Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-04

Is this our finest hour? In
the presidential campaign
which is undoubtedly the
most crucial so far in our his
tory, what do we see and hear?
One political party has NOM
mated a man who has gotten
where he is today by brand
ing each of his opponents as
tainted with communism in
every campaign since 1916.
And still true to form, it is
now un-American to criticize
the policies of the Eisenhower
administration. The other
political party has nominated
a man who must spend a
major part Of his time when
in the South, defending and
explaining his religion.
One political party is busy
running the candidates wife
for first LADY,: while the
other candidates wife must
down-grade her clothes and
get a new hair-do.
1t is a both silly and tragic
spectacle. And what has it
got to do with the price of
cheese? Nothing-eXcept that
the Russians will probably
be the first to announce that
the moon is not made of
green cheese.
Kathryn T. Eager.
At the risk of being drawn,
chartered. and thrown to the
sharks, or labeled as a mis-
guided liberal by the ultra
conservative admirers of Da-
vid Lawrence whose bias is
showing in his one sided de-
Scription of the Nixon-Ken-
nedy clash on TV, I must take
exception to his spurious con-
tention that people will be-
come bored and turn their
TV sets off when the Vice
President and Senator Ken
nedy square off again. If Mr..
Nixon had Jared better on
the first go around. I Won
der if Mr.. Lawrence would
have played down the signi-
ficance of the debate as he is
doing now?
I think it is logical to as
sumo that the audience will
increase when future pro-
grams are shown. Supporters
of both candidates are gen.
orally jubilant or apprehen-
sive about future appearances.
Consequently these strong
emotions could hardly lead
to boredom. At least. not
among Kennedy supporters.
With regard to the signif1-
canoe Of the So-called debate,
one thing should be evident
to all who watched it. And
this may be construed as
bias, but we're all entitled to
some of the commodity. Sem
ator Kennedy could never
come out second-best in a
Kitchen Debate with Mr..
Khrushchev. To conclude
that Mr.. Nixon can handle
the Russians better than Mr..
Kennedy. as Mr.. Lawrence
has frequently implied, is a
mere supposition, especially
so when only one of the can
didateS has been given an
opportunity to step into the
ring with the clown from
Moscow.
William F. Clune.
With all the great issues
before us. Bobby Kennedy re-
ports that his brothers feel
ings are hurt over Republic
can charges that almost"
seem to question his loyalty"
regarding statements deplor-
ing Americas strength.
That's really reaching.
And with far less logic than
if President Eisenhower or
Mr.. Nixon were to start cry
.babying that Democrats were
picturing them as almost
disloyal" in their implica-
lions that they had, or were
about to. risk the security Of
our nation.
Even the most dedicated
Republicans agree that Dem
ocratS have a right, even a
responsibility, to point to any
shortcomings. If they want
to say we must move ahead"
naturally we agree. What
many of us, regardless of
party, do resent bitterly, is
their constant comparison"
of America to Soviet Russia
and having us come out sec
ond-rate in practically every
thing, even moral strength.
We do not believe this is
true and perhaps luckily for
the world, apparently neither
do our enemies. Experts re-
peatedly remind us that en-
envy miscalculation could
easily set off an antonio war.
We're all in this together
E. we've all made mistakes.