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THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR PACE 31 'livery Omp In A While Soin Virion Hike Or Dam MHnttY-HO-ItOUM Attnvks Our I'Iiiimw Ah They're Flying Over Military is Others See Kl of uhat you $ay, but trill defend to the death your right to say ft." Volulre to Helretiut Nixon Views Peace Talks With Optimism By JACK ANDERSON (c) 1972, United Feature Syndicate Washington President Nixon is optimistic that a standstill cascfire in Vietnam will come out of the Paris truce talks. Both Moscow and Peking are now bringing quiet diplomatic The Star's Defense Of Fiehtine Gen. Lavelle Dismays McDowell To the Editor of The Star: I read with some dismay your eauonai neaaea: -wno Is At Fault; concerning the current attempt to censure by court-martial and investigations the now retired Gen. pressure upon Hanoi to stop the fighting. The Chinese have cited the Korean truce 20 years ago as a satisfactory solution.

In Korea, a stand-still truce was signed, but the final peace was left to be negotiated. Mr. Nixon believes the same solution is possible in Vietnam now that the Chinese are urging peace instead of goading Hanoi into fighting on. GEORGE WALLACE has not only assured friends that he will stay in the Demo John Lavelle. While Senator William Prox- thority far exceeds the military authority.

The Star said, editorially, that "it was the civilians in the chain of command who have prolonged the war, caused many unnecessary American casualties and prevented victory." If you will check on the timing of Gen. Lavelle's defiance of White House directives, you will learn that, in November, 1971, when the unauthorized bombing started, Henry Kissinger, the Presi-dent'i international and national affairs adviser, was in Paris conducting secret peace talks with the North Vietnamese. The peace talks suddenly and mysteriously broke down. Perhaps the very able and often successful Kissinger might havt negotiated a successful cease-fire in Indochina, but the North Vietnamese refused to talk while there was American military provocation in the form of Gen. Lavelle's clandestine bombings.

Wouldn't The Star agree that a cease-fire would be a huge step toward ending a prolonged war, halt the many more unnecessary American casualties and provide an acceptable alternative to victory, whatever that means to you? KEVIN McDOWELL Indianapolis. Anderson mire (D-Wia.) is indeed a liberal seeking retired Gen. Lav-die's court-martial, it is unfair to intimate that just "liberal Congressmen" wanted (he investigation and subse cratic Party, but he has given them the impression that he intends to run for President again in 1976 as a Democrat. The Alabama governor, cut quent punishment. The first investigation by ci- ill an authorities came by way of the House Armed Services Committee, certainly no complete "nest of doves." By that time he had already been demoted and retired through an investigation by his own peers Air Force Chief of Staff, Gen.

John Ryan, and Lt. Gen. Louis L. Wilson, Jr. Madden Says New Testament Doesn't Condone Killing down to a wheelchair by an intended assassin's bullet, is not unaware that Franklin D.

Roosevelt pushed himself to the top in a wheelchair. Those who have talked to Wallace believe he already sees himself as a country-boy Roosevelt who will make a populist campaign in his wheelchair. He fully recognizes that he can't win the Presidency as an independent. He has indicated, therefore, that he will adopt the Democratic Party. In private talks with both Hubert Humphrey and Henry Jackson, Wallace not only assured them that he would remain a Democrat, but that he wanted to help defeat President Nixon.

A DISGRUNTLED, cigar- In your editorial you made it sound as tnougn reurea-Gen. Lavelle had to cover up all his strikes on the infiltration by disguising the strikes under the "protective reaction" clause. 'Protestant9 Work Ethic In Reality Is Jewish This isn't true. In Lavelle term from August, isu, through March, 1972, as commander of all U.S. Air Force units in Vietnam's conflict, there were 1,300 such "protective reaction" retaliations, of which onlv 147 were blatant Mark's Gospel, Jesus is questioned by the Pharisees about divorce, which was allowed during the time of Moses.

Jesus states that, "It was because you were so unteacha-ble that he (Moses) wrote this commandment for Here Christ sets a precedent, saying that certain actions which were allowed in the Old Testament, are not to be allowed in God's kingdom and because Jesus never justified killing another man, killing is included among these actions. The people of the Old Testament can be excused for allowing the killing of men because they were "unteacha-ble" and had not heard the teachings of Jesus, but for we, who have heard the words of Christ, who claim to be redeemed, there is no excuse! THOMAS MADDEN Indianapolis. To the Editor of The Star: Having begun to read the editorial page of The Star since returning home from school, I have been both amused and amazed by the people who wrote letters quoting Biblical passages which advocate killing. I would suspect that all of these people who know their Bibles so well, profess to be Christian (Christ like), and yet instead of quoting from the life of Christ, the New Testament, they all quote from the Old Testament, simply because Jesus, whose teachings these people supposedly follow, never advocated killing. In a 10 of Saint Vigilantes To the Editor of Th Star: Again the liberal judges on the Supreme Court have dealt the American public a By JOHN P.

ROCHE (Gus Taylor is assistant president of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. This Is the second of two guest columns adapted from remarks on career education he recently delivered at a conference of the Educational Testing Service.) cover-ups. That leaves 1,153 legitimate and permissible "protective reactions." Gen. Lavelle had not taken (he initiative to inform Creighton Abrams, commander of all U.S. Forces in Vietnam, and one of.

the retired-general's own staff exhorted that "even the President did not know" what the fighter bombers were doing. The Indianapolis Star has stepped out editorially in favor of a man who, by clan-destine maneuvering, has challenged the sacred and vital tradition that civilian au- Bricklayers Work Hard, low blow, by abolishing the death penalty, for killers like JJOOOy 8 AlltlCS Underwhelm By GUS TAYLOR 'The desperate quest for academic credentials soon turned against itself, for carried to its conclusion it became a reduction to absurdity. In the forthcoming world without sweat and strain, why learn to work? In the world of leisure and private indulgence, the only thing worth learning was how to do your own thing. So why not turn the educational system from kindergarten to postgraduate school and beyond into one endless pursuit of happiness, without grades, tests, standards, curriculum, discipline, teachers, schools, facts or logic. The educational system was just a place to turn on your feelings a sort of respectable orgone box from which you issed enshrouded in academic laurels.

THIS TURN AWAY FROM work was urged along by the theory that America with its new millions and its new economy had outgrown the so-called Protestant work ethic. By tying in the word "Protestant" with "work ethic" it became rather easy to discredit the whole concept on campuses where there were now legions of a 1 i Jews, black Protestants who didn't identify with the white establishment, and young white Protestants who were in the eternal and inevitable struggle of sons versus Lynda Morris To the Editor of The Star: 1. Emmett Hashfield, who killed and dismembered a pretty little girl and threw the pieces in the Ohio River. This fiend is eating good, sleeps in a good bed every night and enjoys TV and other good things free to him and his kind. 2.

Charles Manson who had a least eight people killed, self and his bodyguard to attend a conference in Palm Springs, Cal. He also charged their $119.45 hotel bill to the association. We have found more than (80 in personal phone calls, too, that Chaffee billed to the governors' association. even had a personal photograph made by the Bachrach studios at the association's expense. The bill: $32.79.

Finally, Chaffee imported the association's secretary, James Marshall, to Rhode Island to help with his 1968 reelection campaign. Not only did Marshall remain on the payroll of the governors' association, but his air travel on at least three trips to Rhode Island totaling $182.70 was paid by the association. FOOTNOTE: We tried repeatedly to reach Chaffee for comment, but his staff insisted he couldn't be reached. It was explained that he was on a "whirlwind" tour of Rhode Island. THE Environmental Protecc-tion Agency (EPA) has thrown a billion-dollar bonanza to Detroit's automakers so they can clean up on profits even as they clean up the air.

Congress decreed that Detroit must build into its cars antipollution devices good for 50,000 miles or five years. But in carrying out the congressional edict, EPA left it up to the auto manufacturers how to comply. IN WARRANTY instructions and internal memoranda, Ford and General Motors warn customers that the companies may not be responsible for keeping the antipollution machinery working unless G.M. and Ford parts are used. In other words, as a G.M.

menu) for high-level executives gloats, the car buyers can be required to buy everything from spark plugs to wires from G.M. The Senate Antitrust and Monopoly subcommittee i quietly investigating the matter. Beggars At Work To the Editor ot The Star: For quite a few hours on a recent weekend the American public was treated to vocifer-cus pleas for donations In the name of "maintaining the two-party system." Of course, despite the pitch they are making for everybody's charity, the participants managed to work in a full quota of mudslinging. This exhibition truly reflected what the Democratic Party has become the ultra-liberal bastion of the Kennedys and the McGoverns, with their share the wealth, something-for-nothing philosophy. "We are in the red," they say, "and it's up to the rest of you, yea the duty of everyone, to bail us out of the spot our past bad-spending and extravagances have put us in." Here, then, was the spectacle of a major political party's spokesmen, on the eve of their national convention, hat in hand on national television brashly begging! E.

R. OLT Indianapolis, Ind. Asserts Ray tify, that book of the Bible was written by one of my very own ancestors and not by any Protestant. As a matter of historic fact, the first leisure classes in America were almost exclusively Protestant and whatever their ethical notions about work were, many of this early elite were fat more interested in seeing to it that others practiced the preachment than they were in applying it to themselves. But, as it turned out, in the anti-establishmentarian mood of the 1960s, the revolt against the Protestant work ethic be-, came part of the revolt against the status quo.

If you worked or, worse, if you were a worker, you were a part of the Establishment even if you and your union had been fighting the Establishment for the last 70 years. THIS RE VOLT AGAINST work came very naturally, especially to the young. If it were up to Adam, he would have preferred to run around in the Garden of Eden with- essay on "Civilization and Its Discontents." Work is a form of compulsion, a discipline, a bundle of precepts and pains. It is a prime socializing factor in the development of man and in the coherence of a community. FREUD SUGGESTED that there were two Gods who made civilisation possible.

They were Ananke and Eros. Ananke was the God of Necessity who presided over work, for it wa3 through work that man satisfied both his physical and if you please spiritual needs. Eros was the God of Love who presided over the creation and care of the family. Of these two Gods, Ananke was superior at least according to the Greeks. For when the formidable figure of Necessity appears on the scene, all other Gods must bow down.

It is against this background that we suggest our two tentative cheers for career education. It recognizes that Ananke is not dead, that life still is real and earnest, that physical sweat is not the same as social stink, that there's work much work to be done, and that an educational system must rec-oganize this overriding and eternal imperative that homo sapiens is also homo faber. Commies Stupid To the Editor of The Star: For sheer and abysmal stupidity in a completely clear and unmistakably obvious situation no one can match the Vietnam Communists. When Mr. Nixon went into office he told the world he would not cop out of Vietnam.

In Nix-onian jargon this meant he would be leaving just as fast as possible while making it look like he was staying. With a mere modicum of Intelligence the Communists would have kept quiet and applied no pressure and in due time (not too long) the Americans would have gone. Then it would have been easy to spill over the DMZ and take over the whole country. What would there have been to stop thorn? With the kind of sense they have shown they deserve to be clobbered. GLENDON HACKNEY 319 North Graham Ave.

snorting George Meany, having failed to stop George McGovern in Miami Beach, had sworn to withhold the ALF-CIO endorsement from McGovern, and he did. Meany has passed the word to his labor lieutenants to put all the AFL-CIO men and money behind the Democratic candidates for the Senate and House. It is the first time since Franklin D. Roosevelt championed the working man that the labor confederation hasn't indorsed the Democratic presidential nominee. When the McGovern bandwagon rolled over the labor opposition at Miami Beach, Meany went off to play golf.

He has made it clear that's where he'll be when McGovern seeks his support for the November election. MARTHA MITCHELL is still calling reporters even though her telephone antics cost her husband John his job as President Nixon's campaign manager. Martha recently phoned TV reporter Nancy Dickerson and complained about press reports that she might be mentally sick. Martha said she was just fine. One moment, she belabored the press for its shortcomings.

But the next, she said she loved the press and would like to be a reporter. Then she added, significantly, that she had a long story to tell some day. PRESIDENT NIXON'S former Navy secretary, John Chaffee, is running hard for the Senate in Rhode Island this year as "the man you can trust." But the slogan may be misapplied. As chairman of the Republican Governors Assciation in 1968, he dipped freely into the till to pay his personal and political expenses. James Galbraith, the association's executive director, explained the policy on expenses this way: "The governors are responsible for picking up their own tabs." Before Chaffee became chairman, the post was held by Colorado Governor John Love, who always paid his travel expenses to the association's meetings from his own pocket.

But Chaffee spent $5:13.40 of the organization's funds for the round trip fare for him The articles on Bobby Fischer tend to make me a little sad that such a great chess player has so little respect for the American image. He does not seem so very proud to represent our country. His ultimatum over the money was bad enough, but to think he now is haggling over such things as drapery thickness, lighting and the chess board and pieces. Surely, the great Mr. Fischer can be competitive under the circumstances arranged for the match.

One might expect the Russian, Boris Spassky, to argue over such small details, but it is a shame that Mr. Fischer is not cencerned enough about representing the United States. Even if he wins the championship match, it does not make me proud that he is an American. LYNDA MORRIS Indianapolis. To the Editor of The Star: In regard to the article written on July 2 by Edward M.

Young, the claim that masons in 1926 laid 600 blocks a day is false and I don't know where he got his information. As for the statment that two men only lay 100 a day now -if they did, they would be ired by noon. tThese jobs are built with muddy feet and runny noses. Wa have no wall-to-wall carpeting or air conditioning on our jobs. As far as I'm concerned every bricklayer I know earns every dollar he 'makes.

If you really want fact not fiction this will be in your paper. We don't make nine dollars an hour. ROBERT E. RAY 6045 Allendale Drive. and cut open a pregnant woman.

3. Richard Speck, cut the throats of eight nurses in Chicago. 4. Now, at Lavelle, 111, a lovely eight-year-old girl, has been found raped, throat cut, buried. It sickens me when I think none of these savages are going to pay for these crimes.

Execution of hardened criminals who prey on and make life miserable for the public is absolutely necessary. I hope someday soon there will be groups formed like th vigilantes of olden days, to rid us of evil criminals, especially the ones that attack little children. L.D.P. Washington, Ind. Actually, of course, the cred- it for work appears in the first out a fig leaf, chasing Eve book of the Old Testament and smoking bananas.

But be- cause he tried to be a wise guy, he was condemned to work. He didn't choose it. Work is part of the civilizing process that is at the center of Sigmund Freud's great when the Lord advises Adam that, having fallen from grace, he and his descendants will have to earn their daily bread in the sweat of their brow. As I can personally tes- COULD HURT McGOVERN The Law Of Competing Militancies By MAX LERNER and won: The former irregu- (Los Angeles Times Syndicate) lar of the "Irish mafia" New York, N.Y. I write a closing word about a wasn't irregular enough.

But nominating process which was over-reported but inadequately neither was the staff's own understood. We are now getting some ot roe choice of Pierre Salinger, the some of including Richard Daley's. How far-reaching will it be? old John Kennedy irregular, Daley spoke as a regular, with the hollow affirmation of supporting every Democratic slate, but he also bled as a regular. His head was unbowed but bloody. How could it be anything else, when he was stripped of the trappings of power, thrust out into the cold and given the choice of becoming a renegade Democrat or a Democratic emigre? Ho chose spiritual migration.

When asked to choose between Nixon and Mc-Govern as leaders he snapped back, "The voters can decide that." Of course they will, I-eriwr dfmw restraining the guerrilla groups who have proclaimed they will break up the Republican convention. Already the Nixon spokesmen have tried to put the burden of responsibility on McGovern, who will doubtless thrust it back on their own shoulders because of the continuance of the war. But if the Republican convention is stormed, the impact on the peoplo is likely (by a backlash, or a to hurt McGovern with the marginal groups, even more than Nixon. As in 1968, whichever convention is stormed, the conservatives get more votes out of it. THERE WILL ALSO be a law of competing militancies operating in the Nixon camp, not on the loft but on the right.

Already the party officials are tumbling over each other to see who can call McGovern the harshest names a radical, an economic Idiot, a bungler playing into the hands of the Viet negotiators In Paris. There is also a small marginal group on the light who are wrought up over the arms control agreement with Russia, who depict Nixon as betraying the Republicans to the old liberal dogma, and who want to send Kissinger packing. The pressure will be on Nixon to hold on to Agnew as vice-president and to Connally. The argument is that if Nixon is to clinch the Wallace vote, especially in the South, he can't afford to drop Agnew. But that seems a curious logic.

The McGovern choice means that the right has nowhere else to go except to Nixon. The struggle will be for the center, and In that struggle from Nixon's angle of vision Agnew has to be an encumbrance. Even the South is more likely to warm to Connally than to Agnew. As the Democratic convention showed, it is no longer the old South but a changing one. TOM EAGLETON will not be a cipher in the campaign, but a lively factor.

In a brief talk I had with him some 24 hours before McGovern tagged him, I found him at once engaging and adroit. In a time of violence the "only a heartbeat" argument makes the vice-presidential choice of great moment. Nixon will so-r 1 1 underestimate both McGover, and the people if he thinks he can coast in to victory even with Agnew. and the new irregulars may help them decide. THE DALEY QUESTION isn't only a matter of Daley's direct arc of power In Illinois.

as vice-chairman: He was vetoed by some of the black irregulars, using the sacred formula of the quota system. THIS ISN'T NEW. It is as old as political struggle within all ideological movements, where the law is that greater militancies almost always drive out lesser ones. The militant founders beget more militant followers, who In turn get tagged as establishment by even more militant ones and so on in a chain reaction. Sometimes the leader himself is atrong enough to break the chain.

Do Gaulle did. Mao did, after having almost let lt get away from him in the Cultural Revolution. But in both cases the strength of the leader lay in his being the prime Indispensable symbol, and asserting that fact. Can McGovern muster that strength now, or does ho plan to wait until elected? The Nixon camp will push him hard on the question of Daley is a symbol of alienat tern." Of course, he can't separate them neatly: One affects the other. He'll try his damnedest to neglect the national ticket while working for the state slate.

But the new young politicians may do a belter job than he could do. Pail of the McGovern problem may prove to be an unequal pace of militancy Inside the camp. Thus when McGovern finally persuaded Larry O'Brien to be national ed regulars in every state, and Indeed of any of the "white ethnic" groups who also feel alienated from the Democrats, probably for the first time. Having been expelled from Eden (more harshly than-McGovern himself meant to do), Daley was asked to come back into the reformed Garden. His response, in effect, is, "Nou, thank you, I'll.

iurk inside trA Democratic gvsUnv committee chairman again, but oulalde the McGovorn sys- the McGovern staff rebelled.