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GENTLEMEN GENTLEMEN Farmers Need Free Market Now 12 MONDAY, JUIY 24, 1967 3fctatt Srttatal Jfag: IJpWN ED, CO NT ROL LED, ED IT By ROSCOE DRUMMOND Oakland's Tourist Drive "Vfthin theTiext week T)r7Sor signs bearing a colorful oak leaf emblem will begin sprouting in Oakland. The markers will designate a 45-mile "Scenic Tour" through and by the city's oldest and newest attractions. The scenic tour is one of the latest projects of Oakland's ambitious tourist promotion program, an effort that promises to reap a rich harvest of new business for the city's economy. 250 i nrq i i giving out brochures, suggesting motor tours and directing tourists to the accommodations, dining facilities and en'tertain-ment to be found in the Eastbay's largest city. A magazine advertising program, keyed to travelers planning a visit to the Bay Area, invites visitors who may have never thought of the Eastbay as a tourist area to Take a Look at Oakland Now." More than 18,000 "Discover Oakland" kits, containing brochures, pictures and lists of the city's accommodations and entertainment facilities, have been distributed in a four-month period.

The Chamber of Commerce's Contention and Visitors' Bureau, which handles the program, also has booked some 55 conventions so far this year for Oakland. These meetings will bring more than 25,000 visitors io the city and possibly $3 to $4 million to its economy. The increased emphasis on individual tourists will add to that figure. Starting at Jack London Square, this guide yourself, motor tour will direct visitors to most of the city's natural and man-made attractions Lake Merfitt and its famed Fairyland; the 8, 000-acres of redwood-dotted-regional parks surrounding the city, the Mormon Temple, beautiful Skyline Drive, Know-land State Arboretum and Park with its unique "baby zoo" and the Oakland-Alameda County" Coliseum sports and entertainment complex. Besides aiding travelers, the new scenic tour also will provide Eastbay Note; The following views are- thostuof the author and are presented here to give readers a variety of viewpoints.

The Tribune's opinions art ex presfed only in editorials, WASHINGTON Government farm policy affects everybody. not just farmers. It concerns the welfare of those who grow the food and those who buy it and that's all of us. This is why the report of the Presidential Commission on -Food -and Fibre is importantr-from the standpoint of both politics and policy. It- isn't something to file and forget.

There is a dominant, theme and it is a good one which emerges from the commission report. But its recommendations are so divided and hedged that it gives comfort to those who want high price supports, to those who favor lower price supports, and to those who want to get rid of them entirely. The growing conviction among experts, ecohorrilstsraridthe "publiels" that the agricultural economy of the nation and the prices we pay for food ought to be determined by the free market, not by government edict. That is exactly what the presidential commission itself concludes and its verdict is unanimous on this point. But then the commission divides almost down the middle, 16 for continuing high price supports for an indefinite period and 13 for their being phased out.

There you have it. The commission argues that it is better to remove agriculture Jrom theoxygen tent of gov-ernment subsidy but can't seem to bring itself to act upon its own conviction. The jcp i i unanimously argues that a free-market farm economy' will be better This drive for the travel residents with an -opportunity to become dollar has important economic "Implica tions for the entire community. The money that visitors spend in turn circulates throughout the economy, generating new job opportunities and business. These promotional and advertising efforts must continue and expand if more familiar with the city ever-increasing list of things to see and do.

"Discover Oaklandis the theme of the current effort to advertise the city as a prime tourist destination for visitors to the Bay Area. It is being stressed in a variety of advertising and promotion projects made possible by the four per cent motel-hotel tax. The program represents ah aggressive start and already is beginning to show results. Some examples: A new information center in Jack London Square is handling more than Oakland is to a major tourist stop. With improved facilities, particularly new and expanded hotels and motels, the city has every reason to be confident of receiving a much larger share of the tourist dollar in the future.

LETTERS TO THE FORUM The Great Story-Teller Like that of his hero, Abraham Lincoln, Carl Sandburg's life was a story of perseverance in the face of disappointment and failure. The famed poet-historian, dead now at 89, turned to writing after flunking the entrance exams at West Point and following a long period of nomadic wandering as a laborer in the Middle West -Jhe great heartland of America that inspired so much of his work. In his poetry, folk songs and prose, Strike Fever Hurts S. War Effort for the farmers but can't mus ter a majority of its members to say now is the time to -start. The exact words of the commission demonstrate how definite it is op this central point.

It says that "freely functioning markets, are the best mechanism to guide the needed changes in agricultural production and resource But the 16-member majority of the commission thinks that the time to do this is not now.r -It holds that-price control and -crop control federal programs should continue "until the problem of excess capacity in farming is alleviated and, farmers are able to earn incomes from the market that are comparable to non-f arm-incomes." I fail to see where the comi mission majority has provided any persuasive answer to this if as it says 4he -free market is the "best mechanism" for the welfare of agriculture, why should its application be postponed? Why won't the "best mecha- of bridging the transition from price supports and crop con-, trol tofreedom from pricer supports and crop control? There is growing realization that the social problems of displaced farmers and marginal fanners should be dealt with separately from the prob-, lems commercial agricul. ture. Quite understandably, the commission wants to see the nation's farm income on a par with non-farm income. Since toe level of non-farm income, which want tp achieve, stems overwhelming-' ly from the free-market, com--peMveeconomyjLindustryT-why isn't the best way of get: ting farm income to that level to move at once to a free-mar competitive farm -economy? Copyright 1967, Publishers-Hall Syndicate mortar shell for' six weeks. At the Colt Industries in Hartford, a United Auto Workers local sister local of one which had given the government hysterics over at Avco hit the bricks on July 1.

This tied up the Colt Firearms Division which is the sole producer of M-16 rifles. Just why the Pentagon logistics people put all their bullets in one basket is something for we, the people, to ask. These are what the Jederal professionals call the ram a tic, though just as unseen, was the eight-months quarrel and five-months stoppage at 13 Western shipyards working almost 1 i 1 or the Navy. There is a long affidavit by-D ef Secretary Robert McNamara which shows just how this strike by some stubborn Electrical Brotherhood skilled craftsmen dislocated the Seventh Fleet repair sys-tem, the construction of vital fighting craft and the placement of ighting, vessels in the eastern Mediterranean. rioroarine.

trulv howline mob of pickets crippled the world's biggest private shipyard, Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock for a week. In the yards were five special speed, ultra-futuristic nucleaf submarines and the big John. F4 Kennedy aircraft carrier now vitally needed in the Far East. Of course there is the railroad striker National leaders of the Machinists say they could not control their local leaders. Certainly money was an issue, But to the Pentagon's' Joint Chiefs of Staff, the issue was rolled up into 10 big freighters waiting in Western ports to take on ammo for Vietnam.

Distributed Ml by i Publlshers-Hsll SyndicaU have been willing to concede some of my major points. They have not conceded others. Specifically, it is my opin-iorrthatUiis bill will barfrom-service many seriously disturbed persons who are desperately in need of help. It. will leave their families nowhere to turn for assistance.

For example, a severely confused and psychotic person who presents Bno immediate physical danger to himself or others and has adequate access and use of food, clothing and shelter cannot be treated involuntarily in a psychiatric facility regardless of a reasonable judgment of need or the family's wishes and concerns. We want minimal official intervention in the lives of citizens and we want professional intervention only when truly desired and sought by the patient. However, we also want to ensure that citizens-who are disabled beyond reasonable criteria of self-sufficient and effective functioning have the help and services a humane society can offer. Richard J. Levy, M.D., Chief of Psychiatry, San Mateo County General Hospital, San Mateo.

To Sandburg, Lincoln was the ultimate hero, a model against which to udge all president present and -future. This romantic attachment to the past sometimes led Sandburg to make controversial and (in the view of many) unfair comparisons of Lincoln's presidency and that of modern day chief None ever quite lived up to -Sandburg's idealistic vision of the qualities required of a president. But history decides, the scale of a president's greatness. Biographers merely record it for the ages. It is a measure of Sandburg's integrity that he would be the first to concede that point.

Through his biography of Lincoln and in thousands of articles' and lectures, Sandburg helped acquaint new generations ot Americans with the indomitable spirit and courageous character of the nation's 16th president. In doing so, he achieved a timeless greatness of his own. By VICTOR RIESEl Wrong Way EDITOR: As one of the "parade" of psychiatrists who "testified -ta-oppositioir toy the-Lanterman-Petris bill, I feel our position deserves better representation than was car-ried in the Associated Press reports in your paper. When it is, immodestly and grandiosely claimed that a "Magna Carta" has been written, attempts at sober criticism inevitably suffer the taint of reaction. I know of no psychiatrists who oppose significant remodeling of the current commitment laws to bring statutes regarding the mentally ill into accord with enlightened medical and civil libertarian concepts.

What is challenged is whether the Lanterman-Petris bill does what its proponents claim, and does it in a way which is realistic and in accord with reasonable practice. It has been my contention that it does not. Since its original draft, I have consistently and repeatedly pointed out to the authors fundamental procedural defects which would make the bill seriously ineffective. It is only on the. fifth amended version, that they U.S.

Must Editor's Note: Tkt fallowing view fart-those of tke author and art presented here to give readers a variety of viewpoints. The Tribune's opinions ire expressed only in editorials. -In this ghastly summer kill- ino cAoonn.nf Amorioan ranlal Sandburg captured the spirit of the people whose lives shaped part of the American saga. They were an earthy, lusty and sometimes violent people. So too, was Sandburg's work.

Although some critics found fault with his style and language, his poetry earned him his first wide acclaim. His place in American letters was secured by his brilliant six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln, a massive work that took 30 years of research. It linked him forever with the Lincoln legend. WASHINGTON REPORTL realize its full potential as tion program, and keep the military initiative Vietnam," stated Westmoreland, "I must have these additional "Lack of replacements hf recent weeks," Westmoreland pointed out, "has forced a number of Marine and Army -units to operate with-4esam 80 per cent strength while in combat." When Secretary McNamara challenged General Westmoreland's report by arguing that: more of the rear-area troops should be pressed into combat, General Westmoreland answered: "We are making use of every combat soldier we have in Vietnam as I reported to the Secretary during his recent visit to Vietnam. There are few areas in South Vietnam that are not considered combat areas." In his reply McNamara said he was referring to the general ratio of non-combat to combat troops in Vietnam, stating that he thought this number could be reduced.

Distributed 1W7 by Publisher-Hall Syndicate, Inc. Troop Issue Caused a Crisis at White House Rebuild Racial Trust By ROBERT S. ALIEN and PAUL SCOTT Editor's Note: The following views are those of the author and art presented here to give readers a variety of viewpoints. The Tribune's opinions are expressed only in editorials. WASHINGTON There's a strange new anger on the strike front.

Pros have turned amateurs. They've tt the old rules. They have allowed themselves to be terrorized by their rank and file. And thus, strike threats have crackled into real stoppages while young troops are dying nuiis-tant jungles and paddies. There's never been such a wartime.

There've been more strikes in the past six months than in any similar period since the strange peace at Panmunjom. That's 14 And strange strikes, too. Not too long ago a steel workers local Wilkes-Barrer plant which makes refrigerator shelves vital to the shipment of blood plasma to Vietnam. It; took pressure get the strike leaders to open the picket es for the trucking of 60,000 such units. One can only -conjecture on how many kids waited for the life fluid in some swampish field -unit.

During the six-months strike explosion pickets ringed plants so critical that single pieces of war equipment at the direct orders of the Pentagon and White House were rushed to waiting aircraft for direct flight to the distant front. Picking at random, there -was-a- labor emergency in Radford, which hit the army ammunition plant which supplied our fighting forces with "war powder" and rocket- propellant. In Burlington, N.J., a steelworkers local hit a plant so vital the Pentagon brass sweated out every min-. ute. It makes special munitions which I'm told are still classified.

In Lebanon, still another steel local hit a Divorce Reform EDITOR: The divorce rate in California is climbing at breakneck speed. In some-counties we find eight divorces being granted for each 10 marriage licenses issued. With this upward trend in divorces, we find the highest juvenile delinquency rate, heaviest welfare payments to broken homes in the entire as well as the highest crime rate ever. These things always accompany divorce and are directly responsible for our high-tax rates. What do you the taxpayers, mothers, fathers and children want? Do you choose happy secure homes and families, lower taxes and crime-rates or do you prefer wealthy attorneys and more courts and judges? There is no other choice and this choice must be yours if we are to survive as a society.

Choose well and let your choice be known before it is too late. G. J. WINTERFELD, Oakland. The Forum is always open to all reasonable opinion.

Brief, typewritten, signed letters are accepted. and can see very few of the results filtering down to them andffeel badly cheated and frustrated. Because they want results, not tokens, and them now and not tomorrow, their answer is a blind, unthinking violence. But nothing can be clearer, after the rash of riots across the country, than the fact that the result of the vio- Jence-is-not-increased-well being but devastation, not power but impotence black and white alike. The movement to help the black masses get a sense of prideful identity, for their color and culture, their place in the world i and in American life, is a healthy movement.

But not if it tells them to achieve that -sense of-identity by stomping on the face of a white policeman until he is dead. Certainly a mob, black or white, can generate the passion to destroy. But the passion to destroy whites is not black power, and anyone who says it is must be counted as misleading his people. Black power is quite simply the power that blacks have now and can have in the future in their work, their professions, their business, their their 'thinking and writing and singing, their office-holding and governing. Every ethnic group in American life has had to struggle for this, but not by the route of "getting" its opponents, not by looting and sniping, but by functioning.

The Negro badge of color makes It all much harder, but there are no short cuts to this arduous task of' learning one's identity and becoming part of the power and community -structure. Copyright 17, Los Angeles Tlmai tensions, what is happening is ir power or anything else. monstrous: an escalation of To sayfiis, in trying to ex-hatreds and a polarizing of plain the riots in terms of black-white racist identity. identity struggles, does not in By MAX LERNER ahead building a nation im i 1 on white identity alone and if the blacks were not in recoil now trying to their pride and build an identity on the impossible taase of color exclusiveness, any degree excuse If America-could be if American history could be rolled back and begun again, offering a chance to exclude slavery and reject caste, who can doubt that whites as well as blacks would overwhelmingly choose to invent an America without the stain of inequity? But we are where we are, where history finds us while we cannot -invent another past, we can certainly combine to invent a different and better future for both races. Killings won't do It.

There is no question that the Negro masses, in cities from Boston and Newark through Cleveland and Cairo to Los Angeles and San Francisco, had their expectations raised high by civil rights, anti-poverty, Head Start and all the rest by Brickman gATTUMS TWEe 7-24f ZlcKhM There is a. double harvest hererOne1sthe harvestjf all the days of our years when the dominant white man shut, the black man out of the American community. The other is the harvest of the very recent years, few but lethal, when a small group of young black' spokesmen whipped up racial hatreds in the name of "black power." 7I don't mean 1o quate1he two harvests or sowings. One was of long duration, the other has just started; one represented the arrogance of caste and power, the other is a desperate, violent protest against everything that has gone before. But what happened in Newark and Plain-field, in the lootings, burnings, sniping, killing, could not have happened if the whites had not for generations gone ihk of it TweY'iee FOR OUR MIMDS UP.

Editor's Note: The following views art those of the authors and art presented kert to give readers a variety of viewpoints." The Tribune's opinions art expressed only in editorials. President Johnson's decision to send "necessary" additional troops to Vietnam a rsid C-iiuM aejyrtour-like blow-up. 7 At one point during the tense White House discussions on i 1 i a requirements, Gen." William Westmoreland, commander of all U.S. forces in Vietnam, threatened to resign if additional troops' were not forthcoming. The resignation crisis, according -to -reliable -congres--sional sources, occurred when General- estmoreland thought the President had turned down his troop request HERE ARE ADDRESSES OF NATIONAL AND STATE LEGISLATORS U.S.

Senators-Seneta Offlc ulldlnj. Washington, DC, JOJIO. San. Thomas H. Kuctwb tan.

Ceorge Aurphy. Congressmen House Offfc Building. Washington, D.C., JOS15. Rep. Jeffory Cohelan, 7th District, representing Albany, Berkeley, Emeryville, Piedmont and part of Oakland; Ran.

Grorg P. Millar, Ith, representing Ala. meda, San Laandro, Castro Vallay and parts of Oakland and San Lorenioj Rap. Don Edwards, tin, representing Hay. ward, Fremont, Newark, Union City, Llvermero, Pleesanton, San Ramon and part of San Lortnio In Alamada County, and the northaattarn half ot Santa Clara County; Rep.

Jerome R. Waidie, Mth. representing Contra Costa County. State Senators and Assemblymen Statt Capitol, Sacramento. sel.

Alamada County State Senators are Itti District, Lewis f. Sherman; llth, Nichols, c. Palrlsi lath, Clark Brodley. The th and llth Districts cover the same area, with Sherman and Petrls rapre-santlng all of Alameda County except Castro Vallay, Uvaimet, end Pleasan-ton. These communltle large seo tlon of Santa Clara I ore repre.

tented by Aisemblymen are '-t tr, IWi District; Robert W. Crown, Uibi Ma'rtl K. Cong, isthi Dan Mu.wd, John J. Millar, 17th. Centra Cotta County (tat Senator, 7th District, George Miller Jr.i Aisem-biymen Jenet Dent, 10th Pistrlctf JeM T.

Knox. llm. during their White House meeting with Defense Secre- tary McNamara and General Earle Wheeler, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. After opening' the meeting -by'-telling Westmoreland that he had thoroughly studied his request for additional forces, Jhe President-reported: "Secretary McNamara has recommended against in-cr easing U.S. force levels above the 480,000 already authorized.

By a better utilization of existing forces, he believes you can get along with the troops already committed to your command." "Mr. President, if that is your. dedsion' rephecljjhe partially stunned General Westmoreland, "there is. only one thing left for me to do-offer you my resignation. If I did not do so Before General Westmoreland could finish his second sentence, the President quickly interrupted, stating: "Thwe has been no final de-cisfonv None will be made until after you give your personal report on military requirements.

Since you probably have not had time to confer with the Secretary since he made his recommendations, I was stating his position." With this assurance that the trocp question was still, open, General Westmoreland then made a ringing defense of his request for 70,000 additional troops. Several times the veteran Army general stressed that his request represented "The minimum number of additional troops needed in face of increasing North Vietnam military pressure." "To replace our battle casualties, hold to our troop rota Fast Life By harry karns the small society I 1 LJ IIIIl 111 III ja a. A New Jersey scientist invents a cigarette filter that cuts by two-thirds the intake of tar and nicotine. Slowly the world is working toward the perfect cigarette: all filter and no tobaeco. Most Americans agree we have to keep our commitment In' Vietnam, but sooner or later we're also going to have to do something about the war of rebellion here at home.

Better roads give motorists a better chance of surviving to take another crack at each other later. Mrs. Elvis Presley is expecting a baby. Let's hope the child doesn't inherit his father's spasms. Copyright 147, Nawsday, Inc.

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