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Po Pauf MiDAV, JULV u. ts. watmloo eny murk watd-loo, ioa. Allen-Scott Report yrcc Opinion Pago Report Progress on Two 'Peace Moves Editorials This was the President's answer to Khrushchev's demand for a non-aggression treaty between the two alliances. He offered exchanging military limited to the atmosphere and underwater.

It is the President's theory this will clear the way for an eventual ban on underground testing subject to some form Delay in Sewage Plant au Test Expansion Was Unsound Bn't BJ0C 1 Pact Seen for Waterloo on the current phase of the program until the city was committed to the expansion of the plant. Mari-h 21, 1963 Courier news story: "At this time there are no definite plans for another 'phase' of improvements at Waterloo's sewage treatment plant, says Mayor Ed Jochumscn Jochumsen Maid tests have proven the plant, following completion of phase 1, is doing times the amount of work it had done before May 8, 1963 Courier news story: "The Waterloo City Council Tuesday night decided to proceed with prep neither yes nor no. Other high French authorities are indicating he will not oppose it, and eventually will probably agree to it. THIS CLOSELY-GUARDED Kennedy-Khrushchev "understanding in principle," which is now beginning to unfold in public, is the culmination of many months of involved and circuitous parleying and maneuvering through: (1) The 30-odd personal letters exchanged between the President and the Soviet ruler; (2) the former's recent junket to Europe; (3) Belgian Foreign Minister Paul Henri Spaak's talks in Kiev with Khrushchev this week; and (4) Undersecretary Averell Harriman's trip to Moscow next week to discuss the proposed limited nuclear test ban. SPAAK'S WIDELY fanfared trip to Kiev was preceded by another equally significant but unpublicized journey made by the former NATO secretary general and Assistant Defense Secretary Paul Nitze.

They made the rounds of all the NATO powers to sound them out on Kennedy's compromise proposal to exchange missions as "a first step," with a treaty to follow at some future date. It was the President's contention this evolutionary process is necessary to "create the required public atmosphere" in the West. WHILE IN GERMANY, the President personally outlined his plan to Chancellor Adenauer. The soon-to-retire aged leader agreed to go along on one condition that recognition of East Germany be expressly excluded from a non-aggression pact, if and when there ever is one. Armed with this almost unanimous NATO backing-France excepted Spaak flew to Russia and put Kennedy's compromise up to Khrushchev.

The Kremlin ruler accepted it pending the outcome of the test ban deliberations. But he vigorously stressed to Spaak that "sooner or later the West will have to come to terms with East that this of effective inspection. Only time will tell whether there is any basis for his optimism. Undersecretary Harriman is not expected to work out the actual details of a ban agreement. His primary mission is to formulate the general basis of such an accord.

The specific provisions will be drafted by specialists later; probably at the Geneva disarmament conference now in recess. SIGNING OF a final agreement will probably take place at the United Nations. Khrushchev has indicated willingness to go there for this purpose. The President and Prime Minister Macmillan also would attend. Their presence almost certainly would lead to a summit conference which might deal with other major East-West tensions and problems-such as Soviet troops in Cuba, strife-torn Laos, West Berlin.

All these grandiose plans and objectives are still highly "iffy." Much progress has been achieved in realizing them; at the same time, all could go up in smoke virtually overnight. By ROBERT S. ALLEN and PAUL SCOTT WASHINGTON, D. C. President Kennedy and Premier Khrushchev already have reached an understanding "in principle" to ban nuclear weapons tests in the atmosphere and underwater and on a compromise tie between NATO and the Warsaw Pact.

The latter is to consist of an exc hange of military missions between the Western and Soviet bloc alliances. Establishment of this relationship would be the first step in an overall plan under which, sometime in the future, a non-agression treaty would be negotiated between NATO and the Warsaw Pact. IF AM) WHEN such a non-aggression accord is reached, it will expressly exclude recognition of East Germany. At the adamant demand of Chancellor Adenauer, Kennedy insisted on this and Khrushchev has tentatively agreed "Ai loon at get the bomb, we can knock off thit 'inscrutable' jazz!" is one demand Russia will insist be faced. KHRUSHCHEV ALSO told Spaak he is prepared to go along on a nuclear test ban THE CONTROVERSIAL subject of improvement in Waterloo's sewage disposal plant can best be clarified by the stcp-by-step record of developments: I'JjG Howard Green Engineering Co.

of Cedar Rapids employed to make survey of disposal plant expansion needs. 1937 Green recommended an expansion of filters and digesters at the plant which, with other improvements, would cost an estimated $2,224,000. The City Council under Mayor Glenn Stech inserted this sum in the 1 958 budget and planned to proceed with the expansion as recommended. But Stech was defeated by the present mayor, Ed Jochumscn, whose council slate was also elected. May 23, 1938 Courier news item: "Mayor Ed Jochumsen said Friday that the results of three operational and mechanical changes at the sewage disposal plant make it appear that it will not be necessary to spend for plant expansion provided in the city budget." Sept.

23, 1939 City Council let contract for $178,188 for improvement of the industrial sewage treatment part of the plant under a plan prepared by the Stanley Engineering Co. of Muscatine. Jan. 17, 1900 Courier news story: According to Jochumsen, the $175,000 rehabilitation program will probably triple the capacity of the treatment plant." May 31, 1961 "Our treatment of sewage is 100 per cent and we intend to keep it that way," Jochumsen said. June 22, 19(51 "As far as we know we are satisfying the Public Health A A ft 1 to it.

With the exception of France, all other NATO members have approved the pro posal to exchange East-West military missions. President dc Gaulle so far has taken no stand on this; he has said military missions between NATO and the Warsaw Pact. aration of plans and specifications for a third phase of sewage treatment plant improvement here if it is needed Exactly what and how much will be decided about six weeks after work on the current phase 2 improvement is completed in August, he (the mayor) said." July 9, 1963 Cedar Rapids Waterworks officials said the coliform bacteria count in the Cedar River there reached the highest level they could remember. They blamed the partial shutdown of the Waterloo sewage disposal plant during construction of Improvements. July 10, 1963 Cedar Rapids officials discussed the possibility of filing suit against Waterloo for extra- water The Best From American Heritage Brook Farm-Brave Try for Utopia-Ended in Disaster leisure in and board, and which to write.

Sex, Illness And Fire Caused End To generous-minded George Ripley, all this seemed reason itself, and he forged ahead to make Brook Farm the outstanding phalanx in the country, and himself one of the most influential leaders of Fourierism. After the change to Fourierism, Ripley's tran-scendentalist friends lost inter v. i- the soil was gravelly, the climate treacherous, and the farmers mere amateurs. But from the start the school had been a financial as well as an educational success. Parents had regarded it a privilege to commit their offspring to the care of Mr.

and Mrs. Ripley. After June, 1845, without warning, disaster struck. First a smallpox epidemic smote 30 out of the 90 workers. In December, when many of the patients were tottering back to their tasks, two bitter disillu-sionments became generally known to the rank and file.

Nathaniel Hawthorne, who had attempted to withdraw his capital investment of $1,000 when he left the community in the fall of 1841, now sued George Ripley and Charles Anderson Dana for the $530 still due him. wcHimeni cosis ana oiner expenses resulting from Inadequate sewage treatment at Waterloo. Cedar Rapids waterworks officials said that a drop of spray inhaled by a waterskicr on the Cedar River there would contain 8,000 sewage bacteria. WE BELIEVE this documented record points decisively to only one conclusion: The six-year delay in proceeding with a major expansion of the Waterloo sewage treatment plant has been ill-advised, unjustifiable and unsound from an engineering standpoint. Despite the costly experimenting of the past six years, the city still must proceed with an expansion of the physical facilities at the plant.

The changes so far made may reduce slightly the over-all cost of the expansion. But the delay has given Waterloo a bad name in downriver communities and it has placed us in a poor position to demand that upriver communities proceed rapidly with construction of adequate treatment facilities. By EDITH ROELKER CURTIS IN THE FIRST WEEK of April, 1841, some eight or 10 thoughtful, cultivated Bosto-nians bundled their possessions, children and themselves into country-going carriages and drove eight miles to a pleasant, roomy homestead in West Roxbury. Their destination, then known as the Ellis Farm, was later to be called Brook Farm, a name they made famous as the most literaryand, in many ways, the least fortunate of American Utopias. This small band, led by Mr.

and Mrs. George Ripley, aimed to establish a self-supporting community whose economy would be based on a union of labor and culture, a hope in which they were doomed to disappointment. But Brook Farm is well remembered for their efforts. 555.3.-:. 'N I est in Brook Farm, while Horace Greeley and Brisbane came more and more frequently to supervise.

In the summer of 1844 the directors of the phalanx had decided to build a phalanstery to house more workers. But construction dragged, and the building was not finished by late 1845, when winter again intervened. MEANWHILE scandal had come to Brook Farm, a result of other aspects of Fourier's system. Ripley had failed to foresee that his association with Fourierism would automatically make him in the eyes of the world a supporter of the philosopher's other radical ideas, and of his very bizarre imaginings about the cosmos. Fourier's attitude toward sex, as Emerson put it, was "very French indeed." Young people at an early age would be encouraged in experimental marriage; and each phalanstery would be equipped with THE BROOK FARMERS' enthusiasm for "sociables of discernment" never flagged; indeed, it continued into the sad days when they were compelled to disband.

The nature of Brook Farm entertainments varied widely. Many evenings were devoted to philosophical inquiry and discussion, and often a visitor such as Margaret Fuller, Bronson Alcott, or Ralph Waldo Emerson would lead the talk. In later life, those who were present during the first two years referred to this transcendental period at Brook Farm as the "halcyon days." For by the third summer 1843 the idyllic atmosphere was no longer the same, and several of the farmers left. This change was in good part brought about by Albert Brisbane, who had imbibed the philosophical system of Charles Fourier while in Paris, to such effect that upon his return he became its leading apostle here. FOURIER HAD a theory of "groups and series," which held that man tires after two hours of intense concentration, but that he is able to work long hours every day if he is refreshed by a variety of occupations.

Fourier thought that his system of diversified tasks would solve the knotty problem of the distribution of benefits, for if each man earned top wages in one group, he would accept a fair distribution in all. r-i. jeparimcm, jocnumsen said in response to complaints from Cedar Rapids of polluted water. July 20, 1961-State Health Department charged that sewage disposal plants at Cedar Kails, Waterloo and Vinton were inadequate and were polluting the river. July 2G, 1961 Mayor Jochumscn issued a written review of the sewage plant improvement program.

If the improvement on the industrial waste sideof the plant is successful, he said, "we should proceed immediately to make the same changes (to increase efficiency) on the city side of our plant." He told the Council that the over-all plan of improvement, including the changes already made, would cost about one million dollars. GEORGE RIPLEY A French Theorist Ruined the Dream. George's sister, Miss Marianne Ripley; also the Minor Pratts and their three small children. By midsummer the community numbered some 30 persons. Nearly all entertained high hopes for the new way of life; the younger men and women fairly reveled in the freedom from conventional restraint.

One and all went about their daily tasks in an atmosphere of serene detachment from "civilization." NATHANIEL Hawthorne had joined Brook Farm impulsively, rashly investing $1,000, all his hard-earned savings from his labor in the Boston Custom House, with the expectation that membership in the community would enable him to marry Sophia Peabody. He expected that in exchange for half a day of manual labor he would secure bed THE GROUP SET out to found a community which would show the world there was nothing degrading about labor and. if everyone shared in the drudgery, everyone would have leisure for culture. With the scholarly George Rip-, ley was his dignified, cultivated wife, Sophia a niece of Richard Dana, Cambridge poet and es sayist and THE TWO WORST misfortunes were still to come. On March 3, 1846, Brook Farm's uncompleted phalanstery the farmers had gone some $7,000 into debt for it, expecting that the increase in personnel would pay for itself was totally destroyed by fire.

On March 7, the casakif Nathaniel Hawthorne vs. George Ripley et al. was tried in Middlesex County Court of Common Pleas, and the court directed Ripley to pay the debt, plus legal expenses $560.62 in all. At first leaders like John Dwight and Mrs. Ripley seem to have been too dazed to realize that disbandment was now Inevitable.

Others benefited from what George and Sophia Ripley had made of Brook Farm, but only the Ripleys assumed responsibility for the debts. It would take them more than 1 10 years to pay them off. Before leaving, George sold his precious library of foreign books to his friend Theodore Parker. "I can now understand," Ripley remarked sadly, "how a man would feel if he could attend his own Strictly Personal Harris: Precise Use Of Words Desirable "Corps de Bacchae and Bayaderes" for the pleasure of the male "Harmonians." In contemplating the cosmos, Fourier became convinced the stars mated and had little ones; and that the sea was turning into lemonade, a beverage of which he was inordinately fond. Such aspects of Fourierism were given wide publicity in the press by enemies of the movement, and also by political enemies of Greeley.

In consequence the Brook Farm School suffered a severe drop in enrollment, which represented a serious financial loss. By SYDNEY J. HARRIS IN A RECENT magazine ad. the company mentioned "the enormity of our effort" to obtain a certain product. What the company Background of the News Has Peron Become Figurehead to Peronists? The Public Speaks Protests Dog Mess on Private Lawn ored that they have chosen our property.

Our lawn can do without that type of fertilizer. If there is no law to protest us dogless families, I think I'll rent an elephant and give them a taste of their Aug. 22, 1962 City Council lots contract for $658,000 improvement to the sewage disposal plant, with of the cost to be paid with federal aid. Sept. 20, 1962 Courier news story: "Waterloo will probably have to expand its sewage treatment plant despite extensive efforts underway to make the present operation more efficient, Mayor Ed Jochumscn said Thursday." March 22, 1963 Paul J.

Houser, director of public health engineering for the State Department of Health, declared in Des Moines that there has been "an undue delay" in expansion of the sewage treatment facilities at Waterloo. He indicated that he was holding up the $161,400 in federal aid meant was "enormousness, and not wickedness, which "enormity" has always meant. Why complain about a minor error of this sort, ask the modernists in speech? As long as people know what you mean, what difference does it make which word you use? Besides, words change their meanincs from centurv THE FARM ITSELF had proved a disappointment, for WATERLOO To the Editor: Could someone please tell me if there is a law by which a dog owner can be prosecuted for allowing his or textile union boss, Andres Framini: "Every day in every place, there will be one order: To cause the most damage to the enemy." DENNIS THE MENACE to century sometimes, ai- Harris most from generation to generation. There is some truth in their position, but not enough to outweigh the disadvantages of using words loosely and sloppily. By FRANK N.

MANITZAS BUENOS AIRES, Argentina LTV The Peronists in Argentina are very much divided. Results of the general election Sunday emphasized the split in their once powerful ranks. Many believe the chasm stretches to the man in MadridJuan Domingo Peron. The exiled former dictator is acting less like a leader and more like a figurehead. Peron's latest thoughts came this week via his private secretary.

Juan Manuel Algarbe. Voicing Peron's reaction to the election results, he said: own medicine. MRS. C. J.

STEGGALL, 1001 Randolph St. Denies Having Junk Car But Gets Warning WATERLOO To the Editor: We are taxpayers and we think it is pretty bad when a taxpayer gets letters like the one we received in the mail. We received notice from the city to get rid of a junk car when we don't even own such a vehicle. What does the public think of something like this? We her dog to trespass and mess on other people's yards? We are sick and tired of cleaning dog dirt out of our yard and we would like to start doing something about it. If we wanted dog dirt in our yard we'd get a dog of our own.

If these people want the privilege of owning a dog they should also use the "privilege" of walking it through the alleys. Where do these people think they get the right to walk their dogs through other people's property AND EVEN WORSE. SCHOOL PLAYGROUNDS for this purpose? I am not only speaking of the dogs that run loose most of this mess is caused by dogs on leashes. We can't even sit in our own yard to play with our baby because these inconsiderate morons tUnterloo Dailn Courier VOL. I0J-NO.

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BUT WHO follows Framini? And an even more important question: Who today can speak for Peronism in Argentina? There is no one person. Framini is the leader of but one of many sectors. Peron also attacked the election as "a farce destined to perpetuate the power of the forces that have governed the country for the past eight years." Known Peronists were banned as candidates for executive offices. Many Peronists were elected to Congress and others to less influential posts in the provinces. The whole story is not yet known.

Dogs of the Eskimo family carry their tail3 above their backs to keep them from being hardened with frozen snow. CONSIDER ANOTHER more prevalent example the modern use of "disinterested" to mean "uninterested." Properly speaking, a judge is "disinterested" in a case that is. he is interested in an objective and impartial manner. This is a most valuable word to describe the role of "disinterested party." If. however, it is used interchangeably with "uninterested." we have simply given up something for nothing.

I don't believe that words should be preserved merely for their antiquarian or traditional value; the only test should be whether they fill a verbal need. When they do, we should resist all efforts to eliminate them or modify their meaning. WE CANNOT prevent language from changing, nor should we. But the changes should be gradual, sensible and advantageous. Purists, for instance, object to "contact" as a verb contacted John and Indeed it is an ugly construct: yet it avoids the cumbersome "got in touch with" and does not muddy th evaters of meaning.

Three Leatea Airw Auocwte preu li i e-M are buying our house and our landlord got one of these letters, too. Also, one of our neighbors got one and they don't have a junk car, either. What is this world coming to, we would all like to know? Maybe this letter and article will bring some response. 1 sure hope it will. MRS.

DL'LORES McKENZIE. 700 Dearborn Ave. "NEITHER PEACE nor tranquility can be expected at this time in Argentina, but a new period of fighting and violence. With all the legal roads closed to the Argentine people, only the road to an insurrection remains." Strong words from a man who fled from military rebels in 1955 and would not fight for his 10-year-old empire. Similar threats came just the other day from a tough i MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Attaciotea Pre entitira eciuiiveiy la me (or republication ot oh me loan newt eutMitrted ttt newwe per 01 well a 011 AP newt aispakhei All ngntt at repua.

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Cleveland. Oixoaa. Atlanta, Lot Angcio, San franc itca. Detroit Miami have allowed their dogs to mess in our yard. When we've confronted some of these nervy individuals, they act as though we should feel hon- 1 Taue the LAST time we ate at their house, they didn't have bo catsup!" 4 4.