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VIRGINIA PAYETTE He gonna self-destruct? THE ARGUS Big, bad Bobby should be spanked WEDNESDAY, JULY If, 1972 AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER Founded in the year 1851 Member Audit Bureau of Circulations Official Paper City of Rock Island The'J. W. POTTER Publisher Daley leaves questions day came when he lost With a blunder any chess beginner would have avoided. Spectators gasped, Spassky blinked, and one Fischer fan called it a rare miscalculation by a genius. Whatever it as, he lost the second game, too.

With his consistent brand of sportsmanship, he refused to show up. And there was talk he was threatening to walk away from the entire 24-game match. Big deal. Maybe, since the chess world seems to be terrified of the bad-tempered Bobby, Henry Kissinger ought to take him in hand. After all, things were getting pretty calm with Moscow for a while there, and Iceland used to be our friend.

And somebody owes Spassky a vodka. the house. (Copyright 1972, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) No doubt about it, Daley has been very angry and depressed over the convention. It was his worst experience since the riots of 1968 in the wake of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King when he viewed the scenes of destruction from a helicopter.

At that time, according to Mike lioyko Boss, Daley took to his room with a bottle of Scotch. (He is ordinarily a moderate drinker.) This time he is reported to have gone into seclusion again, but he said he was visiting his grandchildr n. He was tanned and healthy looking. Daley regards himself as a great benefactor to Chicago and the Democratic party? hence his feeling of humiliation over the turn of events. A man of high integrity, he manages to overlook the corruption of others around him.

"Do no evil, see no evil, has been suggested as his motto. If he would look back a little, he would lose some of his indignation. He forgets that he participated in many ouster decisions at conventions against duly-chosen white Southern delegations that were kicked out ip favor of blacks and black-and-white delegations because this was a good way to win the favor of Northern blacks on whom Daley depended for victory. Now the latter have turned around and helped to give Daley the boot. If he haJ even a fair sense of humor, he would be rolling with laughter over this situation.

But a boss can suffer no infringement on his dignity. Chicago Mayor Daley broke his silence by saying he will support all Democratic candidates, but he left strong doubts uin ut his degree of enthusiasm by not mentioning presidential candidate George McGovern's name, observing that it will be an uphill fight, remarking that it is a time when people vote their own minds and replying with a sharp What do you think? when asked if McGovern had anything to do with the ouster of Daley's delegation at Miami Beach. Clearly he is still very unhappy about the results of the Democratic convention, and his attitude could mean the difference between victory and defeat for the Democrats in Illinois. Those who booted him out of Miami Beach now want to confer and cooperate with him, but he is in no hurry to see them. There are reports that Republicans are ready to dump millions of, federal aid in Chicago in return for his pulling his punches in the campaign, but Gov.

Richard Ogilvie has denied any overtures along this line. Actually, Chicago is in line for considerable federal money because its eligibility for aid expired at the end of June when HUD (Department of Housing and Urban Development) became dissatisfied with the way Chicago was spending its aid money. It is reasonable to suppose that Chicago will do everything possible to overcome HUDs objections. Distributed by LA. tiwas eyndicc HOUSE-CLEANING Now ye are clean.

John 15:3 i 1 at HOUSE-CLEANING seek and find Ways to a windows of the mind Sweep all your evil thoughts away And fresh, new' flowers of Love display Mop up the cobwebs of mistakes Flush a of Bitterness that make For Jealousy and Hate and Doubt Renew the spirit and cast out Left-overs of Sin, Wrong and Shame Send to the trash pile Grudge and Blame Wax floors of Heart until they shine Reflecting sheen of things Divine. JULIEN C. HYER Looking for a scapegoat JAMES KILPATRICK- Convention lacked luster dren in political matters, will be satisfied for a while. Making all due allowance for genius and temperament and tournament jitters, the plain fact remains that Bobby Fischer is a more likely candidate for a trip to the woodshed than the worlds chess title. He as he claims, the greatest chess player alive.

(Although, after the amateurish way he blew the first game, there could be some doubt about that.) But nobody would argue that in a contest for the world's biggest spoiled brat hed win in a minute. Whether he continues with his match against Russia's Boris Spassky or forfeits Tt in a huff (and right now, even that looks possible), Fischers track record of greed and rudeness adds up to a sorry display of sportsmanship. What he needs, judging by one parental itching palm, is a good spanking. He is, after all, the challenger who sought the match in the first place. And the International Chess Federation has bent over backward for months to meet his changing demands about money, location and time.

And still the temper tantrums continued. Instead of showing up in Reykjavik on schedule, he bolted from the airport and went into hiding for a two-day sulking 6pell. In fact, he might be there yet, if a British chess fan hadnt sweetened the kitty by 8120,000. (Which, it turns out, would have to be spent in England.) So much for that mini-cliff-hanger. Embarrassed Fischer fans sighed with relief when he finally made it to Iceland reassured each other that now he would settle down and behave himself.

He didnt. For openers, he insulted the people of Reykjavik by refusing to attend a welcoming folk festival. They overlooked the slur, but the Soviet Union decided Fischers tactics had been insulting to Spassky. They forced him to apologize, in writing. From there on, things went from bad to ludicrous.

In an unprecedented display of nit-picking silliness, Fischer pouted that the lighting in the hall hurt his eyes, the drapes werent thick enough, the TV cameras bothered him, the table was too long, the squares on the marble chess board too big, the chessmen too small, and his a i wasnt comfortable. (Spassky didnt like the size of the board either.) So they shortened the table, hunted up an obliging tombstone maker to carve a new board at the last minute (with squares a fourth of an inch smaller), relined the draperies and flew in a special swivel-based leather chair from New York. At long last, Fischer consented to sit down and put his genius to work. Even then, he was seven minutes late for the first game. And he stalked off in a snit for half an hour over a noisy TV camera.

But the. real shocker that Quick quiz Q. What well-known American industrialist said, History is bunk? A. Henry Ford. The lighter view The success of the McGovern presidential ticket from now on will depend to a consideiable extent on the personal touch.

That is, how many persons they can touch to help raise a 836-million campaign chest. Republicans who have visited President Nixon say he isnt worried about the McGovern ticket. Thats why two distinguished visitors, John Connally and Secretary of State Rogers, took the trouble to denounce him as a menace to the national Treasury, the national defense and the world peace. Another reason why Chicago Mayor Daley holds the recent Democratic convention in contempt those fiascos of the Ohio delegation in reporting on the states balloting shows the new politicians never will make good vote counters. Ordinarily, the free world would rejoice in the newrs of Russians being ousted from a nation they had sought to penetrate with their influence and propaganda; but in Egypt, it is obvious that President Anwar Sadat is looking for a scapegoat for his failure to reconquer lands lost to Israel in 1967.

The fact that Russia armed the Egyptians with only defensive weapons, contrary to the importunings of Sadat, is a mark in Moscows favor. Since it has earned few such marks under communism, this one can readily be conceded. It is an indication that the Russians don't want another military explosion in the Middle East, which might lead to a world conflict. They seek political domination without the risk of a great war. Sadat, on the other hand, has no qualms on that score.

He is under constant pressure to make war with Israel while knowing that such a war would be futile. He has been faced with demonstrations by students protesting the inadequacy of the Russian aid. So by ousting Russian military advisers, who have really completed their major task, he gives the impression that he wont be satisfied with half-hearted efforts. The Egyptian people, who think like chil the Thursday night debacle? The climactic evening ran off schedule because of a needless rollcall on a committee report. In the bad old days, Rayburn would have gaveled such a report through the hall in two minutes flat: The ayes have it.

Not a sufficient number up. Bang! So ordered! What was the high moment? It may have come at 11 oclock Tuesday, night, when Secret Service men tenderly hoisted the broken body of George Wallace to the rostrum. Here was a moment of pure confrontation. Yawning through the night, one thought of other conventions. Dirksen to Dewey: You led us down the primrose path.

Goldwater in 64: Extremism in the defense of liberty. One remembered faces: Virginias craggy John Battle fighting the abortive Southern walkout of 1952, Abe Ribicoff glaring at Mayor Daley, Herbert Hoover making his last, heartbreaking hurrah. (Copyright 1972, The Washington Star Syndicate, Inc.) MIAMI BEACH The Democrats spent a good part of their 1972 convention aj' ing the Re-i publicans for tence. Then CO they brought j1; their own candidate to 1 the television V-fl 1 screen at 3 1 1 1 oclock in the jams j. Kilpatrick morning, the better to demonstrate their fitness for running the nation; and so the convention adjourned.

This last is reported on faith. For all I know, in the shattering sunshine of a hangover morning, Larry OBrien may still be down at 21st St. clearing the aisles. This convention may go on forever, like the Boston subway or a bad game of bridge, a convention incapable of ending. Ohio may still be counting its vote.

One tries to be charitable. Honestly, one tries. But it strains charity to the outer limit to find a kind word for the Democratic convention of 1972. It labored for four dull days and four unending nights a brief life by some measures; and as they said of that poor fellow in Macbeth, nothing became its life quite like the ending of-it. McGoverns acceptance speech has to go down in history far down in history as the most insipid address ever delivered on such an occasion.

It stumbled on the heels of a whole week of insipid addresses. The best that can be said for the Democrats is that they had this much sense: They fixed it so that two-thirds of the nation had gone to bed and couldnt watch. Long before the convention began, we were regaled with boastful accounts of how different it would be this time. We were to see a party managing its affairs in the new way. Well, sir, the old way was better.

The old pols, whatever one may say for them, made a conscious effort to conceal their ineptitude. The new leaders dont; they let it all hang out. Can one imagine a Speaker Sam Rayburn presiding over America leads the world in tornadoes, according to National Geographic. But we could do without all those tornado watches advertised on TV who wants to watch Turning back The Argus files. One Hundred Years Ago Fares on the Coal Valley railroad have been cut in half, being now only 25 cents from Rock Island to Coal Valley, or 15 cents from Milan to Coal Valley.

Seventy-five Years Ago Rock Island and Moline considered erecting a modern theater midway between the two cities. Fifty Years Ago Picketing of the Silvis shops during the national railroad strike was forbidden by a judge in federal court at Peoria. Picketing implies a militant purpose. Twenty-five Years Ago The firm of Scheuerman Kempe, builders and real estate agents, will be incorporated with a capital of 8500,000 for expansion. Mrs.

Eleanor Beaujean of Swansea, South Wales, and her sister, Mrs. Edgar B. Phelps, Rock Island, were united in the Phelps home after 20 years. Ten Years Ago Reigning over the festivities of the Arsenals Centennial Ball at the Davenport Coliseum was Mrs. Elsie S.

Clere, queen and Lee R. Viers, king. Kenneth R. Long, 14, Coal Valley, won the Illinois Air Youth State Championship at model airplane event. Brian Hall, 15, a neighbor, serves as Longs pit crew.

BRUCE BIOSSAT MARQUIS CHILDS- Illinois shows how Democratic wounds go deeper than surface Truly unifying spirit missing at Miami show r- i 1 MIAMI BEACH The conventional wisdom about the events just concluded here i is that Sen. It can be argued that we observers simply were disappointed because our predictions of chaos here never came to pass. There may be something to that. Yet the alternative to chaos need not be smothering dullness. Good things ought not to be unexciting and, as indicated at the outset, there were good things.

Weeks ago, a McGovern aide told me that the senator and his managers were not going to pull too tight a rein on his hundreds of delegates. In actual fact, however, the discipline applied by him was very tough. 1 Delegates were admirably serious, responsive on the issues, responsibly attentive to duty through the most grueling all-night sessions. But they somehow contrived to make saving the nation for liberty and justice seem just about the most uninspiring enterprise on earth. MIAMI BEACH (NEA) The 1972 Democratic convention had a lot of good and new things about it.

What it did not have was electricity and excitemenl and a truly unifying spirit. I have more to compare it with than do most ob-servers, since I have seen all the conventions in both parties from 1940 on. This was, by all odds, one of the dullest. Sen. George McGovern was the clear choice of the delegates, but their cheers for him were frail compared to the sounds that filled other halls in other times for Franklin Roosevelt and Wendell Willkie and Dwight Eisenhower and John F.

Kennedy. One delegate who was for McGovern all the way tried to put his finger on the missing quality. As he sees it, affection for him as a man is not the dominant thing. He is perceived as an instrument of protest, a vehicle bearing their concerns over the issues. The view makes sense.

It would help to explain why the cheers usually had a disembodied air about them, and why, for all its McGovern-dictated discipline, the assemblage here always seemed less like a convention than just a collection of people a kind of political Woodstock. Former Sen. Eugene McCarthy, who can mix sharp observation with his flip indif- ferenceL forecast: This convention is not going to end. It is just going to be gone. And so it was, having consumed prime television time for four straight days to parade Its dreariest events and put on its relatively more interesting happenings from near midnight to the small hours of the he failed to put in any appearance ih Miami Beach was a rough, tough primary fight that split the party down the middle.

In a demogogic isolationist, no-taxes campaign Dan Walker, spending large amounts of money in the primary race for the governorship spot beat out Paul Simon, the lieutenant governor who had survived as the only Democrat in the statewide Republican sweep four years ago. Walker now faces the Republican governor, Richard A. Ogilvie, who had the courage to bite the bullet. The odds are on Ogilvie. One conspicuous lack on the Democratic side is able young newcomers.

When Harry Truman, running in 1948, was counted out by just about everybody he had an invaluable assist in attractive younger candidates in one state after another. In Illinois Adlai Stevenson running for governor and Paul Douglas for the Senate rolled up majorities of a half million or more and thereby carried Truman in with a squeak majority of 30,000. Missouri is another example. Sen. Thomas F.

Eagleton as the vice presidential candidate may make a difference. But the party has been in a decline with Gov. Warren E. Heames doing little or nothing to arrest the slide. The smell of corruption among some of his henchmen has not helped.

In contrast the Republicans this year have able young candidates while the Democrats grope for a pos- sible successor to Hearpes. Until he was tapped for tha vice presidency Eagleton mads no secret of his belief that Pres ident Nixon was all but certain to carry Missouri. And Missouri is a swing state having been on the winning side with one exception, in every election since 1892. The painful truth that emerged here Is that the Democrats can no longer count on a glamourous figure, who will turn the trick on the television screens. The creation of a new party structure as was proposed here makes eminent good sense.

The Republicans with their vast resources of money and their lien on television specialists can make do with i rally of the tribes every four years. The Selling of the President 1968 showed how it could be done. And that is the way it may be done again. Professing to be the party of the people the Democrats can now try to take the political process of the quadrienniaj hit or miss of national conventions and high-powered sales manship. The proposed plan calls for representative gatherings from around the nation four times a year to weigh the issues and the state of the party.

It calls for paid membership in the party. In short it would take seriously what should be everybodys business and more often than not ends up being nobody's business. (Copyright 1972, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc). George Mc-Gpvem, having gotten himself out on a long ideological limb, will now submit his far out positions to the na- Marqul. Oilld.

0Ut come in November will be either yes or no on those positions. This is a greatly oversimplified view of the contest soon to be joined since it ignores a factor fundamental to the success or failure of the McGovern campaign. That is the health of the Democratic party out of national power for four years. As through this conclave could readily discover in state after state the party is in a bad way. It is not 1 the wounds opened in the course of the bruising battle for the nomination.

The cause lies deeper in a kind of dry rot that set in after the defeat of four years ago. Illinois is a case in point. To be sure, Mayor Richard J. Daley was so offended by the ruthless way in which he and his delegates were ruled out of the convention that he may knife the national ticket. But back of the Daley walk out he never walked in since Other editors say No 'Glass Cage' (Illinois Star Journal, Springfield) Richard B.

Ogilvie acted, wisely in vetoing a legislature-approved 8100,000 appropriation for construction of a so called glass cage for the House chambers. The governor said he acted after conferring with House Speaker W. Robert Blair, Park Forest Republican, principal advocate of the plan. It is to his credit that Blair agreed to eliminate the glass screen. Qgilvies veto also means an end to plans for relocation of press facilities from their present convenient position flanking the Speakers rostrum to the galleries.

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