Press-Telegram from Long Beach, California • 24

OF COURSE THESES ANOTHER THAT 6QES "He NO OPEN A THE M007U HE MO STICK INA THE Fool Independent Press-Telegram Telephone 435-1 161 604 Pine Avenue 90844 Herman Ridder 1952-1969 Daniel Ridder Editor and Publisher Samuel Cameron General Manager Miles Sines Executive Editor Larry Allison Managing Editor Don Ohl Editor Editorial Page Bert Resmk Assistant Managing Editor A Collins Sr Don Hastings Sunday Editor -Editorial Columnist IT) Don Nutter Advertising Director Lowdermilk Circulation Director Milton A Lomas Production Manager 'BRogm fe- Tz A JK la LONG BEACH CALIFORNIA SUNDAY DECEMBER 8 1974 B-2 Editorials A good newspaperman (r upside down and backward because there was no time for proofs wrote headlines and put the pages together so that his paper was the first one in the Los Angeles area to have the complete story in hands He came from a newspaper family His father had published a small paper in Mesa Ariz a paper on which Lew Allison got his start more than a decade after his father had relinquished ownership brother Bob was sports editor of the Phoenix Gazette Lew Allison transmitted his love of journalism a word he never used to his children although none can tell you exactly how he did it His oldest son Larry is managing editor of the Independent Press-Telegram Lew Allison Jr is Midwest news director and former Vietnam bureau chief for the National Broadcasting Company Jack Allison is a reporter for a Salt Lake City television station Brian Allison worked part-time as a San Francisco Examiner copy editor while in college Mike Allison will be a newsman after his graduation from UCLA Only Lew daughter Helene did not ever work as a journalist She is a teaehezv BuW then her father was a teacher too as all fine editors are Clark Bradley man of integrity SACRAMENTO Diehard conservatives in Orange County mighfknow who Clark Bradley is but not many other Southern Californians do Which is a shame Clark Bradley had been a state legislator for 21 years the last 12 as a senator when his San Jose constituents last month decided tjiat his approach to government no longer jibed with theirs and his re-election bid was rejected hard He read reports and he read bills If he had a question about a bill he asked it If he was not satisfied with the answer he asked the question again And again More than a few times his questioning revealed that a proposal would do something or permit something to be done not intended by the author HE USUALLY voted no to proposals because he thought government was too had run into independence nor was it the last iw The point of air this is that the true1 picture of government and of politicians is3flo not as black as the criers of alarm would 'nil frighten us into believing There gprtainlyono is reason for concern but there also aw reason for trust and there should not berfi so much emphasis on the one'that the other is forgotten loir Clark Bradley is leaving the Senate it is appropriate to take note of his contri- buttons but he is not unique Joe Kennick and George Deukmejian of Long beactjj Until five months ago when his doctor told him he had only a short time to live George Lewis Allison Sr was news editor which is to say midwife for the Press-Telegram Except when he wrote an outdoor column or a story about fishing on Northern Shasta Lake no article in the Press-Telegram had his name on it but the entire paper bore Lew signature He was proud of it but he was never wholly pleased by it even after he had pushed reporters city editors copy editors wire services and printers in a daily chase to catch and correct everj error every hint of bias every story that had been superseded by some late news There was no day when Lew Allison was not peeved that his newspaper had not been perfect COME TO him with a story that a reporter mused the other day the quality of a Hemingway Done in two minutes took you so Lew would say In 20 years he never told me a story of mine was good But sometimes I knew he liked something I wrote be- -cause he say Why then did the reporter add: love Perhaps because Lew Allison gave everyone around the feeling they were joined with him in an important enterprise He cared about news about the language about people about newspapers He could be as passionate about whether Harry middle initial took a period it was his firm opinion that it did as he was about' seeing that Richard Nixon and George McGovern got a fair shake in the news columns HIS DECISIONS were unerring and swift President Kennedy was a colleague recalls news broke right on deadline and the publisher and all the brass were in the newsroom wondering what we should do It was Lew who told them He told them to take the ads off pages 2 3 and 4 He planned a picture page He laid out the whole paper right there for In the composing room that day Lew Allison reading the type Bob Sebmldi View From Our Stete Bureau HIS DEFEAT was probably proper Clark views on government and society do seem out of date although he would yrgue that his philosophy is as timely now as it ever was and it is government and society that have surrendered to fantasy But while the current appropriateness of Clark philosophy can be debated the validity of the approach he took to ms job cannot be and that is why it is a shame more people know about him Clark Bradley stood up before his neighbors and said is what I be lieve in here is my approach to government and my activities in public-office will be based on those factors If that is acceptable vote for It was acceptable indicated by election to the San Jose City Council some 30 years ago then to the office then to the Assembly and then to the Senate THE STATE CAPITOL is an arena for adversaries but there are some things about which there is agreement Two involve Clark Bradley One is that he is a man of integrity The other is that he was a nuisance He was a nuisance because he worked are of the same mold and there ar others Ask Sen Tony Beilensoh abcy health care services and be prepared listen for an hour Ask the elderly and Deukmejian about 'alcoholics or pensions or public safety Ask blyman Mike Cullen about efficiency and economy in government and Assembly-man Charles Warren about feeding hungry people and energy and land tfee THERE ARE legislators who nourish the public image of politicians as primarily self-serving of course A Sacramento newspaper last week disclosed for example that one legislator reappogjEnQl out 5 of office had sent a taxpayer-financed newsletter to his aboul-to-be ex-constituents citing his legislative accomplishments advising them that he1 was eager to continue to be of service" and displaying prominently the phone number of his private law office That is the kind of attitude too many citizens think should be attributed to all elected officials To some yes but not to "dll Clark Bradley is the proof pervasive already and we need any more statutes But the vote always was based on his principles Governor Reagan found that out a few years ago when he pushed a tax proposal through the Assembly through two committees of the Senate and as far as the Senate floor There 12 Democrats for reasons of their own and Clark Bradley prevented the passage Reagan cajoled threatened pleaded on a partisan basis and on a personal basis and even argued the merits of the propsal But Bradley thought the bill was a bummer and he could not be dissuaded The proposal died IT WAS NOT the first time Reagan LEW ALLISON was a realistic man When his doctor told him death was near he took the word just as he expected reporters copy editors and publishers to take his word when he spoke on a matter within his professional competence He went fishing one last time at Shasta Lake He went to football games When his strength began to fail he read The last book he borrowed from a friend was Gay The Kingdom and ihe Power which is about the New York Times He finished it when death came Friday evening No matter No book about newspapers had anything important to teach Lew Allison He was what old hands in the business call good Being one is a craft and an art and Lew Allison pursued his craft and art with unfailing mastery Court opens way to hide crime Wilbur problem on opinions of various attorneys general down to Richard Kleindienst had been permitted to prevail a president could defy any investigation by the courts or Congress and his orders would cover every one of the more than 2500000 officials of the executive branch Berger states that his' exhaustive review of British history shows that parliamentary inquiries covered entire spectrum of executive conduct: inquiries into corruption the conduct of war the basis for legislation disbursement of Mills the physicians and the congressman himself are able to diagnose the problem (which will probably not be terribly difficult) and eliminate it (which may be rather more difficult particularly if it has been in progress for some time) In the meantime it can be hoped Mr Mills will remove himself from the position of congressional leadership in which he feels insecure and in which his continuation would make the nation feel insecure The difficulties in which Congressman Wilbur Mills finds himself are not unheard of for men of advancing years but if sudden deviations from common sense are familiar enough problems that makes them no easier to deal with In case the result has had the flavor of a musical comedy script although that is probably not the way it is perceived by the Tidal Basin Bombshell the Arkansas firecracker or Mrs Mills We can all hope that Mrs Clark Mollenhoff WASHINGTON The US Supreme Court in its opinion in the Nixon White House tapes case may have opened a box in recognizing an absolute unreviewable right to refuse information by a president if can be claimed Even though the court directed Nixon to turn over tapes and documents to the special prosecutor the loose language opens the way for a future president to reject an (in the privacy of a chamber) examination of tapes or documents by using the claim on THUS IF some future president was faced with a subpoena dealing with a situation comparable to the Ellsberg case the president could claim and bar review of the records Unless the prosecutor or grand jury could produce evidence of a criminal violation of the United States Constitution a presidential decision to invoke could effectively conceal the crime A stern and well-reasoned warning of the dangerous precedent of the Supreme Court decision has been written by Raoul Berger of Harvard Law School He applauds the 8-0 Supreme Court decision which knocked down claim of an unreviewable right to withhold documents and tapes from the courts and Congress even in the face of evidence of serious federal crimes But Berger notes that prior to the Supreme Court decision that set the stage for resignation as President there was no law and no court decision supporting the claims of executive privilege There were only the self-serving declarations pf several recent administrations that they could refuse to produce documents or testimony requested by the courts Congress or even the General Accounting Office IF THESE legal power grabs based control of evidence that might involve crimes or misuse of executive jpwer- HE ARGUES that the Supreme Court accepted surprising the executive branch claim that privilege for presidential communications is rooted in the separation of powers j(( the sleazy background of House which emerged in the Watergate testimony and which Mr Nixon cloaked under the garb of and these facile assumptions are little short df Berger writes If'FUiK On the exclusion of executive privilege claims involving security Berger quotes fop per Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson: "Security is like liberty in that many Crimes are committed in its events one might: expect' should have persuaded the court that a Judge John Sirica or Gerhard Gesell more to be trusted with such matters than a John Ehrlichipan or Berger says Senator Soajper A WEALTHY acquaintance admits toed) some success but says he feels that he 1 has been sitting on a one-point lead 'i through three quarters of the Game df lo Life Gm A STUDIES OF HUNGER in the worlds will probably not be too effective as longs as most of the challenging speeches are 01 made after an ample lunch kkxi RESEARCH indicates that todhteh continue to outlive men So what-are theyni) so impatient about? POLITICIANS insist on telling us that there are no simple answers Whidj means that they the slightest ider what the problem is Letter to the editor appropriations conduct of foreign relations and execution of the laws member of the executive branch has ever advanced a pre-1787 precedent in English history for an executive refusal to turn over information to the Berger writes found a solitary instance of a refusal by a solicitor of the treasury he was promptly thrown into the BERGER POINTS to the absurdity of a president being unaccountable to Congress for his conduct of government and the administration and enforcement of laws that the legislative body has passed He says the framers of our Constitution feared executive power because of their experiences with the king of England and gave a single to the president iri the Constitution Berger conceded that a president has need for confidential communications on national security but warns that must be subject to an "in review by the courts or the president is permitted unrestricted The major point here is that part of the reason feminists (not watch your terminology Mr K) want the ERA is to extend privileges to men not to take them away from women Once the amendment has passed we know that it is also our duty (and that of concerned American men) to see that vindictive male-dominated governments do not misinterpret the ERA to the disadvantage of their female and male constituents The issue will no longer be male-female but will be people-institutions Equality for women will mean the best use of this resources Why is so much of the population fighting against the simple concept of human liberation? TRISH LESTER Long Beach ERA foe rebuked EDITOR: James Kilpatrick and men like him are the human beings held power so long in our society that become adept at slanting their views so women will believe it is a privilege to be second-class citizens His put-down of the Equal Rights Amendment in his column of Dec 1 is bom of ignorance (he freely admits that no ope will know the effects of the ERA) and of male ego No woman in her right mind thinks her pody is the same as or to a Mr Kilpatrick is typically misinformed about the movement not looking for equality of body but equality of mind and opportunity.