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Octobcr 8, 1987 /,) ,-' . , Sitting at dinner there were four of us. \A\ is a prominent lawyer of liberal pedigree whose sensibilities are nevertheless unifonnly attuned. He dislikes cant whether from the left or from the right \B\ is a weathered PR hand, a student of public opinion and the shaping thereof, a conservative activist \C\ is a businessman whose dispositions are passion- ate and who prides himself in his sense of realism. \C\ was very indignant. Very, very indignant, because the evening before he had secn the 60-second television spot nar- LIVONIA GAZETTE' HONEOYE LAKE COURIER· LIMA RECORDER' HONEOYE FALLS TIMES ON THE RIGHT by William F. Buckley, Jr. , rated by Gregory Peck and paid I for by People for the American Way. It warned that the confinnation of Robert Bork as a justice of the Supreme Court would bring the end of Civil Rights, privacy, any advances in women's freedom, and another Johnstown flood. He pointed out that recent change in the opinion polls. The public began slightly in favor of Bork, and are now slightly against him. This change in public attitude, he insisted, was the direct result of such demagogic treaUTIent as Gregory Peck et al were responsible for. \Tell people in 60 seconds on CBS television that Joe Blow is anti-Semitic, and a lot of J ews--and a lot of other people--are going to believe Joc Blow is anti-Semitic; it's that simple.\ \B\ said that Bork- backers were learning, yet again, a lesson they persistently refuse , to learn, namely that in order to defend against hostility of a demagogic kind, it is necessary to be prepared for what the liberal-left wiU come up with. It may be too late, he said, but a counter-spot, 60 seconds, should be sponsored. Said I, How is it possible even to begin to touch on the relevant issues in 60 seconds? How do you handle, for instance, the meaning of the 14th Amendment, the affinity in reasoning of Robert Bork and Frankfurter, Harlan, even Hugo Black? How handle the point that affmnation of the legality of a measuer on the grounds that it isn't unconstitutional doesn't mean you like or endorse that measure as a citizen or a moralist? \A\ said that it is so obvious you can't handle such niceties in a 60-second spot it isn't worth even pausing over the problem. He mentioned an editorial published in The WaU Street Journal that morning that in despair against the quality of the anti-Bork argument shone a spotlight on the standards of his interrogators. Senator Biden had just bowed out of the presidential race acknowledging that as a student he cheated, as a senator he lied about his academic background. Senator Kennedy's principal knowledge of the law, the editorial said, was the law of inquest. And Senator Metzen- baum, inquisitive about Bork's civil service, was paid (and then, embarrassed, had to return) $250,000 for a few phone calls putting together a hotel deal in Washington. Senator Leahy rec- ently had to leave the InteU- igence Committee because he leaked classified national security documents. The editorial took the position that the only' way in which to restore perspective was to examine the moral credentials of Mr. Bark's examiners, if only to pennit the public a little prismatic equi- librium. Said I, Could you--\A old shoe--wrote an effective 60- second pro-Bork spot, without going into the disqualifications of leading anti-Bork figures? He paused, thought a bit, and said: No; \an impossible assignment.\ The weight of the negative, he said, conclusively overwhelms the weight of the _ Page 7 positi·'e. And the positive, in the case Jf Bork, takes a while to explain. You can't go on the air for 60 seconds and say: This man is thoughtful. He believes in self- government. He thinks the Constitution put things in a certain way intending that that certain way should be paid particular hecd. He hasn't taken any position that isn't also taken by other distinguished con- stitutional scholars, including a number of justices on the Supreme Court. The powers of a single member of the court are limited to one out of nine votes, and if there are four justices there already who arc poised to overturn the Constitution, then we should engage not in a debate over Bork, but in impeachment proceedings against four sitting members of the court ... \No. It's--a virtually impossible task. In 60 seconds you can only outline the vulnerable background of leading figures in the Bork oppposition. But\--he concluded--\if you raise the money, give me a couple of hours and I'll try to come up with a 60-second script.\ If he had some ham. we'd have a ham sandwich. if I had the bread. SCHOOl'S OPEN Carefully $ DIAMONDS IN THE ROUGH PART II by Leland Brun contInued from last week A private company was awarded the first contract for a conduit from Hemlock. Some wooden conduit was laid fol- lowing the Civil War, but the company went bankrupt. The Hemlock project was revived by Republican Mayor Briggs with the complicity of Democratic Assemblyman Lord. Lord's price for approving a new water works commission was the contract to build the Hemlock water system. A considerable political scandal ensued. The first conduit was completed and water service to domestic customers began in 1876. The completion of the Hemlock system had a dramatic effect on the development of the city. The water commission had incurred considerable indebt- edness and actively ,pushed for new customers and an extension of the system .. Outlying areas sought annexation by the city in order to insure their inclusion in the Hemlock system. The size of the city quickly doubled. The capacity of the nrst conduit was reached by 1885 when shortages began to appear. At the time, the Hemlock sys- tem was second only to Br- ooklyn in volume and quality of service. The nrst decade of use of Hemlock Lake as a city water supply saw little change in the recreational and other uses of the lake. A sawmilI was operating on the lake as late as 1883 and the Hotels were in their heyday. An 1885 typhoid epidemic in Wilkesbarre. Penn- sylvania focuscd health de- partment attention on the possibility of contamination in the water supply. Dr. Gardiner of the State Board of Health reported that many of the \privy vaults\ for the hotels and cottages around Hemlock Lake were less than 100 feet from the water. The gravelly soil of the lakeshore was secn as offering little in the way of filtration. ,The result of Dr. Gardiner's report was the im- plementation of a waste col- lection plan. The City of Rochester provided each property owner with two large metal buckets. The buckets were for the storage of all garbage and other \deleterious materials\ generated at the cottages or hotels. Two times each weck, a city scow would collect full buckets and leave empty ones. The scow would transport all the collected waste to an area spec- ially prepared to bury or burn it. - As the capacity of the first' conduit was reached. new studies were undertaken to find alternative measures to increase the water supply. Conesus Lake was considered, but by 1888 development around the lake had commenced and the city health commissioner protested that the water quality was not com parable to Hemlock. A second conduit from Hemlock was nmilly authorized in 1891. Concurrently with the increased depcndenc~ of the city on Hemlock Lake as a water supply. development of the shoreline was reaching a peak. The Plank Road had established Hemlock Lake as a popular and accessible resort. In 1895. work began on a railroad extenson which would greatly increase access to the lake. to be contInued next week Naturalist and Photo- grapher Leland Brun has been interested in Hemlock and Canadice Lakes since early childhood. He credits family outings to the area f}s a major influence in his lifelong interest in wild places which has taken him from Alaska to Antartica and many of the last wild places between. Courtesy o( the City o( Rochester this photo shows the (irst water supply conduit (rom Hemlock Lake under construction. y.
