Madison 'Doc' Nixon Green Bay Press-Gazette FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 9, 1953 Elliott Walstead Expected To Head State Democrats lilies A DAILY THOUGHT. Cod wont, the bait for ell hit children. We ton delfat hit love by Indifference. Mony art coi, bu( ft 20.15. By JOHN WYNGAAHD MADISON, Wis.
Gleanings from a political beat: Elliott Walstead of Milwaukee, who is almost certain to be chosen head of the Democratic party organization at the Wisconsin Rapids conference October 25, is a newcomer to Democratic affairs like most of the other top men of the Democrat ic Organizing committee. He spent his earlier years in active association with the La Follette Progr 1 movement and was well enough thought of there to get state administration patronage. He was formerly employed by the Wyngaard its program of year-around collection of checks from dairy plants, with the consent of the producers. In most municipalities city officials regularly oppose the proposals of local bus companies for fare increases. Thus there was an unusual element in the support recently given by the local city council and the city administration of one of the near-by suburbs when the Eau Claire bus company asked for and got permission from the public service commission to raise its fares.
Few such instances are on the record. Most persons who have known her in local political affairs felt real regret at the recent departure of Catherine Cleary of Milwaukee for the position of assistant treasurer of the United States in Washington. A respected member of the banking profession, one of the most useful of the younger women in Wisconsin politics, and a newly appointed regent of the board of state colleges, she was rising rapidly in state affairs when the national administration summoned her services. Miss Cleary had an early schooling in government and politics. She is the daughter of the late Michael Cleary, for(many years a power in Wisconsin affairs.
The idea of a state government "Seal of Quality" for high grade Wisconsin agricultural produce to boost their sales was put forward with a great furore about three years ago by the state department of agriculture and a private agency consultant. Nothing much happened in the way of reaction from the farm community In the many months since. But now the idea is being revived, at least for a test run, for Wisconsin potato growers. If the growers, who face what may be a disastrous marketing season, indicate their approval the department will proceed in an experimental way with their output. Gov.
Kohler, among other interested parties, may want to open the October 26 legislative session for a consideration of more Issues than tome of the legislative leaders are disposed to allow, and there may be some friction in the statehouse as a consequence. lected to inform ourselves about the written purposes of communism. Before we enter into any further solemn engagement with the Kremlin let us at least review the treaties the Soviets have brazenly violated just during the last 20 years, since we entered an agreement ourselves known as the Roosevelt-Litvinov treaty with Moscow. But they art all the same. One may take the treaty of Russia with Finland or with Poland or Estonia, Latvia or Lithuania, it matters not, because the language of one treaty is virtually copied into the others.
And the language is remarkably beautiful. Tho pledge of the Kremlin to this country "to refrain from interfering in any manner in the internal affairs of the United States" and her specific declaration to stop any of her own citizens from undertaking "directly or indirectly" any unlawful act against the United States, is no different in context or in breach from the oratorical language of the treaty with Poland in which both Moscow and Warsaw "recorded the fact that they have renounced war as an instrument of national policy in their mutual relations, and reciprocally undertake to refrain from any aggressive action against or invading territory of the other power separately or together with other powers." And what happened when Stalin and Hitler stood Poland up between them and Russia sent in a great army to stab the gallant and valiant Poles in the back as they contested the onrush of the Germans? "democrats like to compare Stevenson to Lincoln because the latter had a subtle sense of humor, too. But there were occasions and subjects upon which Abe never joked. i -rv'i-v- rit. JmiY.
state real estate broker's board. The Republican party organization currently is carrying on with the smallest payroll in years. The headquarters paid staff in the capital city now consists of Jack Rouse and a secretary. George Greeley, another assistant, has been moved over to the Milwaukee county organization pending its reorganization, and Casey Ireland, press agent for several years, is now happily ensconced in a federal job in Washington. The most delicate tusk Sen.
Joseph R. McCarthy ever had a hand in was assembling names of Wisconsin people for his wedding invitation list. Some notion of the support of the "self-help" idea among Wisconsin farmers may be had when the American Dairy Association makes known soon the total of collections from its June and July check-offs of farmers' milk checks for its national dairy market promotion campaign. The ADA depends upon the voluntary contributions of milk farmers, paid through the factories to which they deliver their milk, for the half a million dollar annual budget raised in Wisconsin. Early reports are that the collections will be somewhat bigger this year, although how much is not yet known.
In January the ADA will start wltz was drafted by the Chicago Cubs. Christy Matthewson blanked PEOPLE'S FORUM Letter Intended for publication In the People'! I or um should be addressed to the Kdllor, bt MM-ITU) TO 3W WORDS, written on one tide of paper only and piust Invariably hear the name and addreia of Ihe writer ai evidence of food faith. The Debate Continues Useless Gestures Adlai Stevenson is a jolly tort of a man. His advocacy of a non-aggression pact between this government and the Reds was certainly not intended as a joke although it is one. It only goes to show something that has been happening for 50 centuries, that after a period of dispute and strain involving an aggressor nation that must continue to be such to survive, the non-aggressors lure themselves into signing almost anything, however futile, just to be able to turn their backs upon the controversy and delude themselves into thinking that peace has at last been accomplished.
And this although we have a non-aggression pact with the world through the United Nations. The objection of Senator Knowland of California that of course America would keep its pact whereas Russia would certainly not do anything of the kind becomes more than ordinarily material in view of Knowlund's suggestion that we have already done so much harm to the Baltic states, Poland, the Czechs and others that we should not guarantee the iron control of Moscow over them, at least without free and supervised elections in those countries so the people there may determine whether they like the handcuffs they wear or not. Hitler who spat upon treaties and openly declared they were only written by the Reich to lull others into a false sense of security, could not begin to compare with the Kremlin in the violation of the most solemn engagements and even those warm with their newness. In 1941, when we rushed to the support of the Russian empire, we neg- Political Plotters The New York and New Jersey newspapers have served the interest of the public in fine style by devoting pages to the story of Joe Fay, violent and criminal labor leader, and the men in public life who consider it wise, healthy, and perhaps profitable, to maintain a close connection with Mr, Fay and to do his bidding. Fay received an 8 to 16-year prison term for blackmailing and extorting over $700,000 from contractors building what is known as the Aqueduct water supply project.
He has always been a showy fellow. Many of his friends are showy, too. Just before World War II Fay returned from a trip to Europe. A boat was chartered by Boss Hague to go down the bay and meet the liner that brought him here. On that occasion tho president of the New Jersey senate and acting governor of the state publicly de-t dared: "I am interested in men like Fay, they represent one of the real forces in American life." He did not say what kind of a force.
Fay was then known as a man charged by the prosecutor with murdering a rival union leader, although enough evidence could not be gathered to make the charge stick. He was always a man of rough and violent ways, In 1940 at the New Orleans convention of the AFL when Mr. Dubinsky offered a resolution condemning labor racketeering, Mr. Fay, feeling that tho shoe fit pretty tightly, planted his fist upon the Dubinsky chin. Only two years later at a state labor convention Fay slugged a Rochester business agent of his own union but the charge of violence against him was dropped because "the complainant cannot be found," although said complainant thereafter received his job back.
Personal Health Service Somersaults, Nitroglycerin Both Good for Jittery Legs Header! may write to Dr. Brady In care of the Preis-Gizettt Fay has been a maker of millions. After he virtually took over the unions associated with the buildings trades he organized his jwn construction companies. Somehow everything he touched turned to gold. The federal government accused him of a shortage of $187,000 in his income taxes but, if shortage there was, a jury decided that it was not wilful and therefore that Fay had not wantonly avoided paying his just share of taxes.
When nearly 100 men holding important political positions, or high in the ranks of labor, or important in the field of business or industry, call upon a man of this character in prison, and write letters to Governor Dewey urging his pardon, they liuve no right to complain if the people are put in possession of the facts. For Fay played all political parties. A Republican who wants to be governor of New Jersey wrote a pathetic letter to Dewey trying to get him to pardon Fay. And the Democratic mayor of Jersey City and Democratic members of the Senate of New Jersey were found to be equally anxious about the happiness and general contentment of one who was convicted of selling out the membership of his union and the public gene.ally while threatening strikes. The correctional board of New York state that made public the list of Fay's callers and the governor of that state who made public the names of those who had written him, in fact besieged him, for a pardon for Fay, have set a precedent which should endure.
Publicity will never stop a genuine journey to visit a man in prison or pic-vent writing a letter in his behalf if the reason is anywhere near good. By WILLIAM BRADY, M. D. Readers who haven't been around for at least half a century had better skip this piece today and go out and play if you haven't the means or the ability to play then take a brisk walk for health's sake. A common complaint of what can I call elderly folk without making 'cm mad old geezers, doddlers, duffers, codgers, gaffers, No, I've tried these and they are of no help at all a common complaint of persons who have passed the peak is restless legs.
They say the "jittery" legs keep them from getting to sleep when they go to bed nights. Can't find a comfortable position for the legs, have to keep changing position every few minutes. Now stretched out straight with toes turned up like stiff in the morgue; then the floating frog; next the jack-knife position; then the figure four, and so on, far into the night, or, to be honest about it, for half an hour sometimes before sleep stops the fuss. Mind, now, old timers, I'm not pooh-poohing the complaint. To tell the truth I think I have had a touch of it myself lately; on both occasions I had arrived at the third position, I believe, before I drifted off.
If it ever does seriously disturb sleep 1 have two remedies for it. The first remedy I'd try myself and the first I recommend to you is, unfortunately, out of the question for too many persons D-ast 50 it is to get out of bed and do half a dozen somersaults, my kind, I mean, not the Websterian my kind, a physical education expert tells me, are generally called forward rolls. Anyway, you curl up tight and roll like a hoop, as illustrated in the pamphlet on Somersaulting, available written request if you provide stamped self-addressed envelope. If somersaults failed to relieve the trouble or if I were too decrepit to roll like a hoop, I'd olop a 1 200th grain nitrogly cerin tablet under my tongue and lay me down to sleep. If this didn't bring peace and comfort within 5 minutes I'd take a second 1 200th grain tablet, and if necessary in five more minutes a third, If you decide to try this remedy and the druggist (who can't make any profit on the picayune sale) gets stuffy about furnishing a dozen tablets of such a powerful medicine without a physician's prescription, that's no compliment to your intelligence, but there's nothing I can do about it.
Nitroglycerin works fast. Within a minute or two after you put the tablet in your mouth your face' and neck will flush, your head throb, sometimes blurring of the sight and dizziness. These effects last only a few minutes but may alarm one who does not expect such quick action. They are less uncomfortable if you are lying down. Nitroglycerin is very volatile.
Therefore it evaporates from tablets which are kept long before use. The only way to be sure a nitroglycerin tablet still contains any nitroglycerin is to try it on the doctor. I tested each new supply on myself to be sure I was giving real medicine and not just a placebo to my patients (plural) I believe I could prove, if necessary, that I had more than one, even in those parlous days in Penn Yan. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Good Middle Name At our house we call you "the great debunker." We enjoy your column Immensely you have enlightened us on lo many health questions. (Mrs.
B. Answer Thank you. I've been practicing a new signature. Instead of plain Wm. A.
Brady, M. which after all, has a Imise-and-buKy duality, I may chanee It to Win. DcB. Bradv which suRKests a uniformed chauffer with outridera, don't you think? Paint Kath Rash on arm from elbow to wrist, Stings, itches and bums. Doctor thinks it is caused by the paint on my machine.
It does almost clear up when I quit aewing for a whila, tMrs. J.i Answer Have the paint removed. You can sew as well if the machine has no paint. among New York City workers of the American Labor party, which is under Communist control. The Liberal party has consistently taken the anti-Communist stand.
Mr. Pcgler incidentally knows all these facts, but keeps repeating the untruthful statement that Mr. Brown and Mr. Lovestone are Communists because he knows that the members of or-, ganlzcd labor are under instructions not to sue him for libel, since that might tend to make him a martyr in the eyes of some people, but to ignore him. Alfred Baker Lewis New York.
Suamico School Problems Editor, Press-Gazette: All of you may not know me, but I am a resident voter and a tax payer of the town of Suamico. I have three children enrolled in school and I am very interested in school affairs and good schools, I live near the Woodview school. There will be a meeting of the Suamico school district on Monday evening, Oct. 12 at the Guild hall. This is incidentally an adjourned meeting of your regular school meeting.
You have been asked to vote on the purchase of school site and the construction of a new school. It is highly Important that all the people within the district should turn out next Monday evening and vote "no," because our school taxes are now high enough. The school taxes in our district are already higher than most of the districts in the county. A new site and a new school would mean another increase in school taxes. The school taxes for January, 1953 were $20.38 per thousand, not including high school tuition paid, which amounted to about $9.00 per thousand, which makes a total school tax for 1953 of $29.38.
Now let's not try to kid ourselves, This is a complete school tax. Now if we are to construct a new school building and Indebt ourselves to approximately we will increase the school tax by another $4 or $5 per thousand making a total of close to $35.00 for school purposes alone. When our school district was reorganized two years ago, the only district to benefit by consolidation was the West Lake Side District. Their taxes and the school enrollment went down. While in the other districts, the taxes were increased and more school problems arose.
Now if a new school Is built, only a few people will benefit agiiin. If the district borrows $75,000 and builds four classrooms, which is absolutely inadequate, only 100 to 125 children will be accommodated. The other 200 children will have to stay in the old school buildings and get no educational benefits from our increased taxes. Again, we are all paying but only a few will benefit. This Is a time of high construction costs and lower prices are on the way.
This is no time to build. We consolidated all the districts for the purpose of solving our school problems. If that didn't solve them, then we ought to look around and study whole matter before plunging into debt and making another mistakes. Let's get a good plan and all the facts straight this time. We should be able to get a better educational system for the school tax we are now paying.
Let's all turn out next Monday evening and vote "no" to higher school taxes. Yours truly, John A. Sains Forty Years Ago Today Two more Green Bay ball players have been drafted by clubs of higher organizations. They are Emmet Orrnsby, pitcher, and Fred Thomas, shortstop. the Philadelphia Athletics, 3-0, to give the New York Giants their first series win in three games.
Retail merchants are planning their first big "Cooperative Trading Festival," Oct. 18-28. The Oliver Chilled Plow company, an Indiana corporation, will establish an agency in Green Bay for distribution of its products throughout this territory. A building will be built on Fox river south of the Mason street bridge. Fifty enrolled in the night school as classes were organized.
The students ran in age from 16 to 50. A recital was given last night at Elks hall by Walter Larsen, violinist; Mrs. Larsen, pianist, and Alex Enna, tenor. A Green Bay horse, As You Like It, owned by Greenwood and Hussin, won the 2:15 pace in straight heals at the Oconto county fair yesterday. Words, Wit and Wisdom The Readers Write In Question: Today's paper has a front-page headline reading SULTAN'S OUSTER PERTURBING TO U.
S. Shouldn't this read "disturbing?" N. New York. Answer: "Perturb" means "to disturb greatly" and "to agitate." It is used only to describe mental disturbance, never physical. In the case of this headline, it seems scarcely likely that the nation's degree of agitation at the sultan's downfall was such that the stronger word "perturbation" was indicated.
In any event, the writer of this headline has violated one of the basic rules of his trade that, given a choice of two words employing the same number of characters, the more common one (in this case, should be used in order to attract the largest possible group of readers, As a matter of fact, I showed this headline to a copy editor friend who, after snorting his disgust said, he would never use "perturb" in a headline and wouldn't even be likely to use "disturb." Something like SULTAN'S CUSTER SHOCKS U. S. would suit him fine. Twenty Years Ago Today Green Bay swept back into the campaign for the National football league pennant with a vengeance here Sunday afternoon, smothering the hitherto undefeated Portsmouth eleven by a score of 17-0. Hank Bruder and Buckets Goldenberg scored the Bay touchdowns.
Johnny Blood and Roger Grave tallied extra points and Clark Hinkle booted a 30-yard field goal to wrap up the Packers' first victory in four starts. East High defeated Oshkosh, 27-7, to remain undefeated in the Fox Valley conference. West improved its position with a 7-0 verdict at Sheboygan. Other prep scores: Dc Pere 30, Sturgeon Bay, Algoma, 19, West De Pere, Kewaunee 0, Two Rivers 0. Joseph Servotte completed the work of designing and installing acoustic tile in St.
John Catholic church. The interior of the church has been redecorated. The October meeting of the St. Paul Methodist Men's club was held at the L. F.
Greiser cottage, Point Comfort. "Sherm" LaVlolette's 10-piece orchestra will furnish music for the annual "football hop" after the East-West game Nov. 11, it is announced by the Green Bay Band and Orchestra Parents association, post-game party sponsors. The dance will be held in the YMCA. Mr.
and Mrs. Edwin Liebman returned from a week's visit at the Chicago World's fair. Editor, Press-Gazette: Mr. Pcgler, in a column denouncing President Elsenhower for sending a speaker to the American Federation of Labor convention, made the curious statement that out of the figure of approximately 16 million union members it would probably be over-stating the true figure by 50 per rent to say that 8 million of them were voluntary members. The fiiets are quite otherwise, Since the Taft-Hartley law was passed, no one can be compelled to be a union member in order to get a job in a particular plant or industry.
If he stays a member, it is because he wants to. Furthermore, ever since the Wagner Labor Relations law was passed back in 193H, and continuing in the Taft-Hartley law, there is set up a system of National Labor Board elections by which workers can choose in a secret ballot whether or not they WHnt to belong to a union, and to which union. Usually, the main contest is between two unions, but the workers also have chance to vote for no union. The vote for no union is seldom more than 5 per cent of the total, and usually nearer to 2 per cent. During the war there was a great growth of union membership, althouKh the War Labor board specifically denied tho new unions the right to get a closed shop, so that union membership was completely voluntary.
Yet the workers joined the unions to the tune of several million new members. Mr. Peglcr's absurd estimate, therefore, is directly contrary to the facts, and made solely to belittle organized labor. In the same column, Mr. Pcgler repeated his untruthful charges that Irving Brown and Jay Lovestono, "two hirelings of Dubinsky" are "notorious Red Communists who are committed to bloody revolution in our streets." Both Mr.
Brown and Mr. Love-stone were Communists, a long time ago, but have been out of the party for many years. Like many ex-communists, they are particularly effective anti-Communist fighters. Mr. Brown has been the American Federation of Labor representative in Europe (he is not an employee of Mr.
Dubinsky) and engaged there in strengthening the anti-Communist union forces, particularly In France and Italy where the Communists still control the largest section of organized labor. When the Communists in these countries tried to call strikes against the unloading of cargoes of American economic and military aid, Irving Brown did excellent work in making the strikes a complete fizzle. The anti-Communist record of Mr. Dubinsky, of tho International Ladies Garment Workers union under his leadership, and of Mr. Lovestone, an official of the union, is well known.
This union, and Mr. Dubinsky mid Mr. Lovestone, supported President Roosevelt in 1940 when the Communists were denouncing him as a wnr-monger because the Nazi-Soviet Pact was then in existence, and President Roosevelt favored aid to the countries fighting the Nazis. The union, Mr. Dubinsky, and Mr, Lovestone supported Marshall Plan aid to the democratic countries of Western Europe, Point IV aid to economically underdeveloped areas, the North Atlantic Treaty organization to resist Russian aggression, and the Korean war while the Communists were denouncing all these foreign policies of our government.
The dwindling handful of Communists in the I.L.G.W.U. are continually attacking Mr. Dubinsky and Mr. Lovestone. The Liberal party Is in New York, which these men and the I.L.G.W.U.
support, was formed largely to combat the influence The Area -Population Amendment act which redistricted the state senate It would have been more satisfactory had the area-populution amendment to the constitution failed at the ballot box last April the way it failed when the entire state went to the polls the previous November when it could be said that a real majority of the people were for representation according to population only. But the highest court in the state held that the area-population proposal of last April was not lawfully submitted to the people and that even if it had been so properly submitted the Rogan on the basis of area and population was invalid because the previous Roscnberry act had absorbed all the authority of the legislature in respect to redisricting until the next census in 1960. Since the court spoke unanimously upon the highly controversial issues it may safely be assumed that it not only considered the legal propositions clear ai.d well defined but that the matter of representation, after resting 30 years undisturbed, is finally settled until the legislature is called together in 1961. And that is well. Standing By the Cop What's the Law? By JACK STRAUSS, LL.
B. and MICHAEL STRAUSS, LL. B. QUESTION: Must a railroad company protect passengers from a cheering football crowd? The legal fraternity may argue the ins and outs and roundabouts concerning municipal liability in case of a policeman like Frederick Matthews who has been sued for damages by Ted Mat-ezak because of the latter's injury when he sped away from the officer, but the injustice of abandoning an officer to his, own defense and at his own expense when he was acting in the public interest would just about deplete the morale of a police force. The high court did not attempt to determine where fault lay, as has no one else except those immediately con- cerned with the case, but it seems to have pronounced both a just and a practical rule of law in requiring Green Bay to defend the officer who was on the business of the city, and its people, and who took his own life in his hands in order to sustain the law and protect the public as he saw conditions at tho time.
Were it otherwise a cop would be a fool to try to arrest anyone but the most gentle and docile person whereas the real peril to the public arises usually from those who will not readily submit to arrest. Matilda, a grey-haired old lady, went to a railroad station to catch a train and discovered the depot in turmoil. Approximately 500 wild college students were giving their football team a royal sendoff. The college band played its loudest. Scantily dressed cheer leaders did somersaults.
Banners were waving, and hats were being flung into the air. When the gate to the train was opened, the cheering and yelling students rushed toward it, Before Matilda knew what was happening she was caught in the surging mob and knocked down. Immediately several students, unmindful of Matilda's age, formed a circle around the old lady, who wbs trying to rise to her knees. They clajped hands and, moving as fast as their foot could tuny them, danced "Ring Around the Rosy" around her. Then they broke the circle ei they again rushed for the train and knocked the aged woman down a second time.
Matilda sued the railroad company, declaring: "It was up to the railroad company to protect me from such a wild mob." This Was the Decision: The court ruled In Matilda'i favor. It said, that before the accident occurred it was evident that the disorderly crowd threatened injury to passengers. It was the duty of the railroad orapany to try to calm and disperse the mob before any passenger could be hurt. As it failed to do this, the railroad company is responsible for Matilda'i injuries. (State laws vary.
For per cnnal guidance, see your local attorney.) Editorial Paragraphs The Negro woman stated she had four children, and the census taker asked for their ages. Violet: "Ah don't zackly remembah, but ah'g not one lap chile, one floor creeper, one porch chile, and one young-un." Fort Myers (Fia.) News-Press. Time was when the most effective control for juvenile delinquency was a hot and a patch of weeds. Laurel (Miss.) Leader-Call. 1 Prune whip Is fHirly palatable, but whipping a prune doesn't really conquer it.
Lewiston (Idaho) Tribune. Both go to the Omaha club of the Western league. Fred Moll-.
