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A Salute to Two Former Editors

LONG BEFORE my affiliation with this Journal began, I enjoyed the humor injected into the annual meetings of the Southern Political Science Association by two men. Robert J. Harris' wit and ironic humor have been attractive elements of the Southern meetings for many years. His manner of introducing resolutions of appreciation near the close of the business meetings is delightful. He seems to enjoy himself tremendously at these affairs and his pleasure is contagious. I am always astonished when he succeeds in making us laugh after two to three hours of dry reports and important but unexciting resolutions and debate. Harris was the founding editor of the journal, who served from its 1939 beginning until 1947. His publications, including The Quest for Equality, are scholarly, thoughtful and have been valuable in my own teaching and research. I am happy to report that Dean Harris, although formally retired, is still full of ideas and intellectual interests. In a recent telephone conversation he mentioned his concern about the 1980 decision by a United States court in which a professor was jailed for declining to reveal details of deliberations in a tenure decision. He rightly pointed out that this is something our professional association ought to discuss with a view to possible action. Although he is a gracious conversationalist, I stand in awe of Dean Harris, who began to edit the journal when I was still in junior high school. Don Strong seems almost like a contemporary, although his impressive publications covered almost two decades before I emerged from graduate school. In 1962 when some people in Pittsburgh organized a conference on "Election Administration in the United States," the nearby Automatic Voting Machine Company of Jamestown, New York, invited the conferees to visit their plant