European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 6, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              The stars and stripes Poge 9 r-w"1 it i Pooe s ruling unlikely to be enforceable m. ,. J is a. In urn to be it is a Good Guys that most even More serious is what , papal decl Lon in to integrating Pace of change and opened Nir to Keeth. Catholic Brush Tury hos yoked by pop Paul s encyclical i0 f human  it i under Vandable in an age of instant e o m m u n i the. . Max Lerner a desire t keep the Church from becoming a run away Church. He know that change feeds on change and that each new Reform evokes a rising expectation for other. The very fact of the explosiveness of the birth control Issue reaching so far and deep into family life made it the More important from a conservative viewpoint to Call a halt Here. The question is whether he reaction that have followed up 3ff a ply Ohi critic., exp defending exhorting. Age of ecumenism on an that affect explosive popu. I pressure and the world or anyone can Call a a i. It s3 St hunger a. Pope i. One thing to be convinced vision is of overshadowing importance to non Catholic a Well of to catholics. By reaffirming the Vatican s traditional ban on contraception Pope Paul bring to an abrupt end the Cycle of Church Reform started by Pope John. He was moved one May guess by a deep revulsion against the Dis and seek to arrest its course. It is quite another to try to shut out the pulsing currents of life a every human being knows it in the modern world Cath Olic and protestant Christian and jew hindu Muslim Agnos tic. Too Many things have Hapin this Century to be brushed aside for any doctrinal reason too Many insights into the nature of love and sexuality of mental health and mental breakdown too Many broadening of perspective on the obligations of parents to their children and the living standards and Quality of life that a family must afford a child if he is to become fully a person. That is Why the Catholic re action has been so Adverse among laymen and priests alike physicians and theologians in Catholic journals and colleges. A majority of the Pope s own advisory commission represent ing a Broad swathe of Church opinion has urged the other course. The Pope has the author Ity to overrule them. But the exercise of authority in the religious a in the secular world must reckon with the limits of individual conscience. It i a goo gues catholics will practice a kind of compartmentalized thinking in one compartment of their mind they will respect the Pope s encyclical and the anguish of Eon science that made him decide As he did in another Compart ment they will respond As they have for some time to the inner need to do what they must them selves do. There is no question Here of an encounter of dogmas nor of a frontal Challenge to papal authority by Catholic rebels Al though there will be a measure of each for a time. Mostly it will be a question of practical living and of focusing As the papal commission suggested ear Lier on the totality of the love sexuality pattern in the family context. One consequence of the decision is that the movement toward ecumenism will suffer. Even More serious is what will happen to the already Over burdened programs for Popula Tion control especially in latin american countries where the population curve and the nation Al growth Index Are running a heartbreakingly close race. There is finally the question highly dangerous to the Church of the erosion of belief within it. A remarkable Survey made by Joseph h. Fichter s.j., contained in his new Book Amer Ica s forgotten priests what they Are saying shows How concerned the diocesan priests Are about marriage and celibacy and the swirling issues of a world in ferment. To reaffirm a Rule of Conception and contraception which Many of the Faith Ful Are Likely to neglect if not defy is to take the Large risk of undercutting belief in other Church positions As Well. I 1968,  Angeles times Nixon denies gop is minority _. To u.-. La third of our eligible the republicans had Only 17 we we buried the Haf chef again. Richard m. Nixon finds it utterly preposterous for the democrats publicists or anyone to persist in calling the republicans a minority party. He see this constant propaganda As part of the can t win pitch pursued partly in ignorance but also As a powerful brainwashing tech Nique. The nonsense he insists is based merely on registrations. He gives these the heave to remarks that this is like Multi plying apples and oranges in a be fogged computer and produces some practical earthy facts. In Short if the 47 per cent democratic versus 27 per cent Republican registrations really Means anything Why hold elections at All or. Nixon Points out that Democrat registrations outnumber the republicans by about 3 to 2 in his native California. President Johnson won the state in 1964 by 1.3 million votes. Yet Georgo i. Mur Phy won his sen ate seat by 200, that a full third of our eligible voters do not vote. Asked about reducing the age limit from 21 to 18, he contributes the Start Lin j observation that Only about 50 per cent of today s 21-29 age bracket have even taken the trouble to Register. Then comes the phenomenon which or. George Gallup has the republicans y 7 governorships and both of the legislative houses in Only six states. Today the gop has More than half of All the governor ship 26. These represent states with 58 per cent of the nation s population and 302 electoral College votes. Only 270 Are needed to elect the 1968 or Reorg win of publicly confirmed among those preside Hal   i sir Shitian. The Henry j. Taylor 000 votes on the Republican ticket. And within two years Ron Ald Reagan took the California governorship for the republicans by More than a million. This was a turnover of More than 2.3 million votes in our most popu Lous state since the lbs land slide although the California pro Democrat registration advantage remained practically unchanged. Then revving up his protest against calling the republicans a minority party to Points to the 1966 nationwide elections. The aggregate vote of Republican senatorial candidates the pro Democrat registration not withstanding exceeded the democratic vote in 33 of the 50 states. Exclusive of Arkansas sen. John l. Mcclellan unopposed the final National figures were 13,654,734 Republican votes against 12,971,157 demo cratic. In the 35 gubernatorial elections the Republican vote to Plaj tales 21,165,916 democratic of All Ages who Are registered but who fail to vote the democrats year after year far outnumber the republicans. This finding is a previously undiscovered Factor in the registration nonsense. Or. Nixon further estimates that in terms of the gop Struc Ture the republicans have at least a 25 per cent better Chance to win the White House in 1968 than he did in 1960. John f. Kennedy took the presidency from or. Nixon by less than one half of one per cent of the popular vote by half a vote per precinct. As the Republican candidate or. Nixon got 49.55 per cent of the popu Lar vote and lost by Only 118,550 votes out of 68,336,094 cast substantially less than the popu lation of a few Chicago wards or of Trenton . When or. Nixon ran in 1960, in addition gop now controls 20 state Legislatures instead of six. In the 1966 election the re publican party gained three sen ate seats 47 House seats and 10 governorships and it also gained 677 state legislature seats. These Are close to the grass roots and winning them More than recouped the loss of 529 in the 1964 Johnson land slide. Or. Nixon not Only exactly forecast these governorships and congressional wins but also came within a few of predicting the legislative seats As Well. It was an astoundingly accurate Analy Sis now largely forgotten made Over nationwide to on election eve that confirmed or. Nixon s title As demonstratively the Best political forecaster in the Busi Ness. United feature Syndicate party platform does t really matter Uiki � no con see what kind of a platform ing and Nixon is that i for the better part of a week a the convention is  going a a the masterminds or at least Mas of favorite  when better part of a week r at least Maser mechanics of the gop have been Labouring Over the party platform. Their efforts to construct something that will stand against All political winds irresistibly Calls to mind the favor Ite Story of the late humorist Charlie Macarthur. He loved to Tell the Story about the condemned Man who on a Gusty Dawn was dragged to the Gallows on the Public Square. Just As he put his foot on the first rung to climb up the Clayton Fritchey in the wind. The or. Nixon it deeply disturbed by the fundamental and fright Safe this of course is the same the Una Menta an Rig Ling fact of american politics question that grip the Delegate consider among other what the members of the plat form committee have wrought As a result of their deliberations last week. Is the new platform going to be Safe for the party for the nominee for the country actually it does t make much difference whether it is Safe or not. After the convention is Over Little or nothing will be heard of it again. Whoever is the Nom Inee will like All nominees make his own policy. What he says and does will be the party s living platform. Hence it is not necessary to wait until later in the week to the opinion expressed in the columns and cartoon on Thi Para represent Thota of the authors and Are in no Wayto a considered a representing the View of the Star and . Itself a of the United slate a venue Ivy see wha f the convention is finally going to adopt. If the Richard Nixon is nominated no Crystal Ball is needed to foresee what s ahead for the former vice pres i d e n t has already indicated what his general pitch will be Good old fashioned red White and Blue americanism. This May not be novel or exciting but time has shown it is hard to beat. Back in 1920 when Warren g. Harding was the re publican nominee he coined and ran on the magic word Amer  at one of his first press conferences he was asked what does americanism mean senator his answer was i Haven t the slightest idea but i know it s a Damn Good word with which to carry an  his judgment was confirmed by a landslide Victory. The difference Between hard ing and Nixon is that the latter is a very intelligent Man and when he uses a word he knows precisely what it Means at least to the voting Public. Over the years he has leaned harder on anti communism than americanism but by dint of constant coupling they now seem to millions to be merely different sides of the same Coin. My problem Nixon has said is that i be been Over nominated and  actually he has Only been Defeated when he failed to exploit the soft on a o m m u n i s m theme to the Hilt. He pulled no punches on this Issue in his win Ning Campaign for the Senate and the vice presidency. He loss when he muted the theme in his i960 race for the presidency and his 1962 race for governor of California