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Newspaper Page TextTUESDAY. OCTOBER 25. lilt MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. ORE. "Everyone In Southern Oregon Wd. The Mail Tribune1' tMbllshed Daily except Saturday bl MEDFORD PHINTINO CO 33 North Mr St. Ph ffMlU HERB GREY AdvK-tilinf Martafer GERALD T LATHAM Bui MgT ERIC W AM .EN JR.. Mnl Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor. HARRY CHIPMAN, Tele Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sporta Editor i OLIVE STARCHER. Women"! Editor An inaepenaem nws.ire Entered as second elan matter at , Mo,oro.M jug,- . - 'T 'JBy MaU In Advance. Copy 10c TIIv and Sunday 3 moi. M Sunday Only One year fao By Carrier In Advance Medfort Asnuno. tens '""""' "." Point. Jacksonville Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Rlv - Daily and Sunday I vear Oia oa Carrier and Dealer! copy 10o Ofnclal paper or tllT ni meamrw Official Papar of Jackson CoontT United Preaa "International rull Leaied Wire rjp.l Telephoto Newiplcturea MEMBER Of AUDIl' BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: WEST HOLIDAY CO.. INC Of fices In New York Chlcaio pe. trolt. San Francisco. Los Aitfelea. SeatUe. Portland St Louia At. lapU. Vancouver. B.C. NEWSrAPEt PtmiSHEIS 'ASSOCIATION NATIONAL eOlTORIAI ASfScATlfO JSL Flight o' Time Medford and Jaekwn County Hlitory from the files of The Mall Trlbunt 10. 20, 30, 40 and 50 vein ago. 10 YEARS AGO Oct. 25, 1950 (Wednesday) Pacific Pine Products Inc., Medford, filed articles of in corporation in Salem today. : Medford's Hawthorne park swimming pool, with an in come of $10,369 and disburse ments of $11,238 incurred an operating deficit of $669 dur ing its first season of opera tion this year. . . 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 25, 1540 (Friday) A northbound passenger 'train struck a semi-traller truck and killed both its oc- -V, cupants at the Helman st. "crossing.in AsMana tins morn- Fromt Arthur, ferry s "xe Smiiricp Pot" ' column: "A t, Washington, D.C., report com pliments congressmen and senators on . 'showing more backbone.' Be this as It may, none of the Oregon delegation are wearing evening gowns." 30 YEARS AGO Oct. 25, 1930 (Saturday) A record load of pears-25 ; carloads-left Medford for Eu rope today. The Lake Creek Grange adopted a resolution yester day opposing the proposed cattle law. 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 25, 1920 (Monday) The first local apple cider and mincemeat of the year was placed in markets here this week. Fred Wahl has been named new cashier of the Farmers and Fruitgrowers' Bank here 50 YEARS AGO Oct. 25, 1910 (Tuesday) - Total voter registration in Jackson county is 4,848, 300 less than last year; of this Medford has 1,804 and Ash land hns DR7. Democratic candidate for governor Oswald West told an Ashlanrf audience this morn ing that he is in favor of normal schools. What's Your I.Q.? Nine at ten correct It superior: even or sight is eicellenl, fir M lis It good. 1. Name the three cities that have served as capital: of the United States. 2. Who is Mary Livingston's husband? 3. What famous painter is credited with inventing the wheelbarrow? 4. What movie won the Academy Award for 1960? 5. Where are genuine Pan ama hats made? 8. The 1960 census shows that there are 8, 10. 18, or 28 million more people than ten years ago? 7. What famous character did not want to grow up ac cording to the story? 8. How many sides does a snow flake have? rA. What is the shortest psajm in the Bible? ! 10. When was the American flipper Ship Era? ' ' Antwersr 1. Washington, D.C., New York and Philadel phia. 2. Jack Benny. 3. Leo nardo da Vinci, 4. Ban Hur. 5. fcfluador. 6. 21 million. 7. Pa tar Pan. Six. I. 117th. 10. .J550 to lffSO. To Strengthen 'Home Rule , If you are in accord' With the idea that coun ties should be able to adopt "home rule" charters if they wish to do so by vote of the people, you should vote "yes" on ballot measure No. 11 in next month's election. A "home rule" provision in the constitution was passed by the voters of the state a few years ago. This one is a minor amendment to it, broad ening the powers of home rule counties to finance necessary improvements. ' The ballot title reads, "Financing improve ments in home rule bounties," and the purpose is stated thus: "To amend Constitution to require home rule counties to pay for local improvements by taxing only benefited property unless other wise provided by law or charter." THE NEW matter comprises the last seven words above "unless otherwise provided by law or charter." This would makp it nnssihlo for a hnmo iulo county to build a bridge, for example, or develop a recreation area, without heinc Hmir&i-I in as sessing "benefited property" for the cost. . it, io a minor wiaiige, one, u tne principle oi effectively. It makes no We recommend a yes vote for No, 11. E.A. ' . Governmental Continuity Ballot measure-No. amand the Constitution to set up machinery whereby state and local gov ernment, cuum oe conunuea in case oi an enemy attack. ' One hopes such machinery would never be heeded. But if it ever were needed, it would he neeciea Daaiy. . ' bucn governmental porary in nature, and for emergencies only, "in : .1 -c j: l ii! periuua ui uisaster resuiunjr irom enemy attacK. CUCH machinery would a seat of government other than Salem if necessary, procedures 'for succession in office if incumbents were killed, and similar emergency provisions. There is no known opposition to the proposal ; we know of no reason why there should be any. we recommend a 12. E.A. No Contest " None of thV judicial election ballot have) any i They include William T. Goodwin, both justices court, Circuit Judge Oval J. Millard, of Grants Pass) and justices of the peace in the Ashland and God Hill districts. . . mere is no ooudi inai tney.wui. oe elected. But as a matter of courtesy, and of good govern ment, it would be a line idea to take the extra few seconds needed to mark an X by their names. . Judicial offices are among the most important we have, and a "vote "of confidence" in the in cumbents and unopposed candidates will do no harm at all. E.A : . , Goblins and Health T Halloween is next Monday. ' Ten years ago, a small Sunday school class decided to try something new in the way of the traditional "trick or treat." They asked for small contributions for the United Nations children's agency. That year, they raised $36. The idea caught on. The following year some $9,000 was raised. Increasing amounts were raised in each succeeding year until in 1959 the amount donated was about $1,500,000. THE MONEY is used by UNICEP-'in coopera- 'Hon with other U.N. agencies to provide sup plies needed to control and eradicate mass dis ease, improve nutrition, and to equip maternal and child health centers. Even small donations are significant,, for one cent can provide five glasses of. milk for an un dernourished child in one of the underdeveloped parts of the world ;, five cents buys enough vac cine to protect five children from tuberculosis; ten cents enough antibiotics to cure two children of the disease of yaws. It is a worthwhile endeavor. And if a small goblin displays a UNICEF identification tag, and asks for a few cents for UNICEF in addition to the traditional "treat.'.' may we ask that you help him help others? E.A. Deadline Deadline for the Mail letter-writintr contest for this area is fast approaching. letters must be received on or before Oct. 29 next .Saturday. Any high school student in the newspaper's circulation area is eliirible support either Mr. Nixon tor the presidency, be limited to 300 words, and bear the name, age, address, parents' names, class and school of the writer. A $25 savings bond two letters judged the best,, one in support of Nixon, one in support of Kennedy. The winning letters will be printed. E.A. . - uud rainer an important nome rale is to be used changes in taxes as such. 12 in the election would to permit the legislature machinery would be tern ,r i . include provisions for yes" vote on Measure No . .. But Vote ' officers on the'Novmber opposition.- - .. .s.: C. Perry and Alfred of the Oretron supreme Nearing Tribune's presidential hieh school students of to enter. Letters should or Sesator Kennedy will be awarded to the Dennis the Menace ..mofflSLme PWfvWmiyteEMti'MiuB way ncwei tL. Y. v K i- U-J i n Via NAW! she Mms hp CXSD. the vvay vcm ' Matter of Fact j-wph ai.oP THE PATTERN IN DULUTH Duluth, Minn. - (UPD - "Ken nedy's my choice, even if he is a Democrat. I've always been a Repub lican -1 voted for Eisenhow er, naturally, too. But the Democrats are for the little people, and we need help now." . . . "Kennedy is just as well qualified as Nixon, and we need a change. The Republl cans are always for big busi ness, the Democrats are for the working people. I'm vot ing for Kennedy. "Kennedy's a bit young, but he's a fine man, and he's a Democrat. That's what counts with me." The first speaker was Mrs. John Arneson, the big, jolly wife of a Great Lakes sailor; The second was W. C. Grubb a quiet spoken dental tech. nlclari. The third was Chester Sieverson, a crane operator. All three are Lutherans. And all three are in every way outwardly similar to the rath er numerous Lutheran work ing people in Minneapolis and St. Paul who told this report er that "they couldn't vote for a Catholic." - ! IN DULUTH, however, it is different. When asked if Sen. Kennedy's religious faith troubled her at all, smiling Mrs. Arneson suddenly looked grim, and all but snapped out her answer: "Not one bit!" The two men quoted reacted in the same manner, and so did a great many more Duluth people like them. There is nothing mysterious, either, in this quite marked difference of reaction between other wise similar voters in Duluth and the Twin Cities. Duluth has suffered far more from the current busi ness slowdown than the Twin Cities have suffered, at least as yet.. Production on the iron range Is down. Steel output is down, Great Lakes shipping is down. Economic issues therefore predominate here, even though Duluth people, like people everywhere else in the country, say the first and biggest national problem Is keeping the peace. In particular, economic is sues have very largely over shadowed the so-called relig ious issue, at least in the low er Income brackets nf the electorate. The result has been a surge toward the Dem ocrats by the people in these brackets. And this may well be strong enough to produce a fairly dramatic vote in Duluth on election day.': . 7 . a fliHIS Is the conclusion that - emerged, at any rate, from a long day of pavement i Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF DANNY KAYE, attending a party outside Washington, D. C, was shown through the house by his young and lovely hostess. The tour completed, she asked, "Well, did you liks it?" Danny re- - . plied sincerely, "What I. liked best was your beau tiful kisser." i The young hostess mis understood Danny. She thought he had said "kit chen." "You should have seen it before it was fixed up." she laughed gaily. "What a mess!" i e mm Overheard on the fathers' bench at a seaside fathers-and-sona Softball gams: "I , would like to live long enough so's I could be as ... . ; ' much of a nuisance to my children as they have been to ma, e e e "Any maa," opines Wise, Old Owl Jack E. Leonard, "who thinks he's mora Intelligent than his wife is married to a. dan smart woman." ma, Hr sVumitt out wtmhutsd tu imtun inim pounding and doorbell ringing by Bob. O'Keefe and Dick Jacobs, of "The Duluth Her aid" and "News-Tribune," and this reporter. We talked to 96 Duluth people in all, mainly in the 18th and 19th precincts, with a foray into the suburban 2nd precinct to balance our findings. All three precincts, it should be noted, gave majorities to President Eisen hower in 1956. In the prosperous 2nd pre cinct, the houses remind you of an Ideal home exhibition Even there, we found that Vice President Nixon was not doing as well this year as the President had done four yea.s ago. Of the 26 people we inter viewed there, 18 had voted for Eisenhower, only 5 had voted for Adlai Stevenson, and 3 had not voted in the last election. Today, 14 were backing Nixon, 7 plumped for Kennedy, and the remainder were still undecided. In this precinct, moreover, expres sions of religious feeling were very common indeed. In the lower-middle-to-mid dle income 18th and 19th pre- cincts, on the other hand, ex pressions of religious feeling were "relatively rare, and Ken-. nedy was- really swamping. Nixon. " Economics 'had trans formed . a slight Eisenhower lead into a commanding Ken nedy majority. TO. BE specific, we talked to .no less lhan. 70. voters 'in these two neighboring pre cincts. Of these, people, 30 had chosen Elsenhower, 29 had chosen Stevenson, and 11 had not voted in 1956. Today, the same people gave 37 votes to Kennedy and only 21 to Nixon, with 12 undecided. In sum, the shift towards the Democrats is very strong indeed. In Duluth as a whole, and in Minnesota's iron range, the shift should be vastly stronger than in the 18th and 19th pre cincts. This neighborhood is Rppublican than the Duluth iron range average. Partisan solidification, when it occurs at all, always goes furthest in places where the party al- more prosperous and more ready predominates. Thus the Republican minorities in Du Iuth's naturally Democra tic districts, which were substan tial in 1956, may all but van ish in 1960. Up here, in sum, you have a situation like the situation at the close of the West Vir ginia primary. The people have more serious - and more painful - things to think about than Senator Kennedy s church. And their thinking about these things has led a great many of them to choose Senator Kennedy despite his church. (c) 18(0 New York Herald Tribune Inc. w0) British Labor Party As Kesult By PHIL NEWSOM ' UPI Foreign Editor The British Labor Party held its annual conference earlier this month to chart means of re storing itself to favor in the eyes of voters and to recap ture the gov ernment from the Conserva tives of Prime Minister Har old Macmil lan. , IS PHIL NIWSOM The result, even in the eyes of party leaders, was a near disaster. It left the party split be tween the issues of neutralism Washington Report y WIIUAM CLEAN CAMPAIGN Washington - The emotion al partisans are beginning to howl, as emotional partisans always do that the other side's p r e s 1 dential candi date is becom- ins unduly :t;1M nasty, i ". V U . SI m , . , i n e extra ordinary and happy truth, how ever, William i. White that this cam paign is actually one of the cleanest and most nearly re sponsible, at every visible level at least, in recent his tory. Everything, in politics is, of course, relative; and this great race is surely no contest be tween political pacifists ad dressing some ladies' semin ary. It is a real fight, and no mistake. All the same, there has never been a race in this correspondent's memory when so many people - beginning with the candidates them selves - were acting in so nearly adult a way and trying so hard to keep out the sheer est of the nonsense and the worst of the rubbish. THIS, in short, is not really so "tough" a campaign as many, are suggesting, for often the suggestion comes from men having no genuine stand ard of comparison, fQr lack, of experience In past campaigns, They assume that hard. fight ing is ine .same ining as ugly fighting, , , . Now, many, no doubt, will be at once tempted to but-but these genial observations. Supercharged Democrats will say: '.'But what about Nixon's claim that Kennedy is 'naive' toward communism? Isn't that charging the Democrats with appeasement?" Answer: No, it is close to that charge But even an open cry of "ap peasement" would be still an Infinite distance, for example, from the widespread Republi can charges of 1952 that the Democrats under Harry Tru man were deliberately killing American boys in Korea while deliberately being kind to subversion at home. Supercharged Republicans will say: "But what about Kennedy's accusaUon that Nixon is trigger-happy? Isn't that pretty rough?" Answer: Yes, it is ' pretty rough; but still a thousand light - miles away from past Democratic charges, beginning with Her bert Hoover in 1932, that the Republicans were cold-blood edly unconcerned with hunger and starvation and only want ed a federal license to rob the poor, i a QJUPERCHARGED Democrats wlll;sav: "But look how the Republicans are deliber ately fanning the 'religious issue' against Kennedy." An swer: No Republican of any national standing is doing anything of the sort; if only because he would be monu mentally foolish to do so. And even if he were, he would still be a model of propriety compared to the vast, naked use made in 1928 of the Cath olic religion of another Demo cratic candidate, Alfred E, Smith. Supercharged Republicans will say: "But look at Harry Truman saying certain people should 'go to hell'." Answer: If he did - and the point seems debatable - this is pale tea, indeed, compared to Truman charges of 19S2 suggesting that Dwight Eisenhower was profiting from the support of pro-Fascist groups. NO, THE plain truth is that though we have the youngest pair of presidential aspirants on record we also have one of the most mature campaigns. Why? Simply be cause this time we have two strictly and teetotally and ab solutely professional politi cians seeking the office, men whose whole adult lives havaj twfn tnunt In mihlin rrlpst Each, though desperately wanting to win the election. also desperately wants to have a decently united country to lead afterward. For, true po liticajgpros are nearly always rYW ot Kecent and the nuclear deterrent, and the clear impression that the party which swept to power in 1945, now is a party with out a platform, colorless, with out either the will or the de termination to create one. Further, i t placed party leader Hugh Gaitskell in the position of trying to lead a house divided. Among the la bor members of Parliament, it has been estimated that Gaitskell can count on the support of perhaps 180. Support For NATO These will follow his line of support for NATO and the nu clear deterrent and a go-slow attitude toward further na tionalization of British indus try. S. WH1TI far shorter on hate and far longer on tolerance than their amateur supporters. And the amateurs are tak ing their cue from the com parative tolerance and reason ableness of the pro candidates at the top. Bloodied combat troops barely "hate" the enemy so loudly and so vehe mently as do the fellows back in the supply corps. They haven't got the time. (Copyright, 1180, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) in the Days News Br FRANK JENKINS ' Reno. The. Biggest Little City in the World. That's what the sign that hangs over the the Virginia Street entrance on the north says. The slogan has been Reno's proud boast for lo these many decades. I suppose it's true. But one some times wonders if shouldn't be changed to read; Reno, the Luckiest Little City in the World. Since its founding Reno has been shot with luck. THERE was the Comstock Lode, for example. Its dis covery was a case of pure luck. A miner was wander ing around on the mountain that rises more or less in Reno's back yard: He was looking for gold. He was un believably annoyed ' by black sand. Finally, he had some of it assayed. It turned out to be HEAVY with silver. and in the , tracing of this black sand the fabulous Com stock lode was discovered. It made Virginia City as a mining town and it made Reno as a mining supply town. Trading in its stock shares, incidentally, made a lot of San Francisco's early wealth, THERE came eventually the J- first bust at the Comstock. It petered out. But the lode was rediscovered, and pro duced more fantastically than ever . . . and again Reno prospered. But there came the final exhaustion of the Comstock, which left Vir ginia City a ghost town and seemed to foreshadow the end of Reno. There came then the di vorce boom, favored by Ne vada s laws. It made iteno world-famous, keeping it In the news day after day, week after week and month after month. The divorcees scatter ed a lot of money in the town, Reno boomed. BUT A GROWING town can't live on the money left by divorce hunters-even if in the main they are a well- healed lot and scatter a lot of cash around. So Reno went to work to make itself the financial and business capi tal of Nevada. It succeeded. But you can't build a town as big as Reno wanted to be out of the banking and mer chandising of a state as thin ly populated as Nevada was - and relatively speaking still is. There was a time when it looked like Reno might not be able to uphold indefinite ly its claim to the title of The Biggest Little City in th world. THEN WHAM! Something happened again. Gambling was made legal in Nevada. That DID it. Since then, Reno has had little trouble in upholding its proud boast that it is The Biggest Little City in the World. Once again Lady Luck has showered down and Reno was on its way again. It has been on its way ever since. T IS STILL on its way. At high speed. It is going places. There can be no doubt of that But There are times when one can't help' wondering JUST WHERE city is going and just where a STATE is going when th biggest business of the city and the biggest busi- Divided, Impotent Lert-W ing apiir Oonosed t o him will be about 75 who will- follow the neptrallst line of the left wing labor unions and will continue their demands for all-out nationalization. World War II had just ended when the - Laborites ousted the Conservative gov ernment of Winston Church ill, and under Prime Minister Clement Attlee, embarked on a sweeping program of indus trial and social changes. They nationalized British steel, trucking and railroads. They had pressed for full em ployment under various gov ernment work programs, insti tuted care for the aged and dental care for all. They gave freedom to India, Pakistan, Ceylon and Burma. But they also supported NATO and placed Britain in a common front against ag gressive communism. . This year, behind the lead ership of left-wing union leader Frank Cousins and Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the nam and address f tha writer, although under certain circumstances the use of I pen nam er initial for publicstion is permissible. Th Malt Tribune reserves th right to edit all Utters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted fei pub lication must not xcd 400 words. Th letters prlntad in this column do not neceiiarlly represent th lws f th paperi in fact th canlrary Is oftan th s. - Porter's Voting Record To the Editor: The current campaign against . Congress man Charles O. Porter has gone so far into the areas of distortion and outright char acter assassination that th facts are in danger of being buried In political mud. For months we have been subject ed to editorials and "Letters to the Editor" In the Roseburg News - Review and other papers, calculated to mislead us into believing that Porter is neglecting his duties, is soft toward the Reds, spend ing all his time globe-trotting, etc., ad nauseum. - Now the main basis on which we judge any congress man seeking re-election should be his voting record. The op position is significantly silent about Porter's voting record. Th voters, however, when they examine that record, will see that Mr. Porter has voted favorably' on every measure that would benefit the majority of the people in his district, ana tne nation.. Why do his opponents lead us to believe that congress man should not be active. foreign affairs, when the ex act opposite is the truth? Hav we, th people, , through our. elected representatives, ceased to hav any voice in foreign policy? Mr. Porter's activities in the field of foreign relations have all been calculated to bring us a better understand ing of other peoples of the world. How els can we have lasting peace? We will have sunk to a new low if wc allow a man like Mr. Porter to be crucified by a whispering campaign tnat even questions his loyalty as an American! Mr. P o r t e r's campaign against dictators began with the murder of one of his con stituents by a Trujillo hench- man. Largely through Por ter's efforts we Americans are taking a closer look at the policy of propping up every decadent dictatorship that we can keep on "our side." If we want the peoples of - Latin America and Asia as friends, we should all take a cue from Porter and begin making lot of noise about our foreign policy. Instead of merely currying favor for votes, Charles Por ter has worked very hard for his district and for his coun try. On the basis of his won derful voting record in Con gress and his labors for peace, let's return him to office. James H. Sherman 2778 N.E. Gordon ave. Roseburg, Ore. What Is A Bigot? To The Editor: What is Bigot? We hear the word of ten, especially in connection with religious belief. Webster tells us that it is "one obstin ately or Intolerantly devoted to his own church, party, be lief or opinion." That sounds bad for anyone having an opinion, so again, I ask: What is a Bigot? How about these statements and ideas . . . "But we do know that Senator is disgrace to the senate of the United States." Or this: "To separate Church and State is like trying to separate body and soul." Or this: "W will go to your churches, schools. and lunch counters." Or this: ness of its Stat is " GAM BLING. 1 Gambling, you know, does n't CREATE anything. Every lime someDoay WINS a dol lar somebody alse LOSES a dollar. There doesn't seem to be vry much futur in that kind of business. over the passionate objections of Gaitskell, the labor confer ence adopted two resolutions which would strip Britain of her defenses Snd leave her alone in the world struggle. -One would declare Britain's neutrality. Another would have Britain destroy all her nuclear arms legardlesl Of ac tion by other nations. Thus Gaitskell found him self pushed willy-nilly almost to the lids of the Conserva tives, while another larga seg ment of his psrty moved ever closer to the Communists. The years slnct 1951 hava been rough ones for the party: Two of its most outstanding personalities, Aneurin Sevan and Errtest Bevin, ire dead. Thicker pay envelopes and prosperity have reduced so cialism's appeal to many vot ers. - But food for thought is tho vocal neutralism existing in Britain, even though Still rep resenting a minority. all literature received was "hate literature." Or this: "Anti-Catholic Hate Campaign declared for election." Under the headline the article pro ceeded to quote Dr. Giers and Dr. Ayer, both N. Y., whos statements can be proven as true in any library or history. O, yes, I don't doubt th reader received hat litera ture, but not all ot it. But hate reveals itself. Disagreements with "sum mit meetings," "fortign aid," United Nations, etc., and th desire to expose communists in th government, are all branded as McCarthyism. Anyone against integration or th ,sit-in-strike art all la beled "Negro Haters." In th religious field anything said against Catholics or commun ists in th churches is brand ed as Bigotry. Truth arid lies all dumped in the sam bas ket. I will not vote for; Ken nedy; a vote for Kennedy is a vote for th Vatican. - Ken nedy has said that h would make his own decisions, that he believed in separation of Church and State. Catholic laymen have said the same thing. I will not qulbbl Over whether they believe what they say. I'll take their word for it. As far as the Catholics are concerned, though, 1 ani waiting for on voict - I'v waited for this certain voict. The one that all Catholics pledge allegience to. That voice has not spoken, neither have the cardinals, arclv bishops or bishops. I'm still waiting tor that Orit voict oi authority. Th vole I am. waiting for is Pop John. from th Vatican. - ' Ella Powell, Box 621, Central Point, Or. Electoral Cell? '. , ' To th Editor: In ' th Oct. 30 American Weekly there is an article on the Electoral C.I lege and its function, it Is too late for anything to Ii done this year but the method has been outmoded for years. Let's get rid of this middl man. We think wc put our mark for President and Vic Presi dent when in tact w art vot ing for electors who ar gen erally selected by state party conventions. These men or women do not hav to follow the choice of th people but can throw their votes 0h any side they themselves should choose to favor. This hap pened in 1800 and 1824 snd could happen again. Each state's electors tquti the combined number of its Congressmen and . Senators. Think how some states could be out-voted or pressured into voting against their will. Aren't Americans smart enough to select a President by popular vote alone? if some states should send ;uninstructed" electors to th College with issues of States Rights, Civil Rights, integrt tion and even religion at stake, anything can happen." ' in a recent edition of Satur day Evening Post it Spokes man for Mr. Kennedy claimed that American common peo ple have too much money for pleasure boats, second cars and entertainment, and this money would b nut into. roads and schools via the tax method if Mr. K. wins. - would takt the muni of a bit of pleasure tvHy from us but would h sell n. yacht and second, third etc.. cart to do the same? Ha seem to believe In "th poor get poorer and the rich gel richer" plan. Do vou? Ellen Doran, Route 2, Central Point, On. . i