THREE FOR HUMPHREY

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

I read with some disappointment in the New York Times today that the CRIMSON had decided not to endorse any of the major presidential candidates this year. As one who worked for McCarthy in Vermont, I can well understand your feelings after the Chicago convention. Nevertheless, I cannot help but feel that you have made a bad mistake here, and it is a mistake which appears to be all too common among members of the academic community, both students and faculty.

It is all very well for us to stand high on our principles by refusing to vote for Humphrey (I assume that neither Nixon nor Wallace was seriously considered), but it is worth remembering that if Nixon is elected, particularly with a strong Wallace vote pulling him to the right, it is not we in the universities who are going to suffer--it is the poor, both in the cities and the countryside whose well-being will be jeopardized by what happens. There is nothing easier than being true to one's convictions when only the helpless will be hurt by them. Nicholas R. Clifford '61