The La Crosse Tribune from La Crosse, Wisconsin • Page 7

Delivered On 22, 1957 The LA CROSSE TRIBUNE, La Crosse, Wisconsin Thursday, February 21, 1957 Page 7 OUT OUR WAY is? LEGISLATORS SURPRISED Few Issues Controversial, Salons 7 Mail Indicates When Man Isn't 45 Years Old He Leaves An Area Of Doubt BOYLE By HAL BOYTE NEW YORK UB-When a man isn't 45 years old-or, naturally, whether be leaves an area of doubt. Life is just about to settle this area for me. Tomorrow will destroy the doubt. be a year older. Will I feel 99 years old? Will I feel like 19 years old, when I went in for collegiate wrestling (middleweight champ, night hours, coeducational) or will I feel like two years old when I still insisted on autographing diapers? it it it The thing I am sure of is that I won't feel like 45, which I be.

Who am Where did I come from? Where do I want to go? When I was a child I looked into a mirror and asked myself these questions. There was none to me answer. Now again, after the trouble of many years of living, I ask the same question. The answer is tile same. I walk the walls of this as every man I see no security except the courage to walk and defend these walls.

What does a man learn while walking when he 45? He has seen to many topple from the wall of this world from pride, envy, malice and hate that he knows that for these and other no longer walk. it But in his walk along the wall he also misses many he met along the kindergarten to Korea and beyond whom he treasured snd who had every ability except how to escape death. Some try. Some did. In any case frost changed and held them.

When a man 45 years cid, where is he? Time, the merlin of the heart, stern calendar of the blood, measures an anxious vein, casts a forward shadow on the splendid tapestry of wonder, performance and desire. Since I was a child life was always a thing of awe to me and in my mind there was always an interior clock. The clock didn't give me a particular message. I was just aware of it. As the people I knew rose and disappeared after their fun in the sun or their defeat in the dark, I had the feeling that time was going by, too, and sometimes wondered whether I would join them in sunlight or shadow.

But I never had much of a sense, really, of either going or staying after I grew up. I suppose I felt I would probably be around a little longer why I know. it it it When a man 45 years old he naturally the law doesn guarantee he be 55 or will walk the walls of this world if he should no longer walk them, as in time he Will they be his kin? Will they stand upright? If they are strangers, will they walk taller? These are merely a few of the thoughts of a man who has spent most of his life not being 45 years old. Wonder what the world looks i like to a fellow on his 46th birthday? I Tell you tomorrow. sure sign that issues in the 1957 Legislature are registering slowly, with respect to popular response, is in the light flow of mail in the legislative post offices.

Old-time members report that their mail from constituents is exceptionally light thus far. comers, who had thought that their home folks would press them closely and constantly with barrages of communications, are surprised and a little disappointed. The only measure that has generated any substantial grass roots response to judge from mail volume at the capitol is the old fight over daylight saving time legislation. it tie it Assemblyman Robert Lynch of Green Bay, one of the veterans of the Democratic minority, says he will sponsor legislation to require the Ten Commandments to be displayed cm the wall of every classroom in Wisconsin. Lynch says he has talked over his plan with many persons, and finds them uniformly favorable to it.

it it it Henry Peters, the Calumet County assemblyman, has become an avid volunteer collector of historical materials for the State Historical Society Among his recent donations were 1885 tax receipts from townships in Calumet County, showing the simplicity of governmental operations in those days. One personal property tax assessment was for $188, and he was typical of his neighborhood. Today the average personal property tax payment will be well above the total assessment of his time. it it it The talk about the number of state department inspectors, during a Legislative Finance Committee hearing the other reminded one listener of a favorite anecdote told by Oscar Benne- bohm when he was governor of the state a decade ago. The governor was the owner of a prosperous string of drugstores in the capital city, and it was his custom to walk across the street from the capitol to nave lunch or a soda at one of his establish menta occasionally.

One day he was served by a new waitress, who obviously know the identity of her customer. suppose you know whc I began the governor and store owner. yea I she returned. one of those fool inspectors from across the Lt. Gov.

Warren P. Knowles, who has considerably more leisure time in his present office than he had during the years when he was the majority leader of the State Senate, is using some of it by making public speeches around the state. The No. 2 man in the state administration is accepting most of the bids which come to him, which has naturally aroused some speculation about I his intentions. Best guess is the lieutenant governor has no particular political project? in mind, but that he I wants to in as the 1 politicians phrase it, for future opportunities.

For his rank, the 48- year-old lieutenant governor is comparatively young. it it it Assemblyman Elmer Genzmer of Dodge County, one of the veterans of the lower house who is proud of his repute as an orator, was chosen to deliver the customary eulogy to Abraham Lincoln last week. Most of his audience, however, felt that Genzmer has made better speeches. He is one of the old school of spell binders wiio is hindered rather than aided by a manuscript. He had done some library work on the speech, and his notes got in his way.

tit it tit R. G. Knutson, the chairman of the State Industrial Commission, uninteniially delivered a little lecture on why government con- tinues to grow, when he reviewed his budget before the Legislature i recently. There ar many more high pressure boilers in use around the state than there used to be, and elevators, both of which require I periodical inspections for the pub-1 lie safety, he recalled. more state staff, more state expenditures and more state taxation.

Many other departments peg their growth appeals on changes in the economy and population of the state. it it it The airplane will be hitched to the tax collecting arm of the state government, Tax Commissioner Harry Harder has disclosed. The department intends to use an airplane, its new budget shows, to aid making appraisals of timber land values in the more remote sections of the Wisconsin northland where roads are few and difficult. Aerial photographs now are as reliable as ground inspections for the identification of species and size of trees, and taxable values. it it it Assemblyman Arnold Cane of Menasha is chairman of an Assembly committee that contains less glamor and publicity value than some other standing committees of the but per- forms an important service nev- ertheless.

It is to the Committee on Revisions, Re a I and Uniform Laws that the state revisor of turns to get the support for the continuing work of revising the state statutes, a job that I accounts for Uie fact that the book of laws of Wisconsin is more complete, concise and understandable, in spite of its formidable size, than the statute books of many I other states. tit tit tit The lethargy of the Republican legislative majority on such practical matters as legislative patronage is shown by the fact that several Ames in recent years I young men who found page and messenger jobs in the turned up on the ballot later Democratic candidates. Sen. Davis Donnelly of Eau Claire, as an example, was helped to a political career tiirough his appointment to a legislative messenger job in the 1955 Legislature. He is now a member of the Democratic legislative minority.

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Both nominations require confirmation by the Senate. Old Medals Melted Down For Money TOKYO LB Finance Ministry decided today to make money out of 1,140,000 unused silver medals left over from World War II. They will be minted into 15 tons of 100-yen coins, worth 27.8 cents each. WANTED U.S. Gold Coins IN GOOD CONDITION WE WILL PAY THE FOLLOWING PRICES 20.00 Gold Coin 32.50 10.00 Gold Coin 16.00 5.00 Gold Coin 8.00 4.00 Gold Coin 15.00 3.00 Gold Coin 8.50 2.50 Gold Coin 5.00 1.00 Gold Coin 4.00 Out of town folks may send their coins direct to us BOX 593.

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