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More and More Police Using fDumdum9 BulletsLa* week, fa Maduon City Council voted to create a

mete/ task force to *udy iheuteof hollow-point bullets bythe Maditon Police Department.

By RICHAR D J. MARGOUSi Ntl Nwn Strvic*

Let us sing of arms and the policeman, of Stun Guns andbeanbags, magnums and dumdums. Such as the armorial ex-tremes in a new, increasingly agitated debate over the ethics ofpolice weaponry.

Virtually every policeman in the land carries a sidearm,usually a .38 revolver. But in recent years, many of the nation's40,000 law enforcement agencies have discarded that standardweapon in favor of the more powerful .357 magnum. Moreover,police are loading their guns with the notorious dumdum, abullet deemed so cruel and sadistic that all civilized nations,including the United States, have foresworn its use in war sincethe turn of the century.

The dumdum can be shot from magnums but not from .38s.Magnums bullets travel much faster and therefore are morepowerful. However, what makes the dumdum infamous is not itsvelocity but its design.

The dumdum has a hollow point that flattens and expands -or "mushrooms" - inside its target, The result is a hugewound. Someone struck in the arm by a 'dumdum wil l probablylose his arm. A conveniental bullet is likely to sail through .itsvictim and keep right on going, spending the rest of its energyas it goes. A dumdum will .hit and stay, the body absorbing its

- full brunt. The police of Dallas have demonstrated in a recentstudy thai dumdums have 800 per cent more power than con-ventional bullets — arid the wounds they make are eight timesas large.

Different ApproachMeanwhile, a scattering of police departments here and

there has been flirting with an entirely different approach — ade-escalation of firepower. In New Jersey, for example, theBergen County police force is experimenting with the Stun Gun,a device that shoots beanbags instead of bullets. The idea is toknock down a suspect without killin g or maiming him. "You gelhit with one of those beanbags," a Bergen County policeman

. told me, "and believe me, it'l l hurt — but-you'll live to seeanother day. It's like getting socked by Muhammad All. "

America is engaged in an often frenetic quest for law sndorder, and in that quest the beanbag and the dumdum can be

viewed as competing metaphors. Which direction do we wantour policemen to choose? What weapons shall they wield, whatphilosophies shall they brandish? The answer, like Mao'sfamous definition of justice, is inside the barrel of a gun.

In some measure, both the dumdum and the beanbag arelegacies of the turbulent 1960s, when half the politicians inAmerica were promising to stamp out "crime on the streets" -and the other half were losing elections.

A survey takenin 1972 by the Law Enforcement AssistanceAdministration (LEAA) suggests that nearly one-fifth of allpolice agencies now use magnums and dumdums. But the sur-vey has never been published. "These figures may alarm somepeople," said an LEAA official who asked that his name bewithheld.

Higher EstimatesAlarming as they may be, the LEAA figures are probably

pegged too low. Other investigators, including both theAmerican Civil Liberties Union and the International Associa-tion of Chiefs of Police, estimate that full y 25 per cent of thenation's law enforcement agencies have switched to magnumsand dumdums. A marketing executive for the manufacturer ofColt guns conceded in a recent interview that "there is a ten-

Things Are Different at JFKO

ByPHUHASLANGE ROf Tdt Cap** TiiMs Staff

ST. NAZIANZ — "This place is really strange to have abasketball team. The whole structure and philosophy is non-competitive."

The speaker was Peter Eltink, the academic dean at JFKPrep in St. Nazjanz, some' 15 miles west of Manitowoc. ,

But JFK Prep-a former Roman Catholic seminary turnedinto an ecumenical, coeducational boarding school for about 160youths—does indeed have a basketball team.

And this weekend, the team competed for the state smallindependent scho$ title. The team has received more attentionthan usual because its "star," Mickey Crowe is a scoringmachine, averaging over 40 points a game and is generallyconsidered the highest scoring high school eager in the state'shistory.

Lots of Coverage

The story of Mickey Crowe and-his father, Marty, who;,coaches the JFK team, has gotten a lot of coverage during thepast few months, even making national television..

But there is another story at JFK and that one is about theschool. , ' v '

This isn't your ordinary,, run-of-the-mill high school thatfights its way to a state tournament. , ;:

x ; ' : -,Eltink hit part of it when he called: it "non-competitive.'';

Coach Crowe calls it "tb£'m(fet non-joCk'school in the state:";And if the basketball te&njsiits mosjt'fanious appendage* it.is}not the only thing the scBopl has going;for it.

Take the "eco-house," for instance, : .

Unique Project

The eco-house is a class project the likes of which you aren'tlikely to find elsewhere.

Father Melvin Tracy, who teaches a course in environmen-tal studies, began planning the project in late 1973. The idea wasto build a house that would be ecologically self-sufficient.

Over the summer of 1974, a group of JFK students who wereinterested in the project tore down an old barn and shed and dugup rocks out of fields to get the recycled materials needed tobuild the, structure.

Melvin, meanwhile, rounded up $26,000 in federal money tohelp with the project.

The students finished the basement and first floor framesbefore winter set in, and they hope to finish the eco-house thisspring. When it is done - if it works right ̂ the heat will besupplied by solar energy, the power by a windmill.

Ten people will be able to sleep in it, there wil l be aclassroom and an office for Melvin. Not every class project atJFK is quite that grandiose, but the eco-house reflects in goodmeasure the way education works there. ,

'Self-Actualization'

To use educational jargon, the school works on a theory of"self-actualization" instead of "socialization."

Traditional schools are based on preparing students forroles in society. At JFK, education is defined as "the process inwhich the individual learns to make of himself what he wishes tobe in society and culture."

So instead of sitting in a classroom reading about ecological

Mart y Crowe, the coach of the JFK-Prep basketball season. The elder Crowe also teaches at the unique highteamandfather of its star, Mickey: Crowe, sits on the bench school in Manitowoc County. — Photo courtesy JFK-Prepwith his coachingstaff and leantduringa game this I

'systems'and;energy.useage, at JFK the-student's plunged into apractical experience. 'J: -̂ '

In a biology class, some students interested:;in the problemsof-teenage alcoholism studied the biological effects'of it. Someblack students delved into'the problem of sickle cell anemia, a'hereditary disease "that affects only blacks.. These are not simple two-week projects. In biology, for in-stance, the first few weeks of the course are devoted to anoverview of the subject. Then the rest of the semester is takenup with students working as individuals and groups on projects.

Conventional Subjects, Too

All : students are expected to complete a core group of sub-jects ,-r science, math, communication and the like. But theyhave plenty of opportunity to delve into unconventional coursesaswelL -.- '. ' ' . \V '

Eltink said .about 10 or 15 of the courses being offered'thissemester were generated from-student ideas.

One of those is "Global Poverty and Development." Thereare four students in the course, ranging from sophomore to

senior. On the day I sat through the course, all four participatedactively in a discussion of population growth and its effect ondeveloping countries.' y One of the class projects was a campaign to increase theawareness of the rest of the Students .about the issues of hungerand poverty; : .

Generally, the student-generated courses are run by facultymembers, but in one case, an Indian girl wanted a course m thehistory of'bef people and̂ since she knew more about it thananyone else, she taught it under the supervision of a teacher.

Classes Are Informal

Classes, like just about everything at JFK, arc informal.Teachers and students relate on a first-name basis. The kids canwear what they want; have all manner of hair lengths and styles.can smoke in lounges or even in class at the discretion of theteacher. . . . . .

There are no grades,, but at the-end of each quarter, theteacher and student together-p'repare individual evaluations. At

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By JENNIFER THOMPSONPocmc Ntwt Strvlct..,..-. - ;.

"What these shock doctors don't knot? is abouttenters and such things as remorse arid contrition . ..What, is the sense of ruining my head and erasing mymemory, which is my capital, and putting me out ofbusiness? It was a brilliant cure, but we lost the patient.It's a bum turn — terrible!" — Ernest Hemniirigway

If you are depressed, don't make a major decision. Don'tretire from your job, don't.sell your house. - ':'' \\.f\:,: -.-.

Treat your depression — witht eleqtroshoek. *;7'. .Sq advises psychiatrist,Le;onacd ;Cammer,,leading

proponent of the use of electroshocTc;itf.the treatment:of..mental illness. Cammer argues" thatl"av depressed nian or:

woman is like a car that can't torn the motor .over with;a.,,,weak battery. It needs a recharge/':'It gets recharged by>electroshock. ':'P:.^ - ' ; v': ;

Cammer is on one side of'a;l6ng-simrnering controversy,within medical circles over/the-safety and effectiveness of.electroconvulsive therapy, popularly known as electroshock. ,Psychiatrist Lee Coleman is,on the other. Electroshock, ;Coleman contends, damages the brain.

With the exception of the "Eagleton affair" (when theexposure that Sen. Thomas Eagleton had undergonepsychiatric treatment including electroshock led to hisresignation as Democratic vice presidential nominee), thatcontroversy has rarely surfaced in the press. Now all that ischanging, as a growing movement to guarantee the legalrights of mental patients focuses public attention on allforms of radical therapy for the mentally il l - not justelectroshock, but psychosurgery and chemotherapy (drugs)-as well. . , ',

Protect the PatientIn California, much of the controversy has centered on a

bill to protect the right of psychiatric patients to refuse.psychosurgery and electroshock treatment. Called the Vas-concellos Bill , after its sponsor, it also requires that elec-troshock treatments be approved by a three-memberpsychiatric panel, that physicians exhaust all, other treat-ment methods first, and that they explain all possible sideeffects to patients before seeking permission to use it.

Passed by the California Assembly last summer, the billwas stalled by a court order before it could go into effect.Twenty-five psychiatrists from Santa Monica and an un-named patient Undergoing electroshock won a temporaryrestraining order on grounds that the bill violated mentalpatients' right to privacy.

Electroshock is used primarily in the treatment ofdeposed patients - many of whom are old. Although noprown theartes exist to explain how * on whom electroshockworks, there to speculation by medical authorities that its

chief effect is to wipe out depression-related memories.Yet proponents of clectroshock have produced no

definitive study proving its safety and effectiveness. Doctorsbase their wide acceptance of clectroshock on empiricalresults — how patients behave after treatments. Thoseresults, however, are roundly condemned, not just by otherpsychiatrists, but by a growing number of patients who haveundergone clectroshock themselves.

Force*/ Treatment

Fifteen years ago, before Ollie Mac Bozarth had evenseen a doctor, she was forcibly taken to a hospital and givenelectroshock treatment. At a scries of public hearings, heldby the San Francisco Board of Supervisors last January, inresponse to growing public criticism of the use of clec-troshock, Bozarth — along with numerous other,women whohad undergone shock treatments — recounted theirexperiences. - ..? -

"1 was forced to have shock and suffered permanent

Drawing by Ed Hinrichs

memory loss," Bozarth claimed. "I t was like a tornadodamaging an entire section of my brain."

On the mornings Ollie Mae Bozarth was not given anycoffee, she knew that she would receive the treatment. Theinmates receiving treatments that day would line up in thewaiting room for their turn on the table. Once inside theshock room, they were unable to see the shock box behindtheir head. They were then given a shot of muscle relaxantand a rapid acting anesthetic prior to shock.

(Other recipients of electroshock testified at the hear-ings that they were not given a sufficient amount of th,eanesthetic and can remember seeing a rapid bolt of whitelight when they were given the volts of electricity, that theyfelt excruciating pain at that moment, and that they wereconscious of going into convulsions.)

A .jelly-like substance was rubbed on the patients'temples before the two round discs which transmit the shockare clamped in place. The voltage used ranged from 120 to140 volts for a duration of from 0.4 to 0.6 seconds. Treatmentwas completed in a matter of minutes.

dency among police departments to buy our .357 magnum. It's ;no revolution, just a trend."

Both (pi and Smith & Wesson, the two biggest makers of ,magnums, insist they do not promote these guns in the litera-ture they distribute. "We just give the specifications," says theColt man, "and let the customer be the judge. We're neutral."But the catalogue names of these weapons seem far from neu-tral. Each manufacturer makes a pair of magnums. Colt's en-tries are The Python and The Trooper; Smith & Wesson's areThe Highway Patrolman and The Combat Masterpiece.

The largest maker of dumdum-type bullets is the JurrasAmmunition Co. of Indianapolis. In September, a Jurrasspokesman told a reporter for United Press International that 10per cent of its sales went to police departments, and that 90 perce.nl of those were for dumdum-type ammunition. AmongJurras' customers, the spokesman said, were police depart-ments in Chicago, Seattle, Houston, Phoenix and Portland, Ore.

Dumdum madness has even spread to campuses. Accordingto AC'LU data, campus police at the University of Nevada,inReno and at several other campuses now carry magnums loadedwith hollow-point ammunition.

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Marty Crowe:A Little^AheadOf His Time

ByPfflLHASLANGE ROf The Capita l Times Staf f

Marty Crowe has achieved a good deal of notoriety throughthe years for his championship basketball teams and outspokenviews on sports, education, politics, religion.

This weekend, the focus was on basketball as he led yetanother team to a state basketball tournament. And this teamwas special, because it featured his son, Mickey, the top highschool scorer in Wisconsin history...

But here is much more to Marty Crowe than the flamboyantcoach who has trouble sitting on the bench for more than a fewminutes in any game.

I'd better warn you that my view1 of Crowe is not exactlyobjective and dispassionate.

I was a freshman at Marinette Catholic Central High Schoolwhen he took that team to a state title in 1964. His older son,Terry, and I were good friends in high school. Later, onweekends home during college, I spent a good number of even-ings in Crowe's living room discussing the state of the world.

Throughout his career in education and athletics —' evenwith his successes in both fields — Crowe has been outside theestablishment.

He has this strange view that sports should be fun, you see."Part of the fun is winning," he said when we talked last

week, "but if that's the only part, a lot of the fun is gone."

Screaming at Players

An observer might wonder about that as he paced on thecourt during a practice last Wednesday screaming at players to"get tough" and "get up on those boards."

But that is just his way of providing the spark for his teams.Other coaches may sit quietly on the sidelines, but I doubt verymany are as sensitive to the individual needs of his players asCrowe.

Sports are not supposed to be a pressure cooker, in Crowe'sview, and one of the topics he can get easily wound up about arethe parents at schools who push their kids after a goal theparents have and expect the coach to join in their efforts.

That view of sports drifts over to education, as well."1 think learning can be fun, too," he said. "I f it just

becomes a chore, that's no good. But if a kid finds somethingthat turns him on and is allowed to proceed in that area, that'swhat makes education."

That is part of why Crowe enjoys teaching at JFK. He has(Continued an Page 14)

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"I learned to cooperate with the doctors very quickly,"Bozarth recalled, "in the hope that the treatments wouldend."

Bozarth, co-head of the Mental Health Task Force of ;NOW (National Organization of Women), is part of a coali-tion of former psychiatric inmates, health workers, con- ;cerned citizens and lawyers fighting against the use of :psychosurgery, drugs and electroshock — methods they ;describe as "social control techniques under the guise of \psychiatric treatments." 5

Because of the social stigma attached to mental illness, :Ollie Mae Bozarth feels that most recipients of electroshock jare afraid to speak out against the practice. "Secrecy is why :they can get away with giving shock," Bozarth maintains. !

Developed in the 1930s by an Italian psychiatrist, Dr.Ugo Cerletti, it provided a more effective and cheaper means jof inducing convulsions in depressed or shizophrenic pa- :tients than insulin shots. <

jfirs t Used on Hogs ;j

According-lo Dr. Thomas Szasz, author of "The ;Manufacture of Madness, Cerletti perfected his method after ;vising a Roman slaughterhouse where he witnessed hogs :being pacified before slaughter through the use of 125-volt ;electric shocks transmitted through metal tongs clamped on Jtheir temples. . j

Following publication of Cerletti's method, electroshock ;spread rapidly through Europe and the United States in the !1940s and 1950s. By 1953. in one hospital alone — PilgrimState in New York — some 300 patients were under shock |treatment at any given time. ;

By then, however, reports of spinal and jaw fractures !caused by the impact of the jolt on the patient's body began ;to arouse opposition to its use. Before the controversy ever jreally escalated into public debate, the treatment was jsuperseded by the discovery of the phenothiazine drugs — ortranquillizers. Meanwhile, electroshock continued to beused, on a modified scale, along with a muscle relaxant toprevent bone fracture and a barbiturate to reduce pain.

In 1966, a survey conducted by the American PsychiatricAssociation and the National Association for Mental Healthrevealed that 89 per cent of the responding private psychia-tric hospitals used clectroshock. In 1989, a similar study ofpsychiatric facilities,-ranging from large state hospitals tosmall university hospital psychiatric units, revealed that 91per cent of the 54 respondents were using electroshock.

At the public hearings held last January in San Fran-cisco, testimony from doctors at IhcUniversity of Califor-nia's Langlcy Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute and St.Francis Memorial Hospital revealed that over 200 patients atthese institutions were receiving clectroshock treatments in1973. .

Only the Best Beef on Butz9 Table14—THE CAPITAL TIMES, Monday, March 10, 1975

By LYNN ROSELUNI

WASHINGTON - Earl Butz likes beef. He likes New Yorksteaks and prime ribs. He likes standing rib roasts.

When Butz shops for meat, he bypasses the neighborhoodSafeway supermarket — only two blocks from his Washingtonapartment. Butz travels instead more than three miles acrosstown to an exclusive market called Larimer's, where the beef iscut to order and the box boys make house calls.

At Safeway, New York steak sells for $3.29 a pound. AtLarimer's, it sells for 14.98 a pound.

Butz, who oversees farm-price policies, has a lot to sayabout how much Americans pay for food. In fact, Earl L. Butz.has become a controversial symbol for high prices these days —the butt of jokes by comedians and even his own boss, PresidentFord.

Ford told one of those good news-bad news jokes. "The goodnews is that Bob Hope has been named comedian of the cen-tury," he said. "The bad news: How am I ever going to explainthis to Earl Bute?""

Exclusive Dining RoomButz has tried to raise the cost of food stamps and to trim

the free school lunch program while at the same time promoting

TVofttaW e prices for cattlemen provide the best wayto insure a good supply of the better cuts of beef that I

a new $190,000 dining and conference room for himself and topaides in the Agriculture Department.

How do the Butzes live in the face of higher prices: Butz,who makes $62,500 a year, refuses to discuss his own lifestyleand shopping habits, as does his wife ("She's fed up with thatfood-list stuff," says a Butz secretary). But those who knowthem say the Butzes prefer to shop — in person or by telephone— at Larimer's, the elite Connecticut Avenue market thatdelivers.

At Larimer's, the aisles are well-swept, the shelves well-stocked and the customer list well-guarded. "It would be like aWho's Who if I started to name names," said owner RichardZimmerman, who declined to identify his customers. TheButzes? "They come here for meat," he said, "but while they'rehere they get everything. Butz comes in himself once a week."

$1.69 More a PoundThe Butzes pay $1.69 more a pound for the New York steak

at Larimer's than they would at the Safeway. Ground beef costs$1.98 a pound at Larimer's; at the Safeway, it is 99 cents apound.

At Larimer's Butz usually buys the milk (59 cents a quart),cottage cheese (59 cents a pint) and grapefruit (two for 29 cents)that he eats for breakfast. It is also there that the Butzes buy thestanding rib roasts ($2.39 a pound) they serve at small dinnerparties at their apartment.

Marty Crowe(Continued from Page -13)

courses on "Columnists and Commentators," "TV and MovieDrama," "American Literature."

Freedom to Teach

The school gives him the freedom to teach in his own style— a style that is geared toward generating enthusiasm amongstudents for literature.

He noted that he doesn't necessarily agree with all the otherteachers at JFK — some of them are too "hidebound" in hisview.

"I give a guy the right to be hidebound," he said, "so longas his hideboundedness doesn't flow over to me."

That is a key part of Crowe's philosophy of life. He wants thefreedom for people to do their own things, even to be oddballs,without others trying to force them into a mold. .

"I really believe a guy should have the right to decide hishair length for himself." he wrote once about the great smalltown debates over long hair. "Always have. I don't like Jong hairbut another guy's hair is his — not mine."

Progressive Background

His politics are idealistic. He grew up in a strong Progres-sive family, campaigned for Robert LaFollette in the 1924presidential campaign as a boy of 10. He was teaching inMinnesota when Hubert Humphrey was on the rise and saw inthe Kennedys politicians who brought a new vision to thiscountry.

And the bedrock for Marty Crowe is his religion. He's aCatholic, but he was critical of the establishment of his churchwell before that became a common thing. For him, it was notthe institution that counted, it was the belief.

He's 60 now. Colleges all over are after Mickey, thebasketball star, and Coach Crowe has thoughts now and then ofthe two of them going to some college together — but "only ifthat is the best college for Mickey."

The comparisons to "Pistol Pete" Maravich and his father,Press, are frequently made by sportwriters. Press coached atLouisiana State University while Pete played. But Crowe sayshis situation is different.

Fifteen years ago, in one of the many columns Marty Crowewrote for this paper through the years, he talked about what hehoped his son would learn. I can't think of a better way to endthis piece than by quoting from that one.

"I guess what 1 want him to learn is that when one man ishurt, anywhere in the world, all men should cry a little. And,when one man'uses another unjustly, all men should beashamed ...

"I want him to have a kind of happy scorn for biggness andpretentiousness and prestige and wealth and power . . .

"Someday, we have to decide whether we want thehold of the coyote or the taste of a lamb chop-"

Staff Photo by David Sandcll

Occasionally, the Butzes visit the local Safeway. Theagriculture secretary sometimes can be spotted early on Sat-urday mornings, wearing a blue parka and pushing a grocerycart out of his southwest Washington apartment building.-Gripping a shopping list in one hand, he walks the two blocks tothe safeway arid pushes his cart slowly down the aisles.

The southwest Washington Safeway borders a public hous-ing project. The floors of the store are littered with spilledcereal boxes; peanut butter jars open on half-empty shelves.

"-Shoplifting is common. Butz usually buys only a few items.

Why Use Lemons?Once, a neighbor stopped Butz at the produce counter.

Lemons were selling at six for 69 cents, an all-time high. "Inoticed you passed up the lemons," said the neighbor, whoasked not to be identified when he recalled the story later. Theman, 72, explained that he uses a mixture of honey, lemon andbrandy to ease his arthritis at night. "Lemons have gotten soexpensive I haven't been able to buy them," he said to Butz.

Much of the attention JFK-Prep has received thix yearis because of Mickey Crowe, whose basketball scoringabilities have attracted nationwide attention. But at theschool, classmates and teachers say, the star is just "plainold Mickey" participating in an exciting educational ven-ture. —AP Wirephoto

"I would like him to climb the mountain, some day, andlook through the great telescope at constellations of stars outbeyond the very bounds of man's imagination.

"Then, coming down from the mountain, I would like him towatch, for a littl e while, as all the busy ones — the politicians,the generals, the scientists, the bankers, the agency men — asthey sweat and strain and snarl and struggle for post position ina kind of unending frantic race which has been called a rat race,but which no rat, I feel, could ever imitate.

"I want him to see all this in the light pf the memory of whathe saw on the mountain."

If Mickey can make lots of baskets, that's fine. But if he cansee the stars, as far as Marty Crowe is concerned, that's evenbetter.

"Why do you need lemons?" Butz said. "Why don't y9u justdrink the brandy?"

At the Safeway checkout counter, Butz, who goes unrecog-nized, waits his turn among the black welfare clients who payfor their groceries with food stamps. "Nobody talks to him,"said Brinton Snow, the store's assistant manager. "He don'ttalk to nobody."

Butz pays cash, but his wif e pays by check. And lik eeveryone else, Mrs. Butz is required to have her check clearedby clerk Mary Etten before she can leave the store with hergroceries.

"The reason the price of good beef is high is thatconsumers are bidding against each other for it."

The Agriculture Department's collection of "The favoriterecipes of the Secretary of Agriculture and Mrs. Earl Butz"includes such modest dishes as barbecued beef and hot chickensalad. But when the Butzes entertain, the menu is different.

>~Beef on the Menue

Every few weeks, they invite several close friends to dinewith them in their modern, high-rise apartment overlooking thePotomac river. Dinner with the Butzes often consists of roastbeef, salad and vegetables. Afterwards, in the living room thereis coffee and talk: the economy, the middle class and the"traditional values of America." "He has an understanding ofwhat built this country," says Pete Peterson, a long-time friend.

On other nights, the Butzes stay home alone. They read orwatch television until Butz falls asleep in his chair. More often,Butz spends his evenings in the dining rooms of the Hay Adamsor Madison Hotels, the guest of groups like the NationalCattlemen's Association, the National Pork Producers Council,

"Some of our critics say tee are trying to penalise thepoor people. You've got to recognise that if vie want to getsome fiscal sanity in"-this budget, we've got to startsomeplace."^

the American-Farm Bureau1'Federation and the National CottonCouncil.

Lunch is usually more casual. Sometimes, Butz eats agrilled-cheese sandwich in the Argiculture Departmentcafeteria. By^hext month, of course, he can eat his sandwich inhis own paneled, plush-carpeted new dining room. >-'

Washington rumors hint that Butz, considered by some tobe a political liability to President Ford, may not be around longenough to enjoy his dining room. The rumors crop up on CapitolHill , In the bureacracies downtown, at cocktail parties — even atButz' own Harbour Square apartment complex.

"We expect hiiriio be moving out any day now." said JackRaben, the apartment sales manager. "In fact, we've alreadygot someone on a waiting list for his apartment."

Dumdum Bullets(Gmttrtuedfivm Page 13)

Paust, an associate professor at the Houston Law School, pointsout that dumdums have been proscribed by international lawever since the 1899 Hague convention. The U.S. governmentfailed to sign that covenant only because it wanted a strongerclause inserted against "bullets of useless cruelty." Eight years

- later we did sign an international agreement banning the use ofdumdums and other "bullets which cause unnecessary suffer-ing."

Paust and others have called on Rep. William L. Hungate(D-Mo.) chairman of the subcommittee on revision of criminallaw, to consider legislation making it a crime for any citizen touse a weapon already banned by international law. Meanwhile,the American Civil Liberties Union in Connecticut is suing thestate police on the grounds that state troopers' use Of dumdumsis in violation of the Eighth Amendment prohibiting '-cruel and 'unusual punishments."

No one denies that the punishment is cruel, though plainlyit is becoming less and less unusual. Cruelty, in fact, has beenthe idea behind dumdums ever since the British startedmanufacturing them in India in the 19th century. (The factorywas located in a suburb of Calcutta called Dum-Dum.)

An old edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica describesthose early dumdums: "Their peculiarity consisted in their ex-panding on impact and thus creating an ugly wound, and theyhad been adopted in India frontier fighting to stop the rushes offanatical tribesmen." That, more or less, is what some policehope dumdums wil l do today — stop the rushes of fanaticaltribesmen in urban ghettos.

"The police are in a domestic arms race with criminals andsuspects," said Paust. "There is no way the public:can win thatrace."

Yet the race continues, mainly because the police arefrightened of what they perceive to be a growing and well-armed

, criminal class. "The .38 revolver is no good any more," a NewYork policeman said to me recently, "because it won't stop theother guy from shooting. If I'm going to shoot at a guy, I'mgoing to shoot to kill . That's the only way."

So they shoot to kill , and to keep themselves alive. And sincepoliceman are not paid to invent paradise, few see the Stun Gunor the beanbag as anything but a fanciful joke. Even the BergenCounty police are skeptical.

"Those who would rather use lollipops on gunmen wil l haveto go elsewhere," snapped Thomas J. Meskill, then governor ofConnecticut, when asked to justify police use of magnums anddumdums. But where is Elsewhere? Where should one flee?

It would have to be a place where everyone new each other;a place where there were no strangers; a place like Tyringham,Mass. Last month, the Massachusetts Civil Liberties Unionpolled local police departments to learn what weapons eachused. The Tyringham police chief wrote back, "We are a smalltown. We don't carry guns, thank God."

Minin g Novel Holds Nuggets of WisdomDo they sit and make fun of foolish men like me ...

and am I of raid that they do, or am I not? There was a time. ..ttoi too long ago, really, when I'd have had a look atwhite hair and Fd never know there wasn't long to go. Butnote I know. Because I've been shown the truth. Now — Ihear new sounds. Most of them are strange and remind meof things that were always there but didn 't need any morerecognition than that. At that time they were just sounds.But note they're voices ... sometimes ... they are askingme... reminding me — No. Telling me — to take smallerMeps on the icy road — to lift a certain way in order not tohat the back. When to slaw up. And how to be able to tellthat you're old.

—John Munn, husband of the Missus,father of Matthew and friend to all

John Munn isn't all that old. He is 52 — as is his wife of 32years, the Missus — 'and yet she seems younger. Granted, thecopper mine in Sop's Cove, Newfoundland, has taken its toll onOW John (the book opens with a mine disaster that leaves fourmen dead and John recovering from a head injury) but that'snot the whole reason.

John Munn is not the most flexible man in the world, as amatter of fact, he is pretty damned rigid.

"I've learned how to bring home a pay envelope," he admitsto Ms wife very late in the game, "and be a man. Not enough. Iknow that But no one ever told me what we missed or whatmined i*. I did it my father's way and I expected you to do itmy mother's way."

I'm not an awful greedy girl, the Missus tells herself, butpfeaw, God, say there's more for John and me. Another way fori» I fed inoqiuUized with failure here. I bank myself up with

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hope for the winter and struggle to thaw in time for summer andthen it's winter again. I WILL NOT SHARE LIFE WITHDEATHmiWILLNOT! !

"It's no good, John," she tells him, "We'll die this way.""You know a place where we won't die? Shut up about it!"The winds of change blow over the cold grey rock of the

Cove. The mine owner plans to close down a losing proposition.Matthew Munn marries the college-educated Faith and is de-termined not to leave town and not to follow his father's foots-teps.

The underground, the author tells us, meant more than theopening and closing of a work day to John Munn. In the groundlay treasure (which he would consider his own) and if he were topush deeper and believe, beyond any living thing, he wouldreap. So he sank himself in a part of the secret world thatdemanded never to be taken for granted and lived out his life.

In the tradition of that great mining classic "How Green

Was My Valley," this story can boast of nuggets struck from awide rich vein. With Fred, the undertaker, at the widow Shep-pard's house, John Munn helps dress the corpse of his friend,Alf .

t "But you see what's happened now? Now you go where wesay you go. And your old familiar bag of arms and legs will flipand flop according to the Way we want to carry you ... andyou'll have no say in the matter." He paused in his thinking andshifted his gaze to the struggle that Fred was having with a bentshoe on a straight foot. "But neither do I have any way ... andI'm alive."

There is the Missus, watching her sleeping husband: "Look at him now, Oh for God.'s sake John, dream with

me. I don't care who gets the biggest end of the wishing bonesnap. Take it! Have it! Hook it into your belt alongside yourother new notches for fights won . .. But smile at meagain..." '

There is John watching his sleeping wife: "There's a sadness I don't see when you're awake. You've

hidden it we l l . .. Thirty-three years. Al l of those Christmascs.' ... and birthdays ... and pay nights . .. and knowing why we

were who we were. Or thinking we knew. .. I wish I could wake'cr up. We could sit in the kitchen and talk."

There should be a wide audience for this book. A lot of us-arc working the mines all over. And like John and his Missus,most of us can't communicate with each other either. It is Pin-scnt'sgift that John and his Missus will communicate with you.

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Groppi Tells Why He Was at Gresham(Milwaukee) — This letter is a critical response to Fr.

Andrew Greeley's comments on the Native American action atGresham. I do not usually respond to articles that resort to "adhominem" attacks. Andrew Greeley, however, is a syndicatedcolumnist who is read by many and, therefore, I feel I mustrespond.

Fr. Greeley called Marlon Brando and myself,"publicity-seeking clowns." That is an "ad hominem" attack..Marlon-Brando is an internationally known actor. He does notneed the publicity. He has all the requests and work that he canhandle. All that publicity does for me is make lif e in a taxi-cabless comfortable. It seems to me that Fr. Greeley is the only oneprofitting from the publicity around Gresham, since he is get-ting paid to write about it. Fr. Greeley likes to classifyhimself as a Catholic intellectual. Why then, does he stoop tocheap, personal, "ad hominem" attacks?

Fr. Greeley further accuses Marlon Brando of getting richby exploiting the image of Italian-Americans. I am an Italian-American and I did not find the movie offensive. I think that itportrayed an aspect of Italian-American life. It is a small part ofItalian life, and involves a miniscule number -of Italians.Nevertheless, the Mafia is a reality. Marlon Brando was askedto play in "Godfather II." He refused. He was worried about theItalian-American image.

Anyway, I do not need an Irish-American to tell me what myItalian-American sensitivities should be. Furthermore, it issilly to compare the plight of the American Indian today withthe needs of the Italian-American of yesterday: My parents-fought those battles many years ago when they came from theold country. That was yesterday. The new "wop" if you will , isthe black man, the American Indian and the Spanish-speaking.Indeed, those oppressions preceded and continue after that ofthe immigrant Italian.

I went to Gresham to prevent bloodshed. I do not like gunsno matter who carries them. But it is hypocritical to tell theIndians not to use'firearms in acquiring land that was takenfrom them in the same manner.

I was invited to the abbey by the Indians, when the NationalGuard said that they were going in the next day. They wantedclergymen there to prevent a massacre. Marlon Brando wentthere for the same reason. Had the army attacked, it would havebeen worse than Attica — it would have been another My Lai.There were many teenage girls and boys in the monastery. I donot believe that the entire piece of property was worth one dropof human blood.

Fr. Greeley is incorrect again when he stated that the ab-bey was paid for with the- donations of the working class. Theland and part of the abbey was a,gift to the Alexians by theNabisco family. Furthermore, I think it is wrong to use thedonations of the working class to build lavish monasteries. Itwas ironic to see the words of Christ written on expensive stainglass windows, next to imported Italian marble. The words,"feed the hungry, clothe the naked, etc." seemed horribly out ofplace. The building has not been used for six years. TheMenominee have a great need for a hospital and a school. I thinkthe words of Vatican Council n, in the "Church in the ModernWorld," apply very well to the action at Gresham. "If a personis in extreme necessity, he has the right to take from the richesof others what he himself needs."

Fr. Greeley's argument about the rule of law is equallyridiculous. Since when has the law ever "been applied equally tothe poor and oppressed minorities. There must be something

g when"98 per cent of Attica is poor and over 90 per centblack and Spanish-speaking. Every Indian who was in themonastery at Gresham was arrested. Artley Skenadore, the

Grefsheim Objects to Lucey'sTuition Proposal for MAT C

\(Madison)—(To Gov. Lucey) — Through the payment of

Wisconsin income taxes, all wage earners support the Univer-sity of Wisconsin even though some cannot afford to send theirchildren to this educational institution.

MATC has provided a place where these wage earners in thelower income tax brackets can send their children to obtain thetraining so necessary to obtain employment.

To raise the tuition at MATC would be dealing a low-blow tothese unprivileged taxpayers and their children.

To balance the budget and still not create unemployment,w methods and taxes must be adopted.

A four-day work week wil l decrease unemployment. Alicense fee on two-wheel trailers can provide additional revenue.For highway protection and safety, these trailers should berequired by law to be equipped with directional lights in therear. Mendota State Hospital can provide employment by usingsome of the facilities for a short-term acute general hospi-tal. — Mrs. Norman Grefsheim.

Reader Asks Why Post OfficeSpends Million s on Stamp Ads

(Madison) — Perhaps the Post Office can tell us why theyshould spend million of dollars to advertise stamps.

The February issue of Harpers Magazine has a full page ad,in all the colors of the rainbow, advertising stamps. Such adsare not cheap. How many dozens of other magazines had thisad?

A short time ago there were three ads in The Capital Times,nearly a page each, which told us nothing of interest or valueabout our Post Office. Why? Doubtless hundreds of othernewspapers carried similar ads. Why? And again—why spendmillions to advertise stamps?

Congress turned the P.O. over to a bunch of businessmento" save money. They nearly doubled the cost of postage exceptfor the trash advertising we get. They gave contracts to thehighest bidder or gave them without bids, as Jack Anderson haspointed out. It's enough to make an honest businessmanashamed of his image. And now of all silly things they spendmillions to advertise stamps! Truth is really stranger than fic-tion.—BA,' .

Madison's TV Scene LeavesMerrit t Unimpressed

(Madison) - Boy! .The Madison TV stations — and other TVincluded — really are going to the dogs.

"Warning that the movie may not be suitable for allmembers of the family."

What are you supposed to do? Put the member in a closet andlock the door? Maybe throw the key away or send the membersout in the street so they can team from experience?

If this fe the best they can do about programs, they'd betterforget it. — Itay MwiW

governor's chief negotiator, and Dr. Herbert Carr, a Sioux os-teopath, were held in contempt for refusing to answer questionsat a John Doe hearing. Dr. Carr was given a 90-day jail sentence.Marlon Brando, Fr. John Garvey, attorney Robert Bryan andmyself, were also in the monastery illegally. We were the onlyones not arrested. The rule of law in this country favors whites,and even more so, the rich ruling class.

The Alexian Brothers could not have ignored the takeover inthe manner of Ed Levi and the incident on the University ofChicago campus. Such a suggestion reveals how littl e Fr.Greeley knew of what was happening at Gresham. The localvigilantes would have slaughtered the Indians. The NationalGuard had to be called to prevent a massacre. I do not think thatwe should spill human blood over church money. We made thatmistake with the Papal states and with the vast amount of landwe owned in South America. We have no right to possess thisamount of property and expensive facilities in the face of ex-treme human misery. There is a lot more that I want to write,but space is limited. Let me close with a quote from "Letter toPeoples of the Third World," signed by 18 Third World CatholicBishops, in "Between Honesty and Hope," page 6: .

"Christians and their pastors should know how to recognizethe hand of the Almighty in those events that occur sporadically— when the powerful are dethroned and the lowly are exalted,when the rich are sent away empty-handed and the needy arefilled. Today the world insistently calls for recognition of man'sfull dignity and for social equality among all classes. Christiansand all men of good wil l cannot but go along with this demand,even if it means that they must give up their privileges and their-personal fortunes for more equitable distribution in the socialcommunity."—Fr. James E. Groppi.

JFK Is Different(Continuedfrom Page 13)

the end of the year, credit is given on a pass-fail basis.The informality and individual attention work in large part

because of the small student body. The average class size is 7.4and the largest is freshman English, with 35 students.

Father Fred Burg, JFK's principal for the last two years,said that he would like to see the school's enrollment go upsome, but he said about 250 students would be the maximum theschool could take and retain its character.

Right now, according to Burg, about a third of JFK'sstudents are from the Milwaukee area, about 30 are from theimmediate St. Nazianz area and most of the rest are 'fromsomewhere in eastern Wisconsin.

Wide VarietyThere is almost an even split between boys and girls, and

about 30 of the students are black. There is one NativeAmerican. Some of the kids come from very rich families,others from very poor families.

A number of students transfer Into JFK, Burg said, afterthey find it difficult to work in more structured high schoolsettings. About 70 per cent of JFK's graduates go on to college.

The faculty, almost half, of which is under 30, is evenly split:between men and women, but it is all white. Faculty salaries are?based somewhat on individual needs, but they run around $3,200ifor a year, plus room and board.

"One of the points we really have going for us is the staff,'"'Burg said. "They don't come here for money like that unlessthey have a lot of dedication."

Religion still is important at JFK, with required courses intheology and philosophy. But the orientation is personal belief,not doctrine. -

All Faiths Represented

"We have students who are Jewish, Quaker, Protestant andCatholic," Burg said. "Everybody learns religion from theirown perspective."

Al l this talk about educational theories and numbers doesnot really capture the spirit of JFK, though.

One place that captures it is the school's art center.From the outside, the art center looks like an old service

garage. That's what it was. But under the guidance of artdirector Steven Reichgeld, the inside has been transformed.

A gallery features paintings each month from a differentWisconsin artist. There are spacious rooms where student?work on everything from elementary sketches to advanced pot-tery. All of this was put together by the students themselves.

That is part of the key to JFK — students doing it them-selves.

Board of Directors

There is a board of directors, of course, that ponders thefuture of the school. There are even some heavies on it, likeformer attorney general Victor Miller and Dr. James Hanlon,president of Marian College in Fond du Lac and the architect ofJFK's philosophy.

But school policies are decided at community forums,which are open to everyone at the school — faculty and students.All votes are equal.

There is some complaining among students that the forumsdon't really work very well, but Sara Belleau, one of thestudents, noted, "if students don't like things here, they have noone to blame but themselves."

The day-to-day affairs of the school are run by an adminis-trative" team that includes four adults and two students.

There is a lot of talk at JFK about "community" and "ac-ceptance of one another." To the rest of the state, Mickey Crowemay be a basketball star, but at JFK, he's just Mickey. Somelads may come from rich or poor families, but .that doesn'tcount for much. What counts is whether they work witheverybody else in a class or doing dishes or in the school play.

Discipline No ProblemDiscipline in classes is rarely a problem, teachers said, but

the community living situation creates some difficulties. Thereare occasional problems with theft or vandalism and withdrinking and drugs.

That may stem in part from the school's remote location. St.Nazianz, a sleepy farming village, does not offer a lot of ex-citement for teenagers.

So, as one student put it, JFK is great for academic activi-ties, but the night-time social lif e leaves something to bedesired.

With the variety of activities at JFK, many of the kids viewthe basketball team and all the excitement surrounding thestate tournament as just one more neat happening at theirschool, but nothing to lose much sleep over.

Eltink estimated that until the team reached tournamenttime, about half the student body had never seen the team play.

Finance* Are

Finances are a problem for the school, and where some placesmight put a big effort into an athletic budget, not so at JFK. Afew years ago the school colors were blue and white and theteam's name was the Royals.

But they didn't have uniforms.Then a seminary closed in southern Wisconsin and someone

found a box of uniforms — black and gold with "Moors" acrossthe front. So the school changed colors and the team name.

At the beginning of this basketball season, there were vir-tually no basketballs available for the team. The father of acheerleader donated four and another (an bought couple andthe tern was set. . . '

There are not many state tournament teams around thiscountry who started the season short of basketballs.

But, then that's the kind of place JFK is,

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