The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-07-26
"See generally Myrdal


cree will never be forgotten. And
now Myrdal himself. it seems,
who was so repudiated for social
ism and dislike of the Consti-
tuition, seems promised a come
back with Kennedy and THE New
Frontier"
Senator Kennedy must have
read Gunnar Myrdal's new book.
significantly called Beyond the
Welfare State 1t is a sign for
new welfare worlds to conquer.
noting paradoxically that be-
cause there have been so many
welfare programs people are in
dangerous 90 mood of content.
The Senator proposes a New
Frontier but it sounds more like
New Handout.
CALLING CHANGES IN Ma
TIONAL points of view by names
including new" and-or deal
didn't begin with FDR. Long be-
fore there were the Square Deal
under Theodore Roosevelt the
New Freedom under Wilson the
New Deal of FDR the Fair Deal
If Truman the New Look of
Eisenhower.
All were deemed progressive
and all involved new Federal ac-
tivity.
But beyond this, they differed
enough to make the main issue
in modern American politics
since there's no real getting
away from lot of government
in this day of massive produc-
tons and populations massively
interrelated.
THE SQUARE DEAL was for
government as a trust-buster, a
breaker up of monopolies, foe
to : malefactors of great wealth. :"
THE NEW FREEDOM will
son, was in the same ideal from
the other side It was for govern
ment as a preserver of compe-
tltlon by umpiring it to keep it
fair. free and going. The decen-
tralized, states rights principle
was still cherished.
BUT THE NEW DEAL CFDR)
was a reversal Of both Square
Deal and New Freedom. 1t was
for government in emergency
command, planning the economy,
centralized as never before and
less concerned than ever for the
Constitutional ideal Of dual SOW
ereignties, separation Of powers,
and competitive enterprise. Com
| petition began to be not thing
to be preserved and stimulated
by the government but one to be
supplanted.
THE FAIR DEAL (Truman)
was more of the same, with no
longer the excuse of emergency
and spur of noble heartedness
a cynical acceptance of New
Dealing as perpetual.
THE NEW LOOK lEiser-
hover was an attempt to stop
1t proposed not to abolish the
New Deal but to have no more,
to reappraise progress and direct
it again towards private enter
prise and enlightened individual
ism.
AND NOW THE NEW IRON.
TIER? Some Of us who doubt
the sincerity Of its ring see il
as a proposal to start dealing
again because that is the only
way to get or hold office in these
welfaring times, an attempt Sc
selt-cOnScious that it drags in
frontier talk of sacrifice and get
ting away in manfully young mar
fashion from tradition It is
really a proposal to restore the
nusty, OvergroWn tradition OF
handout now nearing 80 years OF
age.
| Will Nixon offer the same "tra-
ditiDn" in the same name OF
youthful getting away from it?
Or will he join Johnson in max
ing America work?
WITHOUT WAITING for Nixon
to do worse. many Southern
editor seems to have decided he
can't.
" The South says Tom War
ing, has lost on every count.
The radical forces in control of
the Democratic Party planned it
that way. Unless South Carolina
Democrats devise some escape
hatch for the November election,
a Straight-out vote for Nixon is
the only alternative for loyal,
n9triotic cjtizorc
SELECTION OF JOHNSON
may placate many Southern
political leaders and office
holders" says Don Ewing in The
Shreveport Times (which covers
East Texas as well as Northwest
louisiana, but not necessarily
the electorate" He recalls that
such a move didn't in 1913, 1852
and 1856. Power politics ran
roughshod over delegates to
nominate Kennedy and then over
the delegates, and perhpas Ken
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