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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR THE DAYTON DAILY NEWS James M. Cox, Publisher 1898-1957 PAGE 22 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1965 Foolish to Pinch Pennies And Endanger Kids' Lives Local Planning, Thinking Can Amplify New City Voice cities ought to strengthen the voici of ur-kui II is alroady speaking oul loudly for its right to equal representation in the legislatures of the land. It needs to speak more plainly about the survival concerns of centers of population which are also, historically, civilization's centers of culture and commerce, learning and the arts. Departmental status for urban affairs planning should also make possible the better coordination of a scatteration of palliatives and cures of urban ailments, many of them legislated in a vacuum in the 31 years since the Federal Housing authority was created. Thus the first secretary of the new department first confronts a jigsaw puzzle.

His task will be eased, and his planning and coordinating staffs can function more efficiently, if civic leaders the nation over will take a fresh look at their own metropolitan problems. These inter-prelate. They cannot be dealt with effectively item-by-item. Comprehensive thinking in Washington waits in part on comprehensive thinking in the cities (lETKiirNtwS- SeLUWCOUttE Wis kGoodby, We wonder if a group of fearful mothers with placards might move the West Carrollton city council to make better arrangements for the pupils attending the beautiful new Harry Russell elementary school. To say the Elm St.

hill is a death trap is no understatement. To date on this thoroughfare there is a limestone path. To our understanding there are no plans in the near future for guard rail or other high object of division between the walk way and road. There are nine months of school, and all the children between the ages of five and 12 in the Orchard Hill development are to walk this hill or the alternate route of Maplehill now under construction. On rainy days the nice mud is going to be so inviting on either route.

The money has been appropriated for a permanent walk, but as a recent article in The Daily News stated, they are holding off because of plans for a third lane on Elm hill and to make any more than this gravel path would be a waste of money at this time. We don't need a third death lane. We need a safe way to and from school for our youngsters not next year but now, before we have to be sorry we waited too long. It's quite obvious to us the almighty dollar has come before the safety of our children on this issue. JOHN P.

LEACH, MRS. JOHN P. LEACH. West Carrollton. Whatever Happened To That Dayton Zoo? I would like to know just what has become of the editor at The Daily News who was all fired up on building up a million dollar zoo for Montgomery county two years ago.

Was it all wind or just a brainstorm idea of a few get-rich-quick quacks? I know what it costs to operate a zoo, and it Isn't chicken feed. I hoped to be informed on the prog- Lifelong Search for Truth Ends Brilliantly for Author Nikos Kazantzakis' final testament now is available in this country. It seems, to me at least, to be one of the great books of this generation. mum Op In it, the author of a the Greek" and "The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel," synthesizes his lifelong search for truth and schoolmaster of the little town In which Zorba died. It recorded the miner's last words: "Come here, teacher.

I have a certain friend in Greece. When I die, write him that I am dead and that I was in my right mind to the very last, with all my wits about me, and was thinking of him. And that no matter what I did, I don't regret it And if any priest comes to confess me and give me communion, tell him to make himself scarce, and may he give me his curse! I did this and that and the other tiling in my life, yet I did very little. Men like me should live a thousand years. Good night!" QUICK ESCALATION The material on this page is opinion unlike the rest of the newspaper.

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Letters under 200 words will be given ress of this zoo, but I haven't heard any report for over a year I thought I could get information about it out of The Daily News, but so far no news on a zoo. Is there any such organization as the Montgomery County Zoological society? If so, let's hear from them Let's get down to the facts on this zoo. We have enlarged our exhibit here in Darke county, hoping that it would and up in Montgomery county. But now we are not so sure we have invested wisely. But we do welcome Montgomery county residents for a visit to our exhibit.

Maybe someone some day can revive the idea and get a zoo for the people of western Ohio that is not a million dollar project right away, but zoos do grow and grow fast. C. RED ULLOM, Proprietor, Darke County Wild Life Exhibit Greenville. No Montgomery County Zoological society has been organized. There is a Dayton Zoo Study committee, which completed a feasibility report in May.

Carl Beyer, the chairman of this study committee is news editor here at Tht Daily News. Tht Editors. Downtown High School Yeast for Brain Cells Ever since Robert G. Slff gave me a copy of his presentation to tiie edty commission on May 5, 1965, as well as to the Dayton board of education on Apr. 8, I'vt been mulling over in my mind.

While I'm a slow starter like most people, which is one nice way to be a conformist, I believe his idea of a "new high school complex In the mid-Dayton urban renewal area to serve the entire city" deserves wider currency. I am sure either public body will run you a copy. There Is enough dynamic value in Mr. Siff's idea to heat up our brain cells even if it may take a quarter of a century to effect this change. If I may approach the Issue from a less burned-up angle than may obtain from some quarters, the basic value of Mr.

Siff's suggestion lies in the fact that only through the hobnobbing of all grades, classes and types of people especially before their brains have calcified is there any real hope that through ready human communication can human betterment ultimately come about. So treat yourself to a sniff of Mr. Siff's idea. It can't hurt you too much. Dayton.

JULIUS MARANZE. Transportation Funds One Step Toward Goal In Belgium, according to a former premier, there are now two kinds of schools: the church schools paid for by the state and the state schools dominated by the church. In the early days of our republic, Roman Catholics used the principle of separation as their shield of protection. It was they who brought law suits in the courts to drive God the Protestant God, they called It out of the public schools. Now look who Is complaining because the public schools are "godless." The explanation is clear.

The Roman Catholic hierarchy wants only a Roman Catholic God, and the only schools they want are the ones they control. The goal is the same domination. In the opening phase of this drive, modest goals are sought. Bus transportation at public expense is Included here. CLAUDE SHACKLEFORD.

Kettering. Alice at 100 Danger: 'Hello Dolly' Affair May Grow Into All-Out War WASHINGTON, Sept. 13-Moscow's abrupt decision to keep "Hello Dolly" off the boards in Russia is bad news. The official interpretation that the show was banned in retaliation against U.S. war policy in Vie a is not taken seriously by people who understand relations be The relaxed 89th Congress, laboring neither mightily nor reluctantly, has tinkered a further modernization of the cabinet system, fts second in 12 years.

Housing and Urban Affairs now join Health, Education and Welfare in the acknowledged forefront of national problems grown too complex for scattershot policy-making and piecemeal diagnosis. This newest federal department comes about so painlessly as to shame the stubbornness of congressional resistance to the same proposal first advanced by President Kennedy in 1961. Yet today's is a different Congress, younger, more thoughtful, freer from the procedural hobbles that stalled the 87th. And these are also, as public awareness is measured, different times. The hard truths about some of the ills of the cities, those bred in slums and ghettoes, and nourished on hopelessness, deprivation and racial tension, are better understood by average Americans Americans frequently described four years ago as the "uninvolved." Cabinet rank for a spokesman for the Quality Education Is Goal of Protest There is much more to the Boston school protests than simple displeasure at continuing de facto segregation or imbalances of racial mix in the schools.

Ghetto parents are enrolling their kids in predominantly white schools for the very sound reason that the predominantly white schools are better. All other factors being equal, racially integrated schooling provides better education than segregated schooling. It gives kids a chance to learn early that the myths of race are just that myths. It teaches Negro youngsters they can compete with white youngsters. But all other factors rarely are equal in most large city school systems.

Matters of racial balance aside, ghetto schools traditionally have been inferior to others in the same system, and tradition in most cities has yet to give way to obvious realities and needs. Ghetto schools usually are old, overcrowded and lack modern teaching facilities. Their teachers often are dedicated but also often are overworked, patronizing and sometimes not as fully qualified, on the average, as those in other schools. What to do? The obvious. Wherever physically and financially feasible, city school boards should design their districts to give as many white and Negro kids as possible a chance to study together.

New schools should be located with integration in mind. More important, however, school boards must make sure that schools in down-and-out neighborhoods have the best teachers, smallest classes and most up-to-date equipment possible. There has been a natural, usually unconscious tendency among school boards to favor certain popular schools within their jurisdiction. Such schools have larger, more persuasive constituencies. By now, however, it is painfully apparent, especially where the ghetto population accounts for a growing percentage of a city's residents, that communities simply can't afford such indulgences.

So Old So Soon The airline policy to tell a stewardess that the age of 32 is the end of her career in the skies goes in the face of the female fight against the years. Clothes fashions, beauty aids and the power of positive thinking help women hold the form if not the substance of youth. Those who would have looked matronly a generation ago now can compete with bathing beauties in the vital statistics department. But several airlines disagree. The only statistics they know are 32-32-32.

The figures come from the calendar and not from the bust, the waist and the hips. It's a matter of what is beauty in terms of business. Sentiment won't ring the cash register for the airlines. But let them survey their regular male passengers. Most men who can afford to fly with any regularity are rather older than beach boys, considering the money necessary.

This might give pause to telling a lis-something that because she has reached her 32nd birthday she must take a cane and hobble off. artistic Integrity. It is an amazing journey, full of passion, zest and furious drive "to ascend." Kazantzakis spent a long period of his youth seeking his life's meaning in Christianity. On the philosophical side, he was deeply influenced by Bergson and Nietzche. HE EXPERIMENTED with the asceticism of Buddha, flirted with the new gods of Freud and Lenin.

From each, he derived something but not all that he was seeking. His final life theme a gusty, zest-ful, exhuberant kind of existentialism came to him from Zorba, a miner of incredible vitality and joie devivre. This was the flame of his art and he ascribed a large part of it to Crete, the land of his birth. In this book of summation, "Report to Greco," Kanzantzakis explains how the essence was distilled. He does so in the form of an accounting to El Greco, a sort of ancestor-patron, possessed of the same Cretan roots and the same flame.

"I KNOW perfectly well that death is invincible," he writes. "Man's worth, however, lies not in victory but in the struggle for victory. "I also know this, which is more difficult It does not even lie in the struggle for victory. Man's worth lies in one thing only, in this: that he live and die bravely, without condescending to accept any recompense. "And I also know this third requirement, which is more difficult yet: the certainty that no recompense exists must not make our blood run cold, but must fill us with joy, pride and manly courage." That passage says much about Kazantzakis but no more than the letter he received from the village strike a sneak blow against Communist culture.

This suspicion may have been heightened by the negligible coverage given to Fischer in the American press. The state department's motives are obscure. The Fischer affair may have been merely a case of bureaucratic bumbling, or it may have been a small probe by the CIA designed to test Communist cultural defenses. Whatever the case, no one anticipated a violent Communist response. Compared to "Hello Dolly," Fischer is scarcely more than a popgun in the American cultural arsenal.

At most, the Soviets were expected to hit back by throwing a couple of touring American engineers out of Dnieperpetrovsk. IN BANNING "Hello Dolly" Moscow abruptly confronted Washington with a cultural challenge of the deepest gravity. Some here are already urging a five-year prohibition against the Bolshoi ballet. But this would invite further escalation by the Russians. The reasoned response would be In let the Bolshoi troupe come but bed them in sheets full of cracker crumbs, house them in hotel rooms next to convention parties, and steer them through a program of rigorously planned activity such as Doris Day movies, visits to the Senate and afternoon TV game shows.

(C. New York Times News Service.) tween modern superstates. The "Hello Dolly" crisis, they agree, is retaliation all right, but not against anything that is happening in Asia. In the words of one war-room thinker, "What we are faced with is the danger of total cultural warfare." In striking against Broadway's most successful musical, Moscow is overreacting in an escalation out of all proportion to the original American thrust. THE CRISIS was begun quietly enough last month when Soviet photographic planes flying over Cuba recorded the absence of Bobby Fischer from the Capablanca chess tournament.

Scanning newspaper cuttings in the Ministry of Cultural Warfare, several commissars reported simultaneously that Fischer, the American chess champion, had been denied American passport permission to attend the tournament. Here, it seemed, was a quiet, concealed move by the United States to "Curiouser and curiouser," Alice herself would remark of the literary to-do that today marks the centennial of the first publication of her adventures in Wonderland. And who could be surprised at her bewilderment? Heroine of a simple, charming fable in which logic and fantasy combine and compete, young Alice won and has retained a popular fame more often accorded literature's hoydens. Her sallies under ground and through the looking glass have been translated into dozens of languages, made into movies, beamed on television. Her confrontations with the Mad Hatter, Red Queen and Cheshire cat have delighted generations of youngsters and puzzled equal generations of intellectuals anxious to solve the elaborate symbolic cryptograms they suspect the story disguises.

Now a century later, facsimile editions of the original manuscript are being published and, it seems a fair guess, the whole century's cycle begins anew. Meanwhile, the serious mathematical works that Alice's creator wrote under his own name, Charles Dodgson, have been all but forgotten. Maybe that says something about what is really enduring in human values. If so, then what it says is not unpleasant to hear. Study in Contrasts The United States has taken the best position possible during the early grappling in the India-Pakistan war, in terms both of the nation's own self-interest and of operable moral verities.

America has announced its neutrality, its support for any UN peace-making venture and has cut off military aid to the combatants. The U.S. position is In marked contrast to the eager trouble-making of China. Peking is egging on Pakistan, vilifying India, ridiculing the UN and again ho hum trying to brand Uncle Sam the aggressor. The contrast should pose a real challenge to those neutral nations especially a few Asian ones that are rigid in their condemnation of any hint of U.S.

force but agile in contorting excuses for even the most outrageous conduct of China. Horatio Alger Tale Success story? Sort of. Forced to drop out of the University of Akron nine years ago, Clarence Brad-shaw continued to attend night classes while working full time as a school janitor. This fall, lie abandons broom for book and begins a career as a teacher. His pay will be $350 a year less.

Refugees in Hong Kong Play Game With the British KOWLOON, Sept. 13 This is the peninsula, physically a part of the China mainland, which dips south into Hong Kong harbor. Kowloon is the teeming typical Chinese city that most of us think of as being the real Hong Kong. Hong Kong itself is a majestic mountainous island, somewhat austere in its Britishness. It, with Lantao island and bits and pieces of the peninsula islands, makes up the greater Hong "You ask how they get in," mused bushy-haired Halleck L.

Rose, director of the International Rescue committee in Kowloon. "Well, wo play a game with the British. "There was a time when the Communists were pretty rugged on the escapee. This is less true now. The refugee's problem is getting through the line into free territory.

He comes in a sampan or he swims the river, or he comes in covered by a load of vegetables. China does a big business with UK in foodstuffs. "The British, for good reasons of their own will forcibly return the escapee if he is caught in the act of escaping. However, if he makes it and gets in touch with us, the British don't bother him We go about the business of investigating his background, getting people here to vouch for him. getting him an Identity card, preparing him for worl and getting him resettled, preferably in anothi country.

"The British want to return these people 1 China because overcrowding here has become i problem. Besides there are a lot of people, ol Hong Kongers, who have been waiting a long tim for a break like emigration. 'How do we know he's not a plant, not a Com munist? Well, we make pretty sure." Round Nebraska eyes stared out with an honest question. "What can you tell about anybody? Papers can be faked. But how often can you fake a man? "Forty years in foreign service have taught RBI a few things, One is that suspicion can never bp the American gamp." (C.

1965.) Kong. To thp north lie the New Territories, still part of the British controlled peninsula. Beyond the territories lies China's newest wall, the wall that separates a part of communism from a free port and a free world. Some sort of clue to the carefree logic prevalent In the Orient is the fact that Kowloon is named after the eight mountains that form part of its terrain, they are called the "Nine Dragons." Hong Kong Itself means "fragrant harbor," and so the territory has become for a current 3,000 refugees each month. Sometimes the figure dips to 1.000 but.

in May of 1962, a time of pressure inside China, 400,000 Chinese of all walks of life tried to get across the border. "AN AMAZING THING," said Bill Cowden, a big, tanned, blue-eyed Califomian who, as a business man in Hong Kong, has given years to the refugee problem, "an absolutely amazing thing, just about half of them made it "I'm chairman of the UK Business Men's Advt- 'Suspicion Can Never Be American Uame' sory council to the International Rescue committee. It's our business to see that these people are resettled and either trained for new jobs or put into jobs they understand. Some Chinese, but mostly Americans and British nationals do this work. We feel it's something we owe the community.

"There are maybe a million or more unsettled refugees in town now. If they can be registered and provided with ID cards, trained in a job, found a home, they are eligible to go overseas to places of permanent resettlement. That's why we're waiting for that immigration -law to pass back home. It will relieve this situation." ft 1.