Fading flower

THE EDITOR, Sir:

Many are saying that David Panton's withdrawal from representational politics is regrettable while others have looked at it with grave suspicion.

I, however had long expected him to withdraw his candidacy.

Many young people, albeit bright, young and articulate, are like flowers - bought with the sunrise and by sunset they fadeth. Dr. Panton is not different.

Francis Bacon, in his essay "Of Youth and Age", reminds us that:

"Young men in the conduct and manage of actions embrace more than they can hold; stir more than they can quiet; fly to the end without consideration of the means and degrees; pursue some few principles which they have chanced upon absurdly;..."

Mr. Bacon's observation upon youth is as good then as it is now.

Dr. Panton has clearly commended himself to this observation.

I am not surprised either that he flatters with so much falsehood for very often this is how we are intellectually predisposed.

What do you understand by the word "commitment"? One can only be committed when he surrenders his will absolutely to the achieving of a particular objective.

The single-mindedness with which the task is approached must be uncompromising.

You cannot serve God and mammon. Dr. Panton agrees with this, yet he has been serving both.

And now that he has been called to account by both masters, he trumps up an old muse to his constituents by subordinating his political interest to his business.

Now, Dr. Panton has stated that he is still committed to the JLP and G2K. This is absurd.

He must either be committed to his business and have but a passing interesting in the JLP and G2K, or he must be committed to the JLP and G2K and have but a passing interest in his business.

He must stop being an intermeddling intellectual and embrace only what he can hold.

I am, etc.,

W. LESTER ADAMS

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