Redlands Daily Facts from Redlands, California • Page 12

With a Grain of Salt By FRANK MOORE Redlands, Calif. Saturday, January 12 Vine is a link in a city master plan The City's proposal to widen Vine street in the library block has triggered a series of letters to the Peoples column. These valued expressions of opinion indicate that our citizens love their heritage of sylvan beauty and will fight to preserve it. Nonetheless, this letter-writing campaign has reached the point of diminishingi returns because it is not developing a rounded forum, but rather an over-and-over again consideration of a single the present library landscaping. The Facts does not know what the wise course is but we do believe that a reasonable decision can only be reached by considering the subject in its entirety.

We will devote two editorials to this topic, starting with this one. The master plan for Redlands contemplates that in the ideal form the heart of the city would contain the central business district with civic and cultural facilities adjoining it. This ideal has been strengthened by several actions of which three will serve to illustrate: 1. The Contemporary club did not flee the civic center but will rebuild adjacent to Smiley (library) park. 2.

The Presbyterian church, after the fire, did not rebuild on the land purchased on Garden street, but remained on Cajon at Vine. 3. The City purchases for future use parcels of property in the vicinity of the Library and Bowl as they become available. Redlands is committed to the strong city center by far more than lip service. Integral to the goal of retaining a healthy core is the development of an adequate street system to sustain it.

Strangle a city center with traffic congestion and it struggles to retain vitality. It has already been necessary to eliminate parking on Orange street to accommodate the traffic. A similar parking ban on the south side of Citrus avenue is now being considered by the Council. In 1964 the architectural firm of Victor Gruen Associates recommended a Central Area Plan which stressed the need for perimeter traffic circulation around the central business district. One possible bypass was a route from the Freeway at Eureka would incorporate Eureka and Vine streets as a single path.

Again, this is not a mere plan on paper. Eureka has been developed into a good street from the freeway to the Post Office. This includes go-stop lights at Redlands boulevard and at Brookside. Between Fourth and block just east of the half of the block has been widened; the remainder is ready for improvements. The widening of Vine in the Library block is not a proposal that can be isolated from the total conception of a strong core area, served by streets of adequate capacity.

The Newsreel The Royal Canadian mounted police celebrate their 100th anniversary this year. That's the outfit which always got its man and Jeannette MacDonald. One thing is certain about a reformer; he doesn't have himself in mind. January white sales are in progress. It should be explained to younger folk that that was the color sheets and pillow cases used to be.

An Ohio college takes a step in the right direction by asking the players to elect a new football coach. It may take a little longer to designate the huddle as a caucus to decide the next play. Nobody has told us, but we're pretty sure that 1973 will be heralded by the orators as the Year of Decision. Within our memory, that's what they all have been. Not only is it more blessed to give than to receive, but you don't have to wear the stuff you give.

Berry's World Picture on Page 3 The corridor outside of Superior Judge Steve Williams court in San Bernardino was jammed at 3:30 yesterday afternoon. Scores of people were trying to get inside for the swearing-in ceremony of Superior Judge Russell Goodwin, who was elected to that office in November. A tall man, carrying a judicial robe over his arm, quarterbacked his way through the throng with a laughing declaration: "Make way for an Inferior Judge." That set the tone for what was about to come. There were enough Judges J. Municipal Judges, Superior Judges, Super Judge Emerituses, and Appellate Judges to hold a coronation of a King.

There were profoundly serious remarks by Judge Goodwin, and enough funny stories and humorous asides to suit a playwright, trying to write for Broadway drama. Martin Coughlin, retired appellate judge, administered the oath. Everybody who alluded to him said that Martin was one of the most able Judges we have ever had in our courts. Judge Williams, who presided with good humor in the sardine-packed room, said this was not only the first installation ceremony in the new wing of the courthouse. It was also the first time the brethren of the Superior Court had welcomed back a former member.

That was a cue for Attorney James Smith of Redlands in his later remarks. When The Board of Supervisors appointed Russell a Justice of the Peace here he quipped to them that he was the first man in the county judicial system to start at the top and work his way down to the bottom. The JP appointment was actually preliminary to his becoming Municipal Court Judge in Redlands. A month or so before the election, however, Russell had his doubts about victory. He recalled his pious Presbyterian grandmother who listened to a small town preacher expound for an hour on the doctrine-of predestination.

Groping for a windup to this sermon he exclaimed: "Wliat is to be will be whether or not it happens." A great admirer of Russell's, Jim characterized him. as a man having not only judicial wisdom but also the qualities of mercy, justice and understanding. He added humility, but he didn't use that term. What he actually said was that because he recognizes faults in himself, he can be sympathetic toward faults in others. Not long ago the California Highway Patrol brought into court a lad who had been hitchhiking on the freeways in violation of the law.

The guy insisted that his Constitutional rights were being violated and he intended to defend them to the fullest extent. Since the chap wanted the whole works, Russell drew a deep breath and read through the things a judge must say under those circumstances. When his wind ran out he paused and the hitchhiker looked at him and asked: "Moses. Are you through?" With considerable glee, "Moses" tells that story on himself. He is taking the place of Judge Joe Ciano, retired, (of Redlands) and spoke of him "as a gentleman of tremendous personal He added that numerous young lawyers have been startled at the directness of Joe's decisions.

In concluding the 45-minute proceedings, Russell became dead serious serious as a Judge. He turned back to the philosophical legal prounce- ments a century ago by Sir Henry Sumner Maine, the great English jurist. In earlier times, status was everything. In the days of ancient Greece and Rome, many were slaves. In the Middle Ages, most were serfs.

In the last 200 years there was a great swing away from status to freedom of the individual to make agreements contracts. With this trend came much greater personal responsibility and accountability. This was social power! But beginning with the Great Depression, when the government began guaranteeing citizens a living, the state began to take back social power from the individual. The eventual response of the Supreme Court was to try to stop the drain of power from the individual. This led to the celebrated cases in which the justices enshrined the civil rights of individuals.

This has led many people to feel that the courts have coddled criminals, "that an honest man 'dasn't' go out of his house at night." Judge Goodwin concluded that criminal procedures must now be revamped to eliminate all of the obstacles to reasonably expeditious trial, raised by the civil rights decisions. All who were present knew that the court has gotten back a judge who feels a profound responsibility for the whole court system of which he is a part. Timely Quotes Our hopes today for a generation of peace rest in large measure on the firm foundation that he laid. Nixon on former President Truman. Managua doesn't have any more goods to sack or doors to break down.

Now let us try to bury our dead. Anastasio Somoza, Nicaragua strongman, following earthquake. "He claims he's building up momentum for the Super Bowl game!" Library Book Talk By PHYLLIS C. IRSHAY With the New Year comes the ever-present hope for a better period in all our lives. These recent books in the collection of the A.

K. Smiley Public Library offer ideas for making the hopes become realities. MEDITATIONS FOR BIRD LOVERS by Ruth C. Ikerman (Abingdon 1972, $3). Our own well-known author of devotional literature has again created a satisfyingly rich as well as gentle book of inspiration for all.

She introduces this little volume, pocket-book-size, as being based on the verse of Isaiah which says that those who wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength, mount up with wings like eagles, not be weary, not faint. As a source of daily strength and faith, she suggests watching the comings and goings of the birds, learning from them how even they are cared for. Each chapter begins with an appropriate Biblical quotation is followed by a brief but significant meditation and prayer and then a practical idea is given for bird- watching. A particularly touching meditation is based on her experiences with a limping sparrow. Of great appeal to anyone who does watch birds or for anyone needing inspiration to face a new day.

HUMAN LIKE by Malcolm Boyd (Simon Shuster 1971, An Episcopal priest, playwright, critic, civil rights leader, Boyd had almost become a legend in his own time in west coast theological circles. His popular book "Are You Running With Me, Jesus" hi 1965 was a compilation of prayers for ordinary and extra-ordinary people. This one is similar but shows a greater maturity in his own philosophical development. In this sensitively written volume, he affirms what he calls the "three beliefs that are central to his life." These are the humanness he shares with other people, linking all together; the humanness that can never be taken away from him by any force; the belief that "Jesus shares a common bond of humanity with all other people and myself." His definition of prayer is all encompassing including the affirmation of the presence and love of God. His prayers are meaningful, moving and cover many aspects of the problems all men and women face.

They can be read as essays but they leave an impact not soon forgotten. SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL FOR GOD by Malcom Muggeridge (Harper 1971, Based on a BBC documentary film, this is a compassionate revelation of the life and work of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, a virtual saint of this century. Her work to reclaim abandoned children and adults from the poverty stricken streets of Calcutta, providing them with education, food, clothing and shelter is a heart-stirring story. like Muggeridge, the reader soon becomes overwhelmed with the goodness of this woman who has given her life to do "something beautiful for God" in a near Godless society. Photographs of her people, particularly those in the Home for the Dying Destitutes, where she saves those found dying in the streets truly glow with an inner light.

A book of great inspiration. ARfc. FOURS TJMUC Redlands Yesterdays FIVE YEARS AGO Temperatures Highest 65, lowest 32. Norton Air Force Base will become the focal point of activity for hundreds of Air Force reservists beginning in March when the weekend pilots and crews become the part-time partners of the 63rd Military Airlift Wing. The Redlands Post Office may not have enough new stamps to go around when the higher postal rates go into effect Sunday, Assistant Postmaster Dick Reiter said today.

The Boy's Club of Redlands will hold a special fund drive in February to add more equipment. TEN YEARS AGO Temperatures Highest 72, lowest 38. Robert E. Kahl and Dr. David G.

Poston not included on list of school board candidates endorsed by newly organized Citizens Committee for Unification. Maj. Gen. Perry B. Griffith awarded the Legion of Merit for his performance as Deputy Inspector General for Safety, USAF, at Norton AFB.

WUliam H. (Billy) Thorn to have one of the biggest 100th birthday celebrations this community has seen when he is honored at public birthday dinner, Jan. 10. FIFTEEN YEARS AGO Temperatures Highest 75, lowest 42. Yucaipa property owners begin to get results in their complaints against high property tax assessments as assessor's office assigns three appraisers to study properties in question.

The Rev. Walter Kalvesmaki, minister of visitation at the Redlands First Presbyterian church, to leave Jan. 26 to become associate pastor of Presbyterian church in Salt Lake. Public school enrollment hits 7,869, a 644-student jump over last year, reports Leo Fuchs, director of special services. Minute Pulpit For the day of the Lord is near upon all the nations.

As you have done, it shall be done to you; your deeds shall return on your own Obadiah 1:15. "One soweth and another reapeth" is a verity that applies to evil as well as good. Eliot, English novelist. The Almacac By United Press International Today is Saturday, Jan. 6, the sixth day of 1973 with 359 to follow.

The moon is between its new phase and first quarter. The morning stars are Mercury, Venus and Mars. The evening stars are Jupiter and Saturn. Those born on this date are under the sign of Capricorn. American poet Carl Sandburg was born Jan.

6, 1878. On this day in history: In 1759, George Washington married the widow Martha Custis. In 1898, Simon Lakke made the first telephone call from a submarine to land. In 1919, former President Theodore Roosevelt died at his home in Oyster Bay, N.Y. In 1959, Congressman Charles Halleck defeated Joe Martin for the post of House Republican leader.

A thought for the day: American novelist James Cabell said, "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible world and the pessimist fears this is true." The shadow of Patrick Brennan Those who like to watch the shadows said to forecast great events would do well to keep their eye on the Democratic Party as it wrestles with its soul over President Nixon's nomination of Patrick J. Brennan to be secretary of labor. If Brennan is the shadow, the great event may be the breakup of the new Democratic coalition. The old one, welded by Franklin Roosevelt, is certainly gone, though it may be noted that it was not until 1972 that a Democratic candidate decided not to campaign at all in the once Solid South. But Democrats thought they were putting together a new coalition to take the place of the old.

It was to consist of three elements. Element One was the labor movement, always solidly Democratic. Element Two was the liberal professional class, grown now to vast numbers and embracing a whole new age group in the burgeoning university and college systems. Element Three, the blacks, registered in growing numbers. This new coalition didn't work in 1968 chiefly because liberal professionals deserted Hubert Humphrey.

It didn't work in 1972 chiefly because labor deserted George McGovern. But Democrats have felt, nevertheless, that the coalition was "there," if a candidate could hold it together. What the nomination of Brennan foreshadows is the terrible possibility that it is not "there" because it simply cannot be held together, not by an Edward Kennedy or a Walter Mondale or by anybody, ever. Consider the divisions which Brennan's nomination reveals. First, he has the backing of George Meany.

Can a Democrat who cares about the labor element of the coalition vote against his confirmation? Second, he first came to public attention when he ordered his hardhats to beat up on youthful war protesters. Can a Democrat who cares about the liberal professional element of the coalitionvote in favor of his confirmation? Third, she of Brennan's unions are now in court or about to be on charges of racial discrimination. Can a Democrat who cares By TOM BRADEN about the black element in the coalition vote to confirm him? Perhaps it was a mistake to assume that labor would forever be comfortable with liberals who helped to fight its early battles or with blacks who now more nearly epitomize the fight for economic and social justice which phrases such as "the ranks of labor" once called to mind. Perhaps liberals built an image of idealism extending beyond self-interest in the labor movement because they wanted to find it. In any event, Brennan mocks the image.

The image he suggests instead was captured in the photograph taken at the White House when he showed up to present Mr. Nixon with a hardhat as a symbol of support for the war. There is Brennan and there is Mr. Nixon and there is Brennan's old friend Sidney Glasser, business manager of Local 1087 of the Painter's Union, convicted in 1969 of extortion for forcing contractors to do business with companies owned by his relatives. The Painter's Union, where Brennan got his start, has been racked by other scandals, including the indictment for fraud of its secretary-treasurer.

But Brennan has placed his brother John in charge of the small local he once headed, and John Brennan, maintaining offices at Brennan's New York City Building and Construction Trades Council and using the same telephone, has consistently voted against a reform group headed by Frank Schoenfeld which has been trying to oust the tainted regime. Meantime, the agreement Brennan once signed with Mayor John Lindsay and Gov. Nelson Rockefeller to bring blacks into union hiring halls is largely unfulfilled. In short, Patrick J. Brennan, representing labor, is not a natural ally of liberal professionals and blacks.

On the record, he dislikes them, and they dislike him. Yet that is the coalition Democrats are trying to restore. No wonder Mr. Nixon can muse about a permanent Republican majority. Here I exist ByS.

I. HAYAKAWA President, California State University at San Francisco After World War II, there developed in France a fashionable school of thought known as existentialism, the basic idea of which was that the starting point of all philosophy must be the simple, in- trovertible assertion, "I exist." I couldn't help wondering at the time, "So what?" Upon reflection it occurred to me that postwar France, a nation torn up and prostrated by the long years of the Occupation, was one in which the normal props of selfhood had been knocked out, so that one could not longer say, "I am a member of the Chamber of Deputies," "I am Postmaster of Dijon," "I am the grandson of Alphonse Daudet," etc. All such self-descriptions no longer had much meaning. So you had to start from scratch again. "I exist." No one could argue with that.

Then you went on from there. But the "sc-what?" feeling about existentialism remains with me. Because we in America do not live in a traditionalist society, we all whether we know it or not, with "I not much else. That, I believe, is the basic American condition, however unsettling it may have felt to postwar Frenchmen. Perhaps if you come from a distinguished ante-bellum Southern family, you can start with something like, "I am Frank Beckwith of the South Carolina Beckwiths." But once you're drafted into the army, it doesn't matter any you are back to "I exist." As we grew older and find our places in society, we begin to create an identity: "I am district sales manager for Quaker Oats." "I am secretary of the county medical society." "I am a Chartered Life underwriter." And so on.

Vance Packard, however, is distressed that few of us in America have much geographical or community sense of identity. Without it, he says, we lose out as towns and cities for want of civic and local pride. As individuals we lose out because we are often strangers in our own neighborhoods. The sense of neighborhood community, Packard believes, is an essential element in the formation of therefore of psychological well-being. Nation of Strangers," David McKay, $7.95.) And the situation grows worse as the population becomes more mobile, says Packard.

The average Japanese moves five times during his lifetime, compared to 14 for the average American, Forty million Americans move at least once a year. These include mobile home owners, retired couples moving South, migrant farm workers, company men transferred from New York to Houston to India, military men and their dependents moved from base to base. Another life-style that contributes much to social fragmentation, says Packard, is exemplified by Akron, Ohio, whose boosters call it the City of the Future because more and more people there work at night. With the introduction of automated machinery that doesn't need to sleep, eat or relax, company managers began to feel guilty about letting millions of dollars worth of equipment lie idle all night. Hence the great rubber companies instituted around-the- clock operations, with as many as four shifts a day.

This was followed, of course, by around- the-clock service in gas stations, bowling lanes, restaurants. Apparently much of the life of Akron takes place at night. With much of the population on the move and with the remainder divided between day people and night people, what happens to community life? Night-shift workers say they don't know their neighbors in the same block. A local chain-store or assembly-plant manager joins a luncheon club, gets interested in civic affairs, makes a place for then, just as his widening circle of admirers begins to consider running him for mayor, his head office transfers him to another state. What does all this do to men's careers? To communities? To families? To children? Mr.

Packard sees alienation creeping, like fog, across the land. However, I cannot help feeling that Mr. Packard is unduly alarmed. The U.S. has always been a "nation of strangers." We immigrated here from many lands, strangers to each other.

After getting here, we kept moving around. There was the settling of the West. There were the gold rushes of California and Alaska. There was the vast move, spread over many decades, of farm people to the city as industrial opportunities increased along with agricultural productivity. Also there was the vast migration of Southern Negroes to the North and West.

Nevertheless, after many moves, many of us come to rest. And we begin to identify with the community where we settle we get acquainted with the neighbors. Thereupon, our children take the Rhode Island School of Design, the London School of Economics, or to Tanzania with the Peace Corps to challenge the world with their existential assertion, "Here I am. I exist." Mr. Packard wants us to sit still?.