The Post-Crescent from Appleton, Wisconsin • 6

Wisconsin Report The Post -Crescent Thursday, October 6, 1966 Are he Republicans Hawks? State's Civil Service System One of Oldest Of Any in Country John Wyngaard, Madison correspondent, is on vacation and has arranged for a series of guest columns to be published during bis absence. Contributors will Include prominent figures In Wisconsin governmental and political affairs. BY CARL K. WETTENGEL MADISON The recognition of good government in Wisconsin throughout the nation is a refleclion of the caliber of employees performing their duties to the benefit limited war in which our casualties are always on the increase but our full strength is not committed. The point of view political or not that getting the war over with Is the Important thing has merit as far as American public opinion is concerned.

But if the Republican leadership Is actually becoming committed to the stand that a hard line is necessary, that negotiations on the grounds of those suggested by Ambassador Goldberg are wrong, that unilateral Increase of the pressure on all war fronts, Including more raids on the North, more ground troops and the Implication that Invasion of North Viet Nam may be necessary as it would have been to win the war in Korea then they are in for another stinging defeat at the polls, Although President Johnson has virtually taken the war course advocated by Senator Goldwater in 1964, it was in part at least that advocacy that overwhelmed the Republican candidate. There is little Indication that the American people are any more in favor of the Vietnamese conflict than they were then or than they were about the Korean War. We rather suspect that unless there Is actually a major assault upon the United States such as Pearl Harbor, Americans generally will be opposed to any American participation in war, however logical or noble it may be made to sound. The Republicans do not have an outstanding military leader to put up as a candidate in 1968 who can say with authority that the fighting ought to be called off and who can do so without charges that he is soft on Communism or cowardly or anything like that. But Mr.

Eisenhower's statements in Chicago ought to be probed a little further. Does he now believe that the truce in Korea was a mistake? Can he counsel that had we used all force necessary to win that conflict Including nuclear weapons at that time quite unavailable to the enemy we would not now have mora than 300,000 troops in a jungle war in Asia? I. Jtr TrtasMpdiaii ize that it is essential to good government to eliminate any vestige of political interference in selection of capable employees. Through its representatives on the State Personnel Board, citizens are assured that the principles of the civil service laws are followed. These board members, appointed by the governor to staggered terms, must have certain qualifica- tions, knowledge and expert- ences in the field of personnel management.

A balance of political affiliation is also required. The State Personnel Board has served Wisconsin well. What of the future? Continued support must be given to the principles of civil service and the Insistence upon open competition among qualified persons. The personnel program is being brought closer to the various depart- ments and agencies through their participation in civil service and personnel func- tions. LOCALITIES LAG Discussion up to this point has been concerned with civil service at the state level.

With but few exceptions, most counties and cities do not have either a civil service system or a personnel management program. Sound civil service and personnel administration must be adopted by local jurisdictions. This is essential to good government and can contrib- ute to better service of those persons in the various locali- ties. By authorization of the legislature, the State Bureau of Personnel is charged with the responsibility of assisting localities, upon their request, to formulate civil service organizations as well as re-" solve matters directly con Kraft Writes Some Progress Noted on Essential Elements for Peace in Viet Nam BY JOSFTH KRAFT WASHINGTON The diplomacy of Viet Nam is so obscured by clouds of ambiguity that an analytic review of recent developments is in of the citizens of the state. An outstanding reputation such as this is not a happenstance.

Third in the nation to establish a civil service system, Wisconsin has had the benefit of civil service since 1905 and has prided Itself on the qualification standard set for public employes. Many changes have occurred in the system in the past, and the present growing complexity of government and industry are producing further changes to cope with current problems. There are approximately 23,000 state employes under civil service, occupying over 1,000 different job classifications. These positions range from those requiring little or no background or education to highly professional positions such as psychiatrists, architects, engineers and other top jobs. Competition, especially in the highly skilled and technical areas from industry and the federal government, necessitates seeking new methods to provide the personnel necessary to carry out the responsibilities placed on state government by its citizens.

COMPETITION The state's salary schedules are designed to establish levels comparable with those being offered in other areas of employment. It must be recognized that state employes receive another form of compensation in the satisfaction of providing benefits to their fellow citizens, benefits, which can never be measured in dollars and cents. Civil service in Wisconsin is compatible with sound governmental administration. Through its procedure it makes available to state government the best qualified persons and allows them to progress in their particular specialties without eroding the principles of a merit system. Elected representatives real- 1 In the debates over the war in Viet Nam it has generally been dissident Democrats who have most strenuously opposed American policies, the added ground troops and the ever-increasing bombing raids.

Republican strategy has been to talk about the credibility gap, to charge that the Democrats are responsible (or our Involvement but to offer no advice on how to get out. But in the last few weeks there have been some comments from Republican leaders which indicate that they are playing politics with the war just as much the man in the White House. In so doing, they could throw away one of the best opportunities for a resurgence of power or at least Influence since 1954. President Eisenhower, who went to Korea before his election and In whose first term the war was brought to an end, laid in Chicago last week that he would use all means possible to "win" the war in Viet Nam and he refused to count out the use of nuclear weapons. In part this was undoubtedly designed to suggest to the Communists that they were not eternally safe from our nuclear strength.

It may also have been some sort of effort to indicate to Hanoi, the Soviet Union and Red China, that the United States Is united in Its determination not to lose the war. But the statement unfortunately came Just after Richard Nixon had sternly criticized Ambassador Goldberg's proposals at the United Nations that the United States would de-escalate if there were any Indications of similar moves on the part of Hanoi. Mr. Nixon called for repudiation of the proposals. And the conclusion must be that at least some segments of Republican leadership have decided to take a hard line on the war to try to put the Democrats on the defensive If they officially are pushing for negotiations.

Maybe this is being done in good faith. It is also quite possible perhaps even likely that the American people do not have the disposition to last out long, Boost tor Kimberly Two announcements In Klmberly during the past week, the decision of Mount Hope. Machinery Company to locate a $100,000 manufacturing plant there and the announcement of a shopping center development by A. E. Andlng are of major importance to residents of the community and the Fox Cities.

Mount Hope, a firm with plants throughout the world, is a rapidly growing concern and will provide a new Industry and new jobs for the community. The thopping center will attract many people to the village and provide employment for both young and old. All taxpayers will benefit as the two will add substantially to the general tax base of the community as Brave Man in Georgia Rep. Charles L. Weltner of Georgia has done a brave thing, but probably not an unwise thing.

He has quit his race for reelection rather than support the gubernatorial candidacy of Lester G. Maddox, a egregatlonist and a fellow Democrat. Weltner said, of Maddox, "Today, the one man in our state who exists as the very symbol of violence and repression is the Democratic nominee for the highest office In Georgia. His entire public career is directly contrary to my deepest convictions and beliefs." Now in his second term in the House, Weltner has been a strong supporter of the Johnson Administration, and backed all three civil rights bills In Congress. Maddox, the Georgia restaurateur who closed his business rather than serve 7 explicitly accepted the principle of a timetable for withdrawal of troops after the conclusion of a political agreement.

On the other side, it is quite clear that the Chinese, who now oppose the 1954 Geneva accords on Indochina in principle, stand out against an agreement far more strongly than the Russians, who have always stood by the Geneva accords. It is equally clear if only from the news of a steadily Increasing Soviet role in the war that Moscow is gaining influence in Hanoi at the expense of Peking. CONTINUE THE SEARCH To be sure, there remain vital differences notably on the terms for receiving the Viet Cong into ordinary political life and on the withdrawal of North Vietnamese troops. Moreover, the Communists have shown in the most savage terms, a disbelief in the President's professions of peaceful intent. Still, the skepticism of the other side was inevitable.

Making peace initiatives in the midst of a political campaign is bound to arouse suspicions of an electoral maneuver. It cerned with examinations, compensation and proper classification of positions. Wisconsin citizens can be proud of its accomplishments in providing good government. The selection of capable employees under a civil service system has contributed to this achievement. No legislation however well written can succeed unless there is a desire of the persons affected by such law to make it succeed.

Carl K. Wettengel is the director of the State Bureau of Personnel, which administers one of the pioneering state civil service laws in the country. well as provide Increased state income tax returns to supplement the village budget. Congratulations are in order for village officials, the citizen's! development committee, land developers and others who had a hand in bringing these major improvements to the village. For 50 years Klmberly has been a one-industry community, experiencing rapid residential growth, with no improvement in the business or industrial picture.

Within a week this has been changed. The move reflects the growing economy of both the village and the Fox Cities and with continued long range planning and proper promotion, residents of the area can look forward to continued expansion and growth of Kimberly's businesses, Industries and residential properties. Tho now reverses the trend and puts a new accent on the Indigenous aspect of the Viet Cong, It is thus a stpp that positions the Viet Cong, far more than any words can, to enter the politics of South Viet Nam on a legitimate basis. With respect to the parties indirectly involved, there has also been movement. The United States, in Ambassador Arthur Goldberg's UN address, has for the first time People's Forum Ohio Visitor Likes City's Hospitality Editor, Post-Crescent: Several weeks ago my 10-year-old boy fell from High Cliffs and fractured his left leg.

He was confined to St. Elizabeth Hospital for over a month during which time 1 came to know Appleton quite well. I was amazed at the hospitality and kind consideration that was extended to me. I especially want to thank Dr. Richards and Dr.

Gmeimer for their expert attention as well as Sister Rafael, Mrs. Kreiger, Mrs. Noffke, Mrs, Landgraf, Mrs. Hanneman, Mrs. Wald-hardt, Miss Marski, and all the fine nurses, sisters, and staff at Et.

Elizabeth's Hospital. My thanks also to the Roller family; Mary Ebben, the Feldkamps and all their friends who helped make my stay in Appleton more pleasant. R. L. Lindsey 2402 Stanfield Drive Parma, Ohio Kraft order.

For it shows that considerable progress has been made and that there is good reason to maintain the search for peace against the war-lovers here and in Saigon and beyond the election deadline that the President seems to have set. The first, and most important, mark of progress is that the elements of a negotiation have emerged in more explicit fashion. Among other things there would have to be: A cease-fire on the ground; an agreement to bring the National Liberation Front, or Viet Cong, into the political processes of South Viet Nam with a chance to attain power in free elections; an agreement for an eventual free choice by South Viet Nam on unification with the North; a calendar with a fixed terminal point for withdrawal of foreign troops, both American and North Vietnamese, from South Viet and an international guarantee of the whole package embodied by an International force of some kind. MOVEMENTS With respect to particular points in the package there has also been movement In Saigon, the South Vietnamese elections of Sept. 11 does not help to assemble in Strictly Personal Decalog for Parents Suggested by Harris Negroes, is notorious for his segregationist views.

Immediately, a decision like Weltner's Is likely to have a strong reaction against any deep South politician because in the deep South segregation is still a major political issue. But we believe that Weltner, 38, is a man young enough and wise enough to look beyond this two-year term in Congress. The face of the South is changing, and its minority votjg blocs are too. And if Weltner seeks office again, his withdrawal from this race, rather than support a segregationist, will not be forgotten. In announcing his action, Weltner said, "I hope I can sometime have the chance to serve again." We think he will.

BY SYDNEY J. HARRIS (R (printed by RtquMt) A church conference on "Parents and Children" has asked me to contribute a few lines to its symposium, since I am unable to attend in person. Knowing full well that almost all advice on child-rearing is futile, I am nevertheless tempted to suggest the following Decalog for Parents: Thou shalt honor no other gods but God, steadfastly refusing to make thy child a minor deity in the household. regards as a claque of suppliants Interested only in pushing the United States deeper into the war. Still less when the meeting is likely to provide a new platform for Premier Nguyen Cao Ky, a known foe of negotiations.

In these circumstances, a double logic argues the imperative need to continue the search for peace patiently and without any deadlines. Progress has already been made and the new roles being taken on by the Constituent Assembly in Saigon, by the indigenous elements in the Viet Cong, and by the Russians in Hanoi suggest that there is more to come. Conversely, to step up the war after our elections, as the President now threatens, would only confirm the suspicion that recent initiatives have only been a political hoax. In Communist eyes, President Johnson might be disqualified, must as President Eisenhower was in the last year of his term, as a man with whom it was useful to negotiate. have brought to the Constitu ent Assembly a crop of new, independent men, many of Mayor on 24-Mour whom are already thinking Clean Ud DutV mm wining ouuui urguuauug I API Athens with the Viet Cong.

The other side has matched that development with the interview Mayor George Plytas is resolved to keep the city clean even if it keeps him awake. He told Athenians that any time they noticed uncollected garbage they should telephone the director of health and protest. "And if the director is unavailable," the mayor said, "you can phone me at home." Looking Backward State Fair Opens at Janesville social and-spiritual isolation when they should be most together. -Thou shalt instill no fears into thy child, but rather impress upon him that love casteth out fear; and that he who commits no wrongs be- cause of fear Is merely weak, whereas he who pursueth righteousness because of love is truly strong. -Thou shalt help thy child accept the variety of mankind with joy and wonder in God's creative originality; and not breed in him that terrible false pride of superiority, which stunts and twists the personality of man.

-Thou shalt be not too much a parent, alloying thy child freely to make his own mistakes, not protecting him unduly from the painful consequences of his errors. -Thou shalt not expect nor demand love from thy child simply because thou art his parent; but thou shalt try to win his respect as a person by justice, humor and understanding. -Thou shalt not force thy child to develop in thine own image, but assist him in becoming the best kind of person his own nature requires; for we must not judge a child by others, but only by his own potential. -Thou shalt look daily Into tone own heart and examine thy motives; for thy motives are unpure, love cur-flies into possessiveness, and thy child is no longer a creature of God, but an instrument of Man's misguided vanity. 0 GRIN AND BEAR IT By LICHTY Harris Thou shalt make no promises that are broken, whether these be promises of pleasure or promises of punishment; for unless thy child learns to respect thy word, he will not respect any person.

Thou shalt teach thy child by example, and not by precept; for a parent who teaches a child religion and morality and yet lives by greed, passion and hypocrisy must expect that his conduct will be followed and his. counsel ignored. Thou shalt worship the Sabbath communally, with thy family, and not seek solitary pleasures which plunge each member of the family into given by the chairman of the Liberation Front which was broadcast by the Front on Sept. 14 and re-broadcast by Radio Hanoi on Sept. 28.

The interview is important because of the special position it accords to the Liberation Front chairman, Nugyen Huu Tho. For Tho represents the part of the Front which is non-communist and rooted In the South, as against North Viet Nam. Over the past few years, he and his kind have been steadily losing influence to hard-core Communist cadres sent down from the North. The focusing of attention on Dyke, Carol Coonen, Sue Mc-Cole, Wilma Wyngaard and Kay Patterson. The Rev.

Norbert VandeLoo, recently appointed assistant at Sacred Heart Church, was named the new chaplain of the Third Order of St. Norbert. A junior music club known as the Junior Wednesday Musicale was organized at the home of Mrs. Andrew Parnell, Appleton. Sponsored by the Wednesday Musical, an adult group in the Fox Cities, the first officers of the new club included Judi Beglinger, president; Jerry Brinker, vice president; Penny Lee, secretary, and Keith Gail, treasurer.

Club advisers were Mrs. D. Fulton, president of the adult group, Mrs. Parnell and Mrs. J.

M. WitherelL 100 YEARS AGO Quoted from the Appleton Post lor Sept. 27, 1866. Janesville, Sept. 26, 1866 Editor Post: The fair has actually begun.

The next gale that sweeps from the East will bring to our ears the clash of rattling wheels and hurrying feet intent on reaching in the shortest possible time the fair ground the centre of attraction. The weather is beautiful, a cool breeze tempers the atmosphere which would else be sultry. One can enjoy a stroll or ride free from the encumbering great coat or shawl. People are arriving by the thousands, and should this delightful weather continue, the crowd will really be Immense. At this early hour the grounds are thronged, and cow animals are constantly adding to the scene.

The opening address was delivered at 10 a.m. by the President of the Society. The entries, between 1,400 and 1,500, which are being constantly Increased as articles of utility, stock, or additions to the decorations In the Fine Arts Hall are still brought in by com. It is Impossible to particularize or to attempt In this brief letter a description of the articles on exhibition. A Fine Arts Hall Is well filled and Is a very attractive department.

The show of labor-saving machinery of all kinds Is particularly good, in farming implements especially. The show of horses and farming slock generally is good; the vegetables and fruit, although poorly represented as to quantity, are excellent In quality. The track is In good condition, and the races this afternoon will doubtless prove satisfactory to lovers of "sport." Gen. (John Logan will probably speak on the fair grounds tomorrow afternoon, in which case the crowd to hear him will be Immense. All things considered, the Fair must be a complete success and the Society wilt reap a rich harvest pecuniarily.

YEARS AGO Thursday, Oct. 1, 1941. The. Brooklyn Dodgers evened the World Series acore behind the pitching oi Whitlow Wyitt when they beat the Yankees, 3 to 2, before cheering fans. John Groolement was elected president of the Badger Hi-Y.

Other officers included Carroll Cook, vice president; Howard Horn, secretary; James Schueneman, treasurer, and Norbert Horn, sergeant-at-arms. A corn husking bee was held on the farm of Joseph Ebben that week with a party held after the husking. Attending were Mr. and Mrs. Ted Theolosen, Mr.

and Mrs. George Kerkhof and their daughter Betty, all of Klmberly; Mrs. Mary Merghuis, Norbert Berghuis and Martin Ebben, all of Little Chute; Mr. and Mrs. Henry Vanden Boo-gard, Harry Vanden Boogard, Mr.

and Mrs. Henry Schumacher, Martin Vanden Heu-vel, Mr. and Mrs. William Ebben and their three sons, Martin, Robert and Donald, and daughter, Lucille, all of the Town of Vandenbroek. 10 YEARS AGO Thursday, Oct 4, 1956.

Cheerleaders that year at SL Mary Grade School were Karen Kappell, Hoep Goetzman, Mary Glandt, Nancy Van Potomac Fever by Jack Wilson L.B.J.'s popularity slips to 50 per cent, a new low And if he thinks that's bad, wait until he sees the returns from North Viet Nam. OT1S irora Adam Clayton Powell claimed it was a victory for Mm when his committee handed him his head he hadn't expected to get It back. 1 "It's not that I'm outraged at public debt of It's a generation that calls is 8568,000,000,000 for short that infuriates mel".