HOMANS DRAWS PRAISE

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

Your article Monday on the local races for state legislature hardly mentioned one of the best Democratic candidates to run in Cambridge in many years. Bill Homans '41, LLB '48 is a Harvard trained civil liberties and criminal lawyer running for office for the first time.

Homans is best known to the Harvard community for arguing the Tropic of Cancer case, appealing it to the Massachusetts Superior Court, and finally winning it in the State Supreme Court. He has been endorsed by the ADA for his interest in civil liberties, and by COD, the Democratic reform organization, for his work toward creating a responsible Democratic party in this state.

A great many Harvard votes--from both liberals and conservatives--will go this year to Mary Newman (an incumbent who also holds ADA endorsement) and to Levin Campbell, two able candidates running on the Republican ticket. Harvard voters should know that the third Republican candidate, 24-year-old "Lindy" Lindstrom, is totally unqualified for office. Even his own campaign literature can stress only that he is a family man and is the son of a former representative from this district. Much of the "gown" vote is therefore going to the Mary Newman-Levin Campbell-Bill Homans split ticket. Charles Weiss '59, 4G.