Newsday (Suffolk Edition) from Melville, New York • 26

County Irritant: Letter to the Editor Do Blondes Really Have More Fun? Teen Irritant Negro Rights The Neeme Ac U5 art mistreat and abased in bust nn If you have wkied any cf the riots on TV know mat 1 mean What do tire jaiticAi AmityviEc CommcrcLb on the whole ere real asset to our modem economic society They offer publicity about products that will satisfy the consumer's wants and seeds These helpful np-to-Ae-minute findings give the consumer better access to the business product market AH this is tine and I am in fiver cf commercials in general because they are informative and let's face it without them television weald not be in existence! My grip is basically with the lucrative hair-coloring industry which presents a Afferent commercial concept The industry introduces a glamorously realistic approach toward selling its products stating that the upkeep easily needed to solve the problems of ghetto life Eliminating the misery which permeates slum life requires new solutions Under no circumstances can those solutions be to clamp the lid on a bailing pot of misery Conservative candidate both Republican and Democratic decry the amount of money spent fix the slums They recommend not justice and humanitarianism but only "order" and repression Their election can lead only to a situation in American nee relations which will generate more violence' more hatred and explosion Instead of "white backlash" there must be white realization We canrot afford to elect candidates who win ignore the roots of the problem and submerge Ais country into lasting bitterness and conflict Wc most vote for candidates who are sensitive to Ae problems of Ae ghetto and its inhabitant Miles Rapoport Proprietary Hospitals Fliinvicw In reference to Ccne article (Oct 5) we are a proprictaiy hospital with an avenge census of 180 to 200 patients a day The surgeiy at Ais hospital coven an special tics except open-heart surgery Needless to say we do have a small percentage of elderly patients who are acutely iQ At such time as these patients are able they are rent home or to extended care farihtie Never has a css regardless of diagnari been refused admittance or treatment in thk hrepibL Our large nursing staff takes great pride in working in thk hospital that has had fan accreditation since 111 inception and deeply resents the accusation that Acy are working in a hospital that capable of doing only easy work and should be tinned into a nursing Dome The constant harassment showered upon propoetuy hospitals who are cf such service to their communities at most unfair and the puNic should realize that it most demoralizing to a dedicated nursing staff Prescott RN Director of Nurse Central Ccncnl Hospital Cyclists and Insurance I Beginning Jan 1 1967 the State of New York discriminates against a minority motorcyclists Under the new law all motorcyclists most wear a New York State approved safety helmet Thu Aonld be encouraged but not forced Could the passage of this new law be faflnenccd by the monetary interest of Ae insurance companies? It looks like a typical strategic move for control of tire masses: maintained and the ultimate of the Nonding process can be achieved automatically Thu to my mind a farce It seems Alt ik yon bear from Aese commercials bow beautiful yoor bait will become and bow simple it to tun into s'femme-hfale in no time st all win ibso-lutriy no trouble I know and I am saw that many of vonr female readers know that this not necessarily Ae fact Young adults and teenagers are mining their hair because of Aese commercials I fad Aat Aese commercials are making Ac hair coloring ideal too desirable and too easy to maintain 1 also fed that the teenagers of our contemporary gen elation should not be reposed to such a spurious belief Sutherland Every tmim whether he is in school or member of sanre politico party ought to find out bow oar govern- Parochial Schools ment is ran In this generation not one person can afford ve i whether he is in school or member 'oar govern- i generation not one person can afford Massapequa Mn whites who ate involved get eat el viciously attacking Ae Negroes? After aX what are Ae Negroes fighting fix? (nine to get their right to toe as free atoms in the UX tor they are a turns and human being just aa yoa and I are 'll Ae Negro soUien can fight in oar wnv such as in Vietnam and perhaps lose their fives fix their country they deserve to be treated as flirty as an voire else How can an manv who are agsinre Negroes watch Negro enter-tuners 01 TV? Wbt is so terrible if Aev go to Ac mine school ss white children? If they can fight fix ns and entertain as they should be treated as human beings equal to everyone else Reiman IS Blaming Music Wit is it Aet every time a crime committed in which teenagers ere mvoFvcX parents Name the trouble on rock roll rnnric and Ae edio stations that play Ac mime? I have often keard parents call it "jnngfc mask1 and Act claim it should not be piayed on Ac radio I think aduks should let ns Sstcn in peace to ear choice el music I think Acy want to fake Ac tone to remember more cf Ae music el Acir generation Seme cf it was pretty bod Parents don't really understood rock soX and I somerimes wondn if they really want to Mask esase riots or trouble it is fix enjonnent It espreswa a fading moods and outlook on life: Maybe if parents would toten to rock toll with an open miadL Aev weald see how we fed and also Low innocent it a They might even get to like kt Helen CerstenLaoc 15 Tali an Interest "Tbiitia? No Ajnks I'm not interested" People who ssy Ais cither know very little about politics or Aink they know too much If they know very little itTs iriEr ad red bemuse Ae structure el ear government isn't so camples Aet Ae average man broomc ttii with it to be tarocut of Ae entire politics Governments are gardens and need to be cared fix If not seeds set Some weeds of Ae government are greed and dicta-tonhip: As a wise philosopher said is better to Light a cmcSe than to enrse Ae cariurera" So come on teenager fake a part in politics I'm interested bow about vou? Ann Riley 16 Civilian Review Board 1 am writing Ais letter on behalf of the ew York Police Department I am oom plaining about Ae civilian review board It is one of New York worst features Our civil servants bauds are completely tied They are unable to nuke Ae simplest arrest without Ae fear of having it Arswn buck at them as police brutality And if they arrest a Negro it is called discrixninatioa If we expect to rid our city of its high percentage of crimes we most give our law enforcers a free band A policeman must know ke wi3 not be brought before a cowt himself fix trying to keep peace and protecting Ac citizens of the city Kathleen fcdgerey 14 Right to Dissent I em ski and tired cf people who say that they are sick and tired of peace marches The right cl dissent is very important freedom Along wiA many oAer people I bcueve that Ae United States is making a big mistake in Vietnam Many people want to keep me CIs in Vietnam to die for then country in a war which I believe is unjust I'd moth retber bring them borne alive and have Aon do something constructive fix Acir country not something destructive Post 15 Defatlner as Critic 1 would like to falk about Barbara Delation' column I think she is not sack a nod critic Noe once have I beard her asy anything pod about a television show She shore brinp oat Ae bud points in the show never Ae good points IPs my opinion that she should not be a aitk fix Ncwsdzy Clark 12 A 110 prise will be awarded weekly fix the best letter of the week to the spoire el Ac cdkea James Mullooly (Oct 17) claims Aat Ae conclusion cf the recently published survey on Catholic elementary snd high schools (conducted by Ae University of Notre Dame) that despite many bands-ops students in Catholic parochial schools are academically ahead of Aose far public schools In fact Ac study nai many conclusions including one which both Time snd Newsweek touched on in their reports on Ae survey This Ae tendency of Catholic parochial schools to develop anti-Semitic attitudes Newsweek (Sept 5) put it this way: more Aaa half cf them (Ae students) either accepted or were willing to consider an unfavorable image of Jews" Moreover Mis MnTCooIv failed to mention what both Time (Sept 2) and Newsweek pointed out: Catholic schools have selective admission policies To put it firvt the motorcyclist then children on bikes Aeu Ae real objective Ae automobile drivers and passenger already tied down with scat belts snd soon harnesses The day not far off when rather walk than comply with Big rules and fat insurance profit Is this Ae United States the land of the free or Ac insulae gold mine? -John Campbell Arab' Attack East Meadow Again the Arabs have made another attack apinst the Jew iA people thk time by ailing UN Ambundor Goldberg a Zionist Bemuse a small group cf squarely Catholic parochial schools sift their students Tne best make it The rest including all vocational students Ae slow the disciplinary problems etc are rejected The public schools have no such option They take Am aX 11 Brown i Pfaytr's Name Cwenpoit Please tell your reporter covering Ae Cwenport football games to check the names of Ae plavera more carefully In Saturday's game (Oct 8) It was MAe Heaney who was the two-way standout not Bob Heaney Wc know who it was but other relatives The boys are cousins and mind but Tm mother and follow all the local sport and I do mind give credit to Ae right person from now on Mis Joseph Heaney While -Backlash Croat Neck It obvious that the phenomenon of so-called "white backlash" against Negro oemonstntions and riots has been a large factor in primary elections so far Ak year and will be a strong influence in the November elections This voting pattern has resulted and probably will result to the election of conservatives and roasts who play upon Ac feres cf the white community This kind cf reaction however not only not the answer to the problem of race relations in the UL but it will result in the immediate and devastating worsening cf Ae situation For Ae riots are not manifestations of Lawlessness and violence of the Negro community Acy are rather the deepest repressions of Ae despair and bitterness which bred in the ghetto sham The answer therefore not to increase Ae repressive forces and to tighten controls in eider to maintain law and redes: The answer lie rather in making me of as much fundi and aa much creativity and sensitivity aa religious Jewish students invaded Ae Syrian mission to protest Acir attacking of Israel which Mr Coldberc did not condone and was certainly spins he now called a Zionist by tire Arab A wild accusation Jndeedl In Mr Goldbergs short term in office Aus fa he certainly doing commendable job and very worthy of such highposition in tire United Nation FuAennore tire Arabs Arown out of Palestine as Aey invest When Israel became a state in 1948 and pined independence Ae Arabs were allowed to stay and keep their sand However they didn't star Instead they went to sunouding Arab countries to live They went cf their own free win and not by force Shifreen The County Iiritant wiB prat letters only bom those willing to have tbeix names appear la man Street addresses and phone nnmbcsa mast abo be famished for verification bat win not be printed Ncwtday icscivca the right to shorten lettera Joe space: The Tern Irritant prats letters only from three willing to have then names and ages appear to print Letters np to 200 wads to length wiD be amaidescA Street addresses and phone nnabca unst be furnished fix verification wO i prated Last 510 Winner Richard Horowitz 2t Newaday.