Alton Evening Telegraph from Alton, Illinois • Page 4

PAGt A-4 ALfON EVENING TELEGRAPH TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 1970! J-jClltOFlRlS What We think about. 'SmelV discolors Student votes Time for action Until Friday it was reported as "only" ft smell. We have complained about it. Mayor Paul Lenz has looked into it and reported locating it. The state has expressed an interest in it.

But somehow, it's been getting worse Instead of being relieved. It remained for several Middletown residents folks worst afflicted by the smell so far to discover real property damage resulting from the chemical pollution of our community's atmosphere. It certainly is time the mayor, the state, and the industries involved, and perhaps even the Wood River Levee and Drainage District take some positive action toward relief of this repulsive invasion of the air over Middletown is not the only area the stench invades. It has gotten well into Upper Alton when the air movement the right direction. But for most part it seems to spread up through the Shields Valley and fan out from there over the community.

To clear the campus air Larry Sumner, an East St. Louis Negro, assumed his position as student body president at the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville campus Monday. Sumner is described in some quarters as leaning toward the Republican philosophy and being of conservative nature. And it may be a surprise to some that. a student of these leanings should gain this support.

We would like to help him in his efforts to keep higher education alive in these parts through the next year. It would be difficult to analyze what his election signifies. But we assume at least one significant factor was his ability to organize and obtain suppoit. We don't know whether any group of college students is looking for suggestions from an established daily newspaper these days. But without making a suggestion, we at least point to an idea we gave vent to in connection with the Carbondale campus events of the last few weeks.

Down there the question of closing the campus for the rest of the quarter finally was submitted to student referendum. By that time it was too late to do any real good. We felt then, as we do now, though, that more frequent referenda student body-wide on major questions of policy could provide valuable guidance to school administrations beset with trying to interpret the events of the day and demands of students. Questions to be voted on could be cleared through existing campus machinery, such as student groups, and faculty senate, before submission to general vote. The procedure would not only help clear the air as to how many felt how, but would give the students, themselves, the experience in voting which so many now are demanding on a national and state basis.

Summer jobs needed Summer jobs for youth are certain to be less plentiful this summer, according to reports from all sources. While business and industry are aware that summer problems evolve from unemployed unoccupied youth, economic conditions play a part in job availability and the need for young people. Unfortunately few employers can afford to pad the payroll with extra jobs under current tight conditions. The Illinois Retail Merchants Association, whose members are the primary source of extra jobs, urges merchants to utilize youth to cover vacations and handle special assignments. And area industry, normally is a source of many jobs.

However, employment agencies "report layoffs of even full-time adult employes which indicates the previous boom period summer jobs for youth may be scarce this year. The shortage calls for innovation in creating jobs. To give students a boost, we again will give them free "job wanted" ads to open door. We urge business, industry and homeowners to aid our communities' youth with a summer assist where possible. Jobs develop character and values essential in our free enterprise system.

Where the cobwebs are Gov. Richard B. Ogllvie urged 1.800 delegates attending a three-day national conference on crime and delinquency in Chicago to "clean out the cobwebs" in the nation's prisons to "give real meaning to the word "correction." Ogilvie pointed to the current prison policy widespread in Illinois, too which places the emphasis on isolation rather than on the rehabilitation of prisoners. "If we are going to truly rehabilitate prisoners and prepare them to make a go of It in the outside world, it makes no sense to isolate 90 per cent of them in maximum security," the governor, a former Cook County sheriff, said. "It makes no sense to isolate them from the changing communities to which they must return." His remarks are especially appropriate in the light of a John Howard Society report on Illinois penal institutions which was critical.

Also, significant to the current feeling of many people that any wrongdoers should be thrown in jail and the key lost. Already-crowded prisons certainly are not the place for thousands more who will be educated and scarred by the truly professional criminal types inside. So, in an era where law, order, and Justice are bywords, we're presented with a dilemma. The Ogilvie suggestion on work release programs closer to jobs and homes Is certainly worth consideration. Southern Illinois University has been a pioneer in Illinois prison related educational activities and placement of convicts returning to useful jobs and to college.

However, more needs to be done, as Gov. Ogilvie urges in a call for "an all out attack upon the underlying conditions which breed most of our crime: poverty, ignorance and disease." The same elements underwrite racism, environmental dangers, and countless society ills, that constitute the challenges of the coming decade. PAUL S. and STEVE COUSLEY Readers forum 1 would like to express my opinion concerning a Forum totter written by Stuart Weiss published on May 25. His letter contained a most and obnoxious view of "The Communist Rules for If his intention was to make ft numerous, I can speak for many who found no humor in it! Since when is communism a laughing matter? Instead of making a mockery of it, Weiss should be thanking the American Legion for circulating this very important and informative article, so that more Americans can understand how communism works.

These rules were not "made up" by the American Legion, but as it states on the article, it was secured from a known member of the Communist Party. The article was first printed in the Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise in 1919. That should be enough to prove its legitimacy. If Weiss fails to take "the Communist Rules For Revolution" seriously, then I say it is his own loss. If it weren't for the proud Americans who make up the American Legion and the V.F.W., Weiss wouldn't be enjoying the freedom he has today.

VIRGINIA PRICE Bethalto Urges repetition I wish to answer the critics of the American Legion ad concerning "Rules for Communist Revolution." In the first place, both the American Legion and other veterans' groups are concerned with the safety of our nation. They are concerned because they have fought wars and they know what it is all about. Secondly, I am 16 years old, and I am fed up with college campus disorders, dissent, and destruction of taxpayers' property. Don't blame the adults for all of the trouble. After all, they wared us right, but some of the youth were just too stubborn to listen to Did adults burn the RQTC Building at Kent State the night before the shooting? Concerning one critic's statement on Vietnam in this She sees nothing humorous in communist evil column, "We are expected to serve without question in the Armed Services." Well, then, aren't you proud to serve our land? A land made great by our constant pursuit of peace with freedom for all nations? This same gentleman quotes the World Book Encyclopedia as saying Viet Cong officials were not members of the Communist Party.

But "Ho Chi Minn was an active member of the Communist Party since says the United States Government. You don't have to have a blind faith in government; only a sense of reason. Another Forum writer ridiculed the statement on athletics. It did not mean "hard core" athletics such as in high school or college sports, or the Olympics. It meant sports for a money-making proposition, in which money is the only reason they play.

I ask you, are we going to let communism run over us. Or are we going to fight and stand up to it? I ask the American Legion not to retract its ad warning us of communist invasion, but to reprint it and to continue its work until the "Silent Majority" speaks out with a loud voice. JOHN MILLER 28 E. 6th St. They know more As a high school student I believe it is time for the "silent majority" to wake up and take a stand on our nation's foreign policy.

The peace demonstrators have no case. First of all, President Nixon has been in public office for years, of these as President of the United States. Why is it, then, that the protesters still contend that they know more about national affairs? Nixon has stated publicly that he is not just "playing but trying to end the war and bring peace in the only way possible. Secondly, these protesters say they want while they use violence to burn down college ROTC buildings and storm college campuses. It is here they defeat their own purpose.

And third, as for the Cambodian offensive: A friend of mine who has just returned from Vietnam told me he wishes he could return to join in the offensive. He said that while he was there, almost every day his patrol would chase the retreating North Vietnamese into Cambodia, but the patrol was not allowed to cross the border. Obviously, these demonstrators have no regard for our fighting men, either. I don't think this offensive will expand the war, but expedite its end. JOHN L.

FOCHT, 1616 State St. Flies his flag In the light of the campus riots, the protests against our county and its policy especially the antics of followers of Mr. Humphreys at SIU and in Edwardsville, I am flying my flag. I am tired of the mouthy minority who seem determined to destroy this nation, its flag, and its principles, so I am leading my own protest. I am flying the Stars and Stripes from my house every day, not just on patriotic holidays.

I don't like war any more than the next person, but to keep the Commies away from our shores or rather, to keep out those who aren't already here we must fight, and fight to win. I challenge all who are interested in their country and still believe in it to fly their flags daily. Let's look like Americans. JAMES W. SHERMAN, 171 East Alton East Alton On with the game! If State Rep.

Sam Vadalabene's admendments to state Senator Merrill Ottwein's bill concerning the purchase of. 40 acres by the Bethalto school district and the deeding of 18 acres to the Forest Homes Civic Association is a "political football," I say let's get on with the game. RUDOLPH PAPA, 701 Nebraska, Bethalto Paying for Sunday I've noticed most of the food stores are staying open on Sunday. I'm sure the help must be paid bonus money for these Sunday hours. I'll bet they haven't enough customers to offset their being open on Sunday, so the food prices must go up again, and I'll pay the penalty for someone else's Sunday shopping.

I resent higher prices due to the expense of Sunday openings. I wonder how many people feel as I do. To top this off, some were open Memorial Day. How sad that we no longer can bother to take one day to pay respect to our dead soldiers and sailors. JANICE SPENCER, 5002 Bedford St.

Forum Note The Telegraph welcome! prose expressions of its readers' own opinions. Writers' names and addresses mast be published with their letters. Contributions should be concise, preferably not exceeding; ISO words, and are subject to condensation. Jack Anderson WASHINGTON Just as the Kennedys sought to pass the Presidency from brother to brother, President Nixon would now like to groom his son-in- law, David Eisenhower, for the White House. Intimates say the President regards David not only as an ideal son-in-law but as a political natural.

In the President's view, David has an easy affability and a flair for politics that could him far. With the Eisenhower name and grin, he could go ail the way to the top. Already, David seems to have picked up the political pragmatism of his father-in-law. For his thesis at Amherst, David analyzed Kevin Philips' book, "The Emerging Republican Majority," which advocates a Southern strategy. Those who are acquainted with David's views say he agrees with the Southern strategy, not out of conviction so much as calculation.

He agrees with Philips that a Republican majority must be recruited in the South and West. For instance, young Eisenhower freely acknowledged that Sen, Strom Thurmond, wag an "arch segregationist, in mold of the 1860," yet didn't hesitate to defend Nixon's alliance with Thurmond at the Nixon grooms 'political natural' David for presidency 1968 GOP convention. "Strom Thurmond is second to God with a large segment of the American voters," David explained in a letter last year to the Amherst school newspaper. "Now does that mean you disregard Strom Thurmond and watch the nomination go down the river?" David also shares Nixon's view that the Supreme Court has been too permissive, has set dangerous precedents and, therefore, sorely needs reforming. Intimates confide that David went through a rebellious period in high school.

He chafed over the special behavior that was expected of President Eisenhower's grandson and rebelled against the Eisenhower military tradition. He even ran for president of his prep school's Teen Citizens for Johnson-Humphrey. Later, he passed off this aberration as a lark and campaigned like -a proper Republican for Barry Goldwater. Last summer, he worked for the Senate Judiciary Committee as an interne under the tutelage of Senator Roman Hruska, the Senate's Mr, Conservative. David acknowledges privately that his political beliefs aren't popular with most of his fellow students at Amherst, where his picture has been pasted irreverently upon bathroom walls.

During the anti-war ferment that followed the U.S. move into Cambodia, David played softball on the White House gesture that seemed to many students to be much like President Nixon's watching TV during an earlier peace mobilization. Yet David has the same ingratiating, all American quality that made so many people like Ike. Richard Nixon feels toward David, according to intimates, as if he were a son. Some intimates say the President picked David to throw out the opening ball of the baseball season to put him in the political spotlight.

'But others say it was no more than the thoughtfulness of a father- in-law who knew how much David loves baseball. Some intimates believe the President had a political motive in selecting David and Julie to represent him on United States Day at Japan's Expo 70. But others point out that the young Eisenhowers are in great demand for such events. The Philippines' President Ferdinand Marcos sent a special cable to the White House, for example, requesting that David and Julie be sent as the U.S. representatives to the opening of a cultural center in Manila.

California's Governor Ronald Reagan had already wangled the assignment, however, before the cable arrived. Marcos' wife, Imelda, immediately dashed off a personal note to Mrs. Nixon, urging that David and Julie be allowed to attend President Marcos' inauguration. Whatever President Nixon's motive may be for honoring his son-in-law, one thing is certain the President is happily aware of David's political appeal. A confidential intelligence report warns that missile- bristling, Red Chinese patrol boats threaten the U.S.

Fleet, now patrolling the Far East as a buffer between the Chinese mainland and America's Island allies. "The Chinese Communists have 10 guided missile patrol boats of the (Russian-designed) Os a Komar class," the document states, These are known to be armed with "Styx" missiles with an accuracy from 50 to 100 miles. A single "Styx" missile, fired by an Egyptian patrol boat, sank the Israeli destroyer Eilat in 1907. The Chinese are also using 1964 Russian-built, Golf-class submarines for research work. This diesel sub is constructed fire surface-to-surface missiles.

But the confidential document declares: "We have no evidence that they have ever developed a missile for this submarine." Chinese difficulties In miniaturizing their nuclear weapons and guidance systems have prevented them from producing a reliable tactical nuclear weapon, the intelligence report says. Intelligence analysts figure the Chinese Communists won't be able to launch a nuclear submarine, capable of threatening both coasts of America for 15 years. Within five years, however, China can be expected to test long-range missiles, and the Chinese Navy will almost certainly be used to set. up telemetry picket stations downrange into the Indian Ocean. Footnote; Naval intelligence claims that the Chinese Navy has kept generally close to the mainland and seems to be geared for defense rather that offense.

Their submarines are seldom spotted, and then not far from their home ports. What They Did From The Telegraphs of Yesteryear 25 Years Ago JUNE 2, 1945 President Harry S. Truman declared that the military force in the Pacific would be twice its size, and bigger than American armies in Europe at the height of combat. In a special message to Congress the President asked workers in ship repair yards to meet the suicide attacks of the Japanese; that civilians abstain from travel during the mass movement of troops to the Pacific, that all escort vessels not needed for training would be sent to the Pacific, that eventually 7,000,000 men would be deployed to the Pacific battle area. American Legion citation medals were presented (PsMHSHW 9wf f) Roosevelt, Ruth Eccles, and Kenneth Burge; East, Ernest Thayer, Margo Higgins; Lovejoy, Melvin Mitchell, Jean Hutchinson.

Laverne Gelzinnis was valedictorian of Alton High School graduating class, and Richard Milford was saiutatorian. other gold alpha winners were Marily Ewing, Dolores Rathgeb, Dorothy Collins, Doris Maynard, June Turner, William Jackson, Jean Loellke. Silver Alphas were presented to Fred Seavey, Thomas Bonnell, Joan McGinnis, Robert Thayer, Richard Jaeger, Emily Han-ell, Margaret Carriger, Maxine Eisenriech, Robert Leonard, Wilburt Suhre, Richard Potter, Patricia Ingles, Mary Halbert, Marilyn Sheppard, Peggy Greene, Betty Landis, Virginia Moody, liiicy Walker, Walter Wetstein, Patricia Vine, Sylvia Andrews, Harold Wilton, Frank Con, Miry Kelly, Christnty Tcnoufciteff, Ruth Hinners, Eugene Stlfel, Eunice Campbell, and Conway Graves. Also winning scholarships were 0. Eunice Campbell to Wilberforce College in Ohio, and Conway Graves.

Pfc. Albert Froberger called at the Telegraph office to seek information of his father who had been reported captured on Wake Island where he was a civilian employe. 50 Years Ago JUNE 2, 1920 Partial repeal of wartime emergency legislation was provided in a bill voted to floor unanimously by House Judiciary Committw, Still to be. left ynder bill wew the Lever food control act, the trading with the enemy act, and District of Columbia rent controls. In Chicago the University of Illinois voted unanimously to elect Dr.

David Kinley president of the institution. He had served 12 months as acting president succeeding Dr, Edmund James. Shurtieff College headed into its 92nd commencement with plans for a special celebration of the fact it had achieved the $100,000 local quota for its endowment fund. The Chamber of Commerce based a renewal of its push for completion of roads in the area on news from Washington that no embargo had been laid on building roads, nor was any contemplated. C.

H. Degenhardt, contractor on the Alton St. Louis road, had been experiencing difficulty getting in materials and also was held, up by. negotiations between thi state and the Alton, Granite, St. Louis Traction Co.

for right-of-way across its tracks below Wood Rjver. The junior high school class of 129 eighth graders to be promoted into Theodore Roosevelt High School include'd groups from these buildings: Lincoln 82, Horace Mann 30, Douglas, Dunbar, and Lovejoy, five each. Chamber of Commerce President W. Boyntow called a meeting to evaluate the results of the so-far unsuccessful drive for funds to launch Alton Boy Scout Council under professional leadership. To date the results had been discouraging, he said.

W. L. Sloan, agent for the express company at Godfrey, reported shipments of asparagus to during May were about 2,000 boxes short of'tht previous year, He blamed the decline on unfavorable growing weather,.