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EDITORIALS I COMMENT 32 FRIDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 25. 1968 ci fEJtt Jpftilabdpftia Inquirer M. ANNKNHKHC Publisher. 1 Fublmhtd Every )v in Hit Ytar hv TRIANGLE PUBLICATIONS, INC.

W.M.'IKR II. ri.lrnt THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER 400 N. Broad Street. Philadelphia. Pa.

19101 WALTER II. ANNENHKRO KDITOR AND PUBLISHER John M. Cummings Senatorial Heard Just a Coincidence JOHN S. GILLEN Managing; KHitor HAROLD J. WIEGAND Editorial Pace Director (or Member reprorfuc el the Aaaociattrl Praia.

The Aaiotiatcl Presa ia entitled exclusively to the use lion of all the local news pinned in this newspaper, as well aa AH new dispatches. THE INQUIRER'S PLATFORM To print the news accurately and (earlesly. but never to be content with merely printing the news: Ia strive always to uphold the principles of our American democracy, to war relentlessly against alien "isma." to fight intolerance, to be the tend and defender of those who are persecuted and oppressed: to demand equal justice for employer and employed to work for the advancement of industry in Delaware Valley and Pennsylvania: to oppose political hypocrisy and corruption: to fight and never to ccast righting to maintain the sanctity of personal liberty and the inviolability of human rights. ALTHOUGH the program in the Sunday paper gave no inkling of the identity of the person to be questioned in the "Man in the News" we tuned in out of sheer curiosity. And by gosh, there was the face of Sen.

Joe Clark. The first thing that struck us was that the Senator needed a shave. Hoodlums on the Campus Either that or he was bent on growing 9 Jl a Deara. is ami- cult to visualize how Joe Clark, currently seeking his third Zpte term as U. S.

Sena- y1 tor from Pennsylva- JLZ-' nia. would look- mm t' V- behind a full-grown r' hedge. I x. -rmm i i. Ami door with furniture, blocking approach roads with piles of brick and wood and dirt, and committing other acts of defiance.

Meanwhile, in Washington, at the precise time that students were going on a rampage in Berkeley, campus radicals from various parts of the country were testifying before the National Commission on the the Causes and Prevention of Violence. The "testimony" amounted to a continuous barrage of derogatory remarks aimed at the governmental authority of the United States. It is to the commission's credit that at least one of its members -Eric Iloffer, the noted longshoreman-philosopher and nationally syndicated columnist was sufficiently annoyed by the venomous rhetoric of the youthful witnesses that he responded with some choice words of rebuttal. "I'm sitting listening to all this stuff here and I just can't swallow it," Mr. Iloffer said.

"You expect educated people to behave in a civilized way. Instead, they behave like hoodlums The trouble with you people is that you don't believe in majority rule You do not believe in the democratic process." That is it, exactly. Rebellious young people who go to college for the purpose of fomenting anarchy and violence, instead of getting an education, are the products of an overpermissive society that too often substitutes appeasement for discipline. Events this week in two widely separated sectors of the Nation in Berkeley, California, and in Washington, D. C.

underscore the unreasonableness of undisciplined Students and the foolhardiness of persons in authority who are forever giving in to demands of the Immature rather than guiding them with a firm hand on the path of respectability and responsibility. At the University of California, in Berkeley, the administration knuckled under to student demands that Eldridge Cleaver, a leader of militant racists known as the Black Panthers, be permitted to conduct a series of lectures on campus. Having won that round, the students now are insisting that the lectures be given full academic status as a course offering credits. Following the traditions of violence that have been associated with Berkeley for several years, the students sought to force a capitulation to their demands by seizing a building on the campus, barricading the SUSPENSE Letter of the Day Cheapening (he Society Page The Voice of the People i place in society columns, and it was made even more unpalatable by the photograph showing the holders of the gambling concession sitting alongside Haiti's police-state dictator, the unspeakable Duvalier! This is disgraceful. HILFORD S.

Philadelphia. Editors Note: We agree with you. To the Editor of The Inquirer: I do not understand how a newspaper with the high standards of The Inquirer could permit Ruth Seltzer to make a joke out of last Sunday's society pages by plugging the real estate and gambling ventures of two Philadelphia promoters in Haiti. This type of free advertising has no proper As Soviet Invasion Tide Ebbs ment of Richard Nixon for the Presidency. His statesmanship, his new programs, and the dedication of the man himself, are clearly echoed in your editorial.

As hopeful young Americans, we salute you. DR. AND MRS CHARLES E. TWEEDY Tyndall AFB, Fla. Letters must be brief, written on one side of the paper.

The writer's name and address must be signed, not necessarily for publication. The Inquirer reserves the right to condense. School Sit-fn To the Editor of The Inquirer: I read in today' Letter Coiumn a letter entitled SCHOOL SITUATION, in which the writer asks just who the students at Benjamin Franklin High School think they are, that they can stage a sit- in, and then demand changes in certain rules and regulations. There is no doubt that the younger generation of black people in our city is convinced they are not going to get a square deal in education from the white-controlled school system, and that their only chance subject on the screen was distort J' M' Cr ed. This sometimes happens.

Not being versed in the whims of cameras, we have no knowledge on which to base an opinion. We did 50 to the trouble of examining from several angles the recognizable features of Senator Clark. But the unshaven face, which could have been the beginning of a beard of the Smith Brothers type, remained. So it must be reported in this corner of the paper, if it hasn't been dealt with elsewhere, that Clark didn't have time to shave before appearing on Channel 3, or he was out to raise a crop of hair in the fashion of old-time statesmen. Beards are in style again.

You find them on the chins of hippies and others who enjoy the October sun in Rittenhouse Square and other loafing places. IT SO happened that the same day we observed the beginning of the hirsute growth on Senator Clark's jib we had a caller at the manse in Penllyn. Like Senator Clark, this gentleman is a member of the bar. He is, in fact, a member of one of the largest law firms in Pittsburgh. In his ooinion Senator Clark is in bad odor in the western Pennsylvania counties, especially Allegheny, which includes the teeming city of Pittsburgh.

Having lived in and around the metropolis of the west all of his lifetime he was born in the City cf Allegheny absorbed by Pittsburgh some years ago he is acquainted with all the odors, smells and the like in the steel community. So when he says Senator Clark is in bad odor in the realm of Mayor Joe Barr, you are getting a report from an experienced nose. He asked how Rep. Richard Schwei-ker is getting along in this neck-o'-the woods. Our truthful answer was that here in Montgomery where Schweiker spent all the vears of his life, so far, no one has discovered any offensive political odnrs.

IN FACT, when Senator Clark was questioned by the gentleman in charge of the interview he confessed that Schweiker was a decent sort of a guy afflicted only with the laudable aim of going from the House to the Senate. Clark said he was not going to sav anything against Schweiker. No doubt he felt that in Montgomery, the producer of the largest Republican vote in the State, it would be better to say a few nice words about D'ck Schweiker. Early in the Senate campaign the hardheads of politics figured Schweiker would have a job on his hands in most of the up-State counties. Of late they have been recalling the nature of the fight Clark waged when the late Justice Michael Musmanno opposed h'm for the tate nomination.

Clark questioned the Italian background of Musmanno. whereupon the Judge leaped at him as only he could do. Friends of Musmanno all over the State are recalling Clark's slurs on the man who undoubtedly would have been our Chief Justice had he lived a few years longer. Justice Musmanno, a veteran of two world wars and who was retired from the Navy with the rank of Rear Admiral, is buried in Arlington Cemetery not far from the last resting place of President John F. Kennedy.

Ulbricht exists in perpetual panic, more than a hundred young intellectuals some with names already brightened by their parents' achievements in science and the arts are known to be standing trial for openly siding with the Czechs. The big French Communist Party, at the very same time, has reinforced its first outrage at Kremlin procedures by boosting the influence of liberals at the expense of the Old Guard. It is impossible to estimate, of course, how much of this aftershock-effect of the preposterous invasion it will take to shake up the hardened arteries of the self-sanctified in Moscow. But it is perfectly evident that even when the last Soviet soldier departs from Prague the Czechoslovakian case will not have ended; by its very resistance to liberalization in the form of Dubcek-ism or whatever the Kremlin has multiplied the demand for liberalization. Winter may not yet have arrived, but there is something going on in Eastern Europe that looks very much like a snowball rolling downhill.

Those foolish enough to stand in the way deserve whatever happens to them. The Soviets are still paying for their stupid blunder in occupying Czechoslovakia, a peaceful ally, for trying to humanize Stalinist Communism. In Czechoslovakia itself, the esteemed Academy of Sciences has found the inestimable courage to circulate, if not publish, a complete refutation of the Kremlin position that only Russians may decide what is "the true faith" and enforce it upon neighbors. It is not only not smart but not even Marxism-Leninism, the academicians say. In accord with the terms of the ''treaty" forced upon the Czechs, some Soviet troops are withdrawing as much, one may believe, for logistical reasons in the face of oncoming winter as for anything like common sense or decency.

Hungarian and Polish units have followed East German units in beginning their exit; now the Bulgarians are leaving. Meanwhile, Yugoslavs, worried that regressive Stalinism might try to engulf them again, have stiffened their defense arrangements and this time, unlike 1948 when they first broke with Moscow, have received some American support. In East Germany, where Walter what 5s really wrong with the Board of Education. It is a sad state of affairs, when students are allowed to take over a school, create chaos, demand naming a school as Malcolm and trying to prevent a school from being named for Christopher Columbus. It is a sad state of affairs when students are allowed to invade a school and stage a sit-in.

And then be dined and entertained by the Board of Education. Our school system never experienced such trouble since Dr. Mark Shedd and Richardson Dilworth took over. The whole school board ought to be fired for the good ot the city and our public schools. Any student finding fault with our schools should be expelled immediately.

Let them go and find education somewhere else. The parochial school system doesn't stand for such nonsense. J. F. SIMMS Philadelphia.

On School Crises To the Editor of The Inquirer: Bravo! Bravo! Your editorials and your handling of the crises in our Philadelphia public schools have been most commendable. Police Commissioner Rizzo deserves our utmost appreciation and respect. He's the greatest! I also laud your editorial about Mr. Nixon. Thank you for keeping the faith in Our America, and all she stands for! (MRS.) RUTH A.

CARTER Philadelphia. A New Low To the Editor of The Inquirer: Tommie Smith and John Carlos have reached a new low. Their behavior following Smith's victory at the Olympics was a disgrace, not to the United States, but to themselves and the race they represent. I do not think we need gold medals badly enough to have to get them at the cost of having our Flag and our national anthem so grossly insulted. I hope that Smith and Carlos will never be permitted to "misrepresent" the United States again in any international events.

Philadelphia. T. M. G. On Gun Control To the Editor of The Inquirer: As a young adult who will soon be approaching the polls for the first time, I have become increasingly aware of some of the complex problems confronting the American citizenry.

Foremost on my mind is the present controversy over gun gun control legislation. The failure of both State and national legislatures to provide adequate gun control laws in the public interest amounts to gross neglect, neglect escalating into negligence, and at this point, it can be referred to as "massive negligence." Gun legislation opponents contend that what we -eally need is a restoration of law and o-der. Yet the insults, scorn and consistent harassment they confer on local government as well as na.icnal Government agencies is. to me, nauseating and reveals utter contempt for law and order. The overwhelming majority of the American populace have voiced a cry for strict gun legislation.

Yet these anti-gun control people, who call themselves "responsible" Am3ri-cans, care nothing for the will of the majority of Americans. Is it not true that one of the cornerstones of our democracy is the ideal that the majority opinion prevails? If these urgently needed firearms laws are swept under the rug, the people, the realistic majority, are going to over throw any past sense of apathy and make this issue heard strongly in upcoming political campaigns. Need I even say what 'he assassination of another prominent national figure would do to gun legislation? Why not pass adequate and reasonable legislation now before emotional national disaster initiates legislation that could very well be unsatisfactory and unfair to both sectors? MICHAEL A. QUINN Philadelphia. Worth the Wait To the Editor of The Inquirer: It was worth the usual two-day wait for our Sunday Inquirer to reach us in Florida to read your ringing indorse- 'We Haven! Done Enough' seek out more victims and commit more crimes.

Mr. Johnson cited one constructive approach to the problem when he spoke of the need for a gun control law stronger than the one enacted by Congress this year and signed by him Tuesday. More than gun controls are required, however, to make law-abiding Americans safe on the streets and in their homes. There needs to be a new vigor in the pursuit and prosecution and punishment of criminals, with proper regard shown for the public interest and protection of the people against the lawless who have not been rehabilitated and ought not to be free to continue their criminal careers. President Johnson, at his news conference Thursday, spoke with commendable candor in analyzing the Nation's shortcomings in the field of law and order and the war on crime.

"We haven't moved fast enough," he said. "We haven't done enough. Our efforts have been inadequate, in my opinion." Many Americans, surveying the lawlessness in the land, will agree. The Government has done too little and too late in response to the country's urgent needs in the fight against crime. There has been a dangerous complacency in regard to the revolving-door kind of justice that turns habitual criminals loose on the streets again and again to Creeping Expansion (Coluwbus Dispatch) U.

S. Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford, upon his return from NATO conferences in Bonn, said there is a feeling of "immediacy and concern" over whether the Czech invasion was an isolated instance or "there is more to come." We would hope this is a typical understatement couched in diplomatic terms all adding up to a firm notice to the Kremlin planners that the Western Allies are alert and ready against further Russian expansion, "creeping" or otherwise. The Disturbed Driver (Kansas City Star) A University of Michigan psychiatrist has confirmed something a lot of persons have suspected for a long time: There are a lot of nuts behind the steering wheels of motor ears. In a study of 96 drivers who were considered responsible for fatal accidents. Dr.

Melvin Selzer concluded that two-thirds of them showed symptoms of mental illness. Desegregation Fails (London Nero Statesman) The logical answer distributing races in schools throughout an entire bi-racial metropolitan area is politically impossible. There is no national consensus for that kind of integration, as there was support for ending the worst abuses of "Jim Crow" in the South. Congress wrote a section into its Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibiting the use of Federal funds to "achieve racial balance" by transporting students around town. The pseudo-concept of the "neighborhood school" has become the code symbol for Northern segregation.

People are saying nowadays that the black militants will bring on the repression of their race (as white radicals will bring But the blacks did not refuse integration over these long years since 1954. White racism, aided by frightened white and black "moderation," let integration fail. Some people knew all along that that would happen. Others like the Southern Regional Council realized it over the course of years. None can go on hoping forever.

of achieving improvement in the system is to assert their needs. The sit-in at Benjamin Franklin occurred in the following manner. Word came to the school and it is amazing the way news travels that the white residents in the area surrounding Bok had invaded the school, and were beating up the black students. More than 200 of the students at Benjamin Franklin decided they would go down to Bok and help the black students. The principal of Benjamin Franklin was able to persuade the students that this would only make the situation worse, ana if they had grievances, the sensible thing to do would be to meet and decide what their legitimate grievances are, and how they could be corrected.

The meeting was an orderly one. The great majority of the requests made by the students, who met all night in the school auditorium, were reasonable, and the sit-in prevented what might have been a very bloody confrontation at Bok. The writer of the letter also assumes that the name of Benjamin Franklin High School is going to be changed to the Malcolm High School. This is one of the requests made by the students and the Board has made it a practice to permit any citizen to suggest a name for a high school, and to either accept or reject the suggestion. This suggestion will undoubtedly be acted upon at the next meeting of the Board, and I have no doubt that the Board will vote unanimously to turn this suggestion down.

The writer of this letter obviously thinks this suggestion is an absurd one, but I can say in all honesty that we have had equally strange suggestions from members of the white community. RICHARDSON DILWORTH, President, Board of Education Philadelphia. Right on Schools To the Editor of The Inquirer: Congratulations on your hard-hitting splendid editorial, Board of Education Responsibility." Thank God we have a paper like The Philadelphia Inquirer to keep us alerted to Doubled GI Educational Benefits The Delinquents (From The Patriot, Adelaide, South Australia) very far, it seems to us. to offset the tradition of low pay in the armed forces. For many GI's this dividend may be the best thing that ever happened to them.

The value of the newly granted aid to widows of servicemen and to wives of those who have suffered a 100 percent service connected injury is obvious; also the justice of providing such help. In the past, educational aid had been provided only for minor dependents, after completion of high school. More generous allotments granted earlier this year should mean that many, many veterans will improve their earning capacity and their value as well informed citizens on leaving the service. The broadened education benefits for veterans which for the first time include widows of servicemen represent a gain for the Nation as well as for the individuals who receive the help, providing the latter make the best possible use of them. If that objective is to be fulfilled it is important that servicemen and their families inform themselves on this subject as fully as they can.

Probably additional provision for making complete details available to the beneficiaries is desirable. The new legislation just signed into law by the President offers four years of college assistance for two years of service. This is an important addition to the compensation for military service which goes Too many children Encouraged to roam, By too many parents Who won't stay at home. Kids don't make the movies, They don't write the books That paint a gay picture Of gangsters and crooks. They don't make the liquor, They don't run the bars, They don't make the laws, They don't drive the cars, They don't make the drugs That addle the brain; It's all done by older iolk, Greedy for gain.

Thus in so many cases It must be confessed The label "Delinquent," Fits older folk best. We read in the papers We hear on the air Of killing and stealing And crime everywhere. We sigh and we say As we notice the trend "This young generation! mere will it all end?" But can we be sure That it's their fault alone? That maybe most of it Isn't really our own? Too much money to spend; Too much idle time; Too many movies Of passion and crime; Too many books Not fit to be read; To much of evil, In what they hear said; 1, From th Chicaro Sun-Time "Are Ycu Suffering From Inflation, Internal Disorder, Vietnam Paim 1.