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Show Humphrey Campaign Increases As Senator Barnstorms Nation did much to shape the remainder of the Fifties. It set in motion a unilateral cut back of America's defense forces, with the result that we embark on th esummit talks of the 1960s not militarily supreme, but second best in a variety of fields. "A bigger bang for a buck" was the slogan designed to justify the stripping of our conventional military strength. Massive retaliation re-taliation was used to comfort Americans who sensed, but were never told that the power of the i Soviet Union was growing ever I more complex and subtle. ' "1953 marked the beginning of an era in which programs and solutions were not measured in the size of the problems to be solved, but were tailored to fit the economic strait jacket we had designed for ourselves. . "The foreign aid program well victim to the fixed budget philosophy phil-osophy as the Secretary of the The vigorous campaign of 'Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey for the Democratic presidential nomination nomina-tion is continuing to gain support throughout the nation. The Minnesota senator has been speaking in all sections of the country and reports indicate his strength is gaining as a result. Typical of the senator's remarks re-marks are those he delivered recently to the National Press Club in Washington. In that address ad-dress the candidate, who spoke recenly in Utah said: "Today, I don't want to discuss Politics, 1960. I wash to talk about Policies for the Sixties. "As we enter the 1960's, I see America adrift, with much of her enormous reservoir of energy, en-ergy, power and good will untapped un-tapped unused. "There are powerful currents in the world today, but they are not currents of our making or Treasury became a controlling voice in the fashioning of our foreign policy. We appeared to the world to become a nation that cared more for dollars than for human welfare. "In the name of fiscal responsibility, respon-sibility, an administration that knew the cost of everything and the value of nothing shattered the great pattern of American world leadership. "Here at home during the 50's, the number of school children (Continued on page 4) liking. They are currents that sweep us along. We are the victim, vic-tim, not the shaper of events. Just four decades ago, at the dawn of the 1920's, America entered en-tered upon the 'age of normalcy.' Thirty three years later, in 1953, America entered a new era: the 'age of complacency.' "A profound change came over the American government. The decision was made to confine the solutions to the problems of the 1950's within rigid, artificial budgetary walls. That change Humphrey Campaign Increases As Senator Barnstorms Nation (Continued from Page 1) grew faster than the classrooms, but there was no money for school rooms or teachers in the budgetary strait jacket. "Streams grew more polluted, cities more crowded, slums more squalid but America in her fiscal strait jacket could at best attack these problems only half heart-edly. heart-edly. The problems of automation, automa-tion, of suburban living, and the technological revolution in agriculture agri-culture were neglected and cast aside. The population grew, the problems multiplied, but the budget remained fixed "No major area of American effort fails to bear directly on our relations with the rest of the world. But planning in America cannot be dictated. In a democracy democ-racy no man can lead by ordering order-ing and directing, but only by persuasion. The next President of the United States must be more than an executive. He must in a very real sense be an educator. edu-cator. He will lead successfully only by building a consensus behind a total national effort-embodying effort-embodying the national will and expressing the nation's priorities. "In his role of educator he must tell the people that if the age of complacency continues, America will soon become a second class power." i .. . v ..h |
