Nation: KEYNOTE TO OPPORTUNITY

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Referring to his own efforts in Washington state to encourage a philosophy of "selfhelp" rather than "help yourself," Evans noted that,"Black America and poor America" are reminding the rest of the country "of something we very nearly forgot: that to own a share in business, to realize a profit on investment, to run a factory or a shop, to produce goods and see the money return to the community—that these, not welfare are the things which made America great, her people rich and her opportunity unlimited." Allying himself with America's impatient younger generation, Evans observed that the young have "served notice that satisfaction cannot be measured alone by productivity, that there is a need for service and contribution beyond the attainment of material success."

Buck Bet. For the G.O.P. to meet "the challenge of tomorrow," said Evans, it must work harder to tap two underexploited resources. One is the self-interested capability of industry to help solve social problems. The other is the selfless participation of individual citizens "who share in the dream of a country reunited."

Evans is well aware that his role as sures him of no more than a transitory moment of glory. Pennsylvania's patrician ex-Governor William Scranton, however, is convinced that Evans' speech will make a more significant impact. Scranton, one of the Republicans whom Dan Evans admires most deeply, dropped him a note last week. "I bet him a buck that when he made his keynote speech there wouldn't be any big hoopla," recalled the Pennsylvanian. "I bet him that it would take the delegates a day—24 hours—to realize that he had much to say."

Senseless Clatter. Evans' speech was practically a manifesto for the G.O.P.'s pragmatic "New Breed." It wound up in strange company. On the program preceding the keynote were remarks from two of the most outspoken representatives of an older breed—Barry Goldwater and California's conservative Senator George Murphy. But the man who was to introduce Evans, New York's Mayor John Lindsay, is himself a paradigm of the progressive politicians who have brightened Republican ranks in recent years.

Evans has capsuled the New Breed philosophy as well as anyone: "People today are interested in action, not cliches; problem solving, not promise making; an active concern for the future, not a passive contentment with the past." The hallmark of the politicians who recognize these concerns is an intense conviction that state and local governments must cope with their own problems rather than allow them to go by default to Washington for consideration. The approach is essentially nonideological, even nonpolitical—and thus is appealing to the increasingly youthful, well-educated and independent U.S. electorate. To new voters, says Evans, "the traditional clatter of politics makes very little sense. They would rather have solutions." Perhaps the paramount issue, to Evans, is the racial upheaval. As he told Negro leaders in Tacoma last year: "We cannot afford to put the lid on the cauldron of seething problems and call that law and order. We must instead find solutions, and call that social justice."