Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 25, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press monday. March 25. Kennedy Blitz is on Dent Johnson of renomination. Sen. Kennedy s main objective is to stir up such tremendous excitement with an unprecedented Spring time nation wide Campaign that the Shock Waves will Jar Loose democratic Dele Gates now aligned with the president. One of the Ham me blows by which sen. Kennedy Hopes to hasten this process is a dramatic Victory Over the Johnson slate in the june 4 califor Nia primary. Since the senator began campaigning on St. Pat Rick s Day appropriately the sound Waves if not the Shock Waves have been building up steadily. At the University of Kan Sas and at Kansas state University he Drew the largest crowds to Ever hear a speech on those campuses. At. Nashville he was mobbed by youths who Tore a Button off his sleeve. At Stockton California he was pulled off a car by crowds of admirers. At san Jose California an old woman tried to hug him and a Young woman ruffled his hair which is greying at the sides. At Sacramento the crowd was so dense there was danger of panic. From now until the democratic National convention opens in Chicago on aug. 26 sen. Kennedy will be almost continuously on the political offensive what happened in the last nine Days there is Little doubt that almost everywhere he will be greeted by crowds bands placards screaming Young sters big headlines and reams of television film. In the end however it will All come Down to the crucial question of whether sen in 1897 Goodall photo co. Cave a one week service on developing. Today we give same Day service on Black and White film. In at 10 . Out at 4 . Koda color 2 to 3 Days. The oldest photo firm in Winnipeg still gives the fastest service. Goodall photo co., 321 Carlton St. Opposite free press free parking at rear originators of the free film Deal in Over films Given away. Continued Kennedy can beat the convention system with such fireworks. In the convention Delegate votes will be required for the nomination. The president s political advisers in Washington say that he has More than on his Side now which does not seem unlikely. Many of these Are from Southern and Border states for example where sen. Kennedy is unpopular. Others in various states were picked by party professionals who deem it unheard of and politically dangerous to repudiate a president of their own party. What Kennedy must do for the first time in modern american history is to build such a fire of popular sentiment under these delegates that they will be stampeded into supporting him instead of an incumbent president. Politicians in both parties say that currently the Odds Are about 2 to 1 against sen. Kennedy s being Able to reach his goal. They agree that it is not impossible however arid those who like this correspondent have witnessed the first phase of his Campaign would find it rash to declare the limits on where it might Lead in the five months before the convention. Touched nerve if the spectacle of the first nine Days suggests anything it is that the Kennedy Candida y has touched a live nerve. The people Are troubled by War and racial tension. Especially in California the reaction of the crowds was an indication that the Kennedy candidacy offered them some vague new Hope. Sen. Kennedy is playing on All the strings on doubt and dissent. He is catering to the voters discontent and anguish Over the War. He gets his loudest cheers by asking Why Saigon is not drafting boys of 18 and 19 when the United states is and Why americans Are sustaining heavier casual ties than the South Viet namese. He does not use Romney esque words like neutralization and communist infrastructure. He goes right to the american boys dying in the swamps in the bottomless pit of Vietnam. Under the administration s policy he asserts the War will go on for years and years. I am he said at Kansas state University that at the end of it All there will Only be More americans killed More of our treasure spilled out and because of the bitter Ness and hatred on every Side of this War More hundreds of thousands of vietnamese slaughtered so they May say As Tacitus said of Rome they made a desert and called it peace i do not think that is what the american spirit is really All at the University of Ala Bama he said we can t just Send More and More men to get the kind of Victory the president talks about when the problem is one for political and Diplo Matic action. And that is what i stand with a most dangerous situation prevailing in Viet Nam the dogfight that has erupted Between sen. Ken Nedy and president Johnson shows How the 1968 Campaign May bedevil the War and the quest for Settle ment. Both the president and the senator Are being driven by the urgency of Battle to make statements that May Embarrass them later. Overstates Aims thus in flailing out at Kennedy or. Johnson is heatedly overstating Ameri Ca s military Aims and further muddying the Diplo Matic Waters by doing so. Despite his political rhetoric the objective of Ameri can policy is not final Victory on the Battlefield but a reasonable settlement which . Military Power will Force the communists to enter into. By declaiming about Vic tory however the president leaves openings that sen. Kennedy charges into with statements about negotiations compromises with the Viet Cong running the risks of a communist takeover in Saigon and so Forth that May return to haunt him if he becomes president. Another lesson of the Kennedy Campaign to Date is that when a War becomes a flaming political Issue the line Between debate and demagoguery becomes a thin one. A candidate can easily be carried across it in the ardor of the fight. Law expert riled continued unsatisfactory and Many sociologists feel that most persons should be released on their own recognizance. We have no National stand Ard for sentencing and no proper system for training our judges. Sentences Given in Manitoba Saskatchewan and que Bec for the same offences often vary widely. There is also no coherent system of appointing judges it is largely civil courts had backlogs of up to five years of cases and there was no adequate system of Legal Canada also had problems concerned with its handling of the Indian and Eskimo populations. We Are faced with the fail ure of Canada s Indian he said. There is a National feeling of failure at our attempts to Deal with the indians. The present generation of Indian leaders refuse to accept the present situation in which they Are virtual wards of the govern ment. His suggestions for dealing with these problems were steady Reform of criminal and civil Law. Continuation of the trend to introduction of ombudsmen i Canada. Legal Aid insurance in All provinces to provide similar to medical Aid policies. A greater role in the Solu Tion of All problems by the Pri vate sectors including Trade unions and companies. Georges Aronstein of Brus Sels a member of the belgian league for the rights of Man told the meeting a great Deal can be achieved by constant pressure from private groups in the Field of human rights. Appointed to fishery Ottawa up Antonin Tony Proulx 44, of Ottawa has been appointed economic Intelli gence and statistics Branch chief of the fisheries depart ment s economics service the department announced Satur Day. He succeeds a. Neil Lewis of Ottawa who is retiring after 17 years with the department. Or. Proulx a native of Mont Magny que., joined the Fisher ies department in 1950 after leaving the Quebec Industry and Commerce department. 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