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tov cock.Us or to hurl anarchistic JOHN S. KNIGHT, Publisher Ky's generals can change any part of JAMES L. KNIGHT, President LEE HILLS, Associate Publisher ALVAH H. CHAPMAN, Jr., Gentr•I M.n•oa•r DON SHOEMAKER, Editor JOHN McMULLAN, EHcutive Editor GEORGE: BEEBE, Senior M•n•9ln9 °Edltor .JOHN D. PENNEKAMP, Asiociate Editor LARRY JINKS, M.n19ln9 Editor ARTHUR J.• GUCKER, luslne11 M.a•,a•r Published Dally 11 I Herald Pl111, Miami, Florida 33101 2-K Sunday, September I I, 1966 Time For A Moral Upturn It's Only Natural A Sag In LBJ's Popularity? By HOWARD K. SMITH THERE ARE a great many things the President might do about his sagging stock on the opinion pons. Probably the single most useful rcccur3e would be to shrug it off with a little philosophy. Measured by the standard of most of his predecessors, . he is not doing nearly as poorly as the polls or the Washington press corps suggest. But corrosive criticism and bouts with popular disillusion are almost non-constitutional requisites for the job. And past examples suggest the present time is about right for pop11lar favor to reach for bottom. It was within months of FDR's 1936 landslide victory that his stock began to sink, beginning with his ill-fated court reform and ending with the ensuing and disastrous off-year election of 1938. It was about two years after Harry Truman's stun. ning upset triumph of 1948 that his poll rating attained what is still the record low . for Presidents - - 26 per cent. In 1962, John Kennedy's popularity enabled his party to confound the tradition that the in-party always loses in off-year elections and win a net gain of seats in Congress ; yet a year later his influence was so low that his legislative program had completely jammed on Capitol Hill.
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THE TROUBLE is, we
still personalize our complaints, and what better person to blame than the one
whose actions fill a third of
the average front page each
day and whose face appears
on television more often that
W a It er Cronkite's? Also,
when people give a man a
spectacular triumph they
also unconsciously hang expectations on him that no
human can fulfill. So, comes
the pendulum swing from
charisma to disenchantment.
In this situation even the
most trivial features of a
against a brick wall. You
had to get that bus started
again, and you had to get it
through that brick wall but how?" There are not
many preced.ents for the
skill with which Johnson got
it started and through the '
wall.
The troubles in our cities
cannot be shrugged off. They
demand prompt and vigorous
remedy. Still, in a real sense
they are the noises of progress. It is true that desperate people don't make revolutions; it is rather people who
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WITH voting-booth per- have had a whiff of success
President are picked at. Not s p e c t i v e, which swallows a'nd felt the first flow of demlong ago I read a list of scath- near-up wrinkles in long- ocratic power into their spiring comments about the trend contours, Mr. John- its.
P r e s i d e n t on everything son's record cannot but apThe economy's main troufrom his absence of style and pear inordinately impressive. ble is the threat of "overhis cornball mannerisms to His immediate predecessor's heating." How much more
his vulgar jokes and lack of slogan was, get the country welcome a problem that ls
dignity in public. At the end moving. But when Kennedy than the way the motor went
it was revealed that not died all had stalled. John- cold in three recessions in
Johnson but Abraham Lin- son's job was, in Pierre Sal- the eight Eisenhower years.
coln had been the butt of inger's words, "about like Then we shuddered at Allen
these comments by his con- taking over the driver's seat Dulles's announcement that
of a bus that had run up our economic growth rate
temporaries.
was but a fraction of Russia's. Now, our growth rate
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Among the comforts of a
philosophical attitude is the
observed fact that people
often tend to say one thing
when airing views that won't
affect national actions, and
to behave differently in that
periodic moment of truth in
the voting booth. As a friend
of mine who hated Truman
said when I asked why he
did not mark his ballot for
Dewey, "Hell, I was on 1 y
talking then; now I'm voting."
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aid. That's the kind of
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on price controls.
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the moon, looking for
Apollo landing sites. Nobody's been there yet, and
already it's hard to find a
parkmg spot.
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Great Society bills.
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The prisoners' art sale
at Leavenworth was only
partly successful. Some
artists wanted to sen engra\[ings, but Secret Service took away their
plates.
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Cambodians went all
out to make De Gaulle
feel at home. They staged
a pageant showing how it
was 2,000 years ago, when
god-kings ruled the land.
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$974,000, tax free, on a
51-cent football pool ticket. No ruling yet whether
he can claim the 51 cents
as a business expense.
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THE PRESIDENT'S weakness is said to be foreign af 0
fairs. Yet the intervention in
the Dominican Republic, so
fiercely assailed at the time
(by this reporter among others,) turned out pretty well.
In a year of our really resisting in Viet Nam, the
m o o d of all Asia has
ch a n g ed. The assumption
that China would inevitably
come to dominate the continent has been de-fused, and
a kind of spiritual rebellion
against Peking's influence is
spreading. In fact, so disastrous has been the year for
China that we have a new
fear that she may resort to
irrational actions to try to
rescue her prestige.
The President has to face
the fact that vigorous Presidents don't get an even
break. Since he insists on
rem.ammg in that condition,
it is going to be tough, at
least until election time.
The Constitution of the United
States was documented and ratified
in 1789. It was conceived and dedicated in liberty by men of integrity who
felt that every person should 1be guaranteed the right to the pursuit of
happiness, liberty and the freedom
from fear.
With those beautiful sounding
words ringing in our ears, many of
us stupidly plunk ourselves down in
an easy chailt, prop up our feet as we
w11tch television and turn the reins
of our beloved democracy over to the
gangsters, the pornographic deale,r s
and the Uqoor lords. We feel we do
not need to trouble our pretty, soft
heads about the erosion of our country's morals, nor worry about the
swift increase in violenee and crime
or the sloshing of our people in alcoholic lbeverages.
We anesthetize our brains by telling ourselves that we are merely
enjoying the fruits of our forefathers' labors and thait everyone has the
right to do as he pleases. But I am
of the opinion that we shall awaken
suddenly to find we have sold our
birthrights to the unprincipled and
the underworld characters who are
fast siphoning off our nationirl integrity and strength.
The mor~lity of America has declined to a point of alarm. We may
disapprove and be disturbed by the
downward trends of our nation, but
when are we .going to be sufficiently
alarmed to rise up and demand our
rights as citizens who would like to
be able to step outside our doors in
safety, or enjoy a peaceful walk in
the park wiithout · being accosted by
some crazy, trigger-happy drunk or
one who has been "turned-on" by
LSD?
'What is it going to take in the
way of a national calamity to awaken us from our lethargy to the dangers which are threaitening our peace
and security? How long can a loving
God be patien,t with such an ungrateful, slothful and rebeHious people?
How long can He spare our country
from utter destruction and annihila-
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tion or keep us from being taken
captive by an enemy nation?
To those "who care enough": We
will get up from our easy chairs and
declare war on all of the menaces
that are threatening our very existence as a free nation and put some
teeth in our laws and demand our
lax and soft-hearted judges to express their convictions via stiff punishments for those who are robbing
us of our guaranteed American
rights.
MAURINE CLEMENTS
What Is Troubling
Glum Schoolboys?
On the editorial page of this
morning's Herald there i.s a photograph of some 50-odd young schQOl
children. Forty-five of these are
clear enough to reveal facial expressions. Of •t hat 45 only six are smiling. And these six are girls.
There must be some message or
lesson in this phenomenon, but I do
not know what it is.
MRS. E. LOCKARD ROW
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Bob Kennedy
Rates Applause
I read with great astonishment
The Herald's editorial that Sen. Robert Kennedy should apologize to Mayor Sam Yorty of Los Angeles.
Mayor Yorty did nothing to remedy the problems of the Negro community in the Watts section. When
Kennedy asked him about the conditions in Watts, Yorty replied that
Kennedy should stick to his job as
senator.
This country wonders why there
', unrest and resentment in the big
cities. It seems to me that these
apathetic mayors like Yorty, who
care nothing about the plight of people in ghettos, are the ones to blame.
Sen. Kennedy, who speaks up
against a person like Yorty, should
be applauded, not asked to apologize.
HARVEY LEVIN
Defends England
As Our True Ally
Isn't it about time you put an
answer in this column to the everlasting slurs on England? We haven't
any quarrel with England. I say that
she and Australia are the only true
allies we have in the entire world
regardless of our differences in Suez
and Viet Nam.
The mention of LBJ waging war
against ' the British to capture the
Irish-American vote as one writer to
your column suggested is asinine; he
might lose the English-American
vote.
We never hear of them, yet as I
read our early American history it
appeared to me that the majority of
our early settlers and American patriots were English or of English
forefathers. They quickly and truly
became what we are so boastful of,
100 per cent American, without a
prefix, and by now their descendants
must truly be legion, ·and still without a prefix.
LIONEL D. LUSARDI
Stuart
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Florida Milk
Twice As High
Your story on the recent increase
in the price of milk indicates that
further increases may be expected.
You naturally deal with conditions in
Florida, and explain in some detail
why ,t he increases arc necessary.
· The price of milk is of real concern to .most peop!C'. Even before the
recent milk price increa.,es, consumers in Florida were paying substantially more than in the North. Right
now, for example , the retail price of
milk in Indiana runs from 61 to 69
cents per gallon. In Miami we are
paying this much for a half gallon.
Certainly production costs in Indiana, where heated barns are required for the winter months, are as
great as in Florida.
No one has even tried to explain
why the differential.
M. E. RATTS
The Bible
Tells Us
THE HEAVENS declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth his handiwork.
Day unto day uttereth speech,
and night unto night showeth knowledge.
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There is no speech nor langua11:e
where their voice is not heard.
PSALM 19
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