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JANESVILLE DAILY GAZETTE 122 YEARS OF COMMUNITY SERVICE INSISTS I SAVE MONEY-TURN OFF A EsUWished AiiRiisI U. IMS. Conlinuoui publiolion undtr same name. Pally editions since July in, mi GAZETTE PRINTING COMPANY, Owneri Sidney H. Blisi and Robert W.

BHM, Co-Publishers Milwaukee Street, Janesville, Wiscon-sin 53545 WCl.O andWCLOKM Ilial 7S3-7W5 F. Bliss, Publisher IM.1I9II Harry H.BhM.Publi.sher- 1919-1937 GAZETTE Dial Page 6 Editorial Page Feb. 3,1968 The Road to Anarchy? There may be little left of United States laws when the Supreme Court gets through with them. Even the Constitution is in danger of being emasculated. Two decisions this week were further affronts to the public's security.

By identical 7-1 decisions the court ruled professional gamblers are not required to register with the federal government and that individuals need not register their sawed-off shotguns, machi'ne guns and certain other firearms. Both decisions were based upon the premi'se that registration violated the constitutional privilege of self-incrimination. Only organized crime should be happy with the decisions. Certaitily law enforcement agencies are not. Registration of gamblers has proved very useful in police work.

Officers were able to check registrations and keep a watch on gamblers, apprehending them when violations of the law occurred. Many a gambler was thus put out of business that way. Since gambling is. against the law in most places, the registration act hardly seems illegal. A gambler still had to be caught in the act of gambling; he could not be arrested merely for registering.

As for the gun control bill, the ruling was issued because the owner of a shotgun had failed to register it before being apprehended. Had he registered it immediately the case may not have come up at this time. The defendant, Miles Edward Haynes, of Dallas, contended he was being punished for refusing to incriminate himself by declaring himself the possessor of an unregistered shotgun. The 1934 National Firearms act grew out of the attempted assassinati'on of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933.

It was a revenue producer in that it imposed annual occupational taxes on those who manufacture, import or sell certain firearms, and put a tax on the transfer of some other guns. The act gives the government some means of keeping track of weapons normally used by critninal elements. The court seems to have used some fuzzy thinking in reaching its decision. Said Justice John M. Harlan, who delivered the decision: "A prospective registrant realistically can expect that registration will substantially increase the likelihood of his prosecuti'on." It would seem likely that the owner of such a weapon could expect to be interrogated should a crime be committed with the type of weapon he owned.

But to conclude he would stand a good chance of being prosecuted seems far fetched. Recent decisions by the court have assured the rights of crimi'nal suspects once they were apprehended, but now the court seems to be unnecessarily extending itself to take away another v.eapon of law enforcement. Any more stripping of the laws might leave no laws. The public would be the loser. Add Vince to FoUdore The Green Bay Packers have brought Wisconsin fame over the years to rival that achieved by farm' i'mplements, Johnson's Wax, Parker Pens and Swiss cheese.

The Pack brought National Football League championships home in the '30s and '40s. And they are even remembered for their failures in-between, especially in the mi'd-'50s. But then a remarkable man from New York came along and worked wonders with one of the most inept teams in the NFL, and with many of the same personnel who for several years did not seem to know the difference between their own goal line and the opponents'. That man from New York was Vince Lombardi, one of the origi'nal Seven Blocks of Granite in the Fordham line of the mid-'30s. In nine years as Packer coach he built such a football dynasty it will be a long time, if ever, before it emulated.

Whether Lombardi was Others Are a tyrant, or was haughty, is irrelevant. His players, who play for pay, never openly complained. In fact, just the opposite. From some of their descriptions of him, Lombardi was the Knute Rockne of professional football. Now Lombardi has decided the strain of filling two and general just too much.

Thursday night he turned over the Packer coaching chores to Phil Bengston. He pledged not to set foot on the Packer practice field again and said ho would follow the games from the press box, promises he may find hard to keep. The desti'nies of a football team, professional or otherwise, are not all that important to the affairs of a state, perhaps, but Lombardi's work with the Packers made it just a little more exciting to live i'n Wisconsin, and stories about him will enrich folklore of the state and the sports world for years to come. He became a legend; he will remain one. Skating in the Kitchen Reports from the United States Patent Office continue to be a mine of fascinating information.

Witness a device called footsie Mops, just granted patent number 3,362,775. To grasp what is involved here, one must picture a housewife preparing to do her kitchen floor with the help of this new boon to womankind. Instead of getting out bucket and mop, as of yore, she fills the hollow soles of her Tootsie Mops with water (or, presumably, any cleaning product she prefers) and puts them on her feet. Whereupon she merely does a Sonja Henie about the kitchen. We're not sure how she keeps her balance in the process: our study has not proceeded that far.

But we're sure of one thing: anyone who says Yankee ingenuity is on the decline just hasn't been followi'ng the patent reports. Sheboygan Press Breath Tests Work Taken in conjunction with the 14 per cent fall in road deaths in month when breath lesti'ng of motorists came into provisional figures of accidents during the Christmas holiday are encouraging. Over the five days Dec. 22 to 26 the number of deaths was 98, compared with 158 in the same five days of 1966. Last year's total eventually reached 192 deaths.

above all THE SMALL SOCIETY VoU OWeiTToVoiJR ASoUT VlETNAM- Z-3 Johnson's Popularity Believed on lENKlN LLOYD JONES Everything for Everyone Philosophy Could Lead to Nothing for Anyone If mast of us keep insisting on getting what we want regardless of the consequences, we're all going to get the necii. We can wreck this broad, beautiful and rich country. We have all made a pretty gooH. start at it. The dollar is in trouble.

Washington is at least alarmed at the draining away of our gold reserves. The President has Congress to pass legislation that would discourage travel outside the Western Hemisphere, dry up further foreign investments by American corporations and make the profits of subsidiaries abroad immediately taxable. Tliese measures would little. But almost simultaneously, Vice President Humphrey was making a speech to African nations in Addis Ababa, excoriating American "isolationists" who are trying to cut back foreign aid. Was he say- in? the private spending abroad is evil and government spending holy? There seems to be a bit of confusion.

Dealers in international currencies the so called "gnomes of Zurich" are cashing dollars for gold for a simple reason. Tliey do not see how the dollar can maintain its value in the face of perpetual annual deficits of staggering proportions. No Dinner Stories A bachelor came out of a phone booth and his face looked somewhat ashen. "I was talking to Glenda." he said. "I can't believe it.

She's going to gel married." "Don't take it so hard," consoled an acquaintance. "Plenty other fish in the sea, you know. Don't let one dame throw you." "It's not that." groaned the bachelor. "She says she's going to marry me." It is encouraging that the number of accidents, also compared with 4,239. Even the Royal Automobile Club, which was opposed to breath testing.

has had to concede that the provisional fall in Christmas deaths is partly the result of testing The Economist (London) by BricJrman "What did you do this summer?" asked one college, chum of the other. "Worked in mv dad's office. What did you do?" Replied tlie first fellow, "Oh, I didn't do much cither." Bible Thought And let lis not be woary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not 6:9. Many people expect to see the fruits of a Godly life, the same day as tlie seed is sown. We must not become discouraged because our good deeds are slow in bearing fruit.

COMMENT KERNEL When some inusrmountable obstacle gets in your way, do as the wind whistle and go on around. THE JANESVILLE GAZETTE Second Class Post.ige at Janesville, Wis. Member of Associated Pre.ss. Wis- Daily Newspaper l.eamie. Audit Bureau of Circulations.

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They regard the dollar with no more sentiment than they regard the pound, the krone or the yen. They merely abhor baloney money. Nor does it do to blame the Vietnamese war. collossal as its cost is. America has the resources to conduct a major war and still produce a vast amount of butter.

But America cannot produce guns, butter and unprecedented quantities of whipped cream and caviar, too. That is what we are attempting. Our system priorities has broken down. Mike Wright, chairman of thfe board of the Humble Oil and Refining has remarked that the essential difference between business spending and government spending is this: business surveys its resources and then considers government adds up its "needs" and only incidentally considers resotirccs. Business is disciplined.

It can't print money. So when outgo begins exceeding income it has to do something. But government can print money. It can sustain deficits for "a long time by simply creating its own credit. BOTH GO broke, and for the same reason: loss of confidence.

Wlien business can no longer float loans to make up deficits it goes under. And when the people lose confidence in the currency and bid tangibles up to fantastic prices, you have runaway inflation. Who wins? Insurance policies, annuities and pensions are paid off in worthless bills. Labor cannot get wage increases as fast as wages depreciate. Government bonds on which the banks depend for their stability join the "securities" of the late Confederacy.

Business and agriculture creep along on a barter basis. The economy is ruined. I was talking recently to a congressman. "Every time I vote against new programs that I know w-e can't afford," he says, "my opponenents shout "for joy. 'He's against the they say.

'He doesn't want you to have good roads. He'd cost local industry contracts and union members jobs' I like being a congressman. I ask myself it bucking the trend is worth it." Of course it's worth it. If it's worth putting on your country's uniform and taking your chances in a foreign war, it's worth trying to preserve your countrv from its own folly- But it's going to be hard to expect integrity from our lawmakers if we, the people, punish them for it. WE'RE ALL GUILTY.

Business loves those government orders and bucks the higher taxes. Labor likes to convince itself that ever-higher wages will mean prosperity for all, regardless of pro'ductivity. Farmers dream of riskless agriculture. Many college professors are fascinated with government grants that often lievo them of the irksome business of teaching students and support them in pleasant, if sometimes frivolous, research programs. Of course the gigantic bureaucracy feeds upon itself.

It sees "unmet needs" everywhere. And bigger programs mean larger staffs, faster promotion and higher pay grades. Let us not point accusing fingers at New Deals, New Frontiers and Great Societies. The immoral business of charging today's applie pie to our unborn grandchildren would not exist without our connivance. We'd better begin to have the intelligence to support men in public office who will have the courage to say: "Nope! You can't have not all of it, not right now.

And you can't put it on the cuff." Otherwise, we'll all go over the falls. Voice of the People Don't Threaten Him Editor, the Gazette: Here we go again! Milwaukee and Wisconsin are being given an ultimatum. Support the new National Basketball Association entry or else. Or else what? Milwaukee may not get a franchise in the major leagues of baseball? We may never get the thrill of watching an ice skater brain another with a hockey stick? Did these people ever consider the fact that the majority of Wisconsin people could- not care less about professional basketball. To compare pro basketball with the appeal of the Green Bay Packers is sheer folly.

Fortunately, the average citizen has a mind nf his own. He apportions his leisure lime and his recreation dollar. Possibly, professional basketball will succeed with good promotion and much patience. However, we don't need it shoved down our throats with threats about professional basketball and hockey. For tiie time being, give me Coach Morgan's Parker High jackrabbits.

No seven foot dunk shot artists, but much appeal. JLM NOLL 719 Sutherland Collector Asks Help Editor, the Gazette: I am a handicapped veteran, living on a small pension. My vision and hearing are leaving me. The doctors tell me there is nothing they can do. Not wanting to worry about it, I have made projects to keep busy with, in an effort to forget my defects.

One of my projects is the history of the calendar. I am collecting real old calendars to use as illustrations and have four that are 1882, 1883, 1887, 1896 and looking for others. While I am collecting old post cards, bookmarks and Reward of Merit cards, most of my projects concern histories of holidays like Easier, Halloween and St. Valentines Day. To make it interesting, I am collecting real old valentines to use as illustrations and plan to give them to a Potomac Fever by Wxhon WASHINGON-It's a relief to know that we've pulled the Enterprise out of North Korean waters.

It would be a nasty situation if they seized that too. Johnson says seizing the Pueblo was a wanton act. It's an old Oriental custom try to put your enemy in the wanton soup. Republicans say we shouldn't have sent a spy ship there in the first place we should have used a U-2. And Ron Reagan claims we weren't nearly firm enough In demanding that they give bacic our ship we didn't even mobilize John Wayne.

Senator Mundt says the President bungled the ship incident. At least it's a change: North Korea and North Vietnam are mad at Lyndon and now South Dakota. Hope By PAUL HOPE Wnshington Star Service WASHINGTON-Prices arc up. the dollar is down, gold is flowing out. crime is rising, the farmer is in a pinch, our Asian problems are getting hotter.

It's enough to send a President looking for the nearest exit. Nevertheless, i dent Johnson's political horizons are brightening. Thanks are due in no small part to Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy George Wal- 1 a the black power a ocates, niks, none of whom would be aught giving the i dent a helping hand consciously.

On the surface, it might seem that McCarthy's challenge to Johnson's rcnomina- tion would be a thing of grave consequences for the President. That's the way the White House viewed it at first. But on second look, it may be that Johnson will be tempted to give McCarthy a medal at the least a presidential for service to the President above and beyond the call of duly. The way the White House sees it now. the McCarthy candidacy has polarized Democrats for or against the President.

Those who wanted to wander around without making up their minds are having to choose, and the choice is going overwhelmingly in favor of Johnson. Not only have most Democratic officeholders and the Democratic party heirarchy thrown in with but the McCarthy candidacy has put Vietnam critic Sen. Robert F. Kennedy on a hot And what could give Johnson more delicious satisfaction than seeing Bobby Kennedy squirm? concede he probably will take some Democratic votes among the blue collar workers in (he north, but they think that in the main he will help the cause by draining off enough votes from the Republican candidate to make the difference between victory and defeat for Johnson in several southern states. Florida Gov.

Claude Kirk's charge that Johnson and Wallace are in cahoots is farfetched. But one thing sure is that the White House has no intention of trying to disturf) those visions of presidential sugar plums that keep dancing around in the Alabama segregationist's head. The rabble rousing, black power advocates and the foulr mouthed and unkempt elements among the Vietnam dissenters are making Johnson the beneficiary of what some Democrats call the "politics of personal abuse." Indications are that most citizens are fed up with niks storming the Pentagon and army induction centers. Wliile everyone is anxious to get out of Vietnam, the average citizen seems to be getting tired of rag-tag hordes trying to tell the government what it ought to do on for -i cign policy. THE ONLY THING that could turn that savory taste sour would be for the seat to get so hot that Kennedy might jump into the presidential race himself.

But the feeling among top administration officials is that he won't take the gamble. As for George Wallace, they FROM GAZETTE FILES ADMINLSTRATION Sources hate to admit it, they foresee demonstrations in this election year as a plus for Johnson from a shecrly political standpoint. If Negro comedian Dick Gregory really believes a massive demonstration at the Democratic convention in Chicago next August will hurt Johnson poUlically, he probably ought to rethink his threat to lay siege to the stockyards amphitheater. Barring some unforeseen development at home or abroad, administration sources think Johnson's popularity descent has been arrested and that his standing with the people will go up as 1963' progresses. Most of his colleagues, and by now probably even Johnson himself, don't expect the electorate suddenly to develop an affection for the hard-lo- love President.

But they do believe he is gaining in re- spocl and tnist, and that's what they consider the vital ingredients for re-eiection. Looking Backward An astrologer says Johnson will be re-elected in spite of everything. And when he is, he'U know whom to pick for his lecretary of start. museum when I finish. I was in hopss thai perhaps a few of your readers may have a few real old valentines they do not want, because I would be happy to have any they may care to send me, and be glad to get Ihsm.

Eventually, 1 hope to try writing a book about my projects, in an effort to earn enough from it to get off this small VA pension. LEON THOMPSON 623 Federal East Seattle, 98102 Don't Let Unity Die Editor, the Gazette: Regarding the Unity Week of Prayer recently, I have seen little comment on it. I attended the final program and it was a wonderful experience. I felt no less Catholic and am sure others present felt the same, whatever their faith may be, I pray this type of service will not die. At the end of a week let us work together to keep it alive.

Why can't every church have a night a week, or a month? Or perhaps in our homes where we could have a lecture or sermon? Please don't let it fade away. Respect for each other with love over all will heal so wide a bridge after centuries of so much ignorance and intolerance. MRS. J. BORKENHAGEN 511 Jackson St.

(Editor's Note to: ested Taxpaying Your letter about school ing dates cannot be published without your identity on in the Gazette office.) Letters to (he editor must be fully identified, signed by author, and with address. Only under special circumstances accepted by (he editors will (he name be withheld. Please limit letters (o .100 words, on one side of sheet, and no po- 10 YEARS AGO Feb. Jacobs, associated with his father in the Jacobs Agency since his release from service with the Navy, is elected new secretary of the Citizens Mutual Insurance the third generation of his family to become an officer of the firm. Blue Birds defeat Racine Horlick in an overtime victory climaxed by a basket by Henry Schloc- mer with 30 seconds remaining in the extra period.

20 YEARS AGO Feb. ,3, 1948-First Lt. Stanley S. Resnick, Janesville, is one of 20 navigators from the 92nd Bombardment group 1.5lh Air Force, who recently loft by air from the Spokane Air Force base to attend a special two weeks' radar course at Mather Air Force Base, Calif. Bierkness is notified that the walleye pike he caught last summer in Canada was the prize winner in the Kenora Anglers' and Hunters' Club "big fish competition of 1947." 30 YEARS AGO Feb.

3, 1938-City distributes 74 tons of sand to local residents and puts 107 more tons GRIN AND BEAR IT on slippery streets today. Mrs. Gertrude Cox, Mrs. Ted Griffin, Miss Ada Kies and jVliss Dorothy Paul are elected to the board of directors of the YWCA. Mrs.

W. G. Ian. Mrs. Oscar Dahl, Mrs.

Gideon Duncan, Mrs. Ralph Keen and Mrs. H. E. Keen and Mrs.

H. E. Norton, are re-elected, and Mrs. Herman Anker is named to fill an unexpired term, .1. K.

Jensen and Mrs. L. A. Markham are elected to the advisory board. 40 YEARS AGO Feb.

.1, 1928-Interest in the building of a Janesville airport is revived as two Madison men arrive in Janesville to boost the plan. They are S. M. Kcmpton and Deles Dudley. Building permits totaling S20.000 are issued in by Building Inspector George W.

Slighlam according to a report made to City Manager, Henry Traxler. 50 YEARS AGO Feb. 1918-Rock County milk producers are on a passive strike and are sending no milk to outside distributing plants. In compliance with the order of fuel administration, the social of the OES which was to have held this afternoon, is called off. By Lichfy "I have no opinions about tlie future of tlie iiuman race I'm an independent!".