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The Post-Crescent Friday, August 20, 1965 Wisconsin Report Sen. Kennedy Paid Off Old Debt to Pat Lucey At Milwaukee Dinner dVlL BY JOHN WYNGAARD MADISON Patrick J. Lucey has launched his campaign for the governorship with a convincing demonstration of Democratic Party worker support and an ability to collect the money which is the indespensible fuel of latter day electoral persuasion. V- DffL The Kashmir Again The renewed fighting between Pakistan and India in the Kashmir is a serious affair which could blow up into widespread hostilities between the nations which only last month stopped sniping at each other in another disputed arpa. The latest series of clashes began last May when India charged that Pakistanis were infiltrating over the cease-fire line established eighteen years ago and intended to cut the important Leh-Snnagar road.

Indian troops then crossed the line themselves and seized a Pakistan outpost. Only when United Nations observers were sent to the area and promised that the Pakistanis would not cut the road did the Indians withdraw last June 30. But ever since the Indians have claimed more infiltration and there were efforts to blow up two bridges on the road. So the Indians once more crossed the cease-fire line and took the outpost. India's Minister of Information.

Mrs. Indira Gandhi, charged that Secretary General Thant was very "excited" about the Indian troop action but not a bit upset about the Pakistan infiltrations. As usual in such fracases it is virtually impossible to determine which aggressive action came first. In these days, aggression is more subtle than the mere crossing of borders or shelling of outposts. Infiltration and wars of national liberation cloak those intentions under apparently ethical moves.

But India is also on weak ground in the whole Kashmir dispute. Pakistan has again and again called for a plebiscite of the area to determine where the majority of people want to go. Since the overwhelming majority are Moslems, the Pakistan request is fairly safe for Pakistan. But India also does have somewhat of a valid claim, based upon years of control by a Hindu ruling class. The Indian self-righteousness about the ills of the rest of the world, however, suffers from its own insistence upon denying majority rule in the Kashmir.

This is an area where United Nations tTOops might serve a purpose in maintaining order until such a time as religious and national frenzies die down. But there is little assurance that this will occur in anything like a reasonable time. After all the cease-fire, aimed at the same purpose, has been in effect for 13 years with little indication of any modification of views by either India or Pakistan. It may indeed have become exactly the opposite. Pakistan has established closer and closer ties with Red China and more directly with other Asian nations, such as Indonesia, which side with Red China.

There is also a religious tie to Indonesia and its millions of Moslems and so far to a lesser degree with Middle Eastern nations. If the split in Asia, which was recently highlighted by Singapore's expulsion from the Malaysian Federation, deepens, Pakistan can be expected to take part and perhaps use the border disputes with India to that end. Meanwhile India's present moderate government is under increased pressure from extremist Hindu elements, especially the Jan Sangh organization, to wipe out Moslem opposition everywhere by waging constant war against it. And the whole matter is confused because Indian leaders do not say publicly what they are alleged to believe in private. Reportedly they are thankful for the United States position in Viet Nam, for instance, but spend their time in denouncing it as the popular thing to do.

If the U.N. is to have any success in keeping some sort of order in the area, both Pakistan and India must sincerely want peace. That is not at all certain. side, or that it helped Lucey to sell tickets and to fill the banquet room. But an onlooker might also guess that, aside from the potential value of the name association, Lucey's most important legacy from the Kennedy campaign of 1960 and the Kennedy administration association was his training in the Kennedy style of hard-nosed political campaign management.

Perhaps there was never a more (meticulously organized delegate solicitation in this state than that directed from the Boston headquarters of the Kennedys in 1959 and 19R0. Wisconsin has seen many powerful presidential delegate campaigns, in spite of its comparatively insignific a 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 important 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, and 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.

The Hard Way Taylor Says Wyngaard There Is usually some exaggeration in the publicity accounts of money raising affairs in politics, but even in a conservative account the probable net proceeds of $60,000 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 believe or want to believe. Remembering that the Lucey solicitation 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 $49.50 was a generous gift to a political treasurer who are musing nostalgically now- ThTkENNEDY 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 Swiss Have Clung Tightly to Ideals Of True Jeffersonian Democracy Embargo on Cuban Chess BY HENRY J. TAYLOR GENEVA Sheltered by the Alps and framing the rounded end of the lake where it flows into the river, the old town of Geneva is a city of trees and bells and flags and bridges and the gentle, charming variations of color and light that a beautiful lake always gives the buildings and foliage that circle its shores and are mirrored in its shining surface. 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 Capablanca 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. 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 F'ischer's sympathy to either Castro or communism, the whole affair has made the State Department look pretty Billy. 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 government 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 and make some political hay.

Hearing that Castro had 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 of unquestioned patriotism goes to Havana to play chess. Strictly Personal 4 Changes in Weather Beneficial to People pressures toward higher prices but, most of all, through the Niagara-like influx of foreign workers. More than 800,000 are at work here now while Switzerland's own population is only 5.5 million.

This is a third of the total work force and Italians account for nearly 70 per cent of it. With dependents, these foreign workers total more than a million, a larger proportion of foreign workers than any European country. NEWSPAPERS ARE WATCHDOGS Newspapers, of course, are the untiring watchdogs in such hard-hitting "no nonsense from the politicians" tradition, led by theimmensely respected Neue Zurcher Seitung, which ranks in European prestige with The Times of London, In neighboring Italy, fewer newspapers are sold per million population than in any country in Western Europe. More are sold per capita in Switzerland than anywhere in the world. Switzerland has 504 newspapers.

It has 743 technical magazines whose total circulation is also so wide abroad that it exceeds Switzerland's entire adult population by 50 per cent. The overwhelming number are published in German. The language balance in this country is much more out of balance than generally supposed. More than 74 per cent of the Swiss speak German (Schwyzerdutsch), only 21 per cent French, less than 5 per cent Italian. There is an inspiring harmony of good judgment, charity, valor and individual self-reliance to be seen here.

I write next from Czechoslovakia, an Iron Curtain country of Europe where perhaps freedom is only a crushed dream, but sometimes it seems that Switzerland has stayed closer to the Jeffersonian ideal than even our United States. 600,000 fully trained men, backed by 400 jets. On Geneva's Restoration Monument you can see an excerpt from an Ordinance of 1536 proclaiming free compulsory education for all children; another salutary tradition four centuries old. Most European countries did not have compulsory education for children until after World War I. PEOPLE ARE SOVEREIGN The people are sovereign really sovereign.

Accordingly, the government's performance for them is probably the best in the world. For the Swiss are determined to keep the government as close at hand as possible. Thus the 22 cantons are intensely concerned with cantonal responsibilities (states' rights) and intensely antagonistic to any seeming encroachment by the federal authority at the capital in Berne. As one result, there are few federal taxes, except for defense and national highways. Most revenue and other laws must originate in the cantons.

Then a sufficient number of cantons must ask Berne for federal enactment by the Senate before the law can become national. Finally, the proposed legislation must clear the hurdle of a direct vote (Sundays) by the people in a nationwide referendum. There is no chief-of-state, and a personality cult is utterly impossible. The parliament in Berne annually elects a seven-member Federal Council from among the abundant political parties that hold seats. A different Federal Councilor is chosen President of Switzerland each year.

If you want to see in action Winston Churchill's advice that "On the whole it is wise to separate pomp from power." come here. The business boom is creating problems for the government, nevertheless, with its BY SYDNEY J. HARRIS My column on climate a few weeks ago in which I expressed my preference for variability over sameness so impressed me with its cogency that I decided to find out whether this was a mere prejudice on my part, or if it had some objective truth to it. The Vanished Logging Camp has been found that if the temperature of one day is the same as that of the preceding day, people's work is not so good as if there is a change and especially if there is a drop of temperature. "The health of the community and the death rate vary in the same way," Huntington says, "A drop of temperature being almost invariably beneficial, unless it be very extreme.

This is true in winter as well as summer, and even if the actual temperature is so low as to be harmful if continued. The heart of the matter, he concludes from researches extending over two decades in all parts of the globe, is tthat change itself is exhilarating change not only in temperature but also in sunshine, humidity, and even wind velocity, provided they are not too severe and frequent. And the variability due to the march of the seasons, he points out, is probably much more important that that due to day-to-day changes. Other factors being equal as they rarely are both health and productivity are improved in those regions with a change of seasons. "The failure to appreciate the great importance of variability in the weather," Huntington observes, "is one of the main reasons why the pervading effect of climate and of changes of climate is even yet only dimly appreciated." Those lines were written in 1927, and nearly 40 years later they are still not widely recognized.

A forester friend recently remarked casually in a discussion of changes in the Wisconsin forest industries that the last logging camp in Wisconsin probably closed its operations more than a decade ago. Like many other institutions of an earlier time, it fell as a casualty to the technological revolution in the timber harvesting and related industries. With efficient modem tools, high powered mobile machinery, more selective markets, better roads and the capacity to keep them cleared during even the most difficult weather, the lumber companies of today are not required to accommodate themselves to seasonal conditions to the extent their predecessors did several generations earlier. The revolution in the harvesting of trees has been complemented with ever more efficient methods of utilization. All of hich is a matter of some importance in Wisconsin, where nearly half of our land area has a natural destiny of growing wood, and where an immense investment in forest planting, protection and management, private and public, assures a return into perpetuity if our descendants desire It.

All of this is progress, demonstrable, tangible and real. Yet we find a slight, nostalgic pang of regret, nevertheless, about the vanished winter logging camp of the Wisconsin woods in other times. We may suppose that anyone of middle years or above who grew up in the northeastern part of Wisconsin remembers, with us. the late spring exodus of the woodsmen from their forest camps into the market towns of the district. The burly, typically bearded husky in high cut pants who would challenge the admiring youngster on Main Street to define the peavey and the cant hook, and roar approval at the right answer the noisy saloons filled with happy men who had been shut up in their winter quarters for months the colorful vocabulary of the fraternity.

it must be admitted, the often earthy expletives. They made the welkin ring, as the editors of more formal style would have said in those times. Somehow, we regret that the logging camps have disappeared. With their demise, a fond mind's eye picture of home town Main Street on a Saturday night in the spring has become a little more memorable and will be preserved more tenaciously. Taylor Here and in the six other watchmaking cantons (states) along the French border, the timepiece traditions started almost four centuries ago; for time is the art of the Swiss.

So is the defense of their independence and their homes. This began even earlier when attacking Gauls first slid down the snowy slopes on giant war shields: Switzerland, which broke the battle axe of Austria and shattered the fearsome sword of Charles the Bold; Switzerland, which, as 1 mentioned recently, maintains today the largest ready army in all Western Europe honors went to Vilas Krucger, whose Guernsey bull calf was picked grand champion of all breeds at the fair; Emory Knitt, whose guernsey heifer calf won the grand championship in its division, and Eric Froemming. whose Holstein heifer won top honors. Ralph Holliday became the hoys' city singles tennis chapt-on in New London when he defeated runner-up Duane Schoening in the Hatten Park competition. 10 YEARS AGO Friday.

Aug. 19, 1955. The new district governor of Kiwanis International. Gustave Keller, Appleton, was honored the previous day with a reception held after his election at the Wisconsin-Upper Michigan District convention in Green Ray. Members of the Wolf River Beavers 4-H Club at Leenan were preparing a one-act mystery, "The Laughing Ghost," lor presentation at a pie social at Diemel's Hall.

Taking part were Gloria Greeley. Rarbara Allen, Shirley Offeldt. Beverly Allen, Donna Greeley, John Gunderson and Dorothy Nitzke. Mrs. Gerald Wittlin and Miss Nathalie Pierre were directors.

Three area rural young people were among the 42 state teen-agers who won freshman scholarships to the University of Wisconsin. The scholarships were in the field of borne economics and agricul ture. Winners were Jean Wickesberg, Appleton, Charles Gomm. Shiocton. and Michael Carmody, Waupaca.

GRIN AND BEAR IT By LICHTY Harris A friend of mine who professes geography at a state university, asked to recommend a book or two on the subject, told me that "Civilization and Climate," by Prof. Ellsworth Huntington, was an acknowledged classic in the field. Huntington suggests that hree main factors provide the best climate for human health and activity. These are (1) Moderate contrasts between summer and winter, (2) Rain at all seasons, so tthal the air is moderately moist much of the time, and (3) Constant variability of weather. On the third factor, he remarks: "Constant but not undue variability of weather is almost as important as the right conditions of temperature and humidity.

As an example, among factory workers and students it Looking Backward Ocean Cable Breaks Again Potomac Fever- by Jack Wilson again a failure; that it either parted in the paying out process and went to the bottom, RflO miles from New Foundland. or that the defects were numerous, and the cable, was therefore buoyed and left. We shall know about it soon. 25 YEARS AGO Friday. Aug.

16, 1940 Tom Catlin and Bob Shannon were two of Appleton's better tennis players who faced each other in the annual all-city tournament on the Lawrence College courts. Catlin won the match, 8-fi and 6-1. Others taking part in the men's singles division were Mark Catlin Sid Jacobson, Lloyd Gatz, Rob Fahrenkrug. Chester Barrand, William Tessin. Don Frederickson, Gunner Johnson, G.

R. Sears, Otto Schultz, Charles Miller and Sid Blinder. Grand Champion honors for their livestock at the State Fair were won by three members of the Clintonville Future Farmers of America. The high 100 YEARS AGO Quoted from the Appleton Crescent for Aug. 19.

1865. The Atlantic cable has parted again. Buoys were placed to mark the spot, and it is probable that the broken end was buoyed up, as machinery has been placed on the Great Eastern for that purpose. At the time we go to press, there is no positive news from the Great Eastern. It seems, however, to be a settled fact that the great Atlantic cable is You can't win.

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