Neenah-Menasha Northwestern (Newspaper) - April 7, 1976, Oshkosh, Wisconsin Oshkosh Daily Northwestern Wednesday April 7 1976 Progressive mode of city vindicated Oshkosh is not on the verge of throwing away 20 years of management The issue so sharply drawn by the campaign of six people for three seats on the Oshkosh Com- mon Council boiled down to whether Oshkosh voters would chose Councilmen dedicated to the continuation of the forward movement of the community or whether they would install a terie devoted to the proposition that Oshkosh should not gress It was as simple as that There was a definite division of the candidates into two Those who professed faith in the future of the com- munity by name Robert Moser and Mrs Kathleen Propp and the four who proclaimed more or less their unhappiness with the forms of present government and the manner in which kosh has been governed since city manager government was introduced The issue was clear-cut and the result approximately so The voters of Oshkosh by a satisfying margin have installed two members of the Common Council who are dedicated not only to manager form of ment but to a continuation of policies which look toward ing on to future generations a community which is 1 nice to jive in and 2 possible to live in And as if to vouchsafe the proposition that progress will not be accomplished by an ed expenditure of the future's substance the electorate has re- turned to the Council Mrs ice Teichmiller One can not find fault with a constituency which has placed Mrs Teichmiller among the members of the Council so long as it has not provided her with the other votes which she so ob- felt she had acquired in the final days of the campaign to turn her attitude of ism into a force to thwart any positive programs of the over members of the Council It would be easy in the wake of so decisive a defeat of the cal minority who oppose all things on the simple proposition that all things ought to be op- posed to assert that their defeat requires that everything they have opposed be considered therefore vindicated But reason forbids What the election has done is to give full life to those things the PROD plan for instance and the future work of the DOC which are yet in the stage at which able people participate in the formulation of the outcome It remains therefore for the citizens of Oshkosh who are ried concerned or in the least bit interested in the future de- velopment of downtown Oshkosh of industrial Oshkosh or of the transportation needs and lems of Oshkosh to participate in a constructive way in finding solutions Wrong justice picked Probably the biggest pointment of Tuesday's election was the failure of Judge Leander Foley to secure a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court It is symptomatic of the mal- ady of that court that a Justice Roland Day could blitz the dia with Foxy standing in the court's bers extolling the virtues of said nonpolitical justice and ob- scure the issues For there was an issue and the citizens of Wisconsin were tainly not voting upon it when they returned Justice Day via the blandishments of Senator Proxmire and extremely last minute spending The issue was the propensity of the Court and Justice Day's tendency to go along with it to usurp the powers of the ture and to go beyond deciding law says by specifiying what it thinks the law ought to say The issue is perhaps scarcely getting nodding acknowledgement from the lature whose powers the Court is usurping but it is nonetheless real It has been a while in coming and the Daily Northwestern knowledges hereby that it was remiss in endorsing Justice ace Wilkie two years ago the Court's activist role has ated ever since Justice Wilkie became Chief Justice shortly er that election The issue will not go away on the court are pending and Governor Lucey has his intention activist legislating judges such as Day to that court It is too bad that under the politics of the times such people are given the incumbency and truly experienced jurists like Judge Foley have all the disadvantages Distributed by LA Final Days lacking authoritative sources TOM BRADEN ing read Woodward and description of a drunken Richard re- quiring Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to get down on his knees for joint prayer and afterward figuratively tearing up the rug my mind for some unaccountable reason went back to Arthur M Schlesinger Jr once wrote a most readable history of the New Deal It entitled The Age of Rooserelt and it appeared in several of which the first was called The of the Old Order In the first chapter of that volume Schlesinger briefly describes a nation at the pit of depression its banks closed its people frightened We are at the end of our rope Schlesinger quotes the weary President Hoover as saying there is nothing more we can do It was a sad defeatist remark the sigh of a man who had lost his courage and will tainly not the kind of remark which boys are taught to regard as presidential naturally the reader wonders How does Schlesinger know that Hoover said The answer is there Right above the last quotation mark in the statement attributed to Hoover is a tiny raised figure 1 It is the designation of what people who care about accuracy call a footnote The reader may now look in the back of Schlesinger's book under 1 in Chapter 1 and discover to his ton that the remark was made to ver's press secretary a man named Joslin who becomes in this instance Schlesinger's authority It is not so with the new Woodward and Bernstein There are no footnotes and no authorities We are told that a drunken Nixon wailed to Kissinger Will history treat me more kindly than my As he said it report Woodward and stein the tears flooded his eyes How do the authors know? There was no one in the room according to their own re- port except for Nixon and Kissinger ger says he didn't tell them this story Did It seems unlikely So there is no Just before this description we have ger summoned to Nixon's office As he walked over and took the elevator to the ond floor Kissinger was angry have two historians of Nixon's nal White House days reporting on how a man felt as he rode up an elevator Is it not natural for the reader to ask How do the historians Maybe there is a saving grace to this Presumably the chief characters in the Woodward and Bernstein book will dis- pute inaccuracies and write their own in order to set the record straight But from the standpoint of history is it well that the accounts of anonymous sources should occupy the minds of men for such time as it may take to prove or disprove them? None of this is intended to disparage the exciting story which Woodward and stein tell If their story is wrong in some of its facts we already know enough to realize that it is true in truth And it reminds us once more of the we feel about the man we twice elected to our highest office He misused us lied to us stole from us and came closer than perhaps even he thought to destroying us Yet he lives now off the best we can afford while others who have committed far lesser crimes go to jail It's a readable book the new Woodward and Bernstein every bit as readable as that first attempt at telling history as an exciting story rather than as a dry and dusty compilation of sequential events The difference is in the footnotes I love to read history But I like to think that what I read is factual provable and that when the author says The king broke down and someone who was there saw it pen Psychiatrists held in low PAUL HARVEY Responsible respectable ethical medical doctors are caught in a cruel cross fire so devastating that some medical men are dropping medical practice others are enlisting in the military and some are turely retiring Most continue to practice but their practice is inhibited by distractions government paperwork patient suits prohibitive insurance rates quacks and crooks in their own ranks depleting public respect And now Medical doctors don't talk much about psychiatrists except after hours and off the record After all psychiatry is an accepted branch of the medical profession and intramural squabbling could only further diminish whatever public respect remains for the profession of medicine And there are esteemed psychiatrists and gists who would be unjustly maligned by any denouncement But off the record most medical doctors hold most shrinks in very low esteem The situation is worsening as some psychiatric clinics prescribe and perform sex in the name of therapy I mean doctors of psychiatry themselves as a remedy for their patients ills Thus such clinics in the name of therapy become little more than massage parlors Dr Bertram Brown director of the National Institute of Mental Health says one-third of the practitioners of sex therapy are outright quacks Dr Judd Marmor president of the American atric Association says The patient who becomes in- with a therapist is seeking love and a permanent inevitably that expectation is shattered and the patient is damaged Yale University psychiatrist Fritz Redlich says there are two kinds of relationships on the psychiatrist's couch In one the patient is vulnerable to statutory rape But in the other says Redlich an aggressive patient seduces the therapist Sex researchers Masters and Johnson who have tried desperately to give their comparatively new science dignity recently summoned a symposium on the sub- ject in St Louis Dr Masters conceded that his clinic at one time trained female surrogates to have sex with male patients For all that terminology that's still the same thing they do in illicit massage parlors Masters says his clinic discontinued the practice He said We are in an infancy and have much to learn We are going to experiment and we are going to make mistakes We have and we will Dr John Green professor of psychiatry at the State University of New York says some clinics which mit therapists to have sex with patients specifically say in advance what the therapy will include He implies that this makes it all right President Marmor says In this case at last the tient has only himself or herself to blame Lof Angeles Times People's forum Broadcasting of Gospel in danger To the Madelyn Murray O'Hair has been granted a federal hearing in Washington on the subject of religion and airways by the Federal Communications Commission which has a petition No which would ulti- mately pave the way to do away with the proclamation of the Gospel via the waves of America She took with her petitions bearing signatures to back up her stand This covers all Sunday worship services that are broadcast and Sunday services on all sion stations Many elderly people and depend on the radio and television to fulfill their worship needs What has happened to the of Rights guaranteeing freedom of religion and dom of ers fought and died for it Are we going to sit Back and let it be taken away from Immediately send a letter or postcard in favor of broadcasting al Communications sion 1919 N St N.W Washington 20036 The petition number is This number must be on your card or letter Mrs Charles Andresen Oshkosh Where to write Interested in some issue before Gaylord Nelson Senate Office Building Washington 20510 William Proxmire Senate Office Building Washington 20510 William A Steiger Longworth Office Building Washington 20515 Strictly personal Blest tie that frees SYDNEY -I HARRIS A half-dozen pupils from my children's high school were briefly interviewed in TV recently on the subject of marriage where they displayed a remarkable unanimity of opinion All agreed that they would prefer to marry later rather than earlier wnich on the whole i think is a healthy and mature attitude but it was their reasons for this decision that disturbed me They uniformly regarded marriage as a closing an ending a tying down a restrictive and repressive pattern of living But this is a dangerously dis- half-truth for while marriage is in one sense confining it can also be 111 another sense creative and ang It made me wonder what models of marriage these young people saw at home for doubtless most of what they profess believe about the marriage state is based consciously or on their own limited ence an their own households And at seemed as if their marriage marks the end of and wanted two first a career and ness then and In their minds these two modes of ex- istence are immutably opposed to one it need not be so and should not be so Granted that most marriages do not reach the ideal neither do most jobs or careers In fact more jobs than marriages are dead-ends where ther development is impossible and on- ly a grinding routine represents the foreseeable future Marriage should be a growing and a sharing and a creating as well as a re- sponsibility It should not preclude being rather it should make it more possible and more gratifying But evidently as these children seem to view their parents marriages this is not what they see and so they are turned off on the institution until they have had a full life after schooling and are ready to settle down riage as a dynamic and productive joint enterprise has hardly entered their minds possibly because they have not seen one in operation This is a dreadful indictment of what we as parents have modeled for our children It is also testimony to the fact that too many marriages are regarded as endings and by the partners themselves Their failure or unwillingness to explore its creative possibilities have given their children no incentive to seek a sharing and tually supportive marriage One of the strongest reasons for woman's newest bid for equality is that it can provide the ating momentum to turn dead-end into participatory democracies and demonstrate that the marriage union can make both parties free as much as it binds them together Field Enterprises Nuclear questions raised JACK ANDERSON In a private letter to President Ford two conscientious con- gressmen have raised some urgent questions about This is a term that global strategists use to describe a nuclear blitz attack thai would destroy another nuclear forces and wipe out its capability to con- The concerned pair Rep Bob Carr and Rep Tom Downey both members of the ful House Armed Services Committee fear the dent's policies could lead the Soviets some day to strike the United Stales with a counterforce blow The congressmen cite the emphasis on achieving a capability er than on finding a diplo- matic solution The real problem they plead is to prevent any country from de- a ability to destroy another's tory forces Soviets would do northing to decrease their ability to strike us Carr and Downey wrote the President ty can be used only to com- mit aggression not to deter it Our only hope is to pre- vent the Soviets from oping it and this can only be done through SALT ton There is no verifiable way to prohibit its construction But tests arc verifiable and thus If you can present a weapon from ever being tested you prevent its construction since nobody would rely on an untested system The prevailing wisdom is that the two superpowers each equipped with enough nuclear power to devastate the other would be com- to live together in peace Atomic scientist ert once the theory with the analogy of two scorpions in a bottle Both scorpions possess stingers that could kill the other But each scorpion is aware that the venom is slow acting Thas the victim be- fore dying would deal an equally lethal retaliatory blow against the aggressor Carr and Downey contend that counterforce would change iif the scorpions should ever develop stingers with ing paralyzing wiona ther scorpion the other without suffering Each would be safety tempted warn the con- gressmen to save himself by striking first Sooner or later carnage would be itable The key to they say would be deadly curate missiles If this should be coupled with a major breakthrough in anti- submarine warfare the tion possessing such missiles would have an unassailable counterforce What worries the pair is that both are rushing mell toward while their diplomacy is dragging We the congressmen wrote dent Ford bluntly your tional security advisers are misleading you They liken the current ation to when the late dent Lyndon Johnson's ers misled him daring the Vietnam War According to the congressmen Johnson's advisers placed great stress on body counts and measures which proved to the out- come of Jhc war their unfortunate preoccupation with these non-significant measures blinded them tn other factors and doomed us to failure regardless of the quality or quantity of oar military effort Similarly declared the congressmen your present advisers would have you be greatly concerned over merical comparisons of U.S vs Soviet strength which are erroneous unimportant or both At the same time they would have you disregard the growth of the strategic capabilities of both major powers which is im- threatening to the future military security of the American people President Ford hasn't had a chance to re- spond to the letter A nuclear strategy expert however told us the counterforce con- cern was fuzzy and what theoretical he said the question comes down to what tutes a credible Soviet We broke the story on May 10 1972 that the Soviet Union was beaming microwaves in- to the U.S embassy in cow This has now developed into a major controversy be- cause the heavy tion of microwaves ly has affected the health of embassy Wc have been asked how the microwaves pick up con- Oar sources ex- plain thai a screen of micro- is beamed into a room When the microwaves strike metal they bounce back The Soviet monitors register any microwave dis- caused by sation These disturbances can be decoded thus revealing what was said inside the room Because the Soviet monitoring equipment isn't as sensitive as U.S ment more powerful micro- waves are used This has caused the health hazard United Feature Daily Northwestern Established Jan 224 Slate St Oshkosh Wis 54901 Samuel W A Thomas Schwalm Full leased wire reports of the Associated Press and United Press International The is a member of the Associated Press which is entitled exclusively to tnr use for of all the local news printed in this newspaper as well as all AP news dispatches letters dealing with news should be addressed to the news department tn proper attention Telephone 28
