Evening star., 1960-07-24


OF reality, I am delighted
with the unbeatable Ken
nedy-JohnSon combination.
Emotion has carried many
liberals away from the stark
ness OF facts: Stevenson is an
admirable man-but not en-
ergetic enough to make the
. strong President we now need
We live in a tough age, where
problems abound, and the fu-
ture shows promise to be
tougher yet. Idealism is not
enough to carry us through
these times, and I feel tNst
Adlai E. Stevenson in an
ADVISORY capacity will be of
tar more value to this Nation
than he would be in the
Presidents seat.
1t seems a good omen to
me that we now have the two
main streams of American
thought represented so ABLY:
the liberal and the conServa-
tive. Not the extreme liberal.
who is as dangerous in his
political naivete as the ex-
treme conservative in his
fanatical desire to preserve
an old status quo, but a Ii
beral with both feet on the
ground as he dreams Of and
plans for a better Nation and
a better world. Not the right
wing radical, who belongs to
another age and another
world, but a sound moderate.
who knows the trends of his
time and works for the fu-
ture.
I am almost sorry for Mr..
Nixon. He will face a truly
formidable team, running on
an impressive platform, I, for
one. shall very happily "go
all the way with JFK and
LBJ"!
Antoinette G. Perkins.
With almost evangelistic
fervor. Senator Lyndon john
son seemed to embrace the
whole Democratic platform,
including the dictatorial ADA
Labor-boss rights" section,
which will surely set uneasily
with many thoughtful Amer
leans from every State in the
Union who hold with our
Constitution that individual
States must be allowed the
greatest possible freedom to
try to work out their own So
cial and economic problems.
Is it the Senator's accent"
which is supposed to ZAP
pease" the South?
Perhaps he will just agree
to start standing again when
the band plays Dixie" at
Democratic gatherings. That
is. If raucous pressure groups
ever allow it to be played
again. In the interests of
fairness to a great section of
our country. whose problems
and citizens both black and
white, continue to hold a
place in our hearts though we
have been away many years,
we kept hoping for at least
one tiny strain of Dixie" all
through the convention. But
all we could hear was the
somewhat inSistent beat of
Yankee Doodle!"
Lila d. SOnnemann
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If Senator johnson did de-
mand the vice presidential
nomination in the manner
reported. he is certainly the
arrogant man he so strongly
insists he is not. And if Mr..
Kennedy capitulated to this
demand. he is not of the
strength needed for the posi-
ton he hopes to attain.
Joseph L. King.
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Although I find myself in
constant disagreement with
the writings of David Law
renee, I must congratulate
him on his column of July
18 concerning the convention.
In that column, he expressed
my feelings to the letter.
AS I watched the fiasco
from Los Angeles, I began to
wonder more and more about
the reason our legislators in
sist on placing the nomina-
ton of the two highest Off
GERS of the land in the hands
of the politicians instead of
the voters. Are the voters not
considered responsible enough
to select the candidates via a
national primary? Every
other candidate for any
other Office must face a pri-
mary, be it State or local.