The Daily Herald from Chicago, Illinois • Page 10

"Our Aim: To Fear God. Ttll tht Truth, and Makt H. C. Paddock, J852-1935. Serving Northwest Suburbs Since 1872 PADDOCK PUBLICATIONS, INC Stuart R.

Paddock, Editor Emeritus Charles E. Hayes, Executive Editor APRIL 26, 1968 1964, 1966 Recipient of Will Loomii Memorial Trophy, Illinois' highest honor for editorial achievement. The Way We See It Rumor Central's ValueEstablished A special rumor-quashing unit of the Chicago Commission on Human Relations is being credited with helping to cool down the recent racial crisis. Rumor Central 744-4111 -received more than 35,000 calls during the week following assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King.

Volunteers helped the commission's 47 staff workers meet the onrush of queries about the disorders. Calls varied widely in their nature. The sound of sirens in parts of the city not involved in the rioting frightened many persons. The rumor controllers were able to determine the source of a loud explosive noise (sonic boom from a falling meteorite) which worried many on the south side. Residents of a white neighborhood became nervous when rumors circulated Negroes in adjoining blocks were poised for an invasion.

Rumor Central checked, found the Negro neighborhood to be exceptionally quiet and helped calm the whites' fears. In activities like this, the service proved its merit. It is already being copied in large cities across the country. The idea of a rumor control unit might have some value for the suburbs. During the days following King's death, rumors were rampant here.

Residents were particularly fearful for the safety pf commuters caught in the city when disturbances broke out the Loop. But scare talk of possible fire bombing forays into the suburbs helped create a jittery atmosphere here, too. Spring Improvements: Don't Forget Tweezers Shopping list: --Heavy duty hedge trimmer --Hand pruning shears --Oil for the mower --Spreader --Two bags fertilizer weed killer --Five pounds perennial blue grass --House paint, brushes and rollers --Black dirt --Patio blocks --High-grade tweezers (pull those barberry thorns out of your swollen thumbs) --Sloan's (ease those weary muscles). It's Spring! Let's see first the lawn, then the hedge save the pruning until after the flowering season. For rainy days, there's work indoors: paint the kitchen, replace tiles in the bath, panel the rec room.

Gasp. Let's face it. You're only one person. Maintaining a suburban home is a demanding job. But it can ajso be rewarding and pleasurable.

How to approach this responsibility? First collect your thoughts. We hope Sunday's Paddock Publications will help you along these lines. We're printing a special Clean Up, Fix Up, Paint Up section chock full of ideas for Spring improvements. Scan the section for ideas. Then take a tour of your property and try to apply these ideas to your needs.

Draft a mental list of things that need doing. What has to be accomplished first, for safety's sake or to take full advantage of the growing season? Which projects can be done later in Spring? How much can you invest in repair and improvement items this year? Now get back to that special section to solidify your plans, take advantage of special prices being offered and draft a Spring improvement calendar. Oh, yes. If you're as handy as we are you might want to add a first aid kit to your shopping list. A Pioneering Venture Ferment and change within the Roman Catholic Church, once regarded as a citadel of traditionalism, is becoming so commonplace the manifestations, if newsworthy, are no longer too surprising.

Many nuns have traded their habits for street dress; priests have joined strikes; important changes in the mass have been implemented locally. Ecumenism and social concern are getting increased attention. In the Chicago archdiocese, parish schools have come under the purview of elected school boards. Just last week, one of the parent parishes of the northwest suburbs named the first lay principal in the archdiocese St. James, which since 1950 has seen its vast territory subdivided and resubdivided until it now serves a small, populous core on the northside of Arlington Heights, picked Mrs.

Laura Zaucha, a social studies teacher, as staff head of its junior high. The role and responsibility of the parochial school have been expanding with our growing population and increasing demands on educational institutions, and the increasing involvement of lay persons seems inevitable. We wish St. James success in its pioneering venture and Mrs. Zaucha luck in her new assignment.

Going Up! Critic's Corner Daley Goal Was Riot Prevention by RUSSELL BATH It's a good guess that Mayor Daley probably wishes he had that one back. He wouldn't change the substance of what he said, but probably would change a few words at strategic points. As Hand Luke's barn'boss said: "What we've got here is failure to communicate." The mayor's shoot- to-kill arsonists, shoot- to-halt-looters dictums caused a big ruckus all 'round, then the expected "the whole thing's been blown out of proportion" rebuttals from the mayor and his allies. At Wednesday's City Council meeting, while proclaiming May 1 "Law Day," he tempered the tone of his order. But the tough-guy image remains.

BECAUSE OF that image, enhanced by news media coverage, Daley was roundly bum-rapped. His proposal, though, is fundamentally sound. As the city's boss in fact as well as in title, Daley must consider the BATH The Political Beat The New Politics by CHARLES HUFNAGEL As this Illinois primary campaign winds down the road to its conclusion on June 11, the feeling crops up that we're entering a new political era in I this state. Vying for I headlines and public (interest in state poh- Itics are major political (events on the national (scene and the world I at large. The average I citizen today senses I that his major involve- ments are national scope and worldwide The world has become smaller as communications have become better and the people in Washington closer to every household.

What happens in Viet Nam, around the Suez Canal and on the Potomac have a direct effect on the stock market, the cost of groceries and the tax take The America of yesterday was immersed in isolationism; today, in contrast, we are tempered by what happens abroad This fact alone has a good bit to do wtih what is described as a new politics developing in this country Both parties are going to feel this impact and, some believe, radically reshaped both by what is happening beyond the boundaries of the United States and also by what is taking place on the domestic scene. Since the Depression Years of the 1930's and World War II, local and state governments have been in eclipse. Now we are witnessing a partnership role where Washington is sharing costs many areas under jurisdiction of state and local governments. And the "welfare clause" in our U.S. Constitution makes the economic concern and wellbeing of every citizen an obligation of the federal government.

These are not likely to change, and frankly there are few who want to see these relationships changed. ADD TO THIS picture a technological revolution, with a growing urbanization, and a population Toss in a "new economics" which aims at a maximum employment and production with good incomes and good business profits for all, and you have a consumption economy that is spelled like p-r-o-s-p-e-r-i-t-y. Naturally the costs and the supporting taxes are high. The blueprint calls for this kind of equation. On balance it could not very well be otherwise.

What is implicit in all this transition under way before our eyes is the emergence of a new set of values and relationships These seem to negate old values of the past such as the gospel of "individualism and private initiative." This gospel relates to the horse and buggy era when the majority had little or no money in the bank and few opportunities. The clamor we hear today is not for a return to these good old days but to share more fairly and to participate to a greater extent in the total accomplishment. But the demand for individualism and private initiative was never greater. Today's needs say that they must be Cliffs Edge channeled in new directions. RIGHT HERE it should be said that a younger generation has a better understanding of what this is all about and why it cannot be otherwise.

They sense that edcuation expands the meaning of freedom and opportunity. So it should be said that our candidates for governor in the Illinois primaries have to take into account this broad spectrum of change that is showing up on the political scene. They have to talk about the issues of the day in the language of the day. Perhaps 1968 calls for a new kind of campaigning and a different type of political accounting to the electorate. For this reason this campaign could be of historic importance in Illinois politics.

welfare of Chicago as a whole. You and John Q. Citizen, worry about the safety of our lives, and property and those of our loved ones. The mayor because he is mayor has everyone's lives and property to worry about. But Daley often has exhibited a knack for presenting his suggestions (orders, if you will) in a tone less than palatable to the public.

KEEPING THIS in mind, let us reassess not the words, but the motives. Let's compare the first version with the later, toned-down one. Here are' the comments that first stirred the hornet's nest: "He (the policeman on the beat) should have had instructions to shoot arsonists and looters. "In my opinion, there should have been orders (from Police Supt Conlisk) to shoot arsonists to kill and to shoot looters in order that they be detained. "There's no reason for this lawlessness and immorality An arsonist is just like a murderer and he should be shot right on the spot." That last clause, most of all, may have prompted much of the criticism.

Now here is what he said Wednesday, by way of clarification. You'll notice he's a little more wordy, a little less direct: "THERE CAN be no possible justification of a deliberate criminal act which results in helpless and homeless victims All the people on the West Side had one universal demand--protect us from the arsonist and the looter. "I believe the basic responsibility of the police is to protect our citizens from loss of life, destruction and mayhem. "Men who throw Molotov cocktails are just the same as the assassins who pulled the triggers of the guns that killed The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

and the late President John F. Kennedy. "We cannot resign ourselves to the proposition that civil protest must lead to death and devastation--to the abolishment of the law that is fundamental for the preservation of the rights and freedom of all people." "SO YOU SEE" the mayor might then have told his critics, "I don't really want to maim everybody who smashes a store window during a riot. I want to prevent the riots in the first place "All I want is to be sure my police department has enough of a free hand to protect the law-abiding." Does he deserve to be bum-rapped for that? Maybe all he needs is a lesson in sentence structure. Channeling Your Gripes by CLIFFORD G.

ROWE Asst. Managing Editor So you've got a gripe. You don't like the way the village is repavmg its streets. Or the new restrictions on sewer hook-ups. Or the way the kids hang around in front of the bowling alley.

Or the days the garbage is picked up. Or the way your neighbor i his fence. Or the way the park in your neighborhood got three swings and one slide and the one across town got three swings and TWO slides. But chances are nobody will know about your gripes unless you do one of two things: 1) Run for office on the park board, school board, village board or whatever. You will base your whole entry in the campaign on the one issue, and BOWK percentages say you'll lose because there just won't be that many people with the same gripe to vote for you.

2) Your name will turn up along with anywhere from a dozen to 500 other names on a petition. Then you will complain about the way the petition is presented before the governing board. Either way your gripe will probably end up wallowing in frustration and neither you nor your community will benefit. AND IT'S the community that stands to lose the most. One of the most satisfying aspects of suburban living, as much like a cliche as it may bound, is that you have your community at your fingertips --whether to blacken its eye or pat its back.

Having it in such close proximity is not a luxury to indulge in, if you are so inclined, or to ignore if you're not. Rather, it's a terrible responsibility, an awesome demand for attention and participation. There are many channels through Looking Around The average father today wears out a pair of shoes while the rest of the family wears out a set of tires. When you see red, it's time you started living within your income. The number of virtues a child possesses increases as the distance of his home from yours.

Some people are put back on their feet by finance companies. With the present tax structure the way it is, it would be difficult to find' what profit a man had even if he gained the whole world. A bore is a man who is a poor shot but keeps aiming to please. because she threatened to expose somebody's hide. A minister is a man who has to pray for a living.

Nothing annoys the average modern child today like a disobedient parent. Nobody can stop a woman in the middle of a sentence like the arrival of another woman with two men A good neighbor to have is one by the name of Jones who is trying to keep up with you. It is becoming increasingly evident that when God said what I have joined together let no man put asunder, he also meant the atom. The easiest way to find a parking space is immediately behind a fellow who just beat you to it. A bachelor is a man who can have a change of heart any time he wants to.

It's easy to spot a person with a lot of personality--he reminds you so much of you. An opportunist is a fellow who takes the cold water thrown on his ideas and makes ice cubes with it. A man with time on his hands is either serving it or waiting for his wife. Many a woman wears a mink coat A woman's idea of a good cry is one that gets the intended results. which you may devote that attention and participation.

Notable ones are the civic organizations--the Jaycees, the Lions, the Rotarians, the Junior Woman's Clubs and the many others. THESE ARE the guys and gals who sponsor the scout troops and the Camp Fire Girl groups; who set up holiday parades--and then work their collective fannies off to make them a success; who channel some of the community's wealth into recreational facilities or into college scholarships for the community's youth The list of their activities and achievements knows no limits nor single direction. And there is the League of Women Voters, a unique bevy of sharp-eyed ladies who attend the meetings you don't and study the issues you don't have time to study and make sure you're eligible to vote on them on election day, and hundreds of other things. There are the political organizations which will be busier this year than a sorority-house mother on New Year's Eve. IF YOU DON'T have the gumption to fight for the guy who's better than the dodo who's in office, don't complain when the dodo's still sitting there doing all the things you don't like this time next year.

These are just some of the outlets for your gripes, your complaints, your ideas. THE BEAUTIFUL thing is that they will work in communities like ours, because they're close enough to where the action takes place to not only trigger that action, but to guide its direction. But proximity's a pretty poor advantage if you don't have the guts and energy to do something about it when you're there, as any good general can tell you. All these groups and the many others like them need your guts and your energy to help them and, in turn, help your community. And they need gripers.

Movers and shakers don't have to think alike to move and shake. It's probably better if they don't..