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Caucus system costs less (ft Wisconsin State Journal Thursday, January 8, 1976, Section 1, Page 10 Congressional coverup to watch on television. But I don't like to listen to the guys on television. That's why I've come increasingly to turning on the set and tuning out Cosell and Friends who tell me more than I really want to know (or than they know), preening themselves and their networks all the while. There is a voice I listen for and to that of Win Elliott (if that's the way it's spelled). He's on CBS radio and can splice together more information in three or four minutes, deftly inserting com- ments by sports figures and his own wry commentary, than any dozen of his television compatriots.

I haven't the vaguest idea what the man looks like, which in itself is a relief from the toothy, convivial repartee of so many television sports and news people who substitute selves for information. You may not give Sam a second look, but don't shrug off his platform, which proposes to: Take members of Congress off salary and put them on straight commission. is Legalize gun ownership but decrease the velocity of bullets by 98 percent. Sell federal judgeships to the highest bidder (which isn't exactly a new proposal) and give the proceeds to the U.S. Treasury (which is).

Provide no-fault insurance for suicides. How can you dislike a man with a platform like that! Tuning out Cosell I like to watch sports events in person and, if I can't make it to the game, I like Now that the party caucus is a strong possibility in the immediate future of Wisconsin's Democratic Party, though not exactly a welcome one, it is encouraging to report that caucuses don't cost much money. And none of it comes from the taxpayers. In Iowa, for example, county party organizations are responsible for arranging meeting places for precinct and county caucuses and for paying rent. There was a time when caucuses could be held in living rooms of members, which was too cozy an arrangement.

Caucuses now must be in "public places," such as schools and city halls, which charge minimum fees (if any) for keeping the places open after hours. Most of the time, county party organizations take care of it if solvent. If not, a hat is passed. Similar arrangements apply to county conventions. County committees pay $5 for each delegate elected to attend the state convention in the Republican Party.

I don't know what the charge is for Democrats. In any event, costs are minimal, which may be the only thing to recommend caucuses to Wiscosin Democrats, who have to find some way other than the open primary to satisfy groundrules of the Democratic National Committee for seating delegates at the 1976 national convention. Sam Silverstein says This is the year of candidates: Ford, Reagan, Humphrey, Bayh, Udall, Harris, Silverstein Silverstein? That's Sam Silverstein, otherwise known as "Mr. Clean" in his handbills. Sam says he doesn't want publicity, so, naturally, he's getting it.

He particularly doesn't want network TV coverage, knowing he wouldn't get any as an ordinary old presidential candidate, so, naturally, the Associated Press sent its television writer to do a said the money was for Scott's personal use, according to the report. Scott's press secretary released only the following quote from the senator: "I have not knowingly received any corporate funds from Gulf or any other corporation." There was no elaboration and Scott was personally unavailable for comment. McCloy said many other congressmen who were alleged recipients would not cooperate with his investigation. The reluctance of representatives and senators who received illegal contributions is understandable, but not defensible. One Senate aide had this feeble response: "There is no sentiment for any hearings.

There is no hue and cry." Maybe not from those involved, but we find it hard to believe that everyone in Congress has been on the take. Those who aren't should try in every way possible to expose the wrongdoers. A good way to start would be to put those accused of accepting illegal contributions under oath and ask them. We urge the Wisconsin delegation to take the lead in calling for a full disclosure, to identify the guilty and to clear the rest. Congress is showing a remarkable disinclination to clean up its own act with the same zeal it displayed in investigating the impropriety of other governmental units.

Gulf Oil Co. is among 42 corporations convicted, charged or connected with $400-million in legal and illegal contributions to domestic and foreign politicians over the past 15 years. The Watergate special prosecution, which has been investigating Gulf's political activity, said it has been able to trace "only a relatively small portion of (in domestic contributions) and only a small percentage of these payments has been confirmed by alleged recipients." Former Assistant Defense Secretary James McCloy, who heads the team, said Senate Republican leader Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania allegedly asked for money twice from a Gulf lobbyist even, after the Watergate scandal had erupted in 1973, but was told his "pipeline had been cut off." Comments in the Gulf report that Scott "seemed unable to understand" why he was refused more money were attributed to Gulf lobbyist Claude C. Wild who claims to have paid Scott $10,000 a year for about 13 years. Wild Editor's Notebook By Robert H.

Spiegel piece on Silverstein. The man's background isn't the kind that usually propels an individual to the forefront of national politics. Actually, Sam's real name is Allan Pinsker (but how far could a Pinsker get in national politics). He is 53 and a "semi-retired" sheet metal worker from Pittsburgh. This Angolan doubletalk deal with thugs The doubletalk coming out of Washington about United Staes involvement in Angola is reminiscent of that which the Nixon administration used when trying to justify the widening of the war in Indochina.

Only when the Ford Administration was caught dead to rights supplying military aid to one of the Angolan warring factions did the politicians admit it. Thjey have been hedging on other matters involving Angola since. A Christian Science Monitor story reporting that the United States was training mercenaries to fight in Angola was Dr. Harold Any list of American family elite in the fields of intellectual and public service leadership must contain the name Bradley. death of Dr.

Harold Bradley at age 97 removes the sire of this generation, all the members of which have earned their niche in their own hall of fame. Dr. Bradley came to Madison in 1906, one of three professors in the new pre-medic course at the University of Wisconsin. From then until his retirement in 1948, he and Mrs. Bradley had a strong impact on the academic, social, community service life of Madison.

Ke was even a godfather of the now-popular sport of skiing. Despite the family wealth, the Bradleys reared their seven sons to be workers and educational and intellectual leaders. At a congressional hearing to protest the building of a dam on the Yampa River in Wyoming the chairman called on "Dr. Bradley to stand and testify." Five Bradleys stood up, one an MD and four PhD's. Dr.

Bradley discovered the joy in skiing at a tournament in Stoughton in the winter of 190fi-07. At age 28 took to it avidly. His Ixiys followed suit. It was a required course. "We would start them jumping from Columns in Ronald Reagan many Africans oppose our intervention in Angola.

A similar pattern can be expected in Chile. When the torturers lose their power, as in due course one may hope they will, their successors are not likely to be grateful to the United States. An unfriendly Chile will then be one more triumph for Kissinger's realpolitik. The whole question of our attitudes toward the character of other governments is canvassed in the current issue of Foreign Policy by Prof. Richard H.

Ullman of Princeton. Over the last 30 years, he says, the U.S. has embraced many repressive regimes "always on expediential grounds." He urges that we make it our policy now to break those embraces, avoid new ones and emphasize commitments to governments that honor human values. Security and decency alike commend those goals, but they will not be adopted until we have new leaders. the cost of living.

They must know that this is an ever increasing spiral, because each dollar gained in wages necessarily increases the cost of living iso that nothing has been gained by higher wages. Teachers want more money. Some gains in this respect might be gained if a reorganization were made, eliminating much of the top heavy supervisory staff and return to the fundamentals. Walter M. Nielsen, Madison, Wis.

IV3aiB denied partly but not completely explained. President Ford said the United States is not training mercenaries, but he would not deny that the government is providing money for such training by others a rather fine line. The same day Ford attempted to justify United States involvement in the civil war, although he has never spelled out what that involvement is. He then said he believed that if the American people are "fully informed" as to the aims of the American government they will support it. That may be.

We are fully ready to be fully informed. Bradley very small jumps in our yard, and a year or two after that they were quite competent touring skiers, probably about five-years-old," Dr. Bradley once explained. Hal Bradley, himself, who skied alone across the Sierra range in 1920, mourned having to give up the sport at age 85. Di David Bradley, a son, was a medal winner on the first American Olympic winter sports team.

Dr. Bradley's chief claim to fame may be in the field of conservation. His father was one of the pioneers and a president of the Sierra Club, and worked with John Muir. Hal became a Sierra president after retiring from Wisconsin. He led many conservation battles.

Family distinction did not start with this generation. His grandfather was the first medical missionary to Thailand, then Siam, in the middle of the last century. He became a friend and confident of the famous king of Siam and helped bring the modern world to that country. The name Bradley still is revered in Thailand. Many in Madison will mourn the passing of this great man who did so much to set the pattern for today's city, and who made so many contributions to his country.

brief in Massachusetts ing that it will figure importantly in the contest for the Republican presidential nomination as well. The managers of Ronald Reagan have been saying all along that the California conservative would cede Massachusetts to President Ford, but last week John Sears, Reagan's chief operative, told reporters the Reagan strategists intend "to watch closely and make a decision" in late January on whether to make a major effort there. Jimmy Carter By Anthony Lewis (c) N.Y. Times News Se nice CAMBRIDGE. Mass.

Jimmy Carter sjH'nt two nights in Cambridge recently as a guest in two homes not far from Harvard Square. After he left, each hostess went upstairs and found that he had made his bed. That is the latest political news in Cambridge. Carter has begun to make an Impression on this cradle of liberal Democracy, as he evidently has on other places. People wearied by political fund-raising parties find his simplicity winning.

They like it, for example, that he stays over In someone's home. is the year for a revolution of rhetoric about Soviet activity in Angola, but they never seem to have much to say about Soviet repression of human rights. Indeed, their lickspittle attitude keeps them from meeting a man brave enough to speak openly of that truce. As we celebrate a revolution made in the name of human rights, it is particularly sad to have leaders who are indifferent to humanity. But the odd thing is that the official American attitude on these matters in recent years has been not only morally shameful but politically disastrous.

For example, the U.S. kept close to the right-wing dictatorship in Portugal even as that regime was failing, missing the opportunity to press for liberalization. Moreover, Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger sided with the Portuguese in their hopeless effort to hold their territories in Africa. Yet Americans are surprised if today's Portuguese are suspicious of us, or if Creative teachers Teachers teach because they love children this keeps teachers in the profession.

Teaching is not a soft job, just as any other job done to its fullest is not a soft job. Any job holder wants to be paid fairly for his work and teachers are job holders. A sick-in comes out of desperation; an attempt to get a citizenry that seems to refuse to be concerned about the best possible education for its children more aware, and does not come as a result of greed and lack of ambition. Teachers are creative, intelligent, capable people and most would have some good business sense, since they have worked with a vigorous public through their classrooms. With their assets, many of them would do very well in the business world were they to be "relieved" for a strike action.

Maybe some workers in the business world would have to move over or out. But, no matter. Teachers do love children and teaching them. Sometimes humans do desperate things to others that they love in order to be heard. Sharon E.

Mann, Madison, Wis. Savings plan It is generally conceded that it is desirable for older people to spend their last years in familiar surroundings if their health allows. That in most cases means the house which their hard-earned money bought and paid for. When I consider the tremendous growth in property taxes and other expenses, it seems many may be forced to sell their homes to pay other living expenses. I know this is a complex situation but one area to be controlled is the Incessant demand for higher wages by unions.

It is claimed that they want more In pay because of the increase in Today's How to By Anthony Lewis (c) N.Y. Times News Service BOSTON The British government did something the other day that by contemporary standards was news. It spoke out loud about the bestial behavior of another government. And it did so not to score a point in world politics or ideology, but to stand for a minimum level of decency in human affairs. This unusual event occurred in the case of a British doctor, Sheila Cassidy.

Cassidy has spent the last four years in Chile, working as doctor for a relief agency led by Chile's Roman Catholic cardinal, Raul Silva. Last October she treated a wounded leftwing opponent of the Chilean junta. She was arrested Nov. 1. Last week Cassidy was released, expelled from Chile and flown home.

When she arrived in London, the British government recalled its ambassador from Santiago. And the foreign secretary, James Callaghan, issued this statement: "Now that Dr. Cassidy is safely out of Chile, I can state what we have up to now deliberately refrained from publicizing. This is that Dr. Cassidy was tortured by the Chilean security police.

In order to obtain information from her, they stripped her and gave her severe electric shocks. This happened on the night of her arrest. "No British government can accept such uncivilized, brutal treatment of a British subject at the hands of a foreign government." As was to be expected, Chile replied with attacks on Cassidy including the wonderful Goebbels-like complaint that India's Statue while in prison she never filed aformal charge of torture. The British Foreign Office reiterated its "absolute belief" in her account. Britain has old economic and political ties with Chile and would not likely risk its interest there for the sake of mere moralizing.

The government evidently felt that Cassidy's case involved a national interest, not hers alone. That interest is simply stated: When a once free and civilized country falls into the hands of thugs, those who close their eyes and pass by on the other side risk the loss of their own self-respect. How remarkable it would be if an American secretary of state perceived as much. U. S.

officials are entirely aware of the mass torture and murder practiced by the Chilean junta, and of course our connection is much closer than Britain's: We live in this hemisphere, and our government helped end democracy in Chile by covert intervention and economic pressure. But when did an American leader last dare to tell the truth about the horrors of Chile? The U.S. policy of silence in the face of "uncivilized, brutal treatment" is by no means restricted to Chile, or to right-wing tyrannies in Brazil, Indonesia and the like. It has been just as humiliatingly applied in the case of the Soviet Union, in the cause of not rocking the boat. Since last year's Helsinki declaration, which was supposed to assure freer movement of people and ideas, the Soviets have in fact applied their immigration restrictions even more meanly against dissenters, Jews, separated families.

Our President and secretary of state worked up a good deal of Liberty Party drinking The Wisconsin Assn. on Alcoholism and Other Drug Abuse wishes to express its appreciation for the story by Joan Judd on responsible holiday hosting. We are convinced that if more were known about people's drinking preferences and ways of accommodating them, fewer parties would be held at which alcohol was the exclusive thirst-quencher. Providing people with "recipes for responsibility" can do a great deal toward changing customs and preventing the progression of the illness that afflicts 1 in 10 adults in this country alcoholism. Margo Redmond, WAAODA.

Wisconsin JiState Journal An Independent Lee Newspaper J. Martin Wolman Publisher Robert H. Spiegel Editor William C. Robbins Executive Editor William Brissee Associate Editor Helen Matheson Asst. Man.

Editor Clifford C. Behnke City Editor Joseph Capossela News Editor Steven E. Hopkins State Editor Glenn Miller Sports Editor Donald Davies Sunday Editor Robert Bjorklund Farm Editor Edwin Stein Photography Director By Jack VV. Germond and James It. Dickenson (c) Washington Star The Democrats have known for months that the Mar.

2 Massachusetts primary would be pivital for them as the first serious test of the five or six presidential candidates who claim to be lilxTals. Now the chances seem to be incrcas- Angolan policy By Joseph C. llarsch (c) Christian Science Monitor In thinking back over what has been printed on Angola since it became the top subject in foreign affairs, I am struck by the ataence of any awareness of an alternative American policy which was always available and might well have Ix'en the more productive. At no time, so far as the printed record shows, did anyone in Washington concerned with Angola give serious thought to a policy of "backing the probable winner" regardless of what the Sov iet Union might do. The implication of this absence from the discussion is, I think, imixtrtant.

It means that American foreign policy making is still dominated by ideological ralher than pragmatic considerations..