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PAGE ALTON EVENING TELEGRAPH FRIDAY, JULY 7,1967 Question Worth Examining East Alton's continuing debate over the Auxiliary Police problem has brought up an Interesting point which other communities with such forces might be advised to examine. While it didn't come up until the two factions of the village board got well into the argument, the question of need for liability insurance covering this extension of the law's arm could be a valid one in many communities. It could prove quite a headache, too. Auxiliary Police are an important element of support to the law enforcing bodies of communities, especially the larger ones. While we have had few real emergencies requiring their services lately, at least tho city of Alton has found them a big help in such events as Downtown Alton's fireworks display Monday night.

And a well organized force, ready to assume its responsibilities, requires a certain amount of meeting, discussion, and actual practice. The whole question bears looking into by Communities availing themselves of such We think about. Auxiliary Police Cheaper Talk forces. It could involve addition of considerable to city and village budgets or it might involve a close analysis of what exposure to the public is involved by the Auxiliary Police, with a view to determining the risks that must be paid for. Squeeze for Talk the old saying notwithstanding can cost you, especially when it involves professional advice.

But the Interstate Commerce Commission has undertaken to see that at least whatever goes over the nation's telephone system is cheaper. It ordered the American Telephone Telegraph Co. this week to reduce its rates within about 90 days to a level that would restrict its profits on interstate calls to between 7 and per cent. That, the ICC estimated, would involve an immediate cut of $120 million a year in interstate charges, presumably saving users about, that much in toll calls. There's a chance the government will feel the pinch of one of its own agencies here.

If the rate cut results in a reduction of phone bills, it will be reflected in the federal taxes available from this source. New Community Spirit You can't help admiring the spirit of folks in the newly-formed village of South Roxana, They've hardly got a cent to operate their village on until the board of trustees can activate the budget, appropriation ordinance, and tax levies on which it's working now. Effectiveness of the tax levies would enable the board to float some anticipation warrants but far from up to the levy figure. Still, a village is a village. And the folks who voted its establishment expected some results like maybe improved streets.

So the village board has organized volunteer citizens into a corps which has gone out evenings to patch up the pitted traffic" surf aces. And the plan has worked out well. At least the chuckholes are being filled up and patted smooth. Meanwhile, it's difficult to escape comparison with the city of Alton. As Mayor Clyde Wiseman of Alton pointed out the other day, we've become accustomed to elaborate and effective snow removal programs which are quite necessary in view of the intricacy of our social and economic structure here.

One or two years when we had bad storms, we even accustomed ourselves to city tree removal. And now Mayor Wiseman finds it necessary to remind us that it's a good idea to get those high weeds (and some underbrush) under control, because the city just doesn't have the money to go around cleaning it all up. Skilled Help Shortage A substantial shortage of skilled workers, particularly in mechanical crafts, but also in professions allied with the healing arts, is indicated in a survey conducted over the by the Regional Industrial Development Corp. This organization, completed within the last three years, was formed to help the St. Louis metropolitan area, including the East Side, develop industrially.

RIDC (not to be confused with involved more than 400 industries of the area in its study. The release yesterday named no specific figures, but at least established fields in which the shortages were felt. They all sounded much like areas where relief might have to be sought through establishment of more junior colleges than are now available on both sides of the river. This is not to say it is a final argument for the junior college system which voters on this side of the river rejected some months ago. We have.little doubt that RIDC, now that it has broken ground in the survey field over such a wide area, will refine the results of this study further.

Certainly whatever it finds through this one will inspire subsequent and more detailed studies. This, among other things, should be designed to demonstrate what the answer may be to the shortage of skilled people and the facilities for training them. PAUL S. Editor Readers Forum Thanks MM AM Downtown Alton wishes to tJiank everyone who come to Downtown Alton and its environs to view the Fourth annual fireworks display Monday night, July 3. We hope that everyone enjoyed it as much as we enjoyed the privilege of sponsoring it.

A special thanks goes to Harry B. Mathews, Jr. for donating the use of Mississippi Lime barge and arranging the cooperation of those men who piloted the towboat and manned the barge from which the fireworks were fired. Downtown Alton also thanks the Alton Municipal Band for its performance Monday night. Without the music the celebration would not have been complete.

Thanks and commendations, also go to the Alton Police Department and the Alton Auxiliary Police Force for doing a job of keeping the traffic under control. And, thanks to the Alton Evening Telegraph for helping Downtown Alton, Inc. in publicizing the event. Downtown Alton, Inc. members and non-members were more numerous and generous in their contributions this year than last year.

A sincere thanks to these sponsors who supported Downtown Afton, Inc. in this civic endeavour. DOWNTOWN ALTON, INC. BERT J. WUELLNER, President, Downtown Alton, Inc.

or 'Dirt' I am writing in the hope of having a few questions about the new Cameo Theater answered. I recall reading in the Telegraph, when the theater was first purchased, that it was to be an "art" theater. To me that means only one thing Dirty films most theaters refuse to show. Of course the management chose wisely its first film. My concern is with the films to follow.

One has only to drive by the theater to see the kind of coming attractions Upper Alton has to offer. So the youngsters can't go In! (Says But can't something be done about the kind of advertising that is put up outside for them to look at? This theater is located right between a senior high school and a junior high school, and I'd like to know if we have to put up with these ads being pushed in the paths of kids going to and from school. I would also like to know if the Alton Evening Telegraph plans on publishing any lewd ads. ESTHER H1SE R.R. No.

1, Box 90 Alton Washington Merry-Go-Round Congress Slow-Moving on Ethics Victor Riesel Roads, These Days, Lead to Rome Dialogues ROME All roads, these days, lead to dialogues in Rome, in the Vatican and with i Holiness himself. In the deep privacy of Pope Paul's study and in the brain- drain discussions of these academicians, businessmen, bankers and labor leaders, the basic theme is of revolution social and electronic. In the Vatican and in the smoke-filled hotel conference chambers the pulsating question, asked and answered is: Can capitalism survive such revolutions, can it feed the poor, can it profit the competent, can it withstand the assault of Moscow and Peking, can It stand up against the electronic brain of modern cybernetics? On the afternoon of Friday, June 23, Pope Paul discussed much of this with a group of businessmen brought together here from three western continents. A few days later he talked with a smaller band of men. One dialogue at the International Institute for Pro-Deo blended with a subsequent one led by Theodore W.

Kheel, the labor mediator, who is president of the American Foundation on Automation and Employment. Kheel's dialogue brought together some of the toughest theorists from academic, industrial and labor circles of three nations under the umbrella title of "International Conference on Automation, Full Employment and a Balanced Economy." His philosophy was, and is, to put them into one room and let them talk things out. And most of them concluded that especially in the U.S. automation is a boon, and there will not be any real unemployment ever, ami that the computer will continue to make millions of jobs decade after decade. Out in the corridors, during coffee breaks, the men of labor and business and academia talked of the early fright back in 1948 when the late genius Norbert Wiener of M.I.T.

developed the science of cybernetics and talked of man's ability to create an electronic brain which could "program" a machine, put it out on the Mes- abi iron range, and let it reproduce itself. With $2 billion worth of equipment the machine could dig the ore, smelt it, refine it, stamp it and assemble its duplicate. For years, disturbed labor leaders called such automation a "curse." Such labor leaders here as the typographical union president Bert Powers, and the Machinists, second in command, Matthew DeMore, still are wary of it. But all agree that in the long run it will produce endless millions of jobs. One American businessman estimated that at least two million "programmers and systems analysts" will be needed in the coming decade.

The conclusion here and it can be presumed that it was discussed during the dialogues with Pope Paul over his recent encyclical on capitalism is that the electronic revolution can remake a free society swiftly for the poor as well as for the more fortunate stratas of society. For example, Whitney Young, Executive Director of the National Urban League, was here with private reports on President Johnson's new big cities committee which met in Ihe White House the other clay. Actually that committee was created, and union chiefs such as the electrical brotherhood leader, Joe Keenan were named to it, to bring together unions and contractors of the building and construction field. So much revolutionary progress has been made in this area that whole cities can be revamped almost overnight if the labor leaders permit the construction companies to implement their own electronic and technical revolution. Ted Kheel led a 10-man labor management delegation to the Vatican on Wednesday June 28.

Speaking in English during this private audience, His Holiness approved their efforts to harness automation for the good of all by convincing policy makers of labor and capital to work together. "You have studied the problems of automation," said the Pope to the American group," and the provision of full employment despite the introduction of faster and more efficient instruments. These problems are most serious for those with fewest opportunities for education and training; and We encourage all your efforts to secure the full benefits of modern society for all its members without regard or discrimination for any motive whatever." The problem is to wipe out labor fear of automation and revolutionary new techniques in building. If this could be done, the millions of the poor, working or not, could be re- housed and would no longer be a huge receptive maw for Soviet and Mao-ist propaganda. And in the dialogues here, it is pointed out that once a controversial U.S.

vice-president by name of Henry Wallace believed himself to be a daring revolutionist by calling for a nation with 60 million jobs. That was just about 20 years ago. Today we have at least 80 million in the U.S. work force. And we think nothing of it.

The number will skyrocket through the electronic revolution and its computers have been with us these past two decades. So from this dialogue it is hoped that the labor leaders will return and convince their fellow unionists that there is nothing to fear in the "short run" as well as the "long one." The other dialogue at the' Pro-Deo Institute and with Pope Paul has resulted in an unpublicized 15-man international commission (five businessmen from the U.S., Latin America and Western Europe) which will report on capitalism and Catholicism when next it returns here. Since this is the 50th year after Lenin's October putsch inside Russia, the international dialogues of free men are the truly dramatic developments which will reshape history. Today's Prayer Our Father in heaven, we pray for all parents into whose arms has been placed a new baby's life. Grant them grace to rear their baby in an atmosphere of serene and trusting love.

Deepen the love between them which has brought them to this shining hour of fulfillment and hope. May they realize that the life of their child will be much as they will it, and may they seek Thy wisdom and light in guiding the little one's destiny; through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen. K. Ziegler, Bakersfield, pastor, Church of the Brethren.

WASHINGTON It looks as if Congress will move with less than deliberate speed in setting up a new code of ethics. In the House of Representatives, kindly, doting Speaker John McCormack, who has the instincts of a mother hen toward congressmen, has declared his determination to protect his congressional chicks from predatory columnists. He a told colleagues that he wants no more embarrassing investigations, such as the Adam Powell and Tom Dodd cases, on his side of the Capitol. The Speaker took pains to keep reformers off the House Ethics Committee, which he put under the chairmanship of old reliable Rep. Mel Price, D-I11.

Mel's instructions are to confine his hearings to generalities and to avoid getting down to hard cases. McCormack also arranged with the Republicans to give the ethics committee vice chairmanship to Rep. Charles Halleck, who used to be called "Two-Cadillac Charlie" for his ability to keep his family supplied with Cadillacs during the postwar automobile shortage. Charlie's own close association with the special interests and pressure groups should keep him from investigating anyone else's ethics too closely. From the beginning, McCormack has done his utmost to protect his colleagues from the searching glare of the public spotlight, which they love to turn on others but don't like being inward upon their own practices.

He fought stubbornly to save Adam Clayton Powell, first, from losing his chairmanship, then from losing his seat. As a footnote, it is worth reporting that Powell last year had placed one of McCormack's cronies on the House Labor Committee payroll at a $15,438 salary. The Speaker's friend, a Massachusetts politician named Thomas Burke, needed another year on the federal payroll to qualify for a government pension. Powell obligingly employed Burke as a "counsel" though he did virtually no work for the committee. When Powell was stripped of his chairmanship and succeeded by straightlaced Rep.

Carl Perkins, the new chairman promptly lopped Burke off the payroll. The Speaker pleaded with Perkins that Burke needed only one more month to qualify for his pension. Though sympathetic, Perkins refused to stick the taxpayers for work that wasn't performed. Instead, he placed Burke on his own office payroll at a greatly-reduced salary and gave him enough work to do to earn his pay. Burke has now gone back to Massachusetts he will be happily collecting i government pension ever after.

In contrast, McCormack learned from his close friend Sen. Tom Dodd that one of the Senator's accusers, Jim Boyd, had found a 1 new job with the House Public Works Committee. McCormack phoned Chairman George Fallen, and persuaded him to get rid of Boyd, who incidentally, is still out of work while Dodd retains his seniority and chairmanships. McCormack has also used his influence to protect Rep. L.

Mendel Rivers, the House Armed Services chairman, whose alcoholism has made him a security risk. McCormack is a soapbox anti-communist who considers himself a champion of national security. When it came to a congressional crony, however, the speaker unhesitatingly put friendship ahead of security. At a recent luncheon, McCormack praised Rivers as one of the great statesmen of our age. Meanwhile, the Speaker is seeing to it that not only Rivers, but all other congressmen receive immunity from any ethics investigation.

David Lawrence U.N. Really Lost By Its Decision WASHINGTON The Soviet Union was reported in the headlines generally as having been "defeated" in the United Nations when its resolution endeavoring to blame the Israelis as the aggressors in the Middle East war was rejected by the U.N. General Assembly. But it was really the U.N. itself which suffered a severe defeat in the eyes of the world.

For the international organization of which so much has been expected failed to face up to the real issue in the Middle East dispute. First it was essential that a verdict on statement of the facts be submitted. Secondly, competent legal authorities should have been asked to state the obligations of each side under international law. The world will not move toward more effective procedures to achieve peace until fact- finding in a disinterested way is accomplished. Principles then can be applied which have universal support.

To try to settle a dispute between rivals otherwise means only that their respective allies will line up also on opposite sides and, in the end, a political verdict is rendered. It takes a two-thirds vote of the United Nations Assembly to enact a resolution that is binding on the parties to a controversy. But none of the resolutions of the Middle East war obtained a two-thirds vote. Many the member states realized this would happen and cast their votes for or against one side or the other, knowing beforehand that eventually no resolution would be put into effect. The Israeli-Arab quarrel could have been submitted to a fact-finding commission or a court of law in the first place to make an authoritative exposition of what had actually transpired.

The threat to close the Gulf of Aqaba as well as the Suez Canal and the movement of Egyptian troops toward the Israeli border were relevant factors prior to the firing of the first shots on June 5. Unless disputes of this kind are carefully analyzed and the truth is revealed to the whole world, the United Nations itself cannot make much progress in bringing about peace or in preventing wars. It is a matter of regret that the United Nations has not conducted its activities in a way that could win widespread support. The spectacle of a variety of resolutions being introduced by partisan'groups is not a creditable one and is not calculated to enhance the prestige of the United Nations. Nor is the behavior of Soviet government since the "ceasefire" likely to be regarfl- ed throughout the world as helping the cause of peace.

The Soviets permitted their president, Niolai Podgorny, to visit the Arab States and to promise more military aid. His mission has been construed as one that could incite further hostilities. The Soviet Union is portrayed as intent on assisting the Arab countries to re-open the war, rather than on finding a formula to encourage them to live in peace with adjacent peoples. It is important for the nonbelligerent countries to produce an atmosphere of reconciliation and peace. President De Gaulle of France, for instance, has not contributed anything to the process of making peace in the Middle East.

On the contrary, he has helped to spread the impression that France is a partisan of the Arab states and intends to remain so. What They Did Then News From The Telegraphs of Yesteryear 25 Years Ago JULY 7, 1S42 The finance committee of Alton City Council approved a resolution to appropriate $300 from the parking meter fund for the surfacing with crushed stone of the free parking lot in Uncle Rernus Park site. The Businessmen offered to place their lease Md insurance contracts in hands of the city counselor, and to give further releases the city might require under findings of the corporation counselor. The businessmen had established the lot the previous year at cost of moro than $1,000. A State Highway Department crew began pauii lug of center lines on the state route extensions through the city, beginning at West Ninth and Stale streets, and State Street from Belle to Northside.

Streets being marked were State, Belle, W. Fourth, W. Fifth, Piasa, all of Broadway to east of State and Washington and College route. Word was received by Col. Ralph L.

Jackson of Western Military Academy that Capt. Howard Humphreys, graduate of the school and former tactical officer there, reported missing in action after the surrender of Corregidor. His father. Lt. Connn.

Rogers Humphreys, also a Western graduate, was administrator of Civil Aeronautics at St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. James Karrick 14, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Karrick killed when caught between north and south bound trains al the North Broad Street crossing at Caiiinville.

11 was presumed that he stopped after seeing the southbound train, but was unaware of the approaching north bound one, and was caught by it and thrown into the path of the other train and thrown 50 feet from the crossing. Miss Dorothy Reynolds of Wood River, graduate of Marquette High School, had received her degree in nursing from St. Elizabeth's Hospital, of Granite City. 50 Years Ago JULY 7, 1817 Three-Eye League play here and in other member cities closed out with a 3 to 1 victory for the Alton Blues over Blooinington as Billy Cry stall dealt out four hits, and newly named manager-first base- man Duggan shone afield. The league was suspending operations for the season for lack of funds.

In World War I news, 37 Londoners were killed and 141 were wounded during a low-level air raid during which 20 German planes were counted. A previous raid had been made from a high level out of view. British aviators shot down three aircraft about 40 miles short of the target. In the air war on the fighting front, Paris dispatches reported downing of 19 enemy planes and one balloon between June 21 and 30. Mayor W.

M. Sauvage announced an all-out campaign against auto racing and speeding on the public streets following death of one man in a crash between his Ford and a streetcar on State Street the night before. Meanwhile, Chief of Police Peter Fitzgerald said he would propose hiring of a motorcycle rider who could patrol against traffic violations. The mayor complained that the going rate of $6.60 fines for speeding was not satisfactory to him. With its battery of six typists and typewriters expended to 12 by Illinois Glass Co.

and Sparks Milling Co. help, the Alton draft board still behind in its race to complete copying of record cards ahead of the national provost marshal's deadline, scheduled for that night. George C. Moyer, advance agent for Robinsot'i circus, was in town arranging for a performance on Aug. 4.

Alton levee east of the Sparks boat shop at tfce foot of Market Street was being cleared by Missouri National Guard Company for use as a parade and drill ground. The company, here to guard local war facilities, was occupying the boat shop as an armory..