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TODAY’S EDITORIAL The Electoral College I JARDLY an election year passes without demands I that the “archaic” Electoral College be abolished. This method of choosing presidents, which has been with us since the birth of the republic, is frequently taken to task as being undemocratic because it could deny the presidency to the candidate who received the most popular votes. The protests are even lounder this year because of the third patty candidacy of former Alabama Gov. George 0. Wallace and the possibility that none of the nominees may gather the 270 electoral votes needed to win. In that case, the decision would rest with the U.S. House of Representatives, where it is asserted the will of the people might be frustrated by Wallace’s political

leverage.

As a result, we are once again hearing proposals that the Electoral College be abolished and replaced with a system of direct election. Fears that Wallace may parlay electoral technicalities into political advantage may be justified. But there is another possibility which the anti-Wallace people do not seem to have considered. It is that the Electoral College could also deny the presidency to Wallace were he to emerge with a lead in popular votes over the regular party nominees. In the current three-man race, it is mathematically possible for Wallace to lead the other two candidates with as little as 34 per cent of the popular vote. Under a system of direct election, he could automatically become president of the United States. The Electoral College, however, serves as a constitutional restraint upon the passions of the day. It could confer the presidency on someone other than Wallace, or if it became deadlocked the House of Representatives would choose the president. There, Republicans and Democrats might combine to form a majority coalition. If such a situation were to develop this November-, we wonder if the anti-Wallace people would be as eager to abolish the Electoral College as they are at the

moment.

The Founding Fathers conceived the Electoral College as an institution capable of preserving the republic from the excesses of pure democracy. The nature ol man being what it is, such an instrument of restraint will always be needed. Retired Civil Employees hold September meeting

Guests were Mr. and Mrs.M.S. Burns worth, and Mr. and Mrs. Julian Hicks of Terre Haute, and Frank Ashworth of Miami, Flor-

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Hicks and Burnsworth, officers of the Terre Haute chapter, told of new bills being presented in Congress, and the procedure the chapter members should take for betterment of the organiza.

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A nominating committee was appointed as follows: Walter Feld, Paul Herod, and Ernest Rader. They will report at the October meeting, which is the last meeting until January. Ashworth told of the large organization in Miami. Refresh, ments and a social hour was enjoyed. There were members present from Danville, Coatesville and Cloverdale.

Chapter 1024, National Association of Retired Civil Employees, held their September meeting Friday night at the Gas Com-

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Nixon says he will steer clear of Wallace attacks

By JUDSON RANDALL MIAMI (UPI)-Richard M. Nixon has decided to steer clear of frontal attacks on former Alabama Gov, George Wallace unless the third party candidate continues to gain strength during the next few weeks. However, Nixon's political director, Robert Ellsworth, left open the possibility that Nixon would aim directly at Wallace as he has at Hubert H. Humphrey if the former governor maintains his upward climb. The Republican presidential candidate spent the weekend in nearby Key Biscayne where he combined rest at the midpoint of his campaign with strategy sessions with his principle advisers. Nixon scheduled a flight today to Detroit where he will appear on an evening television panel confronted by questions from local residents. Map Strategy Among those conferring with Nixon during the weekend were Kentucky Sen. Thurston Morton and Wisconsin Rep. Melvin Laird. California Lt. Gov. Robert Finch was expected to join the campaign in Detroit today. Ellsworth said Nixon was “highly pleased” Sunday when the latest Gallup poll showeo him leading with 43 per cent, Humphrey second with 28 per cent and Wallace with 21 per cent. In addition, the Nixon forces were buoyed by indications in the poll that Wallace’s strength was eating away at Humphrey’s backing.

Ellsworth said Nixon would continue to compete with Wallace, indirectly appealing to what he called the voter’s desire for change and hammer, ing away at the the need to end lawlessness and violence. However, Nixon will not com. pete with Wallace where the former governor has “regional strength,” Ellsworth said. He agreed that this would effectively rule out the deep south states. Dispute Border States Although observers in such border states as Kentucky, Tennessee and Florida believe Wallace has the winning edge,

Ellsworth said he believed that Wallace’s strength would ebb in these areas. In recent days, Nixon has directed emotional pledges to his rally audiences that if elected he would curb crime and violence. In a radio speech Sunday, he attacked the Johnson administration for fostering an atmosphere of crime and lawlessness. He likened the destruction of crime and violence to an invasion by some foreign power and compared the student demonstrations to insurrections under a tyranny that offers no means of peaceful chanee

Mimi Littlejohn named Whitcomb co-chairman

Miss Mimi Littlejohn, 1968’s “500 Festival” queen, was named today as co-chairman of the Students for Whitcomb. Her appointment was announced by Secretary of State Edgar D. Whitcomb, Republican candidate for governor, who said a male co-chairman to serve with her will be named at a later date. In a press statement, Miss Littlejohn said she will celebrate her 21st birthday Jan. 2, too late to vote this fall. “But,” she said, “I believe it vital for young people to become active in politics and to be interested in the candidates. I feel that I can contribute by helping organize young people for work in the campaign. In Mr. Whitcomb, we have an ideal candidate. . .a

candidate that appeals to the young people.” Miss Littlejohn is the daughter of a veteran Republican leader- - Mrs. M.M. Littlejohn of 712 Three Rivers North, Fort Wayne. Mrs. Littlejohn was state vice chairman of Republicans for Eisenhower in 1952 and 1956. The Whitcomb student leader, active in the Young Republicans, is a junior in the School of Education at Indiana University, where she has maintained a “B” average. She’s majoring in speech and hearing therapy. A member of Pi Beta Phi social sorority, she was Tyronian Queen (I.U.’s freshman class queen.) She is a graduate of Concordia Lutheran High School in Fort Wayne and was Fort Wayne’s Miss Noel, aiding in charity drive promotions at Christmas.

Surplus farm products put to use

By BERNARD BRENNER UPI Farm Editor WASHINGTON (UPI) — The use of surplus farm products to pay for military supplies and foreign aid shipments has risen to an all-time high, the Agriculture Department reports. Department specialists said contracts under a barter program, designed to cut the outflow of dollars for supplies the government buys abroad, rose to a record of $284.4 million in the fiscal year ending last June 30. Under this program, surplus American farm products are being shipped abroad to buy military supplies and services ranging from aircraft maintenance to wall lockers for U.S. bases in foreign countries. The barter program also is being used to pay for foreign purchases of items including cement, fertilizer and zinc for delivery to needy nations under aid programs. In a typical barter deal, the Agriculture Department supplies U.S. farm products to a barter contractor. The contractor sells the crops overseas for doUars, and turns over the money — or supplies purchased with the money — to an armed forces base abroad.

The Defense Department then takes dollars which Congress appropriated to buy supplies abroad and repays the Agriculture Department for the crops. The net result of the deal: The Defense Department gets the foreign, made goods or services it needs; but dollars which would have been spent in the procurement remain in the U.S. to avoid a drain on the government’s balance of payments. Instead of using the dollars the government gets the needed

items by swapping off surplus crops. Barter exports of farm products are regulated, it was explained, by controls designed to keep them from replacing nor. mal cash export sales. The Ag. riculture Department has, since 1957, banned barter sales to “primary” U.S. commercial markets abroad. In scheduling barter deals, department officials said, the exports are approved only to “secondary” market countries.

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Support grows for Wallace in Texas By DAVID ANDERSON AUSTIN, Tex. (UPI)—Supporters of George Wallace, possibly one million strong, are making a close three-man race of what otherwise might be a runaway for Richard M. Nixon in Texas. A recent statewide poll gave Wallace 25 per cent of the Texas vote. Retiring Democratic Gov. John B. Connally estimates Wallace’s current strength at about 30 per cent. There are four million registered voters and about three million are expected to vote. In a two-man race, Nixon would be a heavy favorite to beat Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey in Texas by about 55. 45. But because of Wallace’s surprising strength, neither the Humphrey nor Nixon camp expects to get a clear majority. Any of the three conceivably could win the state’s 25 electoral votes, but top Democrats concede Nixon is a slight favorite at the moment. Protest Votes Wallace is strong in many normally Democratic areas. Particularly among farmers and union members. But Connally and others call these “protest votes” that would go to Nixon if Wallace were not in the race. Nixon strategists in Texas are mapping a careful campaign to take votes away from Wallace and give them to Nixon. John Hurd of Laredo, Nixon’s state campaign chairman, said a polling organization has been commissioned to “find out who the Wallace supporters are, whom they supported in the past, and what we can do to get them.” He indicated Republicans will try to convince these people that voting for Wallace is futile. “About 30 per cent of the Wallace people are hard core,” Hurd said. “The other 70 per cent range from weak leaners to heavy leaners. These are the people who will respond to what I call the ‘don’t waste your vote’ approach.” Wallace Defections Connally said he expects Nixon to get most of the Wallace defections, but thinks a big Democratic turnout could still give Humphrey the state with perhaps 40 per cent of the vote. Wallace’s Texas organization is run largely by members of the John Birch Society. The state chairman of Wallace’s American Party, Bard A. Logan of San Antonio, is a member of the society and said about 15 of the other 30 executive committee members also are Birchers. Republicans in Texas are united and well-financed. GOP Sen. John Tower is a key Nixon supporter. Humphrey’s Texas campaign got organized only last week and both the conservative and liberal wings of the Democratic Party remain unenthusiastic. Humphrey’s name was scarcely mentioned at the state Democratic convention last month. Connally and other conservatives so far have declined to campaign actively for the vice president.

JIM BISHOP: Reporter

The annual medical examination is over. It consisted of four days of tapping, probing, lighting, listening, tracings, swallowing tests, X-rays, blood chemistry, lung lunges, paper work, and insulting questions. The doctor may collapse from all this, but I won’t. Come to think of it, he didn’t look too well. Years ago, the G.P. called me in, listening with a stethoscope, tightened a blood pressure cuff, tapped blood and assorted fluids, stuck a lighted cone at eyes, ears, nose, and throat, and said; “You’re good for another year--I think. Don’t quote me.” The examination has been refined and elaborated to such a degree that I found myself walking from one panelled room to another in a shortie nightgown which tied in the back. I look funny dressed. Once, I passed my dentist in the hall. He was in a shortie and I tried to show Ihim a tooth, but he was yanked into another panelled room by a radiologist with glasses and dark hair, who flipped him on his side and said: “Take a deep breath. Take another. Stop breathing, sir.” There was a sound like a bicycle coaster brake stripping a gear and the nurse had an excellent photograph of what is going on inside my dentist - something his nurses would like to study. My wife, who holds all the insurance, said: “Goahead. Take four days off. I’ll make the appointments. All you have to do is to take your -- ha, ha --body to his office on time.” She couldn’t lose. If it turned out good, I would continue to earn a little money for her and the kinder. If not, she would start humming the theme song of the Merry Widow. There is no place in that wrinkled nightgown for a pack of cigarettes. I hid mine in the medical library and, when there were five minute waits between rounds, ducked in, lit the butt, and blew the smoke between the pages of Gray’s Anatomy, Vol. 1. No one suspected except the receptionist, who keeps the waiting room worriers off her neck with a sliding panel. She has two cigarettes lit in her ashtray, on her side of the sliding window, of course. “The doctor,” she said, “told you not to smoke.” The free literature ranged from a copy of Esquire to a new book called The Traumatic Neurosis, by Dr. Lester Keiser. It is published by Lippincott and I read the chapter on “Malingering” and, whatever it is, I’ve got it. I switched to Esquire. Every man believes that his doctor is the best. This is an essential before reporting to a physician. Mine, Dr. Louis Bennett, has the patience to explain, with pencilled diagrams, whv

liver function has to be related to kidney function, and what cigarettes will do to the potholes in a silly assortment of tulles called the bronchial. Me has no appreciation of what those tulles have done to my cigarettes. On the third day, I had the feeling that I was an automobile. I was being hoisted on the rack, and white-coated people were in the pit looking up, checking my transmission and shock absorbers. The windshield wipers worked, but the muffler was shot. A lovely nurse named Donna said I had nice veins. I was going to tell her that hers matched her eyes, but I thought that this could lead to things, so I contented myself with the neon smile, which turns on and off like a hamburger sign. One of the medical ironies, for me, is that I feel great until I get inside the doctor’s office. At once, I fall apart like an old Erector set. I’m sick, sick, sick. Dr. Bennett must listen to interminable comnlaints and 'descriptions of pains. He nods, arms folded, his mind on a movie he saw last night called “The Producers.” He chuckles. He and a nurse work with pen Continued on page 8

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