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Wisconsin ASlatc Journal miss 'age of Opinio: PAGE 16, SECTION 1 THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1972 I IT'S POLITICAL, NOT JUDICIAL Let the Democrats Decide By ROW LAND EVANS AND ROBERT NOVAK WASHINGTON While John Mitchell was privately informing President Nixon that be could not continue as his campaign manager, the impact of that decision was brought home by a speech distributed by Vice-President Spiro T. Agnew's office. In the bludgeoning style he has perfected these past four years, Agnew's speech eviscerated Sen. George McGovern as a "fraud" and a "radical" who is "repugnant to the tradition of a free people." Mitchell had determined that Agnew definitely should not unleash such overkill but, in his recent personal torment, had no opportunity to so inform the Vice-President. Now, in his new, indistinct role as a part-time adviser to the campaign, Mitchell may never really impose this restriction on Agnew.

That is a principal reason why thoughtful Republicans around the country are so dismayed by Mitchell's departure and desperately hope he maintains behind-the-scenes power. If not, who can muzzle Agnew in the campaign against McGovern? Beyond that, who can curb Mr. Nixon himself? Behind these questions is the gnawing fear among Republicans that their golden opportunity this year could be lost by rhetorical excesses such In fact, almost everybody in tcp-level Republican politics understands this everybody, that is, except Ted Agnew. Though it strains the outside world's credulity, the Vice-President is a free agent. His rhetorical onslaughts (including last Friday's against McGovern) are not cleared by the White House and occasionally contradict recommendations of Presidential aides.

Mr. Nixon, disliking confrontations, cannot be imagined laying down the law to his Vice-President even though he is increasingly disturbed by Agnew's outbursts. That was the role for Mitchell, who has regularly performed unpleasant chores for Mr. Nixon. Considered Agnew's most enthusiastic booster in the Nixon inner circle and an advocate of his re-nomination for Vice-President, Mitchell is considered the only man capable of muzzling him.

Many such leaders early last week saw Mitchell's resignation as the only answer to his tragic family problems. They realize that Mitchell, as a part-time adviser, cannot maintain the tight direction he did in 1968. They only hope he might yet restrain the President and Vice-President sufficiently to keep them from offering an avenue of salvation for a Democratic Party now seemingly intent on ripping itself to pieces. AGNEW MITCHELL as Agnew's anti-McGovern tirade. Republican strategists now believe McGovern will reflexively mouth left-wing cliches just as Barry Goldwater destroyed himself with instinctive right-wing rhetoric in 1964.

McGovern's almost unbelievable declarations last week that "begging is better than bombing" and that Mr. Nixon's Indochina bombing policy compares with Hitler's genocide, these strategists deem, are sufficiently self-destructive without embellishment from Agnew or anybody else. Party itself should settle the delegate dispute because it did not raise a constitutional issue. As Atty. Joseph A.

Califano, representing the Democratic National Committee, told the court of appeals, the federal courts have "no business in the Democratic Party's business" and it would be "a tragedy for courts to get into this area. Even as the appeals court, in a Iwo-to-one decision ruled in favor of the California "winner-take-all" primary, doubts were raised whether the decision was binding on the convention. The Democratic Party itself has the ultimate responsibility to decide its own operations in an open convention and the delegates, not the federal courts, should decide this in-tra-party feud. All the courts in the land will never prevent the Democrats from engaging in a bitter political brawl over delegates no matter what they rule so the convention Itself should be permitted to make its own The United States Supreme Court may be called back into a rare special session to decide the bitter dele- gate fight within the Democratic party before the party's national convention opens Monday in Miami. Overruling the sensible decision 'of Federal Judge George L.

Hart who didn't want any part of the Democratic political brawl, a di- vided U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals also overruled the party's Creden-' tials Committee and ordered that 153 California delegates taken from Sen. George McGovern be seated at the convention. The appeals court then upheld the Credentials Committee ruling which kicked Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley and a bloc of 59 Illinois dele-sates out of the convention.

The losers are expected to ask Chief Justice Warren Burger to call rthe vacationing U.S. Supreme Court back into a special session for further judicial rulings on the delegate feud. Judge Hart's ruling made sense when he held that the Democratic BOO BOBBY'S ARROGANCE We re Backing Boris Spassky The of times we have pulled for a Russian over an American can be chalked up with a zero. But we're going to break that record now with the hope that Boris Spassky, the Soviet world chess champion, clobbers one Bobby Fischer. In fact, we won't even complain if at the end he takes the board and bangs it over the swelled head of the American contender.

A good share of the public is getting tired of the arrogant attitude many of our "sports figures" have been displaying lately, and happily will welcome a comedown for them. We appreciate the skill, training, expertise and all that goes into a championship contender in any sport or any game. But, considering the renumeration compared to any ordinary wage-earner, it's about time that more of them display a little humility. Bobby Fischer has eptomized all that is worst about the erroneous American image abroad the 10,000 VISITORS HERE wrnsiB Campaign '72: Pin the Tail on the Donkey greedy, money-grabbing "sportsman" who plays the game only for what it pays him. So we're in your corner now, Boris, and we know enough to be quiet.

(Tovarich!) Pawn My Word Iiobbv 1'isrln'r Wants a dale? Verhuts you should First check, mate. -F. J. C. the ries? Jun Prima ixed-u CAMPAIGN Welcome to Witnesses By ALAN EIIRENHALT Congressional Quarterly WASHINGTON The presidential primaries lasted three and one-half months, cost more than $13-million, attracted 16 candidates, eliminated at least seven of them and exposed the public in some states to a barrage of campaigning equal to the one expected in the fall.

They have also brought a chorus of complaints that there must be a better way to nominate a President. "IT IS A wonder," says Sen. Thomas F. Eagleton "that any candidate, or even the electoral process itself, emerges from the primary circus with a shred of dignity." He is upset because candidates have to travel to the point of exhaustion, court wealthy contributors eager to buy influence, sleep on steel-workers' couches to appear ordinary, kiss babies, gobble pizza, and generally do things irrelevant to their fitness for the White House. Several members of Congress have already offered proposals for change, and a Senate subcommittee is looking into them.

The plans differ in detail, but they have two goals in common: shorten the nominating process and make the rules the same in every state. The way it is now, says Itep. Morris K. Udall "a candidate's future is in the hands of a hodgepodge of laws, regulations, and faceless officials over which he has no recourse." The best-known suggestion is the national primary, supported by Mike Mansfield of Montana, Democratic leader Madison is privileged to play host today through Sunday to some 10.000 visitors who are attending the 1972 District Convention of o-vah's Witnesses. These devout Christians, famous for their high ideals and exemplary conduct, will convene at the Memorial 1 i for training in the Gospel and fellowship.

Hotels and motels are filled, and hundreds of Madison area homes have been opened to the visiting delegates and families from throughout Wisconsin and many states. The unique assembly is composed entirely of unpaid volunteers who dedicate their energy with unusual unity and cooperation. This international society of ministers "preaches the good news of God's Kingdom." It is a relatively small 1.6-million members but mighty organization. Its publications number 7.8 i 1 1 i copies twice monthly. Some 140,000 of the membership in the world are at work behind the Iron Curtain, often preaching underground and suffering persecution.

Madison is pleased to welcome representatives of this fellowship. Surely the city will be enriched by the experience. wounds i a of healing them. A number of critics want to do something about the current system but think a national primary is too drastic. One is Sen.

Robert W. Pack-wood (It-Ore), who proposes a scries of five regional primaries, one a month from March through July. The candidates would be awarded convention delegates in proportion to their strength in the primaries. If nobody got a majority, the convention delegates would hassle it out, just as they do now. PACKWOOD SAYS his plan would reduce the number of primaries and end the diversity that causes confusion.

The regional system would soften the grueling travel schedule, allowing candidates to campaign in one part of the country at a time. But most important to Packwood, it would avoid the dilemma of deciding everything all at once. "What I want to do," he told Congressional Quarterly, "is to preserve some sort of primary sequence Regional primaries would allow a candidate to gracefully withdraw if his campaign failed to catch fire. They would also allow a smoldering ember to be built into a blazing bonfire." But many of those who have looked into the idea find serious problems with it. Having a primary all at once, they say, would rig things in favor of the rich and the famous.

An under-financed or lesser-known candidate, no matter how impressive, would have no way to attract money and attention through a scries of small-scale victories. George McGovern was a long shot this year until he surprised people in New Hampshire and Wisconsin. In a national primary he probably would have been lost among household names like Humphrey, Muskie, and Wallace. If a candidate couldn't afford to run in all 50 states, he'd just as well not run at all. AND WHAT would happen if a candidate won the national primary with 40 per cent even though the other 60 per cent of the party's voters hated him? This would seem to guarantee almost certain defeat for the party in November.

Or what if there was a runoff between two candidates on the party's extreme ends, with a more broadly based moderate contender eliminated the first time? The runoff would be a bitter confrontation along ideological lines, exposing the party's in the Senate. Mansfield wants each party to select its nominee by direct popular choice of its registered voters, with a runoff between the top two candidates if nobody got 40 per cent the first time around. The primary would be held on the same day under the same rules all over the country. The convention would lose its present role in presidential nominations. THE IDEA isn't new.

Wood-row Wilson proposed it to Congress in 1913. And most people seem to want it 72 per cent in a recent Gallup Poll. A national primary is attractive for several reasons. It is uniform, easy to understand and seems to eliminate a barrier in the path of pure democracy. It would banish the fear of a few men deciding on the nominecinthe traditional smoke-filled room.

The Most Fun Comes When You Work Hardest to Win Sherlock Holmes Club Likes Bauman's Story Sirs The Sherlock Holmes Club of Madison would like to thank Michael Bauman ot your staff for his recent informative and ''amusing article about our group. His story captured perfectly the lighthearted tone of the and we are all delighted with it. Since we alw ays welcome new members, we are glad that Mr. Bauman's entertaining article will jmake us better known in Madison. Joanna Overn, President.

Sherlock Holmes Club of 834 Prospect PI. 'i She Applauds Lucey's Stands on Many Issues Sirs The rash of bad notices Gov. Patrick Lucey has received of late in the Wisconsin Estate Journal concerning his public and private Citizens for Unborn Get Critical Reply Sirs In response to Wisconsin Citizens Concerned for the Unborn: While you may choose to oppose abortion on personal or religious grounds, it is inappropriate to impose those beliefs on others under a constitution which was established to prevent those very impositions. It was proper, therefore, for Gov. Lucey to oppose abortion personally and support legalization as Governor.

The basic distinction between human and animal life is the ability (but not the potential) to think a a 1 1 y. An abortion is the termination of a pregnancy and not the execution of a human being. Your careful use of emotion-provoking adjectives is calculatingly irrational and untenable. Robert E. Miller, 5106 Tocora Lane, Madison, is.

life can be viewed as a measure of his effectiveness. Gov. Lucey cannot be ignored. He is the most able man to occupy that office in many years. His stands on abortion, prison reform, environmental issues, and higher education are to be applauded.

Under Lucey's leadership, Wisconsin may once again deserve to be called "Progressive." Bridget A. Timm, 453 Woodsidc Terr. Stout Spokesman Sees Good Job Prospects Sirs Too many college-aged students are discouraged by the disturbing reports of the decreasing number of jobs available to college graduates. Although some graduates are facing employment problems, those in the right fields arc not. Because of Stout's specialized majors, the University placed more graduates this year than in 1972 and 1972 was considered a good year.

Junior and senior high schools arc expanding their vocational programs. At the post-high level, one vocational school working with Stout needed 200 new teachers this year. There continues to be high demand for Stout graduates in industrial education, vocational rehabilitation, dietetics, and vocational-technical education. Opportunities are good in hotel and restaurant management, food service administration, marketing and distributive education, and business administration. Industry as well as education is expressing a need for technically oriented graduates.

Companies visiting Stout seek graduates with specialized backgrounds. Placement officials at Stout are optimistic. College-bound students need not be pessimis'ic if they select. their major carefully. John Furlong, assistant chancellor.

University of Wisconsin-Stout, Menomonle, Yitt. Airlines Assailed on Hijack Policies came a merry game, and it didn't matter so much what you learned as long as you had fun doing it. But this approach is as absurd and ineffectual as the earlier one. Learning is a combination of work and play: part of it is difficult, and part of it is pleasurable; and the paradox consists in the fact that the more we grapple with it. the more enjoyable it becomes.

The earlier pedagogy ignored the delight and made the travail an end in itself; the new pedagogy ignores the travail and tries to make the delight an end in itself. Life indeed, and not just learning, is a perpetual tension between the polarities of work and pleasure: those who don't work soon get bored with their pleasures, and those who work only for its own sake soon dry up and die spiritually. The most fun comes as in sailing a boat when you hardest to win it. By SYDNEY J. HARRIS No matter what it is, the better you can do something, the more you enjoy it.

No duffer gets the pleasure out of a bridge hand that the expert can find in it; no hacker on the tennis court enjoys the game nearly as fully as the trained player; no two-fingered pianist can find in a piece of music the satisfaction of a virtuoso. Agreed? But the other side of the coin is this: nobody gets to attain the deep pleasure of proficiency without the willingness to go through a great deal of boredom. This is a truth we are beginning to lose sight of. The fine bridge (or chess, or what have you) player studies and analyzes hundreds of hands in order to play one correctly. The budding tennis expert hits a ball a thousand times against a backboard in order to be able to put it exactly where he wants to.

The pianist, of course, practices relentlessly and monotonously in order to explore the deepest beauty of a piece. In short, you have to be willing to be bored before you can be truly gratified. We accept this truth in certain areas such as sports and games and special talents but we prefer to ignore it when it comes to the learning process generally, and to formal education in particular. It is the familiar case of the pendulum swinging too far from the other extreme. In past generations, education and study were conceived of in punitive terms: learning was grim and dull and repetitive, and the idea of "fun" or was anathema to most schoolteachers.

Then, as progressive ideas took hold, the educational system swung over to the opposite extreme: learning a supposed to be jolly and easy, without straining the mind or taxing the patience. It all be "Wisconsin A State Journal An Independent lee Newspoper J. Martin Wolmon Publisher L. H. Fitzpatrick Executive Edito' W.

C. Robbins V.a-cging Helen Matheson 4sst Man. Ed'O' William M. Brissee City Enter Joseph Capossela Nes Steven E. Hopkins State lesor Glenn Miller Scorts Ed-or Donald Davies Sunday Ed 'cr Robert Bjorklund form Ea ter Edwin Stein Pr.otcgrcch Director Editorial Board I.

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Bjorklund, Steven Barney tt Sirs The more I read about these hijackers, the more I am convinced that the big shots who are running these airlines are pretty dumb. The last one from St. Louis showed this very clearly. The hijacker didn't even know-how to handle a parachute and had to get help. Somewhere along the line there must have been a spot where the hijacker could have been caught.

They oven let him on the plane without checking the trombone case he was carrying to hide his rifle. How dumb can these officials get? A. John Ccrge. 1311 Uhilcomb Madison Wis..