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Civil Rights: Clear Division Between Parties By GARRY WILLS THE "NEW impend, with Carter as another Eisenhower. That neither inspires nor dispirits me. Eisenhower was a great president. The evil thing about the fifties was that the decade bred Richard Nixon to come back and haunt us later on. But there are no simple returns in history.

The past does not exist, in some ghostly way, entire for us to return to. Some rejoice, others lament, the fact that the sixties have passed us by like a fever of excitement or disease. But we remain, and we all went through that time, irreversibly. Those hoping for revolution were disappointed; yet those fearing it do not seem consoled. Did that non-decade, called by a decade's name, accomplish anything, for good or ill? I think so.

I think it made two radical changes in our life, one for good and one for ill. The lasting effects of the sixties touch our lives daily in two areas civil rights, and public standards of sexual morality. In the area of civil rights, it is hard to remember how fast we came because we did not come far enough. Deep racial hatreds are not torn up overnight, as the THE CAPITAL TIMES Founded in 1917 by William T. Evjue, 1882-1970 MILES McMILLIN, Editor and Publisher ELLIOTT MARANISS, Executive Editor DAVE ZW EIFEL, City Editor ROBERT MELOON, Managing Editor JOHN P.

HUNTER, Associate Editor JERRY AMBELANG. State Editor ART HINRICHS. Sports Editor MARIE PULVERMACHER. PM Editor DAVID SANDELL, Chief Photographer MADISON, Wednesday, September 15, 1976 Voters Reject Secrecy DANE COUNTY voters don't want closed door government. They don't want officeholders who support secret government.

That was the central meaning of Tuesday's elections. Assembly Speaker Norman C. Anderson (D-Madison), one of the most powerful men in the State Legislature and a veteran of nine terms in the Assembly, went down to defeat to a political newcomer, Peter Bear, and the issue that highlighted the campaign was Anderson's support of secrecy in government. Anderson's undeviating championship of his Democratic colleagues on the Joint Committee on Finance, who held closed door sessions of the Finance Committee to draft a 1975-77 state budget, cost him his seat and brought about one of the biggest upsets in recent state history. IN THE LONG months since that outrageous exhibition of political arrogance, we pleaded to no avail with Anderson to ment, the big guns, the endorsement of Sens.

Proxmire, Nelson and Rep. Kastenmeier, and prominent labor leaders all to no avail. Two other Democratic primary winners-Rep. David Clarenbach (D-Madison) and James E. Doyle who upset incumbent District Attorney H.J.

Lynch, both based their campaigns on openness in government, Doyle went out right off the bat and attacked the practice of plea bargaining behind closed doors, an issue we have spoken out on strongly in the past. CLARENBACH fought secrecy vigorously in the Assembly. It should be noted that the Democratic winner in the suburban 48th Assembly District, Thomas Loftus, also spoke out sharply in opposition to closed door government. While Bear's upset victory dominates the news, it is not just Bear's election that adds significance to the results. It means a whole new generation of young progressive change his position.

The elec- Democrats have earned a place tion results in the 37th Assem- in the party-Clarenbach, Jon bly District, give eloquent Barry, the winner in the rural evidence of the feelings of An- Dane 47th Assembly District, derson's constituents. Ander- Loftus, of Sun Prairie, in the son had the support of the 48th, all epitomize the young Democratic party establish- new thrust of the party. Distressing Moynihan Win DANIEL Patrick Moynihan Moynihan called a "president has capped a heated five-way of singular courage and comfight for New York's passion." A vulgar chauvinist, Democratic Senate nomination Moynihan was one of the leadin a narrow victory over Rep. ing war hawks of every adBella Abzug. Progressive ministration he has served.

Americans everywhere must HE WILL face James be shuddering over the Buckley, the only declared Moynihan victory. conservative in the Senate and one of the most reactionary ofIt will be remembered that ficeholders in the country, in Moynihan lent his psuedo-in- the November election. tellectualism to three Sadly, New York Democrats presidents--Kennedy, Johnson have nominated a man of the and Nixon. It was Nixon whom same stripe. 1976 by NEA, Inc.

"You're absolutely right! It's time I straightened oft my misconceptions about the elderly!" busing disputes still show. But we did in a decade much of what we had failed to do in a century. My children cannot believe that I grew up in a world where drinking fountains were segregated, where it was "daring" to let Jackie Robinson play baseball. In the age of Shirley Verrett, following hard on that of Leontyne Price, the idea that Rudolf Bing did Marian Anderson a late "favor" by letting her sing at the Met seems ludicrous. Marked spots on buses are unthinkable to my children as they should have been to all of us; but only the sixties brought that about.

DR. MARTIN Luther King achieved the real. goal of true revolutionaries to look almost reactionary at the end of a process he launched when it looked entirely visionary. that is something. We may slide back, some; but never all the way back.

How far can we slide back? As far as we let ourselves. The election will tell us something about that. Whatever one thinks of Carter or Ford as a person, the two parties have a clear symbolic stand on the major domestic issue of our entire history. The Democratic convention ended with Dr. King stirring address, and the emotional singing of Shall Overcome." Mr.

Carter, precisely because he is a Southerner, cannot ignore blacks. The Republicans concluded, with Ronald Reagan's emotional speech, a convention that might have oceurred before the civil rights turnaround. The few black delegates in Kansas City were an embarrassment to everyone, including the South. They tried to prove they were not Uncle Toms by excluding the half-dozen Reagan delegates from their reception with President Ford. The president himself tried to duck out without even addressing the blacks.

Only Senator Brooke prevented that from happening. Republicans still do not want to admit that there are any problems in black-white relations. Of course, it is not enough. But we must learn to give ourselves credit; if not for what we did, then at least for what we could not prevent. The sixties will be the great divide in history' between stupidity and intelligence in addressing the problem of human equality in America.

Not in solving the problem, only in addressing it but Garry Wills Jimmy Carter may be the new Eisenhower; but he would not, he could not, try to take us back to the attitudes of the fifties in one area. When, during the presidential race, it begins to look like there's not a dime's worth of difference between candidates, we should remember the built-in difference between the two parties. Carter: Democrats may be hypocritical in their piety; but at least they have the decency to pretend that all men and women are brothers and sisters. Copyright, Universal Press Syndicate France Has New Co Complaints Now By ART BUCHWALD PARIS There is not too much happening in France at the moment. The biggest controversy seems to be that a French bishop insists on saying the Catholic Mass in Latin instead of French, and the Pope is very mad at him.

The country is now divided on the issue with the Gaullists supporting the bishop, the Independent Socialists the Pope and the Communists demanding a television debate defore they decide how to vote. The American tourist, long the symbol of U.S. imperialism in France, has virtually disappeared and has been replaced in all the first-class hotels by large families of Arab sheiks, their wives and children. The lobby of the Hotel Goerge is now full of little Saudi Arabian princes and princesses playing soccer between the chairs while their parents are out trying to figure out how to spend millions of dollars' worth of oil royalties in Paris shops. The employes of the hotel have strict orders not to remonstrate with the children for anything they do because an average Arab kid in a Paris hotel spends $100 a day ordering from room service.

THERE HAS BEEN a drought in Even a Louis table in an antique shop had increased by $8,000 because of the dry weather in Normandy. The antique merchant explained that because of the lack of water the dealers had to slaughter all their Louis tables, since they couldn't afford to feed them any more. The big question I was constantly asked in Paris by the French was, "What do the Americans think of Giscard of d'Estaing and France?" I HAD TO BE honest and explain that Giscard was probably as well known in the United States as Richard Schweiker, and the last time France was mentioned in the United States was when some Croatians hijacked an airplane flying from New York to Chicago. "But it isn't our fault," I explained to my French friends. "Most Americans are only interested in the countries Henry Kissinger is interested in.

At the moment Henry has decided he prefers Africa to France, and we have to go along with him," "Why?" a Frenchman asked me. replied. "The national interests of the United States are inexorably tied to Namibia, Rhodesia and South Africa. It came as a surprise to most of us, but if Henry says, 'That's where it's we have no choice but to put our prestige and money on the line. Henry doesn't fly around the world for nothing." My French friend said, "he's making a big mistake getting into that stew." Art Buchwald northern France, and this has given the French merchants an excuse to raise their prices not only on food products in the drought zone, but on other things that ordinarily would not be affected by water.

A handbag I priced on the Faubourg St. Honore cost $450. The lady in the store explained to me it was "because of the drought." A man's shirt in a window near the Place de l'Opera had been marked up from $40 to $50 "because of the drought." "Ordinarily I would agree with you, but as an American I cannot question Henry's reasons for taking such a big interest in southern Africa. Besides, he may have something going for him in Capetown that none of us knows about." MY FRENCH FRIEND said, "Do you think Kissinger will stay on if Ford is elected President? "He'll have to," I said. "He can't quit until Namibia is a free nation." "Where is Namibia?" we Americans knew," I replied testily, "do you think we'd tell you?" "Because Henry knows best," I Copyright, Los Angeles Times News Service Croatia Example of Church-State tate Excess MENASHA The recent hijacking of a TWA jetliner was done by Croatian nationalists in an attempt to gain publicity for their cause.

Hopefully, the "cause" will receive publicity, not because the cause has any intrinsic merit, but because any publicity the Croatian nationalists get must a also focus on the incredible history of Croatia when it was an independent nation for a brief period of time in history from 1941-1945. That history teaches us a valuable lesson in church-state relations and how excess in religious fervor can lead to the most monstrous crimes against humanity imaginable. When the kingdom of Yugoslavia was attacked by Germany and Italy on April 6, 1941, the independence of Croatia was proclaimed four days later. Hitler and Mussolini supported the Croatian nationalists and applauded the installation of Ante Pavelic as the dictator of the country, a dictator who also claimed the support of the Roman Catholic hierarchy of Croatia, headed by Cardinal Aloysius Stepinac, archbishop of Zagreb and Metropolitan of Croatia. Deischer Recalls Another Dry Summer PRAIRIE DU SAC It has been an erratic summer this year, with areas that have suffered terribly from lack of rain.

It makes old timers like we are remember the summer of '36. We looked up an old Lachmund Lumber Company calendar, where we had jotted down some interesting facts that summer. It began in June, especially from the 15th onward. We recorded: "Hot and hotter; oats ripening too fast; pastures getting so dry." But July was terrible. The pastures were completely dry and burned.

From July 6 to July 14 the temperature was in the hundreds. July 14 was the climax; our thermometer registered 107. Of course this isn't official: We got our information from a thermometer hanging on the side of the house, but we didn't dispute it it was unbearably hot! There is a notation on July 18 that 4,310 people in the United States lost their lives during this extremely hot spell. August started out no better. Cattle had to be fed hay or green corn.

We even cut down a couple of trees so they VOICE of the People IT SHOULD BE noted that Croatia was populated primarily by Roman Catholics along with a minority of the population who were adherents of the Greek Orthodox, Jewish and Islamic faiths. It should also be noted that the kingdom of Yugoslavia was created primarily due to the efforts of Serbia, which was a country populated by people of the Greek Orthodox faith along with other minorities. Although the kingdom of Yugoslavia gave all religions a crack at the public treasury, the Roman Catholics felt discriminated against because their slice of public funds was not as great as the Orthodox slice. Of course, these resentments were nurtured by centuries, of hatred between these two groups claiming the Prince of Peace as thier master. Finally, the Croatian na- could eat the leaves.

We noted also that forest fires in the north burned over 2,000,000 acres. The drought was broken on Aug. 18 by a sharp electrical storm, one bolt of lightning killing 17 cows. After that there were more rains. We still remember that summer.

The following winter was as extreme as the summer had been. We had snow, sleet, blizzards, icy roads and bitter cold. Alvin Deischer. Harper Liked Story On CUNA Prairie MADISON I am writing a note of thanks to The Capital Times for the excellent and timely article by Whitney Gould in the PM Section on the landscaping efforts at the CUNA Mutual Office on Mineral Point Road. Whitney showed a great deal of professional journalistic talent in the manner with which she assembled the disconnected information she was given.

My prairie buff friends have been uniform in their complimentary comments on the feature. The accuracy tionalists, the Ustashi, had achieved their dream. WHAT WAS THE result of that dream? The bloody consequences are recorded for the first time in English in a book authored by Carlo Falconi called The Silence of Pius XII, published by Little Brown and Company, Boston. It was originally published in Italian. Falconi tells us that the Pavelic regime had massacred 700,000 persons of the Greek Orthodox faith during its four years of existence, 300,000 having occurred in 1941 alone.

It was the intent of Pavelic, with the blessing of Cardinal Stepinac, to convert the Greek Orthodox community to Catholicism. But religious bigotry and hatred was so rampant that even this less severe form of intolerance, which for all practical purposes could be called "forced conversion," could not really be carried out. Ustashi execution squads, with enthusiastic priests as their chaplains, went out on frequent forays decimating the Orthodox community. Cardinal Stepinac did not approve of these "ex- of the article was perfect, the accents were on the appropriate element, and the pictures by Bruce Fritz and Tom Kelly were great. With this type of assistance and encouragement perhaps we can naturalize some of our park systems and depart from the stereotype plan which makes one park look just like another: and function just like another.

My personal feeling on this general concept is that it can provide a recreational outlet for all ages including those whose main interest is in tennis, swimming, or softball. There are a lot of us who are more inclined to get our exercise walking around. Again, many thanks to you and the staff. Samuel B. Harper, MD, vice- president and medical director, CUNA.

Remington Advocates 'Buddy System' MADISON The drowning in the pool at East High has shocked the community. That a boy could drown in such a small area, with so many others in the pool, seems impossible. But there is a but had lost control of many of his priests who felt they were doing the Lord's will by dispatching as many Orthodox as possible to the next world. German troops from occupied Serbia had to be called in from time to time to restrain the enthusiasm of Pavelic's Ustashi killers. THIS IS NOT to say that all of the people of Croatia were enthusiastic Ustashi.

Many of them, on the contrary, joined Tito's partisans, who were most effective in resisting the Nazis. Nevertheless, there existed in Croatia the kind of religious fanaticism which, when connected with nationalism, can lead to the most dire results for mankind. The lesson of this experience in recent European history should be obvious. At a time when certain forces in our country are trying to destroy the wall of separation between church and state, we should ponder, from time to time, the experience of minorities in small countries like Croatia when church and state become partners. Robert E.

Nordlander. way that future similar tragedies can be almost certainly avoided. The way is called the "Buddy System," a system used by the Boy Scouts of America in swimming areas in their camps. In the system, a board is set up, containing numbered hooks on which are placed numbered, metal tags with safety pins attached, allowing the swimmers to attach the numbered tag to their suits. The swimmers pair-off, according to sequence, in twos.

A final, "odd" swimmer becomes part of a three-man "team." The swimmers are allowed to swim at will, and periodically, the coach blows his whistle and shouts "Buddies." At that moment each swimmer must find his buddy, take him by the hand and raise his arm to show the coach that all swimmers are accounted for. Then, when the period is over, each swimmer is required to replace his tag on the numbered hook. If a tag is missing, an immediate and exhaustive search begins. The system is inexpensive and as fail-proof as any human system can be. I'd like to see it adopted by every pool in the Madison school system.

George.