Campaign Legacy

During the course of a campaign decided on the basis of personalities, many issues of American domestic conduct have been examined. As a result of this investigation, Adlai Stevenson has enumerated several policies which his victorious opponent would do well to consider and accept.

Republican remonstrances notwithstanding, the United States is faced with problems in the administration of its nuclear weapons, its school construction and teaching programs, and its welfare aids. There is a frightening deficit of civil-rights legislation. The Democratic candidate's New America statements contained constructive answers to many of these problems.

Stevenson has advocated plans of action which the President, with his now-increased prestige, can effect. America can hope for a civil-rights program which creates a separate Justice Department agency to check violations of civil rights. The President must also place his moral influence behind the Supreme Court's decision. There must be immediate action to provide adequate classroom facilities and teaching salaries and benefits high enough to draw new personnel into the field. Further, the President should re-examine the needs of the aged and adopt a program of liberalized welfare benefits.

Outside of the field of legislation, the problem of controlling the hydrogen bomb is one of over whelming importance. Now that the bitterness of campaign oratory is done, the Chief Executive has a moral responsibility to America's welfare to suspend nuclear test explosions until an adequate study of the effects of radioactive material on future generations can be made.

The President will be dealing with a Democratic Congress, but if he adopts a reasonable, bi-partisan, but vigorous attitude toward the pressing problems of domestic affairs, he can achieve a goal that is not only his, but that of all Americans. He can bring new opportunities to a new America.