Political Clubs Plan Seven-Week Campaigning to Canvass University

Conducting one of the most intensive button-holing efforts ever at University registrations, college political organizations expect to devote record time working for candidates in the next seven weeks.

This year there are only three political clubs. They are: Harvard Liberal Union, the Harvard Young Republican Club, and the Young Democrats.

Primary elections were held Tuesday, but candidates for major offices in the two parties were unopposed. The two most important local contests this November in Massachusetts will be for Governor--Paul A. Dever (D) vs. Chritian A. Herter (R) and for U. S. Senator--John F. Kennedy 40 (D) vs. Henry Cabot Lodge '37 (R).

Milton S. Gwirtzman '52 president of the Harvard Liberal Union, announced this week that the H.L.U. would hold an endorsement and membership meeting during the week of September 22 with the time and date to be announced later.

"We undoubtedly will support Stevenson, but will have to wait until the endorsement meeting before we decide on supporting other candidates," Gwirtzman stated.

Already members of the Liberal Union have been working in the campaign. Gwirtzman said that members have worked in the primary for Mario Umana who is seeking election to the State Senate from Boston. They are working for him in conjunction with the Massachusetts Chapter of the Americans for Democratic Action.

Fail Speakers Not Chosen

The list of speakers for the fall is not definite yet, Gwirtzman said. The H.L.U. also will conduct one major national project, he stated. Two years ago, the group raised $6800 in support of three Senators who voted to uphold the President's veto of the McCarran Act. This year's project has not been selected yet.

Edward Schroeder '53, president of the Harvard Young Republican Club, said that the group would try to get the majority of the state republican slate as speakers. The group, he said, plans to do much work on the precinct and ward level, including ringing doorballs.

Those interested, Schroeder said, can do political research for Republican legislators at the State House. "It is imperative for the country that Eisenhower wins," he contended, "but I do not believe that the Republicans will win a majority in the Senate."