What This Country Needs . . .

A Congress to win the war, which will buckle down and face the unpleasant realities of inflation and civilian restrictions, may be elected this fall, but not unless the right people are nominated and not unless the right people win the primaries. Congress has been attacked from all sides, and while much criticism is unjustified, it is common knowledge that it is neither doing all that the people think it should, nor accepting its full responsibility.

The election this fall is one of the most important ever, but judging from states which have already had primaries, it is clear that the people are not aware of the importance of seeing to it that they have a chance to vote for a good man on November third. In Cambridge the Democratic primary is particularly important, not only because a Democrat always wins, but also because the issue is clear cut. Neither of the major candidates, James Michael Curley ond Thomas H. Eliot, need introduction. Curley, who is still returning to Boston $500 a week of "borrowed" funds, is strong in Charlestown and stands a very good chance of taking the all-important primary. Eliot, who is finishing his second year in Congress, where he is known as a sound progressive who realizes the importance of immediate action to win the war, and where he gained a national reputation as a foe of the Dies Committee, is stronger in the Cambridge part of the new Congressional District, a district which was drawn to include Eliot out.

The Liberal Union is now getting signatures in the Harvard community on the petition for renomination. This is the first step in the long fight to get one man elected to a Congress to win the war. Students who will shortly be asked to help win the war in another way, should work now and in the primary to get Eliot elected, to help insure that the war which will be won abroad by fighting men will not be lost in Washington by petty politicians.