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Seventh Wards in Rochester last week were hardly anything in which a community should take pride. ‘ But as contrasted with three years ago, the violence and destruction were limited, and apparently involved less than 200 per- sons, most of them teenagers. The great bulk of the 35d and 7th Ward population took no part in the disturbances, ard many worked eBectively to head off wouble. The city police showed the effects of rict training, and were much better pre- pared to cope with rioters than they were three years ago. Safety Commissioner Tuohey, intelligently backed up by Acting City Manager Feldman, acted with restraint and frirmess, but made quite cler that nothing was going to swerve him from a determination to keep the city safe for all its residents. The various agencies serving the poor apparently acquitted themselves well, with the exception ofthe ABC's from-the-hip reaction to the news of the shooting ofa man during an attempt to run a police road block. All this is hardly reason for a burst of self-congratulation, but it does offer encour- agement. And it places on the community as a whole the responsibility of doing more to climinate squalor and hopelessness in the city ghettos. Unless we interpret last week wrongly, we see the great bulk of the city's under- privileged saying that they are willing to go at least half way, that they accept as genuine the determination of the community leader- ship to improve their plight. This imposes on all of us the obligation of redoubling our efforts to achieve \rew results In turbas reform. %o %o * Natlonally, the picture is not so encour- aging. The president suarted last week with an incredibly political reaction to the problems in Detroit, and followed it with a flat and generally uninspiring national TV appeal His government, it seems to us,. is nai taking nearly strong enough measures against insurrection. And its efforts to eradi- cate the underlying social and economic causes of the rioting are shallow and inept. Vast sums of money are discussed, bu: the people and organization to use these funds effectively is lacking. Worst of all, there is a great reluctance still to face facts as they are The bulk of the white population still thinks Negro Americans are getting equal treatment at the hands of government, and uses this as reason for stmlling many im provement programs Until the myths and comforiable decep tions are blown away, we are dubious of much progress We hope that the new Presidential commission can offer a practical naronal plan. Bu: new determination must be developed in the White House itself Job Well Done A lsudable and much appreciated service was performed voluntarily st Adeline play ground las week A team of abou 30 chidren complewiy reworked the playing Reid. And that was no small tesk' Mos: of the children were between the ages of 12 end 13. Wielding rakes, shovels, ard cther equipmen brought from home, they exhmslasicaly dug tmo the fob a bard. They worked for hours to resorfice tke field. Nots: show'd be uken of the ceample gm byghgggymumgflfifii Wfigywwmknfinfifia a wf aml mow an be provi of their sccompiishkners asd of their papgrcound. 3 L LJ 5 LJ § & 8 B L L L 8 ¢ & a L 8 & L & L L} a L L 0 B L L | & 8 B 8 a L 8 8 L 8 8 a & 8 L L % & L L L B L 8 0 L L # # L U # 8 L L L L L 8 6 L L U U i U I L L U U U I L U 6 L U & cd ¥ L # U I 0 8 0 0 8 U 3 U t U I U l U 8 U U U l U U # L U U U U U U 8 % ® U L 8 U 8 L 8 J 8 U U U & U 8 U W U U U U 8 U t U L J U U U U U U U U § # U L U U I & U l U ¢ # t L L U 1 B 8 # U l L § 8 L & L & # & 8 & % % Lj U § % & $ % % ® % % & § 0 # 8 & 8 # . «+# - 20 3 k I {*A A ] 4 iA a enn os B a 20 soul x souk s ® t gh Fee Al Je l * 14 i f . 2 f XF 8. we 1 a : f & v 3 ma swim film-$23” ammupmmtomb law sales of lottery Hckets in banks. E have opposed the. Iottery in the past, and so you'dthisk it would be simple for me to support such a measure. ‘ wel, T finally did vote for #, but only after going through a complec baelencing pro- cedure AMllustrated by the fol- ARGUMENTS AGAIN? THE BILL The people of New York passed a lottery referendum by $60,000 votes. Banks lend dignity to ticket sales, and are a better outlet than some of the alternatives. If the lottery is going to fall in any event, isn't it better strategy to give it a fair chance to prove to its advocates that it won't work? The bill is another intrusion by the federal goverrment in the - affairs of the states. The federal government has only limited control of most banks. The bill was supported by many as incident to a victous and irrelevant attack on Gov- ernor Rockefeller. The Senate is rot expected to pass the bill Local government is likely to have to take over ticket sales H banks aren't permit- ted. This would be expensive. We'll have a lottery anyway. ARGUMENTS FOR THE BILL The 37th District voted more than 2 to 1 against a Iottery. Sales of Uckets are not proving successful, ard why should banks sell gambling tickets anyway? IKI I'm against the lottery financing of anything as im- portant as education, shouldn't I seize the chance to strike it a damaging blow? Nobody questions the right of the federal government to exclude lottery tickets from the mails. The federal govern- mert has a stake through FDIC, In, the squrdpess of banks. It wasn't Governor Rocke, feller's idea. Anyway, a bill should be passed or defeated on Its merits, What does that have to do with the vote of a member of the House? Effective date of the bill is next April,. The Legislature will have time to consider alternatives. Maybe, in light of lagging sales, by rext April they 'Il be ready to quit. In my bead, at least, I have to go through a similar pro- cess an almost every voile. Another person could go through the same process and easily come out with a dif. ferent vote. Eventually we do decidso, but until that is done, what tangled wets we mortals weave! L Wordlore THURSDAY The concept of the ««ven day- woeeck has been central to Western culture since pre Christian times Yet the names applied to the various days reflect historical mixtures of Hebraic, pagan, Christian, and numerical conventions Thr system in English is ex- clusively a reflex of the Roman pagan system, in which days of the week bad a dual refereace,. to planes erd to gods, eg.. Mars Interestingly, though, Eng- lish edopteed the pagan system in two distinat ways First by trarslzting word for word from Latin, eg. Sunday, lit erally from the *day of th- sun.\ secondly by substituting thr gods of Norse mythology for those of the Romans. Hence THURSDAY is the \day of Thor,\ the god of thusder. who messi aptly corresponds to Jupiter, god of the heavens. By Cherise Carteton 'German Day 1967\ Is Coming Up sxs, Ass. 8, vil te \rman Ba 1:96?”me a mm, mil {mm a por «(% tam courses, {[rti®s foils fere, a23 The ctl is aat top GermumyArmeriesn Socisetlten. Since pioneer days country- men have used the strong, easily worked wood for axe handles, harmmers and whiffictrees. I was used for the spokes and rims of wheels and for buggy shafts. 4 0 # __ xk The shagbark hickory is a tree of rugged individualism. It may not compete in esthetic qualities with the white pine or thr white birch; it may not have the grandeur of a white oak or a patriarchal beech. But the shigbark is an all- - Atheritan tre@s > .. The Country man: The Shagbark From Main to Minneson and southto Florida and Texas, the tall tree with curved, shaggy bark plates has served man's needs. In Spring the four to six inch staminate catkins develop as the leaves are growing; the short pistillate catkins that re ceive polien develop into green fruits. When black frosts exam-1M pressure in mad-Autumn. the thick outer husk splm into four sections and reveals a single sweet nail. Farm boys and squirrels com- pete for the nuts, Many a pan of fudge made on a wood- burning kitchen stove has been given added flavor by the fruits of this tree. No one can esti- mate the cords of shagbark burned in cabin fireplaces, in kitchen stoves and parlor heat- crs. * Kx k The extensive stands of the shagbark are gone. But occa- sionmilly in a woodland or on a rocky pasture hiliside one sees the distinctive tree with the scragely branches and curled bark plates. McFarland Writes Lightning’s Lighter Side By Paul MeFarland There's been a considerable amount of thunder snd lightn- ing tossed arourd in Monroe C county this Summer, ard some folks are getting a little bit nervous about It. Including me. I really hate to admit I'm scared of lHghtning. But oid Jupiter the Thunderer has tossed a fow bolts in my approximate direction, and scored some near-misses. So, when an electrical storm shows up, I don't stand around in the open admiring the fire- works. I head for cover. At Conesus Lake, some 80 yesrs ago, the power-line trarsformer in front of car cottage was struck ard shorted by lightning. We went swim- miagaefterthe storm over; | touched a water pipe that ran a couple of hurdred feet ort Into the Ioke, and sustained a shock that, electrical experts say, should bave firisted me, but abviously didn't. Another time Hghtring ht oer bars ino Albima whilo 1 was standing in the open door. of the kitchen, some 65 feet away. Both the taro aezrd 1 survived, although my cars reng for a tow days. €me suliry morning while I was oin the ermy, cur Feiffer . battalion was ordered out to the rifle range. We were be- hind schedule in taking our marksm enship tests, and when it started to rain wo were told to ignore it. We did-- until the downpour became so hoavy that we couldn't see the targets 100 yards away. Then we lined up for the march back to barracks end glven the familiar command \Right shoulder arms.\ About 25 feet away from me ; member of my compeny-- be was talter than I, and stand- irg on slightly higher ground-- swung his rifle up on his shoulder |.. and was immed- \ pioly felled by a bolt of lightning. The steel barrel of his wespon, and his rein- soaked fatigues, combined to form sn ldeal lUghtning rod. The Hghtning traveled down the right of his rain and sweat sorked bize denim frtigces, tippizs the fabric from belt to ankle, and passed into the grourd through adallar-sized kole In the sole of his skoe. He was rushed to thetospital, while swoesting officers and non-coms wvonflered who'd be blamed for his death. ~ the dasni arise; within a complecftoors be roused from his coma, and immediately started an angry argument with the quartermaster-sergeant. He wanted the riven fatigues and perforated shoe as souvenirs while the sergeant insisted they were government property. (That same storm had a uniqzely colorful aftermath. A couple of days before the rifle-raeonge episode, another member of our battallon had spent a shirtless Sunday at the besch, erquiring a sunburn of spectocnlar fire-engine red. Then be'd gore through two or three sweaty, rainy days in his blze fatigsos. Their supposedly cojor-fast bivo dye and the sunburn scarlet joined to give him a torso of lovely, tovely purple; he looked like $50 worth of violets.) There used to be h com- forting maxim that Hightning never strikes twice in the same plese. That fust isn't so. An old frieed who Hved pear the Brighton-Rockester froctler, not far fromm Cobits Hill, told me that in a dozen years or so bis tbiume tad been struck seven times. Lightzring bad lost its terrors, so tar as he wes concerced; Iuplter was Jnsf usleg His for target practice. yas thazjmmlkmisnmam ing is many ulentrd beginners - as i apparently did 50 years ago. Hower, we’vebmrudm a book which tells a good deal about the profession in lively and entertaining fishion. It was published, late last year, and is titled \The Work- ing Press.\ * - %o % And the person who put it together is a former area resident, Ruth Adler, daughter of Mrs. Mortimer Adler, 1077 East Ave., and sister of Robert Adler, 177 Commonwealth Rd. Miss Adler, who is a grad- uate of Columbia School and Smith College, has an unusual job aon the New York Times she's editor of \Times Talk,\ the employee publication of the nord newspaper. She's been with the Times since 1933, and has edited the monthly magazine since 1%7. Much of the content of \Times Talk® consists of articles by Times newswriters telling how they cover the news. Her book is a collection of about 50 of thesearticles. They are a fiscinating look behind the scenes of newsgathering, and many of them give poignant, added dimensions to some of the great events of our day. Tom Wicker's story of the Koenmedy assassination is a case in point. Particulirly telling is his story of how the buses carrying the press, which had been closely following the president's auto that day in Dallas, rolled right onto Trade Mart, after the shooting, with dozess of the axtion's top news- men unaware of what had happened. woo ooo % He quote a colleague as saying, \Thr President's car just sped off. Really gunned away.\ And that was all they knew for many minutes, even through the aree where the shooung had taken place. Many of us here at home are quite critical of the confus ing and often contradictory news we are recriving from Vietmam Several of The Times' V ictmam correspondents make very clear why this is so Here's what James Reston w row \Perhaps the best say todes cribe the routine of The Times staff is to begin with the § P M coéfictal brtefing This is held in a small auditorium at the bar ricaded U S1 S building in the center ofSarigon Ona stage crowded with large maps full od ominous but mysterious arrows, a patient but harassed colonel gives out the military news of the day \He is followed by Harold Kapitan, the civilian press spokesman. an amiable and knowledgeable man with a long Filipino cigar im his teeth These two men go on for may be 45 mines, the last 15% of which is the ous arnistste rag. ging questions by the reporters Perhapnthisismcmon' man-m is‘ doing the\ «My 1:1mech then sits down with a 12 or 14 page single-spaced official ° ~ count of dozens of different military actions {for this is not . one war but 63 different wars, one in eth province and a coupk offshore in the China Sea) And then the writing and the battle of communica- tions begin. \This is a tedious business. To check up on any of these military sctions in the com- munique, it is necessary to | go --- through the Saigon telephone service. This com- munications system in itself, despite the invariable courtesy of the Vietnamese operators, is enough to justify the rebellion of the against the French, but even so it is better than the military telephonesys- tem, which for some curious reason is nicknamed Tiger. To rech a distant province, you may have to go through as many as six or seven different operators, - always with the chance that you may be cut of at each relay point, and always with theawkward handi- cap that you can't quite hear much from the other end. In short, this is not the kind of tiger you'd want to put in your tank. %o o %o 0 % \I have never seen a more able group of reporters work. ing under more uncomfortable conditions. It isn't the bombs so much as the hear, or the hard work so much as the annoying irritations. 1 have a vivid memory of them working away there under the glare of their Coleman gas lanterns. There is noair-conditioning in the office. Even the lazy big ceiling fans are off and it is oppressively hot and wer. \This must be what is meant by the word 'sweatsli@@,\ and it has left me with the \Strong conviction that in a well-8rder cd world nobody would fight for a country with a climate lke Naigon's \ But perhaps the best thing in the book is the famous Mever Berger's story of the retiremen: from the Times staff of Rachel McDowell, described by Miss Adler as \the eccentric religious news editor whose pursuit of church mews made her a news paper legend ® Writes Berger \Every other religious news editor in Man hartan blanched at her tigermish ferocity when she went after a church story She haunted churches and cathedrals, pres bytery meetings, and Bible conferences She snatched ex clusives from under other re porters' eyes. She detested the idea of pack reporting, and worked alone She neither gave. nor asked for, quarter hal K ho \Her - singichanded - war against profanity created leg- ends. She would stop cussers in the streets, and dress them down. She founded a Pure Language League to reform co workers, and she would stop dead in her tracks in Times corridors to pin back the ears of office boys, even executives, who swore or bMasphemed.\ Berger cells how shecrasked the supposediy secret funeral of the Russian Princess Araszusia, and managed to get locked in the torzb! religious lesdars of her time,. sad bullied them togetstories. . But when shermired.shegot Swilman, Hiksop Mazrring, and esen John D. Rocketeer, Jr. Mss Afier's \The Workizg Press\ is a gros dml of fa- ard on «el) eflied thar one why Tite Tis dsess%t crse ber in im
