The News Tribune from Tacoma, Washington • 4

An Outloook T1 THE ItfBMAtMEWS TRIBUNE Editorial Published every afternoon Monday through Friday and on Saturday morning as Hie Tacoma Mews Tribune and on Sunday morning as The Tacoma News Tribune and Sunday Ledger by Tribune Publishing Co 711 SL Helens Ave Tacoma Yash 88401 FRANK BAKER 1179-1960 ELBERT BAKER President and Publisher PAUL 0 ANDERSON Editor SAT JULY 15 1072 75 YEARS JULY 15 1807 A number of citizens met at the Chamber of Commerce to discuss plans for receiving the Mazamas from Oregon who wiU leave Tacoma 150 strong next Tuesday for the ascent of ML Tacoma They were Miss Fay Fuller Miss Angie' Rice Samuel Collyer Parker Ferry York and George Stone The Mazamas will go from Tacoma to the mountain In large tally-ho conveyances Adv: Washable linen Tam 35 cents 50 YEARS AGO-JULY 15 1922 Mrs Robert Gillespie and family with Mr and Mrs James A Faithful and sons are spending July and August at1 Gig Harbor They have a cottage at Nesika Beach Adv: For sate real estate: A good 7-room house with modern bath garage three lots on corner of South and 50th Streets Price: 13750 25 YEARS AGO-JULY 15 1947 Relatives of Mrs Bertha Bergstrom said "happy Mm to her Sunday by giving her her first airplane ride In -celebration of her 80th birthday Pilot Wayne Dameron flew Mrs Bergstrom to Horsehead Bay in a seaplane At the movies: Ann Sheridan Lew Ayres and Zachary Scott in Olympia Spotlight Hitchhikers Already The Cheering Section Washington Merry-Go-Round By JACK ANDERSON McGovern Won Nomination in Demo Chairman's Hotel Suite Before the Convention Opened Chess Must Be a Sport Harried sports editors who have been nlalwitiiff that chess is not a sport may be losing ground in their age-old argument with news editors Look at the championship chess match between Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer Its dements to date include delay in signing of contract failure to appear quarrels over money arguments over the playing area temper tantrums of a star and threat of court action Surely these are the elements of big league sports Having said this one has to note that the American challenger Fischer is showing downright unsportsmanlike conduct and that most of the unpleasantness of the international match has been caused by him Americans on the Icelandic scene are apologizing all over the place for disgraceful behavior Russians are reminding them that it is Spasaky who is the champion and he dance to The match had greatpossibilitles It appeared at the outset that Bobby Fischer might do more for chess than anyone since Lewis CarrolL The game was receiving more attention this year than ever But ugly attitude has done nothing but damage Americans following the match hope he can iahape up stay at the chess table like a grandmaster and win or lose like a man There may be room in baseball and basketball for the hot dog and the showboat but thqre is none in chess i Question of Example Bobby Lee Hunter undoubtedly is one of the most unusual candidates ever to fight for a berth on the United States Olympic team A boxer of unusual ability Hunter also is a prisoner serving an 18-year aentence for manslaughter But Hunter is enrolled in a rehabilitation program at the South Carolina Manning Correctional Institute Officials of that institution are encouraging Hunter to pursue his boxing career even while behind bars Last niimmer Hunter was taken to Colombia under guard where he won a bronze medal in the Pan-American Games This year along with other Olympic hopefuls Hunter competed in Britain and the Soviet Union The fighter-prisoner has received praise for his behavior on these tours Subject of Ntws Tribune Caoltal Bureau By ROBERT CUMMINGS OLYMPIA The first initiative to the legislature to ha filed this year Initiative 45 already has become a lively topic of conversation in some circles It would reenact the law prohibiting hitchhiking which was legalized earlier this year by the 1072 legislature During the short time it has been effective it has provoke considerable controversy Whether the measure gets enough signatures to be cer-titled depends upon how much work is devoted to it and how well the campaign is organized Hie sponsors have plenty of time until next Dec 29 But if they want to get in under present ground rules they will have to get 10129 or more valid signatures by next Nov 7 If they get them by election day they will have to get 8 per cent of the total vote cast for governor in this election That could boost the number of required signatures by 19000 to 35000 If It qualifies it might he seating the California delegation The other ruling permitted the issue to bo settled by a majority of delegates eligible to vote rather than a majority of the full convention This was worth another 70 votes for McGovern Representatives of all the presidential candidates were summoned to a secret meeting where party counsel Joseph Calif ano and parliamentarian James O'Hara announced decision HOSTILE Max Kampelman representing Hubert Humphrey blurted angrily: 1 just want you to communicate a message to the chairman from the Humphrey Campaign Committee His rulings are appalling Wo can see no legal basis for them We must consider them to be acts of hostility" Kampelman suggested that had favored McGovern because he knew the Humphrey forces would remain loyal to the party but feared the McGovern forces might bolt The only explanation for rulings snapped Kampelman was "that the chairman has submitted to acts of intimidation" Califano denied that there had been any use of that word la charitable" Kampelman shot back The final roll call on the California seating confirmed that rulings had been essential to McGovern Without them he would have been 11 votes short The stop McGovern forces would have won and the McGovern bandwagon would have started to break down (Copyright nr Hear Jack Washington Merry-Go-Round an KTNT Monday through Friday at 5:30 pm and Saturdays at 5:25 pjn MIAMI George McGovern won the presidential nomination in the Fontainbleau Hotel mite of Democratic National Chairman Larry before the convention opened McGovern needed a favorable ruling from on two key procedural questions If had ruled against him McGovern would have been short of the votes he needed to win the crucial California credentials fight He was accompanied to suite by astute Sen Abraham Ribicoff a key member of the McGovern political braintrust They urged the beleaguered chairman for the sake of party unity to rule for McGovern Choosing their words carefully they reminded that supporters were essentially the same people who had been shut out by the 1968 Democratic convention They had worked long and hard for the nomination in 1972 If they should feel that they had been cheated again by a parliamentary ruling they might split the party apart MADE NO THREATS McGovern and Ribicoff were careful to make no threats but merely to describe the mood of their zealous followers said he Intend to continue as party chairman He had served without salary and he had to get back to earning a living he said McGovern and Ribicoff suggested pointedly that O'Brien want to leave a splintered party as his legacy Hie chairman got the message and later ruled way One ruling gave McGovern 120 California delegates but denied his opponents the remaining 151 delegates for the crucial vote on Demo Reformers Taking Big Risk Willi Daume president of the Olympic Organizing Committee is opposed to participation on the US boxing team at Munich in August The Olympic athlete reason said Daume is that Peddle Poison Good Are Bad Bad Are Good in Transvaluation of All Values By JENK1N LLOYD JONES TULSA Okla Hie other night I was fo Ft Smith Ark bogged down by heavy rains in all directions and there being nothing else in sight I went to a movie was called Great Northfield Minn Raid" starring Cliff Robertson and it sure was interesting It had a lot of four-letter words and a short shot of a guy In a privy to cause the kids to whistle and it included a long scene in a bawdy house to turn on the teen-agers It had a lot cf history too like how Jesse and Frank James were wonderful people until the crooked railroads ran over their land and the Yankee bushwhackers drove them out The here was Cote Younger and he befriended a poor widow woman who had been ground down by hef landlord TWISTED VALUES Hie boys just about had to hold up trains and rob banks to get hack at the Establishment The railroads hired Alan Pinkerton the famous detective and waa he ever cold and cruel! And the richest man of Northfield Minn ordered the lynching of a lot of innocent people and the -hanker was dishonest and as Cote or was it Jesse said in the movie the railroad mogula were all crooked and so was the President of the United States so what the heck! So the lights went on and the show let out and I stopped by the poster outside and saw where this was a movie which mean putrid generally but only that parental guidance is suggested Back at the hotel I got to thinking that there ought to be a lot of dough in writing movie scripts like these -which are socially conscious and throw new light on American -history-and show bare bottoms and pour gasoline on the teen-agers and use dirty words and cause the kids to whistle and so on GOOD SCENE And no better place to write such a script about than Ft Smith Ark which in its palmy days- made North-field look like a Baptist summer camp Ft Smith had Judge Isaac Charles (Hanging Judge) Parker' who ordered 79 men strung up and famous marshals like Bud Ledbetter and Paden Tolbert and a red-light district that went dear down to the bank of the Arkansas River and all the celebrated outlaws like Ned Christie Rufus Buck Bill Cook Belle Starr and Cherokee BilL If that make a movie eat your hat! So Pm going to do my script on Cherokee Bill who according to historian McKinnon was Mexican Indian and black and therefore represents all the leading minorities SUCCESSFUL SCRIPT The law Is "out" and outlaws are "in" and minorities can do no wrong and got to have the proper social consciousness So the way Pm writing it Cherokee Bill is a handsome young brave who gets into a fight with a bunch of drunken soldiers been leaving tin cans around their campfires and ruining the ecology and he's stabbed in the back and in order to raise money for orphan Indians whose parents were shot for the fun of it by US marshals he holds up the Missouri Pacific and is stabbed in the back and he crawls wounded to the home of Belle Starr which looks like Tara In "Gone With the Wind" and the place is surrounded by a dirty posse and stabbed in the bade and carried to Ft Smith where Judge Parker hangs him having received a bribe from the president of the Missouri Pacific Railroad after the President of the United States gave him a wink If I can get Universal Pictures which did the North-fiekl thing i to give me a piece of the action I ought to 'make a million dollars Then I can move to Switzerland where taxes are lower and you can walk the streets safely at night America is going to hell and a lot of young people seem to know the difference between right and wrong (OanaraJ Paaturaa Cara) should be an example to That explanation is fair enough But the question is whether a man who went to prison at age 16 and has spent the five years since incarceration working hard to improve himself to the point where he is recognized as possible championship material is not setting fust such an example There is no justification in glorifying a prisoner Neither is it a crime to help a man who shows real desire to work his way back out of the depths of his past That example could mean much to many youths Initiative enacted into law by the 1973 legislature without being submitted to the voters That would depend upon the number of crimes com mitted by and against hltcba hikers There have been a few holdups committed by hitch hikers so far and one girl hitchhiker has reported being raped by a motorist The controlling factor could he what happens during the Christmas holiday period That is the period hitchhikers can be expected along the highways in numbers significantly larger than' normal It usually also Is a season in which the crime rate especially that of holdups and purse snatches is well above the average If the measure gets enough signatures and get enough support to pass 1 the legislature it automatically will go on the ballot for action by the voters in the next general election But if it should pass the 1973 legislature it would be as an initiative beyond reach of the veto pen they want voters thinking not against them but against Nixon Secondly In Its eagerness to have new faces and new forces running things the Democratic convention reformers Impaired the credibility- of their own ticket They did this by rushing so pell-mell to the newcomers -that they virtually excluded Democratic members of Congress from playing any important rote at this reformist convention Perhaps in the reformist mood in which the delegates to this convention were chosen there was no place no room for an adequate cross-section of Democratic legislators But this oversight Is turning out to be a liability to the Democratic Party reformers It is a liability because it deprives this convention and its nominees from any convincing evidence that their main platform proposals and programs have the majority support of their own lawmakers This bears directly on the credibility of the reformers of the convention and of the Democratic ticket itself 'the reformers told the public often enough that the time has come to stop promising and begin performing? This is the catch when reform begins to outrun reality The kind of campaign which Ibis Democratic con-' vention has authorized reaches to radical reform in taxes social welfare redistribution of wealth and aid to education and health care Such a campaign can have credibility only if a Democratic Congress is ready and willing to make good on it This convention provided no such evidence THE (JNLtf IdAHO FIND OUT UNO'S IN WOODSTOCK'S NEST IS TO aiMS THIS TREE AND SEB FOR The News Tribune Letter Box Boa la haa) accsntt Wnn af IM pMaw (Nik The Lettor letter win he HJ aw they an Met (IM Hh Wo proper Hanot ooty a typewriter lo topic ppMc Manat an Nc latter MU ho hucrtoS witter PMaoe write kpiMy aa eat iMe ef I By ROSCOE DRUMMOND MIAMI BEACH Usually a political party and its leadership dominate the convention Not this year' not here this week For the first time in modern politics the convention is dominating the Democratic Party Its decisions and the way it reached them will reshape the party for a long time to come It reached its decisions on rules platform and the nominee democratically openly and with a wider voter participation than any convention I have ever covered This is a boon to American politics It will he a longterm boon to the Democratic Party though its immediate Impact could make harder its first post-reform election this fall That remains to be seen Why should a political party which did so much that was right to open itself to newcomers to nonprofessionals and to the unestablished be penalized? Or at least find the going at first so rough? The reason Is that the first-fruits of reform are usually uncertain and painful and the reformers almost always have to go too far too fast to get moving at all This could be the shortterm cost of what has happened here this week And what has happened is this: The convention has identified itself with such far-reaching social and economic change that the Democratic own programs are more likely to be the center campaign controversy than Nixon- himself not the way most Democratic politicians believe they can win They know that in the past most voters vote against a candidate not for him and SOIF wjUsmemea UTTLE RXJ5TAW UOOD5T0CK MDU A LITTLE BOOST I think we CAN PO IT- ka an a Mr painfcM gala wrtrick attack! any Sanaa ar taita AH Man ara aafelact la been halved and many of the previously planned sewer lines will not be laid nor any sewer charge made until the owners further develop the property That this fine engineering and planning has paid off is eyidenced by the fact that many large (and small) property owners who protested the former plan are now signing for sewers Ultimate success of the drive for sewers is now a certainty But those working for sewers are busy people and have little time for carrying petitions Hie job is enormous and time-consuming with so many nonresident property owners If some of those construction workers and others who are out of work because of the building ban would help carry petitions the building ban would soon be lifted ROBERT MacINTYRE '123 Violet Meadow "TELETHON" To the Editor: I received a connotation from the word I thought simply it would he a money-gathering deyice to cure one of the many diseases ailing the people of our society When I found out that it was for the Democratic Party to pay a phone bill my original thought was entirely correct In this particular article comparing them to a demo-gorgon would be proper A demogorgon is a terrifying or mysterious god or demon of the underworld to whom sinister powers were attributed Hie sinister power of which I speak is trying to have more output than intake DAVID STOFFEL Box 67 Lakeview SEWERS ft RECYCLING iTo the Editor: One of the: most interesting anti-sewer tetters we have ever read Mfvaactmaat at any ralttlm tad far rac craaS ar caiar ar lb (a aar appeared In The Tacoma News Tribune letter box July 3 written by William Mea-saW Mr Measaw refers to a syndicated article by Robert Rodale Organic living printed in Hie News Tribune June 25 We also had read the article It did make nice reading as all syndicated articles do Mr Rodale told how new methods are being studied for disposal of human wastes other than the flush toilet using little water and no sewer lines Mr Rodale says the Swedes use Clivus toilets which in six months make compost out of both human wastes and table scraps These of course an used where a hookup to sewer lines would be impossible such as farms and summer homes He says they may be available here before long where building codes and -other regulations permit We wholeheartedly agree with the principle of recycling not only human wastes but of all other kinds'of refuse We have ourselves made- compost of table scraps leaves and garden refuse for 20 years It all goes back on the flower gardens We love the idea of recycling On the basis of (his nice imaginative article by Mr Rodale Mr Measaw now sees doom 'for the latest county sewer plan promoted by HELP Naturally our Health Do-partment and ecologists would not approve of Clivus type toilets in our thickly populated area Much waste from human dwellings is liquid such as bath water laundry and dish water Even without flush toilets sewer system would be necessary here LAWRENCE fc ALMA i ARMSTRONG 110U Pacific Are ground for drug addiction sex abuse and crime while meretricious scoundrels using our television media our motion picture screens our newsstands and all other means available have con-trived to bring about a breakdown of morality that is reducing millions of Americans to the level of lower animals while the three baric human loyalties God country and family were being destroyed by1 evil forces which now permeate every segment of American life And I have had enough but I am only one person How about you? How long will you stand aside? ADA GOODNIGHT 8823 Homestead Ave SEWERS To the Editor: Recent developments have shown that the present county sewer plan for the Clover Creek-Chambers Creek drainage basin is near the ultimate in fine engineering and overall planning for present and future needs The main gravity trunk line will be large enough not only for Parkland and Lake-wood called phase 1 but -wiU also handle the saturation point of population for phase 3 and 3 which in future years win take in the entire drainage basin aH this with one trunk line and treatment plant This wUl In- -sure maximum -efficiency in operation and Every engineering study that we know of no matter -which engineering firm does It recommends fewer and larger treatment plants Owners of many large partly developed pieces of property find their current projected sewer assessment a great deal lower than in the first county plan -which was turned- down in-1970 This is because the area charge has There have been reports of the North going Into homes in the South and burning men women and children alive with flame throwers Another report states South Vietnamese civilians were made to dig their own graves after which they were pushed in and shot Why are the South Vietnamese suffering so? Could it be because they accept communism as a way of life? I wonder where the anti-war people feel would be the "ideal" spot and time to stop the cancerous spread of communism Maybe some want It stopped And maybe some an waiting until the knock comes at their door It will he too late when that happens MRS MARY HALL 14102 Golden Given REACTION To the Editor: I have stood aside and watched while the once greatest most civilized and most humane nation in history was being converted to a jungle while the greatest good will the world has ever seen between multiple ethnic -groups within one nation was being deliberately changed into suspicion die- sension and hatred while this of the free and home of the brave" was being conditioned by traitors to seek peace at any price even at the price of independence and freedom white our courts encouraged and our press glorified tin beasts of crime who have spread riots vandalism -jnhbequuid murder across our land white our universities have been taken over- by misguided brats with no slightest understanding of the civilization they have inherited or of the evil forces by which they have been duped white our whole great system of public education has been turned into a-propaganda agency for revolution and a spawning BAND IN EUROPE iTo the Editor: Hie Stadium Concert Band-Vienna 72 students and parents wish to thank you for the publicity given to this educational opportunity for 57 students to participate in the International Band Festival Your operation has been appreciated at all times and most dt the students have kept scrapbooks of every article 1 know that your photographer and Eve Reynolds iraught some of the excitement on foe faces of the young boys and girls as they waited from 11:30 am until off at 5 pm at the Sea-Tac airport At this point one realized what all the donations of help contributions and assistance from everyone in the Tacoma community hi meant to them all members of our steering committee wish to (hank you and all those who helped with our many fundraising projects and those in the community who contributed to make Hits possible I MRS KURT BLAU Secretary Steering Committee 3115 20th SL if STOP COMMUNISM '-To the Editor: Someone once said Tn time of war the first casualty is truth" That certainly applies to the War In Vietnam Hie truth 1 communism must ha stopped War is not and has never been popular But as Jong as there are opposing forces of good and evil war will be Inevitable In war there are no rules The innocent suffer with the guilty And by way of living color this war has been brought into our homes We can see What war is like Most of the pews reports have tried to make the US an aggressive Invader- But what about the North Vietnamese acts of lo-: human terror on the South? 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