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Congressional Back Scratchers Wisconsin Report Lucey Recognizes Value of Kennedy Campaign Methods Green Bay Press -Gazette FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 20, 1965 A DAILY THOUGHTt He only fi my rock and my salvation He my tfe-fense; I thall not grtatly moved. -Piom 62:2. It Is God on whom we ihbuld depend for strength and wisdom in meeting the problems of life. Only man et he is guided by God's wisdom can really help us. By JOHN WYNGAARD MADISON-Patrlck J.

Lucey has launched hli campaign for the governorship with a convincing demonstration of Democratic Party worker support and an ability to collect the The Specter of Water Pollution But an onlooker might alio guess that, aside front th potential value of the name association, Lucey'i most Import ant legacy from the Kennedy campaign of 1960 and the Ken-nedy administration association was his training In the Kennedy style of hard-nosed political campaign management. Perhaps there was never a more meticulously organised delegate solicitation in this state than that directed from the Boston headquarters of the Ken money which it the lndepens-able fuel of latter day elec a 1 persua- tion. There Is usually some ex-aggera 1 1 In the publicity accounts of money raising affairs in politics, but even Wyngaard Much has been heard and written recently about the water shortage problem In the northeastern United States, but this is only part of I problem which is rapidly growing to a national crisis. We refer to water pollution. Gov.

Knowles recently demanded more decisive action in water pollution control and prevention In Wisconsin, where a good many more anti-pollution measures have been taken during the Inst decade end a half than in most other states. The immensity of the national problem was recently described by Sen. Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin. His remarks bear repetition in that they emphasize what many people probably have thought about only superficially. The senator pointed out that the growing shortage of water In the United States would reach a crisis stage in from 10 to 15 years.

He noted that present needs of 350 billion gallons a day will rise to 600 billion gallons in 1980 and 1,000 billion gallons at the turn of the century. Meanwhile, unless something is done about it, pollution will cut down the availability of water for many purposes, including human needs. The situation will require a mas-give assault on pollution that could cost $100 billion in the next two decades because of the damage already done to the nation's waterways by sewage, chemicals and pesticides, Mr. Nelson warned. Pointing out that there is no major waterway in the country which is not polluted, the senator said, "We have gone our merry way polluting major rivers, underground water supplies and all of the Great Lakes, which is the greatest collection of fresh water in the world.

Lake Erie is almost destroyed and we are well on the way to destroying all of the Great Lakes, which could become vast chemical septic tanks within the next 10 to 20 years." There undoubtedly will be a division of opinion over whether the federal government or the states should take the lead in fighting pollution. Sen. Nelson, on this subject, says he supported state rights and state control. But he noted that under this system solely "We have polluted all the streams of America in a catastrophic failure." Sen. Nelson said he agrees with Sen.

Kennedy of New York that it will take massive federal grants to attack the pollution problem. The tremendous cost, however, would more than be offset by benefits which would be obtained. Time is growing short in the nationwide fight against pollution. As each day goes by with its outpouring of pollutants into streams and lakes it means that the problem will become increasingly more severe and much more difficult to overcome. To delay the battle much longer could well mean reaching a point where pollution would be irreversible.

in a conservation account the probable net proceeds of $80,000 in an off-year is a respectable achievement. Remembering that the Lucey $50 a plate dinner last weekend was almost surely the first of a series of such events, it poses a melancholy reminder of the financial realities of contemporary politics, whatever the Idealists In both parties may be lieve or want to believe. Remembering that the Lucey solicitations will be matched by many others by other candidates, in both parties, during the next year, one wonders about the patience of the party contributors, including those who in the nature of their environments are expected to respond to the appeals of both sides. There must be survivors of the time when a $49.50 was a generous gift to a political SCpAtCH Mine AMP Scratch nedys In 1959 and 1960. Wisconsin has seen many powerful presidential delegate campaigns, In spite of its comparatively insignificant size on the national political geography, because of the circumstance of its early and nationally publicized presidential primary.

But few of them matched the Kennedy effort for depth of planning, breadth of detail, and most im-portant of all, comfortable financing. All of this Is now ancient history, but it has a contemporary relevance because Pat Lucey was there, as a kind of Wisconsin home ground chief-of-staff, and learned his lessons well. The Band-Wagon An essential rule of party politics is gratitude. There were awkward inferences in the involvement of Sen. Kennedy in the kickoff of the Lucey campaign in a state which has an open primary.

The new Kennedy clan leader acknowledged them, as In his overt gesture toward David Carley, the prospective Lucey challenger for the gubernatorial nomination, end again in his generous praise for President Johnson. But these will be dismissed as window dressing. The fact that Kennedy was there, paying off a five-year-old debt to an old friend could not be mistaken. Kennedy Is in Lucey's corner. The Lucey objective is to establish a bandwagon atmosphere.

A primary battle is costly in morale and in money and energy. The elimination of prospective challengers would make the road to the election measurably easier. Lucey Is announcing to the Democrats the lesson that Kennedy delivered join up now, and have your reward when the time comes. CL own PEOPLE'S FORUM Leltert Intended lor publication In the People'i Forum should be LIMITED to 400 words and must Invariably Shirley Jackson and Fantasy treasurer who are musing nostalgically nowadays. The Kennedy Style Lucey chose to launch his own unannounced campaign for the Democratic nomination with a public reminder of his association with the late President Kennedy through the device of a banquet speech from Sen.

Robert Kennedy, heir to the Kennedy family's political operations. No one who watched the dinner audience in Milwaukee last Sunday night could doubt that the Kennedy appeal remains strong among many Democrats, especially on the distaff side, or that it helped Lucey to sell tickets and to fill the banquet room. of whom I have been fortunate enough to call friends, 1 have often heard these derogatory terms. True or no, the most logical explanations that I have heard were given to me about 20 years ago by an Italian man in his 70s. In his still-broken English, he explained that a guinea was a piece of money that they had in the old country and that they still translated their day's laboring wages into the equivalent of guineas.

When asked wha they were working for, they'd reply, 'A guinea a "And these same laboring men, doing hard work for little pay and usually raising large families to become good American citizens, developed a philosophy to enable them to bear their burdens patiently 'Day come, day go' hence Twenty Years Ago Today she meant to convey how close she felt violence and brutality were to the surface of the most civilized appearing people. In others of her stories and novels she was right at home with witches and demons and accepted their existence. It seemed that she expected and understood a variety of lives of what might be called a variety of worlds and that people were not very different no matter in which they lived. "You all want the world changed so you will be different," one of her characters In "The Sundial" says. "But I don't suppose people get changed any by just a new world.

And anyway that world isn't any more real than this one." Shirley Jackson, who died unexpectedly last week, was a master at portraying the humor of her family life in an unconventional household full of children, cats and frenetic ideas. But her stories on the edge of fantasy and sometimes horror seemed almost as if her own pen had been dipped in some formula stirred up by black magic. Miss Jackson's most famous short-story, now included in most volumes for high school and college study, was "The Lottery," a chilling account of what appeared to be a commonplace segment of society with a definitely extraordinary tradition. Expert Have argued over the precision Of her meaning but apparently Washington Explanations for Riots Often Ignore Responsibility It true that these two heats are made up mostly of inexperienced drivers and they are more likely to have the majority of the accidents? Is it also true that the more drivers you have on a track, the greater the number of accidents? Well, then why? It can only be one of these answers: You have too many drivers and people come to see smashups or else the less heats the more profit. Neither answer is worth sacrificing the driver's safety.

Seven or eight rollover occurred In last Sunday's 16-car consolation race. One of them sent a driver to the hospital. Was it worth the $30 you saved by not having two consolations? Maybe it would have happened anyway, but the chances were greater with that many cars. You talk about safety on the track when you demand that every car have rollbars and seat belts, but I don't think you really care when you pull something like this. The young drivers who are faced with these racing conditions are getting discouraged and are going to give it up before long.

If the young drivers are quitting, where is the future of stock car racing when the present drivers quit? Remember you barred Darwin Paul for intentionally hitting other stock cars, but what do you do with a promoter who intentionally endangers the safety of the driver in order to create excitement for the people? As a fan, I call this very bad bear the name and address of the writer as evidence of good faith. The Editor reserves the right to edit all such letters and If necessary to shorten them to conform to the needs of the column. Let the People Vote Editor, Press-Gazette: Why are the aldermen and mayor of Green Bay against allowing the taxpayers of the city the right to vole on Alouez joining the city? It appears to me that through our elected representatives, the Allouez problem is being forced on the taxpayers of Given Bay. Attachment for school purposes was by court order and we must respect our courts for the authority they represent. However, total annexation is not being brought about by our courts, but rather being forced upon us by our City Council.

I personally was not for Preble consolidation, but through our democratic process, the majority voted for, rather than against Preble and it is now part of Green Bay. This I have accepted and now say let's 'make the best of It and grow and prosper together because It was the wish of the majority. However, It appears that our elected officials have decided that we are not capable of making a decision in the Allouez matter and would rather take that decision out of our hands. Is this right? Is this the American way? My compliments to Sam Hal-loirt, who summed up "It's easier to sell 30 people in Green Bay on the idea than 80,000." I wish I could say Mr. Halloin, or any of the other 12 aldermen who voted against annexation, was my representative on the City Council, but no, my representative, Mr.

Katers, voted to deny me, my neighbors and all his constituents the right to vole through a consolidation ordinance. I urge all taxpayers of Green Bay to contact their aldermen and ask them for the democra Checkmate for Chess Player By WILLIAM S. WHITE WASHINGTON The bloody horror at Los Angeles has produced the predictable outcries from the apologists for any and every Negro crime of violence. It all must be blamed not upon those who committed it but rather upon poor housing, un employment, inadequate ci i 1 rights or simply someth i vaguely called sociological un-happiness. This explanation wholly rejects a thing called personal sponsibillty.

Thus 1 ti taste. Stock Car Fan The formal surrender of Japan will be signed within 10 days, General MacArthur announced. He will go to Tokyo to receive the capitulation. Eight Green Bay sailors who enlisted and trained together are enjoying a simultaneous leave at home. They are James Vande Hei, Jack Mathys, Dean Doherty, Buck Kline, Gene Pin-chard, Bob Callahan, Walter Dettmann and George Sharp.

Construction of the midway for the 37th annual Northeastern Wisconsin Fair is now under way. The fair opens Wednesday. Ann Dorr Murphy captured two ribbons in riding competition at Camp Meenahga, Fish Creek. Cobb's Bread won the second half championship of the Victory Industrial League with a 22-4 win over Westphal. The Bakers will meet the Press-Gazette in a playoff for first half honors tonight.

Four Green Bay girls are entered in the Women's Western Open Golf tournament at Chicago. They are state champion Mary McMillin, Arleen Tweet, Amber Cook and Ruth Rothe. The Wisconsin State League will soon be ready to resume play in the opinion of president Herman White and Bluejay president Bobby Lynch. be held blameworthy because he is irresponsible the same Negro for whom the most far-reaching voting rights bill in history has just been passed because he was ready for this highest responsibility In a democratic society. With many Americans, the apologists will have had their way; they always do.

But it is interesting to note that among one Important set of Americans -the politicians the song is not going down so well any more. Urgent 2nd Thoughts All over this country urban-based politicians, many of whom have made a career of agitating for the most extreme of Negro demands, so long as only the South was the field of battle, are having some urgent second thoughts. It is not possible any more to point the finger at Montgomery or Little Rock or some such place. The politicians are at last getting the message that the, vast majority in this nation, north no less than south, Negro and white, are tired of violence and destruction even in the name of civil rights reforms which rightly they support. Not anywhere hereafter is there going to be so much profit in a politics of egging on criminal destructiveness for the alleged purpose of promoting fair play.

Irremedlal Harm White William Morris Use of Alright Not Condoned By Columnist The Department of State was upheld in the courts a couple of months ago in its insistence that it could ban travel of Americans to Cuba as not in the nation's interest. Now it appears that it is stuck with the decision. United States chess champion Bobby Fischer requested permission to visit Cuba to play in the Capablan-ca Memorial Tournament, an international chess affair to be held in Havana later this month. Since the State Department does bend its ban to permit journalists or businessmen who had business interests in Cuba previous to Castro's take-over to travel, Fischer also had contracts with a couple of American magazines for articles on the trip. But the State Department turned thumbs down and said the articles were only by-products of his visit.

Obviously the State Department would like to pretend that nothing goes on in Cuba like chess tournaments. But Fischer is getting around the restriction at least in part by making arrangements to take part in the tournament by phone or cable, not under State's jurisdiction. Since there was no question of Fischer's sympathy to either Castro or communism, the whole affair has made the State Department look pretty silly. We've agreed with the administration's insistence that different Communist countries require different treatment, depending upon their current aims and attitudes. But it makes little sense that Americans are not permitted to visit Cuba while they can trade on a limited scale with Eastern European satellites, our gov-vernment authorities are in constant conference with Red Chinese delegates and we sell wheat to Russia.

Fischer was turned down most likely because the Department of State couldn't very well let him go when the court case which upheld its right to restrict involved another American who merely wanted to see what was going on. The incident has also enabled Castro to get into the act to try to make some political headway. Hearing that Castro has commented disparagingly on the State Department, an alarmed Fischer sent Fidel a cable announcing his withdrawal from the tournament unless Castro would "send me immediate cable assuring me that you and your government seek and claim no political benefit from my participation." Castro did not do exactly that but he did wire Fischer that he never said anything in the first place. This is all nit picking. The Department of State ought to be somewhat more dignified than to be concerned with whether an American whose patriotism is not questioned goes to Havana to play chess.

and arson and murder and savage contempt for the elementary obligation not to destroy the lives and property of others are excused because those who have done these things felt unhappy and ill-treated by life. That deprivations are contributory to crime is, of course, true. That such deprivations among the American Negro community and among the poorer and more forgotten whites as well should be and must be and are being corrected is Dear Mr. Morris: A couple of tic way in the Allouez matter, the privilege of a majority vote by the people of Green Bay. A Denied Taxpayer Forty Years Ago Today Preserving Nature's Beauties Suamico Complaint Editor, Press-Gazette: Boy oh Boy! It is getting so people are being told where they can live and in what they can live.

I live in the Town of Suamico and I have eight acres of land. My two children are getting married so they each bought themselves a housetrailer. They cannot afford to build a new house or to pay the high rent in town. There is a committee of three that says they can only have their trailer in the Town of Suamico if they buy an acre of land from a neighbor of ours that only lives a mile away from us and is even closer to the Town 'of Suamico than we are. The big laugh about this deal Is the man with the land for sale is on the committee against the trailers.

So he will agree to it and make himself some money in the deal. My daughter talked to a gentleman from Suamico and he said they might outlaw all trail weeks ago a news story in the local paper used the word "alright." At this I raised my eyebrows but was not too surprised typographical error, I thought. Two days later, however, the political cartoon on page one of the same paper had "alright" in big, bold letters. Now I'm wondering if as a teacher of English, was wrong in teaching my students the adage, "Don't be all wrong, be all right." In other words, is "alright" ever right? Mrs. Roger Nichols, Oshkosh, Wis.

Dear Mrs. Nichols: Stick to your guns. You're right; "alright" is wrong, despite the statement in a highly permissive new dictionary that "alright is in reputable use." That's the same dictionary, by the way, that solemnly advises us that "ain't is used orally in most parts of the United States by many cultivated speakers." A much more reliable statement on "alright" is this from the authoritative Writer's Guide and Index to English by Porter Perrln: "Alright is a natural analogy with altogether and already but at present it Is found only in advertising, comic strips, In unedited writing and, rarely, in fiction. It will be worth watching to see if alright makes its way into general English. In the meantime, be on your guard." Recently we commented here on a letter reporting that, though the words "dago" and "wop" also true.

Appalling Nonsence But to argue, as many are doing, that personal deprivation can and should be put in evidence as any kind of justification for homicidal mania is to argue the most appalling and destructive of nonsense. The Hitler Germans, for one illustration, were undeniably ill-housed, ill-employed and full of what is now fashionably called the disease of hopelessness. And many of the same kinds of minds that are now weeping not for the victims in Los Angeles but rather for the Negro rioters were shedding similar and syrupy tears for the poor Germans three decades ago. All this then immensely armed the Hitlerites, as all this now immensely arms the lawless in this country. Indeed, the development of a climate that condones murder and rapine for sociological reasons is more dreadful to contemplate even than the passing physical and human shambles In the Negro area of Los Angeles.

The Sleeping Bear Dunes in Michigan and the Oregon Dunes on the Pacific Coast are beautiful shoreline areas which can give enjoyment and inspiration to those wishing to see nature in its finest styles. Congress has been asked to preserve them and recent hearings have shown the desirability of preserving thern. The Sleeping Bear Dunes rise prominently 460 feet above Lake Michigan. Nearby there are inland lakes, streams, hills formed by glaciers, and hardwood forests in their pristine atate. The Oregon Dunes are of the same height and are constantly shifting near white-sand ocean beach, lakes and forests of spruce and fir.

Now that the congressional hearings have been held with evidence presented that they are gems of nature, action should be taken to preserve them. Further delays can boost their purchase price, make them subject to spoilation and also hold in suspense nearby property owners who already have had to wait six years since the original proposals were made to add the dunes to the national shoreline system. This could be another case where hesitation might eliminate natural beauty spots which all citizens have a right to expect will be preserved not only for their own delight but for that of future generations as well. Of course, irremedlal harm will have been done harm to this nation's honor abroad, to what seems to be a dying tradition of some civility In public affairs and public issues, to the old dream of a society based upon a belief that rights march only with duty and that privilege is limited by some obligation. But even from the thorns perhaps a small gain may at least be plucked.

Perhaps the automatic cry of "police brutality" will one day cease if and when the bodies of underpaid policemen killed in line of duty are photographed along with all the pictures of police billies descending upon automatically innocent heads. Public Determines Street Spelling FRESNO, Calif. (AP) The City Planning Commission found out what's in a name when it held a public hearing to decide how to spell the name of a street. Planning staff members recommended the name Florodora, as it's spelled on city street signs. The county spells It Flo-radora, because, a city traffic engineer says "oversight" by a young county engineer.

The final score was Flora 4, Floro 1. Applications for membership in the new Columbus Community Club will be ready Sept. 1. DeLair's Cafe closes tomorrow morning after an existence of 20 years, during which it achieved a reputation all over the middle west. The final dinner menu will be served tonight.

The cafe was opened by the late George DeLair in 1905. Dr. B. C. Brett, who enters his 93rd year Sunday, urges moderation in smoking and absolute abstinance from liquor for longevity.

Born in Maine and a surgeon in the Civil War, Dr. Brett settled in Green Bay in 1872. Entered In the championship flight of the women's golf tournament at the Fox River County Club are defending champion Ruth Rhode, the Mmes. W. J.

McCormick, C. B. Rich, Harold Walker, A. B. Turnbull, A.

E. Winter, L. H. Barkhausen and Miss Helen Rhode. Will H.

Dilg, International president and founder of the Izaak Walton League, will address the state convention here Oct. 15. Season tickets for Packer home games are now on sale. Atty. Ray Evrard is chairman of the finance committee.

Eddie LeMere and R. Schaut will compete in the motorcylcle races at Stevens Point Sunday, ers, including the 4 ones there now which is quite a few. Are you people of Suamico going to sit still for this outrage and take a chance of having your home pulled out from under your family. Fight. Disgusted Too Many Cars Editor, Press-Gazette: To Mr.

John Marquis, stock car promoter at Luxemburg Speedway. I would like to know what your reason is for running 16 cars in the consolation and first heat races at Luxemburg. Isn't Arms U.S. Enemies For this arms all the enemies of this nation abroad and adds venom to the slander of American purposes abroad, as in Viet Nam. No less, ironically, it slanders the American Negro at home, for the bottom meaning of the dreary song being sung by the apologists for Negro violence is Inescapably what? It is that the Negro is not to Editorial Paragraphs In ca.e you don't think it pays to advertise, remember that there are 26 mountains in Colorado that are higher than Pike's Peak.

Indianola (Iowa) Record-Herald. People come in three classes: the few who make things happen, the many who are regarded as derogatory labels for people of Italian ancestry, sometimes they are used jokingly, even affectionately, among Italians themselves. Here's another comment on this from a Milwaukee reader: "Having lived in the East for many years where there are large groups of Italians, many watch things happen, and the overwhelming majority who have little or no idea what happened. Plainview (Tex.) Herald. An old medical textbook says that happy people have fewer diseases than unhappy people.

The moral seems to be that the surly bird catches the germ. Portland Oregonian. 1).