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WisconsinSfaie Journal 'age Opisiioss. FAG 5 6, SECTION 1 SIGNIFICANT ACTION THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1972 Unions Reject McGovern He said he changed his mind on dumping Nixon "because a man by the name of George McGovern got the Democratic presidential nomination." McGovern's candidacy would be hurt most if labor holds back campaign money and workers and instead, as it said, works for "the election of senators and representatives whose records commend them to the working people of America." However, it is likely that a sizable number of individual unions on their own will support the Democratic candidate by tradition if not by conviction, following the faulty thinking of Joseph A. Beirne of the Communications Workers that "endorsement of the Democratic candidates is the only way to keep AFL-CIO unions in their political activity." The first result of Sen. McGovern's capture of the very liberal Democratic Convention is his loss of support of important labor people. It is a tlpoff to the average voter that he must soberly consider lndi-v i a 1 candidates and their positions before going to the polls, not automatically support one party or another.

Certainly one of the more significant political stories of our time was the decision of the most powerful labor federation in the nation to sit out the 1972 presidential election. Never before In history has the executive council of the AFL-CIO a 1 1 to endorse the Democratic presidential candidate. The vote of the council vrhich represents 13.6 million members was 27 to 3. It was a sharp slap in the face of Sen. George McGovern, the actual effect of which will be determined Nov.

7. AFL-CIO President George Meany summed up the reason behind this unprecedented action "We don't think he (McGovern) would be in the best interest of labor. We don't think this man is good material." Just prior to Mc-Govem's party endorsement at Miami Beach, Meany issued a white paper stating many of labor's objections to the South Dakotan including his anti-labor votes and positions on national defense and foreign policy. Meany's rejection McGovern becomes even more astounding considering his recent criticism of Nixon over the wage-price issues. Ira Vhen ADA Is Victim, It's Everyone's Concern A i hatre 0nthiicigctijal1u almost every mistaken politi cal idea that ever issued out At- "I EYE ON TONIGHT'S VOTE oi me social imaginations or man.

But that isn't the point, any rnoreso than when us good guys sat around in 1964 worry- ing how many votes would be stolen from Barrv Goldwater County Executive Referendum ONE LADY wrote, "I was told that I had been redis-tricted. That I should vote at 75 Cadman Plaza. I left (but there is) no 75 Cadman Plaza. On my walk back I noticed that some people were voting at 140 Cadman Plaza. I stopped in there and was told I would have to go to 75 Henry St When I got to 75 Henry St.

I was told that it would be another two hours' wait. I gave up." There were only 30,000 votes cast, and yet the Lowenstein forces are talking about as many as 14,000 irregularities, and hard-core fraud in four to five thousand cases. At that, the incumbent beat Lowenstein by only a few hundred votes. The evidence suggests that Lowenstein would have won by something like a landslide. So now it goes to the courts.

It being widely suspected that local states judges are not going to upset the political machine that put them where they are, Lowenstein will probably end up In federal court. There he will be given an opportunity to document his grievances, in behalf of the electorate. And the mes-sage may go out to the bosses: cut it out. IT HAPPENS that Lowen- i 1 1 mill ill 'Tin i a feat by the Democratic ers. Fair elections, like precautions against accidental wars, are in everybody's in- terest It is lucky for our in- i i i ii by the supervisors.

Several supervisors have indicated that they will change their position in favor of the administrator, going back on their campaign promise. If so, they face rejection by the voters when they seek reelection. There is growing support for the county executive idea now that the voters are better informed. And what could be more fair than letting the people decide for themselves? Tonight's vote will be closely watched. Dane County government for many basic reasons needs a county executive officer elected by the people to better manage Its affairs.

And 1 the Dane County Board should approve placing a referendum on the ballot which would permit the voters of the county to decide the issue. Tonight 's vote will be closely watched by citizens who supported candidates on the basis of their endorsement of the county executive to replace an administrator selected lernaiionai repuiauon inai we didn't invite any South Vietnamese professors over to monitor the Lowenstein elec- tion. McGovern's Campaign Draws World Concern HE MAY BE RETIRING By WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY When the South Vietnamese had their election in 1967, Lyndon Johnson invited a bunch of liberal professors to go over there and satisfy themselves that the election was This they did, and one professor from the Boston area reported to the President his conclusion that the election in South Vietnam was as clean as the typical election in the Commonwealth of Massachu-setts THIS COMMENT was the source of enormous underground mirth among the cognoscenti, who understood exactly what the good professor was trying to communicate. That democracy in South Vietnam, while passably fair, is a pretty relaxed thing, along Massachusetts lines.

I think it was in iBoston, or maybe it was in Chicago, a little while back that an election district reported 183 votes, all of them for the Democratic candidate, and guess what? By sheer coincidence, the 183 citizens had filed in and voted alphabetically! That is democracy plus law and order. I have always thought that if you're going to have democracy, you may just as well do it right. After the decision is reached as to what voter qualifications are, let them vote, and go ahead and count their votes. The evidence is overwhelming that the political machine in Brooklyn, N.Y., was recently concerned to return the incumbent to office rather than to ascertain whom the majority wanted. It would have been absorbed as routine Democratic O'Konski: A Colorful Career BUCKLEY graft except that the challenger is none other than Al-lard Lowenstein, the president of Americans For Democratic Action.

Mr. Lowenstein has a particular stake in the contest unrelated to the question of whether he will be sent to Congress. He is the young man who has already made the history books in virtue of having persuaded Eugene McCarthy to make the race against Lyndon Johnson in 1968, thereby proving that The System was alive and well. He is as influential among the young as anyone in America, and if he gives out the word that you cannot have a reliable democratic contest in the heart of metropolitan New York, his constituency will experience a disillusionment that will rebound tot he benefit of the crazies In American politics. In his primary contest, every kind of fraud and harassment was exercised.

New voters found their registration cards missing. Others were given runarounds. Some spent as much as four hours trying to locate the right polling place, and filing their votes. Others found machines rigged. ago how to keep his political fences mended in his home district.

During his long stay in Washington he never forgot the home folks back in northern Wisconsin and they never forgot him, come election time. The old 10th District is being legislated out of existence by reapportionment so O'Konski would have had to face incumbent Democrat David Obey in the new 7th District, a formidable opponent. The veteran GOP congressman also complains that it costs too much money to run for reelection. Whatever the reason for his announced retirement, Wisconsin will lose a colorful political character when Alvin O'Konski retires to the shadows. A long and sometimes stormy political career may be coming to an end with the announcement by Rep.

Alvin O'Konski that he would not be a candidate for reelection. While his name will on the September primary ballot because he failed to comply with requirements for withdrawal in time, the veteran northern Wisconsin congressman announced his Intentions not to be a candidate in an emotional outburst. A member of the Wisconsin congressional delegation since 1942, O'Konski has been a consistant vote-getter, being 1 for 15 terms in the old 10th District. Opponents within or outside his party had little chance against O'Konski because he learned long By DAVID LAWRENCE WASHINGTON Around the world, governments are discussing the acceptance speech of Sen. George McGovern and are wondering if he really believes that the American prisoners of war would be released if the United States unconditionally withdrew from Indochina.

Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird declares that nothing that has come from the North Vietnamese indicates any support for Mr. McGovern's position. What the Democratic nominee said in his acceptance speech was this: "THERE WILL be no more talk of bombing the dikes or the cities of the north. And within 90 days of my inauguration, every American soldier and every American prisoner will be out of the jungle and out of their cells and back home in America, where they belong." This implies that Sen. McGovern as president would put no conditions on the North Vietnamese and that it would not matter what happened to the South Vietnamese.

Also, there would be no means of A GOOD DEAL of speculation is heard from different capitals as to what Govern's speech might mean if a a 1 1 applied in the 'j event that he is successful. Anp uneasiness prevails about November election. There not only uncertainty about? what will be done about Viet, nam but a fear that economic 3 conditions in the U.S. ma take an unfavorable turn, par i I a 1 in the next silt months, if there is to be ai change in government. An American presidential? election is, of course, of pri- mary concern to the Amerij can people.

The 1972 however, will be observed, throughout the world, and! there is beginning to be ah nervousness as the party plat-rt form and the speeches of Democratic nominees are read. There are indications int these that the tendency is to ward isolationism in thisq country toward a formula that would break off the period of cooperation with fory eign governments which has characterized the trend of American policy how for sev- eral decades. LAWRENCE checking on whether all the prisoners had been returned or whether some were being kept as hostages. In 90 days, whatever negotiations were necessary to obtain the release of the prisoners would have to be completed. The announcement in advance, however, that the U.S.

would withdraw all its forces in any event by the end of 90 days after next Jan. 20 is a notification to the other side that it can have its way. Indeed, there may already be some officials in the Hanoi government who will advise waiting until November before making any commitments in the current negotiations at Paris. v' Sj Our Wisconsin Is Something Special Lawyers, Doctors, Architects Aren't Meeting Peoples Needs By SYDNEY HARRIS Sirs To the residents of Wisconsin and elsewhere: Have you seen this state? Really seen it, I mean. I hadn't and haven't.

For 50 years I lived here in a small town and was more or less content to sit among the hills and think that every other part of the state was the same. But this year is different. We took a trip up north to a small town of Lublin. We only spent two days but saw the state and the surrounding area as a wholly different place. The lakes are beautiful, the sky so huge it makes you feel small.

The air was clear and the sun hot. We visited the Evergreen Bay Trailer Park, north of Holcombe. It is a lovely place to camp and fish. WTe saw the Miller Dam and new-made lake. It was breathtaking.

Getting back to nature is the thing to do if you have the time. Travel by car is fun if you don't hurry. Visit at the local stores and talk to the residents. See your state, then see the rest. You may be surprised at what you find right under your very nose.

E. C. Decot, Richland Center, Wis. certainly we have finer law-g yers, doctors, architects, andrl so on, than America has hadj in the past; but the people's legal, medical, and housing) needs are not being met these skillful and erudite practitioners. Part of it is not their faul', of course, since they too are'J entrapped in bureaucratic! mazes of vast impersonality-' that clog up the works andj prevent a chean.

fair, andf McGovern his disreputable revolutionary rabble, and his "new foreign policy" so aptly and accurately characterized by Senator Taft as "McGroveling." Paul Chiera, Silver Spring, Md. Constitution Should Protect Unborn Child Sirs Robert E. Miller's letter (July 6) includes his opinion that "An abortion is the termination of a pregnancy and not the execution of a human being." If Mr. Miller were to call a skunk cabbage a rose, it would still look like a skunk cabbage, smell like a skunk cabbage, and be a skunk cabbage. Though he chooses to call an abortion a termination of pregnancy, the little innocent victim is just as dead as if I called it the execution of a human being.

He stated that it was proper for Gov. Patrick Lucey to oppose abortion personally, yet support its legislation in his capacity as governor. Why? Because a woman should have the right to control her own body? The unborn child is a unique being, depending on its mother for sustenance in the same way as a child after birth depends on its parents for this support. It is not simply an "appendage" to the woman's body, that can be cut away at will. Mr.

Miller also commented that it is "inappropriate to impose those beliefs (opposition to abortion) on others under a Constitution which was established to prevent those very impositions." As I recall, the Constitution was designed to uphold every American's right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I emphasize the right to life. It is our most basic and inalienable right. Without the right to life, our myriad of laws mean nothing. Yet Mr.

Miller, and other pro-abortionists like him, have taken it upon themselves to deny the defenseless unborn child of its right to life. I ask Mr. Miller, who is imposing one's beliefs on whom? David G. Van Lanen, 156X Simpson St, Madison, Wis. No Wonder Soviet 'Chess Machine' Wins Sirs I was disappointed to see The Wisconsin State Journal endorse Russian Boris Spassky in the current chess championship.

The USSR takes chess very seriously and spends a great deal of money and effort to insure that a Soviet player is always the world champion. By training children and providing state support for promising players, the Soviet "chess machine" has completely dominated the game since 1948. Indeed, no one but a Soviet citizen has even been able to enter into a world championship game in recent history. Spassky goes into the contest with two international grand masters to help him with game analysis plus a psychologist to analyze his opponent! Quite a team. Bobby Fischer is going it alone.

He is a bit eccentric, and he is concerned about money he does not have a government to subsidize him. And it seems that he does not even have the support of the press in his native land. A lone individual vs. the world's mightiest team. You have made your choice, but I am for Bobby Fischer.

James E. Blair, 2210 Ravenswood Madison, Wis. Radical Band Around McGovern Too Much So Sirs George McGovern, after his coup at Miami, now leads a revolutionary band of discontented, angry zealots in fanatical frenzy bent upon destroying everything American in their ignorant disdain for what they call "the system" your America and mine. This was made crystal clear at the demise of the Democratic Party which some called a convention but others have described it as a meeting of "have-gots and have-nots assembled to be had and they were!" So let's all of us Republicans, Independents, Socialists, and true Democrats everywhere beware, lest we, too, be For this country, yours and mine, can't be all that bad. Let's leave to "beg" and "bolt" George ri 1 I know a wonderful lawyer, learned as he can be.

At the drop of a tort, he can rattle off all the statutes against simony, barratry, champerty; and jactitation of '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.

I know 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. 's only one thing wrong with him. He has no common sense. He treats diseases instead of people.

He has never interviewed a whole patient in 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 nonest aeuvery system to the: ultimate consumer. But the professions them-J? selves are also to blame forlj becoming ingrown and self-i serving, as best dramatized by the two heart-transplant doctors competing furiously for fame and credit in sort of nrivate came that "I I HARRIS at Chartes, and development of the Pendentive System. There's only one thing wrong with him.

You guessed it. He builds houses for other architects to admire, not for humans to live in. He resents the fact that personal factors have to clutter up the house. I could give similar examples in other 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 processinthe modern world is reflected in today's professionalism for "Wisconsin A State Journal An Independent lee Newspaper J.

Martin Wolman Publisher H. Fitipatrick Executive Editor W.CRobbins Managing Editor Helen Matheson Asst. Man. Editor William M. City Editor Joseph News Editor Steven E.

State Editor Glenn Miller Sports Editor Donald Davies Sunday Editor Robert Bjorklund farm Editor Edwin Stein Photography Director-Editorial Board H-Fitzpdtrick, Chairman W.CRobbins, Helen Matheson, Fred J. Curra John Newhouse, Robert Bjorklund, Steven M. Barney bears little relation to the noble end of medicine. To be in a profession "to profess," to take a vow of-J service, to live one's by a higher standard than irf expected of others; and th" means, in turn, that comnv sense about helping people the keystone. When and 1 a did it become merely the tehed capstone?.