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THE OGDENSBURG JOURNAL EDITORIAL PAGE Published Dally Except Saturday and Sunday oy Northern New ¥ork Publishing Co., inc. 308-314 Isabella St., Ogdensburg, N. Y., Telephones 393 1000 1001 1002 1003 Franklin R. Little, President; Franslin P Little, Treasurer, Editor rhe Associated Press is exclusively entitled w> the use for republication oi au news dis- patches credited to it or not otbarwise credited to this paper. 1'6~OGDENSBURG1OURNAL7JULY 27, 1967 Ogdensburg's 7th Seaway Festival Too Many Cities Think This Is Being Ready for a Rainy Day Given an even break on the weather, ail signs point to the biggest and best Ogdens- burg International Seaway Festival yet this weekend — the seventh year that this ever-growing attraction has been staged here on the banks of the St. Lawrence. This being Canada's Centennial Year, and with the crowds that are thronging through the St. Lawrence Valley on the way to the great world's fair, Montreal's Expo 67, we should have the biggest attendance ever. It is wonderful, of course, to have so many visitors from out of town, including many of our good neighbors from Canada, enjoying our hospitality and shopping for bargains in the downtown stores that will be taking part again wholeheartedly in the Festival But it is also up to the folks right hr.'e a1 home to turn out and take par! in ihe festivities. You will be glad you did! Tomorrow morning at 10, the Festival gets underway officially with the crowning of the two Queens — Miss Valerie Boyer of OFA and Miss Sharon Cholet of SMA —- on the steps of City Hall. This is the first time in the history of the Seaway Festival that two young ladies have been singled out to share this honor. Also tomorrow morning and continuing through the day, the Sidewalk Sale and Bazaar — always a popular feature—will be held throughout the downtown area. To add to the festive atmosphere, a Pipe Band Brockville will he playing up and i Ford St. during the day. aiurday, the Sidewalk Sale and Bazaar continue, and that afternoon brings \really big show\ — the Festival Pa- rade. General Chairman Richard Winter and all his many cohorts have worked hard to make this ihe best parade ever in Og- densburg. and certainly the presence of no less than 19 bands in the line of march- in their gay uniforms and with various pre- cision drills — almost guarantees this. In addition to bands from high schools fror dow the in Ogdensburg, Hammond, Morristown, Russe'l, Lisbon, Hermon-DeKalb and Ed- wards, there will be a glittering lineup of visiting bands — many of which are here for the Battle of the Drums — from as far away as Arnprior, Out.; Jacques Cartier, Que., and the Otto-Eldred Band from Pennsylvania. There will be five separate divisions in the parade — each with its quota oi colorful floats. Thai same evening, visitors and Og- densburg residents, alike, will be treated to the spectacle of the Battle of the Bands at the OFA Athletic Field. We don't need to tell anyone who has seen this event in past years, what a tremendous show it is. There is something about all these bright uni- forms under the lights — with their excit- ing music and precise maneuvers—that makes a summer night really come alive for young and old. A special feature of this year's Battle of the Drums will be the appearance at 7:45 Saturday evening, at the OFA Field, of the Ogdensburg Free Academy Band, who will be joined by 15 members of the St. Mary's Academy Band, in a special marching and musical presentation, preceding the formal Drum Pageant. And don't forget that on Sunday, the various service clubs of the city will be staging their mammoth Chicken Barbecue —rain or shine—from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Odd Fellows Hall on the Arterial High- way. Baseball games in the afternoon and evening will wind up the Seaway Festival festivities. So again we urge all our readers to bring their friends and relatives out to en- joy Ogdensburg's biggest weekend of the year. The Seaway Festival Committee has put in months of hard work, and the suc- cess of the Festival in previous years has put Ogdensburg \on the map.\ Let's have another really good one this year! ROSS LEWIS, MILWAUKEE JOURNAL A Minnesotan Keeps On Jabbing Away At Johnson's Programs So, Valiantly We Carry On It's heartening to know that in the face of all their problems, humans are doggedly press- ing forward in their unquenchable quest for knowledge. • A psychologist announces that his ex- periments have shown rats are more trust- worth:.' than humans. • A pig is no hog. A science magazine says a pelican can outeat a pig six to one. The pig nas been bumrapped because he has no table manners, • A psychologist who spent several weeks watching cats watch television has concluded that their taste in programs is no better than people's. • A team of pediatricians has delved into the problem of child-beating by parents and solemnly reports that children aren't always easy to deal with. • A British career lady suggests that the titles \Miss\ and \Mrs.\ be abolished, since all they really reflect is a gal's success in landing a husband. She didn't suggest what else to call 'em. • A survey in England has revealed that of three general categories of candy eaters- crunchers, chewers and suckers — the most calm, relaxed, thoughtful, loyal, reliable and well-integrated are—suckers! How about THAT, suckers? 'We Have Got To Cut Crime 'Out By Roots 5 -- Peoria Judge CRIME: By DAVE BTJRGIN Newspaper Enterprise Assn. Washington (NEA)—A Demo- cratic congressional aide inter- rupted Republican Congress- man Albert Quie's salad and iced tea lunch to ask if he could borrow a pen. \I have two,\ Quie (pro- nounced Kwee) said. \One with red ink, one with blue. Which do you want?\ \Oh the red will do fine,\ the Democrat said. \Great Quie answered. \That's my LBJ budget pen.\ The Democrat gave one of those polite chuckles. He might have taken it as a compliment, though, because he had just felt the needle of Washington's resident Republican thorn in President Lyndon Johnson's ample side. \Not a thorn for the sake of being a thorn,\ says Quie, 43, in his sixth term repre- senting Minnesota's 1st Dis- trict. \Some presidential thorns in the past have been just plain old pains in the backside I like to think I'm constructive about it.\ Al Quie is perfect for the role, beginning with the name. \Quie is Norwegian,\ he said. \It means pregnant heifer.\ He wears a big friendly grin. His crewcut in the Era of the Mop doesn't make him look square, just earnest with a touch of All-America. His voice and diction are crisp and smooth. He sounds like television's Hugh Downs and Albert Quie 'I like to think I'm constructive . . .' local governments to see what difference here. I know com- munity action works. And I'm afraid, Mr. President, that I'll have to keep on being a nut about it until we can make some of these ideas realities.\ Presidents have had thorns on the Hill before. The trick is to be an effective thorn, spurring two - party thinking. \Right Quie bubbled, \a constructive nut.\ Albert Quie learned his trade their problems are. •'Of course, the President doesn't think that way. But all you have to do is look at the state of things in Office of Economic Opportunity pro- grams, for example, and you'll see that something's got to be done.\ One controversial Quie sug- area third By TOM TIEDE Newspaper Enterprise Assn. (Last in a Series) Peoria, 111. i.NEA)—The near south side of this town is a cesspool of bars, brothels and probably could get a network ? est , ion .\? * e . povert y job li Congress became a bore. d f a,s u wlt h ^ a ™S on e \ ... , , of the people m communities early. As an ex-Navy pilot ir That won't happen any time receiving federal poverty World War II and postwar stu though. Despite a dee- f un ds actively bound to serv- dent at St. Olaf's College ir experi- i n g j n the administration of it. (in the car). They also deter- inals act. soon Says Peoria's top cop. Chief ade of Bernard Kenndy: \Our pri- ence mary means of crime preven- ed. sa ^ tion are 15 patrol cars. But this As second ranking member \i m from the small com- er congressional Juie is just getting start- community action,\ he Minnesota, he once buzzed the campus upside down at third- floor level in an old Navy train- cesspool of bars, brothels and ^ned that the license belonged l s a bi § tow n (43V - mile s of o{ J he important Education munities in southwest Minne- ramshackle residences which 1„ ;™ \\,_\ LJ^ S streets, 37 square miles of area) and La b o r committee, he sot a are strung together by dimly lit streets and garbage-littered alleyways. Tony Berry works here. He's a cop; one of 350,- 000 in the nation. Berry patrols the near south side five nights a week. Doing it, he sees robbery, rape and murder. His job is a difficult one- He's supposed to prevent such happenings. Fortunately, sometimes to the driver's brother. Was a more serious crime prevented? Very possible. But, although such things are commonplace with Peoria po- lice, few on the force expect any plaudits. Each man knows that for every felony he prevents, 160 or 1,000 others are committed. I'm a moderate Republi- can but that doesn't make any A shaken coed who first re- fused a date with \that nut\ later became his wife. and we simply can't be patrol- knows political power. As ling every block, every hour. thinking, articulate veteran in \Because of manpower limi- the House, he is constantly tations. we often assign only sought for leadership and ad- one man to a car. And during vice. And his role as No. 1 busy shifts that man will have House critic of President to answer dozens of complaints Johnson's war on poverty keeps from barking dogs to burglary, him in the public eye, Very often he doesn't even have \But hold it,\ Quie said. w . . ,. ,. . . . J™ e . to .. circl e completely \Being the thorn isn;t all that ma^eThW^nt'to^uth^Viet- te^d'by^Presito^^Tohnso'n And therein lies the principal through his area. easy. When Johnson's jugger- _„ m to h k Cf , mD i aink abou t he problem in law enforcement to- \It isn't ideal Bui that's how naut gets rolling it can be quite T, MI« HfiJT^VthTAiii^rv does. Other evening, for exam- day. it is.\ an unsettling experience I te M16 nf, e Sa}fS th e m,hUry pie. Berry spotted some kids \Mere apprehensions aren't And that, in fact, is how it is know, because he's got it roll- riding the hood of a 1951 green the answer to rising crime,\ elsewhere in America. Crime ing against me and some of Buick. It looked inn o c e n t explains a local judge. \Neither prevention in most TJ. S. cities my colleagues right now.\ enough, but Berry's assignment are penalties. Look at the is barely breathing. Statistics Earlier this year when is to suspect. He stopped the hordes of people arrested every make the point. Crime in north- Quie was peppering away al car, ran the kids off and ques- year in this nation ... the east states was up 9 percent '\ - - - - TODAY IN WASHINGTON WAHINGTON (AP) - The Navy Aug. 1 ,was buried Tues- chairman of a House subcom- day following church rites at- may have muzzled soldiers the panel queried. Rep. Richard Ichord, D-Mo.. read portions of several letters McNaughton, his wife Sarah and their 11-year-old son Theo- dore were killed July Hi in a North Carolina plane crash. Only a few days before the Sen- ate had confirmed Johnson's tioned the driver. \May I see your license?\ The driver was short, dress- ed in greasy dungarees. He produced a license and Berry read it carefully. It looked all right. Then Berry asked the man when he was born. April, 1946,\ the driver said. Berry studied the license date. \What day\\ \April 1946. I'm 21 years old,\ \But what day''\ \I don't know the day \ \Is this your license'\ \Sure Sure'\ Berry gave the man numer- ous chances to produce a birth day thai corresponded with the license. But in vain- At length, he arrested the driver on sus- picion of using somebody else's threat of arrest or imprison- last year; it was up 10 in the ment doesn't seem to deter West, 11 in the Midwest and 113 them very much. in the South. Altogether, five \What is needed is massive serious crimes happen every 60 progress in the area of crime seconds, prevention. We have to cut This year, about 50 people crime out by the roots And in will be murdered in Charlotte, N. C. In Akron, Ohio, there will be over 2,500 burglaries. And in Phoenix, Ariz., 100 or more women will be raped this respect we look to our po- licemen to do it.\ In other words, \Why don't the cops get busy?\ The cops, of course, are busy. In Peoria some 210 police peo- the President's education pro- gram, Johnson reportedly asked an aide, \What's this troversial rifle Quie want anyway? What's his problem?\ Johnson then began his well- known twisting of arms and, in May, the \Quie amendment\ to the administration's aid-to-edu- , , ,. cation bill was defeated, 197 to \ rt stand s a s a shocking exam- 167 pie of muzzling by our military .. \1 wasn't loo disappointed,\ leaders on a subject that can The police, however, are not Quie said. \I feel our program mean ]li ? o^death to our corn- to blame. In most instances is just a matter of time. We bat soldiers.\ that charged soldiers were kept appointment of McNaughton to from giving the House probers the Navy post, true information about the con- \If this information is accu- rate, and there is some basis for belief in the information,\ Ichord said as the subcommit- tee reopened hearings Tuesday, gripes about the effectiveness of the M16. license and sprinted him off to they are required to grab hose pie are on duty 40 hours a week they do their best, however made a lot of progress even in j C hord said his panel's June and on call 24 hours a day. In futile They are manacled by losing and I'm not just being vlsH t0 Vietnam uncovered few a typical year, 800,000 calls are hoary traditions and tight bud- a politician. • made to police switchboards, gets- As they are presently or- The administration's bill 75.000 traffic tickets issued and ganized, they are simply in no gives aid to local school dis- over 10,000 suspects arrested. position to prevent much law- tricts for specified programs. But on returning, he sad In addition, Peoria police breaking. The \Quie amendment\ would members began to get letters serve unique double duties \How wonders an officer, have given school aid to the from servicemen and relative? They are also firemen. When \can the public expect police- stales in the form of block of men serving in Vietnam say- the gong sounds in their district men to uncover all the crim- grants. ing field commanders threat Chairman Emanuel Celler. D- N.Y.. of the House Antitrust subcommittee says the panel's staff lias begun a prooe of the auto insurance industry. Celler said he has received more than 120 complaints alleging unfair practices and discrimination in the setting of insurance rates. President Johnson has named career diplomat Martin J. Hil- lenbrand, 51, a Youngstown, Ohio, native, to be the first U.S. ambassador to Communist Hun- gary. The appointment is sub- ject to Senate confirmation. DREW PEARSON: A 'Marshall Plan* To Rebuild Ghettos Urgently Needed Washington - What ihe United State needs today is a giant Marshall Plan to rebuild the ghettos of our big cities and rehabilitate their people. We spent several billion rebuilding the ruined cities nf Europe after World War II and putting both our al- lies and our enemies back on their feet- It was a good investment. We still spend about three billions a year ic battle communism around the world. Meanwhile, we have Negro insurrection in our major cities with effect\ worse than cr/nmunism, all because we refuse to remedy the basic causes — poverty, slum housing, overcrowded schools, inadequate teachers, al- coholism and crime. These are conditions which the communist countries that we oppose have remedied but which get progressively worse in America. The chances of getting a Marshall Plan for America through Congress, however, are almost nil — for two reasons: i—The violence nf the American Negro which has Uirned public sentiment against him. He is his own worst enemy. The more he wreaks vengeance on the white man, the more the white man, who is in a major- ity, turns against him. 2—The make-up of Congress, which is elected bv white, rural America, with the small towns holding control of the key committee chairmanships. Men like Kep. William Colmer of Mississippi, who heads the Rules Committee and can control which legislation reaches the House for a vote, is not going to help push a Marshall Plan for America. As a result of riots, more and more Notthern Congressmen are now lining up with the South -SLAPPING DOWN THE CITIES— Both points are illustrated by what happened in Con- gress last week. While Negro violence spread from Newark, to Plainfield, to Detroit, the House of Repre- sentatives laughed down a relatively small appropria- tion oi §20,(100,000 to fight slum rats, and earlier cut the model cities program in half while killing rent .subsidies altogether. In contrast, it voted §750.000 last week to .study a canal between Pittsburgh and Lake Erie which almost no one except Rep. Mike Kirwan. D-Ohio, wants: ear- ier voted 510.0^0,000 to build a fancy fish aquarium for tne District of Columbia which few people wanted: has voted many millions over the years to clean water hyacinths out of Southern waierawys because they clog the propeh'-rs of pleasure boats: allocated S20,000, iOO to switch a Food and Drug laboratory from Belts- viile. Md, to Madison, Wis., and earlier voted money for a cottonweed control station in the Mississippi dis- trict of Hep. Jamie Whitten and a peanut laboratory in Sen. Dick Russell's state of Georgia because these •two powerful rural solons held up the farm bill ap- propriation until they got what they wanted. Last week, in further contrast, the House voted an an- ii-riot bill which many Congressmen consider uncon- stitutional and which will do nothing to stop the basic cause of (he race riots. ( In view of the above, there is little chance of a Mar- shall Plan for America to bring better housing, new schools, better teachers and job training to the big cit- ies. And probably there will be no chance as long as Negro demands are made at the point of the brick, the sniper's bullet, and the Molotov cocktail. However, what the white rural Congress must real- ize is That people who have nothing to lose aren't scar- ed of anything So they'll continue fighting and rioting and brick-throwing until they've got something to lose, -AMBITION AND DIGNITY- Vice President Humphrey, who is LBJ's trouble- shooter on race relations, has been reminding Negro leaders that the Irish, the Jews, the Italians, and quite recently the Cubans migrated to this country and pulled themselves up to being leaders of the com- munity without government grants; therefore, Negroes should do the same. ( But history shows that when the Irish first invaded America there were race riots in New York and Phil- adelphia which made the Newark and Detroit riots look like Sunday school picnics. There were also ser- oius Negro riots. Against 26 killed in Newark in 1967, there were 1,200 Negroes killed in New York in 1862, because Negroes were blamed for the Civil War Draft History also shows that during 350 years of American slavery the Negro was kept in a state of bartered serf- dom in which he lost the human qualities so necessary to taking an important place in modern society. He lost ambition and he lost dignity. No human being could cherish ambition when he could look forward to nothing more than future years of slavery And few men could keep their dignity when • subject to the absolute order of other men who own them. The Irish, the Italians, the other immigrants to this country threw off their shackles of serfdom several centuries before Ihey came to this country. Pride and ambition drove them and their sons forward to becom- ing mayors of American cities, judges, Congressmen and Presidents nf the United States. They had a long head start over the Negro. This is what some of our rural Congressmen need to realize when they laughingly veto money to eradicate rats, or kill rent subsidies or ridicule the Anti-Poverty Pro- gram, or hamstring the model cities project. These are just drops in the bucket toward a Marshall Plan for America so bad'y needed to remedy our most danger- ous and depressing domestic problem. the police station It was well he did. Before po- lice locked up Ihe driver they found in his possession a jewel- ed ring, $175 in bills, several collector coins, a bottle of un- marked medicine, various pa- pers of different identifications and a single barreled shotgun and help out. Obviously, al! this leaves little time for crime-busting. Bat such is the setup, here and elsewhere. Most police agencies in America are fair- ly well-equippetl to apprehend criminals but ill-prepared to do anything until the crim- inal plots in a town and chase \I want to see a federal part- ened punishment if the down all the barking dogs at nership with state and local gressmen were told of problems the same time?\ government, that's all. I want with the weapon. How indeed. Yet the public to promote the concept of com- The Pentagon said later that does expect it. munily action. both the Army and Marine And that's precisely why \The administration's leg- Corps are investigating the alle- crime escalates in Peoria to- islation is too federal, and gallons. day And Peoria is every- there isn't enough brilliance WASHINGTON (AP) John where on the federal level to get in- T. McNaughton, who would <ENO SERIES.) to all the different stale and have become secretarv of the Chairman John M. Mahan of the Subversive Activities Con- trol Board says he has ordered the board's newest member, eon- Simon F. Mcliiigh, to avoid pub- 1 lie utterances in connection with the controversy surrounding Mc Hugh's appointment. The con- troversy arose after it was charged that Mcllugli, 29, got the S26,000-a-year post princi- pally because he married Presi- dent Johnson's former secre- tary. i, honey! Judgin' from the latest popularity polls you'd better nave a boby EVERY year!\ ' $ I