, and the effort to put a limit on in ' come taxes, are moves along the line - ,or what we have m mind. From Washington comes informa- ' tlon that spokesmen for private power , interests, during the annual meeting - , of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, . called the government's power poli cies confusing and In need of clari fication and asserted that they are leading the country into socialism. None off the spokesmen, so far as we have been able to discover, went , back into the past far enough to criticize utility henchmen of the ',, Insull type or the rascality which amazed the American public less than twenty years ago. Neither did they assert that rural electrification, for example, would have been as wide- ,.... DlCaU a 4 14 ID niwivuw maw yvuiw v v notion of the Federal Government.' Another Tory business organiza- tidn, '- the : National 'aAssociation -'? V ' Manufacturing, according to an of- ficial, quoted by Joseph C Harsch, chief of the Washington Bureau of the Christian Science Monitor, says that "business, at last, has hit upon the formula whereby it can spend money in politics to some advantage. The trend is going to be for business to operate, not through a party or ganization at the top", as in the past, but through individual candidates in individual localities." Mr. Harsch,. who reports that the official is highly elated over the de feat of Senator 'Pepper, says that business backed ffllr. iSmathers in a : substantial manner" and "it paid ofif." Consequently, he suspects that busi ness will increasingly adopt the clas sic technique of the labor unions and support ' the most friendly candidate in i any district, regardless of his party. This means the support of Republicans or Democrats, whoever happens .to be a -candidate more friendly to business interests. WILL REPUBLICAN PROGRESSIVES ORGANIZE? , Alert newspaper correspondents as Bert that a movement is underlay to organize a progressive. movement in the 'Republican- party .and that, some day in the future, a declaration : of principles will be made', signed by a number of Liberal (Republicans. This is in the class' for Interesting news, if true. The (Republican Party always contained a liberal and a conservative faction. In this respect it is like the Democratic Party. The cleavage in both parties applies to national Issues particularly and, in the Republican Party, to international affairs, as well , r ' ', . The. Republican group, 'according to published .accounts, is not satisfied with the recent policy, statement of the (Republican National Committee. They tend to accept, the major social goals of the New Deal and Fair Deal, but disagree with the method of implementing them. They .realize that the Republicans must offer a posi tive alternate which will appeal to Americans as individuals through a Federal-State governmental set-up that will foster individual security and economic prosperity for men and women. . . . We report what ,we read without having any accurate information as to the truth of the published specu lation. Nevertheless, we are inclined to think there is something to the matter. However, ' the outstanding feature of American political life, in our opinion, is the failure of liberals in both of the old parties to get to gether and the similar failure of con servatives to do the same. SAYS U. S. MIGHT "OCCUPY" MORE COUNTRIES It, continues to be difficult for the average American to get a clear pic ture of the international situation as it affects the United States. Despite much talk about the "cold war," there comes from Washington, at very frequent intervals, a reas suring appraisal of the situation from the President and a confident state ment from Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson as to the efficiency of our armed forces. From the state ments of these officials, one would conclude that if the United States keeps its powder dry, there is no im mediate prospect of serious trouble. 'From other officials, however, in cluding some of the leaders of the armed forces, the statements are not quite so reassuring. Even others high in official positions, make state ments -which tend to confuse, the pub lic because they seem to contradict the reassurance and confidence ex pressed by the President and other Cabinet members. For example, Vice-President, Alben Barkley, speaking . at an Armed Forces Day .dinner in New Orleans, declared that the United States must maintain amces hroughopt.the world and perhaps occupy more coun tries before the "cold war" ends. Mb addition,: the Vice-President declared that "we must drive back this mon ster (Russia) that .has crept over the earth, ... destroying, the freedom of man." ' . ' ' We do, not know whether the states man from Kentucky Vas talking from the exuberance of oratory at an Armed Forces dinner or whether his remarks constituted something of a trial' balloon to test , public teactioi. 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