Personalities, Not
Issues, Dominate
1960 Campaign
By JAMES MARLOW
Associaied Press News Analyst
WASHINGTON, UP) — The next
President will .face problems
which are the direct opposite of
those Franklin D. Roosevelt en
countered when he took office in
1933.
The President in 1961 will work
on domestic dilemmas which in
volve only comparatively mild
changes, but abroad he must cope
with a world going through an in
tense revolutionary period.
The world Roosevelt faced in
1933 was not revolutionary. Com
munism was contained within the
Soviet frontiers. The great colo
nial powers still held their col
onies. No upheavals were then in
sight.
But at home Roosevelt took
charge of a nation flat on its
back in depression, fresh out of
steam and ideas, and not only
dreadfully in need of drastic
treatment but ready and anxious
for it.
Roosevelts remedy was the New
Deal. This was revolutionary only
in the sense of being so intensely
different from the slow pace of
social and economic adjustments
which had preceded it in the 20th
Century.
This is not the task facing Vice
President Richard Nixon or Sen.
John Kennedy here in this coun
try which, more or less, is fat
and prosperous.
Since prosperity is not a period
for rocking the boat, the nation
is neither anxious for nor think
ing of extreme measures. Neither
candidate is offering anything
radically new.
Abroad it’s different. The next
President not only will have to
handle Communism as it exists
in Russia, Eastern Europe and
Asia but must seek some way to
induce the new nations, newly
freed from colonialism, to stay
away from Communism.
Those new nations, backward
and poor, all want to come
abreast of the 20th Century in
a rush. Coping with them and
their problems and desires—par
ticularly in competition with
Communism—will tax all the in
genuity of the man who moves
into the White House in January.
Whether or not in the 19G0s this
country has a medical care pro
gram for the aged financed thru
social security—as Kennedy says
it should be and Nixon says it
shouldn’t—is hardly a revolution
ary question.
The answer, of course, will be
of great importance to millions
of aged people. But if Kennedy is
elected and has his way, linking
medical care for the aged to so
cial security will still be only an
extension of the social security
system.
It cannot be considered in the
same league—for newness and its
far-reaching implications — with
the creation of the social security
system itself by Congress in 1935.
Whether — under Kennedy or
Nixon — more or less would be
spent on defense, school construc
tion, development of natural re
sources or the farm program is a
matter of degree and not of es
sential difference.
It’s for this reason much of the
presidential campaign has re
volved around the personalities of
the men rather than around their
programs or the issues they talk
of.
Daughter Bern to Harry Carters
Mr. and 'Mrs. Harry Carter are
the parents of a daughter, born on
Oct. 28. The father is head of the
Sanitation Department of the De
partment of Health and Welfare,
and has been stationed here for
the past two years. Maternal
grandparents residing here are
Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Davis.
Reformation Sunday Sees
Anti-Catholic Sermons
In Protestant Churches
(By The Associated Press>
The nation’s Protestant pulpits
were used for both anti-Catholic
and anti-bigotry sermons Sunday
as millions observed Reformation
Sunday.
In many Protestant churches,
however, worshipers heard no
mention of either Catholicism or
Sen. John F. Kennedy, the Demo
cratic presidential candidate
whose Roman Catholic faith has
become an issue.
Reformation Sunday is annual
ly observed by Protestant church
es as the birthday of Protestant
ism: Oct. 31, 1517, the day Martin
Luther posted the 95 tenets to
the door of the Wittenberg Cath
edral.
It had been reported that many
Protestant ministers might use
their pulpits to attack Kennedy
Jack Mackey of Hill Cottage,
Shandon, Helensburgh (Gareloch)
Dunbartonshire, Scotland, would
like to contact an Alaskan sour
dough named Durkin whom he
met on a ship traveling from Van
couver to Seattle in 1943.
and the Catholic Church on the
occasion of Reformation Sunday.
The National Association of
Evangelicals, a group of 28,000
conservative and fundamentalist
churches with 10 million mem
bers, tied its Reformation Day ob
servance with a Protestant “stand
up and be counted” drive aimed
at keeping a Catholic out of the
White House.
Sen. Kennedy also took occa
sion Sunday on a television inter
view to reaffirm his belief in the
principle of separation of church
and state. He said there would be
no conflict between his religion
and the' constitutional duties of
the presidency.
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