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FREEPORT JOURNAL-STANDARD Published daily except Sunday and six legal holidays By The Freeport Journal-Standard Publishing Company jiff AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER TUESDAY, MAY 25, 1965 Massachusetts Corruption: A Case Study "The reality has been worse than we imagined, although we have far from exhausted the possible investigations We have observed with disgust, indignation and shame the ways in which some of the most highly placed and powerful political figures in the state have betrayed, actively or passively, the public trust. This is a passage taken from the first draft of the report of the Massachusetts Crime Commission, and is quoted in an absorbing article on corruption in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the current Saturday Evening Post. The wide scope and the ingenuity displayed in the wrongdoing, as well as the elaborate ethnic mixture in Massachusetts politics is described entertainingly by Edward R. F. Sheehan.

A former governor, two former speakers of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, a judge and the former head of the state police are among those who have been indicted for corrupt practices. While it is scandal that is principally discussed in the article, Sheehan also describes the reform movement, and indicates that a brighter day is ahead for the commonwealth. The stone has been turned over in Massachusetts, and the creatures found underneath are being stepped on, one by one. The article is interesting to us all for its comments on Sen. Edward M.

Kennedy and the necessity for him to involve himself in the cleanup program. His brother, the late president, worked for Massachusetts as a senator but remained aloof from internal political battles. The new Sen. Kennedy will, many predict be classified presidential timber in the future. But what is most important about the article for those of us who live outside Massachusetts is not the unique quality of the corruption in that state, but the universality.

In Massachusetts, a crime commission with sweeping powers and a reform-minded attorney general led the fight against the scoundrels in public life. What of the other states? The statement in the article Illinoisans should most take to heart is that of Patrick Joseph (Sonny) McDonough, a colorful politician of the old school, who told Sheehan: "The corruption issue in this state has been blown up out of all proportion because this is the state where John F. Kennedy, God rest him, came from. We holler louder about corruption in Massachusetts. I'd like to know just how pure and dainty the other 49 state governments are!" Life Or A stay in a hospital is not exactly like a trip to the moon, but it is indeed a trip to another world.

One leaves the world of peace, triviality and personal freedom to enter a world at war. This is a war against disease, broken bones, blindness and death from a hundred causes. It is all-important, and that is perhaps why there are so many dedicated workers, some with no pay but the feeling of participating in a great and important effort. The person who is making his own personal struggle loses interest in outside world problems. He is concerned with survival, and survival has always been one of man's principal aims.

At the same time he is regaled with tales of valor success or failure in this problem of survival. There are miraculous cures and tragic ends. The most cheerful place in the hospital is the maternity ward where almost everything is gay and happy. But there are also mothers or babies who do not pull through. When one steps outside to blossoming trees and flowers, quiet homes and people who are thinking of little except buying groceries, it is going away from the battlefield to home and peace.

New Catholic Textbooks Religion textbooks being distributed in Catholic grade schools in many parts of the country reflect the church's position on the Jews, as approved at the third session of the Vatican Council last year. The council's statement held that Jews in general, past and present, bore no collective guilt fpr the death of Jesus. It also stressed that Christ, His family and the Apostles were Jews. The textbooks make Jesus' Jewish background clear to a child, teaching that He worshipped in synagogues and lived according to Jewish law. For the first time in this country in the Catholic church, the textbooks have illustrations with Hebrew writing.

An influence in writing the new books was a study by the American Jewish Committee, which reported that in a few textbooks there was a tendency to place "exclusive and collective responsibility for the Crucifixion of Jesus" on the Jews. The study was released last year by the Jesuit institution St. Louis University. The responsibility for selecting textbooks for the parochial schools rests with the education office in ecah diocese, and there is no universal text throughout the nation. Textbooks with hints of anti-Semitism (there are none endorsed by the Rockford Diocese) will be replaced immediately.

Copies Of Manuscripts "Alice" buffs will be pleased to learn that the Lewis Carroll tale is being reproduced by photo-offset process from the author's original script. It will be published Sept. 13, the 100th anniversary of the publication of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland." A special feature of the manuscript copy is the drawings Carroll made throughout. The original JOSEPH ALSOP; Matter Of Fact A Cog In Hanoi's Machine "Don't You Realize Those Things Might Kill You?" WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY On The Right The President And 14B The new books were prepared by the Pope Pius XII Religious Education Center of Monroe, Mich.

The first two volumes of an eight- volume series have been published. One illustration in the textbook "The Lord Jesus" portrays Christ as a child speaking to Jewish elders in a synagogue. He is standing on a rug with a star of David, and the Torah scroll is shown. A Hebrew inscription reads, "All who heard Him marveled." Another illustration shows Jews praying in a synagogue, with the caption: "This is a Jewish synagogue. Jesus worshipped in a Jewish synagogue." This, in part, is how the Crucifixion is described in the textbook: "Jesus knew that His Father had sent Him to make up for the sins of all men Jesus went to the garden with His Apostles.

He prayed: 'Father, Your will be done! I will suffer and die to save While Jesus was praying, the soldiers came to arrest Him. Jesus let the soldiers take Him to Pilate. Pilate said that Jesus must suffer and die on the cross." The textbooks by no means attempt to revise the account in the Scriptures, and they only slightly shift emphasis. But there is a new spirit of tolerance and brotherhood. Children brought up in this spirit will not, as their parents may have, hurl the cruel words "You killed Christ" at Jewish children not, at least, if the church has anything to say about it.

manuscript, from which the copy was made, is in the British Museum in London. University Microfilms Inc. of Ann Arbor, also plans to make facsimiles of other handwritten manuscripts, including "Red Badge of Courage" by Stephen Crane, "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine and four of Shakespeare's plays. NEW YORK There has been much talk about the casualness of President Johnson's endorsement of a law to remove provision 14B from the Taft Hartley Act. That much is to his credit, it is generally thought.

It suggests that he is merely complying with political imperatives; that his heart isn't really in repeal, and that therefore one needn't fear that he is the victim of philosophical derangement. There is an interesting analysis, which commits us to thinking better of the king who yawns as he instructs his-aide to go out and execute John the Baptist, than of the king who gives an impassioned speech on the necessity of his execution before giving the order. Voting Bloc As usual, it will be more interesting to observe the reactions of those on whom Johnson has visited this impudence, than mediate on the routine fact that, like politicians before him and politicians after him who are full of talk about being President-of-all-the-people, LBJ shows himself to be an instrument of one particular voting bloc. He is quite prepared to damage the rights of all the people, in this case the rights of the working man to decide whether or not to join a labor union. Let us hear now from those opinion makers and congressmen who are regularly transfigured by their idealism, respecting this mercenary trans- action.

To repeal 14B is to (a) end the right of an individual to make his own decision whether to join a labor union, (a right enjoyed now only in the 19 states that have had the good sense to pass right-to-work laws), and (b) end the right of the states to arrive at their own decisions about whether that right ought to be protected. Individual Rights The case is often made, often persuasively, for the federal government to overrule the states so as to guarantee an individual's right. The case, fortunately, is infrequently made for giving the federal government the authority to overrule the individual states in order to guarantee the uniform dissolution of an individual right. That case was made by LBJ last week. I have, I feel I should report, favored right-to-work laws for as long as the subject has been around, never thinking I was defending a right I would myself one day mourn as a personal loss.

A few months ago, I was greeted at a random appearance on a television program by an organizer for the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. He had an application form in his hand and demanded my signature on it. No Sign, No Appear The application form is an obsequious instrument that would require me to mortgage my moral faculties to the decisions of a majority of gentlemen who are the directors of a union I have no desire to participate in at all. I was quietly informed that I would not be permitted to go on television again unless I became a member. I thought to question the constitutionality of their ultimatum since my work on television and radio is, or seeks to be, of an informational nature.

I reasoned that surely if the Bill of Rights prevents the Congress of the United States from passing any law abridging the freedom of speech, the board of directors of AFTRA would also be denied that privilege? My lawyer, otherwise an optimistic man, informed me that I am naive: Organized labor unions pretty well write their own laws. 'Divisions' Except in a few states the distinguished 19 where a man's right to appear on a radio or television station without first joining a labor union organization is protected under the right-to-work laws that Lyndon Johnson seeks to outlaw on the grounds that they are the cause of "divisions among our people." Johnson is a cause of divisions among our people. Should we therefore outlaw him too? Presumably on the ideal day, which will mark the consummation of the great society, people who have application forms stuck under their noses by utter strangers representing strange organizations will simply sign them, without asking divisive questions. (Copyright 1965, By Washington Star Syndicate Inc.) HUE, Viet Nam In his mid- 30s, Nguyen Xuan Thuy is a sad, worn, prematurely aged wisp of a man. But this is hardly surprising, for this ex-cog in the Communist political appara- tus has led a wearing life.

It is also an interesting life, for it reveals the detailed direction of the war in South Viet Nam from the Communist North; and it shows, too, how the Communists have rather less mercy for their human tools than a good carpenter has for his inanimate tool kit. His Story So let us begin Thuy's story at the beginning, as he told it through an American interpreter here in Hue. Thuy was born into a peasant family in a village in this lovely province of Thuy Tien, not far from the banks of the perfumed river. His father had good land, and he still speaks with obvious longing of those first good years before he was sternly conscripted for service in a Viet Minh unit in the war against the French. That was in 1951 and he was barely 17! When the French war ended he went to North Viet Nam with his whole unit.

"Why?" he was asked. "Because those were the orders," he replied with an air of dumb astonishment. Worked As Laborer Being a simple fellow, not very tough and not very quick, Thuy was passed over in all the earlier selections of men from South Viet Nam who were trained in the North to serve as cadres in the southern war. Instead, when his military service ended, he was sent to serve as a common laborer in various agricultural construction projects. "It was like being a slave," he added, with a sudden edge of bitterness in his voice.

"We had believed the propaganda that life in a Communist country would be like paradise. It was more like hell." Thuy was downright relieved, therefore, when he was suddenly called up in the later winter of 1964 and sent for training to a military camp at Sung Mai, just north of Hanoi. In all there were 194 men, most of them former southerners like himself, in his class of candidate- political cadres. To Secret Camp After six months of indoctrination in propaganda and other techniques, plus "training in carrying heavy loads," Thuy and his classmates all got diplomas "signed by Ho Chi Minh and Vo Nguyen Giap" even now the memory of those signatures seemed to impress him. The class was then taken south.

They slipped by night across the demilitarized zone Editorials, Columns The opinions of The Journal- Standard are expressed in the editorial columns on the. left- hand side of the page. The opinion! expressed by the various syndicated coinm- nhls are their own, and no endorsement their various views which often conflict should be inferred. to a secret camp called "Pine Tree Forest" in the wild mountains near the Laos border; and here they were divided into provincial contingents. Thuy and 35 others were assigned for service in the two most northerly provinces, Thuy Tien and Quang Tri.

After a hard march through the mountains, the little party reached the jungle hideout of the provincial boss, a grim, harsh- tempered veteran with the war- name of Sinh. Political Too Here Thuy was named "political commissar" of Huong Tra district, which borders this city. He was thus the deputy for political affairs and propaganda of Huong Tra's Viet Cong district chief. As such, he lived the underground life, revealing himself only to the members of the Viet Cong net in the district. It was an ugly life, furtive of course, hungry and above all fear-haunted.

"The Viet Cong leaders stop at nothing," Thuy said. "With my own eyes I have seen them kill a rich farmer's kidnaped son and the write a message to his family, saying that the dead boy had joined them and was well but wished his par- ents to send money. The provincial forces are always hungry, and they almost ambush the village people to force them to deliver food. The villagers are afraid. The soldiers are afraid.

I was afraid." Defected From August last year until the beginning of May, Thuy passed on his slogans, spread his disruptive rumors and lurked in the shadows. On May 4 he finally turned himself in to the government district chief of Huong Tra; for he had "had enough." And so ended his service as a cog in the machine. He was a very small cog, but the very fact that so small a cog was prepared in the North, sent from the North and directed from the North speaks volumes about the nature of the Vietnamese war. The twaddle merchants at home would have us believe that this war springs from southern soil. One must admire the ingenuity of those who have constructed the machine in which Thuy was a poor cog.

But admiration for the twaddle merchants is another matter. (Copyright 1965, The Washington Post Co.) Looking Backward Into The Files Of Freeport Newspapers DREW PEARSON: Washington Merry-Go-Round LA 'City Of Hope 7 Unique Hospital WASHINGTON En route across the U.S.A. Lots of things are happening in the U.S.A. today that Washington doesn't know much about interesting things, wholesome things, some things below-the- belt. Here are some I observed during a quick trip across the continent.

City of Hope In Los Angeles is one of the unique hospitals of the world. Founded in 1913 by two doctors, Louis Pertsin and Leon Shulberg, to help tubercular patients, it has expanded into a small medical city outside LA where its doctors work on all the major mysterious diseases, ranging from heart to cancer. The City of Hope is unique in many respects. It never turns a needy patient down. It receives no funds from Community Chest drives.

Ninety per cent of its patients are non-Jewish, though 90 per cent of its money is donated by Jews. I met with the Sportsman's Club, a group of Angelenos whose name is not derived from the fact that they go in for deep sea fishing or surfboard riding, but from their making a sport of charity contributions. Their sporting support of the city of hope has helped make it what it is. Phony politics Local elections can be just as bitter, almost as important, as nationwide battles. Running for the City Council from the 13th dis- trict of giant, sprawling Los Angeles is right-wing Paul H.

Lamport, who claims not only to have been a major in the U.S. Army but to have earned a silver star for combat action. When I checked with the Defense Department, however, I found that "Major" Lamport had never risen above the rank of first lieutenant and that, instead of a silver star for combat, he got the routine silver star which automatically comes when any soldier participates in five campaigns. This kind of a silver star merely replaces five bronze stars because a campaign ribbon gets to crowded. It does not mean gallantry in action.

"Major" Lamport was certainly not very gallant in claiming a military career which he did not earn. Specifically what he claimed was "one silver star, combat mission, 1943, Southern France." The Defense Department denies any star received in combat. Neither was Lamport gallant in his claims to higher education. He cites his educational background as University of Southern California, California College of Law and the "Cite Universitaire." A check on these institutions revealed that there was no record of his attending the University of Southern California, that the California College of Law had never heard of him, and that "Cite Universitaire" is not a college at all but a housing facility for students in Paris. That's the way politics sometimes operates in Southern California.

Independent telephone Kansas City I met executives of the independent telephone companies of Kansas and Missouri. There are 345,000 independent telephones in Missouri; 181,500 in Kansas, operated by about 400 different companies independent of the Bell System. When you place a call from Washington to a Midwest city, the chances are the final delivery of the call will be made by a company totally independent of Bell, which handles the long lines. This is an amazing feat of inter-company telephone cooperation. It's an amazing fact also that there are 2,535 telephone companies in the United States, all working completely independent of, yet in cooperation with, the biggest telephone company in the world, namely American Tel Tel and its subsidiary, Bell.

The inside fact is that Bell is anxious to keep a certain amount of independent telephone competition to ward off antimonopoly action by the Justice Department. Therefore it handles calls to and from the independents without a mo- ment's delay, and gives them a percentage of the revenue. I have used the telephone all over the world from Russia to Bolivia to Australia, all of which operate telephone monopolies. No country in the world operates such an efficient telephone system as the U.S.A., and the independent companies make up part of that system. Love versus hate Down in the Dominican Republic where passions flare and blood flows, one agency never fired upon by either side is: CARE.

When a CARE truck trundles along the streets of Santo Domingo, both sides cease firing, the rebels take down their barricades, and the CARE driver moves in with his load 25,000 two-inch buns baked daily for the children of the beleaguered city. Without CARE, many of these children would starve. I have watched CARE operate all over the world, from Pakistan to Yugoslavia to Colombia. It's a miracle of American efficiency and generosity, though experiencing a tough struggle today with diminishing funds and increasing problems. I got back to Washington just in time for CARE's four-day conference to consider the problem of increasing hunger pangs and decreasing funds.

It's a distressing, difficult problem. (Copyright, 1965, By Bell-McClure Syndicate) FIFTY YEARS AGO Wastepaper cans are being installed on downtown streets and people are requested to use them. The age of boys allowed to patronize billiard halls in Stockton has been raised by the new town council from the previous 16 years to 18 years. Mrs. W.

G. Himes, a lyric soprano, well known in the musical world as Florence Trevillion, will open a studio of music. Mr. Himes is a masseur with an office in the Tarbox Building. A wounded wild goose that Dewey Miller, 16-year-old son of Oscar Miller, living just south of Freeport, found last fall and which he took care of, is beginning to repay him for his kindness.

The first installment of this reward is in the shape of a large egg. Cecil Bentley, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. C.

Bentley, Harlem Center, after six years' hard work perfected an airless tire for automobiles. Inner tubing is replaced by a series of coil springs made of aluminum. He conceived the idea through his many punctures along the road in this vicinity. Mrs. William Camling, Leaf River, wished to get new blood in her henery, so rounded up all the old roosters, or at least thought she did, but one fellow being opposed to this enforced exodus, hied himself away, hid under a box which in some manner slid down and he was imprisoned and when found 21 days later was a sorry looking sight with his tail feathers at half mast, head bowed like a Mormon bishop, dry as a Kentucky Colonel in Kansas and hungry as a Belgian peasant.

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO The Ladies Guild of Embury Methodist Church celebrated their 25th anniversary with a luncheon. The Amity Society will open a public playground at the corner of N. Chicago and E. Linden and the NYA will furnish two directors of play. Attorney Robert Renwick Heer arrived in Galena to join the law firm of Allen and Heer in practice with Cong.

Leo E. Allen and his father, H. L. Heer. Charles Holman, Mount Carroll, completed construction of a six-passenger speed runabout boat, 19 feet long, which he launched at Riverview near Thomson.

It has a 60-horsepower marine engine and will do 30 miles per hour. Master Douglas Knowlton celebrated his ninth birthday at a party. The gay affair had many surprises, including a treasure hunt with leading strings showing the way to hidden prizes, a "grab hat," containing favors for all and the biggest surprise of all, a "musical" birthday cake. There were no church bells at Elizabeth First Presbyterian Church when John Steinberger rang the bells early Sunday. The six-pound clapper fell from the high belfrey to the ceiling of the church entrance.

When reclaimed it showed that through years of ringing the clapper had worn sufficiently to break. It was a roughly made piece of metal, probably made by an early Elizabeth blacksmith, as it is the oldest bell in the city. FIFTEEN YEARS AGO Hammer's Maid-rite Sandwich Shop, 8 Ave. advertised something new, a "Burger- in-the-Tater A basket of delicious food for 29c. Donald L.

Breed, editor of The Journal-Standard, will. introduce Clifton Utley, Chicago radio news commentator, at the Institute on Foreign Policy to be held at Rockford College. The city attorney points out that parking meters take in about $43,000 per year and it costs only about $3,000 to operate them. Eighteen police officers are paid from this parking meter money and if the meters are taken out the money will have to come from the corporate fund. The Chicago Great Western Pearl City unit has been closed and is now part of the south Freeport branch.

This is one of seven curtailments of the railroad between Chicago and Oelwein, Iowa. Harold Goethe and Harold Schreck, both track- men, are now on the south Freeport run. The parochial school athletic league, including four Catholic and one Lutheran school teams concluded its season. For the past two years Immanuel Lutheran hasn't been able to grab off first place, but each year copped the sportsmanship trophy, which should mean a great deal to the school and likewise to the parents of the players. Tells Of Accident Editor Journal-Standard: At 11 a.m.

on Dec. 13, 1961 I was seated in my car at S. West Ave. and W. Empire waiting for a red signal to change to green.

I was involved in an accident by being struck in the rear of my car by a truck loaded with gravel who failed to stop. This accident is a matter of record with the state Insurance and Health department, Springfield, and with the Freeport Police Department. I received a permanent injury and have been unable to read or drive my car for the past two years and I am informed by professional service I will never be able to do so again. This article was written by me so my friends will know why I fail to recognize them when meeting or passing them on the street. D.

L. BRAMAN 115 N. Foley Ave. Isn't It So? The Albert Anatasia Memorial Award for staying out of trouble goes this week to Shirali-Baba Muslimov, of the Soviet Union, who has lived through 160 years of Middle Eastern history and still survives..