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LETTERS The Miami News The Best Jfewnpaper Under The Sun a view of The news RxFor Med School TV Has Obligation To Editorialize Pulimr Prist For Inltrnattonal Reporting In l'Jol utitstr Prist For National Reporting In l9 Pulitzer Prist For Public Servict In 1939 James Sf. Cox, Jr. Publisher end President J. Luckctt Yawn, Jr. Central Manager Daniel J.

Manoney, Jr. Vice-President Clarke Aih Associate Editor William C. Baggs Editor C. Edward Tierce Managing Editor By CLARKE ASH Anuwlate tdllor Ot Th Miami htm Almost lost In the excitement of the test ban vote in Washington this week was news story that should mark the end of a decade-long wait for a medical school building at the University of Miami. To The Editor: Under date of 18 the article by Rollene Saal headed 'Tlease TV Don't Turn To Preaching." Miss Saal asked for forgiveness of Agnes Ash, your TV Editor, for accepting the Invitation of Channel 7.

This invitation is extended after each editorial, OA 68th Year, No. 130 Friday, Sept. 27, 1963 Senate Battle Next is. asking for viewer comments. To quote your article 'Tor one thing, we don't think that television stations ought to editorialize," then It went on to say "It's not like newspapers." We must agree there is a difference between newspapers and TV.

At the recent Subcommittee Hearing on Communications and Power of the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee, a highly respected TV broadcaster stated "our policy to editorialize On Tuesday, President Kennedy signed into law an administration bill providing $236.4 million in federal funds to shore up the nation's sagging medical and dental education program. It is hard to imagine any place where the need is greater than at the Univerr sity of Miami. MS Byrd Is The Roadblock To Tax Reduction ROLLENE ASH The battleground over the nation's biggest tax reduction in history now shifts to the floor of the U.S. Senate. Prospect for early passage there is uncertain, consid tJ' V' ering that chairman of the Finance Committee, Harry Flood Byrd, sometimes acts more like a Republican than the Democrat he is.

The tax bill is the keystone of President Kennedy's program to stimulate the na Nicholson: Life And Death arships the government will provide for an estimated 10,000 students. For years there has been a growing concern among doctors that the quality of medical education is slipping because med school students are drawn 'from that small percentage of the population which can best afford the tremendous cost of becoming a doctor. It is not quite true that a poor boy cannot-work himself through medical school. Some do, but only with the aid of loans from people willing to gamble' on the doctor's high earning power after he graduates. The disadvantages of a system which sees many young doctors setting up shop under a crushing load of debt are all too obvious The American Medical Association, unsurprisingly enough, fought the federal loans, which carry three per cent interest that begins to accumulate only after the student graduates.

The AMA favors its own loan program, which carries interest of 5.5 to 6.5 per cent throughout the life of the loan, a provision that clearly removes it from the realm of socialism. The federal aid program isn't going to cure the national doctor shortage overnight, but it might enable a lot of fellows who are long on talent and short on cash to crack the medical field without mortgaging their professional futures. hi Since the day the U-M med school was founded in 1952, university officials had hopes for federal funds toward a new building. Bills to that end have been kickng around the Congress since 1951. Currently, the U-M med school is stuffed in a corner of the decrepit VA Hospital in Coral Gables, once the Bill-more Hotel.

Clinical facilities are at Jackson Memorial Hospital. The research function has its own building near Jackson. Dean Haydcn Nicholson says the federal aid bill has been almost a matter of life and death to the school, and the battle isn't over yet. Uncle Sam may pay as much as 50 or 66 per cent of the cost, but competition among schools could lower the percentage by reducing the total funds available. And there will still have to be some sort of fund drive to raise the remainder.

Dean Nicholson puts the total building cost at between $10 and $20 million. The Metro Commission has promised a half-acre building site near Jackson. Understandably, U-M officials must be most concerned at the moment with the portion of the new law that will help put a roof over their heads. But the view here is that the public interest, as the expression goes, will one day be enhanced even more by the schol- hibited an extraordinary degree of party loyalty, something Kenne-dy has lacked in recent months on the floor of Congress. Sen.

Byrd, the conservative Virginian, will be the toughest obstacle "to Mr. Kennedy's reforms in the Senate. Byrd, who's never in a hurry, doubts if the Senate can complete action on the bill this year because hearings haven't even started. Byrd has other ideas too. He has joined with a majority of Republicans in Congress in demanding a more solid commitment from Mr.

Kennedy than has been given so far that government spending will be cut. As recently as Sept. 18, Mr. Kennedy promised the nation even if he didn't put it in writing, as the Republicans want that federal spending would be limited to "only those activities which "are fully essential to the nation." But this fails to satisfy the opposition. Now the President's hope is that Southern Democrats in the Senate will put aside their civil rights differences long enough, to remember the taxpayers back home at Christmas time.

BYRD grew ou of an obvious need in each of these communities for a new voice in this public information area." TV editorials are intended to "spark curiosity and then those who hear the editorials start thinking and talking about a given subject." All TV editors are committed to "the fairness We actually solicit the dissenting viewpoints of reputable groups or individuals whq are given an opportunity to express themselves. Any time Miss Saal differs with our opinions, we would be happy to consider giving her equal time on the air where she may be able to get her thoughts across to thousands of TV viewers, many of whom probably do not read the newspaper in full detail. SIDNEY D. ANSIN, President Sunbeam Television Corporation Democracy Takes Count To The Editor: We'll sympathize and deplore, but the high finance boys will slap each other on the back and have a private chuckle over the latest rightist coup. The military stooges are back in business and democracy takes the count again but you won't see demands to invade the Dominican Republic.

P.J.F., Miami Doctors Get More, Public Less To The Editor: I have been reading in the paper that various hospitals throughout the country have received federal aid grants to provide additional facilities and paraphernalia used by the medical profession. Also funds were provided for medical scholarships and the construction of medical schools. Meanwhile the price of medical care spirals upward. The Congress cannot pass a medial care program for the public like all the other civilized nations of the world, but they can pass a bill to provide doctors with working space and equipment. The medical profession is the only monopoly in the country that Is subsidized by the federal government.

LES CROSSMAN. Pompano Beach AA Is Non-Political To The Editor: The beginning and subsequent development of a new approach to the problem of securing votes from Alcoholics Anonymous members by a certain political candidate iri Dade County has already backfired. Boasting that the entire AA membership would support him, this candidate can now rest 'assured that strict observance of non-political action will always prevail in AA. We are not interested in reforms, outside charitable money, publicity or participation in controversial subjects. We have always declined to marry our society to anyone.

We still have but one purpose, and, that is carrying the AA message to the sick alcoholic. BOB Miami Beach tion's economy by giving individuals and businesses more money to spend, even if it means putting the country deeper in the red by reducing revenues from taxes. And this is the crux of the argument threatening tax revisions today. In the House, Democratic leadership beat down the Republican effort to knot the Presidential purse strings, then passed the $11 billion measure, 271 to 155.To the credit of Southern Democrats these representatives ex- ii Mrs. Nhu Talks Too Much Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu is an outstanding example of how some persons (we almost said women) talk too much.

Her description of United States junior officers as "irresponsible little soldiers of fortune" was properly labelled cruel and insulting by U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge. These "junior officers," along MRS. NHU with some 14,000 other Americans, are risking their the Outdoor Recreational Development Council to conserve the state's outdoor resources. In the middle of June, the Legislature placed a special tax on all sports equipment, including bathing suits, to pay part of the cost.

On Nov. 5 the voters of Florida will ballot on an amendment allowing the council to issue bonds and buy recreational lands. Some Dade legislators and all manufacturers say they were caught off guard by inclusion of swim suits among taxable items. Be that as it 4 may, "Senate bill 1311" is the law now. We agree, certainly, the tax is unfair.

The proper recourse is through repeal by the next session of the legislature. Yom Kippur, Day Of Atonement "For it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the Lord your God." The Day of Atonement, beginning at sundown today, is the holiest day of the year for Jews the world over. Yom Kippur is a day of fasting, a concrete way of humbling one's self before God. But even more, Yom Kippur is a day of prayer, for soul searching of character and behavior. Along with atonement comes the dignity and the choice available to every religion the balancing of our sins of omission with the commission of positive acts, starting now.

Not'Too Young Drivers To The -Editor: la one of your recent editorials you express the opinion that 14 is too young to drive. Obviously school officials feel differently for they seem to heartily endorse this with their student driver training courses. I question your logic, owing to the fact that if an individual at 14 has the mental faculties and coordination to pass all the tests then he is qualified to drive a car. You make no mention about being considered too old to drive. With regard to age, at 12 one is an adult when it comes to certain conditions regarding price admission.

For marriage 15 and 16 are acceptable in many instances. At 174 one may fight (and die) for his country. In the courts legal age is 21. On travel fares the grown up age is even more comical Perhaps we just have too many laws or too many inconsistencies in the laws with age as the paramount question. RONALD C.

RICKEY, Miami Beach 111 lives every day in Viet Nam helping Madame Nhu's countrymen fight the tide of communism. President Diem's sister-in- law has a tongue sharper than her mind. r-H Baking Suit Tax Unfair, We've received a score of letters this week of the same mind all voicing opposition to "the 5 per cent tax on swim wear in Senate bill 1311." Obviously some one in the bathing suit industry conceived the not-too-high pressure campaign for their employes. But if the letter writers are trying to influence legislation, they're three months too late. The Florida Legislature created Fickle Fans To The Editor: We enjoyed Jack Kassewitz's column in the Sept.

24 issue. He expressed our views precisely. Its hard to understand how so many of the Miami sports fans can be so fickle. No one likes to lose but some of our fars would probably boo their own family. BERT LAW, Miami t0) Letters musl bear, not necessarily for publication, the writer's name and address.

Because of limited space letters are subject to condensation. "Gee, I Used To Go There And Sit!" AMI MI MBItlS News That Touches Us All 'Hello, President One Storm After Another BY RUSSELL BAKER By RALPH McGILL By ARTHUR KROCK Th ew York Tlmei Suppose we take just three educational items out of the news. 1. The Southern Regional Education Board has announced that research WASHINGTON The path of the elemental hurricane, which is roaring across the Caribbean on a northwesterly course, is easier for government agencies to reveals 21.5 per cert of the college-age people in Georgia were in college in 1060. The national average was 39.5 per cent at that time.

The 16-state Southern regional aver ttlil 10 Jfffc -h ml Is! ft McGILL forecast than the concomitant political tempest which overthrew the constitutional government of President Juan Bosch of the Dominican Republic. In the possible prospect that both Vyf KROCK United States security area, this is an opportunity for the Communists to exploit to the fullest. And on each occasion it takes a while to make an estimate of their progress, if any, toward their fixed goal of subverting the Western Democratic system' in this hemisphere. But whenever, as most notably in Cuba and now in the Dominican Republic, the United States government has supplied the principal pressure to oust one Latin-American dictatorship and then been confronted by another, the administration in power has been arraigned for ineptness, incompetence, or for service to a cosmic "liberal" ideology at the expense of the national interest. The State Department, during President Eisenhower's tenure, promoted the basic policy of advancing constitutional government in his hemisphere by shutting off material aid to dictator Batista of Cuba, but closing its eyes to the provision of this aid, through informal channels, to the rebel movement.

These measures assured the fall of the police state of Batista, who was an undeviating enemy of world communism and its infiltration in this hemisphere. But instead of restoring a constitutional, and maintaining a pro-United States, government in Cuba, the consequences were soon entirely the opposite. often lack adequate water supply and toilet facilities. More than ever before in our national life, education has become news. It touches more persons than any other one aspect.

Continuing changes in our economy daily make us aware of the painful reality that the young man or woman without a first rate background is doomed to a second or third rate wage-earning. It is just now beginning to come into focus that we are all in the educational boat together. The Southern young man and woman are now aware that the denial of schools to Negroes has been, and is, a major factor in the economic development of the South. Nor is that all. They are aware that the resistance to orderly desegregation and the abolition of separate schools both poor and inadequate will continue to make it harder and harder to get jobs and have opportunity in the South.

Industry, science, and progress in economics are not going to come into regions where there is disorder and acrimonious, violent racial conflict. The South cannot close its economic gap unless it raises the potential of all its people. Southerners grow restive in the face of the actuality that their states are behind the rest of the nation in education. Their dropout percentages are higher. Their ratio of college students is lower.

There are not enough jobs to hold the best young graduates in their native states. WASHINGTON Conversation in a moon rocket: "How about getting off the radio and flying the sputnik for awhile, Alexei?" "Sh! please, comrade. Now is the time I must broadcast greetings from the peace-loving peoples of the Soviet Union to all brave workers of Upper Volta Halloo, brave workers of Upper Volta on planet earth. I am Falcon- Hey, comrade Bill, you cut me off!" "Listen, Alexei, this is a joint moon trip. Joint.

Understand? I've got broadcasting to do, too. Look at this pile of stuff they've given me to send back." "That's nothing, comrade, you see this suitcase? You know what's in this suitcase? Messages of greetings from the peace-loving Soviet Union to oppressed Indiars, down-trodder colonial peoples! misguided Chinese, exploited Negroes, unhappy Arab nationalists and brave workers of 106 nations. I also have television equipment. Five telecasts I've got to do showing me studying the works of Lenin, eating powdered borscht, singing 'Midnight In powdered food is wonderful, Nikita Sergeyovich. Better than my mother used to make.

Thank you Goodbye." "The big man himself?" "Number one, it's ringing again Hello Yes, he's right here for you, Bill." "Yes, this is Bill Glad you called Listen, it's okay to release that first piece, the one titled, 'halfway to the moon I thought of When I get there I'll phone you again about releasing 'no green cheese out here' Right Take care of yourself, baby." "That was the president of the United States, comrade Bill?" "No. My literary agert Say, how about that old moon up there: Isn't she a beauty, Alexei?" "Beautiful, comrade Is it not good that our leaders abandoned the moon race and sent us together?" "There's the phore, Alexei Mr. President? Yes sir, we are moving toward the moon with great vigor here, Mr. President. How's that? Call you Teddy? BAKER shaving, and taking a nap." "Alexei, you don't know what problems are.

You see this timetable? Everything laid out to the minute. Here I've got to broadcast congratulations to Lyndon Johnson, the House space committee and the launch crew, and say something moving about the dedicated" spirit of the American aerospace industry. They don't even tell me what to say. 'Something That's all the help they give me. Isn't that the phone ringing?" "Hello.

Alexei Fyodorovich here Who's that? Nikita Sergevovich? The chairman himself? Hello, Mr. chairman Wonderful, Mr. chairman, wonderful, yes, a real Socialist cosmic triumph, Mr. chairman Call you Nikita Sergevovich? Yes, the age is 23.7 per cent. In 1950 the national average was 27.3 per cent, the region's 18.7, and Georgia's 15.7.

This is largely attributable to the high school dropout rate, which is the highest in the nation. 2. The Borough of Manhattan reports that for 91 elementary schools, the median turnover was 51 per cent, and for 25 junior high schools. 47 per cent. In three "difficult" elementary schools the turn-over for 1959-60 was 100 per cent.

This was caused by the extreme mobility of the slum population, unemployment, drop-outs, and so on. 3. In Chicago, school buildings serving the lower income groups are more than twice as old as buildings in the upper income neighborhoods. The schools in the low-income and slum sections are seriously deficient In laboratory space and equipment, have too little playground space for the bulging enrollments of today, and turbulences will eventually be costly to the United States, this government has ready mechanisms to. limit only the havoc of the one created by the wild forces of nature.

What the consequences of Bosch's removal by a military junta will be to constitutional government in this hemisphere necessarily was beyond the foresight of this government's policy-makers because the action was unanticipated. Therefore, it adopted tne standard emergency techniques of suspending all aid to the junta, and huddling with other constitutional American governments to watch developments from the Communist side and devise an ad hoc program for dealing with them. Any time a constitutional government is overthrown, especially in the.