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A Superficial Wound -8" rt-wn Frl Oct. 25, 1963 Dlly NerHiwMUnl By Robert Ruark French Are Magnifique The French government, according to usually dependable sources, is budgeting about $50 million (in new Francs, or the average cost of lunch for two in the Bois) for its space program next year. This coincides with the government's program to curb inflation, or the high cost of pussies as a delicacy. Also, informed sources revealed -to me exclusively, France is working oe six satellites to be known as the Yves Montand (there's enough there for all six satellites) to be launched in 1965. This will be described as a better-late-than-never operation, since the failure of the other projectile; the Francoise a a Premiere.

Anybody heard from Simone Signoret lately? Mais, alors, one loses oneself in politics. We started with the cat in the garden of our aunt, and we wind up in either the clouds or in Maxim's (I never go to St. Germain de Pres any more.) It is to say that the cat. that can make any more than one year of age in France ceases to be a rabbit or a dinde (turkey, stupid) on the poorest menu, and is so apt for astronautics that the country of. Big Charlie is making the supreme sacrifice.

The initial cat to substitute launch for lunch has two years, Bon voyage, and, don't forget, we deal in NEW Francs now, not old Francs, and watch the voiture-driver like a hawk. The French indeed are magnifique, if only in their astral interests of marinating a pussy cat. (Copyright. 1963, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Cheat Ammtm He pledged a fight to get 50 per cent reimbursement on land purchases made, and indicated that the county might even get some federal aid on the rest of the project they were being asked to undertake. How different was his testimony under oath at Wausau.

He was asked if the public in Outagamie County is aware that any projects done on the proposed airport before federal aid is approved except land acquisition is ineligible for federal aid. "They are very well aware," Catlin asserted. Just what the Post-Crescent's complaint really is is hard to say. Do they feel that their building an airport in the Town of Greenville is conducive to a solution of the regional airport problem? Catlin may loudly assert that it is the best site east of the Pecos or whatever area he wishes, but his opinion is shared by no competent, impartial authority. The Bureau of Economic Regulation, the Federal Aviation Agency, the State Aeronautics Commission and North Central Airlines itself are unsatisfied with the Town of Greenville site as a regional port.

By going ahead with the site in the face of this opposition there can be no other conclusion but that it was Outagamie County which ended any possibility of a joint airport venture. This, of course, is a matter of opinion, but it is an opinion based on facts which are generally obscured by the Post-Crescent. Straw in Wind An election this week in North Dakota selected a Republican to fill a seat in the House of Representatives from that state's eastern district. He is Mark Andrews, who stands 6 feet 4 inches tall and weighs upwards of 230 pounds. He will be seen and heard In Washington and not because of his physical size alone.

His voice will 'be another of the type needed on Capitol Hill. In his camppaign for election he hammered away at the farm, economic and foreign aid programs of the Kennedy Administration. He has been a constant critic of Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman, calling for more farm say-so at farmer levels instead of from Washington. It was the third Republican victory of the year in special congressional elections.

The GOP took two previously Democratic seats in California when the incumbents died. Could these be straws in the wind? "They done us wrong," shouted the Appleton Post-Crescent again this week, and while it as the Milwaukee Sentinel and not the Daily Northwestern evoking this cry of wounded pride this time, it seems opportune to comment on the facts of the case to let the readers know how superficial Is the wound. Briefly, the Sentinel reported that Outagamie County's action in authorizing start of construction of the Town of Greenville airport was a rejection of the regional airport concept. The action, said the Sentinel, "kills any chance for a regional airport with Outagamie County participating." Not so, cries the Post-Crescent. Then it assumes the thread-bare mantle' of protector of the regional airport concept, saying that "it is clear that Outagamie, from the beginning, has been the principal proponent not opponent of the regional airport concept." The holes in the mantle are too evident by this time, however, to cloak the true character of the champion.

Let us look through the holes and see the champion personified by Mark Catlin. There he stands on June 7, 1963, before the, State Aeronautics Commission in Madison imploring the commissioners to go before the Civil Aeronautics Board examiner and favor a policy to "continue service to both Oshkosh and Appleton," to use Catlin's own words This is supporting the regional airport concept? The spokesman for Outagamie County again appears on July 12, 1963, in the federal courtroom in Wausau before CAB examiner Edward T. Stodola, and asserted that it is Outagamie County's position that neither Appleton nor Oshkosh should be designated as a regional airport; that both should continue to be served. Then Catlin appears before his own county board in Appleton Oct. 15, 1963, and reaffirms that Outagamie "has no quarrel with Oshkosh" and that both cities should have airline service.

What a champion of the regional airport concept! Unless the Post-Crescent now stands ready to disavow Mr. Catlin, now that he has succeeded, by whatever strategems necessary, in getting construction in the Town of Greenville started, cries of foul are a little hollow. Speaking of Catlin's strategems, a mention of the tactics in selling the Outagamie supervisors last week with the idea of going ahead with airport construction is interesting. David Lawrence Says Expect Showdown on Aid to Education Peoples Forum PARIS Oh, the French they are a funny race; they're ing pussy cats into space. This is a cruel fate indeed for an animal that has so often been described on the menu as turkey.

In a way you might say the French have chickened out. Of course, the French have just announced that they have taken delivery of their first atomic bomb, and that a whole fleet of Mirage IV bombers are due next summer, unless an act of De Gaulle prevents The "force de frappe," though, will only become complete when that pussy gets back from heaven with a personal message for the man. The French are indeed refreshing in our time. The Russians send dogs into orbit, and we concentrate on monkeys before men. But the Frenchman lives mainly in his stomach, and so when he sends a cat up to inspect the stratosphere, he is sacrificing the cat that lives in the garden of his aunt, and which really does taste like turkey if you do not have the feathers to prove an original copyright on fowl.

This is the best illustration I know of what you can do for your country, instead of the other way round. With luck the cat will "fly" home. This turkey pardonnez-moi this cat is going to be, or has been, lunched pardonnez-moi encore launched from the Sahara. The plan is to study Uie cat's central nervous system under conditions of weightlessness. The cat is an improvement on the rat they fired off in '61 and '62, because it is a well-known fact that a rat is never used on the menu to replace rabbit.

I would like to explain here, mon vieux, that no Frenchman worthy of counting a New Franc would ever send a rabbit into space, any more than a balding man would jug his last hare. The rabbit, while indispensable in France, lacks certain class. Its ears are too long to fit the saucepan, and the French are known for thrift. A good Frenchman would never consider sending up a dog to count the stars from above them, because, contrary to some misconceptions, the French will not eat a dog. 'In France dogs take people to launch I mean lunch, pardon and you can prove this by walking into any expensive restaurant and polling the poodles sitting on chairs while their owners beg for crumbs.

A Frenchman also would' not consider firing a horse into space, because horse meat appears on the menu in rather a piecemeal fashion, sometimes described as beef. And a horse, entire, would be awkward in a capsule. It would also cast shame on the boucherie de che-val business, thereby ruining the Common Market's reputation in England, a country which is closely associated with France by a channel. Channel? Non, m'sieur. Chanel.

Numero Cinq. As in Sank Rbo Do New, which handles Harry's New York Bar, another satellite. looking Backwards 25 YEARS AGO Oct. 25, 1938-Japanese troops scale the walls of the refugee zone in Hankow, China when the United States Naval authorities refuse to open the gates. American officers order the United States forces to withdraw after the Japanese make their way into the camp.

10 YEARS AGO Oct. 25, 1953 A strike of 13,000 dairy plant workers and delivery men cuts off the milk supply to 12 million residents of the New York City metropolitan area. A garage and its contents at the Louis Sphatt residence on East New York Avenue is described as a total loss from fire, which is believed to have started by spontaneous combustion: ing federal aid to education to institutions which are not connected in any way with church will have smooth sailing in Congress and will not be blocked by the perennial demand that something be done to remove the discrimination against church-connected colleges in their teaching of science and other non-religious subjects. If, however, the amendment is dropped out of the proposed law, it seems likely that senators and representatives from areas where there is a public demand for help for church-connected colleges will find themselves being pressured to block federal aid altogether till some compromise is reached. That's why the Ervin amendment looks like a solution that will remove the principal obstacle to federal aid to education by letting the courts quickly dispose of the issue of the constitutionality of such aid to church-operated schools and colleges.

It's much better to provide a way to find out promptly what is constitutional than to let Congress become stalled year after year on its aid to the states in constructing new buildings for educational purposes. erans and aid to colleges for construction of laboratories and other scientific facilities. Until the last year or two the constitutionality of these loans or grants was not questioned in public debate. There was, indeed, no way by which they could be challenged in the courts. For the Supreme Court of the United States, in a case known as Massachusetts vs.

Mellon, had decided several years ago that the federal government couldn't be sued by a taxpayer on a question of federal appropriations. That's why a permissive statute now is deemed necessary if there is to be a settlement of the issues that have arisen about federal aid to church-related institutions. The amendment proposed by Senator Ervin co-sponsored by Senator John Sherman Cooper of Kentucky, Republican will have to win the approval of the conferees of the House of Representatives, which passed a bill without any similar provision. Already there are predictions of a lengthy hassle on the subject. But there are good reasons for letting the provisions of the amendment be tried out.

For it means that bills provid- James Marlow Writes People of Maturity Should Read Bible To the Editor: In the Oct. 19 edition of the Oshkosh Daily Northwestern, Dr. Gary Cleveland Myers (editorial page columnist) made the suggestion that the Bible deserves more attention from children and adults. I agree with Dr. Myers that more adults should read the Bible as they will undoubtedly be shocked by the cruelty manifested by the Deity depicted in that book with the result that childish anthropomorphic beliefs and fantasies may be abandoned.

I disagree, however, with his contention that this book is fit for the innocent eyes of little children. The Bible is filled with stories of sexual immorality, cruelty, and hate. What can one think of, the character of a man who behaved as a pimp and treated his wife as though she were a courtesan. I refer the reader of this letter to Chapter 12 of Genesis, verses 10 through 20. This man was a hero of the Bible, a favorite of the Biblical Deity.

There are too many tales of lust, sexual immorality, and incest to cite in this brief space. Should innocent children be exposed to this sort of thing? Obeying the Biblical Deity order to: "Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites another Biblical hero, Moses, proceeds to obey by telling his people to every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him." Oh, yes. such pretty stories for the ears of little children. The reader will find the above Biblical quotes in the Book of Numbers, Chapter 31, verses 2 and 17. To cite an example of hatred I merely would like to call the attention of the reader and Dr.

Myers to the 109th Psalm. The cry for vengeance is pathetic to behold. By all 'means, the Bible should be read, it should be read with mature reflection and not with childish credulity. Sincerely yours, Robert E. Nordlander, 333 Lopas By Garry Cleveland Myers, Ph.D UNICEF Aids World's Children Like a Death-Rattle WASHINGTON At last, if Congress lets stand a bill just passed by the Senate, there's to be a showdown on the question of whether it is constitutional to use public funds to help church-affiliated colleges or schools.

The bill authorizes $1.9 billion in construction aid over a five-year period to the nation's public and private colleges and universities. During the last two years, however, federal aid to education has been blocked in Congress because one side or the other would raise doubts on the constitutionality of such aid to any church-related institutions. President Kennedy didn't clear things up either when he once said to Congress that financial aid "across the board" is unconstitutional. He also declared that loans or grants made to church-supported schools at the college level would be constitutional, but wouldn't be valid if made to those in the elementary or secondary category. Senators Sam J.

Ervin, of North Carolina, Democrat, formerly an associate justice in the highest court of that state, is the author of an amendment which was inserted in the Senate bill the other day and which furnishes an opportunity to resolve constitutional questions promptly. It provides that public notice must be given by the U.S. commissioner of education of any grant or loan at least 60 days before It is to be extended to any institution of higher education. During those 60 days and only within that period any taxpayer or organization of taxpayers in the United States can sue for a declaratory judgment against the commissioner in the Federal District Court of the District of Columbia. The grounds for such a test are limited to a challenge under the First Amendment, which forbids the passage by Congress of any law "respecting an establishment of religion," or under the Fifth Amendment or any other provision of the Constitution which presumably bears on the issue of separation of church and state.

Thus, there would be no delay in the processing of loans or grants that go to college unrelated to any church. The test would be confined solely to those cases where there is some kind of church relationship. The courts would have to decide whether money for "bricks and mortar" furnished to a Catholic college, for instance, is support for a particular religion in the sense that, by this step, Congress has passed a law "respecting an establishment of religion." Senator Ervin points out that his amendment "provides a very simple machinery by which to question the validity of a specific proposed grant or loan to a specific Institution," but one which at the same time "wouldn't hold up the program at all as to public colleges or non-sectarian private colleges." Out of the test cases which may be brought under his amendment, be expects a broad ruling that could apply to the whole question of any use of public funds for construction of buildings or other facilities in church-related colleges or universities. Other controversial questions arise in connection with the use of federal funds for student courses devoted to science, mathematics and technical subjects taught in buildings confined to this field of study. For several years Congress ignored the objections and, for example, gave tuition money to GI ve(.

"This milk doesn't taste just like the milk we are accustomed to, but it has good qualities which help build strength in bones, so it is important for children to have it. "In some countries that have cattle hut have never turned their surplus milk into powder, the U.N. Children's Fund has been able to have factories built where the milk surplus is used in this way. "Through the U.N., people are being taught to use things that grow in their own neighborhood which, when properly cooked, turn out to be healthy foods for children. "When you go out on Halloween and gather pennies for the Children's Fund, you can think that children in many parts of the world who are suffering will benefit from your efforts "Trick or treat" used to mean "Give me something good to eat or I'll play an ugly trick on you." Now it means: "Please put some pennies in this box for UNICEF to help feed hungry children, protect them from disease and ease their suffering in the undeveloped parts of the world." A total of over two million dollars was thus collected last year, and many millions of children and mothers benefited in 107 countries and territories.

Through UNICEF, two cents will supply a hungry child with a daily cup of milk for 10 days. Three cents will bring penicillin needed to cure a child of yaws, a crippling tropical When Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt died in November, 1962, the children of the world lost a devoted friend. In November, 1956, a children's magazine published an article by Mrs. Roosevlet entitled "The World's Addressing her remarks to children, she said what might also be said today.

We quote here, by permission, from that article. "Most young people may not realize it, but much of the work of the United Nations helps the children of various parts of the world "One of the most important of the specialized agencies of the U.N.. the World Health Organization, has tried to wipe out such insects as carry disease. "The World Health Organization is, therefore, doing much research which will benefit the children in the areas of the world where malaria, yaws, tuberculosis and other diseases have meant that many, many children died between the ages of 1 and 5. There is also in the U.N.

a special fund which works only for children "It is difficult to believe, but in many, many countries of the world there are children who don't get enough to eat. There are children who would get no milk at all unless the surplus milk in other countries were turned into powdered milk, shipped to them and then turned into liquid again by mixing the powder with water so that the children in needy countries can drink it. GRIN AND BEAR IT BY LICHTY disease. A nickel will mean DDT enough to protect a child from malaria, for six months and less than a quarter will supply the drugs to save a child from becoming blind from the eye disease trachoma. Like most other programs for doing good, the UNICEF program is occasionally criticized by persons who don't really know the vast good it does.

Anybody can learn the truth by writing to the United States Committee for UNICEF, United Nations, New York, especially from the bulletin "UNICEF Facts and Fallacies." PARENTS' QUESTIONS Q. Our son in the 11th grade does very well at reasoning out problems in chemistry but falls down in failing to memorize essential symbols. He says, "It's too hard work to do so." A. Many bright children are lagging in various subjects because they avoid effort at memorizing essential items. They may consider it beneath their pride to learn anything by heart.

Q. When a child's teacher reports that this child does not pay attention or finish his work on time at school, can his parents hope to correct these problems by monishing and punishing him at home? A. Hardly. Better to leave these matters to the teacher. At home, see that the child does chores well and promptly and is obedient Q.

Why is anti-social behavior among children in suburbs growing at such a rapid rate? A. Perhaps the chief reason is that excessive permissiveness in child-rearing is highest there. The more intellectual and highly educated have been foremost, as a rule, in throwing restraint to the winds. Q. Is there a correlation between economic status and good behavior? A.

No. WASHINGTON (AP) It sounded like a death-rattle in Congress for the two programs President Kennedy has his heart set on in 1963: A civil rights bill and a tax cut. Sen. Everett M. Dirksen of Illinois, who is soft on big words, says he has real doubt either measure can "eventuate" this year.

As the Republicans' Senate leader, he is a man to be listened to. Time, testimony and tenacity stand in the way. The House has voted a tax cut bill but now it is tied up in the Senate where a long list of witnesses is waiting to testify at the Senate Finance Committee hearings which Dirksen says may run till Christmas. The full Senate can't vote until the committee finishes with the bill. The man in charge of these long drawn-out hearings Chairman Harry F.

Byrd of Virginia like other Southern Democrats is against the civil rights program and he has been unenthusiastic about a tax cut from the beginning. Southern Democrats, tenacious for generations in their opposition to civil rights legislation, are determined to try to filibuster the civil rights bill to death if and when it gets to the Senate. But if the Senate gets tangled in a civil rights filibuster before it can get around to tackling the tax bill which is likely if the tax bill gets sufficiently delayed In Byrd's committee tax cutting seems shelved for 1963. But the civil rights bill not only hasn't passed either the House or Senate it's going to have to pass the House before the Senate considers if it hasn't even been approved by the House Judiciary Committee. The full House won't be able to vote on the bill before the committee approves.

But the committee hasn't approved yet because the civil rights bill is now in an almost unbelievable snarl. The Judiciary Committee, headed by Rep. Emanuel Cel-ler, New York Democrat, has 35 members: 21 Democrats, 14 Republicans. But Northerners and liberals of both parties dominate. As usual in considering a bill, Celler assigned the preliminary task to a subcommittee dominated by Democrats of his choosing, and he's a liberal crat.

This subcommittee, under pressure from Negroes and ardent civil rights supporters to approve a bill much stronger than the Kennedy administration proposed, has done just that. Now. if the subcommittee sends its manufactured product to the full committee, the Northerners of both parties there will sweep it through over the opposition of the Southern Democrats and conservative Republicans. And what the full committee approves will go to the full House for a vote. But, since opposition from Southern Democrats is certain, Kennedy feels that in the final House vote he will need all the support of other Democrats and Republicans he can get.

The kind of bill approved by the subcommittee seemed too sweeping to get that kind of support. So his brother, Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy, went to the committee to ask it to tone down the bill.

The subcommittee, dominated by liberal Democrats from the North where Negro votes are important in next year's elections, hasn't budged. But neither have the liberal Republicans. This put the President in a box, feeling as he does that the bill as it stands has no chance. So in the past few days he called White House conferences with House leaders of both parties. This put him in an even stranger kind of box: Asking Republican leaders to twist the arms of Republicans on the committee to go along with the idea of a milder bill, particularly since Republicans have a civil rights bill of their own that they want the Democrats to approve.

At this point it's a mess, although both parties have said civil rights should be kept out of politics. Oshkosh Daily Northwestern (Established January 6, 1868) Samuel VV. Heaney and A. Thomas Schwalm, Co-Publishers Full Leased Wire Reports of The Associated Press and United Press International. 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. Letters and communications dealing with news for the Oshkosh Daily Northwestern should be addressed to the Editor to insure proper attention, Phone 235-7700 1 Ask for Department Desired "It't foolish io fry to rewrite history, but wouldn't it have been better if the North Amorkw Indians had banned immigration?".

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