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THE MIAMI NEWS, Tuesday, Nov. IS, 1960 1 3 A Iiiliioium iti ii in iir-t -n POGO By WALT KELLY DYNAMIC ERA DAWNS KJ US A VOi ha "vor f'Zsts Morswa ft PCiNNCuNT WASN'T P5V 6W1HB MST Analyzes The Election Serving Machine Goes, Too sa-swv my y-o-w toe etNe- Harry S. Truman, who won an extremely close presidential election in 1948, writes today about the 1960 presidential election and the significance of John Kennedy's narrow margin of victory. This is another of his exclusive articles for North American Newspaper Alliance and The. Miami News.

MILAN, Italy If you are of my sex and you are thinking of running away from home for a brief spell and what sensible woman doesn't? my best advice is to (1) runaway with your own husband and (2) take a small sewing kit. fWg rT5 MY 04 WMAff APTLi MV gVg I'LL LOVg Let A plain me ex- the sew ing kit. Other rrcwyi travelers who regard themselves as experts may admonish the female traveler never to venture abroad states ever should get such an idea, they would still have to seek the support of a number of the smaller states, without whose aid they could not achieve their purpose. I believe, too, that there is something to be said for the narrow margin of victory in a presidential election. It makes the new president realize in a very dramatic way that there is more than one side to a question.

And where there are two strong major parties, there are bound to be reasonable differences of opinion on lege. It is one of the most important checks and balances we have to keep the larger states and the concentrated industrial populations from nullifying the influence of the states with smaller populations. This is the government of the United States 50 sovereign states. As it stands today, no combination of the larger states can impose their choice on the other states, even if all of the larger states could get together for such a purpose. If the large INEZ ROBB ArrBucIivald many issues and conflicts of interest.

The problem of leadership in the White House is to confront and resolve those differences to the best interest of all the people without compromising on the basic party platform and philosophy of the victorious party. The fact that more than people expressed their preference for another candidate in the election of November 8 and failed to elect him does not deprive them of their right to be heard. Their voices and ideas are just as important as those of the victorious millions. This is the strength and greatness of our system, since our government derives its authority from all the people. It must, therefore, represent all the people.

His Real Test Is Yet To Come And the real test of leadership in the White House is determined by how well a president can make his purposes and policies understood by the peo pie, and in how he succeeds in persuading them to join him in this course of action. This has been invariably true with all our great have had a good look at president-elect Kennedy from the day I expressed my reservations about him before the Convention nominated him. I must confess that I was not converted to him overnight, when at first I tried to assess his capacity in terms of the tasks that would confront the president. I was not concerned about the compatibility of the person of John Kennedy with me. I sought to discern something of the inner man in John Kennedy.

And it is my opinion that the new president-elect has in him the qualities and elements of strength and purpose to live up to the call of the office of the president He will need the support of By HARRY S. TRUMAN Copyright, fit, by Harry S. TrwnaB The free world has every reason to take heart at the decision of the American, people to choose John F. Kennedy as their new president. I believe that not only our own people but people everywhere can expect a new surge of dynamic, decisive and productive leadership from this country.

We are about to have a president in the White House and a working majority in Congress who belong to the same political party. Historically, the margin of victory a candidate for President gets under our system of government Is of little importance. When a president is elected, he automatically has a mandate from all the people and he becomes' the president of all the people, regardless of the sue of his victory or the distribution of the popular or electoral votes which put him in office. Two of our greatest presidents were elected for their first terms by a minority of the popular votes, although they had a majority of the electoral votes. They were Abraham Lincoln and Woodrow Wilson.

This point needs to be made clear because there are some who seem to believe that though Kennedy received a majority of the popular vote, he failed to get a mandate from the people because of the narrow margin of his popular majority. He was elected by a majority and is the president of the United States. As a matter of fact, Kennedy actually received not only a greater number of votes than his opponent, but a large majority of the electoral vote. Electoral College Has A Purpose Every four years a hue and HARRY TRUMAN Glad About Jack 4 i all our people for he will take office at a difficult time with many perilous tasks confront- ing him. He will need the support of our friends and Allies abroad, and the understanding and cooperation of all free nations.

I am confident that he will bring to them a closer relationship, and a clearer conception of our common interests and problems we have had in recent years. I see in the president-elect a man dedicated to the betterment of the lot of man and the preservation of freedom and of peace. I see in him a man with vision and energy to pursue new ways and methods to achieve His Position Will Be Clear And I hope that our antagonists in the Communist world will take a good look at him, too. For they may be certain that, as president, John Kennedy will not fail tomake clear to them where he and the people of the United States stand on all the critical issues that are threatening the peace of the world. They would do well not to discount his sincerity when he expresses the historic idealism of the United States.

The Communists ought to un- derstand that we mean what we say when we say it and that we intend to act if it is necessary for us to act Dade Refuses GOP Vote Recount Demand Dade Republicans, ho failed to win a single race in last Tuesday's election, today asked for a recount of all the county's 1,032 voting machines. County Attorney Darxey Davis rejected the request. Matthew M. Slepin, chairman of the Dade County Republican Executive Committee, called' for the recount "Due to the fact that numerous election irregularities have been reported," Slepin wrote Registration Supervisor Claude R. Brown, "it is requested that all of the machines used in the recent election be rechecked under the supervision of representatives of both parties." Davis said: "No election irregularities have been reported to the canvassing board, the supervisor of registration or any other county official.

"If there were any irregularities in connection with the election held on Nov. 8, 1960, the same were not reported to any of the election officials." Slepin filed a similar complaint after the primary election. without aspirin, sufficient nylons, a small pearl-handled pistol, instant coffee sensible shoes or, better still, an extra pair of feet. But ever since World War II, a sewing kit has been the No. 1 necessity.

That stems from the fact that no matter bow we American women splice it, our skirt length never quite Jibes with that of our European sisters. It is always toe long or too short, and never mind how it fits around the beam. It didn't take a trice for me to discover after landing here that my wretched skirts, which come about two to three inches below my knees, are hopelessly dowdy. The chic Italian skirt is a flounce that has plenty of bounce at the bend in the knee and ends right there. No it has always seemed to me that the knee, even when dimpled, is just another hinge more distinguished for its utility than its aesthetics.

But utilitarian or aesthetic, the freedom of the joint is the essence of Italian fashion. So I have been sitting in our hotel room, like a pa- tient Griselda, taking up hems. At last I can go out on the town without having the local belles nudge each other, or, alas, the local beaux nudge -each other, either. I'm not bitter about his latter fact; just convinced that at this moment in Italian history legs, even those underpinning M. Dietrich, constitute no novelty.

lS i) UJ irihii: i 5E) cry is raised about the seeming anachronism of the electoral college, and the need for abolishing it leaving the election of the President to the popular vote. I think it would be a mistake to abolish the electoral col- iU rh-h r. 1 sew a closet full i W) of savings for yourself and family TT? A TTTTDTTT1 Donna Deviled Dade Egg Price Food prices in Greater Miami slowly inched upward in the last two months, mainly because Hurricane Donna found too many eggs in one basket. The price index compiled by the University of Miami stood today at 118 for the first half of November, a two-point rise over Soon -A UNIVAC In White House? MY CHER PIERRE. Well, as you have probably read in the French newspapers, the American government was overthrown last week in a bloodless coup, in which tha only person who was wounded was Gov.

Nelson Rockefeller of New York. I can't tell you what excitement there was in this country and the election was so close that if the Kennedy family hadn't voted as a group, Vice President Nixon might have won. The new President, Sen. Kennedy has many problems that he must settle as soon as he takes office. The most important is, that all during the campaign he insisted that America must move forward, that the United States has to start moving and keep moving if it expects to get ahead of Russia.

But the big fear here is that everyone will start moving at once, and you can imagine what chaos that could cause particularly with the traffic situation as it is. The feeling here is Sen, Kennedy is going to have to tell people when they should move, and when they shouldn't. This should take up at least the first two years of his Administration. I GUESS THE happiest people in the United States right now are President Eisenhower and ex-Presidents Truman and Hoover. If you -recall just before the election Vice President Nixon said if he were elected he would send all three to Eastern Europe.

He did this without consulting them, and I have it on good authority none of them really wanted to go. As a matter of fact one Democratic friend of mine told me after Mr. Nixon made his speech: "I can understand he would want to send Mr. Truman, after what Truman has said about Nixon, but what has he got against Eisenhower and Hoover?" There was a very interesting thing in this election, Pierre. Although the people wanted to vote, some were told before they voted how they WOULD vote, by giant American computers.

All the three television networks had these computers NBC had one called RCA 501, CBS used an IBM machine, and ABC used a Remington Rand UNTVAC. AS FAR AS I could tell, the was when one per cent of the country had voted, they would feed this information into the machines and the machines would tell them how the rest of the country would vote. They were just trying out this year to see if it would work, because if it did, there is talk that because the presidential elections are so costly and wearing on the candidates, they might to able to do away with the present nationwide voting. In the future, when the bugs are worked out of the computers, they might select one typical American town such as II a as the sample. Both candidates would go to Hartford to campaign.

Then on election day while the rest of the country shops and goes to bars, Hartford would go to the polls. The Hartford votes would be fed into the machine and on the basis of the information stored inside, we would know how the country would have voted if it had had a chance. IF THIS WORKS, my friends tell me, they might even to able to eliminate Hartford and instead of a President they would hand over all the executive powers of the United States to a computer, who could act as the head of the country. By then the machines will be much smaller and can be taken to summit conferences. This, to you, Pierre, sounds very undemocratic, but actually it will bring back national elections because everyone would have to go to the polls again to decide whether they wanted an IBM, tT" 2 yards 100 EASY CARE COTTOXS AND BLENDS Woven ploid ginghams, stripes, plaids, checks, in the Fall colors you want for dresses, separates, children's clothes.

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Miami was hit by only one hurricane during this season. Donna was the first blow in 10 years but she made up for lost time. Damage ran into the hundreds of millions of dollars. The chances of a hurricane hitting between today and June IS, when the next tropical storm season begins, are so remote the Weather Bureau wouldn't even quote odds on it There has been only one hurricane recorded in the winter since 1877. It hit the Gulf Coast in November, 1925.

1 -4 V. an KUA 501, or a UNIVAC in the White House. i Your cher Ami, Francois.