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LETTERS TO WE EDITOR THE DAYTON DAILY NEWS Id. Cox, Publisher 1898-1957 Self-incrimination Clause Part of Due Process of Law MONDAY. JANUARY 13, 1964 PAGE 18 No Filter on Cigarette Study: Smoking Menace to Health from wine to women probably applies to less than 1 per cent of the American male population. Considered in the light of Playboy's tremendous popular-ity. this could constitute a real dancer to the moral fiber of American society.

However, the banning of this magazine would not be a solution to the problem, because the same essence of phoniness pervades not only Playboy, but a great majority of the magazines on the newsstands and far too many of the advertisements seen on television. A complete and comprehensive censorship in this country would demon-strate to the entire world the failing of a free and democratic- society, a society inept at coming to the real root of its problems. Dayton. DONALD R. COOL.

1,000 per cent higher; for chronic bronchitis and emphysema, 500 per cent higher. "The. mortality ratio of cigarette smokers over nonsmokers was particularly high for a number of diseases." So there it is no surprises. The report concludes what numerous studies previously laid on the table. Certainly some "appropriate remedial action" by government, as the report suggests but does not outline, has to be devised.

The government, with an obligation to protect the nation's health, has to take a firm stand against a health hazard of this magniude. Smoking stands Indicted. The $3 billion tobacco industry in America, employing 3.5 million people, has taken a serious clip on the chin. The shock waves from the study are going to pound the industry from now on. As for the smoker, the government has properly' placed the first detour before him.

He travels tobacco's road at his own risk. Not a Best Seller For the literate devotee of conspicuous consumption, If such exists, a New York firm is marketing a six-foot-one book to be used as a room divider. With heavy plastic pages and a binding of metal, the 12-page tome features surrealist poems and stained glass illustrations by a Dutch artist. It sounds interesting, certainly, but the price tag of $5,225 will strike some as being a bit steep. It might be worth waiting until the work comes out in paperback.

If there was any lingering doubt by anyone that cigarette smoking can cause lung cancer and other deadly diseases, it should be wiped out by the recent federal study conducted by a panel of medical scientists. There was no filter on the 150,000 -word report that took 14 months to compile. Cigarette smoking contributes substantially to mortality from certain special diseases and to the over-all death rate." There was warning throughout the report for the nation's 70 million regular smokers. The main theme the greater use of tobacco, the greater the risk to health was scientifically supported by animal experimentation, clinical, autopsy, population and numerous other medical studies. The report nailed down some specifics: For coronary artery diseases, the leading cause of death In this country, the death rate is 70 per cent higher for cigarette smokers than non-imokers.

For lung cancer, the death rate is Detachment Vote Sham in Moraine Moraine Village regrettably has won the detachment battle, or at least the first round of It, with Miami Twp. The Montgomery county board of elections has ruled that the village's move to detach more than 1,800 acres of Itself Is valid. A vote on the issue Is scheduled Jan. 23. The village detachment petition, of course, Is a sham.

Moraine officials have no intention of breaking up their Industrially rich I Hear She Wants a Divorce' I have a citizen's roncern in reports that the commission to investigate the death of President Kennedy will seek congressional license to dispense with the privilege against self-incrimination contained in the Fifth amendment to the Constitution The privilege is as much a part of American due process of law as are the rights of counsel, confrontation and cross examination Once this privilege is waived, then by force of prece-' Letters tubmitted for publication in thit column must bear th full name and address of th writer. All letters are subject to condensation, dent other rights of accused persons will be eroded away. Our American juristic society will revert back beyond 1660 AD when English common law prevailed. Under English common law an apprehended person could be questioned at any length by arresting officers before being formally charged and without the benefit of counsel. It should also be highly significant that there is no similar legal process in jurisprudence of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics! There is no cogent reason to endow this commission with plenary power to waive the operation of the.

self-incrimination clause in the questioning of federal witnesses. With all respect for the fine legal minds and the optimum of legal training which characterizes this commission, the fact remains that it will be the finding of fact and conclusions of the Federal Bureau of Investigation which will be the ultimate official version of the matter Dayton. CECIL E. BANFIELD. Objectionable Reading Can Lead to Death There are laws governing the sale and labeling of poisons such as arsenic.

No one can question the reasoning behind such action. It is to safeguard the life and health of our children. On the other hand, we have something more deadly something that can cause moral decay, perversion, disease and eventual death brought about by immoral behavior and the contracting of disease thereby Term it VD (venereal disease). The rate is Increasing by leaps and bounds. Check the publie health records.

These things are without doubt in- Philosophical Negro Cabbie Happy to Take Part in Life After a lifetime of resisting writing about taxi drivers, here's one it's hard to ignore. A small, round-faced man, he picked Desire for Censorship Spoils American Dream Here In America we proclaim to all the world our inalienable rights ai Individual human being-our right to speak, to vote, to write, or worship in any way we choose. We like to think of ourselves as the epitome of sophistication in this atomic age. But are we? Committees headed by respectable citizens of this nation now question whether certain magazines and books have the right to be put before the public. I know that some of these books are not great works and will not become immortal with time, but they are the products of thinking human minds.

When we ban these books, are we not censoring these humans' individualism? I say we are, It also seems that certain committees are worried that these questionable magazines might be observed by their children. If a child is reared properly In the home and exposed to all the facets of existence, he would have no desire to look at these books. I cannot help but wonder why these parents who are so concerned with the decency of adolescent minds aren't home with their children, guilding them in life, instead of forming committees Dayton. MARILYN ROBINSON. Mayor Out of Order In Questioning Suit Mayor Somers charge that Mr.

Beerman has rendered a "real disservice to the people of Montgomery county by filing his taxpayer's suit" Is most disturbing. y. me up In Washington the other day and began cheerily issuing instructions to the traffic, not nearly loud enough me to argue with. I'm just happy to be a part of the program." That led us Into deeper waters. What is the proper end of man? Why are we here? "I DON'T KNOW what it's all about," the cabbie said finally.

"I could have been born a mule, I guess, and lived a pretty hard life. I was born a Negro and that's not the best life there is. "But you remember this, my friend: It is better to have been born a Negro than never to have been born at all." I tried to explain that I thought the worst aspects of racial prejudice were being overcome, that his children would live in a world in which brutal types of discrimination would no longer exist "It's getting better," he said. "I like to mingle and talk. If somebody doesn't want to mingle and talk with me, I figure the hell with them.

There's lots of people who do. "You just remember what this cabbie told you: It's better to have been born a Negro than never to have been bom at all." With that we parted. to be heard outside the cab. "Step inside the crosswalk, Mam," he reminded a Jaywalker. "Don't jump lane," to a truck.

"You can get through the intersection and still let the man across," to a car, waiting on a pedestrian at a cross-street Then he turned to me. "I CAN'T RUN them all," he said. "I guess I better concentrate on driving the cab." "Probably," I agreed. "It's hard to manage the universe. Even the Lord has trouble with The cabbie had an interesting of language, combining a fundamentalist preacher with Pentagon bureaucrat "Don't talk like that mister," he warned.

"The Lord is too powerful for JOHNSON POLICY Coup in Zanzibar The weekend coup in Zanzibar appears to have given power to a Communist Chinese sympathizer and must, obviously, be scored as a cold war loss. Such things will happen. When you are involved in a global chess game, with hundreds of complicated pieces, you win some moves and lose others. You don't get philosophical about it or you shouldn't. You bend all your efforts, diplomatic, even clandestinely political, to move the uncommitted world 'to your side.

You work to hold your friends and blunt your enemies. You use aid and trade to shore up economies and give emergent peoples a stake in stability and freedom. There are many ways to treat a regime that begins to look unfriendly, small sanctions and other penalties. The right degree of leverage now can be applied to Zanzibar. There Is no reason to be unduly dismayed by the turn of events there.

Africa as a whole is moving toward Independence with far less of a list to the left than appeared inevitable only five years ago. Hospital Planning duced by the influence of reading offered our youth at a great many news outlets. Thank goodness we have many, many decent merchants who. do not go along the. sale of this form 'of poison, 'a very deadly one which can kill hot only bodies but minds and souls as well.

This poison Is aimed at our youth by twisted adult minds and, worse yet, by adults whose god is the almighty dollar. We concerned persons know those responsible. There is but one agency in the Dayton area. May these people awake numerous times each night and decide if. their tainted money is worth what they are doing to the sons and daughters of their friends and neighbors.

village, much less handing a good portion of it to township rivals. The petition was filed merely to block another detachment backed by Miami Twp. Village officials know full well that the majority of property owners In Miami Shores will defeat their detachment action because people there favor annexation to Moraine. So Moraine seemingly outfoxed the township by getting Its detachment petition to the election board first The township's detachment petition, an outgrowth of protest over Moraine's recent annexation of 1,193 acres of township territory, Is relegated to a limbo. Only legal maneuvering or time can resurrect It It's unfortunate that the township's detachment got the short end of the controversy.

This petition, excluding most of the Miami Shores area, would have given township residents a fair opportunity to decide whether they wished to come under Moraine's wing. As was, many township residents were forced into Moraine by the property owner majority In the Shores portion of the big annexation. Had Moraine annexed Miami Shores, only Miami Shores, this foolish detachment struggle could have been avoided. Miami Shores people wanted In others didn't But Moraine's thirst for more Industrial plums, at the expense of the township, won out. As a result of Moraine's actions, citizens will pay for an election that will resolve nothing.

Costly legal complications between the village and township could arise. Township detachment proceedings are still a future possibility. Clearly Moraine is using rusty nails to build a foundation for the city It some day hopes to be. 'Plain, Cotton-Pickin' Folks' Change Image of White House WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 It has now been about 50 days since a new President of the United States entered the White House, and during that time not a single policy of the late President has been changed.

Yot th ntir nr- idential Image has CJ hctn chanced I Said a White House policeman to newspaper guests: "Just drive up the front driveway, park, and walk in the front door like rich folks." Remarked one White House employe: ''Nothing around here is the same. Now we've got just plain, cot ton-pickin' folks." NOT IN A GOOD many years if ever has the Business Advisory council been Invited to the White House for dinner to read the President's State of the Union message in advance, or the AFL-OO executive council to lunch to read the message; or the foreign correspondents been given a personal tour of the living quarters of the White House by the President himself, including his own bedroom where his pajamas lay neatly folded on his turned-down bed. Yes, the presidential Image has changed completely without changing a single policy. (C1964.) from press conferences, to relations with congress, to easygoing informality. Most observers expected LBJ to be a me-too President But no man has so changed the presidential Image in so short a time without changing a single policy.

QUIPPED UPI'S Merriman Smith after a press conference at the LBJ ranch: "Never before In history has a president held a press conference using a bale of hay for a podium and then made his exit on horseback." VGLY AMERICA Due Process It seems small and out of place for an elected government official to question the right of a citizen to use the courts of the land to estublish what is lawful. Many millions of tax dollars of many people are used annuity in the courts to determine what is lawful. Does Mayor Somers think that all of this is a waste? Without the Judicial branch and the freedom of the citizens to go to court for interpretations of the law, our government would be weak. Although I have no strong feelings about the urban renewal project In question, I am most grateful to Mr. Beerman for bringing before the public his feelings on the matter.

It has provoked me into more active interest in the urban renewal project It is my hope that in the future our public officials will channel their energies into answering the questions made about the project rather than attacking those who question. MRS. JOHN MILKEREIT. Dayton. Prohibition a Sign Of Civilized Nation Since the repeal of prohibition, we have declined from being a civilized society to being a semibarbarlan society.

When President Kennedy was assassinated, the nation was shocked. That Is as it should be. But why should we not be even more shocked at the multitude of tragedies that occur? Instead we take them In stride. If we could become civilized Instantly, prohibition would return within three or four months. GEORGE EDWARD BROWN.

Troy. Riser Teenagers Rate Big 'Round of Applause Those that are quick to criticize the teenager for anything and everything he does should become acquainted with a group of seniors from Klser high school who are members of their school's chapter of the Junior Council on World Affairs. For the second consecutive year this group has met in my home for their annual Christmas party. (Their teacher-moderator Is a bnchelor-wtth-out-rec-ronm.) It would be Impossible to assemble a finer group of 36 young ladies and gentlemen. Consideration of others property, good manners, poise and charm evidently are Included In thrlr curriculum at Kiwr-and mot certainly started In their homes.

Kudo to the parents, KUer high and theie fine young adults. Dayton. WILLIAM II. WEIS. Billboards and Dreary Cities Turn Nation Into Giant Slum PAUL L.

CHAMBERLAIN. Dayton. Better to Add Prayers Than Number of Beers I have Just said 10 Hail Marys and an Act of Contrition asking forgiveness for the disgust I felt for the narrow-minded viewpoint about parochial schools expressed in a letter which appeared in this column recently. In the first place the battle Isn't to subject any non-Catholic to religious training or prayers they do not believe In but only to get transportation for our children, that they may get to school safely to learn about God and to add, read and write As to the way the books are written, they are trying to make school work a little more Interesting to children by making stories out of arithmetic problems instead of the drab 10 plus plus 13 equals 27. What is wrong with using prayers that the children know and love as the objects in the problems? Would it be less objectionable of the problem read: John stole $10 at breakfast, IS at lunch and $13 at bedtime? Or Robert drank 10 beers at one bar, five beers at the next and 13 beers at the next? Or maybe using flash cards with cheesecake girls to add up to 27? Heaven help our children who must live in a world where even a small portion of humans object to adding up a few prayers MRS.

CHARLES T. LEHMAN. Dayton. Phony Picture of Men Playboy's Worst Fault Various Individuals, partlculary members of the Citizens of Decent Literature, have been attacking Playboy magazine for the wmng rensonss. The disturbing thing aliout Playboy Is not the sex, but the false Image of the single American male that the magazine projects Into every advertisement and underlies the basic philosophy of the magazine.

This pbonlness the Idea that the young and single American male Is suave and sophisticated In ail matters The newly created Hospital Planning Council of the Greater Miami Valley should pay high dividends. It is needed to take inventory of present hospital facilities and to draw a blueprint of future needs. The group is built on a solid foundation of responsible agencies the Hospital Federation of Greater Dayton, Montgomery County Medical society. Community Welfare council, Area Progress council and the Dayton Area chamber of commerce. Once organizational kinks are worked out, once Hill-Burton funds are secured for planning work, council members can begin bringing order and direction to hospital operations In the Valley.

The council's most important functions are deciding what hospital facilities should be built and their priority, developing existing facilities and planning their coordination. Like other types of regional cooperation, Valley hospital planning is sure to pay off. the council gearing hospital facilities to community needs, citizens will get a crack at the best available care. Special Lesson It was like pitching a no-hitter against the Yankees, firing a hole-in-one on the 17th green at Pebble Beach, or kicking a 52-yard field goal against the wind. That best describes Bobby Fischer's winning of the U.

S. chess championship. In gaining the title, the Brooklyn youth defeated the best dozen players in the country with remarkable strategy and skill. By not surrendering a match, his accomplishment will be written in gold In the record books. But the Fischer story Is more than victory of a quern over a king on a black and white chess board.

Here's a young man who set a goal for himself In his teens to become the best chess player In the world. He Is working hard at It he Is well on his way. It Is this man-versus-goal lesson that gives Bobby Fischer aurh distinction. It far overshadows the lesson he gives an opponent on the effective use of pawns and knights, rooks and bishops. Due process of law is deliberate, sometimes almost to the point of tedium.

But Its very caution Insulates the courts which, after all, are human from the panic pressures of stampeded public fancy. Citizens for Decent Literature, In suggesting that officials are dawdling over enforcement of obscenity laws, Is understandably Impatient but courting dangers. CDL has maintained rightly and consistently that due process Is the course It favors. Due process is being followed. Officials resisted the Initial tpmptation to seek "cooperation" from a magazine dealer which would have been nothing more than informal censor-hip.

They wisely decided to haul allegedly obscene publications Into court, where the determination of legal obscenity properly resides. The system worked out by 1 1 officials and Prosecutor Paul Young is sensible. Items suspected of falling under anti-obscenity laws will be reviewed behind grand Jury doors. Publications which grand Jurors believe may be obscene will go to public trial, and a Jury will decide if they are to be banished. The system shields community from legally obscene material and magazine and look sellers from vigilante proscription.

That what due process is all about rows of the real estate developer's suburbia have to he repeated. There are far better ways to design them, very specific ways. It can be done. Much of our landscape can be restored to view by laws aimed at the billboard lobby. THERE ARE LAWS to protect pil-vacy, laws to protect us against overcrowding, against unsanitary conditions, against overt obscenity.

There are virtually none to protect us against ugliness. Surely It Is nonsense a as courts and other authorities have said, that economic Interest Is a necessity while esthetic Interest Is a luxury. There Is a fundamental moral and, therefore, ought to be a fundamental legal difference between ugly movies, ugly TV. commercials, ugly music, ugly bonks and ugly buildings, highways and streets. The former can bt avoided; we have a choice.

The latter cannot bt avoided; we have no choice at alL (CIVA.) NEW YORK. Jan. 13-We shall all hear much in the coming campaign about saddling posterity with a great public debt. We shall probably hear nothing about the real crime we are committing against kIt our children and mMy grandchildren. With breathtaking rapid- Ity we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and are turning America into a prison of the spirit What was once the falreM of lands has become, by an Increasing number of competent judgments, the ugliest community of man on earth.

THE AFFLUENT society, with relentless, suiglemlnded energy, It turn-' ing our cities, most of suburbia and most of our roadways Into the most affluent slum on earth. The complex of forces doing this Is Intricate and powerful, but not unstoppable. Nor do the endleu, dreary.