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JANESVILLE DAILY GAZETTE 120 YEARS OF COMMUNITY SERVICE Established Aujust Continuouj publlcttion Howard F. Blisi, Publuhf im under lains lume. Daily editions lince July 10. 1154 Hsrry H. Bliss, Publisher U3T GAZETTE PRINTING Owners Sidney H.

Bliss and Robert W. Bliss, Copublishers MO East Milwaukee Street, Janesville. Wis. 53545 and WCLO-FM Dial 753 7(195 GAZETTE Dial T54-331I Editorial Page February 10, 1966 Hoad Bonds Again During his recent visit to Fort Atkinson, Gov. Knowles voiced anew his endorsement of state bonding, and especially for borrowing for building roads at a faster pace than is now possible with hand-to-mouth financing.

While the plan doubtless will reach the Legislature for preliminary approval in the spring, the idea may well lack public support. This view, at least, is justified on the basis of the overwhelming defeat of the Reynolds administration "Project 66" referendum. It is true that there are substantial differences between Project 66 and what Gov. Knowles is proposing, but they are alike in that they would involve a crash program of road construction and higher vehicle taxes, either on a current basis or postponed through the bonding device. The Knowles proposal, however, has implications beyond the problems of highway construction.

The choice, if it is accepted, is to form one more dummy istate corporation with authority for backdoor borrowing, or to amend the stkte constitution to permit the issuing of state bonds. The state, operating through a variety of dummy building corporations, now owes $408 million, according to figures just issued as of Dec. 31, 1965. Such financial operations have been permitted for almost 40 years since the state Supreme Court ruled that the artifice for getting around the constitutional debt ban is legal. The device which permits the state to do indirectly what it is forbidden to do directly is one of those questionable ethical practices by the same government which requires its citizens to heed the letter of the law.

The aboveboard constitutional amendment procedure would require approval by two successive 1966 and by approval of the people in a statewide referendum. If speeded highway construction is an economic necessity, as Gov. Knowles contends, then the delay would be self-defeating. The administration belief is that state bonds could be issued at 3 to per cent, though most federal securities now are above the 4 per cent figure. Tax advantages of course figure in investment considerations.

It is an open question whether construction costs or interest costs are moving upward at the faster pace. The situation provides a whole battery of questions: whether to borrow for roads, and if so by what method; how best to utilize the borrowed funds, given the certainty that demands will be made to use part of it for rural roads as well as arterials; and public acceptance of higher road taxes now or in the future. Citizens can hardly make their feelings known on any of these things until generalized ideas crystalize into specific ones. Then we may expect a spirited and profitable debate. Compensating Veterans Government aid for those who have served in the Viet Nam war or in other military operations during the past 10 years is virtually assured.

With no opposing votes, the House has approved a bill which aid veterans to continue schooling, help them to buy homes and give them job-finding help, including preference in federal employment. The bill will be sent to conference for compromise agreement of differences with a bill voted earlier by the Senate. The prospective new law seems somewhat less generous than the famed GT, Bill of Rights first voted for World War II veterans, and hopefully will eliminate some of the abuses which grew up under this legislation. That it will nevertheless result in a measure of public protest is certain. Yet it is beyond argument that men called upon for military service are asked to make a sacrifice over and beyond the hardships and risks they encounter.

Their education most likely is interrupted, and certainly they are placed at a disadvantage in getting started in any working career. Their earnings while they are in service are almost always well below the they could demand in civilian employment. Economic loss may even predate military service, since employers aro understandably reluctant to hire men with near-term prospects of being called. Experience would indicate that the home loan provisions of the prospective legislation may be both beneficial and of relatively small cost. While direct loans are contemplated in special cases, the aid in most instances will be in the form of a government guarantee to loaning institutions.

Losses thus would be limited to cases of delinquency. There is the probability of heavy expenditures in educational aids, with allowances of $100 to $150 per month for veteran students. While the federal money will go for the benefit of veterans, it should be noted that little of it will be retained by them. Nearly all will be drained into various types of business, institutions, etc. The $300 to $350 million estimated for the first year will thus operate to the benefit of the real estate and building industries, services linked to educational facilities, hospital and other government employment, etc.

In this way, it means much additional government spending with consequent spur to inflation. The problem, from the veteran standpoint, is to make sure that the beneficiaries get the help intended. When millions are tossed out, it is certain that there will be greedy hands extended. Prudence would dictate that enactment of a new and costly veteran aid bill should be balanced by savings foreign aid, in some of the questionable welfare programs, in space exploration or on items which might well be scaled down or eliminated. But it is wishful thinking to believe that any idea will even be suggested in Congress.

FROM GAZETTE FILES Looking Backward 10 YEARS AGO Feb. 195ft-Al Skelly and Jay Christensen, Janesville boxers, score technical knockouts in the novice group of the Rockford Golden Gloves tournament. A carload of molasses arrives at the Janesville Mills, to sell at $30 per ton in barrel lots. The first Wisconsin nurse to receive the Silver Star, for bravery on the Anzio beachhead in 1944, Elaine A. Roe.

Whitewater, is to be married to Morris R. Pieper, Mt. Morris, III. 20 YEARS AGO Feb. 10, 1946-The Bradley Knitting Division of the George W.

Borg Delavan, will rent the old Jefferson School building here temporarily until it can be moved to its permanent quarters in the Green Tobacco Co. warehouse, according to an agreement between City Manager Henry Traxler and officials of the Delavan firm. Norman Katz is elected president for the second semester at Janesville Junior High School. Carolyn Suchanek is elected vice president and Gretchen Nuzum, secretary-treasurer. Last week's number was 76.

A talk on Abraham Lincoln is given brfore the DAR by Harry S. Fox, Janesville attorney. 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 10, 1926 Sen. Irvine Lenroot, Washington, will speak in Janesville, Feb.

22, for a Washington birthday party sponsored by Rock, Walworth, Jefferson and Green counties, it is announced today. Miss Marion Hamlen, general secretary of the for the last three years, accepts a position as national executive secretary for the YWCA in Latvia, one of the Baltic republics. 50 YEARS AGO Feb. 10, 191fr-Capt. Alexander Bucbholz, Janesville, gets a new boat for passenger service on Rock River this summer.

Fire does more than $200 worth of damage to the Henry Stephenson home on Washington Street. The Lakota Cardinals defeat the Peoria Tigers, 35-25, in a basketball game here at the auditorium. JACK WILSON Potomac Fever WASHINGTON President was in Hawaii for Viet Nam conferences. It's a new peace move LBJ is proving that he's willing to meet Ho Chi Minh half-way. Dick Nixon says Republican fortunes are beginning to turn upwards.

As for Nixon, he just might be available in to help arrest this alarming trend. Some congressmen don't like Secretary McNamara's plan to cut back manned bombers. Their position is simple: Better SAC than Mac. The special committee to investigate Senate ethics is all ready to go to work. Sen.

Stennis says, as soon as it finds some. 30 YEARS AGO BIBLE THOUGHT Feb. 10, 1936-Mrs, Fannie Rockenfield is named presi- We kpend our years as a dent of the Industrial Girls tale that is 90:12. Club here. Fifty-four new Nevertheless this is our cases 6t the mumps arc re- hour.

We can do something ported in Janesville this week, about it. A Mississippi Klansman says his Klavern spends a lot of time visiting the sick. Nothing you back on your feet ike an angel of mercy in white standing there holding up a fiery band-aid. LBJ proposes a massive plan to rid the world of ignorance. He's a thorough man and he found out there are still a few places where people haven't heard of him.

JOHN WYNGAARD REPORTS Political Feelers Suggest Viet Nam Seeking Way Out By WILLIAM L. RYAN (AP Special Correspondent) Vietnamese sources in the United States detect a new ferment beginning to bubble beneath the relative calm that has prevailed in South Viet nam's politics for the alst eight months. They report a debate going On among politically conscious elements in South Viet Nam. Involved are basic issues of war, peace and the future of Indochina, and the question of whether thei'e is a political way out. As they de-scribe it, this discussion seems to mirror soul- searching going on in the United States.

It would indicate tentative probing to determine whether a door might be opened to the Communists, permitting a political solution. The informants report interest in the idea of creating an atmosphere in which an offer might be made to leaders of the Viet Cong Communists, with the intention of keeping Red China out of Viet Nam at all costs. haps an overthrow of the regime. As some sources sketch the prospects, a civilian premier, acceptable as possible to diverse elements, would be installed. It could be a man like Dr.

Pham Huy Quat, who headed a sort of civilianized government for eight months until the military ousted him last June. A Buddhist, he is reported to be held in high regard by many Americans and Saigon civilians. Then, these informants continue, the idea would be to make an approach to the Communist "National Liberation Front" to accept representation in the Saigon government. Thereafter, the way would be opened to trade and political connections with North Viet Nam. THIS WOULD MEAN eventually inviting Viet Cong representatives to join a coalition government in the South.

would come from the ranks of those the informants describe as "responsible Communists," meaning those who would want to keep all Viet independent of Red China. TTie present regime under Maj. Gen. Nguyen Van Thieu as chief of state; and the air force commander, Nguyen Cao Ky, as premier, are not apt to welcome Communists into a coalition. Thus, if such a program were to become operative, it might require heavy pressure to induce the military leaders to stand aside, or per- KERNEL COMMENT The world is so full of wonderful things it's hard to keep up the payments on all of them.

GRIN AND BEAR IT ONE EMINENT Vietnamese says he feels that moderate Buddhists and moderate Roman Catholics can develop organizations which can act together to bring public pressure on Ky and Theiu. Such "moderates" exclude elements like the extreme Buddhists led by Thich Tri Quang and the Catholics who were close to Ngo Dinh Diem. Quang played an important role in the Buddhist uprising which preceded President Diem's downfall in November 1963. Some substance seems to be given to the reports in the light of past events. The post- Diem regime under Duong Van Minh was overthrown in 1964.

Among those helping in this enterprise were elements who suspected his regime of planning to open a door to the Communists. One of the leading figures in that upheaval, which ushered in the regime of Gen. Nguyen Khanh, was Gen. Tran Thien Khiem. Khiem wants war to the finish with Hanoi.

Khiem's assignment abroad, away from the political arena, could be viewed as a concession by the military leadership to pressures from those seeking some sort of diplomatic-political solution in Viet Nam. By Lichty THE SEEKERS OF such a solution present the situation in this manner: renewed U.S. air attacks on North Viet Nam are "political bombings." If these are limited to roads, bridges and military targets away from Hanoi and Haiphong, the Soviet Union is likely to do nothing about it. This sort of bombing erases what only the the Chinese- can replace. This would tend to increase Soviet authority in North Viet Nam, and Saigon's "doves" indicate they would far rather sec Uiat than uncontested Peking sway.

the bombing should hit either Hanoi or Haiphong port, or if Haiphong should be blodcaded, the Soviet Union might be forced closer to the Chinese side of the argument. Viet Nam situation has an increasing abrasive effect on Moscow's relations with Peking. If this continues, the two will reach the point of open break. germ of deviation, as the Chinese view it, is spreading in the North Viet Nam party. TTiere is weariness with the costly war and there is deep-rooted, traditional distrust of China.

Such Communists are viewed by some Southern political elements as basically Nationalist, men who would listen to a proposal of a way out, if the offer sounded attractive enough. Time Runs Out for Move To Improve Primary Law MADISON Revising the Wisconsin presidential primary law to make it more realistic and practicable is apparently a casualty to higher priority interests of the politicians. Nothing has been heard lately about the committee named a couple of months ago by Gov. Knowles. The committee represents practicing politicians of both parties and intended to review amendments most political.

managers privately believe would be advisable. A meeting which Knowles called at the end of the year was cancelled and there is no plan now to bring the men together. A little later this year most of the members will be engaged in projects of more immediate concern to the business of getting reelectied. If no attempt is made before the May session of the Legislature, the matter will almost surely be dropped. Whatever the hopes and the ideals of the men who wrote the presidential primary law long ago, they are ui- adequate for the reliable testing of electoral sentiment today, as Rep.

John W. Byrnes, who led the Wisconsin Republican convention delegation in 1964, so effectively explained. BY THE TIME the 1967 Legislature convenes the lines will be visible with respect to the presidential and vice presidential nominations in the following year. Partisans will have no stomach for tampering with the delegate selection machinery. THERE IS increasing doubt that the nomination process can be effective or accurate in reflecting popular wishes when the primary is "open," Republicans can vote in Democratic primaries, and Democrats can vote in Republican delegate selections and do.

But a more dubious assumption than the cross-over invitation, is that the electoral pattern can accurately reflect the peal wishes of the electorate when the listing of the candidates is at their whim, when they can file or pass according to their tactical considerations, and quite without regard of the ideal of free popular expression. Much has been made of the 1964 Wisconsin Democratic presidential primary, which the late Mr. Kennedy chose to enter out of strictly tactical considerations. He won it by a narrow vote. But can anyone say that he was the true choice of the Wisconsin voters on that raw spring day in 1964? Johnson, then a senator, late Adlai Stevenson.

Sen. Symington, among other Democratic contenders, and known and active Republican 'aspirants, were not listed on that ballot. A New York editor recently concluded that the "unique" Wisconsin system is "exciting." But a Wisconsin voter may question whether this state's election machinery was designed to be "unique," or to amuse and entertain the rest of the country. ELECTION LAWS are not easy to change. There sdiould be no illusions about the prospects with regard to the Wisconsin presidential delegate selection mechanism.

Yet it will be hard to quarrel with the view that if it is intended as a test of the true ences of the people even with its "unique" invitation to cross-over voting, it should offer the voter an honest listing. Four years ago there would have been at least three Republican candidates, and at least five Democratic listings. Oregon, sometimes linked with Wisconsin for the progressivism of its election machinery, puts on its primary ballot the names of all aspirants recognized in the consensus. INSIDE REPORT Democrats Challenged by Red-Tinged Radicals Evanj Novak WASHINGTON Only a confused dream last summer, the drive to weld far left organizations into a poUti- cal front is reaching alarming reality. The short-term plan is to intimidate liberal Democratic who back President Johnson on Viet Nam by running leftists against them next fall.

But more troubling to the Democratic party is the long- term campaign, worked out at a secret meeting of leftist leaders in Chicago Jan. 8 and 9. It was decidtrf not only to help the scattered 1966 candidacies of radicals but to build a nationwide political organization for 1968, 1970 and beyxmd. What this amounts to is a leftist wrecking crew injecting a sinister new element into American politics. The message to liberal Democrats is clear: Take an anti-Communist foreign policy stance and we will drive you out of office if it means splitting the liberal vote and thus electing a Republican.

Conceivably, a weak-willed hberal or two will crumple. By ROWLAND EVANS AND ROBERT NOVAK Cohelan's sin is support of the Students for Democratic Johnson in Viet he Society (SDS). THE FIRST TARGET has been selected. He is Rep. Jeffrey Cohelan of California, and he is definitely not crumpling.

A liberal Democrat with a 95 per cent ADA rating last year, Voice of the People 'The military is doing a great transportation job, boys! Our Junket to Southeast Asia was over a hundred strong with everyone having a plane seat!" LOW COST INOCULATIONS Editor, the Gazette: As far as rabies shots are concerned most of us dog owners have been giving these to our dogs, cats too, for years. We don't need a law to make us realize the good of such inoculation. We also don't want our dogs to run loose. But if our city is truly interested in stopping the spread of rabies then we should offer a mass clinic for rabies shots at a minimal cost, say SO cents or $1. The shot as suggested at the council meeting is too much.

I get three- year shots for my dog for only $5. So why should I pay $3 a year? To really benefit in a mass inoculation program the cost must be low. After all many families could not afford several dollars a year for a rabies shot for their dog, plus for a license. TTie anti- rabies serum is not so dear that our city and local veterinarians could not get together and offer these shots at lowest cost possible, if the control of rabies is their main concern. I am of the opinion that it would be pretty difficult to enforce a program of compulsory rabies wouldn't stand up in court.

As for controlling the dog population, why not work with the Humane Society and the dog pound and have them put out for adoption only spayed females especially if the breed is of a mixed type. There are so many poor little mongrel pups that go unwanted and end up being dumped in a ditch. This would be one way to help cut down the unwanted dog population. The suggested high fine of dollars for allowing a dog to run loose is absurd. Drunken drivers in Janesville who kill human beings get fined a mere $25 dollars.

If we are to be subjected to stricter dog laws, compulsory rabies shots and higher fines, then give us something in return for our money. Give us a dog pound that really meets with humane requirements and help to decently support our local Humane Society. M. E. JOHNSON Janesville, Wis.

is not backing down before hysterical demands of constituents in the Oakland-Berkeley area, including a demand that President Johnson be impeached. Consequently Cohelan has an opponent for reelection: Robert Soheer, a bearded editor of the Leftist "Ramparts" and apologist for the Communist Viet Cong. Scheer cannot beat Cohelan in the Democratic primary, but he plans to run as an independent in November with the underlying intent of electing a conservative Repifeliean. Cohelan's district is probably safe enough to withstand this challenge, but he is taking no chances. He has asked prominent party figures including Postmaster General Lawrence F.

O'Brien) to speak for him. The far left has more vtil- nerable tragets than Cohelan. A leftist labor leader named Sid Lens may run a third- party campaign against Democratic liberal Sen. Paul Douglas, who faces the political challenge of his life from Re- )ublican Charles Percy. The eft is looking for a radical to oppose freshman Democratic Rep.

Wes Vivian, elected from a heavily Republican district in Michigan and shaky even in a two-man race. Veteran -Douglas and newcomer Vivian could pay for their Viet Nam policy by electoral defeat. All this fits with the Chicago meeting of a month ago. On band were such leaders of the new left as Stokely Carmichael of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNICK) and Paul Booth of SIMILAR gatherings in Santa Barbara, last summer and in Washington last faU bogged down in haggling. But the Chicago session skirted the issue of whether Communists should be excluded (though Scheer has welcomed Communists to his campaign against Cohelan).

From Chicago evolved a three-point pro-' gram. Point national newsletter entitled "The Alliance of New Politics," edited by Arthur I. Waskow, a leftist intellectual in Point "money bank" to finance the 1966 wrecking operations plus long-range planning. The CSiicago time-table called for raising $100,000 within six weeks, another $100,000 by March 1 and $300,000 more by June 1 for a total of $500,000. Point 3-A "body bank" of 500 student militants to participate in a training school next summer.

They would be the nucleus of a national leftist organization to grow over the years. These are not mere pipe- dreams. The Chicago meeting discussed assignment of field Albert, a lieutenant of left-wing Rep. Phil Burton of Oalifomia, for the West Coast and Larry Goodwyn, who formerly ran the now defunct Texas liberal coalition, for Texas. If this can pick off a a Vivian biggest game of Paul Douglas in 1966, it will fatten on its own success and expand in 1968.

For the Democratic party, the tune to stop the wrecking crew is now. ROSSWO THE JANESVILLE GAZETTE Second CUss Postagt tt Janesville. Wis. Member of Associated Press, Wisconsin Daily Newspaper League, Audit Bureau of Circulation. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of alt the local news printed in this newspaper ai well as all AP news dispatches.

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