The Daily Telegram from Eau Claire, Wisconsin • Page 4

EDITORIALS FEATURES Steel Settlement Affects Everyone Time for Rude Awoktnin Everybody's happy about the steel iettlement. There won't be a nationwide strike. The bundle won by the United Steelworkers Is the biggest ever, amounting to around 90 cents an hour for its WASHINGTON CALLING Trucking Industry Lobby Gets Its Way By MARQUIS CHILOS WASHINGTON Congress is playing the oldest of the old politics in the last gasp. In the frenetic, steamy, emotional windup days the lobbyists for the big-spending blocs get in their licks. The champions in this playoff are the truckers and the highway lobbyists.

They have succeeded in pushing through a bill that will work great harm on the road network and in the cities where a precedent has been set for dictation by Congress in chopping through freeways regardless of human considerations. Conservationists and city planners are dismayed at what they see as the tyranny of the motorcar and its hold through interlocking interests on a major segment of the economy. Thanks to aggressive investigative reporting, it has been shown that truckers made generous "contributions" to key members of the house public works m- mittee. By the kind of specious "compromise" characterist i of the last-minute raids bill ready for final passage and the President's signature ro- vides an additional 1,500 miles to the federal highway system. Parcelled out among the states this is the bait to draw support from every region.

By another sham "compromise" the effort to eliminate billboards from the federal highways is all but ruled out. In a gesture that seems almost contemptuous $2,000,000 is provided for the entire 50 states to compensate billboard owners where the state may require a billboard taken down. But there can be no such requirement unless federal funds are available for compen- Childs sation. Precedents Set By dictating where freeways shall pass through the city of Washington a precedent is set that can be applied, as the powerful public works committee sees fit, to other cities. One of the sources of deep hostility in the ghettos of America is he way in which these concrete rivers with their incessant flow of traffic displace slum dwellings, with little or no provision for the families thrown onto the street by the bulldozer.

Where the power of the truckers' lobby hits the traveling public hardest is on the weight and size of the giant trucks that clog the highways. The public works committee writes into a bill provisions for increasing the total weight from 38 tons to 69 tons and width from eight to eight and a half feet. The obvious hazard to motorists has brought organizations such as the American Automobile Association into the fray against the truckers' lobby. There is no real limit on length, and experimental units with three trailers are already on the highways. For political muscle the opposition cannot match the billions at the disposal of the truckers and their spokesmen on the public works committee.

Is Trucking Subsidy The federal highway system is, in effect, a subsidy for the trucking industry. One of the few members of the House with the courage to fight the lobby and the interlocking directorate in Congress, Rep. Fred Schwengel Iowa) says that the increase in weight will add up to $3 billion to the federal highway bill for strengthening bridges and roads. For his attempt to block the bill Schwengel was derided on the floor as a "polecat," language so abusive it was later stricken from the record He protested that the rules committee hat pushed the measure through with less than an hour of discussion. Schwengel marshalled a mass of expert testimony to show the perils in legis lating by fiat of special-interest groups.

But that is the temper of Congress, illustrat ing the way in which the spending pattern ex tends across the executive and legislative branches, with close links to private interests that stand to benefit. This built-in spending pattern uniting Congressional committees with the bureaucracy of old line government departments makes it difficult or impossible to find funds for urgent new needs revealed by the urban crisis. A similar spending pattern in what is in many ways a far more serious area was evident in passage of the sacrosanct military appropriations bill. Rep. Jeffrey Cohelan Calif.) moved to strike out $263,300,000 for deployment of the so-called thin line anti-ballistic missile system.

This produced a storm of rhetoric with chairman Mendel Rivers of the Armed Services Committee invoking "your men in uniform, your men who are sworn to die for America," "begging for this system day in and day out, year in and year out." It turned out to be down-with- McNamara day as the former Secretary of Defense was denounced for opposing the over-all ABM system and finally capitulating for a $5 billion ABM aimed at protection from Chinese missiles in the '70s. The rational argument for a start on the limited systems was that this put the United States in a position of strength in the forthcoming negotiations with the Soviet Union. But, as Rep. Richard L. Ottinger N.

pointed out, once a start is made there is no stopping and the pressures will grow for the full $50 billion ABM. Whether it is the Eisenhower military-industrial complex or the truckers, the private spenders get their way in the hectic closing hours. (Copyright, 1N8, By United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) hundreds of thousands of members. Wow! Unfortunately, glnct no part of the economy Is an island unto Itself, what the wage increase will really amount to is a pay cut for everyone including steelworkers. The steel companies will raise their prices, President Johnson's blasts withstanding, thereby increasing the cost of the multitude of products containing steel.

Sixty million other workers will then want more pay to meet this new rise in the cost of living. They will get it, and their increased wages will ultimately raise the prices of the products and services with which they are involved, thus kicking the cost of living up another notch for everyone including steelworkers. Imports of cheaper foreign steel, now cheaper than ever, will zoom. One result will be stepped-up pressure by the domestic industry for quotas on imported steel. Other industries will hop on the quota wagon and this in turn could set off a round of international tariff reprisals.

Even if this does not happen, government and industry will be called upon to increase unemployment compensation, welfare and pension benefits for workers who may be laid off because of the inroads of foreign steel and for those on fixed incomes who are left behind by inflation. This will necessitate more deductions from pay checks and greater government deficits, which are essential ly a form of taxation that affects everyone including steelworkers. Will anyone step forward with convincing arguments to the contrary? This or That RON SNEIDER, nationally-famous square dance caller, who was here for the annual Square Dance Jamboree early in July, will probably never forget his visit to Spooner. Unfortunately the memory will be brought about by the kind of incident our community would just as soon would never happen. Sneider's appearance was a whopping success as far as the square dance was concerned, but while he was calling the dance, some youthful hot-rodders were busy taking his car apart in the parking lot.

As a man who travels many thousands of miles over the course of the year, Sneider has an air-conditioning unit in his car, and it seems that this kind of equipment requires a special type radiator fan which is ideal for souped-up hot rods. Thus, when Ron left the dance that night, he found himself without his 3, im Jg Slender "Polls" Bolster Rocky Camp's Optimism Members of the Northern Star Square Dancers, who sponsored Sneider's appearance here, checked all junkyards, wrecking yards and other places where it might turn up, but none could offer a clue. The next day, the State Patrol picked up a speeding hot-rodder near Rice Lake, and a routine search of the car revealed a radiator fan exactly like Sneider's in the trunk. consequently Sneider was able to continue his trip on schedule. Bill Stewart in Spooner Ad vocate: TECHNOLOGY has promised us a postevolu- tionary heaven in which wild nature has a very minor role.

Molecular biology, too, has gleeful visions of genetic manipulations of DNA which would change the face of all creation and recast man into a "perfect" image. 'Others dream about a cheerful if dull world with unlimited opportunity for at least 40 bil- WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Nixon Confident of Nomination By BRUCE BIOSSAT MIAMI Beach (NBA) Gov. Nelson forces have gained heart from a Harris Poll contradicting an earlier Gallup Poll which showed Richard Nixon outdoing him against the Democrats, there is an amazing lack of sharpness and drive in Rocky's final push of the GOP nomination here. Canvass of Rockefeller aides and some key supporters on the convention scene discloses a curious kind of floating optimism. TAe new Harris Poll and the governor's own polls showing him stronger than Nixon against Democrats in nine key states are fueling mood.

Yet to a large degree it is unsupported by hard evidence. When they talk of delegate counts, the governor's people seldom overestimate their own indicated strength in the range of 350 of the votes required for nomination. Nor do they usually overstate California Gov. Ronald Reagan's presently calculated total of roughly 180. Nevertheless, some Rockefeller backers dreamily insist that Nixon's hard count falls somewhere between 500 and 55(1 votes, though even the most bearish of the published delegate surveys which mix fact and reasonable projection has not brought the former vice president below 570.

Most such surveys place him near or somewhat above the needed 667. with MIAMI BEACH Richard I before the convention, the Chase Nixon is so confident of emerging the winner from this, the biggest political contest, that he's told aides he won't come to Miami until Tuesday. His aides, with equal confidence, or per- Bank, controlled by the Rockefeller family, was giving the word to GOP delegates to go for Willkie. In the current race, significantly, Rockefeller has not per- imported enough arms to start an insurrection. The arsenal includes combat vests, mace, signal equipment and ammunition.

The secret service has discovered that some American u- dents of the new left have gone haps braggadocio, are predict- mitted the power of his fam- to Cuba, via Mexico, to sudy a ing that Nixon will win by the ily fortune to be used. He usedjPinar Del Rio, the Fidel Cas- .11 i emitj-vs-il i nsJnsttpi notisin A time the roll call of states reaches Tennessee. Meanwhile, Nixon is on telephone personally i- recting every move made by his h-' men. They don't book a extra suite of rooms at Hilton Plaza hotel, where Nixon's head- it for Eisenhower against Taft tro school of indoctrination. A in the 1952 convenion.

The big careful check is being made to Spell out where the himself has gained They wave off all efforts to lace and own fl- indlcated actually tain precise details of pi number. This reporter 1 nal delegate survey lhat Rockefeller has lost rather than gained votes Moreover, though the Rockefeller camp has not pumped up Reagan's total to artificial levels, some sources are speaking glibly of further Reagan gains in the Nixon-held South which could draw Nixon down and, by their account, benefit Rocky on later ballots, if not at first. A larger Southern breakout for Reagan in the South la Indeed possible, but it has not happened yet and is considered an unlikely event unless key Southern leaders tied to Nixon either lose all of their potent influence or themselves go to Reagan. This reporter's fresh with several such leaders turned up no evidence that they are switching or losing their grip. Another fuzzy element in the dreamy optimism heard from Rockefeller people in the hotel corridors here is the notion that Nixon is panicking because his aides are hitting the telephone hard and applying some pressure on delegates either to stay put or come aboard.

One ardent professional on Rocky's side was incensed over alleged false Nixon claims to three extra delegates in an ern state. "If he's winning big," tho comment went, "why does ho I ibly more to come from need to lie about those threo lousy delegates?" Another veteran, a western moderate, said Nixon's agents were "putting the arm" on Mountain State delegates, but he declined to be specific. Endlessly, Rocky's political eaking favorite sons. Neither publicly nor privately will Rockefeller backers fact that our considerable een- ditures for pollution abatement will not buy miracles. For ex- warmc( i themselves ample: new evidences of an old cir-Even the best sewage treat- umstance: The fact that many ment plants in operation today Nixon delegate backers a a eastern money of Republican see if any of them are back in jn not consistently remove lukewarm in their enthusiasm party made some remarkable Miami, converts for Ike at the last There are special restrictions minute, as witness the conver- 1 inside the three hotels occupied sion of the Pennsylvania the candidates the Hil- Pearson tion.

They arrived in Chicago pledged to Taft. But after Gov. John Fine received a call from Ben Fairless of U.S. Steel, they switched to Ike. However, Nelson has given orders that this is not to be done ifo- him.

The use of the Rocke- quarters. Each candidate, however, will sleep at a private home, the identity of which is kept stric- ly secret. Sen. Charles Percy is also staying in a private home, partly because of the murder of his daughter two years ago. downtown" Man- are bein 8 kept carefully on'When someone mentioned the the sidelines.

address of his home in a tele- ncau- ruarsuii i quarters are, without calling the fortune could mean boss in York. They a the tt in new Auin. -iiicjr a i cool, calculating, confident, and weeK ul tn so is their boss in his law of fie tan Bank and Sandard Ol1 of so is ineir DOSS in nis law rart (l nn ton Plaza, Americana, where Rocky's headquarters are located, and the Deauville, which much more than 90 per cent of the pollutional load. is no known way of reversing lake eutrophication (the over-abundance of nutrients which spur nuisance growths of weeds and algae). houses Ronald Reagan's head-i collection and treat- hattan.

You would never guess from You hear lots of rumors about their conversation that the ht securit Miami Beach. fear among rank-and-file e- guarded never have i cutn utivi i that "Nixon oan't tickets and badges been so care- wiin uiiuiiiucu uyjwi tunny iui ai inai wxon can Tickets are cod- lion people, as a recent conservation issue of win." It results from the mem-! 1 11 Biven out items are coo. THE DAILY TELEGRAM MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all the local news printed in this newspaper, as well as all AP news dispatches. Member Associated Press and United Press Member Audit Bureau of Circulations ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES tihanoon i CuJlen, Brunswick Building (9 West Washington Street Chicago, Illinois 6060) Shannon It Cullco, 757 Third New York City. Soviet Life pointed out in all seriousness.

But any of us, if not blind, who has hunted for prairie flowers in Illinois, or gone exploring in the Peruvian Andes or on the Mexican plateau, or tried to find a tree growing in Brooklyn, knows that life's diversity is threatened with imminent destruction, that it will be all but over in 20 or 30 years for this exuberant biotic wealth. The crisis for all the living is here and now. The world of the future promises to be flowerless, animalless and lifeless, except for masses of people. In the next century, in nightmare worlds of steel and concrete, of algae steaks and yeast pies, the day may well come when our great-grandchildren will hold hands in a circle and sing, "Spring has sprung. The grass has ris, I wonder where the flowers is" and wish they could see one.

University of Wisconsin botanist Hugh H. Iltis in the Sierra Club Bulletin. THE United States senate is reported to have approved spending $50 million to develop hiking trails. To the poorhouse perhaps? Wisconsin Tax News From Our Files 10 YEARS AGO Miss Helen Louise Davis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

K. Davis of Spring Valley, left Wednesday morning for Japan where she will teach Army dependent children during the coming year. Stanley Groth, New Richmond, and David Merriam, Ladysmith, were elected directors of Kiwanis districts number 13 and 16 respectively, Tuesday at the Wisconsin-Upper Michigan meeting at Fond du Lac. 15 YEARS AGO The Chippewa County Board opened its August session Monday morning in a new court house under the direction of a new chairman, J. Edward Erickson, New Auburn, was unanimously voted chairman.

Miss Theda Stettler and Miss Kay Seyforth are the winners in the Buffalo County Furrow Queen contest. 25 YEARS AGO S. H. Krantz has been elected cashier of the bank of Cameron to succeed George B. Peterson, who has moved to Waupaca.

Win Edington who has had a government job in the Hawaiian Islands the past six months has returned to his home in Augusta. 44 YEARS AGO A 6 o'clock dinner was given by Miss Laura Beaudette at her home in Tilden Sunday evening. Bunco and cinch were played during the evening. Misses Margaret Haas, Helen Rostock and Rose Marie Klawiter have gona to Milwaukee for a couple of weeks. ory of that disastrous 1962 de- teat when he ran for governor of California, and that terrible if luorescent mk has been used display of temper at the press toA reve nt counterfeiting.

conference which followed" i 1 An of secret, AH a 1 be con-strong and effective. ed and the numbers on the tick- are being changed every day phone conversation with him, he became very much alarmed. Each candidate also is given 25 parking places outside the convention hall, including Harold Stassen, though his entourage is almost nil. This caused such irritation on the part of top running candidates that Stassen is surrendering nyst of his parking slots. ment of strong spent liquors from pulping processes is now practiced, the millions of gallons of only slightly polluted process waters are not amenable to conventional treatment No Reason for Despair At the same time, there is no reason for despair.

By applying our best technology today we are adequately coping with most pollutants, and these techniques are getting better. Learning from past mistakes, we are reacting more promptly and positively when concoctions of our own making turn from friend to foe. Our laws, both state and federal, are which he castigated newspapers. erv ce ag "ts and FBI men vention. No real hoopla is We need to strike a iiiAvin aiue.

-been imported and they are pected. The ghost of Bobby Ken- for him. But as this is an old story, so is it not new for a front-runner to worry or indulge in "delegate overkill." Characteristically, a candidate with 50 more votes than he needs thinks he would be safer with a bulge of 75 or 100. Hence the late hour pressure to get new votes and reconfirm the old. leader never knows when attrition will set in, or how far it might go.

The Nixon camp's worries are natural, especially in light of some inroads from the intensified Reagan drive. No able manager ever takes his votes for granted until they are recorded on the ballot. Despite this obvious real concern, Nixon's managers remain fundamentally calm and confident. They have outdone Rocky'a forces in work and in publishable talk. Their chief delegate- rustlers meet twice daily.

They are more outgoing and establish a more visible presence than either of their rivals. Said a The whispered reminder that llivi aboard a ship Together.nedy, the Democrat murdered Nixon is a two-time loser and with the Miami olice they nave in Angeles, stands starkly won the vice presidency only ened a11 a nholcs checked over this meeting of Republi- when he traveled piggyback of on Cuban exiles in Miami and cans. S0 ei en independent counts showing us with enough to win aro Eisenhower's broad shoulders is the most serious obstacle Nixon WISCONSIN REPORT has to erase. His cohorts in Miami are doing a pretty good job of making people forget about it. It's illustrated when you land at the airport.

Gov. Rockefeller has prety girls covered with "Rocky" buttons out to meet the delegates. But they don't know who the delegates are and look prettily at every arrival. Pollution of State Waters Creating Public Concern By OLIVER D. WILLIAMS MADISON What is the number one news topic in Wisconsin today? Politics.

rein contrast, Nixon has two of volt on the campuses. his men meet every plane. There are no girls to kiss new arrivals, no bands playing. But! or, at a iven the two henchmen do have a list ment, a of delegates, pick the right men half dozen and announce "we have a car more. But waiting for you." right up there En route to the hotel the dele- in content ion gates are romanced for Nixon, throughout the Both Rockefeller and Nixon year is the cherish as their most guarded threat to our possessions a file of every dele-1 a sic re- gate and such pertinent informa- tion as who their bankers are, how much money they owe, the soaring traffic death rate? It might be any one of these size of mortgage on their home.

This intelligence can be highly useful when the chips are down. Rockefeller's statistics are kept in a black book with a lock on it. Nixon's are kept in carefully guarded files. Nixon's operation gives the impression of professional smoothness. Rockefeller has stirred up the visitors in the living room, but Nixon has the delegates pledged in the back room.

And it's in the back rooms the final decisions are going to be made. Rockefeller's cohorts are trying to do another Wendell Willkie, recalling the so a 11 "barefoot boy of Wall Street" who took the 1940 Republican convention by storm. However, what most people don't know is that the Willkie sources. In a rd, "pol- lution." For one who left the vineyard (as John Wyngaard puts it) of daily newspapering some 18 months ago to join the staff of Wiscon- doubt reflects our national orientation toward "crisis response." Consider, in this context, the lament penned by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in the early 1800s, which concludes: "The river Rhine, it is well known, doth wash your City of Cologne; but tell me, Nymphs, what power divine shall henceforth wash the river Rhine?" The city of Venice has been using its street canals as open sewers for centuries. Air pollution only recently categorized as has been a topic for complaint in Great Britain since the discovery of coal.

Lake Pollution in lltt Closer to home, the city of Madison has this summer been embroiled in a controversy over and alarmism. Beyond what can be accomplished by individual self-control, we must tax and spend and build constructively. But we must also spend and build realistically, for i g- norance of our limitations can lead to smugness and false hopes to disillusionment. Oliver Williams was a newspaper editor before be joined 1 more than coloureds or blacks, the state government as direc- nor that we are better educator of information and educa- ted or richer. Our system ia simply based on the fact that and peoples are Minister John Minister John Vor- ster of South Africa.

sin's pollution control elimination of weeds in this public interest and a ware-; Lake While objection- ness has been staggering. and a nuisance, the weeds The challenge has not are probably less of a problem what one usually associates with than a condition reported a public relations role to early as 1882, in which year whip up enthusiasm and sup- "the working of the lakes was port for a cause. It has been, noticed early in June, and on rather, to produce an 17th of that month enuf standing of the costly and complex processes by which pollution is controlled without dampening enthusiasm. Psychology of Crisis The psychology of the situation is interesting. Many o- ple because they have been caught up by a sudden realiza- strategy was planned well injtion of the threat of pollution, advance.

The Rockefellers know harbor the impression that the it, however, for their economic threat itself is also new, or at scum had collected along the city shore of Fourth Lake (Mendota) to prevent boating. The odor which it gave off was noticed at a distance of one or two blocks from the water." This does not imply that we have no pollution problems in Wisconsin, nor that the situation is so well controlled that the public need not be n- cerned. With that concern, however, empire helped to plan it. Weeks reaching a climax. This no we need an awareness of the not correct, then we ourselves are badly mistaken.

We don't think we are." So They Say Our policy of separate development, is jiot based on the idea that we, the whites, are worth tion of the Department of Resource Development. He ii now an assistant of Lester P. Voigt of the State Department of Natural Resources. BERRY'S WORLD by tkw cither fca oj Wi ceovictieM, a iwiifia' coMortiivt!".