The Post-Crescent from Appleton, Wisconsin • 4

The Post-Crescent Wisconsin Report A New Lucey Has Wednesday, July 12, 1972 Digesting fio Prison Report ged His Inauguration BY JOHN WYNGAARD MADISON Eighteen months of close study of Gov. Patrick Lucey have persuaded some of the politician acknowledged loyalty above quality to an extent that was rarely shown by other men who have been entrusted with the powers of his office. More than most of the others, the governor has also appeared to become restive in the harness of his executive office duties. During the last two months, if such matters could be so measured, he has probably devoted more time and thought and energy to national politics than to the pressing issues surrounding him at home. He entered the McGovern campaignlate, but it was not a Wyngaard The waves of public discussion generated by Gov.

Fatrick Lucey's spectacular proposal to "phase in the vocabulary of at least four of the major state corrections institutions for criminal offenders, must be accounted a wholesome result of the daring and controversial proposals of his citizens task force on offender rehabilitation. But developments have bred a doubt that the issue is as clearly understood by the people of Wisconsin as such a basic question ought to be, and especially in view of the governor's, impatient demand for an immediate political response. His instructions to the state Department of Health and Social Services, which operates the corrections system, have flatly advised its officers to prepare their new budget proposals for nextyear on the presumption that the prisons and reformatories will be closed or drastically reduced in population during the next two ears. The unfortunate notion hai- been implanted that this state is holding; thousands of men and women in confinement who do not need it, either for their own welfare or for the security of the law-abiding community. There has been deliberately provocative talk that some of the questions and doubts raised by the professional correction staff relates to their concern about their jobs.

Mr. Lucey himself was revealingly quick to endorse the major thrust of the advisory group, although its final report was so bulky and verbose and raised such a host of technical and scientific questions that we may be sure that no more than a handful of interested private persons have yet been able to digest it. The circumstances invite the thought that the governor knew what he wanted to hear and that the advisors understood the signal. But that "task one of a long list of similar ad hoc consultative groups, has no public accountability. Its views are not necessarily wise and beyond challenge because its members were chosen by the governor.

Should not the governor now invite relevant legislative committees, constituted to deliberate such matters, to review the propositions, especially since legislators in the end will be required to make such decisions and will surely proceed with great caution because of the volatility of the Issues posed? Mr. Lucey sovght to achieve, whether with deliberate plan we cannot know, the unfortunate suspicion in many minds that the state has imprisoned many hundreds of persons who do not need such treatment, and may actually be damaged in the process. He and hi3 advisors have underplayed, in effect if not in intent, the fact that only a tiny fraction of offenders found guilty by the courts are actually imprisoned. Our parole and probation services are as carefully operated and generously conceived as reasonable men could desire. The record of parolee3 and probationers has been good.

But such matters, essential to public understanding of such a sensitive issue, have somehow been subordinated for radical reform which is disturbingly impulsive arid hasty, whatever the good will' of the persons involved. matter of prudent self-interest as might be surmised. His neutral posture before the Wisconsin primary election was as much related to his indifference toward the orthodox candidates as to amenities. What he wanted was a more radical candidate, and when McGovern's campaign caught fire, nobody could have prevented the utter involvement that followed. New Lucey Thus there has emerged a new Lucey, vastly different from the man who patiently worked his way upward in regular Democratic politics over a long period, an eager, aggressively determined man who wants to push his party to the outer reaches of what has been regarded the liberal ideology.

Upheaval Devastating in 112 Years Looms for Democrats well sometimes also 'find a tendency to melancholy in this scarred veteran of the Wisconsin ballot wars. Close friends relate it to the powerful impact of the two Kennedy assassinations and Douglas for President; Southern Democrats rallied, around John C. Breckinridge; and Border State middle-of- watchers the man has changed significantly since ha strode onto the Wisconsin political stage with unashamed ambition only about a decade and a half ago. Lucey the beginner in politics was virtually a stereotype of the aspiring Irish politician of cartoon and legend. He believed all of the traditional ordinances including the high priority commandment that is sometimes translated as "to get along you go along." Even during his campaign for the governorship two years ago, brilliantly executed as it was, there was nothing, to suggest that Lucey the public official would stand out today asone of the mpst aggressive of the exponents of the left wing of his party to use the words of the limited political vocabulary.

As he put together one task force after another and handed them dramatically novel assignments, there was a tendency for skepticism in the political community. Publicity management, some doubters said, with ample precedent to justify their jeering. But as his unqualified endorsement of the; prison reform report has shown, he is willing to stand on such propositions as phasing out the state prison system, something that no other contemporary politician would dare. Brought Scowls He has named more women and blacks to public places than any other governor, and sometimes with what has appeared to be a flourish intended to invite challenge. He has brought more scowls and resentment in the upper middle levels of the 'bureaucracy" than any predecessor would dared.

In ordinary job patronage he has followed the line of the "regular" Democrat. But even in that sphere he has Would Computers Hold Out? strike and the pro football demands. Chess may not be in the front running as the favorite American sport, participatory or spectator, but, gee, there shouldn't be any discrimination. 'What if a guy could only play checkers? Does that mean he isn't worthy? But what really may have brought all and sundry to the gaming table was just a little rattle in the wind. In New York a 'bunch of Americans were goirig to play the game by computer and forward suggestions on the next move to Fischer.

The experts guffawed. Computers were mediocre, they sneered. Even the Russians smiled. But just maybe a few shivers of fear went up some spines. What if computers could win? The most individualistic of all individual activities would have received a blow from which we could never recover.

It had the makings of the kind of international incident that leads to outraged feelings, incendiary anger, demonstrations in the streets, riots, broken windows and bones, Molotov cocktails and finally all-out war. But the Great Chess Checkmate didn't develop that way at all. America Bobby Fischer 'overcame his reluctance to sign things and apologized in writing to Russian Bori3 Spassky. Dr. Max Euwe, president of the International Chess Federation; beat his breast too, officially condemned Fischer's hassling over more take at the gate and apologized for his own lack of guts.

The Russians more or less shrugged it all off with an attitude of And Fischer, after all, was probably influenced by that baseball me lnrmence or nis growing children. i is sometimes forgotten' that Lucey was in the Los Angeles hotel where Robert Kennedy was killed. His devoted attachment to the Kennedy family, originating in the John F. Kennedy Wisconsin delegate campaign 12 years ago, i3 widely known. But the deep influence of that relationship is understood by comparatively few.

Parent Lucey has an ex-) ceptionally close relationship with his children. Friends say that he has been powerfully affected by their reactions to current Issues, and notably the Vietnam war. The story is persuasive, if only because it reminds the observer of the eagerness and confidence with which he talks about young and their voting behavior this year. BY KEVIN P. PHILLIPS MIAMI BEACH Something may be happening this week that hasn't hap-.

pened in 112 years: the breaking-up of i the Democratic Party. Certainly the possibility lies heavy In the Florida air, and political quake-watchers are keeping a close watch on their seismographs. One hundred twelve years ago, the Democratic Party the successful coalition forged by Andrew Jackson divided against itself. Northern Democrats chose Stephen A. Glenn Mackin, Mrs.

William Hornbeck and Miss Constance Flanagan. Harold Zahorik, Menahsa, member of the Menasha High School faculty, was appoint-- ed a summer staff worker for the Appleton Apostolate. Members of the Y's Men's Club of Appleton YMCA who were volunteer workers at Camp Onaway, Chain of Lakes, included Jerry Van Ostrand, Clark Carnes, Vernon Cornelius, Milton Fuerst, Gordon Haase, Dr. Victor Es- bensen, Philip Ottman, Web Prink, Louis Waltman, William Riley, Howard Blakeley, Andrew Shomskey, Carlton Fuerst, Ossie Gassner, Arthur Carlson, Rollin McElroy, Paul Moder-son, and Marvin Heiden. 10 YEARS AGO Wednesday, July 11, 1962.

Lester Balliet, Appleton, was re-elected president of the Zehner family reunion at Riverside Park, Neenah. Mrs. Lvdia Henry, Winneconne, was named vice president; Mrs. Orville Emmons, Dale, secretary; Lester Zehner, Larsen, treasurer, and Miss Irene Evcnson, Larsen, historian. James and Jerry Diermeier, Shlocton, were entertainment chairman for the Diermeier family reunym.

Com- mittee chairmen for the event In Neenah were Mr. and Mrs. Girls Aren't Made of Sugar and Spice people. As Muskie Humphrey demonstrated, the "Center" shrank to 20-30 per cent and lost the game'. Now the successful Left wing of the Democratic Party faces a certain bolt, of the'20-30 per cent on the Right and a hard fight for the 20-30 per cent Center.

Crumbling of this magnitude has not happened to a dominant party since 1932; when the Democrats won over the Progressive and Center elements of the Republican Party. Although the Depression was the key factor, the Progressive split was apparent earlier in the LaFollette third-party race of Basic Similarities Going back further, one finds the three-way race between Woodrow Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft in 1912. Wilson won because of the division in Republican ranks. However, the GOP division was an earthquake, not an upheaval Most of the party schism came from TR's personal pique and not from societal forces. In some ways, the election of 1896 offers a possible parallel to this year's contest.

The Democrats selected a "winger" as their nominee, narrowed their voter base, and lost. But even in 1896, the Democratic Party did not change its basic constituency: Dixie it had been since the Civil War, and Dixie it remained despite William Jennings Bryan. i Clearly, the Democrats of 1972 are shifting their basic constituency. Southerners, Catholics and blue-collar workers no longer shape up as the mainstays of party strength. Confronted with the student minority affluent liberal takeover, many oldline Democrats will leave the party that is leaving them.

Although McGovernite theorists say that the new youth vote makes old precedents meaningless, no majority coalition has ever driven off several major constituencies and survived. The last time the Democrats did this to themselves was in I860, and it could be happening again today. the-roaders tried to straddle the great issues of the day with Constitutional Union candidate John Bell. The winner? Republican Abraham Lincoln. But, learned skeptics will say, didn't the Democrats survive a three-way split in 1948? Just so, which suggests that there is more to fatality than mere splintering.

What differentiates the circumstances of 1860 from-those of 1918 is this: The confrontation of 1860 destroyed the cohesive center of the party while the imbroglio of 1948 strengthened the bulk of the Democratic coalition by showing that it was not dependent upon its fringes. New Forces Emerging" Looking back over U.S. history, the essential criterion of a major political upheaval is the exhaustion of the dominant coalition's bonds. Minor breakaways can be dismissed 'and labeled as "tremors" (l.e., the "double tremor" of 1948) splits that carve off one large chunk of the party can be likened to earthquakes (i.e., the Wallace "earthquake" of 1968). Full-fledged upheaval only comes when the centrifugal force of the old coalition is shattered by the emergence of new prevailing forces.

This could be the year. By coming apart in the spring primaries, Centrists Ed Muskie and Hubert Humphrey showed that the old Institutional forces just, don't work any more. With the emergence of George McGovern, the Democrats appear to be nominating a "winger" for the first time since the New Deal coalition came to power In 1932. Harry Trumart faced 1943 revolt on both the Left and the Right, he represented a solid party center able to profit among ordinary voters from the ire of leftist and rightist splinters (each turned out to be just 2 per cent of the total vote). But today's Democratic Party, torn by the societal winds of the Sixties, Is a very different group of Strictly Personal Whatever Happened To Common Sense? BY SYDNEY HARRIS I know a wonderful lawyer, learned as he can be.

At the drop of a tort, he can rattle off Long suffering parents, subject to the whims of the psychiatric and medical orld, are going to be faced with another dilemma. Should a boy be taught to act like a man and should a daughter be instructed to behave like a lady? According to a panel at a meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis, there is a myth of masculinity. "Aside from a different physiology and anatomy, and vive la difference, I could not think of any characteristic that was uniquely the property of either sex," said one member of the panel. All agreed that men are not necessarily, or because they are men, strong, tough, assertive, objective, courageous, logical, constructive, independent, unsentimental, aggressive, competitive, diligent, disciplined, level-headed, controlled, practical, promiscuous or persuasive. Women are not, by the mere fact of being female, weak, passive, irrational, emotional, empty-headed, unassertive, subjective, illogical, dependent, fitful, devoted, self-effacing, impractical, artistic or receptive.

If they are that way, It is an individual matter or more likely they learned they ere supposed to fit a pattern at mama's knee or out playing catch with dad. The important influences on the child hicb crystallizes gender identity by the time the child is 3 is psychological and not biological, according to another panel member. Kids are programmed by their parents or sometimes their peers. Boys aren't supposed to cry. Girls mustn't fight.

And so the pattern carries over into school, in career choices and Into marriage. The problem tor the parent i3 massive as one in the audience wondered out loud. Should parents stop the "men don't" or "ladies don't" rituals and treat youngsters alike? Or should they differentiate between boys and girls because the mainstream of society does and the kids may grow up without a gender identity? Luckily parents in general are a rugged lot. They have managed to survive the question of to rock or not to rock, tantrums, toilet training, bottle versus and four letter words. Presumably they can face thi3 new challenge to their ingenuity with aplomb.

humans to live in. He resents the fact that personal factors have to clutter up the house. I could give similar examples fields, but why belabor' the point? And that point is that -professionalism, of any sort, should be a means of serving the people's deepest and truest needs, and not an abstract exercise in virtuosity. And a large part of the dehumanizing process in the modern world is reflected in today's professionalism for certainly we have -finer lawyers, doctors, architects, and so on, than America has had In thn nact- fciif tha .1. .1 II Alfred Sturm, Mr.

and Mrs. Robert Francort. Linwood Park, Appleton, was the scene of the Kraft family reunion the previous Sunday with 05 families attending. Mr. and Mrs.

Leonard Wieloch, Mr. and Mrs. John Kraft were in charge. Looking Backward people's legal, medical and housing needs are not being met by these skillful and erudite practitioners. Part of it Is not their fault, course, since they too are entrapped in bureaucratic mazes of vast Impersonality that clog up the works and prevent a cheap, fair and honest delivery system to the ultimate consumer.

But the professions themselves are also to blame for becoming ingrown and self-serving, as best dramatized by the two heart-transplant doctors competing furiously for fame and rmriit In anm Jerry Carver's Brick-Yard r. Harris all the statutes against simony, barratry, champerty, anil jactitation of marriage. There's only one thing wrong with him. He has no common sense. He wants to settle when he should fight.

He wants to fight when he should settle. He is so deep in the law that he can't see the people for the books. 1 I no a wonderful doctor, learned as he can be. At the drop of a suture, he can diagnose the rarest of diseases from amaurosis to zymosis, and provide references going back to Galen. There's only one thing wrong with him.

He has no common sense. He treats diseases instead of people. He has never interviewed a whole patienUn his life only a set of symptoms. I know a wonderful architect, learned as he can be, At the drop of a lintel, he can expatiate on the Parthenon, the Strozzi Palace, the cathedral at Charles, and development of the Pen-dentive System. There's only one thing 4 wrong with him.

You guessed it He builds houses for other architects to admire, not for i rv t-j -v A couple of years ago, Mr. Carver discovered that underlying the western ridge of his farm were separate stra-tae of pure, tough clay, and sand, each entirely free from grit or gravel, and well adapted for brick. Consequently, he opened a yard and manufactured brick there during last.Summer with satisfactory results. The brick was light colored, clean and handsome. This Spring, continuing in the business, Mr.

C. bought another machine similar to the other a Joliet patent -and it is said to give satisfac- tion in its working. With the two machines in operation to their fullest, they have claimed capacity of 33,000 bricks per day, but, of course, the actual manufacture falls much below these figures. Mr. Carver informs us that on one timed lot, with everything running lively, his boys turned out 1,500 bricks in 20 minutes.

23 YEARS AGO Wednesday, July 9, 1917. Planning the summer Chairty Ball were members of the Chairty Circle of King's Daughters. Members of the committee included Mrs. Alex Manier, Mrs. E.

J. Vollmer, Mrs. W. F. Hegner, Mrs.

Robert Rechner, Mrs. 100 YEARS AGO Quoted from tht Appleton Crescent for July 13, 1172. It is doubtless ell known to most of our local readers that Jerry Carver has the only brick-yard adjacent to the City in present operation. It is located on the west aide of his extensive farm in the town of Grand Chute, a part of which runs into Winnebago County. (Prospect Street after it makes the curve toward Butte des Morts Golf Club and St.

Mary Cemetery was known as Carver Road. The brick yard was located on the north aid of this road on the present tavern property.) scrt of private game that bears little relation to the noble end of medicine. To be in a profession means to profess, to take a vow of service, to live one's career by a higher standard than is expected of others; and this means, in turn, that common sense about helping people is the keystone. When and how did It become merely the 'CONVENTION HALL, DRIVER AND DON'T MURRY1' pousnea capstone?.