The Racine Journal-Times Sunday Bulletin from Racine, Wisconsin • Page 18

Moratorium on Tracks tht roars of small motors and Irate in their ears, county supervisors have put a moratorium on more "kart" trticks in Racine County until there's a chance tb bring them "under control. The little "karts" are novel fun for youngsters and their elders, but one person's fun Js too often another's In residential areas, the little cars, with their unmuffled engines can be a misijor noise nuisance. They also present a safety problem; they are not necessarily but the authorities should have an assurance that the proper safety precau- tionS are being taken. This can only be done by local government Adopting and enforcing adequate safety standards. The ban on more kart, tracks at this time will hot work an undue hardship on anyone, and it will give county and municipal authorities time to study these lems and write proper regulations as to their location and operatiqn.

Tracks already operating will not be affected by the ban. Thie question of whether the county Itself should engage in licensing this type recreational facility, or whether the towns, villages and cities should establish standards and grant licenses should be guided by this precedent: In Wisconsin generally, it is the municipalities and not the' counties which license most recreational facilities. The county used its zoning ordinance to impose the temporary ban, and it could continue to use this ordinance to ban tracks where they are not properly licensed and regulated by local authority. Where licensit)g and regulation can be done locally, the tracks could be permitted to operate for fun and profit, providing they are not in an area where they would constitute a public nuisance. Can't Name Electors-Yet A young lady called this newspaper earlier in the week apparently in search of information for a school project.

She wanted to know the names of the electors who will cast Wisconsin's presidential vote. For an embarrassing moment, we were stuck, because we honestly didn't know. Then we were saved by the recollection that the candidates for elector representing the major parties will not be selected until next week. So we could tell the young lady to wait until the party committees select the electoral slates, and then we can her thft information. However, the question draws attention to the that few 6f us pay much attention to the electoral college which actually selecta the president and vice-president of the United States.

Some of us confuse electo'rs with delegates to the national political conventions, who are also elected in Wisconsin, and some of us just don't know the electors exist. Not only do they exist, but it Is not impossible that the electoral will be a serious fdctor in the presidential election this year if the plans of several southern stales to name uncommitted electors bear fruit. It could even mean that there would be no majority decision by the electoral college, and the House of Representatives would name a president. The electoral college was devised by the Founding Fathers on the theory, first, that thert was more democracy and politics than they wanted in a popular selection of president, and, second, that it would be impossible for all Americans, in those days of limited communication and travel, to know the presidential candidates. So, they expected the leading citizens of each state to be selected by their fellow citizens, to cast as many votes for president as there were members of Congress from that state.

If there was no majority vote cast in the electoral college, the House would select a president with each state having one vote. The electoral sj-stem never functioned ai It was intended to, but that is another The fact is that we still retain the system, archaic as It may be, and we go through the motions of naming an electoral delegation. In Wisconsin, the law provides that, on the third Tuesday'after the primary election (next Tuesday), the party nominees for state and leguslaliVe office and the hold-over slate select tral committee, and write a platform. tually, a platform has already been written by each parly's informal convention in the spring; in 19,58 a ruckus was raised when Gov. Vernon TJiompson re-wrote the Republican platform at the official platform meeting in Sejjtember.) This so- called "platform convention" nominates majority vole a presidential elector can, didate from each congressional district and two from the at large.

The elector's names are not on the ballot, but these are the "candidates" you actually vote for on Nov. 8. After the November election, tlie secretary of stale summons the of the. successful candidate for president to Madison on the third Tuesday in December (Dec. 19, this year).

There they formally cast a l)allot for president and vice president. Their certificate of election is'sent along to the president of the Senate (the vice-president of the United Stales) who convenes a joint of Congress in January to count the votes. Only when those voles have been counted, and a majority cast for two candidates, are the president and vice- president formally elected, although everyone interested has known for two months who the winners are going to The qualification, this year, is because of the "independent elector" movement in the South. Several states are trying to place on their ballot and elect a group of electors who'will be commilled neither to Richard Nixon nor John Kennedy. If the move is successful, and enough of these Independents are selected to prevent either Nixon or Kennedy from.getting a majority of electoral' voles, the election will be thrown into the House of Representatives.

But we will face that hurdle when we come to it Why There's Traffic Congestion Talk about population explosions. There are now almost as many motor vehicles (74 million) in the United States as there were people (76 million) in 1900, when automobiles were outnumbered even by cigar Roads at the store Indians. Bureau of Public estimates the total registrations end of this year will hit 73.9 million. This is about two and a half million more than 1959. Lookiim Backward 40 YEARS AGO October 2, 69; Minimum 39.

The federal Census Bureau announced that the population of Wisconsin was 2,631,839, an increase of 12.8 per cent since 1910. Peter Collins of Mass. gave a free public lecture, sponsored by the Racine Council. Knights of Columbus. Hia topic was "Bolshevism, the Red Menace." YEARS AGO Oetob 2, 51.

cornerstone of the new $350,000 city hall building laid, with no special commemorating the event, although Mayor William Air gave a short-talk, and music was played by the firemen's band. fPoMibUitlei for the estab- liihment of a recreational iion by of Education were at the Board'! YEAHS AGO rOet 70; 4a. 'iThe to lit two Jasuei before the vot- election. DUB 70 BE rmPOkAMLX BENCHBO. Reading Columnist's Mail With Tex Reynolds Should Go Farther Truman, Russia wouldn't have had the POWER Do You Know ment to the bulk oil plant ordinance, while the other was concerned with $300,000 bond issue to purchase the city street light system.

Seventy application blanks for the deputy sheriff's civil service examination had been issued, according to County Clerk Lennie Hardie. The Racine county council Boy Scout Drum and Bugle Corps began its 14th year with a practice at McKinley School. So They Say A fundamental reason why our era is so unsettled and turbulent is simply that the attraction of democratic ideals has come to be felt every whese in the world. ot Rockefeller Brothers Fund. All has been quiet in the capital until someone could figure out how to palm off the latest defeat as a E.

Stevenson. I believe'it is time for us to square the shoulders, expand the chest and raise the chins of agreatpieople, Lyndon' B. Johnson to Comment on Errors Dear Tex: Senator Kennedy, trying hard to find an issue which will get him some votes for president, said the Republican administration has not been handling the Russians right in the cold war, I would remind Kennedy that if it hadn't been for the great gains made by the Russian Communists during the Democratic administrations of ROo- to bother us in a cold war. Those administrations not only sat by without doing anything while Russia gobbled up most of Europe, but they gave Stalin virtually everything he wanted to consolidate Russia's position, I don't say Eisenhower has been without fault, and I don't like much of what has happened in the last eight years, as far as foreign affairs are concerned. But Kennedy can't REP.

GERALD T. FLYNN two national parks will the Blue Ridge Parkway connect? scenic drive, about 470 miles long, will connect Shenandoah National Park (Virginia) and Great Smoky Mountains National Park. In reference to the national Capitol, what are the collection of columns just under the statue of Freedom. is Andrea Del Sarto's "Madonna of the Harpies" so called? A This famous painting takes its' name from the six figures called harpies, which adorn the comers of the pedestal. remarkable feat is attributed to the crocodile bird? we are told the gaping mouth of the Nile crocodile in search of leeches.

town in Indiana has a tree growing from the roof of one of its buildings? A tree growing from the courthouse tower, 110 feet above the ground, offers an unusual siibU From Congressional Quorterly How Rep. Gerald Flynn Voted on Key Issues in 86th Congress WASHINGTON Only through the roll-call vote is it possible to establish beyond question the public record of a member of Congress on the issues. Out of 87 such votes cast In 1959 and 93 cast in two years of the 86th Congress Quarteriy selected 12 Key Votes. Gerald T. Flynn, running for re-election against Hency C.

Schadeberg. voted on them as follows: 1. On June 24, 1959, Southern Democrats and most Republicans combined forces to pass. 225-192. over Justice Department opposition, a far- reaching' bill to nullify the doctrine of federal preemption in fields of concurrent federal- state jurisdiction.

Rey. Flynn (Construction voted 2. In many eyes, the single most important vote of the 1959 session came Aug. 13 when the House, given the choice of two labor reform measures, p'icked the tougher one by a close margin, Rep. Fynn voted 3.

Having voted to substitute the stiff Landrum-Griffin bill for a weaker committee measure, the House proceeded the next day to pass Landrum- Griffin by a top-heavy majority. 303-125. despite the over whelming opposition of organized labor. Flynn voted 4. A partisan and heated dispute over interest rates was extended' into 1960 when the House refused, 134-255.

to give the president authority to lift the interest ceiling on long- term Treasury bonds, something Eisehhower urgently sought. On the Sept. 4. 1959 vote. Rep.

Flynn INO Key Votes 5. The effectiveness of President Eisenhower's veto vote, despite the 2-to-l Democratic majority in the 86th Congress, was demonstrated once again on Feb. 25 when the House, by a 249-157 vote, failed to over ried his veto of a water pollu tion bill. Rep. Flynn voted to override the veto.

8. The voting rights provision of the Civil Rights Act of 1960 was shaped largely by the House when it voted 2Q5-124 for an amendment, modelMl on the administration 's plan, providing for appointment of referees to register voters where a "pattern of practice" of dis crimination was found. On the March 23 vote. Rep. Flynn voted for the amendment.

7. The House version of an aid-to-education bill, calling for $1.3 billion in federal granU to the states lor achoolj Col. Joseph Mobutu over a four-year period, skinned through by a vote of 206-189 on May 26. only to die in the Rules Committee. Flynn voted for the bill.

8. In a rare display of independence on June 17, the House voted 212-173 to restore one- half of a $400 million cut ordered by its Appropriations Committee in the president's $2-blllion request for military aid under the Mutual Security Program. Rep. Flynn voted against restoring the cut. Price Supports 9.

Hopes for a workaMe wheat bill vanished when Eastern Democrats joined Republicans in opposing a measure offering price supports at 85 per cent of parity in return for a 25 per cent cut in acreage, which on June 23 was defeated 171-236. Rep. Flynn voted for the bill. 10. Barred under a closed rule from offering any amendments, the House agreed reluc tantly, 223-174, lOn June 8 to pass a bill extending corporate income and excise tax rates for another year without change, Flynn voted 11.

Minimum wage legislation, destined to die before Congress adjourned, was denatured by the House, when it voted 211-203 on June 30 to substitute a bill cutting the proposed minimum from $1.25 to $1.15 qnd new coverage from 3.5 million to 1,4 million workers. Flynn voted against the cut. 12. For the first and last time, a majority of House; Republicans deserted the President July 1 to help override his veto of an $800 million pay raise for postal and other federal workers, on a 345-69 vote, two-thirds needed to carry. Rep, Flynn voted to override the President's veto.

"sell" me on the idea that, with his limited experience in foreign affairs, he could do any for that matter, as well. And if he's going to dwell on past mistakes, let him be honest and go back far enough to include the mistake-makers of his own party. PLAY Fears Trills' in Schools Dear Tex: I read in your column about the unified high school in Butler, which cost $5,600,000, covers 65 acres and looks like a college campus, with five buildings, including a big auditorium and swimming pool. It's really a fancy lay-but. But this is the thing that scares many of us who want to provide the best possible education for our youth, and are inclined to favor a unified high school district here.

We're willing to'dig down to pay for practical schooling that will fit our youngsters for their life work, but we're against non-scholastic frills that make schools super-expensive show places. If we're going to have a unified district here, let's "keep our feet on the ground," -SUBURBANITE. Questions About 'Religious Freedom' Dear Tex: If people want the religious issue dropped in the current political campaign, why do they keep bringing it up? One person blames it on the next person, and so on. Why not Stop this "finger-pointing" until some actual and definite proof is obtained as to just who is doing it? Do we have religious freedom if a man cannot become president of the United States because of his religion? Why should a man 's faith help or hinder him In becoming president? I believe his qualifications and ideas should be considered most important. Maybe I am too young to understand what is meant by religious freedom in America STUDENT Wouldn't Wp to Repair Dam Dear Tex: This is to com' ment on an editorial concerning Horiick dam.

There are differences of opinion concerning this dam. I have lived for 69 years a little over a stone 's throw from Hoosier Creek, which empties into Root River one-half mile we'st of Highway 38 at the county line. I began fishing 80 years ago and there were plenty of fish in the creek. In the olden days the dam's were made of wood, and as I understand, they were opened in spring to give the fish a chance to come up. When the stone dam was put in, the fish had no chance to come up.

and we always deplored it. Why should we. miles away from the dam that harms us. help repair it? Let the people that benefit by it repair it. It is just as logical to ask Oak Creek.

Franklin and Raymond to help pay for this repair lob donia. They are deprived of their rightful share as well as we are. ERBE. R.2.Bo^l29, LEOPOLDVILLE would be likely to pick Col. Joseph Mobutu out of a crowd to lead a revolution or' pacify an angry and divided army.

Only 30 years old, the. 150- pound Congolese Army chief of staff looks like a drawing board planner, not a man of action. Two weeks ago he pushed his way through a crowd of sweating correspondents in the bare salon of Leopoldville's Hotel Regina and announced he was taking over the Congo until the end of the year. The immediate action was outright disbelief. When he followed this up with the announcement that, the Russians and Czechs had 48 hours to leave the country, there were gasps all over the room.

They were followed by cheers from curious Belgians who had forced their way into the conference room. Russians Left The. Russian departure two days later with their propaganda planes and their Czech partners probably is the greatest tribute the Congo's military dictatdr has received in hi) short career. Another part of Mobutu's bold of power was to "neutralize" President Joseph Kasavubu and the former Premier Patrice Lumumba and close down Parliament, Pari lament has remained closed, Kasavubu and Lumumba are still "neutralized," despite considerable maneuvering behind the scenes. Most important of all, Mobutu has managed to keep a tight grip on the volatile 25,000 man army.

Army units no longer rule the city, striking a blow for Lumumba one day and one for Kasavubu the next. Nothing Certain Nothing is certain irt- the Congo, but for two weeks Mobutu has held the army in check and ended the wild political free-for-all which threatened to tear the country apart. Mobutu has escaped at least two attempts at assassination since he seized power. He is guarded by his Congolese troops even more closely than the United Nations troops guard Kasavubu and Lumumba. Visitors at his bungalow in Camp Leopold II have to pull their trousers up to the knees to prove they have no concealed knives.

An armored car with a machinegun stands outside the house all day. W. W. Bauer, How Anesthesia Developed From Ancients to. Present COL.

JOSEPH MOBUTU If the' army Is paid Col. Mobutu calls himselfa ChrisUan aVove all" ind friends say he is indeed a deepr ly religious wan. In the Congo, where Belgians were not lavish with education, Mobutu "seems to foreigners a "good brain," although perhaps somewhat naive. He went to school in the Equator City of Coquilhat- ville and then took a course at the Institute of Social Studies in Brussels. He served seven years In the old Force Publique or colonial army, being assigned to the operations section of the general staff in Leopoldvtlle for a time.

He entered journalism, a Job for the elite here, while still in the army and wound up as editor of a fortnightly news magazine "Actualities Afri-. caines." Acts of a Patriot Mobutu's friends say he thirsts for knowledge and is a real Congolese patriot and idealist. They believe him when he says he has no political ambitions and just wants to see an end to political discord and a beginning to the task of constructing a nation. He has been In evidence since the earliest days of trouble in Leopoldville. In the frequent clashes and disagreements involving the Army and the United Nations forces, Mobutu did the most to smooth the way for the United Nations.

If he can keep the army paid, escape assassination, and resolve the bitter struggle between Kasavubu and Lumum- may yet emerge as the hero of Congolese independence. When anesthesia first came upon the medical scene, there wasn't even a word for it. Oliver Wendell Holmes, who was a fine doctor and anatomist as well as a writer of distinction, had to invent one. He coined anesthesia, from the Greek, meaning "without feeling." Dr. Bauer Crude attempts to alleviate the pain of primitive surgery had been made.

Alcoholic intoxication to the point of coma was used; some of the ancients used to stun patients with blows on the head. Drugs, especially the juice of the opium poppy and the root of the mandrake, were used in potions for their brain- dulling effect. None was satisfactory. The first woman to undergo a successful abdominal operation solaced herself by reciting Psalms, Modem anesthesia really had its beginning in the so-called laughing gas of Sir Humphry oxide, which is still in use. and very useful, to day.

The pain-deadening effect of ether was observed by youthful blades who held ethel "frolics." during which they sometimes sustained consider able injuries but felt no pain. has been much' con over who really gets credit for "discovering" modem anesthesia. My feeling has always been that there is credit enough for all: a) for Sir Humphry Davy, who reported the gas which, when inhaled, made people laugh, before they faded into unconsciousness: b) for Crawford W. Long, the first intentionally to administer ether for the purpose dueins c) for Charies Jackson and William Thomas Green Morton, the first to puMiely demonstrate ether anesthesia for surgery; d) for Horace Wells, the dentist who first introduced laughing gas to dentistry, and who suffered the unfortunate distinction of being the first to lose a patient; e) for Sir James Simpson, who lost his life trying to administer, chloroform to some rabbits: he introduced chloroform into obstetrics. Booet Queea Perhaps, too, we should-give a bit of credit to Queen Victoria of England, who i Simpsqn to givie her chloroform for the birth of one of her children.

Some of the clergy opposed this, on the ground that women were meant to bear children in pain and sorrow. Said the queen: "The Lords Bishops may be better theologians than but as mothers their experience is limited." She got her chloroform, and a new fashion was established: babies "a la Reine." Anesthesia today is a far cry from the crude procedures used in the beginning. It is now a specialty of medicine anesthesiology with specially trained physicians. Not only has its safety been greatly enhanced, but itk techniques have been refined both physically and psychologically, so that today many a patient goes peacefully to sleep in his hospital room, and wakes up there hours later, with the opention over, and neither physical pain, nor mental stress, nof unpleasant memory to disturb' him. It used to be a common saying among people facing sur- "I'm not afraid of the operation, but, oh, how I dread the anesthesia." There's no need for that, any I.