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THE ENQUIRER 1 15 A.N (IS DAl.i; l'l'osiilrnt Publisher BRADY BLACK Ddilor and Vice Trcsidcht 'I 111! EXOl DECLARATION OF FAITH, Al'RIL 10, 1S-11 'Ij nc Jail, that failure shall not arise from a aunt of strict adherence to principle or attention and fidelity to the trust lie asmmc." Wednesday, January 10. 1973 Deterrent Or Not? U. S. ATTORNEY GENERAL Richard G. Kleindienst said it in reference to capital punishment: that while he doesn't believe in the deterrent value of the death penalty generally, in "some areas it can be a deterrent there is justification for the death penalty." Accordingly, the administration is expected to ask Congress to make capital punishment mandatory for certain crimes and offeases, among them kidnaping, assassination, skyjacking, the tombing of public buildings and killing a prison guard.

By making capital punishment mandatory under the law in those certain offenses, the expectation is that the reservations ex-p-essed by some members of the U. S. Supreme Court last June in its 5-4 opposition to the death penalty as it was being admin-' istered would be removed. In that ruling the high court's "swing" votes the justices who could have given either side the majority were influenced in their opinions by what they perceived to be the arbitrary way the sentence was meted out. They concluded that to condemn one prisoner for a crime while another found guilty of the same offense is permitted to live essentially constitutes "cruel and unusual punishment." For that reason, proponents of capital punishment have sought to introduce legislative uniformity in its use.

Several state legislatures have already acted on criminal-code revisions and others, including Ohio, have the matter under consideration. DAILY THOUGHT- Communism is based on the belief that man is so weak and inadequate that lie is unable to govern himself, and therefore requires the rule of strong masters. Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as icell as the inalienable right, to govern himself with reason and justice. Harry Truman. The announcement by Mr.

Kleindienst, however, is the first reaction at the federal level. Of course, Mr. Kleindienst and the Justice Department are concerned primarily with federal crimes, and the offenses he mentioned as warranting, the death penalty seem to fall pretty much into that category. But there is cause to wonder about two aspects of his remarks one regarding the extent of intended federal prerogatives' in applying the death sentence and the other concerning the understanding of deterrent. In mentioning the crimes that he would have subject to capital punishment, the attorney general included the killing of a prison guard.

Unlike assassination, bombing a federal building' and the others mentioned, taking the life of a prison guard would be a federal offense only if it occurred in a federal prison. If, therefore, Mr. Kleindienst is looking to crimes beyond federal jurisdiction, it comes to mind that he is suggesting a uni- form list of offenses for all jurisdictions, at all levels in the nation, for which the prosecution may seek the death penalty. And that, it seems to us, is an overextension of federal authority. Hie Ohio plan for the reinstatement of capital punishment seems to us to be far more reasonable and to offer greater protection to the average citizen.

The proposal under consideration here lists broad categorical circumstances as "aggravating" conditions. Thus, an individual convicted of killing for profit or, personal aggrandizement could be subject to the death sentence if none of three specific "mitigating" conditions is judged to have entered into the commission of the offense. Which brings us to the attorney general's convictions on capital punishment as a deterrent to crime. We are inclined to agree with Mr. Kleindienst to an extent.

It is reasonable to expect that a young zealot, caught up emotionally in a cause, might think again before planting a bomb in a building as a demonstration of his disaffection for government policies if he knows capital punishment is the certain consequence. But such will be the case for all crimes where the offender is, in fact, in. control of his faculties and senses at the time of commission. In specifying certain offenses, Mr. Kleindienst seems to leave room for inconsistencies.

A skyjacker, for example, would be subject to the death penalty on a mandatory basis despite the studies that have been conducted to prove that the majority of air pirates are disturbed to the point that they Headers Views Slings And Arrows Campaign those extraordinary circumstances, the people of Cincinnati are particularly indebted these annual fund-raising campaigns in behalf of the Cincinnati Fine Arts Fund As the new year unfolds, Cincinnatians have an opportunity indeed, a challenge to make certain that the Queen City's tangible progress in urban renewal, in industrial and economic growth and in a variety of other areas is matched by its steadfastness in preserving the cultural legacies that have set it apart from its sister cities across America. The United Fine Arts Fund needs and deserves Cincinnati's enthusiastic support now more than ever. The Fine Arts THE 1973 UNITED Fine Arts Fund campaign, which begins in earnest today, is like all its predecessor campaigns in the sense that it is seeking financial support in behalf, of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Cincinnati Art Museum, the Summer Opera and the Taft Museum. But it is unlike United Fine Arts Fund campaigns In previous years because cam-txiign workers this year are motivated by the realization that the 1973 effort must more successful than previous campaigns or the four beneficiary institutions must effect significant curtailments in their and, consequently, in their services to the public. Recognizing the gravity of the financial problems besetting four of the Queen City's most treasured cultural institutions, Cincinnati's business and industrial community lias pledged in advance to match every dollar raised this year in excess of what was raised in the 1972 drive.

That strikingly generous offer means that every friend of the United Fine Arts Fund can make his dollars do double duty. We trust that many will choose to do precisely that. In any catalog of the factors that make Cincinnati one of the extraordinary communities of America, the Symphony Orchestra, the Summer Opera, the Art Museum and the Taft Museum loom large indeed. The museums are among a dwindling number in the nation that remain open to the public without charge. And the performances of the Symphony Orchestra and the Summer Opera remain within reach of nearly all of Cincinnati's music lovers.

For to her Mrs. Nonie Phipps Schippers TO THE EDITOR: I was rather dismayed to read, your one-sided editorial "The Saxbe Salvo" (January 4). However, since The Enquirer supported President Nixon last November, it appears that you too were deceived along with 40 million Americans with the belief that "peace is at hand." Now, after Mr. Nixon organizes' the most destructive bombing campaign in history, Sen. William B.

Saxbe (R-Ohio), who had been asleep when people argued about the war, criticizes President Nixon by saying "he has lost his senses. The bombing, for which Mr. Nixon holds full responsibility, killed Americans, destroyed civilian homes and hospitals, and caused. many innocent people to become victims of one man's last-ditch attempt to end the war. Mr.

Nixon never did have'any feeling for people; his actions in recent weeks are further proof. If you think President Nixon was correct to step up the bombing in Southeast Asia, then I want to say that the editors of this- Letters submitted for publication should be addressed to Readers' Views, Cincinnati Enquirer, 617 Vine Cincinnati 45201. For the sake of public interest, good taste and fairness to the greatest number, the editors reserve the rifiht to condense or reject any letter and to limit the appearance of each writer to once in 30 days. newspaper nave' losf their senses. Nobody with any feeling could say that a man who orders bombing the way President Nixon has is in his right mind.

You stated that Mr. Nixon should receive an apology from Senator Saxbe. In other words, you are implying that the right of free speech no longer exists. Reading this Enquirer editorial makes, me only the more convinced that New Jersey newspapers are of a higher quality and present things as they really happen, both in this country and aroimd the world. Senator Saxbe, along with Sen.

Clifford Case should be congratulated for taking a stand against the massive bombing and prolonging the war. All U.S.- senators should join with them in bringing an end to this war. Mr. Nixon wants a victory to put his name in history as the man who brought peace to the world. The time has come for peace, not more violence to achieve the impossible.

RICHARD A. RUSSO, 119 Husman Hall, Xavier University. 'Maligning OSU' If the sports section were more important to me than your editorial page and the rest of the newspaper, I would have canceled my subscription January a. Such sarcastic, biased reporting of anything Ohio State University (OSU) teams have done throughout the years is beneath the caliber of the rest of the newspaper. The latest tirade on your part following the Rose Bowl affair sets a new low in juvenile behavior on the part of the sports staff.

Very little has been said about the questionable validity of one of the University of Southern California's (USC) touchdowns accompanied by a fumble, etc. Even The Enquirer leaves articles dangling into nowhere, scrambles sentences, and could use a few new proofreaders. Human error is often unavoidable. Deliberate maligning should never be a part of fair reporting. The obvious consistency of your attack against OSU is observed and disgruntlingly discussed by many otherwise satisfied readers.

PAULINE ZINK, 1951 Eaton Hamil ton. 'Gaining Favor' I take strong exception to the column by Jeffrey Hart "Zero Population Growth" (January 3). I am a strong supporter of the zero-population concept for the United to mention for the world where it is even more necessary, and I feel that the spirit of this movement cannot by any stretch of the imagination, unless it is the imagination of a deranged person, be termed "decadent." It is even more absurd to consider the "ecology movement as involved, at the deepest levels, with the desire for death." Mr. Hart is obviously of the old school of "growth for growth's sake" and "have children for national vitality and security, even "if you don't want them." He worried over such things as the defeat of the supersonic transport (SST), increased vasectomies and more childless couples paralleling these with an American downfall. However, the attitude such as that exhibited by environmentally conscious people and by zero-population-growth advocates is growing in the United States.

More and more are becoming aware that the quality of life is more inportant than the quantity' of, for goods produced, that an improved environment for fewer people is infinitely better than a deteriorating environment for more and more. This new consciousness does not care whether the United States is the No. 1 nation in the world, but rather that the living conditions of every person in the world can improve. Such people are obsessed with life and the quality of existence on this planet, not with death and decadence, which will surely come if people such as Mr. Hart have any influence.

JONATHAN E. HOWE, 5300 Miami Rd. 'Jackals9 The jackals of the extreme left led by Senators McGovern, Fulbright and Mansfield and by Ramsey Clark Co. are again full cry, prepared to sabotage the current peace talks, as they did before when they bamboozled Hanoi into believing that with their (help thaTof the jackals a big defeat could be administered to the United States. They just might succeed this time.

Jane Fonda and Jack Anderson, will, no doubt, soon get into the act. The sad thing is that they the jackals could actually engineer the utter and complete defeat of the United States in this latest effort at a peaceful settlement, and thereby throw away all the young lives that have been sacrificed for their country in this struggle. I daresay a little loyalty and patriotism although unfashionable among the treasonable intelligentsias might be in order at this time. We might very well remember that the bleeding hearts doing all of the howling now are the very ones who got us into the disgraceful mess in the. first place, not Richard Nixon.

MRS. FERNE SCHUBERT CARR, 114 W. Seventh St. Altar Stairs I By Dr. E.

D. IIulsc It not wrong, Dr. Hulse," said the young woman in my office, "unless you think it's wrong." Some one had sold her a false theory. She was trying to say that there is no real moral code, but your own private set of ethics. The very fact that she insisted so vehemently that she was right in her antisocial behavior gave a cluev This clue told you that.

there was some voice within her troubling her. Like Lady Macbeth, she protested too much. She was' looking for approval for her loose living, but she knew within her own heart she was in error. Call it conscience, call it God, call it the Holy Spirit, call it what you will. It is there in every man's heart.

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1 10 M. Third St. 1 347 Control Ava. SAWYER, KRGUSON WALKER GENERAL ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE seek only escape or death, lo such a person, the death penalty would be more of an incentive than a deterrent. On the other hand, the federal proposal makes no mention of the hired killer who, for a price, will commit murder in cold blood, or the killer who is prompted to act-out of ruthless ambition or greed.

Yet these are precisely the individuals who may be dissuaded from homocide in some cases if the deterrent is death. It is unclear at tliis juncture "just how far the attorney general would have his views extended if Congress acts favorably on his proposal. Nevertheless, it is evident already-that the Ohio death-penalty revision has been more carefully conceived. It should not be obscured by the federal plan. character and worth lay in the fact that she seized and utilized every one of them and that she emerged as a gracious, useful, productive member of society.

There is a clue to the depth of her devotion to the cultural well-being of her adopted city in the request of her family that memorial contributions be made to the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra Musicians Pension Fund. Cincinnati's association with Mrs. Schippers had only begun. Yet her family should be comforted by the certainty that she had already won an enduring place in the community's respect and affections and that her name will continue to be a synonym for all that is worthwhile. could answer the one unanswerable question: If this private, commercial airplane is as great a bargain as you say, why can't the private market finance it? The realities, when you could persuade the proponents to look at realities, were simply damning.

At a price of $40 million for each SST, the purchasing airlines would have been taking on a tremendous investment per passenger seat. Prospective operational costs for fuel alone were astronomical. The SST could be profitable only at much higher fares than now are charged for transoceanic flights, and only with load factors at wildly optimistic levels. WHEN IT CAME TO the final showdown in the Senate, the money at stake was peanuts: $134 million to continue prototype financing. It is a large sum to most of us.

In the money market it is nothing. If the airline industry genuinely had believed in the SST as a profit-making venture, the $134 million could have been raised in a weekend. No one would touch it. In the dreadful, eloquent silence that followed the Senate vote, the business community pronounced its mute verdict: Bad deal. Nothing has transpired from that day to this, including dispirited news of the British-French Concorde, to alter that verdict.

If we believe in free enterprise, as Friedman says, let us try to live by that faith; and let us stop soaking the taxpayers for the risks free enterprise must take. The Fundamental Case Against The SST By James J. Kilpatrick THE DEATH OF Mrs. Nonie Phipps Schippers, wife of the music director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, would have been tragic enough if it had occurred lialf a century from now at the end of a long and notable career. That it came instead while Mrs.

Schippers was still at the threshold of life was a stunning blow to' those Cincinnatians privileged to know her and to music lovers everywhere who shared pride in her gifted husband's career and recognized her contribution to it. The circumstance that Mrs. Schippers was born into one of America's most distinguished families undoubtedly gave her opportunities beyond the reach of many other young American 'women. The test of her "The SST issue is often presented as if the question were: Should or should not an SST be built in the United States? That seems to me the wrong question. I favor the building of an SST in the United States, if private enterprise finds it profitable to do so, after paying all costs, including any environmental costs imposed on third parties.

"ON THE OTHER HAND, I oppose the building of an SST in the United States if that requires government subsidies. I oppose governmental subsidization of the. SST for exactly the same reasons that I oppose governmental subsidization of food, or of automobiles, or of furniture, or of electric power. I believe in the free -enterprise system. A governmental decision to produce' an SST largely at its own expense is a step toward socialism and away from free enter-1 prise." This is the heart of the argument that many critics tried to make two years ago.

Many other complaints, of course, were raised. There was the problem of the SST's sonic boom, a plaster-cracking roll of thunder on the Earth beneath its path. There was the problem of the airplane's noise at take-off. Some critics professed to see a danger to the Earth's environment in the effect of the SST's exhaust on the upper atmosphere. PROPONENTS OF THE SST were able to fend off most of this barrage.

They never WASHINGTON: Milton Friedman, as he so often does, put his finger a few days ago squarely on the heart of a major public issue. The Chicago economist, a towering figure in the world of finance despite his diminutive size, was talking of the supersonic transport (SST) plane. He was against its revival by the incoming Congress. The issue itself is something less than transcendent. For some months, rumors have been floating about Washington that an effort would be made it was never clear by whom to have Congress authorize a fresh start on the SST.

The rumors reached a point that Wisconsin's maverick Sen. William Proxmire, leader of forces opposed to the SST, held two days of hearings before his Joint Economic Committee. Professor Friedman was his key witness. IF IT WERE NOT for an important principle, the issue scarcely would justify reporting. An American SST, for at least the foreseeable future, is a dead duck.

The Boeing Co. has sold its costly mock-up and disbanded its design and management team. The U. S. Senate, which voted 51-46 in March of 1971 to halt further federal appropriations, is not likely to be talked into a resumption of the program.

Those who dream of. renewed federal financing are dreaming of pie in the sky. Yet the principle merits a word. Friedman sumrried it up:.