Evening star., 1960-07-28

1t would appear to this cit
izen that there is little call
for a bona f1de Republican
platform nor, for that mat
ter, was there any need for
its Democratic counterpart.
One party has collected the
demands of the various pres
sure groups and attempted to
fill their orders, starting with
the largest voting block, and
working down till the intelli-
gence of the general public
is exhausted. The other party
now chimes in with a hearty
me too, only more" 1t would
seem that there are few, if
any, real issues between the
members of our so-called
two party system"
Both parties have sacrificed
opportunity for security. BY
advocating general handouts
to farmers, labor, Negroes,
etc. the basic promotion on
individual merit" and stand
on your own feet" philoSo-
phies have been forgotten
What must not be forgotten,
however, is that before the
Government can give away
one dime, it must first take it
away from somebody else.
Our country was built on op-
portunity, personal achieve
ment and hard work. I sub
NIT that this land was great
long before guaranteed bene-
fits, parties, social security
and unemployment compen-
sation. 1t can remain in a
world leadership position
only as long as individuals
are ready to work, sacrifice
and plan to keep us high
above the Socialistic chasm.
Money, in many respects,
has become our national idol.
Morals, materialism, and in
creased crime rates are by
products Of this pagan wor-
ship. We must return our
way of thinking to seizing
opportunity as our means of
gaining personal wealth and
put behind us the notion of
voting for the candidate that
represents the largest social
lstlc gain for our particular
social or economic group.
We must also remember
that great men in our ma
tional history were not on
relief, PARTIES or guaranteed
wage benefits. They were will
ing to sacrifice and work hard
to make our system of gov
eminent work. The founding
fathers laid their earthly pos
sessions as we'll as their lives
on the altar to prove that
Woodworking people, through
individual sacrifice and toll.
could weld a nation by their
dynamic personalities into a
country as strong and imag-
NATIVE as the people them
selves.
When a nation is of this
spirit, money cannot buy
votes. Statesmen do not de-
generate into politicians, and
the role of pressure groups
is diminished to a minor one.
Unfortunately, this is not the
case. For with the money
from the revenue-producing
elements in our society, Mr..
Nixon and Mr.. Kennedy have
buried opportunity and
bought security for the
something for nothing" ele-
ment of our country in re-
turn for their almost over
whelming block of votes.
Allan L. Windle.
4
Representative walter
Judo, in the keynote address
at the Republican National
Convention, gave us what he
believes to be the reason why
President Eisenhower, and
the office he holds, have been
chronically subjected to in
dignities abroad. He stated:
1T has been charged that
no previous Presidents or
Vice Presidents ever suffered
such insults abroad - as if
somehow that is their fault.
There are two ineScapable
answers. One is that as long
as two previous American
Presidents were willing to
give in to Soviet leaders, they
got along famously with
them"
This statement must have
been a horribly heart rt-repding
revelation to the American
mothers who lost sons in
Korea. Rep. Judd implied
that that war was only an at
tempt by our intensively So
viet-maligned former Presi-
dent, Harry Truman, g. to
give in to the Soviet leaders
:" in order to g. get
along famously with them"
For my part, I remember
these lost countrymen as part