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National Window-Opinion

(By LYLE WILSON) Somewhere in the effort to convene a constitutional convention by means of petitions by the states to Congress there may be buried a booby trap of unknown explosive potential. The proposed constitutional convention itself would be a booby trap. The convention being petitioned by the states to amend the Constitution lacks almost every conceivable necessity for orderly achievement Most of all it lacks the discipline of experience. There would be no ground rules, guide lines or other such desirable devices to protect the U.S. Constitution against irresponsible tinkerers. This makes all the more comforting the fact that any proposals emerging from such a constitutional convention would have to be ratified by three fourths of the states. But even that safeguard invites consideration of another possible booby trap. What if the 32 petitions filed by the states so far represent a deeper feeling among the citizens than may be suspected. Any such feeling could be caused by resentment against the federal tendency toward overkill in what It regards as local errors of thought, conduct and custom. Eager beaver bureaucats do not hesitate to tread on local toes In these areas. If any such feeling were limited to the South and were stirred basically by Supreme Court decisions forbidding racial segregation, it might be Ignored because it could not much thrive. But a general feeling of resentment, based on a belief that the Supreme Court has grasped at legislative preroga-

tives or has been too gentle with criminals, should not be ignored. That kind of resentment if any, could become serious. The overkill tendency of the federal government in dealing with citizens in the little towns has become a fact of American life. If the 32 state petitions to Congress really mean something and are not merely a Madison Avenue political maneuver, this whole incident deserves some careful thought by politicians and citizens alike. Congressional liberals who applaud big government’s overkill tendencies do not sense any remote possibility of suppressed popular feeling behind these state petitions. They dare not because the petitions represent a potential challenge to what passes in these times as political liberalism. So the liberals are planning to get rid of the dusty problem by sweeping it under the rug on some technical pretext. They probably will be able to do that, too. Before he was voted out of the Senate by Illinois citizens, Democratic Sen. Paul H. Douglas sought to reassure his Liberal friends there was no real chance that a state-peti-tioned constitutional convention could be convened. He said the states could petition but that there was no means by which the Congress could be forced to comply with the specific direction of the U.S. Constitution. Article five provides that: “The Congress ... on application of the legislatures of two-thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments.” The phrase is “shall call” even if you don’t like the idea.

Ready For Tourists NEW YORK (UPD — Road maps for America’s motorists are rolling off the presses by the thousands in preparation for the coming tour season. According to the Mobil Oil Corp., more than 200 million maps were distributed by the nation’s oil companies in 1966 and the demand this year is expected to be even greater. Road maps for motorists have undergone many changes since they began coming into general use. Some of the early

maps ran to great bulk and carried such captions as, ‘large red bam standing flush with the road on right, next turn 12 and 8-6 miles. Since photo was taken, the tree has been cut down." Nowdays the latest in map technology produces the maps that keep motorists headed where they want to go — involved are aerial photography, survey reports, statistical tables, government charts, and general geographic reports. Then the specialists go to work on drafting, printing, coloring, etc.

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Foreign News Commentary

By m. Cl THALER LONDON UFI — 1970 may nark tbs formal end of the oontroversial “special AngloAmerican relationship” If Britain’s bid to enter the European community succeeds. ■nils is the assessment of politicians from both Conservative ■wit Labor ranks who feel that Sard as Britain may try to hold on to the past. Its special relationship with the United States ia fading fast Recent British students have concluded that what used to be a strong genuine alignment, based on mutual and reciprocal respect and interests, has befloma a one-sided affair, with Britain H^g^g to a reluctant, often embarrassed friend. The change In British thinking has been slow and hesitant. To date the Anglo-American partnership remains strong, if only sentimental. Paradoxically, It has been Prime Minister Harold Wilson’s t jtvYr government which sought to tighten once more the fading relationship when It came to power two years ago. British approaches to Europe have consequently been strongly hampered by the government’s desire to hold on to the Atlantic links. This wish is still there and neither Laborites nor Conservatives want tq turn their backs on the United States and break traditional Atlantic ties while esfilrlnr a new way of life within the European community. But British thinking has undergone a marked change recently, largely under the impact of harsh facta of life. The current effort to get Britain into Europe Is seen to reflect, possibly for the first time, a serious attempt to ■witch traditional affiliations. De Gaullism has tq some degree met with some response in Atlantic-oriented Britain. This Is reflected in a growing desire to ease British dependence on the United States. When Britain applied first for common market membership in 1961 rile did so stressing her Intention to serve as a “link" between Europe and the United States as well as the commonwealth. There was talk of “interdependence” in the broader framework of the Atlantic alignment. The emphasis nqw is on Britain aa a “European nation inf 17,500,000 people in the Unitid States have some form of mental illness needing psychiatfic treatment. The first permanent English settlement in America was located in Jamestown, Va., in 16M.

tent on serving Europe,” to help make the alignment a powerful independent factor in world politics alongside the United States. Britain now talks of a “European Europe.” That Is why qualified observers predict that the AngloAmerican special relationship ia on its way out.

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