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name and address. Both publication upon request. Editor Mail witT be from Attack on Letter Writer Called Vicious To the Freeman It is only right that someone should come to the defense of Mrs Cindy Leiske because of the vicious attacks made on her by James Weix in recent letters published in the Freeman Weix quite carelessly and wrongly accuses Cindy of stating her opinions and drawing conclusions regarding the news item about sen alleged refusal to return his plane to combat during World War II If Weix had gone to the original source material of letter he would learn every word was pubished in the Review of the News and Cindy had accurately reported and documented this information to the editor of the Waukesha Freeman She did this very likely because of the well known fact that a lot of news which should be known by the people of this area does not reach the Freeman or any other local paper The Freeman does an excellent job of reporting local news: however, they must rely upon national news services for most of the information from outside our local area It is a well known fact that many news items are edited beyond recognition or cut out pletely by the wire services before they put the news on the wire They do this for many reasons, not the least of which is that those in control of the news find it politically to their advantage to let us know only what they want us to know and no more Although the Associated Press did carry this news item, very likely letter to the editor was mailed before the AP released the story By the way. the Freeman should be congratulated for accurately writing the headline on letter which read Account of Sen McGovern War Record That is exactly what she did when she reported the Review of the News story to the editor The Waukesha Freeman should also be congratulated for maintaining an open forum in its Letter to the Fditor column and for printing practically everything seqt to them If eVerv paper did this it would be nearly impossible for those in control of news services to prevent the free flow of the facts to the people This is in the highest tradition of a free press -James Fanson. Waukesha Columnist Wrong on Phone Rate Claim To the Freeman Jack recent column concerning telephone service for the Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach.

Fla is dead wrong in implying that the Bell System is providing service to the Democratic Party under preferential rates Here are the facts Rates being paid by the Democratic National Committee for its telephone service at its convention are the same rates that any other customer would pay for the same service The rates are based on costs and follow normal tariff regulations Further, the Democratic Committee agreed to pay in advance for any service provided by the Bell System in Miami Beach and has paid all charges due amounting to about $90,000. Incidentally, charges on the same basis are being made, for service for the Republican National Convention, also being held in Miami Beach And. if anyone else wanted to hold a convention in Miami Beach and order the same telephone service, the charges would be the same Mr implies favoritism If so. then we favor each of our customers. It should be pointed out that service exclusively for the Democratic National Committee.

which is discussed in this letter, is only a minor portion of the overall communications required at the national convention Service for others such as candidates. radio-TV. wire services newspapers is being paid by those individual users. A Rankin Loss of Freedom in Arms Registration To the Freeman Requiring national registration of personally owned firearms can be quite as disastrous to freedom as total disarmament of the citizenry France had a national gun registration law before II Nazis confiscated the records and the guns, making effective resistance impossible It was a firearms registration-and-control law which enabled Communists to disarm the Czecho-Slovakians. thus leaving them helpless when the Communists moved to take total control Many Americans remember the impassioned pleas of the British for personal firearms to defend their homes and families in 1940.

when a Nazi invasion of England seemed imminent The British had been disarmed by their own government, with severe firearms-control regulations. 'Honest George' Changed Policies as He Went To the Freeman In Robert recent letter to the Freeman he defended Sen. back to the political as an act of a politician. What a lot of garbage! Honest George while campaigning in Michigan, changed his stand concerning busing: when campaigning in states which defense installations, his cuts for national defense did not include their state and on national television he admitted his plan for welfare reform was all a mistake. Ironically Mr Kealv and his kind have characterized other candidates who have practiced those political ploys as corrupt political hacks it amazing how quickly the reformers for new.

open and honest politics can compromise their positions in defense of McGovern! Richard Nixon is in the White House today because many of Mr. friends refused to accept that same type of practical politicking in 1968' Hanson. Okauchee County Institutions Worker, Praised To the Freeman My friend died last week No. she a celebrity who got her name on the front page, but just one of the many hundreds who make the obituary column of the newspaper each day. To the patients at the Waukesha County Institutions she was a special kind Of person She always had time to sing and play a few hymns on the piano, dance a little with them, fix them up pretty and neat to go dow-n to the dining room to eat.

cut their fingernails and toenails whenever they asked her and even give them a hug and a kiss when she tucked them in bed for the night. Rusty had been sick the last two years but came to work, rain or shine Rusty was there when you needed her. She kept helping others and enjoyed her work as much as the little old ladies enjoyed and loved her! She reminded me of the Bible verse. Proverbs 17 :22, merry heart doeth good like a And now her merry heart has ceased to beat but she will live on in the hearts and thoughts of her many patients and friends at the Waukesha County Institutions. Good bye.

Rusty and may God bless you. Austin Hopkins N. Waukesha Note: Gertrude Abendroth of Sullivan was affectionately known as She died June 28 Many also remember when our armies overran Europe toward the end of W.W. II. We immediately confiscated and used, whenever possible, the lists of people who had been forced by their own government to register their firearms We do not need more gun-control laws.

The fact that it was relatively easy for Arthur Bremer to buy a handgun in Milwaukee was not the cause of his crime in Laurel. Md If we ignore the fact that Bremer is reported to have been affiliated with Leftist causes, and may therefore have been selected as an assassin to eliminate Wallace, because Wallace was becoming a political threat to the Left, we can still assert, with some accuracy. that Bremer, in committing his act of violence, was following the fashion set by Leftist and Pettis. Dousman Bircher Is Delighted Communists Hate Her To the Freeman: The Freeman has been good enough to print my letters Perhaps it will print this letter addressed to all those who think I and fellow John Birch Society members are radical extremists been called an extremist and am definitely proud of that title It is an indication of the widespread effect of Conspiracy propaganda when any vocal patriot is termed a radical or extremist I see nothing extreme is opposing our headlong leap into socialism. For those of you who claim to have seriously studied communism.

you will know that, according to Marx, socialism is communism in its early stages. I also see no harm in bringing to light the influence of Communist propaganda upon our leaders and their intimate association with known Communist ideologies, and front groups A vicious smear campaign against the Birch Society ariginated with an order from the Secretary General of the Communist Party USA This. I think is sufficient indication of any danger we have posed to the U.S.A.' Communists cannot hope to control politics while the Birch Society is able to effectively expose the whole conspiracy with the truth But it seems much to the Communists delight, that the smear campaign has been somewhat effective in that most people feel we are about to destroy the USA The opposite is more the truth Actually, the Birch aim is to educate people to the dangers confronting our society and then equipped with that knowledge work to return to constitutional concepts of freedom for the Individual, free enterprise for Business and drastically reduced federal control over our lives Leiske. Waukesha Mean Persons To the Freeman I read your letter about the people who clubbed rabbits to death When I finished reading I started crying. I think anybody who could beat little animals to death has to be the meanest on the earth Like the person who wrote said, I can only hope in some way he will be repaid for the slaughter and sadness he caused Resident Cartoon Views of the News 1 0 A "So I said I'd never do anything like this.

Well, I was wrong again." jp 7 Please sign letters with name and address. Both JOjCll TUT LVl 11 will be withheld from publication upon request Third Party Viewed as Only Hope for Reform Modern Civilization rri THE Freeman One of the interesting things to observe during presidential election years is the wide differences between the so-called party and rank and file of the voting public. More often than not. officials in charge of local party organizations are out of step Frequently you find them backing a candidate the public has seen through and given up on years ago For instance, any student of history knows that during the years 1865-1900 both major political parties stood for the same thing, namely big business. The U.S.

Senate at that time was dubbed the Neither party listened to the little voices crying in the wilderness. Rich conservatives controlled both parties. It made no real difference which one was elected. 4 The demand for reform got louder and more persistent People began to demand such things as a graduated income tax. secret ballots, election of senators by popular vote, a reduced work week for women of not more than 60 hours, and a host of other demands which both party regulars called Not until a third party became a major threat were the pleas for change reluctantly heard and acted upon.

The point is the public had to educate the regulars. This has too often been the story of our system. It took a third party to get change It would seem we are now in a similar position The public cries for change. People are sick and tired of our increased militarism and our (a polite word for aggression) policy. They want major domestic reforms.

social changes and a life not dominated by whims of the military-industrial complex. They want a President and a Congress which controls the military instead of being controlled by it. A responsible polictical party should be working to achieve these worth goals Is either doing it 9 What good did it do to kick out the warmonger. Lyndon Johnson, and replace him with another warmonger. Richard Nixon? Is a Republican warmonger supposed to be better than a Democratic The military-industrial complex has ap- direction from one of militarism to one of interdependence seems to be the goal even today of many regulars in the two major parties.

I cannot go along with that thinking or lack of thinking. as the case mav be If parentlv been well system would lead to a a with both men It was also well pleased with the democrat nominee in 1968 and the republican nominee in 1964 Perhaps you recall their names. Both party regulars react violently to anyone who stands for a real change. Defeat Eugene McCarthy at any cost: now the same people want to defeat George McGovern. He.

too. wants the Congress of the United States to regain control of the military. To ridicule those who desire to change our national clear cut choice in if their candidate is not pledged to put the military back in line, if their candidate is not one who believes in the family of nations, then we may as well leave Richard Nixon where he is. If you believe control of the military is the most important issue facing the people of the United States then demand that the Democrats nominate a candidate who believes likewise. The other alternative is a third party.

G. Pelikan. Waukesha Press Opinion NONSENSE (New York Times) President Nixon has wisely parted company with Defense Secretary Laird on the Soviet- American missile-curb agreements. which Laird wants to hold hostage for a $25-billion program of new strategic offensive weapons. The President has called on the Congress to approve the strategic arms limitation (SALT I) agreement first, as urged by arms control advocates, and only then to debate the defense budget items, which he hopes will be approved as well.

In so doing Nixon has clearly separated himself from threat to press tor a 1 2 i antiballistic-missile (ABM) defense-scuttling the SALT pacts-if accelerated development of the Trident missile submarine and the B-l strategic bomber is denied. The President has. however, unfortunately joined Laird in urging passage of the Trident and B-l appropriations What argument overlooks is that American con- Up and Down Broadway 'c Sod WJ W.rW immtoU you take me out to a restaurant sometime? Then we could BOTH complain about the struction of a countrywide similar antimissile defense in the Soviet Union With the limited by the SALT pacts to very low levels of ABM defense, unacceptable retaliation against at least 50 Soviet cities would be certain even in the unlikely event of a Soviet first-strike that wiped out 950 of 1.000 Minutemen-the highest number officially predicted. But Soviet construction of a nationwide ABM system would degrade both the Minuteman force and the American submarine missile force far more than the Soviet weapons program now under wav A nationwide Soviet ABM system of an advanced nature might be able to intercept most attacking American missiles But there is no other weapons development now in sight in Russia or the United States that could threaten the retaliatory capability of the American Polaris Poseidon force of 41 missile submarines which will be serviceable for another 20 years Virtually the entire force would have to be destroyed simultaneously to prevent a retaliatory attack If a now-unforeseen breakthrough in antisubmarine warfare (ASW) were one day to occur, it would take so long to build such a system and test it to operational certainty that the United States would have plenty of time to take countermeasures And this country would then know what countermeasures were needed, larger numbers of smaller submarines or even anti-ASW techniques might be the best answer. To switch from 41 medium-range submarines at more than )l billion each could well turn out to have been the wrong solution.

Kids The prima donna shenanigans of United States chess champ Bobby Fischer have made Boris Spassky, his Russian rival in the contest for the world title, a little apoplectic. irked, too, but a little amused. Reminds us of the neighborhood Candyland stand-off 14 years back, oh, it must have been around 1958. Four months arch-competitors Holler and Blonski had been playing their fingers off, calculating draw and counter draw, projecting the best routes to the Gingerbread House at the end of the long trail of colored squares. Training was tough: early bed times and green vegetables to stay in physical condition, two hours of Captain Kangaroo, to quicken the mind.

Not to speak of the brain-wracking task of trying to memorize which creases or chocolate fingerprints marked the backs of every Candyland dread: the little white cars that sent you back to the Peanut Brittle Cottage or, worse yet, Peppermint Forest. But the stakes were worth the suffering. It was winner-take-all on a whole box of fudgesicles, and at the last minute, Blonski stalled. She like the split, said the prestige of the contest merited giving the loser something, too. Also, there was some quibble about which player would get to use the lucky blue plastic man during the big match.

Finally, a rich kid down the block, a real Candyland buff, stepped in and offered to underwrite the loser for three boses of snaps. That did it the game was on. It lasted three hours, and cost no end of bitten fingernails and clenched teeth. Blonski emerged victorious, and no, she particularly care to make it two out of three. Holler went off to lick her wounds and munch her snaps.

A Stick Up? Some one down at the Waukesha Police Department ate Hoo many cornflakes for breakfast yesterday. When we called to ask if the Fourth of July had produced any strange incidents of criminal derring-do, the answering officer set our blood tingling. he gasped. was a stick-up on the we squeaked. Deadline was minutes away.

Someone threw it up he said, poker-voiced. And another scoop bit the dust. The only thing worse than a Monday morning is a Wednesday after the Fourth of July. Yesteryears July 8,1952 Wonder when the city, and county, will get around to the Hy. 59 and Hy.

18 by-passes of the city. This thought popped into prominence today when a couple of semi-trucks had a wonderful time tying up traffic around the Grand Avenue and South street intersection. I suppose these particular trucks were trying to deliver merchandise in the downtown area and therefore got caughtiin quaint and narrow streets. History in Review ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO 1872 Mrs Abraham Lincoln ar- waters She is staying at Mr. rived in town early last week.

O. Hubbard's for the and is drinking the Rethesda present. FIFTY YEARS AGO 1922 The amount cleared by the American Legion through the homecoming and Fourth of July celebration far exceeded the expectations when the idea was in its embryonic stage, and Frank Roberts, finance officer, reported last night that approximately $2,056 had been realized TEN YEARS AGO 1962 For the first time in history Americans were able to watch a French television program as it was being broadcast. The Tel star satellite linked the old world with the new by relaying French and British television into American homes. Page 6 Waukesha Freeman Saturday, July 8, 1972.