Evening star., 1960-10-13
Kennedy VS.. Nixon


impassioned denunciation of
the Republican Party as being
responsible for most of them,
moved me to tears-almost.
I remember many things
Mr.. Kennedy would undoubt-
edly prefer to forget I re-
member Franklin Roosevelt's
-Four Freedoms" his promise
never to send an American
soldier beyond the borders
of this country, his debasing
the currency, his arrogant
attempt to pack the Supreme
Court-only a few Of his
many sins against America.
The onus of our present diff
f1culties with Russia rests
squarely on the shoulders of
Roosevelt and Truman who
appeased the Soviets to the
terrible hurt of innocent
people.
No one questions the fact
that there is inexcusable
misery and want in this
country-in the city of WASH
ington where the Democrats
are largely responsible for
the outrage of taxation
without representation" in
the slums of Curley's or
Kennedy's Boston and in
California. The mining dis
trictS Of West Virginia, which
the New York Times describes
as the most depressed area
in the Nation" are places
of stark misery. want and
utter hopelessnesS. John L.
Lewis assured all who cared
to listen that mechanization
of the mines would benefit
the miners. We are told that
the United Mine Workers is
so opulent that it has $100
million it did not know how
to invest. One is moved to
ask why some of this money
is not used to alleviate the
misery Of its own members
or is it first for premiums or
benefits for the officials and
bosses?
A vast amount of house.
cleaning is overdue in both
parties. but in no place does
it seem to be as shockingly
apparent as in the cities
where the highly efficient
Democratic machines from
Boston to San Francisco,
from New York to New Or
leans, hold sway.
Lastly. if anyone is naive
enough to swallow wholesale
campaign promises he is not
adult enough for the vote.
Elizabeth d. Fish
\ Il \ 4
I wonder when both presi-
Dental candidates will stop
treating the American citi-
zenS like little children from
whom the facts of life must
be carefully kept. Candidate
Kennedy from the start, and
Mr.. Nixon more and more as
the election approaches, feel
that the way to get votes and
win is merely to promise the
spending of more and more
money, both here and abroad.
For every i'll on the face of
the earth they have a costly
program. They ignore the vi
tai fact that today the total
spent by government, Federal,
State and local, constitutes
81 per cent of national in
come. We are in mortal A.
nancial danger now as this
figure indicates. More spend
ing can only mean that we go
over the brink of imitation;
and all our pension systems,
social security, bank deposits
as well as our foreign COM
mitments will not be worth
the paper that promises
payment.
I, therefore. predict that
the first candidate who rec
ognizes this 81 per cent figure
and talks straight to the peo-
pie as if he knows what the
meaning of it is, will be
elected in a Landslide. Other
wise, the general Indifference
of the people will continue
both through and after the
election. T. S. Barry.
4 y
The Vice President said
the Eisenhower administra-
tion was responsible for so
many things, among them
higher wages, a controlled
cost of living, etc.
So we have higher wages.
Sure! But why don't they
admit that a good portion Of
that was due to cost-of- living
increases? If wages are so
high and the cost of living
so good, why do we have all
those strikes for higher
wages?
Not So Stupid Voter.