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Daily (tittoen Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associatca Press entitled exclusively 10 the use tot o) all the local news urintec In this newspaper as well as all AP new: dispatches MEMBER OF UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHED BV THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO. Established 1870 ho MA 2 5855 10 FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 5. 1964 What Are The Side Effects Civil Rights Debate? The extended Senate debate on civil rights legislation now has gone on for 13 solid weeks. It has kept public attention focused so closely on that one issue jthat it has obscured recognition of the legislative log- building up in Congress. Whatever the final outcome of the civil rights fight, will have significant side effects not only on legisla- activity but also on the political activity of a presidential election year.

The two party conventions probably will have to be into periods of recess for Congress. Cus- 'tomarily, congressmen finish their work before July 1 lin an election year. Many of them are anxious to begin Itheir own election campaigning. This year the civil rights fight has sidetracked all Mother pending issues and also the appropriations meas- 'ures which normally would have priority. As it is, 10 jnajor appropriations bills passed by the House still I await Senate action.

Only one-- the Interior Depart- rment appropriation-- has even been acted upon by the Senate Appropriations Committee. Senate committee activity has been virtually Halted for the past couple of months by the strategy Imove of civil rights proponents. They have not allowed committee to meet while the Senate itself is in ses- Hearings recently on the Central Arizona Project '-were squeezed into one hour a day and strung out for 'days at that rate because they could only be held early the morning before the Senate convened. This tie-up of committee activity was designed by Ithe civil rights bloc to force many reluctant senators "to support a move to limit debate-- to vote for cloture, it is called. The first showdown vote on cloture is Scheduled to come next week.

A majority of two-thirds 'of those voting is required to limit debate. Many senators oppose debate limit on principle and regardless of the issue undergoing a filibuster. Carl Hay den (D) and Barry Goldwater (R) have generally voted against cloture motions. Even if a compromise solution to the civil rights stalemate is effected at this late stage, Congress prob- will have to provide a makeshift arrangement government agencies and departments can Continue to operate until their new appropriations are 'approved for the fiscal year beginning July 1. This at "least will hold off spending increases for a while.

The legislative logjam also has jeopardized President Johnson's major proposals, such as some of his 'anti-poverty programs, medical care for the aged and 'his foreign aid requests. The determined fight by his own Southern Demo- crats against the civil rights bill probably has Lyndon more worried by now than he admits, and not because he wants civil rights legislation. It is Clouding the image of a man who assertedly can twist Congress around his finger and get whatever he wants. Big Birds Are Leaving Those sleek, swept-wing birds-- the B47s of the Strategic Air Command units here-- have been a fa- Imiliar sight in Tucson's skies for many years now. But a few more dwindling appearances during the week, the B47 species will have departed this hab- atat for good.

i Although there have been at times some individual Abjections to the noise of the big, white SAC bombers, Ithis community and its people as a whole have always 4aken pride in the B47s and in the skilled, dedi- cated men who flew forth in them from Davis-Monthan -Air Force Base. The last B47 will leave D-MAFB June 11 and the '303rd Bomb Wing will cease to exist as a SAC unit. -Crews are being reassigned elsewhere and many of the are being phased out of active use. These men and their planes have served the nation and, in fact, the free world faithfully and effectively as champions -of peace and freedom. We would not see them go without a final word of and appreciation from us in Tucson and "in behalf of all Americans.

Arizona Album Desert Life At Arizona-Sonera Museum THAT'S HOW TREE DUCK GOT ITS NAME Most North American ducks are at home in the far north only venture into this area when forced southward by the "winter weather. To the tree ducks however, Arizona is north, a boundary limit for the large populations which are "permanent inhabitants of Mexico. These tree ducks are peculiar members of the family, long leggec! and long necked and prone to wander about -dry fields sometimes miles from water. Another strange habit "makes them roost on the branches of trees, hence the name duck. Lewis Wayne Walker, associate director, Arizona- Sonera Desert Museum, JAMES MARLOW If Barry Vs.

LBJ- If Sen. Barry Goldwater gets the Republican presidential nomination and runs asjuinst President Johnson, voters will get a chance to make a choice that hasn't been given them in years. IT WILL BE A choice between two distinct philosophies of government as represented by the candidates if not exactly by the parties: The liberalism of Johnson and the conservatism preached by Goldwater. Every four years Democrats and Republicans put nn a song-and-dance a so- called discussion of the issues which is supposed to point out the difference between the two parties. In reality any difference is hardly visible.

The Democrats and Republicans these days are practically one and the same party and for the same reason: Both have their own batch Of liberals and reactionaries but the majority in both are conservatives. SO FOR YEARS IN ELECTION after election voters have not really been choosing between parties so much as between individual candidates and then not on issues but on personality. Three examples tell the story: Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, when he opposed Adlai Stevenson in 1952, was a national military hero, widely known and highly popular.

Stevenson was a likeable man, too, but he had neither Eisenhower's prestige nor fame. It so happened that Eisenhower was elected on the Republican ticket. But can anyone doubt he would have won just as overwhelmingly if he had run as a Democrat? The same two men went through the same routine again in 1956. IN 1960 THERE WAS LITTLE difference between the expressed philosophies of John F. Kennedy and Vice President Richard M.

Nixon. Kennedy's record in the Senate had been only moderately liberal. Nixon talked tne same. Unfortunately for Nixon, he had a knack of antagonizing people who had never been closer to him than a television screen. And Kennedy, a much more relaxed and friendly figure, won, but only by a squeak.

Yet, when Kennedy sent some of his liberal programs to a Congress run by big Democratic majorities in both Houses, they got stuck by the conservatives of his own party. Medical care is an example. THIS YEAR, AT LEAST, even though the two parties retained that same twin-like look, two candidates like Johnson and Goldwater would be definitely different in what they stood for. If there was that same difference between the parties one liberal, one conservative -the voters could make a far more intelligent choice of the party they wanted to run the government. If the Goldwater supporters got control of the party it's unlikely this year ting enough for it to be saturated by their views, the voters in time have a clear-cut choice.

But there's also danger in this for Republicans. If the mood of the country turned out to be far more liberal than Goldwater seems to think and Republicanism becomes synonymous with conservatism in the public mind it could wreck the party totally or years. BUT AT LEAST THE NATION would get in a Johnson-Goldwater fight a chance long missing to show how it feels. Goldwater as a presidential candidate would have to organize his thinking far better than he has so far while campaigning as a would-be candidate if he is going to present any clear- cut, comprehensible philosophy of government. Up till now he's been mostly critical of the Democrats without offering any detailed and constructive program of his own.

The campaigns he and New York's Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller put on have been almost incredible from a sober, political standpoint. They went in more for pep talks than programs. They didn't talk issues.

They talked generalities. Their whole show was, for those reasons, primitive politics. LYLE WILSON Kennedy Magic Fizzles In IV. Y. How was it that the Kennedy political magic struck winning fire in California but fizzled out in New York? And what effect might that New York fizzle have on the doubtful chance that Attorney Gen.

Robert F. Kennedy will advance himself this year for New York's Democratic senatorial nomination? Pierre Salinger won California's Democratic senatorial nomination on the basis of his association with John F. Kennedy as White House Press Secretary. If Salinger had any other claim on the senatorial nomination, it was not evident. HE DEFEATED Alan Cranston, a party pro who was sponsored by California's Gov.

Edmund G. (Pat) Brown. The Salinger-Cranston contest took place in the middle of a power fight within the Democratic Party. Salinger was the entry of Speaker Jesse Unruh, also known as "Big Daddy" who is Speaker of the California House of Representatives. This Democratic Party row offers the Republicans a chance to regain some political stature in California.

Loser Brown's prestige has shrunken. He will be less discussed now as a possible vice presidential nominee. IN NEW YORK STATE'S 23rd Congressional District, 73-year-old Rep. Charles A. Buckley was bounced by a young reformer named Jonathan Bingham.

Robert F. and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy both supported Buckley who was among the early Kennedy-for-President boosters five years or so ago. President Johnson also favored Buckley.

Buckley's defeat was a triumph for Mayor Robert F. Wagner of New York City. The mayor also knocked out of the political ring Carmine De Sapio, one time Tammany Hail boss, who sought a come back by election as Democratic district leader in Greenwich Village. He lost. WAGNER EMERGES from the Buckley- De Sapio contests the unchallenged head man of the Democratic Party in New York State.

His chance of being tapped for the vice presidential nomination has improved accordingly. Wagner, like Pat Brown, is a Roman Catholic. Sen. Barry Goldwater's friends doubtless are hoping that Buckley's defeat in the Bronx will turn Robert Kennedy's thoughts away from New York and toward the Democratic vice presidential nomination. John F.

and Robert F. Kennedy were about equally disliked in the South. "The Kennedys" were words that could be and sometimes were uttered there as a degrading epithet. THE WHITE SOUTH SEEMS now to look with favor on President Johnson. Some politicians believe this would change mightily if Robert F.

Kennedy were on the 1964 ticket. Kennedy is too good a politician to overlook that possibility. He is certain, also, to explore carefully the significance, if any, of Buckley's defeat before committing himself to a senatorial contest in New York State. There is precedent, however, for the young of a political family to dispose of themselves variously so that brother will not be contesting brother, politically, for this and that. Franklin D.

Roosevelt for example, tried to stake his political claim in New York State. The Democrats didn't want him. FDR Jr. settled for a subcabinet job in the Kennedy administration. Brother James is a U.S.

Representative from California. Brother Elliott just has been elected Democratic National Committeeman in Florida. Brother John is a Republican and has regular 9-to-5 work. SYDNEY HARRIS Why 'Communication' Fails Somebody was telling me about a college professor he had many years ago, who wondered why he could never provoke a discussion period in class after a lecture. When the talk was over, the professor would slump down in his seat and say, "Are there any intelligent questions?" Then he would shake his head at the apathy of his students until the bell rang for dismissal.

WHO WOULD accept a challenge of that kind? It is hard enough to ask any question from someone who is an expert in his field, without feeling like a fool. And to respond to the demand that it be an "intelligent" question is more than most of us feel up to. This story ties in with a recent column, in which I remarked that "knowing a subject" has little to do with being able to communicate it to others on the personal level. The effective teacher, I suggested, is not necessarily the one who is in greatest command of his subject, but the one who transmit his interest and evoke a spirited response. IT IS NOT MERELY THE AREA of education that suffers from this lack.

In business, too, one of the biggest impediments is Die inability to communicate ideas, and to stimulate a dialog between different branches and departments of a company. From what I have heard and read, one of the chief problems of management is keeping the channels of information and understanding open among different branches of the same firm. We have created a skilled corps of highly trained specialists but the fatal weakness in specialism is that it too often fails to grasp the relationship between its own work and the work of otheri. YET, IN BUSINESS AS IN education, it is the knowledge of the relationships that constitutes true leadership. A professor who doesn't have enough psychology to involve his students in a discussion period is a bad professor; no matter how deeply he knows his subject.

And an executive who can't communicate between his department and another, is a bad executive, no matter how "efficiently" he runs his own department. "Intelligent questions," in fact, are the ones that least need to be asked. It is "dumb questions" that clarify complexities and unsnarl misunderstandings. And if we are made afraid or ashamed to ask what may be considered "dumb questions," then we will never be able to go on to the intelligent ones. We can see this quite clearly with children.

The tragically unnecessary charge of the Light Brigade was caused by a misunderstood order and the failure to ask an "obvious" question. How many other Six Hundreds have ridden into the valley of death with unasked questions on their lips? STRICTLY PERSONAL: Those who most make the future are most oblivious of its direction and consequences; men of action are concerned with immediate goals, and rarely have the time, temperament or inclination to envision the new problems created by their "practical solutions" of present difficulties. Few of us are as capable of discriminating between our opinion and our affection as well as John Selden, when he remarked: "I love apples the best of any fruit, but it does not follow that I must think apples to be the best of fruit." Some people refuse to be contrite about their sins until others begin to be contrite about theirs; they are like nations at a disarmament conference, in which each nation refuses to take the first step, and while negotiations proceed, armaments increase. CMvrilM 19M ONLY A QUESTION OF TIME? 1 TODAY'S CITIZEN JP Came Here To Die, But Gained Love, Life By DAN PAVILLARD Justice of the Peace Toby LaVetter, described by a long-time friend as "the little guy with a heart as big as a mountain," came to Tucson to die in 1938. Stricken with tuberculosis while a senior at Chicago Kent College of Law, LaVetter was flown here on a stretcher, his hopes of a law degree dashed and the prognosis for his recovery dark.

"But I came back," LaVet- ter says today. "Even an old bachelor like I was found love and life in a good woman, and I've come back." Much of LaVetter's renaissance he attributes to his wife, Mary, whom he married with a 40-cent wedding ring in Nogales, during a sandstorm. "I slipped on a pair of pants over my convalescent pajamas and got married before a civil magistrate who spoke only Spanish and with a Nogales policeman, Victor Lopez, as a witness," LaVetter says. "It's not surprising that Toby can recall a witness at his wedding," says Mrs. Mary Cota Robles, who shared a law office with LaVetter for eight years.

"He can remember the names of clients from his early years as a lawyer, the friends that accompanied them to the office--everything." Mrs. Cota Robles says the attorney used to take indigent clients home with him to share the LaVetters' hospitality while they awaited legal action. Once, when the house was full of LaVetter's friends, he sent a client to sleep in his law office. That same night the man accidentally burned the office to the ground. The LaVetters operated their present home at 1948 E.

1st as a rest home in the. late '30s and as a guest home during World War II before converting it into their residence. LaVetter never got his law degree. But with persistence and persuasion, he convinced the State Board of Examiners that he should be permitted to try to qualify for the Arizona bar. He passed the bar exam in 1941, a major milestone on his comeback trail.

Many of his early clients were Spanish speaking, although LaVetter neither speaks nor understands the language. Many of the clients had no money, and he never got a fee. He remembers vividly those days. --citizen rnoTO TOBY LaVETTER "Today, if I make $5, I spend $4 on food, stack it on the shelves and just look at it," says Lavetter, who drove a taxi in Chicago to support himself in college. "Toby hates to hurt people," says attorney Edward Aboud, who turned his law practice over to LaVetter in 1942 at a time when no one would give him a job because of his frail health.

LaVetter ran the office until Aboud returned from military service. LaVetter himself speaks of the law in terms of people. "I just try to help people where I can," he says. "There are a lot of good people, you know. And many of the juveniles I put on probation turn out to be good citizens." He says that he would like to see one justice of the peace office and one clerk's office in populous counties with as many divisions as necessary to distribute the load of cases equably.

As might be expected, La- Vetter favors the appointment of counsel to indigent clients. "I don't care for the public defender bill, however," he adds, "because an office set up as an adjunct to the county attorney's office is not compatible." LaVetter ran for his present position when Alice Truman, who previously held it, announced her candidacy for Superior Court judgeship in 1962. LaVetter's children, Roland, 23; Charles Norman, 22; and Reva Blanche, 21, all University of Arizona students at the time, tried to help their father get elected by suddenly unfurling a long banner at a UA football game. The sign, prepared in haste, read: "LaVetter for G.P.!" LaVetter's office is filled with mementos of the friends who have supported him: a gavel with the inscription "Justice is better with Toby LaVetter," a plaque signed by contributors to his campaign, a crockery sheep labeled "Mary's Little Lamb." Toby never forgets his many i nor Mary, "who brought me back from the grave." When LaVetter's daughter was married on May 16, the Justice was asked by the minister who would give the bride in marriage. Without a moment's hesitation, LaVetter replied: "Her mother and If Money Comes Easy Phoenix Gazette Editorial Dr.

Charles Franklin Parker, founding president of Prescott College, has warned of the possible end of America's traditional private universities and colleges if federal aid to them continues to expand and, at the same time, private contributions to the endowed institutions are dried up. The warning is a reminder that some of the best things of life --and private colleges are among the best simply cannot be maintained if money is always sought where it comes easiest. When that happens, the tendency inevitably is to tailor activities to suit the source of funds. The infinite variety of life demands something "better than dollar regimentation. The easiest way often turns out to be the deadliest way.

THE MENACE 0 IN SWAN LAKE But The French Forget By RICHARD SPONG Tomorrow is the 20th anniversary of D-Day for the Allied invasion of France in World War H. Despite protestations to the contrary, the French indifference to the Normandy commemoration of the June 6, 1944 landings in France can scarcely he considered as anything but calculated. Gen. De Gaulle, whose memory of the World War II D-Day is bitter in any event, has the convenient excuse of wanting to keep his engagements to a minimum while recuperating from his recent operation. But the explanation that i Georges Pompidou's "heavy schedule" does not permit his attendance is a trifle harder to swallow.

Indeed, France will be represented at the Normandy services only by the present veterans minister and his predecessor. Moreover, French television audiences may be denied the 90-minute Columbia Broadcasting System's documentary, "D-Day Plus 20 Years: Eisenhower Returns to Normandy." The French government television representatives only and tardily, asked to see an audition print. GEN. EISENHOWER himself reports in Crusade in Europe: "I personally liked Gen. De Gaulle, as I recognized in him many fine qualities.

We felt, however, that these qualities were marred by hypersensitiveness and an extraordinary stubbornness in matters which appeared Inconsequential to us." Dour Cordell Hull, however, was much less generous. "During my period in office," the wartime Secretary of State wrote, "De Gaulle showed few signs of political acumen, being more likely than not to go off on tangents. Desperately temperamental, he was withal keen and when he acted normally, he had excellent capacities." ON ONE OCCASION, Anthony Eden is reported to have informed De Gaulle of a British War Cabinet complaint that "we have 10 times more trouble with the Committee of the Free French than with all the other Allies together." De Gaulle replied: "I have always maintained that France was a very great country." 'When Honor Is Lost? In the year 42 B.C. a man named Publius Syrus is credited with having made many brilliant statements, and asked some pointed questions. Among them: "What is left when honor is lost?" That question can be applied to Arizona's current shame, serious charges haying been made against public officials resulting in grand jury indictments and impeachment proceedings.

Dismissal of complaints may comply with provisions of man-made laws, but honor is something else, supposedly an ingredient used in formation of a human race before man began making laws. The dismissal of charges against two state officials because evidence was purported to have been illegally obtained, established legal reason for removing the charges, but many Arizonans stand firm in their belief that such does not establish moral innocence. For some reason or no good reason practically every person who insists on discussing the matter, seems of the opinion that the charges were warranted, no matter whence the evidence was Giragi column in Arizona News Digest. DAILY DEVOTION "Behold, I am setting line vn the midst of my people Israel." Amos 7:8. Read verses 7-9.

In this vision Amos tees God holding a plumb line before the nation Israel, testing whether its lines are true. It is a good thing for the people of any country to hold a plumb line against their nation, to test the strength of its foundations and the erectness of its walls. It is also good thing for us to hold a plumb line before our own lives to test our integrity, the accuracy of our convictions, and our loyalty to what we profess. Covrltiy Tucson Council Cl.