LANDIS CALLS PLAN E OPPONENTS DESPERATE

Winding up the battle for Plan E, the city manager and proportional representation form of government, in Cambridge last night, James M. Landis, Dean of the Law School, declared over mander Hotel that "It is issues that count, not men."

Landis and Walter McLaughlin, counsel for Plan e, hand earlier conferred with election officials in the city to make sure that no interference with an orderly election by Plan E's opponents would be tolerated.

Volunteer "watchers," allowed by the law, will be at the polling places tomorrow to record the work of solicitors, he said.

Attacks "Cheapness"

"One thing has become clear in this struggle," Landis stated, "and that is the inadequacy the cheapness, the hypocrisy of our present city government How far the efforts of those in power will go tomorrow in a desperate attempt to perpetuate that system, no one can guess. Men, who have already defied the law, may well go to extremes."

Remarking that he had maligned no individual, he apologized for his "outspokenness" in the campaign and said, "but I could not do otherwise. I, as a person, do not matter in this fight. Someone has to be the target for ridicule, for insinuation, for libel."

Landis declared that the motives of the Plan E backers was to modernize the city government and make it more responsive to the people's needs. "We dream, yes, as St. Augustine dreamed, of a city beautiful," he said.