ERIE .eA&AL PUBLICATIONS, Thursday, October 28, 1971
by Congressman,
Barber B. Conable, Jr.
Elbridge Gerry; the genial early Governor of
Massachusetts, has a way of popping out of the
pages of history every ten years or so to chflT
the blood of Incumbent legislators. Incumbency
is a tremendous jfl,vani8ge„tQ ihe^aQderh day
representative with Ms ability to amplify his voice
through the media, but since he speaks primarily
to a limited audience and that audience can be
changed by gerrymander, he is not invulnerable.
The original and still the primary purpose of the
Census is the reapportionment and redisricting
of the nation's legislatures, and now that, the results are in from the 1970 Census, "we" are all
looking forward With trepidation to the redrawing of the lines*
The 37th Congressional District is so close to
the edge and end of the State that there are not
many possibilities for changes if you make normal
political assumptions. Demogtaphic changes disclosed by the Census include a decline of population oh the Niagara Frontier, relative to other
parts of the State, and so the three oongressional districts there will probably hav£ to reach,
into our District to make up the 46£,000 people
norm for a 1970 Census congressional district
in New York. That will push our boundaries
somewhat to the east* but without altering the
ethnic, economic or political makeup of the District to a substantial degree. Probably the 37th
District wiB still be one-third urban, one-third
suburban and one-third rural, with an ethnic
balance close to mat of the nation as a whole.
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Employers take heart. A Personnel, Manager related the following true story, fits company
advertised for a female secretary^ several young
ladles applied but lor some reason or other none
were qualified to fill the position, except one.
Sfie^hadall the necessary quallflcatlonsitseemed
including three references of former employers.
All these former employers were contacted but
they aU gave the same recommendation which
was "Do not hire her: unless; you"are prepared to
give her the work of three employees because
that's the reason she quit us." . It seerns tba
the young lady in question believed in eight hours
work for eight hours pay. It goes without saying
that she was hired and i s kept very busy.
On a recent K.L.M. flight from Europe mere
was =a different kind of confrontation between
passengers and stewards:. A lady of my acquaintance suffers with astibm&, and was tricken while
high above the ocean and had tohaveoxygeh, The
stewards and stewardesses were very efficientin
their duties. No complaints. The man in me next
seat however, was aghast to think mat mere was
a sick person next to him and besides^, how could
he smoke when there was oxygen being used? He
demanded that the sick lady be moved to another
While the 37th District is not likely to (be
changed much, many congressmen are extremely
nervous about recent, reports emanating from
Albany. The State Legislature does the redlstrictlng, setting die district boundaries; for Con*
areas in a political environment far removed
from Washington* Normally tms recustripting is
done in a_sjgeciai_fljesaioji-^f-the-iegislature-te
isolate It (because of its political intensity)
from the normal bipartisan grist of the regular
session,
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It has been assumed until recently that the
special session would be held in December, but
leaders in Albany have how let it be known that
there wouldn't be enough time in December to redistrict both the State Legislature and the Congress. It has been proposed to draw the State
Senate and Assembly districts in December and
to do the congressional districts a month later.
Since the lack-of-tlme argument Isriotvery per- "
suasive, some congressmen are viewing this decision with alarm. It tells them that the state
legislators want to study their own legislative
districts following their^xedistricting, before deciding whether or not they want to run for Congress, in which case they have reserved the possibility of designing for themselves a congress
sional district in which the congressional incumbent would not have alargeincumbency advantage.
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part or the plane. It' seems that she was literally
dragged out of her seat in order to comply with
this passengers 'request'. At this point our lady
passenger was rescued by her son and brought
back to her original seat, 'the plane operators
apologized profusely and with very red faces it
appears. The 'complainer'v I arn informed, hid in
the 'john' when the plane tpucheddOwn, In all probability smoking his darn fp^i head ofTwith fear.
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What, would be your reaction to the following episode? You are just entering the Village of Spericerport in your automobile, a t night, when your
headlights pick up two young females, Nothihgso
very startling about that you say? Of course not,
except these jeo called young ladies wereallowing
their 'unmehtionables' to drop to the ground every
time a car came in sight.: Witnesses considered
these girls to b§ junior high age.
it seems that one of our neighboring communities had some minor excitement over their fire
radios ho less. From" all accounts* the fireman
in question was calling his lady friend On the
phone from tjhe flrehouse. He neglected to notice
that his elbow was resting upon the talk button of
the fire radio microphone, the rest will have to be
left to the readers imagination.
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This concern would not be aft alarming one to
congressmen if it weren't for the degree-of-theig
-isolation-from—the home scene. It is difficult
for the typical congressman to parrtcipat&rthellfe of his home community,with Congress meeting all year long* He cannot be home weekdays,
nor can hi? family live at home if he ever wants
tttsee,them. Thepolitigal-pow«r~base^n(-Amer-ican politics is the state jparty, not the national
party. The remoteness and pressure of his work
makes the-congressmanincreasinglydepehdenton
the good will of local political figures.
Redistricting is a eritieai point in any political
career, and you can expect that there will be a
lot of worried congressmen unless the Legislature can be persuaded to treat congressional r e districting in the same context as its own redistricting,
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