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THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1966 10 A THE MINNEAPOLIS STAR "WH DO THEY CALL ME A MILITARIST?" Editorial EDITORIAL and OPINION PAGE Who Killed Cock Robin? DDT rules psychologically, by not following the th onmp." In other words, if this is the ultimate in human reiai uhmhiis, waiting for marriage, ir. Dy noi it is ruined for me, I doubt that the illegitimacy study would or "snirv" to anyone who thinks of sexual intimacy as beautiful, and satisfy- To the Editor: It is evident that a large number of robins are dying this spring in and around this city and that their death is probably a result of DDT spraying by the city. DDT was used as a spray by the city last year. Worms eat the foliage contaminated with DDT but do not die. In the spring the robins eat the DDT laden worms and are killed by this, dying with violent convulsions.

I would like to ask for an assessment of our city's spraying with this lethal material. Minneapolis. George Kifzmiller, M.D. Editor's Note: See today's editorial, "Elm Trees and Dead Robins." inc. and sacred to marriage, wmie i yc-lieve this experience is for the married relationship, I do not feel it is the responsibility of a newspaper report to teach my children morality.

The paper was presenting facts. It is up to us, as parents, to know the facts, so that we can prove our point. When will we do our job as well, by creating an aura of beauty and sacredness around the sexual life of married couples? Minneapolis. -Mrs. B.

D. Garey. A Stolen Car To the Editor: On May 9 between 9 and 10 m. our car was stolen from our garage, which is attached to our house. I was home at the time.

The car was recovered north of Duluth two days later, completely demolished, stalled on a huge rock. The upholstery was slashed, the windows More on Illegitimate Study To the Editor: I say, "Hurray" for the articles on the illegitimacy study sponsored by the Lutheran Social Service. Your paper should be commended instead of criticized for writing about an existing problem. Too many people believe if you close your eyes to it the problem will go away. Minneapolis.

Mrs. Janet Klein. To the Editor: After reading the articles on the illegitimacy study by the Lutheran Social Service, (God bless them for having the wisdom and courage to sponsor it), I wanted to sit right down and write a LETTERS to the EDITOR were shattered, there was glass all over, the drive shaft was lying in the back window, the tail-lights were smashed, the radio was broken, etc. thank you to your newspaper. But I put it off.

After reading comments (May 11) about MINNEAPOLIS STAR McCarthy Hit for Treaty View By BARRY GOLDWATER Los Angeles Times Syndicate Phoenix, Ariz. Sen. Eugene McCarthy has gone a long way toward pronouncing a new, irresponsible and altogether dangerous principle of the articles I could stay silent no longer. Why do our parents, while promoting education (as much as possible) for our children, constantly neglect their sex education? Your articles were and should have been, to all parents, articles of interest and good advice. Children must be told (by their parents) about sex; the moral side, as well as the physical side.

We, as parents, should be truthful and blunt, educating ourselves as well, so that we may help our children to understand the complete truth (to the best of our ability) about sex. Deerwood, Minn. Shari D. Meligan. To the Editor: The heading of "Views on Illegitimacy" in the May 12 Star missed the point completely.

The letters were protesting the publishing of the report in a family newspaper. The study may have had a sociological value, but was not news which the public was in need of. The proposed study of teen-age sexual activity in a local high school seems to indicate that we are be government. It happened while he was doing his part to undermine our international com ters of the moment and that the commitment of one Congress may not be taken seriously by members of a subsequent one. Congress may properly repudiate commitments; there are actions available to it to do just that.

But to erode commitments by such an off-hand hint of disregard as that of Sen. McCarthy is political irresponsibility. This attitude is a reflection of a far more grave defect in the thinking of some of our most acclaimed political leaders up to and including Lyndon B. Johnson. It is a disregard for government by law and a fondness mitments during Sen.

J. W. tulbnghts latest assault on good government. Fulbright had just grilled Secretary of all deliberate malicious destruction of property. I was informed the suspect is an escapee from Lino Lakes Youth Center, and that he had previously stolen and demolished 15 cars.

After leaving our car in this horrible shape, he stole another one in that area. Now, what are we going to do about this? Should we just sit back and let this continue? Aren't there laws that need revision? Aren't there methods and ways to prevent this from recurring, so we need not be afraid to go out at night, even to our own garage? Mrs. Alvin Magnison. North Branch, Minn. Milk Price Radicals To the Editor: In reference to the letter (May 12) by Mrs.

LeRoy Becker about the price of milk, may I say that here in Clinton the price of milk went up 12 cents a gallon about six weeks ago. My two nephews, Glenn Shannon and Kenneth Benson, produce Grade A milk on our farm and of the 12-cent raise they got ll2 cents and somebody else got 10 12 cents. Now, are you beginning to see why we are all three probably the most radical NFO members in Big Stone County? Clinton, Minn. Theo. Swank.

College Board Vacancy To the Editor: The spotlight is on state State Dean Rusk and, for the thousandth time during the current anti-Viet Nam hearings in the Senate, said we shouldn't be in Viet Nam and should let them go Communist if "they want." He said we have no role to for government by personality. Redisricting Compromise' AS ITS defenders said it could, the state's legislative process including a Conservative-controlled legislature and a DFL governor has produced a re-districting law. Both elements lost a bit in the process, but statements indicate they feel they have been "bent, but not broken." The situation has been a dilemma for lawmakers and the governor. They are first politicians, and as such must first be concerned with re-election. The lawmaker who feels a certain plan will cost him his seat has little choice but outright opposition.

At the party level, the goal is a better chance for control of the legislature. But the other horn of the dilemma is that they are all members of the legislative process, jealous defenders of their prerogative to redistrict themselves rather than leave it to the courts or put legal authority in the hands of a commission. That kind of dilemma is basic enough to produce two bills, two vetoes, a prolonged special session and eventual compromise. Voters may wonder why Conservatives rejected the governor's call for "prior agreement" before the special session, since the bill and Tuesday's compromise were hammered out by leadership groups while the other members waited in the halls. But they could also wonder why the governor did not make his position clearer at an earlier date.

Still they must admit that the legislative process has succeeded; and that while the political split may have made the process painful, it may have produced a compromise more clearly in the public interest than in that of party. Sights must now be raised to the 1971 session, when 1970 census figures most certainly will call for another redisricting. Action should be taken during the next two sessions to make the next go-round less painful. Elm Trees and Dead Robins OUR CITY'S beautiful elm trees are threatened by Dutch elm disease, and measures undertaken to fight this are threatening our robin population. As a consequence, the Park Board is caught in the middle between tree lovers and bird lovers.

We are sure the Park employes wrestling with the problem are as solicitous about our bird population as they are about our tree population, and the situation calls for reasonable and co-operative attitudes on the part of all concerned. The situation seems to be this: When DDT is applied as a dormant spray, some does not remain on the bark but falls back on the ground, where it settles on dead leaves and grass. Whether spraying is done in the fall or spring, DDT will still be present in the spring when earthworms eat the dead vegetation. The earthworms may be eaten by the robins. If the robins have just arrived in migration and are thin, Michigan State University studies show, up to 95 per cent may die.

However, if they are in good condition, the DDT-loaded earthworms can be eaten by them with no apparent effect. There is another spray methoxychlor less toxic to earthworm-eating birds, and it is used by the Park Board along the river road and wooded areas where there is more wildlife. But it is three times as expensive, and has less residual properties on elm bark. Should more money be put into trimming of dead wood in which the elm beetles multiply, and less in spraying? Should more methoxychlor be used, even if it might require a double dosage? Is too large an area being sprayed around each tree? Should some specific program, such as replacing every third tree along our elm-shaded streets with maples, be instituted? Should our state agencies interest themselves more in the problem? An orderly procedure for local autopsies on dead robins seems one need. Minneapolis wants to keep its elms as long as possible, and it doesn't want to injure its robin population.

This is an important community problem, and demands a co-ordinated attack based on solid information. Unemployment in Russia THE WORD "unemployment" is distasteful to Communist officials, who are supposed to be able to run an economy without that problem. But the problem exists in the Soviet Union. In Stalin's day, when life was harder and most people worked where they were told to work, surplus workers were few. Today, with more freedom of movement, with technological changes, with greater efficiency within industrial plants and offices, unemployment is estimated to be about 3 per cent.

The Soviet government has the same double problem the United States is faced with today jobs unfilled at the same time that people with the wrong skills and training, or living in the wrong places, are looking for work. And Moscow is learning that specialized training and retraining, and shifting of personnel in expanding types of work, such as service occupations, and establishing some sort of national job placement service are necessary to deal with a shifting labor force. The Russians are reaping the rewards of a more comfortable life and more readily available consumer goods than in the past. But greater personal freedoms and a more flexible economy call for some kinds of government attention considered highly "capitalistic" in the past. The Soviets might learn some useful lessons by observing how a free labor force performs in western nations, imperfect though our system may seem sometimes.

play in repelling Communist aggression. coming a nation of peeping Toms. McCarthy then took over the inquisition This means that no one, our own citizens include, can be sure what the rules are at any given moment because they may so easily be changed. of the long-suffering Rusk, discussing the SEATO treaty. Rusk defended it.

McCarthy said "it is close to irrelevant" as a reason for our being in Viet Nam. Rusk said such Potomac Fever a statement could destroy confidence in all I would suggest that the schools emphasize the value of reading, reading-understanding and plain spelling, rather than going overboard in sex-education. A stress on moral principles might be helpful, too. Edina. Mrs.

R. J. Hickson. Editor's Note: The heading actually said "Views on Illegitimacy Study." To the Editor: I am writing to condemn my own generation, who are parents of today's teen-agers, and to say that here is treaties. The next comment by the senator is the one that takes your breath away.

Come to think of it, he said, the majority of senators now in office had not voted for the SEATO colleges, and we are reminded that there has been a vacancy on the State College Board since the death of J. Cameron Thomson last winter. The high enrollment forecast for our colleges for the next decade makes it imper ative that we get the best qualified leader By JACK WILSON Washington. Pennsylvania Republicans nominated a dead man for lieutenant governor. When those people get realistic they go all the way, don't they? Brezhnev says too many Russian young people are parasitic.

Same trouble over here it's hard to get a good shampoo while you're picketing. It's no real mystery why Lurleen got so many Negro votes in the Alabama primary. That's how you get status now hire a white governess. where the blame lies for the big share of today's sexual immorality. The fault of the high rate of premarital sexual intimacy is ours, and not until we admit this and are willing to talk, discuss and educate our own boys and girls will this problem be solved.

When a subject is made negative, "hush-hush," dirty andor the subject of much joking by parents, can we not expect our teen-agers to think this is just what they want, and now? Just as teen-age drinking treaty. He did not pursue the point, but the implication was clear. Since the majority of senators now on the job had not voted for SEATO it was before many of their times it would be proper to regard SEATO as less than binding, or "close to irrelevant." He did mention, almost in passing, that there were very few treaties now in effect on which the majority of present senators had voted. This attitude in international affairs is devastating. It casts doubt on all our treaties.

It wears away more of the foundations of the already crumbling NATO alliance. It says that treaties are merely mat ship on our board. May I suggest the governor appoint State Sen. Robert R. Dunlap to the State College Board? Dunlap has served many years as chairman of the Education Committee of the Minnesota senate, and has impressed people in the field of education with his ability, dedication and fairness.

He is not running for re-election to the senate. Morningside. Alfred P. Siftar. Crossword Request To the Editor: I wish you would put a children's crossword puzzle in the paper.

Many children like to do crossword puzzles. Minneapolis. Kristopher Kulseth. Secretary McNamara doesn't mind honest criticism, but he seems to get annoyed when people call the Pentagon the Hawk napits reflect those ot their parents, even so are morality patterns learned at home, perhaps not by affirmation, but by the extreme negation. If we as parents had a happy and well-adjusted sexual life, we would be able to transmit to our teen-agers that sexual in Shop.

The Postoffice says there are 500 women delivering mail. As if Beatle haircuts and tight pants weren't confusing enough, now femailmen. timacy can be one of the most thrilling and satisfying of all human relationships, but that this experience can be marred, New-time Youngsters With Old-time Religion Rusk McCarthy Fulbright By JAMES J. KILPATRICK Washington Star Syndicate Washington. Barry Goldwater turned up in town the other night, standing as sentinel-straight as one of his giant saguaros and just as needle-sharp.

He had come to speak to a dinner at the Shoreham of Young Americans for Freedom, and it was good to have him back. By all the ordinary rules, this should have been a forgettable affair: fruit cup, roast these ideals "that our concept of freedom is valid, and that there can be no freedom under a centrally controlled state, whether in Russia or the United States." It was the old-time religion. And reading this over, it sounds a little corny. Doubtless the Goldwater view, as they say, is "simplistic." Perhaps it smacks of "outmoded nationalism," or of "superpatriotism," or of "flag-waving." But it was good to hear the old bells rung again, and good to see these youngsters' hearts leap up. A day or so later, on the television late at night, one gazed in revulsion on the several hundred University of Chicago students who seized their administration building for a massive sit-in protest against the draft.

They paraded before the cameras, pimpled, bearded, slack-jawed, dirty, a rabble of pusillanimous slobs. And one thought of the Young Americans for Freedom, singing out the Pledge of Allegiance', and that flowed toward a leader who kept the faith. Barry stood there, grinning that crooked grin, gazing good-naturedly through those big-rimmed glasses. After a while, he shut them up with one quiet-down wave of a friendly paw, and for 28 minutes he talked to them, hand in pocket, giving them the old sound doctrine. Reduced to black-and-white, his speech was probably nothing much.

He said nothing he hadn't said before, but he managed to give fresh meaning to comments that might have grown stale. Members of YAF, he noted, were proud to call themselves conservatives, and he was proud of the name. Conservatism remains today the only successful political philsos-phy known by man. "What's so wrong with it?" To be conservative is first of all to respect the proven values of the past to comprehend what has worked, and what has not, and to apply these lessons of experience to contemporary needs. LBJ Press Parleys Really Needed Now By HOWARD K.

SMITH The Hall Syndicate New York. For all the criticisms directed at John Kennedy's mass press conferences, they performed a vital national service. They were held pretty regularly, working out at about one per fortnight. They were nationally televised, live. They became the continuing channel of contact between leader and led.

They required Mr. Kennedy to up-date his arguments regularly and to meet the newest doubts about his policies beet, parfait, a couple of furlongs of head-table guests. Yet the coincidence of other events, especially at the University of Chicago, added a special poignancy to the ritual occasion. And Barry was at his best. This was a fifth anniversary dinner for Young Amer- thanked God for the hope they represent.

icans for Freedom Formed at Goldwater Sharon, in the winter of 1960-61, YAF now counts 36,000 dues-paying young conservatives across the as they were raised in reporters questions. The public had a feeling that it knew where the nation was headed. That is what we lack now when we need it most. President Johnson occasionally mentions Viet Nam in a set speech. But set speeches rarelv attract national audiences: "Freedom is the cause!" said Goldwater.

He speaks of freedom like some Old Testament prophet calling upon his God. "Free GRIN BEAR IT By Lichty the TV networks, which ran all Kennedy's The Minneapolis STAft lAtCESI OAIIY NEWSPAPER IN THE UPPER MIDWEST Circulation more than JOHN COWLES. President; JOYCE A. SWAM. Executive Vke Pwsidont end Publisher; JOHN COWLES, Vice Editor; OTTO A.

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Vire President and Secretary; PHiUP VOU ElGN. Vice President; CLARENCE B. MctUE. Tr -isurei. dom! No people have ever enjoyed freedom as much as we have enjoyed it under the Constitution and under the forms of free enterprise." Yet the old concept of freedom seemed to him in danger not from Communists, foreign or domestic, but from the apathy and greed and indifference of our own people.

He turned his scorn on businessmen, some of whom have no more morals than ladies of the night. He lashed at liberals who are dedicated to "action without thought." He remarked that many of the members of YAF would be going actively into politics a few years hence: "Think of freedom first, and second of the vote." He wound up with a few minutes of quiet reflection on American ideals, on the rights of property, the rights of privacy, the integrity of the individual, the freedom of the marketplace. In the end, he thought, the one best way to fight communism was to convince the Communists of the worth of news conferences live, provide only briefest edited excerpts of Johnson's speeches. They are simply not as dramatic as the unrehearsed interplay of chief executive and uninhibited questioners. Moreover, the President's press conferences seem to be growing ever rarer and ever more restrictive.

The only one held in April was called so abruptly that a stenographer could not be summoned in time to provide an entire record of it. The corps of reporters and the range of questioning are sharply limited by lack of notice. And they are not televised. The reason the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings are getting the most lavish attention ever from television is that the President has left a vacuum of informa A thousand of them had convened to whoop it up for Barry and to raise a right-wing cry. Do you know the first thing that struck an outside observer? You could tell the girls from the boys.

Peace, it was wonderful. The boys had short hair, crew-cropped, and the girls had long hair, curled at their shoulders; they radiated hot water, good soap, and Chanel No. 5. Kooks? There wasn't a kook in the crowd. These were healthy, wholesome, intelligent young people, well-mannered, politically aware, proudly reverent.

When Barry's turn came, they brought down the roof. For couple of minutes, we were back at San Francisco. They love him still. In their hearts, they know he was right. The mistakes of the '64 campaign, the awfulness of defeat, the crash of conservative hopes that bitter November all this vanished in the warmth PQfirDf smith.

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