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a27- SAN BERNARDINO SUN-TELEGRAM 33 VOICE OF THE PEOPLE iees Crisis Forum Rules on Public Mitm The Voice of Defends Judges Editor of The Sun-Telegram: I deem it a duty as a member of the San Bernardino County Bar, to make reply to the lady who has recently in this section spoken ill-advisedly of our Superior Courts, for although addressing her remarks against one judge, she has, in effect, attacked the honesty of the bench as a whole. In a proper case, after full investigation, probation sometimes appears to be the most fitting disposition of a criminal matter. Many considerations are involved, such as the defendant's employment record, his family responsibilities, his prior record, the reasons for his having committed the offense, the intent involved, the attitude of the victim, extent to which reimbursement has been made, or rehabil vehicle in thxs great democracy the place where men and women may express thexr opinions on public affairs and, if they desire, debate conflicting ideas. The simple rules which govern this department are as follows: letters should not be over 300 words in length except by special permission of the editor, the editor reserves the right to both edit and reduce the length of letters, each letter must be signed by the correct name of the author with his or her address; on request the name of the author will be omitted, provided, however, every letter which directly criticises a public official or other person must be signed for publication (they are entitled to know who ts criticising them); letters relating to and debating religion are not desired. The value of this column to good government and a properly operated community can be increased by frank discussion and presentation ot criticism or approval of conditions that require correction or merit commendation.

Your letters are earnestly solicited. Plan Ahead Editor of The Sun-Telegram: As you have no doubt heard, we are faced with a drastic drop in our water supply. Many great setbacks can be traced to the failure of people to think ahead and act in time. I'm willing to bet the people of San Bernardino Valley will continue to be exceptional. We are already taking steps to form a water district and elect directors to represent us in finding an outside source of water to keep our own basin level up to a safe point.

Think of what happened when people of other communities failed to see a crisis coming or, while seeing the crisis, sat on their hands. Los Angeles didn't foresee the smog problem. You know what happened there, or at least it is brought home to you everytime you drive into L.A. I've just quit making the trip. In the past, people have also failed to meet economic depressions until too late.

I'm sure we are not going to allow the water situation to get out of hand. It has taken wise heads to set up the formation of this long-needed water district for the San Bernardino Valley. All of us now have the responsibility to vote in favor of this district and assure water for the future. Vote yes Jan. 26th! VIOLA H.

GASTLELUM, San Bernardino. Greenlease Case Editor of The Sun-Telegram: The Greenlease child murderers are gone and I beg leave to make a few observations. Hall was a drug addict which causes me to observe that they got the wrong man. Anyone knows that drug addicts are more or less irresponsible. The dope peddlers who got him ought themselves to be got.

They are the ones to get what he got. I do not believe in capital punishment for varied reasons, but in China the land is speedily rid of them. As for the woman, well somehow I think that if the state of Missouri has any prison industries that a woman, capable of pulling the stunt that she did in getting possession of the child and extracting $600,000 and getting away with it, would have served the state in remarkable capacity and have saved for it and made for it much money. That besides ruining the life and happiness of her dear auntie who so tenderly laid her aw ay by the side of her mother under the pines in the old cemetery. Capital punishment does not cure crime.

See how the papers are full of it yet today, murders and what not. If Hall had been caught and cured of his dope habit, the crime likely would not have happened. Let the youth and others learn the lesson to beware of becoming entangled in the meshes of fiendish narcotic promoters and to avoid strong drink and bad company. Also, let them remember their early Christian training, if they had any, and return to it. If they did not, let them get busy and make some for themselves.

Two lives have been hurried away without thought of what they might have done for good he to uncover dope rings and she for what I stated. What kind of a Christmas will Hall's mother have? FRANK CHEDESTER, San Bernardino. Two Suggestions Editor of The Sun-Telegram: I think it would be of inestimable aid to the tired mothers and businessmen if space could be found and arranged in the heart of the business section, or in any other suitable location, for a "Wee Care" organization to care for children of shopping mothers or mothers who are handicapped Korean Aid Editor of The Sun-Telegram: Teenagers, would you like to have a share in a project of many of our servicemen in Korea and Japan? Our GIs have been shocked by the plight of war orphans. Government-sponsored orphanages were trying valiantly to take care of as many orphans as possible, but were short of funds, so that the children were only a little better off than those roaming the streets. With true American generosity, our men pitched in.

They used their off-duty time to clean and repair orphanages. They dipped heavily into their pocketbooks to buy clothing, shoes, bedding, food. They topped it off with parties. All this started as a Christmas project, but is being kept up on a year-round basis. But there are many homeless children not in orphanages.

Winters there are cold. There is an organization. Christian Children's Funds, which has taken many of these children in, and is giving them adequate care, physically, mentally, and spiritually. Its funds came from voluntary gifts from many Americans. One way it works is through For $10 a month a person or a group may "adopt" a child into a CCF orphanage.

The sponsor or group receives the child's picture, name, address, and history, and is encouraged to correspond with his adoptee. Now what I want to suggest to you young people is this: How about a group of you forming a "Big Brother Club" or a "Big Sister Club," and "adopting" a boy or girl over there? You ask, where will you get the money? Well, our serviceman got it the sacrifice way. How do you manage when you want money for something special? You give up a few things for a while before it, don't you? Would you be willing to give up a few things to save a child's life? How do you like this plan? Will you start a "Big Brother or Big Sister Club" to save a child's life? Address, Christian Children's Fund, China Building, Richmond 4, Va. Or if you want more information from me first, my address is 967 Cunningham Street, Highland. MRS.

DORIS FRANKLIN China Policy Editor of The Sun-Telegram: Here are a few words in regard to China policy as written by Grace Henning, Highland. Sen. William F. Knowland and Sen. Joseph McCarthy are both real Americans, which is the real reason they believe in America for Americans.

They have joined forces to pro-lect the dear old U.S.A., not to split any party or widen the breech between the U.S. and other nations. The U.S. has sent aid, billions of dollars, to those nations this lady says should not be stopped from trading with the China Reds. Listen, you are forgetting that it is real American boys who are being killed over there, burned alive in bunches of 10, buried alive, starved to death, even being made slaves of the Reds and yet you say, don't get tough with them.

What do you mean? I am an American Legion man, post 14, San Bernardino, also a member of Veterans of Foreign Wars, disabled in 1918, and have gone through life unable to work at my trade or profession. But, nevertheless. I am still an American and will fight to the last for the old U.S.A. This lady says we are always waging wars, but she must remember that the terrible wars we have been in were caused only by other nations crying and begging for help when they were about to loose out and be taken over by other lands, their money gone and begging from the U.S. billions which they have never intended to pay back.

America has played sugar daddy to the nations you talk of, Mrs. Henning, long enough. J.C.C. San Bernardino. Story of Agnes Editor of the Sun-Telegram: This is the story of Agnes and the driver of a San Bernardino school bus.

Little Agnes was a 4-months-old puppy of very uncertain ancestry. She had just learned that riding in an auto was fun. One morning a few days ago, she climbed into the school bus with her master when no one was looking. She had never known anything but love in all her little life and she must have thought this was heaven. The biggest auto she had ever seen and chuck full of boys and girls.

Her master asked the bus driver to stop so he could put Agnes off somewhere near home, but bus drivers are on schedule and schedules rate away above boys and puppies. So he just couldn't take a minute for such an unimportant thing. When he came to the busy highway with its stop sign, he stopped and put little Agnes off right into the busy traffic. Being a country puppy unused to traffic laws, she jaywalked and was killed under the wheels of a big truck right before her master's eyes. The bus driver said "Sorry." The moral to this story is "It doesn't take but a minute to be kind." I bet that bus driver was never a little boy who owned a puppy.

An empty dog house isn't so good at Christmas time. OLD LADY WHO LOVES DOGS AND LITTLE BOYS. Editor of The Sun-Telegram: The people of the valley are facing a very serious situation. If the shortage of water continues, the valley is apt to suffer serious economic loss if not collapse. Lawns can be replanted but chickens once dead are gone and groves dead will not be replanted.

It has been my privilege to live in many states and to travel very widely but I have never seen a condition so near anarchy as the present situation in the valley. Every city and every water company is trying to grab water rights so that when there is an apportionment or adjudication they will get as much water as possible. The home owner should be aware that there is now no apportionment of water in the San Bernardino Redlands Basin (Bunker Hill Basin). Companies and cities can pump all the water they want. As a result there is a serious overdraft and the water level in the wells has dropped at least 70 feet on the average and is going lower every year.

If San Bernardino and Riverside keep building new homes, disaster is bound to over take the people living in Highland, Redlands, Yucaipa, Loma Linda and other communities on the upper edge of the basin when their wells go dry. The situation in the Lytle Creek Basin (Rialto, Colton, Blooming-ton) and the Muscoy area is the same. There is a serious overdraft. The water level is down 100 feet near Highland avenue and 50 feet near Mill. This is not as deep a basin and disaster could hit even more quickly.

If an emergency, such as an extreme drought, were to arise at the present time, there is no machinery to do anything about it. Each city and company would keep on pumping and those companies and cities on the upper edges of the basin would just close up as they went dry and the people would close their houses and move away. What is the answer? There is only one. San Bernardino Valley Water District must be formed on Jan. 26.

Then the directors can call a meeting of all water users taking water from the basin and work out a percentage cut. Then the people can be given the choice of getting along with less water and building no new homes or voting for more water. It is up to the district directors to explore all possible sources of water and offer suggested contracts for the approval of the voters at a later election. The second reason for forming a district is to make it possible to buy water outside of the valley. No one company can afford to build an aqueduct but all working as a unit could.

The district would serve as a purchasing agent buying water for the valley and distributing it to each company. The people of the whole area would pay for the aqueduct and each company would pay for what water it uses above its quota of water it now has. No company would surrender any water rights to the district. Only a court can take away water rights. In turn the district would not surrender any water rights to the corporation from which it would buy water.

It is the same as buying groceries from a cooperative. You have an interest but the cooperative does not own your house because you buy a share of stock. As I have said above, any decision about buying water must be made at a later election. The only problem facing us now is to form a district and apportion present supplies of water. It is later than we realize.

Our homes, our jobs, and our future are at stake. Is it worth a few cents a year per capita to organize the machinery necessary to start to bring order out of chaos. A yes vote on Jan. 26 will make it possible to form a water district and to make a start on this urgent problem. DR.

W. B. TOWNSEND Grand Terrace Minimum Price Editor of The Sun-Telegram: I just read in your paper a report that Reilly of the Board of Equal-lization in San Francisco is taking our liquor dealers to task for selling at a discount. What I'd like to know is how the citizens of this state were ever bamboozeled into approving a minimum price for liquor or anything else in our stores. We have minimum prices for milk, too, and for other things as well.

The only people I know of who want minimum prices are the retailers, certainly not the consumers. We talk mighty big about free enterprise giving the consumer more for his money by increasing efficiency through incentive. Yet how can this be accomplished when manufacturers and distributors are prevented from passing on savings in their costs? In Europe they have state controlled prices. What is the difference? H. E.

O. San Bernardino. Who's Confused? Editor of the Sun-Telegram: I have just finished reading in your paper the second letter written by Harry E. Reynolds accusing the school board and the school administration of confused thinking. After reading these letters I wonder who is confused, the school authorities or Reynolds.

I know that I became confused, trying to follow Reynolds' obscure reasoning. Reynolds has made the bold assertion that school authorities hold special elections for the election of board members, bond issues and other school purposes to impose their ideas on the community without full discussion and by minority vote. He offers no facts to back up this assertion, but having said it treats it as a fact. He conveniently overlooks the fact that school board elections are set by our city charter and that there may be many legitimate reasons for the recent special school bond election which would counter-balance his contentions even if such contentions have any merit. For example, he overlooked the fact that no amount of planning could have forseen the destruction of the San Bernardino High School gymnasium by fire and the dire need of replacing this building without delay.

But even more remarkable than the reasoning of his first letter is his second letter in which he professes to see complete confirmation of his views in the recent Redlands bond issue election and in his quoted statements of Redlands Superintendent of Schools Ross Speer. I have carefully read and reread all of his statements regarding that election and fail to find any confirmation of Reynold's contentions. On the contrary this election appeared to me to be more of a vindication of the San Bernardino School authorities. Let's consider the points of similarity and dissimilarity between these two elections. First, both were special elections held under similar circumstances and within a short period of time.

Second, both were to cover comparatively long-term building programs to utilize the benefits of careful long-range planning and to permit savings of tax money in the form of election costs and selling time. Third, both were apparently carefully conceived and fully and realistically carried to the people by all means available to a public agency. Now, for points of dissimilarity. The Redlands issue failed to receive unanimous endorsement, but the San Bernardino issue received full endorsement from all groups to which it was presented, including the San Bernardino Central Labor Council, the San Bernardino Chamber of Commerce, and the San Bernardino County Taxpayers Assn. The only other point of dissimilarity was that the Red-lands issue passed and the San Bernardino issue failed.

In this regard, however, I believe that a recent previous Redlands issue also failed; probably for the same reasons that the San Bernardino issue failed the apathy of the people in favor of the issue who believed it would pass without their vote. The Redlands issue to which Reynolds referred was a resubmission and there was no reason for the Red-lands voters to again be apathetic. Reynolds goes on to state that he has received numerous letters and phone calls in support of his views. If this is true, I would suggest to the people who wrote and called Reynolds that much greater good would be accomplished if they would write or call the school board, which has legal responsibilities for running our schools and for calling school elections. Or better yet, they could attend a school board meeting and express their views personally, in which event both would have an opportunity of becoming better informed.

Now I ask which view is reasonable and which is confused. The simple statement of Mueller that, in his opinion, the issue failed because too many voters believed that an issue with unanimous public support would pass without their vote, or the devious reasoning of Reynolds as expressed in his two letters. Yes, Mr. Reynolds, I am confused, confused as to the motive and purpose of your two letters. MRS.

OTTO C. SWAN San Bernardino. Whodunit? Editor of The Sun-Telegram: Every time I write to you, Mr. Editor, the funniest things happen to me, and today I find I need your help. I have been trying to locate D.

Gantz." I have a personal message for him. So far I have been unable to deliver it. Hence my appeal to you. You will recall I met "Gantz" in your columns last Sunday morning when he questioned my "motives" in my recent discussion of certain phases of the recently defeated city school bond issue. Speaking as a champion of City School Supt.

Mueller and the city school administration, "Gantz" qualified himself, along with Supt. Mueller, as an expert on "apathy." During his discussion, "Gantz" publicly "took off his hat" in token of high praise for the manner in which the bond issue had been handled. ft iiimi the People is a very important and communicate with the Voice of the People their motives being, of coures, a matter of conjecture. Mr. Editor, let's help get "Gantz" registered if he indeed exists.

It shocks and grieves me to think that the public defense of the city school system should lie in the hands of the champions of "apathy." I hate to think he is a "phoney." Thank you, Mr. Editor, and here's wishing you, your staff and your thousands of readers a Happy New Year. HARRY E. REYNOLDS San Bernardino Tribute Paid Editor of The Sun-Telegram: It is my object in writing you to pay tribute to a conscientious group of Redlands school trustees. It was largely through their direction and efforts that the taxpayers were adequately informed of the great need for added school facilities.

The bond issue, as a consequence, was voted overwhelmingly. I understand that the trustees enlisted the aid of the teachers in telling the story of school needs. Each teacher was asked to inform 10 people as to the necessity of school bond passage. The public was informed the program was approved. GRATEFUL PARENT, Redlands.

More on Bonds Editor of the Sun-Telegram: At the risk of prolonging unnecessarily the discussion of the recent school bond issue failure initiated by Harry Reynolds, I would like to clarify a few points which seem to be getting progressively more confused. Unfortunately, a portion of my letter of Dec. 13, was omitted. If it had been printed, it would have revealed another point of difference between Reynolds and me. In substance, I said I could easily understand the reluctance of school administrators and school leaders to present "the facts of life" to the community.

They are unpleasant facts because they indicate that we must spend more money for our schools. Because these facts are unpleasant, the community too often takes out its resentment on the school leader who presents them. Instead of facing the problem, the community says, "Let's try another superintendent; maybe he'll tell us another story!" In the face of that attitude, can you blame school leaders for being timid? The facts remain. They are easy for any interested person to obtain. In his fine series, "Reporter Goes Back to School," Hal McClure reports in the Sunday Sun Telegram "I wondered if they were doomed to overcrowded conditions the rest of their school life.

Here there were 40 in one class. (Third grade, Elizabeth Bradley school). That's crowded. A teacher does her best when she can give more individual attention. Will these children face the same conditions in junior and senior high?" These are not hidden facts.

This is information available to every person in San Bernardino. Who is to blame if the school leaders can't make us see what we refuse to face? FLOYD LYLE San Bernardino. Probation Hit Editor of The Sun-Telegram: We have just been burglarized this afternoon (Sunday, Dec. 20th). We were gone three hours.

Our Christmas gifts, clothes, radio and appliances were taken. We were just another victim in a series of robberies. We reported it and the sheriff's officers came promptly, assisted by one of the Rialto policeman. They are doing all they can for which we thank them. They will try to find the guilty.

The criticism I have is not of the sheriff's office or the Police department, but of the courts. When the guilty are found and sent up for trial, the judges put them on probation. What is the reason for the courts if the innocent are not protected from those who defy the law? I noticed in today's newspaper were items telling of persons having committed rape, robbery, using narcotics, and who were put on probation. How are you going to have law and order if you deal with the guilty in such a pantie-waist fashion? When people knowingly defy the law then they should pay the penalty. MRS.

H.E.H., Rialto. itation undertaken, the possibilities of rehabilitation for the future, and other considerations. In check cases for instance, the courts sometimes look with disfavor on a merchant who takes a check from a man and agrees to hold it for a period of time, as he is put on notice that the check may not be honored, or cases where a man under the influence of liquor signs a check which is so illegible should hesitate before accepting it. Merchants who use accepted business methods in dealing with commercial paper or negotiable instruments have never had occasion to criticize or complain about the prosecutor's office or the courts. The merits of a defendant's case are always weighed before sentence is imposed.

No judge wants to work an injustice, or undue hardship or punish inequitably. Human laws, especially under a modern system and concept of reformation and rehabilitation as opposed to ven-egeance or revenge, must be humanly administered. I'm certain that if the lady would examine the record she would find that the judge's disposition of the case she speaks of was humane and just to all parties concerned. C. R.

San Bernardino. Pension Plans Editor of The Sun-Telegram The fact that state and national legislators provide not only liberal but extra-liberal pensions for themselves is a tacit acceptance of the pension idea. But such pensions are based on a wrong principle the use of taxes for a special class. Private pensions by industry also violate basic principles taxing all for a few. All who buy the goods or services of industry pay the pensions for a few workers.

Small businesses cannot safely pay such pensions. The American Assembly founded by Gen. Eisenhower in 1950 to make an unbiased study of social and economic questions, has decided that our present social security is a hodge-podge and Congressman Curtis, head of the committee studying the question, gives it devastating criticism, as does Sen. Kennedy in the October American Magazine. The only fair pension is one for which everyone pays.

With such a pension system every form of charity and relief could stop. But to make it effective in preventing recessions and depressions, the monthly payment must be spent before receipt of the next month's payment. Such a pension, supported by 2 per cent a month on gross national income and 2 per cent on personal incomes above $250 a month would cost one earning $300 a month $12 a year; one earning $350. $24 a year, and one earning $400, $36 a year. Now compare that ith the cost of a pension of $150 a month in an old-time life insurance company.

Present national income would provide over $150 a month for 15 million pensioners (present estimate 13 million) and all would get the same pension. None would get several hundred or several thousand dollars a month as a favored few are now getting. Anyone who will refuse to listen to arguments based on personal bias and prejudice and give careful study to the Town-send Plan will discover that it is practical, business-like, reasonable and fair to everyone; that everyone pays for it and is therefore rightly entitled to it; that it will keep industry going and prevent poverty, recessions and depressions. JANET FARR San Bernardino. Federal Saving Editor of The Sun-Telegram: To those who haven't read, "An Ex-Government Contract Negotiator Reports," in the Saturday Evening Post, Nov.

21 issue, I would suggest they read the article, "I Saw Us Bungle Defense Agreements in Europe" by Gordon W. Rule. To the people who think they are doing something big by cutting out jobs of a few lttle people who are barely existing on their salary, let me tell them it would make just about as big a showing in government spending to save paper clips from the office floor. It certainly doesn't seem just or fair for people who are willing to work for their government to work for a wage that doesn't allow them to save a dollar or have the necessities of life, while we are still supporting military defense assistance to foreign countries. E.

P. Mentone No I don't mind "Gantz" doffing his hat. What I am trying to find out is where "Gantz" hangs his hat. Since I wanted to tell "Gantz" something about my "motives" which he had publicly questioned, Monday morning I consulted the phone book. No D.

Gantz. "Not discouraged I then consulted the 1953 official edition of Luskey's San Bernardino-Col-ton-Rialto Criss-Cross City Directory. No D. Gantz" there, either. As you know, I then called you.

You said the "Gantz" letter had arrived without an address. Well, I thought, "Gantz" sure knows me but I sure don't know "Gantz." But I wasn't beaten yet. As spokesman and defender, even if without portfolio, of the city school administration, "Gantz" must be one of the persons who, of course, voted for the school bond issue. Remember, "Gantz" told us "I'm definitely in favor of the bond issue." And as an expert on "apathy," I thought, he sure must have voted. The office of the county clerk informed me, after examining the master voters list; (1) D.

Gantz" couldn't be found as ever having been registered or qualified to vote in San Bernardino County at any time; (2) D. Gantz" could not be "found" among the list of those who voted, either for or against the bond issue at the recent election; (3) D. Gantz" was not even "found" on the official list of those whose registration has been canceled out by failure to vote because of (4) and, finally, as things appear to stand, "Gantz" will be unable to participate in any election whatsoever (school or otherwise, now or in the future), unless he overcomes his "apathy" and registers. Now here is the complete message I have been trying to get to "Gantz" all this past week, now asking for your help, because the only sure thing I now know about "Gantz" is he "reads and rereads" my letters to you in your newspaper. In fact, he is quite a student of them.

Please tell "Gantz" for me: I wrote my original letter and all subsequent contributions on school matters as (1) a private citizen; (2) a person with a member of my family in high school; (3) a homeowner and taxpayer; (4) a registered voter who for years has taken enough interest in public matters not only to inform myself of the issues, but who has customarily prepared myself to make up my mind and do something about them. Also, air. Editor, please tell "Gantz" for me and tell "Gantz" if he has the ear and confidence of Supt. Mueller to pass it on to Mueller, that one of my greatest irritations, in conscientiously trying to vote at each and every election (which I try to do), and in attempting to intelligently exercise my sacred rights of citizenship, has been the many inconveniences and annoyances surrounding the handicap course that the school authorities seem to delight in placing in my path when I try to get to the polls at a special school election. Please ask "Gantz" is it "apathy" when I sometimes don't make it? Ask "Gantz" is it "apathy" when, under the press of everyday life and everyday business, my friends and neighbors forget or get tied up or are delayed and miss out casting ballots at such special elections altogether, and think later, when memory and conscience jogs "Oh, my gosh, that darn school election It slipped my mind completely I intended to vote today Well, it's too late now!" Please ask "Gantz" if this condition in his mind is conducive to an effective working of the true democratic process, or is it conducive to placing school affairs and school elections in the hands of a "majority of the minority?" And finally, Mr.

Editor, please tell "Gantz" for me that he is the best example of "apathy" that we so far have come across in the present school discussion. Tell him I believe he conclusively proves my point, which is, if you really want all the people to decide school matters (which they should), you will find those who are not "apathetic" ready and willing and able and qualified to go to the polls at a general election and decide any issue placed before them, while the "experts" on "apathy" are going to stay home regardless, one of the reasons being they are just too "apathetic" to qualify themselves for the duties of citizenship, even if at times they rouse themselves from their slumbers if iitjiii.i MTiir flu if in Valley Growing Editor of The Sun-Telegram: This letter is in the nature of a reply to Joe R. Momyer's expression on MWD in a recent Voice of the People. I have been a resident of California for 44 years, 36 of 44 right here in San Bernardino. I have seen it grow from 15,000 to what it is now, which I understand is 75,000 in the city limits.

But we also have the Base Line Gardens and Muscoy districts that are a part of our fair city. People who have lived here for the last 20 years can hardly realize the tremendous growth that this and other Southern California cities have made. Momyer asks the question, "How big do we really want to get?" To me the question is "How big will we get?" We must remember that we are living in good old U.S.A. and that if we behave ourselves we can move from one state to another also from one community to another. And besides that, we have to help take care of our share of the foreign influx.

Just last week we gave citizenship to 65 people who came from some other country. The greater the influx of population from other states and countries the greater the business. And that brings to the important part, which is "water." And if we cannot get more water, then we will have to close the doors to our state. So to get more water, we must join the MWD. Regardless of the costs, we have got to get more water into Southern California.

Yes, Joe, I laughed at your last paragraph, where you speak of zoning measures designed to maintain this valley with a certain number of inhabitants. No, no, Joe, that cannot be done as you know we are and always hope to be freedom-loving Americans. San Bernardino has grown, is growing and will continue to grow. By 1975 we will have I am for the MWD. HERMAN W.

KNITTER San Bernardino. Backs McCarthy Editor of the Sun-Telegram: In recent issues of The Sun are These headlines "Methodist Bishop Calls Probers Tools of 'Right Wing Subversives'," and "Engineer Balks at McCarthy's Questions on Einstein's Advice." I am nauseated at this constant attack on the motives of Joe McCarthy. Consider the facts: Joe is the chairman of a legally constituted committee of the United States Senate, with authority to ascertain the activities of the Communists and their sympathizers who may be undermining or destroying the government. If this objective is not creditable or needed, blame your senators, and not Joe, alone. But assuming these objectives legitimate and needed, then how in the world is he to obtain them without asking questions? Do you know of any other way? Then when any citizen or employe of the government is called upon to answer the question, "Are you now, or have you ever been a Communist?" if innocent, he can answer, "No." Where have his rights of a citizen been infringed? It is no disgrace to be asked whether you ever have been or are now a Communist, when you are innocent.

Joe is within his lawful authority to ask the questions. That is the only way he can accomplish his senatorial assignment. The witness disgraces himself when he refuses to answer. All who believe that Communists should be recognized and discharged from the various federal departments, and located even in the schools, colleges, and the clergy should leave Joe alone. Joe is a credit to our country.

I like him because he is not a "yes man" and does not put his party loyalty above his conscientious convictions. WIT JAM L. HARVEY Highland. when an appointment at a doctor's office must be kept. I saw a mother crossing the crowded street, hands full of packages, with a small child about 3 hanging on to his mother's coat as slowly she made her way across.

Also, how about a social center to care for lonely young and elderly people adrift on Sundays even if they go to church from 12 to 8:30 or 9 p.m. Strangers in the city have no way to pass the time or meet friends in a decent manner maybe someone with a lovely large home could and would be helped and made happy by sharing that home and acting as first hostess and erecting a monument for herself and city. I have seen young girls 14 to 15 accosted at 3rd and streets while waiting for a bus. They were accosted by first one then another of 3 or 4 young men, age about 18 to 20, without success. I have heard remarks by a well-dressed adult that this town was the last place she would spend a Sunday in.

Come on let's grow morally and socially. MRS. E. FERGUSON San Bernardino. Price-Fixing Editor of The Sun-Telegram: We hear a lot about the blessings of our wonderful system of "free enterprise." The party in power is loud in its praise of the "system," but I wonder.

Here in California, where the is controlled by the party that talks so loudly about "free enterprise." a person cannot name his own price for a haircut. No, it is set by law. Nor can a person sell a quart of fresh milk for his own price. It is also set by law. Nor can a dentist advertise the price he will do a dental job, for he is forbidden by law to do so.

Please tell me where does this free enterprise come in? What a farce. JOHN H. OHL, Yucaipa. Real Reason Editor of The Sun-Telegram: I wonder if our President actually believes that some 1,400 officeholders recently relieved of their duties were, as he implied, security risks? During a McCarthy airing, recently, when he was pinned down to giving the number of security risks, he said 90 per cent of them were. Now I'd like to know if the people of this country are gullible enough to believe such stuff? No "my good friends" all that is the matter with them is that they are Democrats.

WINNIE WELLS CROSNO, Yucaipa. TODAY'S FISH STORY WATERFORD, Conn. (UP) Capt. Earle Wadsworth. skipper of the Sunbeam II and the Hiram, swears it happened.

A fisherman lost his line overboard. The captain's son John. 17, dived into the water to recover the rod. When he found it. a fish was hooked on the other end..

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