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I In The Heat Of Campaign, Political Name Calling Is Traditional Feature By ARTHUR EDSON WASHINGTON (AP) could turn into the name-calling- est presidential campaign in recent history. It's too early for firm predictions, but look at the storm warnings: vocation, must a gentleman allow i vain, and takes no counsel from This himself to refer to his antagonist's anyone." private life." We still make pious pretenses of living up to this goal. Each campaign year the chairmen of the two parties sign a declaration of principles, and sometimes this Or. if you prefer a more modern example, let's turn to Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, now rated among our best presidents. Here's Wilson, when Roosevelt succeeded McKinely: "What will 1.

With a Democratic Congress is ii ved 0 at least until tne and a Republican White House. i two shining knights go out the happen to the country-with that responsibilities become and issues turn hazy. When hard to debate issues, it's easy to debate personalities. 2. Democratic leaders don't like But don't despair.

In spite of everything, we're getting better. As our presidents recede into history their faults tend to dis- mountebank as Here's Roosevelt's comment on Wilson in the White House: "The Tailors Get Pay Increase But there are things over which a candidate has little control. Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass).

NEW YORK (AP) A new three-year contract gives 125,400 workers in the tailored men's clothing industry a 17Vi-cent hourly pay raise. The new pact was announced Thursday at a joint meeting of the Clothing Manufacturers Assn. Workers now average $1.77 an hour. An industry spokesman said the pact probably will mean a "modest Increase" in the price of men's tailored clothing. for example, has taken the high 0 America and the Amalgamated road.

His speeches are Workers of America. with quotations supplied by a The pay boost is effective in covey of dihgent researchers. Con- Ju The agrccment subject ceivably he and N.xon could wage ion vides a campaign and only issues would, imnu in hospi( izat be discussed. But Kennedy is a Catholic. Would his candidacy set off an anti-Catholic blast similar to those ion, ilife insurance and other benefits.

Hifh Point IfrttrprlM, Sundcy, April 7A 973 Daily Newspapers joined by leading food outlets in 666 markets in the U.S. and Canada participated in the "Better Meals Build Better Families" food campaign last September. Food industry leaders have voted to repeat the promotion this year. ly in private. After eight years of uy speaking gently about President iem rarie s- Eisenhower, in deference to his worst president by all odds since that haw disfigured campaigns of Buchanan, with the possible ex- ception of Andrew Johnson." Presidential campaigns are waged on many levels.

Often the noble candidate walks the high road, while some of his followers We forget that this is a melt- sneak a be OWi ninging mud Immense popularity, the Demo- of ideas as well as of! as hey go cratic urge to let go must be im-jaationalities. Sometimes these: mense need the fiercest heat be-! 3. Much has been said about the new Nixon vs. the old Nixon. Certainly if he hopes to attract many Democratic he needs a large chunk if he's to be has to be careful not to offend them.

But only the historical fact concerns us here: When pushed into a political corner, Dick Nixon can be a very tough man. 'ore a national policy can be ham-j mered into shape. To those who did the hammering, the opponents appeared different from what we see today. Of our founding fathers, few are held in greater esteem than John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. Yet here Thj was par ti ularly true of our should be past.

Three samples enough: Andrew Jackson was called a wife stealer who had a prostitute for a mother and a mulatto for a father. Henry Clay "spends his days the past? Nobody knows the answer to; that one. Yet all would agree thatj we've come a long way since 1856; when a young, upstart party, which called itself nominated John Charles Fremont: as its first presidential candidate. The charge was made that Fremont was secretly a member of the Roman Catholic Church. William H.

Seward sourly noted that Fremont was "nearly convicted of being a Catholic." Yet not one of 40 Catholic journals published in 1856 supported him. at the" gaming tables andj Which is hardly surprising. his" nights in a brothel." A voteiDespite all the talk, Fremont was Opinion I for Coolidge was "a vote for the Jan Episcopalian. is President Adams' JKlan." But Fremont was nlucK in And Jefferson's opinion of Adams: "Distrustful, excessively Uk'e' Nixon." hekhis: tha the first GOP presiden- says. "vou better be able to mix it blow'for blow." tial candidate should be accused of being soft on communism.

LAY-AWAY NOW! iopinion of Vice President Jeffer-l The tone of the campaign, of every way. 4. The opening shots "It is evidence of a mind, 1 course, depends largely on the One cartoon showed him firing. They came at a-soured, yet seeking for candidate. The qua dius on Democratic meeting here in Jan- and eaten to a honeycomb with! Sen.

Humphrey, for example, property is what i lor. uary, the kickoff of the campaign, ambition, yet weak, confused, un- has promised a fight. Few political ironiesjan maii-n Nearly every speaker roughed up informed and ignorant." iNixcn, and such terms as "juvenile delinquent" and "Sir Richard the Nimble" were tossed about. Cheered The biggest cheers were for Sens. Hubert H.

Humphrey CD- Minn) and Stuart Symington (D- Mo). They're the two who swung hardest at Nixon. Indeed, the punches at Nixon have been so frequent that some; Democrats are worrying about reverse reaction. They fear Nixon i will be made a martyr. 5.

Republicans are handicapped that's the right their i name-cadling because they must; scatter their epithets among so' many candidates. But whoever' wins the Democratic nomination is sure to be branded a free-wheel- i ing spender who can't be trusted with the taxpayers' money, a re-1 frain that runs through almost: every GOP speech. Naturally no ly the endorses; name-calling. Cicero, the Roman politican, i gave us the ideal when he said! some 2,000 years ago: "In political matters if gentlemen take differ-1 ent sides, there can be no heat of. controversy between them, how-; ever burning the question; they! are well-bred men first and al-l ways, politicians and opponents; second.

And never, under any pro- Veterans Benefits To Change WASHINGTON (AP)-It is de-j cision time for about IVz million veterans and widows and children of deceased veterans who are re- ceiving pensions from the Veter-: ans Administration. They have a choice between continuing to receive benefits under! the present system of fiat pay-i ments or shifting to a new system that bases benefits on financial need of recipients. A law approved last year byi Congress, which is effective July: 1, provides higher payments for; eligible persons with low incomes: and lower payments to those with higher incomes. No one has to shift Jo the new system, but once the change is made a beneficiary cannot go back to the old basis. There is no deadline within! which the choice must be made, but if a beneficiary after study.

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