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...average rate of increase in Chicago's suburbs. Almost half its largely white-collar families earn an income of more than $10,000; retail trade has increased 206% from 1954 to 1963. "A dynamic and expanding community needs a daily voice," says Day Editor and Publisher John Stanton, 56, who moved over from managing editor of Field's Chicago Daily News...
...perform their jobs or shop via television from their homes (if they and their wives can stand it, that is). Despite such present or potential miracles, the business of voting in America-the most important business in a democracy-is slow, cumbersome and primitive. Says CBS President Frank Stanton, who has made voting reform a personal crusade: "If we ran our factories, conducted our communications and nurtured our health at the same rate of scientific and technical advance as we conduct our political affairs, we would still be taking weeks to make a pair of shoes, delivering the mail...
Apart from electronics, CBS's Stanton urges that Election Day be made a national legal holiday so as to "free thousands to vote at their convenience rather than attempt to squeeze it in before work or at lunchtime or on the way home" (on the other hand, cynics argue', it might free thousands to go to the races rather than to the polling booth). Stanton would have all the nation's polling places open at the same time, remain in operation for a full 24 hours, and shut down simultaneously, thereby doing away with the time...
...Stanton also argues for making registration a responsibility of the Federal Government instead of the states, with each voter carrying a permanent registration number, much the way Americans already have Social Security, draft and credit numbers. Says he: "In the future, electronic scanners at polling places will very probably be able to identify voters, or prevent repeats and unauthorized ballots, by a split-second survey of a voter's thumb...
Engelhardt's late father, an education professor, helped create one of the nation's first educational-consultant organizations at Columbia Teachers College in 1917. He set up a private operation in 1947 with his son Nick and Stanton Leggett, a Ph.D. in education from Columbia. Nick had studied engineering at Yale, worked as a planner for Architect Wallace Harrison and earned a Ph.D. in educational administration at Columbia...