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7 77 'V A' 4 :) i INDEPENDENT (AM) PRESS-TELEGRAM (PM 4-T Cjtn wm, wtA m- GoffinsanHHeostofconscience GEORGE ROBESON New Yotk Hums Service vrw uAircxr A NEW HAVEN, Conn. The Rev luck one by one over the yean, are the divisions and animosities of the Vietnam era to be kept alive by proseqitions and jailings for offenses long past? the contention that amnesty Mail will get one wary or another hmu ty is as genuinely an issue of eon- cem hv NBen'flie draft it ic fawy ttJtod "theaiK the war. Tb what extent.it being asked, and for how kmg imivoflty most prominent citizens, can or should a nation punish politi- 5 JdVCntUriir TiSdioral dinscnteiw? Alabama, --where it took a court or-. -j with the student generation, at Yale and elsewhere, suggests th amnes- THIS IS A FAMILIAR i question and amnesty as an answer is no-, thing new in history; even the word At first glance, amnesty mightr appear politically difficult for President Nixoii, even after a settlement of the war; yet, it would represent the kind of magnanimity that en-lightened nations often pursue, and usually boast of. It would Quaker President whose slogan is go for-.

ward together.1 Practically speaking. more punitive, policy ure Imposing, aside from the 'continued alienation of -the. Is a permanent band of American political exiles to be left" reproachfully inCanada and Sweden? Or, as these exiles drift der to permit him to speak on the TOMj WICKER: an amnesty would provide a bridge between him and the younger gener-came from the ancient Greeks atlon as would almost no other step the United State, President George (and another thing that a day or so Washington granted-amnesty to the-among-; students discloses is that Pennsylvania farmers whor staged TNixon 'needs such a bridge the. whisky rebellion; and President desperately as did Lyndon Johnson). MOREOVER, THE difficulties of a THE POST OFFICE may be slow and inefficient, as.

some have' charged, and it may need an overhaul as the Nixon Administration" plans, but it is not totally incompe-. tent The mail goes through, even if it takes a It took 29 years-in of Long Beach. He received a postcard from his mother the other day. IBs mother died in 1944. She had mailed the postcard -from Detroit white" Duke livedinhis Eldon do, 111.

Its postmarked March 24, 1940. His mother- never asked him later if he had received it, and he has no idea what it said, except for single word check." The card had been lost at the Eldorado Post Office and gotten stuck to something. In a. recent redecoration of campus 'at. Auburn -and where he was fascinated to observe brawny riding shotgun to pro- southerners who participated to tbgj fact him -from the presumed hrrathlate insurrection of rebellibn." itore of Wallace Country.

rr Dw Gaulle gave Andrew I- Jackson-offered-the most famous amnesty in 1868, to those ANDYOU "tire-office, the- cardf- dropped from1- from the-Building- Department'was -the space between a desk and a there at the time, and be agreed it wall. The address was still legible was oily. So did a fireman. Both would, foster greater disrespect Tor the conscription law' runs afoul" of Nixon's own criticism of that law and- his repeated pledges to abolish it and provide a volunteer army. It is not true, however, that amnestied youthswillhave-paidno against the general view is never easy; physical exile is 'a haunting personal -situation; and the fact that amnesty for draft resisters is so controversial-a matter suggests that all too many who chose exile on an issue of conscience will find no real end to it-when theyretumto the society that bred them.

Todays Books Watson, Signet Books, 95 cents D. paperback. This is a young American -Nobel Prize-winning scientists inside account, of the discovery -of the struct tore of DNA, the heredity molecule. BurwharTs-vpedalabourtt is that" the. scientists who participate in the.

search for DNA are depicted as they actually are intensely human, and even as you and subject-to TEST. Compiled and edited, with a by- Bradford Chambers 'MenBrB(karMncenlapaperback. The road from slavery-' to Black Revolution of our own day. seenrln the words of Negro leaden: Hire Frederick Douglass, David Walker, Booker T. Washington, WJLB.

DuBois, Martin Luther King; in the confessions of Nat Turner; in calls to rebellion and early- Negro cpisades. N. MLamnestytomarty jrho had con- spired against the Frendi government on the issue of Algeria. -TWO HARVARD University doc- tors contend that the heart-attack vicUmwithouTwiinpllcations derives special benefit from staying in no MEDICINE "anil tlmtTOTeword. Its a very small town, and everybody knows else and their ancestors, sb a postal cterk gave it stp-a -retired employe-who gave it ta-a former neighbor of the Simmons family who knew Dukes Long -Beach address, got the card.

But what did his mother write to him-on-4hat-day-29 years- ago-wheh-jshe, visited Detroit! Did sheaskjiim to send her. a check? Did she ask FAST LIFE By BILL VAUGHAN BEWILDERED taxpayer wants to Jmow Jf payments to the tooth falry are deductible's a medicaT expense. THE COLLEGE BOY down the block is so fond of. the school that he is mailing it home, a brick at a time. A- yam-spinner-of-talect and gus Coffin Intersperses tales of Alabama with accounts of numerous less theatrical but more significant encounters with conventional wisdom.

His conviction; for conspiring to urge young men to. resist the draft is still on appeal; heis turning his formidable energies toward some farm nf mnMItahg opinion ngint -the nudear arms race, inosfparticu -laity American antimissile investments; and even before the draft-re sistance controversy- has been set- 1 is helping raise die question -of amnesty, for those who refuse to serve in Vietnam. TO Tutelage" OF World Thave Wgr II not yet accus- wfi(T tomed themselvestoythe notion' of -American- boy set ting up- house-in Sweden rather than answering cral Hershevs call, this may seem effrontery in the after ail, Symly well ask boy is drafted and miia, and ynfohw re- n- ty, Isecand be It is not quite sufficient to answer that about 800. such draft resisters "now are In American prisons paying "Tjf f0Vfin nnds more no one knows quite how nny- particularly if desertma, from the armed forces are mduded. in reasonable comfortable setf-e abroad.

Nor can fae case argued un.greunds.Biat. rthq draft resisters are morally right in KxningJheaLinWetnamjotheia are-just as sincere ini the opposite belief and, in-any esse, draft resist-ence Is a legal if not a moral trans- But tills Is an Issue which plainly the -hospital -longerthan-I0-lO 12jec6mmendations too. One text says days. three, to six Another says Drs. Bernard Lown-and Victor W.

an average of six weeks. SidenTTn a repoHTnArhericaiFJout- nal of. Cardiology, say this length of time is about half the conventional hospitalization time for. a coronary Medical textbooks vary- in their In most parts of the United States; the period of hospitalization for the uncomplicated heart-attack patient varies' frm three to four ByBENZINSER jgrityUchms Editor example, the mean length of hospital stay is three weeks. In On-.

tariorCanadariHs ibrweeks wpeksthereport says. Mbre study is needed in the matter, the doctors admit But their own research indicates that, barring -complications, 10 to 12 days would be long The same old -AFEWDAYSafterour successful orbiting' of the Moon, a -friend expressedThehope'lhaTthbrventure- would teach people huihility jn the face of the If this helps us realize how vast outer, space, is, and. howjunall. our globe is," ire. said, then it might SYDNEY HARRIS schemers vill run and -turtidity-of-tire-air-in-tiie-last? two decades.

t- Fuvemment. token mshman Weare no more morally-or sptrit- flS-hOLJMWirgraiea ciuDj. What-is even more direrHmt also export the contamination -of our planetnot taerriyTirterms of wars- and prejudices and quite physically, in terms of bacteria and viruses and all the. assorted pollutions of earth, air and water that are rapidly- making our own globe nearly NOTHING IN OUR history, early or recent, indicates that we are not prepared to despoil other planets as carelessly and contemptuously as we uaDy -equipped- to -colonize otherr parts of the solar system given our past level of behavior on Earth than. a hog is fit to march in.

an Easter parade. Our technical genius. so far outstrips our ethical and emotional Idiocy that we are no more to be trusted to deal lovingly and creatively with another, planet than -a rhesus monkey can be allowed to run free in a nuclear power plant. if he needed Did she ask him to check on something for her? But in the end. 1 neither rain nor norleet nor dark of night stayed the couriers from, their appointed rounds.

-A-FAMILY-ftr Belmont" Shore (no because of the painful shyness of he family) has a problem that so far has baffled the City Building' -Department and the lire beneath jduplex, a brown dust is floating- upward' into two closet spaces and a' bedroom. It is covering everything, from the closet floor to the hatboxes on the top shelf, to. the top 'of ra dressing table. The dust can be' cleaned off-' daily, and it reappears, scooped some off on finger-tip, and it Is very oily. A man Ur men.

sah heard of anything like it before. have been taken to the Police Departments crime-lab to -find outwhat it-mlght be. Itcould be harmless or it could' be ble or poisonous, but. if nothing else, -Its' persistent. how the oil slick began off SantarBarbara? A fissure: in the -earth-drlven-by-- gas-pressure- be--l EitheiL.

the Belmont Shore they Had never seen or man has discovered oil in powdered form. Or. he is. stuck forever with his own personal smog. I NOTICE that the Cosa Nostra is keeping up with the times.

Among-the names of those served by fetter-'ah-agents-with-subpoenar at Maml Airport were Anthony CiveUa, Angelo DeLuna, Mannie Cervelo, Jack De Bennedetto, Paul Varaselona, Joe CaVallo and one Patrick OBrien. I suppose the Mafia should be complimented for-integrating after so many generations of. Sicilian, na-. tionalisf' bigotry. But, on the other Brotherhood can- be accused of phony tokenism." It won't YOUTHOUGHT old Red Wilson was dead and gone, didnt you? It Is not so.

There is an apparent reincarnation ofthe famous old bike-pusher wandering around Long Beach. I spotted him. on.Long. Beach BouIe- after hearing a xouple qf re-" ports on his travels. He Is bearded and shaggy 4ulred.

he pushes bicycle with a wobbly front wheel, he wears raggedy old Is going to have to be dealt with in Flaseboods hot only disagree with Washington not just because jtruihs; but usually -quanef among movers and shakers like Bill Coffin themselves. Daniel Webster, Amer-are involved but because discussion lean statesman. have turned ours from green to grayTromfair-to -senL them up are over tire rear fenders to sour, in the countryside as well bright men, but they are not the He looks Tike' old Fred must bave V-as in the cities so that even sunny, ones -who will decide what is done looked 20 years "ago. Probably just habitaots of thlstinyrspeck of dust snowy-Switzerland has shown a 90 once -we- get there. -The same- old trying -to -cash -in on the publicity- whiriing in space." per.cent.

increase in schemers will running. theshow. Here we go again, The astronauts are bold men, and clothes, and carries andent canvks An ibbrevlaridnbf hostal sUjT for these patients would save hundreds of millions of dollars an-. nually. to the medical consumer, in-uld make bed.

evaiteble in thege of hospital-bed shortage ta Mrtaln Iength of doctor keeps heartttack patient in the hospital varies from region to Jh? -doeforaV ray'ln-Mkhigan, Do not add to his words, lest he r-buke you, and you be found a Udr. -Proverbs MM. MRJtWMk. be incentives Triad anr Asm are tfe fofssfKotiiticsua foe baso baU pfoyws' HrikoT This would be a commendable lesson to learn, I agree, but doubt that we would draw ao jdiilosophical an inference from the Moon project Rather, I suggested bleakly, it might lead us in the opposite direction. INSTEAD OF REGARDING space exploration is a effort binding mankind together, it is far move likety that we will simply extend our competitiveness from inner to-outer ipace7dlobku'pbivlhe once regarded eMorations on Earth as" places to ptent flags, to Unless we make some unexpected quantum junq) in our thinking and feeling.

we-wisiiripiy- extrapolate to other worlds the same greed and vanity, the same lust for possession and domination, the same conflict -Qverw-boundaries and vpriorities througniit the solar system. not V1 can wash dishes, ineperatioin, serve' as clean back yards qualified to fill vacancies higher skills do jobs which they as long as opportunity to get-woridess from public funds. 7 growing new lei- quency, desertion, illegitimacy and. other social ills, multiplied and are still soaring. Existing welfare, programs already have caused millions of job openings to go begging.

Even in New York City with its heavy. welfare load, according, to a recent report to the citys Human Resources Administration, there is an average of 100,000 to 120,000 unfilledjobs each month, and 40,000 of these appear to open to the city's poor almost irrespective of their education and training. tire leftpockrts of 90 per cent of 7 However," conclude freeman, men and WDmen, and particulaiiy rich and poor alike, even though only one American family in 10 is now held to be poor. Such a plan, points out would put money in tire right pockets of all American families and take it from A FEW YEARS ago the starry-eyed proposal was made to guarantee an Income of $3,000 or $4,000 a year, whether he wanted to work or not. Congressional hearthgs on income maintenance last- June brought at least one excellent full-length criticism by Rep.

Thomas B. Curtis. Now another admirable analysis has appeared by Roger A. Ffeeman of tire Hoover Institution at Stan- 7 ford University. If a fourpersmi family can get $3,335 a year from, tire government without work, asks Freeman, who will take a job paying $300, $4J)00 Millions of, unskilled or 7 loiwaldlledpersons-cannothopeto -ream more than, that by their own Who will take, a part-time joh? Entire occupations would be wiped out overnight, a larger part of 1-.

the labor forces of several states particularly in -the South ould mediately retire and most agricultural employment would end Freeman also analyzes the negative income taxV and proposals for allowances. Under these pro- T.pqsals, monthly payments for child go tonsil families a locally-managed subsidiaiy of financial eaeration, pays day-in to day-oulrinterest on all savings accounts, (You can put in as much as you want today mid take out asirrach as you want tomorrow and still earn our 5 annual rate.) 7 T. Administratlv Office: 3901 Atlantic Avenue Long Beach 90807 Phonm 428961. 7 All these aois idling up new handouts ignore die enormous growth of existing' wrif are programs. In the fiscal year l968 the total cost of federal state and local welfare payments combined already came to $112 hflUon.

7 77 Back in 1935, Congress and the. public were told that crime and other aodal illa Wert caused largely by They constitute a poverty and' could bt reduced Bur cty-" adopting social welfare measurea. The income-mairrteuance programs were vaxtty expendqd hi eubaequent years, but tiie rates of crime; delin- young peoide, ytbo help in food messenger boys or but, are not which call for not care to accept as menial offerg them an income' Home BrenchiOfflee; 7-. 477 Eest Compton Boulevard 15359 PeremCunt Boulevard Compton 90221 Paramount 90723' Phone: -Phone: 6334123 i COUMUffiTY MV1N6S AND LOAN ASSOClATlOfflS ONE OF ELEVEN LOCALLY-MANAGEO SUBSIDtAiUES OF RNANCML WCP A. ourcunentenijralrateof 5 is compounded deify.

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