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ixon vening elegraph Friday, July 14, 1972 Paga 4 Founded in 1851 Ben T. Shaw, Publisher and Editor By The B. F. Shaw Printing 113-115 Peoria Dixon. III.

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The idea that Congress has to spend the time to fill out this many answers. One senator spent two hours answering 25 questions. Our Congress is getting a little of the work they force on all business with a number of forms all businesses have to fill out. Many manufacturers have closed up their shops, sold their businesses, preferring that to filling out so much paper work. Congress does not care about the cost to business and the time that is wasted.

For plain citizens to demand our highly intelligent Congressmen to waste their time by doing this, gives us a chuckle as we read about this. Ben T. Shaw Fischer kind of checkmates self We have seen over the past few days the creation of something new in chess, the Fischer gambit. This is where you threaten to hold your breath until you turn blue and- or pick up your chess board and go home unless you can have your own way. A true inspiration to the youth of America, Bobby Fischer has shown us that these tactics work in this greed-smudged real world.

performance, the prelude to the world chess championship match in Iceland, should not have surprised us. He has, after all, never said he was sensitive, poised, considerate, modest, generous, admirable or intelligent. He has said only (though many, many times) that he is the best chess player around, in Brooklyn, the United States, the world and, presumably, the universe. Let us assume that he is right. The next question is, so what? Fishcer seems to be operating under the belief that because we pay our athletes and entertainers outrageously large sums of money, we should do the same for chess players.

From his point of view this is reasonable, of course. But from everybody it is super-arrogant nonsense. That we are foolish enough to sanction paying Tom Seaver $125,000 a year to throw baseballs is no justification for our being foolish enough to sanction paying Bobby Fischer $200,000 for shoving a bunch of toys around for a month. For one thing, there is the two wrongs make a right theory. For another, there is the fact that chess is not, either historically or intrinsically, an interesting spectator sport.

Such vicarious enjoy- ment as chess games provide comes from leisurely study of the move-by- move account, not from watching Fischer knit his brow in thought or lick his chops in fiendish anticipation of crushing an ego. Maybe at some future time there will be enough fans around to support chess in the fashion to which Fischer would like to be accustomed. But right now there are not. And no exploiting capitalist is getting rich on talent. This makes it doubly unfortunate that London investment banker James D.

Slater saw fit to add $125,000 to the world championship purse. For threats to quit the match bordered on extortion and his bluff should have been called. This would have been painful for costly preparations for the match Fischer held hostage. But it would have put Fischer, a fatuous, graceless man, in his proper place, that of someone who happens to be a genius at a trivial pastime. Now, though, we have the confrontation.

Fischer has at times tried to make his match with defending world champion Boris Spassky a Cold War kind of crusade, good old American versus godless Russian Communist. But he was not so dedicated to the crusade that he was willing to wage it for a mere $100,000. He was not so proud that he would not apologize to the Russians to save the match and his money. And he was not smart enough to realize that if he had just quietly won the championship, he would have earned the respect and, probably, the financial rewards he demanded so prematurely. Go, Boris.

'That Young Jerk May Be Around for a Long Time! By RALPH de TOLEDANO Forgive me if kept it a secret, but some time ago I got a letter from Ralph Nader asking for my help. To be quite accurate, the letter from Nader himself but from one of his quiz kids. And since I consider Nader and his many organizations not much worse than a bad case of poison ivy, I tossed it into the waste basket. I had no desire to tell investigators all about my relations with the Congress or with individual congressmen and because there is really not very much to tell. Like most newspapermen in this city of sorrows, I approach our legislators when I want some information, and most of them are very cooperative.

From time to time, one of them has a story to tell which he thinks is important, and if I agree, I write it. I respect the confidences of my sources and, when I happen to be in a legislative office, I do not try to go through the mail or ransack the filing practice that has become almost epidemic in recent months. If Nader or one of his quiz WORLD Nader investigation of Congress kids should ask me, which I much doubt, I will not tell him which of my sources on Capitol Hill sometimes takes one too many or likes the girls perhaps more than is proper. That information would be known to Ralph Nader if he keep himself in the kind of seclusion which makes a Trappist monk seem gregarious by comparison. So would most of the other information which Nader is spending $150,000 of money to compile in what promises to be a study of congressional activities, mores, and finances.

Since Nader wants the study on the stands before the November election, it will predictably include lots of Drew-Pearson-type nuggets about senators and congressmen who have not kept the faith by subscribing to his self-description of sainthood. Nader is going for broke in this of the national legislature. All other projects have been set aside for reasoning probably being that even though the country will be raped, ravaged, and driven to madness without him to 1972 by NEA, it' guys may all be wearing 'em these days but that's MY kerchief and I'M wearing it tonight!" For Humphrey, an obituary By BRUCE BIOSSAT MIAMI BEACH (NEA)- Thirteen years ago, I sat with Hubert Humphrey one evening in a New York hotel room as he gazed eagerly upon the prospect of the presidency for the first time. He would not admit to powerful ambition. He said he was being propelled toward the high quest by liberal friends.

They were investing great hope in him, hope born from his celebrated eight-hour Kremlin talk with then Soviet Premier Khrushchev in that spring of 1959. The talk caught the attention. On a steamy July 11 in Miami Beach, that long, long quest finally flickered out. With a sad face and a tear, Humphrey spoke the words of withdrawal from the 1972 presidential race. There will never be another try.

His thanks to friends for their loyalty many had the sound of true finality. His last moments on the big stage had the grace and dignity that unhappily were missing so often in recent days as he was making his desperate, climactic lunge for the office that had eluded him for almost a decade and a half. I am just one among many reporters who saw Hubert through the whole course. We all liked him at personal range. He was decent, genuinely committed to his causes, zestful, and funny.

Since his purposes were high and his labors prodigious, Humphrey by 1960 had come to feel he was fit for the White House. But almost from those first steps on that first mile, he began to believe he was dogged by ill fortune. It was a conviction which grew with time, and nearly engulfed him at the end. It was his poor luck to make his initial try against the late, glamorous John F. Kennedy.

By mid-May that year, Kennedy had crushed him in West Virginia and he was out of the race. Two months earlier, on a brutally cold morning in Wisconsin, I first1 saw him give way to that feeling of being dogged by fate. He thought he was the victim of an unfair news story. He was enraged. He muttered for hours about the handicaps of a poor South Dakota boy running against the wealthy, lionized Kennedys.

got is drug he said. He really was never his best self again in that 1960 campaign. His anger triggered some demagogic impulse, and he often spoke recklessly in the fruitless days ahead. Once beaten, he shook off that mood. The Kennedys helped by showing him warm compassion the night of his West Virginia defeat.

Thereafter, his course was up again. He advanced to authority in the Senate, and fought more good fights. His self-confessed flaws were still there. He talked too much, proposed too much, claimed too much. must be something in my he said.

Then, in 1964, with Kennedy gone and Lyndon Johnson president, his new chance for the presidency took shape. It came to the full in 1968 when he won the Democratic nomination. Yet, once more, fate burdened Humphrey. He was linked tightly that time to an unpopular Johnson and a controversial war. Emerging from the bitterness of Chicago, he battled valiantly but lost narrowly to Richard Nixon.

It was that feeling of having been done in by the fates that led him' to try in 1972. He would not believe his time was past. Thinking himself free of old burdens, he was sure he could win and believed he had earned victory. In December, 1971, he told me: is my Here in Miami Beach half a year later, he sadly saw that it (Newspaper Enterprise Assn.) keep a finger in the dyke, he must give up his relentless pursuit of his pantheon of devils in order to set the Congress right. According to Robert C.

Fellmoth, the 27-year-old Harvard Law School graduate who is chief-of-staff on the project, is taking a loss in order to give his all for Nader. Some, he says, are even working the poverty which should relieve inflationary pressures. Fellmoth says that 20 full-time workers will get $1,000 for a work and 150 volunteers will be paid $400 plus housing. What Nader will make out of this monumental effort by others has not been announced, and will not be known until he makes his IRS Form 1040 public property. Nader is always calling for financial disclosure by public figures, but his own balance sheet is one of the best kept secrets in Washington.

Fellmeth has said that all the participants in the have been tested for which makes it sound very cozy until one discovers that many of them have worked for Nader before. This makes them about as nonpartisan as Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, or George McGovern. That this will be so has been recognized by Rep. Chet Holifield who has characterized the Nader study as obvious attempt to do a hatchet job on people he disagrees Since Holifield bends to the left and has never been known to stray beyond the middle of the road, his comment is doubly eloquent. But the results will speak for themselves.

If come up with a finding that there are 102 members of the Senate, no one will be very surprised. That about comes up to his usual accuracy quotient. But if he should tell us not only that Senator once had dinner with the president of General Motors but that Senator received $150,000 from the AFL-CIO as a campaign contribution, then Nader will indeed make news. But not holding my breath. Are you? (National News- Research Syndicate) Voice of the people To the Editor: After reading the sports article in Thursday paper, now I would like to give my viewpoints on the Petunia Festival ball tournament.

In regards to Club sportsmanship, it is a lot better than what will ever be. I did not see any of Club players kicked out of the game as I did see Tom Love put on the bench for showing such sportsmanship. I also did not see any of Club players kicked completely off the field, but I did see Pete Hermes kicked off the field for his sportsmanship. I was sitting by the first base line and I observed Jerry Tadlock walking off the field with the rest of Club players when Steve Wade approached Jerry Tadlock, pushing on his shoulders attempting to start a fight. I heard Jerry Tadlock say came here to play ball, not to In the sports article why was only the poor side of Club 51 brought out and none of the good, and why was only the good implied about Place and some of the true facts left out? It is true that I have a brother that plays on Club 51 and I am not saying that Club 51 is perfect, as they argue for what they think is right, as all other teams do, BUT I did not see them attempt to pick a fight nor be kicked out of the game, nor off the field, and therefore I feel the article was unjust.

I feel if one is going to criticize one team, then the truth should be told about the other. I was wondering if this article was meant to be given to some of the good out-of-town teams so they will not come to Dixon to compete in the Dixon tournaments and will therefore allow the trophy to be won by a Dixon team. Joan Michael Bev Michael Things Dixon Talked About 10 YEARS AGO The Chinese Communists fired 28 shells at the Quemoy Islands in a 43-minute bombardment Friday night, the Chinese Nationalist defense ministry in Taipei reported today. The most fashionable look next winter will be a pink nose emerging from the warm depths of a capacious fur hat and fur collar. There is no point in adding to the dreariness of a rainy day.

A gay raincoat, matching umbrella and colorful boots will protect any clothes you choose to wear. President Kennedy have one sound businessman giving him advice. The only man he does have is Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon and he get a job anywhere except with the government. Sen. Barry Goldwater.

25 YEARS AGO WASHINGTON- Rep. Ellsworth (R-Ore) said today that lack of gasoline in the midwest is caused by shortages of oil- distributing machinery and not by a shortage of oil. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Boomer of Winnipeg, Manitoba, are visiting in Dixon this week as guests of Mr.

and Mrs. Roy DeWerff. The cuspidore, best underfoot friend, may be on the wane in the rest of America, but it has many stout defenders in the far west, where the tradition of masculine rights is still cherished. 50 YEARS AGO Thirty-eight members of the Sinnissippi Country Club of Rockford motored to Dixon yesterday, where they spent the day at the Country Club. In the afternoon the Rockford golfers engaged the Dixon members in a friendly match contest, in which the visitors were the winners by a close margin.

Flappers with the slouch walk worry Col George Fabin, Chicago millionaire student of human nature and health. He starts a campaign to better the human race physically by teaching us how to walk correctly. The word originated in London, from the initials of of BERRTS WORLD at the Democratic Convention mm.