Atlanta Daily World

Today, A Day Of Destiny

While this may seem a single event, thousands of pages of history will be written this day, year of our Lord 1960. Just as the fate of the nation was hanging in the balance in the election of 1860, one hundred years ago, so its fortunes and future are likewise facing a grave challenge.

Here at last! this day has been rumbling in the distance, to now be at hand. Mr. Voter, it is your day and your duty as well as your challenge.

We have striven to make it clear that by training and experience the Republican Nixon-Lodge team would be the best equipped to lead the nation on. There is no substitute for experience and both men have long and brilliant records in public service having to do with the top issues in this campaign and especially in the area of keeping the peace.

In our earlier formal editorial endorsement of Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Ex-Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Republican candidates, for President and Vice President, respectively, in the November 8th election, we gave two main reasons for our decision.

We stated among other reasons the following:

Peace without surrender and the providing of greater freedom for people everywhere. Both Mr. Nixon and Mr. Lodge have demonstrated their abilities to deal with our main rival, the Soviet Union. Mr. Nixon held his own with Khrushchev in debate right in Moscow. Mr. Lodge has effectively stood up to the strongest men Russia could send to the United Nations.

Second, which candidate can best handle the greatest domestic issue that this nation has faced since the Civil War - namely, the 1954 U. S. Supreme Court decision outlawing segregation in the public schools. Vice President Nixon has played an effective role during the past seven and one-half years in aiding President Eisenhower to reduce the number of racial barriers to Negro Americans.

Every voter will go to the polls with an eye-single to this first principle, keeping of the peace. The peace lost, then all is lost.

Finally, it would be a fine expression in the line of a two-party system. A two-party system would be a fine check and balance measure at this time. It will prove an effective way to free all Georgians from the injustice of the county unit system.

Get out early and help to get your neighbors to the polls every vote will count and a handful of ballots may provide that majority of one or more which will in turn determine which political party carries the state's electoral vote!

The decision now is in the hands of the voters and we believe they have sufficient knowledge of the candidates, their parties and records on which to make a wise decision.