European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 02, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday Thi stars and trifles the Only serious qut Felon about who would both of fms Rafle nominee for Broil Donl was virtually settled Whon in. Id Ward Kennedy after thinking Riou by of the Chance draft dec ipod against Rii the encounter with Hubert f prey. The support of Illinois of the favorite son Southon state determined the of a the fateful questions forthe party aside from Tho to foot h i offering the notion is i Posi Tion about the War that Tho candidate will run on. That if Law decided. But it was not Doc Iod without a fierce struggle War Hon the convention that split Tho heart and mind of Tho demo cratic party however much its accredited leaders now plead for the Unity they assert. This is the Price of struggle not Only in the party but in Tho american democracy As a whole. But it need not have Boon so heavy. A position could have in found before the Conven Tion debate that would Hove Given Tho candidate enough flexibility in conducting i Campaign and if to should to elected without either exposing him to heavy Republican attack or tying him 10 an administration record which May prove to be a incubus rather than an Aid a. Tin argument of the Antiwar moderate if one May Call them that was that even Humphrey will need the kind of Vietnam pm Ink that will help him get top Antiwar vote and thus beat Richard Nixon. Their most effective Point was that the Conven Tion should do for Humphrey in 1968 what Humphrey in 1948 did for Harry Truman on the civil rights Issue give him a Liberal enough position to win with. It was a confession of defeat on the nomination itself by the anti Humphrey forces and an Effort to got president Johnson off his shoulders in Tho Campaign itself. As for Humphrey to has intelligence enough and enough of a capacity for tactical Maneu ver to work out his Campaign positions As the need arises. The whole great debate on the Viet Nam Issue crucial As it was for the inner democratic process in the convention will not necessarily play the prime role in the election Campaign. Count me As one who believes that Nixon s main thrust will not be on the Wor Ond Pereo Issue but on the Issue of a Frame of order and police Protection in the cities. Count me else As one who believes that this is a Cru Cial problem for which Humphrey and the democrats will have to work out a persuasive position in rhe Campaign if they Are to win. It if Here that the question of the Unity or division of the democrats will Pley a role. The die hard anti Humphrey groups with in Tho party Hove Boon so in tent on destroying him that they will have Little compunction about risking the disintegration of the party. They speak in terms of a fourth party position but they have Little or no Chance for building any meaningful party on it either now or in the calculable future. All they will be Able to do is to give the republicans a Chance to say that a demo cratic party which cannot achieve Unity within itself can scarcely achieve it in the nation and that one which cannot organise order within its own convention can scarcely organize order within the american cities. If will be an argument that Humphrey As candidate will have to meet. This too is the Price of struggle within the party. Yet the democrats have great resources still and their chances for giving Niton and Spiro a new a tight race and perhaps oven winning had better not be written off. Thy have an enor Mous share of the political and intellectual Talent of the nation in their leadership and ranks. Anyone who listened to the great debate of the three candidates before the California delegation and the later debate on the convention floor about rhe Vietnam Plank can have no doubts Here. They have experience in governing. They have the larger share of the notion s youth with them and the larger share of the negroes the poor and the scientific and academic Community. And they Are at their by even though they show their splits most when they Are engaged in the Battles of the life of the  Ang Les Tim i Chicago True picture of us Max it intr amid the welter of reports about the confusion and disarray at Chicago lot to enter a dissenting opinion. At Miami Beach three weeks ago none of us was Able to see any Ameri Ca we could recognize As a real Ity. There was none of Tho sweat and struggle that is the Mark of America in an Era of revolutionary change. There was Only a Cotton Wool vacuum with hoopla and bore Dom with speeches of Sweet Ness Light and Comfort. In Chicago we saw America Plain with no holds barred no warts missing from Tho portrait with everything there including credentials fight and platform debates. From the swirling events Fol lowing each other with bewilder ing Speed five men stood out and with them Throe major is sues. Three of the five men were of course the three willing and professed candidates. Joss Unruh and the California delegation put the party and nation in their debt by staging a de Bate Between the thro men the Best political debate of presidential candidates that i have thus far seen. All three came off credibly with Gene Mccarthy s understated anti hero style again evident and George co Over s remarkable antennae for communicating with his audience and Hubert Humphrey s Cool nerve and grasp of reality along with his rhetoric. But to in uncommitted if not Unen aged reporter Mccarthy added least to what we had known about him my Ovorn added most but it was Humphrey who Cam through Bast As the broadest based credible and responsible presidential Timber. The other two of the five in i have mentioned a tuft of course president Johnson and mward Kennedy. If ther was or any hop in Johnson s breast mat a hopelessly dead locked convention would seek him out again it grow Slimmer As Humphrey s forces Rode out Tho inevitable storms at Tho Start of the convention. Til undercurrent of drama streamed around Kennedy and the question of whether he was waiting for a draft or had set his decision against h with final Ity. Of Tho Kon Nody family friends with whom i talked Tho Stead Iest opinion i found to Mot oven if to could have Tho Nomi nation now he was not ready for it either psychologically or in his political growth. C 1u, lot Angolete t to Henry j. Taylor America a land of workers labor Day Means Little tour loafers. It Means even less to the a bathed protesters in their uniform of conformity and their Haystack haircuts who Fol Low a life of Drift and words. But Thi publicity Given them pre sents a shameful distortion the total loafers and boat Nicks in our land Are so relatively few. Sometimes in today s difficulties and incrimination it May be Good to look on our blessings and on the things within us that Are All right. Surely the United states did not become the Lead ing nation in the world by doing everything wrong. These right things Start with a Fine truths we americans like to work. Nothing works without work and to know h. Loss than four per cent of Tho men and women looking for jobs Are Ablest. In fact we have twice As Many people earning at two fobs of there Are not working. And for most people who like to work working is not hard in America europeans claim that most Amorico husband or pay masters not masters in their Homo. Fun that however is changing. For Hie first tint to our history married women out number single women at work. Working wives now make up 20 per cent of the nation s entire working Force. From the time we Are kids the few beatniks notwithstanding we want to be doing some thing. America is full of men who go out to the shed to build a shelf and end up inventing a bettor Nail a better Hammer an adhesive or something else to save time and Effort. More than one third of All the inventions in the world have been created in the United states. At one result this generation of americans has a rendezvous with abundance. During the last 100 years american workers have been Able to produce five times As much and therefore have five times As much with one third the Effort. In 1868 about 30 per cent of All work in our country was done by the muscle Power of human Bengt. Today human Energy applied to production has dropped to a fraction of out per cent and 99 per cent All output is created by our tools and machines. Ivon our grandfathers would be required to work nearly a month at 70 hours a week to produce what is produced now in one week of 40 hours. The russian Farmer feeds him self and two others. The Ameri can Farmer feeds himself and about 15 others. We should be proud that Tho american Farmer is literally the most productive Man on Earth. Soviet Industrial workers in turn must work seven times As Long As americans to buy a Given amount of food. Wage earners even in the scandinavian coun tries often pointed to As so advanced in the values labor receives have to work 20 to 60 per cent longer than americans for equivalent values. Are we entitled to no Pride in the achievement that the United states has the highest wages and Tho shortest working hours in the world the social corollary of this achievement is that the Ameri the opinion � to Fol Tho vion of Tho or n4 trim it mtg to of a unite 9t�tea con economic Way of life is a moving a lifting thing. And one of the mainspring that makes it a lifting thing is the general knowledge among us that there is no Security in our lives a great As the ability to qualify for a better Job. It is perfectly ridiculous and a great injustice to the Over whelming majority of the Ameri can people who make their own Way to suggest that on this la Bor Day or any other Day we Are a people willing to sit on our stems and slide downhill. This is America. It has had a special reputation everywhere on Earth a reputation that has led tens of millions to come Here and Many More millions especially the Young to try to come. This reputation was founded on one tremendous fact in America the Plain Man has Al ways had a Chance a second Chance and a third Chance. These chances have not Boon As widespread and perfect As we would like Mem to be. But we re trying we re trying and that try in itself is one of the glories in this wonderland of the world. Ulu to a be Jour syndic in inti