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V.jfl&Jf'r- 1 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1966 6 1 THE MINNEAPOLIS STAR "TOO OFTEN WE HAVE IGNORED OUR OLDER AMERICANS Editorials EDITORIAL and OPINION PAGE In Defense of Chiropractors To the Editor Regarding the recent protested' so they put him leaning against the buildings wall. Then they hastily re branding of chiropractors as "quacks" by the A.M.A., does the medical profession Another 15 minutes passed and I told my husband that if helo had been summoned. think they have no "off beat members? If they do, I've got news for them. I have had the services of both medical and chiropractic. I feel they both have a place.

How they would have, arrived by then." So I went to call for the police myseu ana met uie ever, it was the D.us that certainly got the bombardment and I should like to go on record as 100 per cent in favor of them. LETTERS to the EDITOR Viova KMin nnrlor OV UHIV MWM rhimnrartir rar for 25 vears. I could write a book on benefits I have received. When the M.D.s gave up I got help with chiropractic adjustments. I know there are countless others who have had similar experience.

Chiropractic is continuing to grow by leaps and bounds and tne ajw.a. mignt as weu face it As soon as they admit that medicine isn't the only answer, humanity will be better off. There are now 535 private insurance com panies that include chiropractic care benefits. In addition, many federal workers' health benefit programs (one in which we have a policy) and state workmen's compensation boards also include chiropractic serv nice young man coming out or ine ore. ne was Indignant and proclaimed he'd just had to take the phone and call the police.

The people in the store wouldn't and didn't want the responsibility. The pplice arrived quickly; worked fast and were kind; courteous and did all that was necessary But I ask, isn't this Salvation Army Store supposed to be an example of a Christian organization? I am ashamed! Do we hold this sort of example to our youth and hope they will become good citizens? Minneapolis. Mrs. Bevard. A Symbol Emplanes To the Editor: The 2,550 Christmas ditty bags which left Minneapolis last week on an Air National Guard plane were a symbol.

The personal gift items they contained represented our community's respect, affection and best wishes for the serviceman in Viet Nam. The Red Cross was glad to be able to do this in behalf of the people of Hennepin County. In 1905 Congress assigned to the American Red Cross some specific tasks in support of the U.S. Armed Forces. In peace and war this work decreases and increases as the military population changes.

When actual combat is going on, the Red Cross services are more urgent, family anxieties are more wracking, and the total requirements are greater. The Viet Nam conflict has increased the costs of the American National Red Cross by more than $3,500,000 in the present year. Local costs in all 3,000 chapters for service to the military will have to increase by at least $3 million to meet the needs in this ices. Lucan, Minn. Marguerite Dittbenner.

Mrs. O'Leary Writes To the Editor: Recently a reporter from your paper, Joe Blade, interviewed me relative to my candidacy for representative to the State Legislature from 46A, Carr Gets Texas-size Push The reporter asked whether I would a sales tax as part of tax reform during By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK Publishers Newspaper Syndicate Austin, Texas Alarmed by the sudden affection of the the legislative session, if elected. I answered a specific "no." In answer to his questions on tax reform, I listed the desirable and undesirable effects of a sales tax proposal from the last legislature and stated that I did not advocate it I did advocate sharing federal tax receipts, and listed advantages here. Texas liberal Democrats for Sen. John Tower, a Goldwater Republican, the conserva tive Democratic establishment here has mobilized its top political operatives to rescue the drab campaign of Tower's Senate op ponent, Atty.

Gen. Waggoner Carr. Connally fears that a win by Tower would be a step toward a two-party system in Texas. Connally is the protector of the traditional southern system, which permits him to dominate the state simply by dominating the Democratic party. While Connally raises money and gets out the vote, the heart of the Tower strategy and the strategy of his new friends among the anti-Connally liberals is to keep the campaign quiet and the vote low.

Driven by their fury against Connally's domination of their party, the liberals are plotting a mass stay-at-home by big liberal voting blocs of Negroes, labor, Mexican-Americans and egghead liberals. Much preferred, of course, would be for these voters to go to the polls and actually vote for Tower. That, however, is expecting too much. By just persuading several hundred thousand normally Democratic voters not to vote, and turning out all Republicans, Tower and the liberal Democratic plotters can beat The establishment is headed by one of the shrewdest politicians in Texas history, Gov. At no time did I state to him support of a sales tax or suggest that the legislature should consider one.

I stated that the only honest approach to a tax reform that cuts present taxes is that spending be kept in line, or new sources of taxes be found. The article that appeared after the interview states my position incorrectly and is contrary to the interview. This article from your paper could be widely circulated as part of an opponent's campaign to influence the voters. I trust that your paper would not wish to lend its support to such activity. St.

Paul. Mrs. R. D. O'Leary.

John Connally, President Johnson's closest political friend. Once remote from Can's campaign, Connally has become deeply involved now that Tower is a slight favorite to be the first Republican re-elected to the Justice Douglas Oversteps SUPREME COURT Justice William Orville Douglas has been a restless, peripatetic member of the highest bench since his appointment by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939. He hikes for good conservation causes and for fun, he climbs mountains, circles the globe, writes books and lectures. He speaks out on controversial issues.

He was a consultant on the framing of a Constitution for the Dominican Republic. He has shattered the tradition that Supreme Court justices should live in a somber, aloof ivory tower world, as his fourth marriage at age 67 would attest even if he never gave another lecture. There is nothing in the Constitution to inhibit the Minnesota-born justice from active participation in the world outside the confines of the hushed marble court building, but it is disquieting that he should be paid $12,000 a year as the principal officer of the tax-exempt Albert Parvin Foundation, whose chief asset is a first mortgage on the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas. Douglas knew this when he took the position. As the foundation's president he traveled around from California to Latin America, according to Parvin.

The purpose was to promote fellowship programs for students from underdeveloped countries. This is an admirable object. The money its source is mostly from gambling he got was "largely as an expense account" to cover travel costs. No case involving interests of the foundation has been before the court, and one can assume that if one ever did Douglas would step aside. Nevertheless, there should be some limit on a Supreme Court justice's outside interests, and Douglas has overstepped them.

The Looks of the Ramps PARKING RAMPS continue to spring up all over downtown Minneapolis contributing to the convenience of working and shopping there, no doubt, but often adding little to the looks of the town. No doubt they're better planned and better designed than ramps in many cities. But most, it seems to us, fall considerably short of adding positively to the design of the central business district. A small minority makes a case for the Sheraton-Ritz ramp (for its shape, that is not for its color) but as for the rest, about the best you can say is that the slanting slabs of concrete are at least screened from view. Parking ramps are here to stay.

There was a brief period a few years ago when the people concerned with the future of downtown were considering the possibility of really big ramps around the heart of i the loop, tied directly to the freeways. But the opportunity to develop this kind of terminal if it ever really existed slipped away. The city is now committed to ramps in the heart of the downtown area, opening directly onto all the surface streets. This can be planned for, and handled: As sidewalks narrow to accommodate the swelling streams of traffic, more and more pedestrian facilities are being provided in weather-protected arcades, and over-the-street walkways. But it does put a premium on good design.

The extra effort can be well worth the expense. Dunes Lakeshore Wins at Last THE INDIANA Dunes National Lakeshore, after 50 years of consideration and 13 years of bitter fight-. ing, is assured. The House has voted for a tract which includes about 13 miles of shore between Gary and Michigan City. The House put into the park 478 acres owned by Inland Steel Co.

The Senate twice has passed a dunes bill and appears willing to accept the House changes. Rep. Charles A. Halleck, whose district includes most of the proposed park, opposed the bill as an infringement on a big port and industrial development at the south end of Lake Michigan. So did other Indiana leaders of both parties.

Sen. Paul Douglas, has been the foremost champion of the national lakeshore. The park will be a joint federal-state venture and the land acquisition will cost nearly $28 million. The funds may not all be forthcoming for eight years. Yet conservationists are confident that the beautiful undulating sands and the adjacent wildlife areas are now protected from industrial inroads.

However, another controversy continues over a 333-acre landfill by Bethlehem Steel Corp. at a new deepwater port just west of the national lakeshore. The Army Corps of Engineers approved the fill project, but the Interior Department forced reconsideration on the grounds that it would pollute the waters of the park. Thus the battle for the preservation of natural resources goes on and on. But there are occasional victories as the lakeshore vote shows.

Beards, Buns and Turbans BEARDLESS and bunless though we are, we have always admired the Sikhs, the members of the heretical half-Moslem, half-Hindu sect from the Punjab who have fought so well for Britain in the past. And we particularly admire their efforts to maintain their native dress in such an unlikely place as Manchester, the home of the Guardian but no real home for Sikhs. We are relieved to know, therefore, that the 100-odd Sikhs employed by the Manchester bus company will henceforth be allowed to wear beards, buns and turbans and thus embellish a rather cold and colorless city. British law, however, will continue to prescribe dark blue uniforms and visored caps for all other busmen. Senate in Texas history.

Editor's Note: In that part of the in terview dealina with Mrs. O'Leary's ideas on tax reform, her remarks dealt principally with the sales tax as a revenue-producing device. She discussed proposals which have been made that taxpayers be allowed to use the first $100 of sales tax paid as an income tax deduction. This led the reporter to write Carr. Furthermore, the political organization of Sen.

Ralph Yarborough, who leads the state's Connally-hating liberal Democrats, is quietly working to defeat Carr. As for Yarborough himself, he has promised to make as many speeches for Carr as Carr has made for him over the years, which is none at all. LA feek Li LI that Mrs. O'Leary believes the sales tax Carr Tower Connally "should be considered" by the legislature, fiscal year. Based on news reports, next year looks no better.

The Red Cross in Hennepin County gets its financial support from the United Fund, and we earnestly hope that the United Fund goal will be fully met. Minneapolis. Glen A. Whisler, Executive Director. Large Orange Object To the Editor There has been a great deal of interest lately in UFOs.

However, before the public tries to identify flying objects, perhaps they should try recognizing the large orange object known as a school bus. Surely the red flashing lights are clearly visible, even on a dreary day. The law plainly states that cars must stop for them. Our children must get off the bus on the highway and cross in front of it, relying on the bus lights to get them safely across. Oncoming vehicles refuse to stop for the bus, even when the driver uses his horn in addition to the flashing lights and extended stop signal.

As a matter of fact, they seldom slow down. Are automobile drivers simply ignorant of the laws, or are they so unfeeling they would deliberately run down a child alighting from the bus? Excelsior. Mrs. Alvin Wagner. Birch Society Comment To the Editor: I thought you would like to know that your constant smearing of the John Birch Society, all of the unfavorable publicity you give us, is only arousing the curiosity of your readers.

When they find that the Birch Society is strictly an anti-Communist group, whose only weapon is the truth, they always ask the same question: Why didn't I join a long time ago? Golden Valley. P. D. Ocken. Just Like Whites To the Editor The intemperate letter of even though she stated specifically that she Is Devil on Our Side? No, would not support a sales tax measure.

A Street Episode To the Editor: On Oct. 1, my husband Cong soldier shows that the peasants will fight for a regime that is all Vietnamese, like the Viet Cong, but not for a bunch of mandarin elite, who owe their existence to By CARL T. ROWAN Publisher! Newspaper Syndicate Washington. "We'll lose because the devil is on our and were shopping. We drove by the Sal vation Army Store at 900 N.

4th St There American arms and who want only to pre side." we saw a man, lying face down on the sidewalk. Our first thoughts were that he was very drunk, but unable to move to help him serve the status quo. Nobody writes it, or says it, quite so blunt self and perhaps badly hurt. When we American bombs and shells have scarred the countryside and disrupted village life, sending a million refugees fleeing to slum ly as that but that parody on a great World War II slogan is a disturbingly accurate reflection of how many Americans feel about the war in Viet Nam. encampments.

Meanwhile, the huge Ameri can presence is causing economic catas In these Americans, the desire to halt trophe and moral degeneration in the cities, Communist expansion in Asia is overridden by an uneasy feeling that total justice is not We can draw a little consolation from what we know to be the American penchant for self-criticism. It just naturally makes on our side, thus we cannot prevail in the stopped, a nice young man leaned down by the inert man, and told me he'd sent his fiancee to call an ambulance. Ten minutes later, she beckoned him to the corner and two men who work in the store came out told us he was blind drunk (we smelted no alcohol) and they'd thrown him out of the store. They planned to drag his body and throw it in the alley to await the ambulance (but they hadn't called.) We Potomac Fever long run. livelier copy to write about the sins, short' And the people burdened by this uneasi comings and stupidities on the American side than about the meanness and cruelty on ness are influenced day after day by reports the Communist side.

After all, criticizing from Viet Nam by well-known correspondents who say that: Communists is hardly unusual in our society. Our side is failing to win the support of But all these doubts, written and rewritten, the peasants because we're supporting the and all other journalistic self-flagellation, ncn mandarins, who care only about pre are taking their disquieting toll. They are Frank B. Hill saying "that the Negro doesn't want work" simply points up a fallacy that is widely believed by Americans. People who serving present privileges and gaining new ones.

do not bother to think, or who have heir By JACK WILSON Washington. Secretary Freeman predicts the Democrats will pull a big vote in the farm belt. No Our side is riddled with corruDtion. Less than a third of the $700 million we are spend thoughts limited by deep religious and cultural hatreds, say this. ing tnis year to lift the lives of the civilian doubt the question is, will it be yes or Look objectively at the problem.

Human population will ever trickle down to the kind on earth is one species: homo sapiens. ordinary man. The callous application of our fantastic firepower is killing a thousand or more civi In every group within that framework you will find all ranges of intelligence, from a Ringo Starr to an Einstein. lians each month: and for each such death no? They're planning Texas-style barbecue for the President when he gets to Australia. And a special Australian touch Canberra sauce.

Mr. Johnson took a personal interest in settling the G.E. strike. He learned the White we make dozens of enemies among the read and believed in Hanoi, whence a new "No" has come to a bid for peace talks. They are read by our friends on every continent and believed by more than a few.

And they are read by a confused and deeply divided American public. President Johnson and his top aides have said repeatedly that the "staying power of the American people will be crucial The question seems to be whether and when the administration can answer convincingly those criticisms of "our side" that create so much uneasiness on the part of decent people. The cry that the United States has tied itself to a hopeless cause may well be dismissed as the pessimism of the faint-hearted. But the administration cannot ignore the charge that the United States has tied itself to an immoral cause. Not if it wants to retain essential public support Here in America, we have neglected to create an environment that makes it pos peopie.

The South Vietnamese, whose freedom we sible for any minority to rise without serious problems. say we are defending, aren't really fighting Before I held my present white collar po House was running out of lights for him to turn off. sition, I worked with colored men and red men at such jobs as unloadine barees and io aeiena inemseives. They desert in shameful numbers and, as the casualty lists testify, it has become more and more an American war. Although the Communists have assassinated 20,000 or more village officials, they have been "selective." The valor of the Viet Rep.

Resnick says all a Republican gets for a $1,000 contribution is a handshake shoveling grain. They are humans of all levels of ability, like us whites. Now they need understanding; not Birchite hatred. from Nixon. For the same money a Demo crat gets a handout from lbj.

Winona, Minn. Henry E. Hull. Viet Nam Strategies, Errors Recall Greek Experience THE MINNEAPOLIS STAI Diplomatically, we hope to reduce the open flank through which Viet Cong aid pours across Laos and Cambodia as it once poured to Greek rebels across Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Albania. For his own reasons Tito broke with Russia and choked off the supply line.

With no such Asian possibility in sight, we gingerly seek to persuade Cambodia to close its borders to the Viet Cong. On the fifth front; propaganda, peace talk helps in Europe while battlefield prowess helps in Asia, where nations preach morality and respect force. There are, of course, many striking dissimilarities between yesterday's Greek and today's Vietnamese conflicts and the contemporary world is far more dangerously UKISf BAIIT NIWSMPM IN TMI UPTtt HIDWttT CIkIHm mmrw ahaa TSO.000 JOHN COWISS. PfWldtnlj JOYCt A. SWAN.

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By C.L SULZBERGER New York Tunes Service Athens. Greece is the best European vantage point from which to view the Viet Nam war, because Greece experienced a similar tragedy less than a generation ago. Indeed, there are many resemblances between the two conflicts, their strategies, mistakes and misconceptions. The degree of American involvement in Greece was far less than in Viet Nam, yet it was categorical end would have mounted had the Communist insurrection not dissolved. When the United States began actively supporting Athens under the Truman Doctrine, the Communists' so-called "democratic army" held 80 per cent of Greece.

A poorly informed U.S. public opinion largely sympathized with the insurgents and denounced the Athens government as He notes that "after a protracted and inconclusive anti-gUerrilla war, Communists and sympathizers (seek admisssion) to a coalition government as a compromise solution." Naive Americans propose such solution for South Viet Nam. Greece's civil war of course did not take place in a partitioned former colony. The rebels were, generally trained, financed, armed and led from abroad. They paid lip service to a "temporary democratic government" at a hideout near the border, as do the Viet Cong.

Before being defeated, the Greek insurrection had to be stifled on five fronts: military, political, security, diplomatic and propaganda. Now, In Viet Nam, the military tide Is turning. Politically so election has been held and the Viet Cong repeated the Greek mistake of ordering abstentions. The security issue Is being faced with a pacification program still less coherent than Greece's, The "democratic army," holding more of Greece than the Communists ever gained in South Viet Nam, was supplied from neighboring Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Albania as the Viet Cong is now supplied from North Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia. It received additional material (stolen from government stores), intelligence and recruits through an underground organization on government territory, later infiltrated and crippled.

From 1947 on, practically all their recruitment was forcible, as is now true for the Viet Cong. Retreating Greek guerrillas, like their Vietnamese successors, posed as civilian villagers. They brutally punished anyone friendly to Athens. In "Revolution nd Defeat," Prof. D.

George Kousoulas of Howard University points out: "To broaden its popular basis, a Communist guerrila force will in most cases conceal its true identity behind a smokescreen of attractive demands for national integrity and social justice." KOSEUT W. SMITH. fdiUrf of td tsr-al form- GEOtcGC PFHSON. Amooo' Editor. OWE HAWTHOtNt.

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explosive even than that of the 1940s. THE STAR'S POUCT 1. Rtport ttio Mt fully 4 impartially in ha mwi talinrmi. 2. Ejrprati the epinioM the Star in but only in editorial's he adiofilapinio Beget.

3. Publish all tides of important controversial iuuai. Nevertheless, we should not lose sight of the basic parallels between these two examples of the new doctrine of revolutionary warfare and what was done to counter it. VOlUMi UXXVII! NUMltlt.