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...people of Ward 4, where we canvassed, were very much decided. Ward 4 starts on Trow-bridge Street, spreads around the small doves' nest of SDSers on Dana Street, and ends somewhere in the hawkish territory of Central Square. Its residents are loath to be told, or even have suggested, what they ought to think about the war. Not that they are all openly hostile to the canvassers. "I believe that we're fighting for America, so that people like you will be free to hand out leaflets," said a patient old man in a straw...
Prayer is manifest in Ward 4, especially on the Irish blocks, where it is framed and hung on the wall. "Visit this habitation, we beseech thee O Lord, and protect us from the snares of our enemy." The homes with prayers in the alcove are likely to contain suspicious inhabitants who quickly close the door with, "I'm not interested," or "I've read all about the war," or "My husband's out now, but when he gets back he'll tell me how to vote...
Back at the CNCV headquarters we were assured that Ward 4 is particularly barren territory, and that student canvassers have it tougher than others. Just under two thirds of the canvassers have nothing to do with either Harvard or M.I.T. and four out of five of them are adults who have lived in Cambridge for over five years. They had gotten encouraging results, not only in the wealthy and academic wards, but also in the working class sections...
...will allow the soldier vote to come in from Vietnam. The hope is that if the soldiers, several hundred strong, vote against the war, the CNCV could steal most of the Vets' thunder and the sign "My Son is a Marine," pasted on more than one door in Ward 4,, could take on a very different meaning...
Smith lives in a modest house on Cherokee Street in Ward 16. Like most New Orleans' housing, this ward is laid out checkerboard fashion. A block of Negro homes may be followed by a block of white homes. The economic pattern is just as complex; a block of huge columned mansions screened from view by heavy oaks, crepe myrtles, or magnolia trees may be followed by a block of pleasant middle class homes which boast a few palms or maybe a banana tree, followed again by a block of near-shacks with a scraggly clump of gladiolas growing outside...