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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Knowland Risks Future In Uphill Election Fight By EDWARD KENNEDY Assistant Editor and Publisher, Monterey Peninsula Herald "It is not necessary that all of our meetings.be held at night, but I believe that when important issues are being discussed the public should be given the opportunity to be heard." The Courier-Post hastens to second Garrity's proposal. The present afternoon' meeting time of the commission makes it impossible for most people to attend, a fact that has brought severe criticism on the commission's head at times. Garrity is quite right in saying that not all the meetings need be held at night. But when important controversial issues are before the commission, the public should have the right to attend and be heard. Frequency of night meetings otherwise might be determined by the interest the public shows in attending the first few that are scheduled.

There undoubtedly are certain drawbacks to night meetings. One is that a few chronic agitators and small-bore politicians might be regular attendants and make nuisances of themselves, monopolizing the time of the sessions. Again, if major business was transacted and major decisions made in caucus prior to the public meeting, as is common practice in some school boards and other public bodies, the purpose of the night session would automatically be defeated. But the advantages outweigh the drawbacks. Night sessions would mean a new opportunity for putting democracy into action.

We are all for having the City Commission giving night sessions a tryout. The same goes for the Board of Freeholders, which has been criticized at least as often and as severely for holding all its sessions in the daytime. What freeholder will move to do' so at the next meeting? Commissioner Garrity should strike a popular chord with his proposal that Camden's City Commission hold its meetings at night periodically-, The director of public affairsays he will introduce a resolution to that effect at the next regular session of the commission, Sept. 25. He will not move that all sessions be held at night.

He will propose that some be regularly scheduled at night, and that night sessions also be slated when "important issues" are up for decision. From time to time the question of night meetings for the commission and other governing bodies comes up. Garrity says that during the past several months he has had "many queries from residents of the city asking why it is not possible to hold occasional night meetings of the commission." Garrity's answer is that it is possible, and that doing so would create "a healthy condition." "In this way," he says, "we may fully acquaint the public with the tremendous job that the commissioners have," and hence night meetings would be beneficial to the commissioners as well as the public. And, he adds, "at the same time the people will have the opportunity to voice their opinions. "We all know that most people are working during the daytime, and, therefore, are unable to attend our meetings which are held during the afternoon.

Night sessions will give these people an opportunity to observe the commission in action, and voice their opinions on city issues. "This plan would also be of great help to the members of the commission because it would enable us to obtain at first hand the opinion of the people, who no.w are unable to attend our meetings. (Robert S. Allen is on vaca- his vigorous conservative stand accepted as Taft and Lauscha tion.) "Villi. jIiIlV Jli JVV 0 3 Editor's Mail Bag One-Third of Our Incomes Mail Bag Rules Letters to the Mail Bag should be as brief as possible.

The shorter they are the better their chances of publication. To receive consideration they must be signed with author's full name and address. did in Ohio. A "right to work" initiative measure will be on the ballot in the same election. Knight and many other Republicans are opposing it.

Knowland was first appointed to the Senate by Gov. Earl Warren to fill out the term of the late Hiram Johnson. He was then twice elected with enormous majorities which established him as a vote-getter. In this year's primaries, how-ever, he did poorly. Under California law, candidates may file in the primaries of both parties.

Brown combined vote on both the Democratic and Republican tickets exceeded Knowland's by some 660,000. This thrust upon Knowland a role entirely new to him that of underdog. He has assumed it full of fight. Knowland campaigned little in the primaries, since he was occupied in Washington. But he is waging a hard-hitting campaign this fall.

He has challenged Brown to a series of debates in various California cities a program reminiscent of the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates in Illinois just 100 years ago. Brown has declined to participate in such a program. Brown's refusal has indicated to some observers that he feels that with his 660,000 primary majority, he can coast into office in November in a year expected by many to be heavily Democratic in California and elsewhere. Also, though an ingratiating personality and a fair speaker, Brown probably would be no match for Knowland in a knock-down, drag-out debate. In flinging the challang, Knowland seems to have his opponent on the defensive to a certain degree.

Brown, who started his political career as district attorney of San Francisco, has been twice elected attorney general and is the undLsputed leader of the Democrats in California, Nixon and President Eisenhower are expected to speak in California in behalf of Knowland, Knight and other Republican candidates. The outcome of the Knowl-and-Brown battle would appear to hinge almost entirely on whether Knowland can put on a campaign so vigorous and convincing that it will win over some of the big support that Brown got in the primaries. That lead will be extremely difficult to overcome. But many of Knowland's supporters believe the fervor of his campaign will be such that he will appeal to many who may not favor all his political philosophy, but who admire a fighter and a man of strong Monterey, Sept. 16 The bitter clash between Sen.

F. Knowland and Attorney Edmund G. Brown for governor is the big show of the 1958 campaign in California. It overshadows, in public interest here and throughout the country, the contest of Gov. Goodwin J.

Knight and Rep. Clair Engle for the U. S. Senate. Much more than the governorship of the nation's second largest state is at stake.

If Knowland loses, it will be a disastrous blow to his political future. If he wins, he will be a more powerful figure in Republican politics than he has been even as his party's leader of the Senate. He will control the big California delegation in the 1960 national convention. If Brown wins, he will have a commanding position in the Democratic national picture. Knowland's decision to run for governor instead of seeking reelection to the Senate was a big gamble.

There is little doubt that it was dictated by White House aspirations. History has shown that" governors of big states have a much better chance of becoming President than members of the Senate. This does not mean that Knowland hopes, to be the Republican nominee for President in 1960. A number of factors, including his fellow California Republican, Vice President Nixon, stand in the way. His program, it would appear, is to put himself in a more strategic 'position for 1964, or in the event that unexpected developments should occur before then.

Knowland apparently feels that age and time are on his side. He is 50. Brown is 53, and in the same position in this respect. Knowland probably also is genuinely interested in giving California his variety of conservative Republican government and organizing the state as a Republican stronghold. He has regarded the Knight administration as wishy-washy.

Knight was at first inclined to resist Knowland's attempt to get the Republican nomination for governor. But as he saw his supporters dwindling in favor of the energetic Knowland, he withdrew and ran for the Senate instead. In announcing' his candidacy, Knowland espoused a "right to work" law for California. This has won him the special enmity of labor leaders, who are out to beat him at all costs. Apparently, however.

Knowland figures he can count on reaction to union scandals, even among the ranks of union members, to help him, and that he can make been writing me with reference to my Mail Bag letter. Again this week we have received two more letters from your readers seeking information on mismated shoes for those suffering with polio. It must be a source of much satisfaction to you to learn that through your columns you find for them the means to secure just the footwear they need without the need to buy two pairs of shoes to enable them to wear one pair. The saving throughout the year is important. I neglected to make mention in my earlier remarks about our Foundation a non-profit organization of our present addition of both canvas and waterproof footwear in the mismated sizes.

This means that thousands will be able to buy one pair of rubbers or overshoes or tennis canvas shoes in mismated sizes without buying two pairs. Our sponsors shoe manufacturershave enabled us to do what we do and have helped to finance the Foundation when it needed help. In the meantime we have thousands of shoes in leather, in canvas, and waterproof footwear to bring to those who are in need of such footwear. Thanks to your wonderful newspaper coverage those living around Camden have already been so advised. BENEFIT SHOE FOUNDATION, Reformatory TV, Justice in Greece I really got a charge out of reading one page of your Thursday, Sept.

4th, Issue. It contained news items that honestly went from the ridiculous to the sublime: So, the Bordentown Reformatory requests a mere 12,000 bucks of the taxpayers' hard-earned dough to provide TV sets for the poor inmates, between the ages of 16 and 30, who have run seriously foul enough of the law to draw a first sentence up there. Wonderful! Just too, too won-. derful I happen to know of some cases where the father of a family, beset by illness, goes forth every day to hard, but honest, labor, and between taxes, high cost of living and medical bills can't afford a TV set for his home! And, if my eyesight is right, only today, 9958 I read where three teenage youths were caught and returned to Jamesburg State Home for Boys from where they had escaped last Thursday (same day as request for the TV sets appeared), and, during- their brief period of freedom they stole a car, then broke into and looted a Paulsboro bowling alley. Dear Editor: Maybe they insist on color TV up there! Then, I go over to the "sublime" column and read something that makes, to me, some common sense: "Even the Greeks had a word for it," (Kaka Pathea, which means "bad They also have a "remedy" for it.

two measures that are considered likely to pass at the 1959 session. Tax Foundation says that the record total of spending amassed by the 85th Congress "may presage Federal budgets in the $80 billion range for several years to come." It adds that "the full inflationary impact of expenditures from the fiscal 1959 authorizations will not be felt until later years." Spending authority voted this year includes $6412 billion in new 1959 appropriations (not including appropriation of postal receipts); $8Vt billion in "permanent" appropriations, mostly for interest on the $280-odd billion national debt; $6 billion in borrowing authority for the farm, housing, and Export-Import Bank programs; $3 billion increases in various annual appropriations, half of this for national defense; and $1 billion in borrowing and contract authority for the current fiscal year. So, Mr. Average Workingman, if you thought you were paying heavy taxes last year when you shelled out $2320, you simply didn't know when you were well off. For not only are Federal spending and Federal taxes going up, but so are state and local spending and taxes.

Tax collections from Americans during the 1957 fiscal year totaled $99 billion, the Census Bureau reports. Federal taxes went up 7 percent during the year. State taxes were up 8.6 percent. Taxes at local levels of government were up 11.7 percent. The total collections, of course, set a new record.

And they averaged $580 for every man, woman and child. An average workingman with a wife and two children paid out $2320 in taxes for the year before he began earning the wherewithal to feed, clothe and house his family and take care of other family expenses. These figures are shocking enough, or should be. But the Tax Foundation comes up with still others, gathered from the recent session of Congress, that deserve the word "ominous" which it applies to them. The late Congress set a peaceful record of appropriations and other forms of spending authority aggregating $83 billion dollars.

The total includes $74 billion in spending authority voted for the current year, plus $9 billion in supplemental appropriations and other spending authority that passed this Congress, but technically was allocated is the increase, percentage-wise, in the number of county employes for the past 5 years? The past 10 years? If you are sincere in your desire to cater to the taxpayers of the county, you will lose no time in sponsoring a resolution demanding that the board hold their meetings at night so that more "irate citizens" will be able to attend. Or maybe too many people asking questions wouldn't be too good for your party. On the basis of what has been published in The Courier-Post in recent months, I'll repeat what I said on Sept. 4th (1) that a full scale investigation of all county operations is in order, and (2) that the late Dave Baird, whom your party criticized, before you gainW control of the county government, was a novice and a piker compared to your back-breaking high taxes and the hiring of political "drones." Incidentally, Mr. Sandone, why didn't you tell the public that among those who attended the Sept.

4th board meeting were "disgusted Will be seeing you at the next board meeting. N. MARINELLA Pennsauken Rook Postal Rate The average American is paying out to the last fiscal year. On the same page that con- The $83 billion does not take into ac- approximately one-third of his income tained the TV budget request, Raise Postponed count Federal pay increases and new now in taxes. How long will it be Ath parad two Reference is made to your before it's one-half? juvenile delinquents through spending auuioniy in uie iiuusmg ueiu, editorial which appeared in the Wc Gladly Apologize Urban Renewal Plan Voice of the Press Just Let's Not Play Politics With This! The Bergen Record says: Governor Meyner's threat of mandatory suspeasion of drivers' licenses loses something in the stentorian reply.

Extrinsi-cally interesting is the fact it came about the same time the Republican Senate announced its intention of providing two license plates next year instead As a letter from Postmaster Praiss in today's Mail Bag informs us, the, Tostoffice Department has indefinitely postponed increases in the rates for mailing books to foreign countries which we recently criticized. The postponement was ordered before the editorial appeared, but unfortunately does not appear to have had the publicity the original order received. We apologize for our ignorance of the postponement and thank Postmaster Praiss for calling it to our attention. Now we hope the department sticks by its guns and keeps the present rates in force. E.

J. DUQUETTE, Manager 861 Broad Providence 7, R. Plan Hobby Show For 60-Plussers The 60-Plus Club of Greater Camden would like to know if any citizens of South Jersey over 60 years of age, men or women, would be interested in exhibiting their hobbies. The date, if enough are interested, would be set early in November. The probable date would be Nov.

12. The place of exhibition would be the Camden YMCA and the time the hobbies would be exhibited would be from 11 a. m. to 4 p. m.

We of the club feel this might be quite an incentive to retired people by showing the benefits of taking up a hobby. The hobbies would be anything usually coming under that category except pets. For example, unique collections, stamp collections, handicraft, handiwork, novelty jewelry, ceramics, paintings, carvings, floriculture, and many other types of hobby collections. If interested write the 60 Plus Club of Greater Camden at the YMCA, 614 Federal Camden. Or if you so desire write to me direct, Stuart Macintosh, RD 1, Pemberton.

STUART MACKINTOSH, Recording Secretary, 60 Plus Club of Greater Camden Alligator Killing In the Sept. 10 issue of The Courier-Post there is an article about a very brave state trooper who unnecessarily killed an exhausted alligator. I do not think he is a hero. There undoubtedly was some other way to trap and catch this al ligator without killing it. It could have been given to the Philadelphia zoo' until rightly claimed.

This officer used very poor judgment. MRS. HELEN WARNER Pennsauken Courier-Post of Wednesday, Sept. 10, 1958, under the heading "PO Money-Grabbing." In connection with this article referring to the mail rate to Latin America, I am enclosing a postal bulletin from the Post-office Department under date of Aug. 25, 1958, which reads as follows: a "Revision of International Postage Rates: "The rates prescribed for books in the first two paragraphs under 'Printed Matter in the notice under 'Revision of International Postage Rates' published on page 3 of the Postal Bulletin of July 10, 1958, are postponed until further notice, and the rates for such books in force and effect immediately prior to the publication of such notice are hereby continued in force and effect.

EDWARD PRAISS, Postmaster 3Iismated Shoes For Polio Victims Please pardon my apparent neglect in notifying you that several of your readers have Famous Fables the streets with placards hung about their necks stating their offense, which was throwing a bottle of sour cream in a woman's face. In addition, their heads were shaved and the seats of their britches cut out, Same two punks, over here, would draw a suspended sentence and told to go home and try to be nice boys. Why, man alive, you can even have a previous record, then go forth, attack a young pregnant woman; or rape another who goes into such a state of shock that she will probably spend the rest of her days in a mental institutionand then have your name come up not once, but twice, within a short time, for parole even though civic organizations fought against your first appeal. To me, and I may be wrong, but first offenders, especially those committing armed roh-bery, should be taught a not so-' soon-forgotten lesson, that crime does not pav or does it? JOHNNY LESLIE Parkside Freeholders Queried By 'Irate Citizen' Freeholder Joseph M. San-dime's statement of Sept.

i)th expresses great concern over "the views of the citizens of our county." As one of the "irate citizens" attending the Sept. 4th meeting of, the board, I- disagree with contention that the charges hurled at the meeting "were without foundation and were empty of fact." How about answering the following questions, Mr. Sandone? ment to decide who shall meet Mikhail Botvinndk for tha world's chess championship. Those who have followed Bobby's stirring matches in the competition just concluded in Yugoslavia know that gave an exhibition of skill, courage and determination that would have done credit to a master twice his age. We are rightfully proud of Out of Step The New York World-Telegram says: Russia claims the invention of a new fungus fertilizer which will grow carrots as long as baseball bats and cabbages as big as barrage balloons, American interest at the moment, however, lies in anooSer direction.

What we happen to be looking for is a fungus that won't inflate anything but, rather, reduce our crop surpluses to microsicopie si7, English Lessons Words often misused: Distinguish between observance Establishment of Camden's first urban renewal program may be the ultimate solution of the Hooding problem in the Parkside-South Camden area centering around Kaighns ave. and 9th st. The City Planning Board holds out that hope to residents and businessmen in the affected area in seeking an engineering consultant to study the possibilities of such a project. If decided on and accepted by the Federal Government, the problem of cost of constructing a storm sewer system in the area adequate to cope with flooding would be solved, as Federal financial aid would be granted. The renewal project proposed would differ materially from the redevelopment program soon to be initiated in the eight-block South Camden area bounded by Kaighns Front, Locust and Walnut sts, This and other redevelopment programs involve razing of all properties in the area and turning over the land to private enterprise for industrial 'development.

The Parkside urban renewal project would only entail the destruction of properties not considered capable of salvaging. Others would be repaired and restored if in blighted condition now. Boundaries for the urban renewal program have not yet been fixed and the whole project, of course, is in the first formative -stage. But the idea is promising. Selection of the consultant and his subsequent report will be eagerly awaited.

Quote of the Day I'm interested in 1958 and 1959 at this moment, and should like to postpone any evaluation of my future beyond 1959 until we get to I960. Governor Meyner, Air, Si eel and Lungs Rust costs the nation billion a year, a research firm tells us. It varies according to rainfall, wind, gases, sunlight and salt water present in different localities. The time it takes to eat away identical test panels of sheet steel varies from 3 years in some seacoast and lake cities to 15 years in Arizona and New Mexico. In all major industrial areas the rust rate is less than 4 years.

In this one it's 3 years and 8 months, just about the median. The moral of this little item is that if our air is so full of corrosive elements that eat away steel, what must it do to our lungs? of the one earlier decided on. The difference is $811,000. It is to be hoped the governor's safety-consciousness is sufficiently pervasive to forestall a politically oriented charge of waste. The single license plate has been demonstrated to be a handicap in law enforcement and thus an encouragement of bad driving habits.

If there's any waste involved in New Jersey plates two to the car, this will be in Hie legend "Garden Slate." If the Republican members of the State Senate are as safety-minded as their concern for two plates indicates, they should be as much interested as the governor in the possibilities of mandatory and automa-' tic suspension. Mr. Meyner has made this threat before, and the waste of inaction is the greater for the threat's being soundly motivated. If the governor will keep his mouth closed on the two-plate issue and the Senate will open its mouth on new suspension legislation, the values of a bipartisan approach to a nonpolitical problem would be demonstrated. Just finish the dovetail that has been inadvertently begun! Cheer for Bobby The New York Times says: Chess fans all over the United States are toasting Bobhy Fischer and we are happy to Visit: English novelist Thomas Hardy was inclined to be taciturn.

On one occasion, a literary critic who found himself near the novelist's home decided to drop in and pay his respects. Hardy greeted him with a nod and showed him into the Isn it a fact that the Demo our taxes 'study, where they sat facing crats have raised each olher. Hardy did not utter every year since gaining con trol or the board? Why is it necessary to raise tneeaing; obeying paying respect) and observation (scrutiny; study, close looking). Thus: "These people are strict in their observance of the rules," and, "All his facts are drawn from his own observation." Often mispronounced: Prosaic. Pronounce proh-zay-ick, accent on second syllable.

Often misspelled: Repair; "air." "ar." Synonyms: Revelation, re-vealment, disclosure, exposure, uncovering. Word study: "Use a word three times and it is yours." Let us increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: Raucous hoarse, harsh; rough. (Pronounce rock-uss.) "lie could hear the raucous voice of tha people." a syllable. Confronted with a silent host, the critic groped desperately for something to say.

Suddenly the words poured forth. He talked on and on for what seemed an interminable time. Then just as suddenly, he stopped, exhausted. "You must forgive me for taking up so much of your time," he stammered. Reaching for his hat, he fled.

Outside, he looked at his watch and learned that he had been Jars Wanted Anyone having quart Jars to give away, please call YE 1-5066. LENA ZLMMER Mt. Ephraim You're Welcome The members of the West Collingswood Woman's Club wish to thank you for the publicity given to the club the past year. VIRGINIA FORANCO, Corresponding Secretary county taxes 7 percent more than county assessments? How much money has the board spent for the past nine years to take care of county roads and various other improvements in Camden City where your boss Mayor Brunner resides? This is a good question. Why do we in Pennsauken Township have to pay 32 per-cpnt for county taxes when Bad 'News for Fish Since 1950, fishing license sales have shown an average annual increase of 560,000.

Percentagewise, this is a growth rate twice as fast as that of the population as a whole. About 11.5 percent of the whole population, men, women and children, now has fishing licenses. join in the acclaim. At Id, this youngster from Brooklyn has become the youngest international grand master in chess and has qualified for next year's tourna the average of 21 counties in the state is 17.6 percent? What in the house five minutes,.