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'A EDITORIALS I COMMENT SATURDAY MORNING. AUGUST 9. 1969 a lb JpitHattelpftia inquirer M. L. ANNENBIRO, PuklUhar, 1936-19'Z rutHatt Krmry Vtj Im tha Taar by TRIANGLE PUBLICATIONS, INC THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER 400 M.

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WIEOAND Editorial Pat tractor aVfamba I Oia Asaoctatad PrMi Tk. A aproductioa at all tha local mi priatad la thia The Readers Write For and Against The Columnists I THE-INQUIRER'S PLATFORM Ta prlat tha aawa accurattly and ftarlaaal? but aaa ta ba content with maraly prlatlaf tha awi ttrlva alwaya ta aphold tha priaclplaa of our Amaricaa democracy, to war relentleasly agaiaat alien ta S(ht latoleraaca. ta be the friend and dtfender at thoie who are persecuted aad oppressed! to demand equal justice for employer and employed; to work for tha adrancemeat of ladustry la Delaware Valley and Pennsylvania; to appose political hypocrisy and corruption; to fiht aad never ta cease fighting to anaintaia the aaactity af personal liberty and tha inviolability af humaa rights. Allied Unity on Hie Berlin Issues lgr' Working quietly, exercising diplomacy and statesmanship with great skill, President Nixon has forged a united allied front on long-standing questions about Berlin and moves now are being made to open negotiations with the Soviet Union that could have far-ranging effects on future prospects for peace In Europe. These developments have come to light in conjunction with West German Chancellor Kurt Kiesing-cr's visit to Washington for discussions with President Nixon on a number of matters of mutual interest, including Berlin and related issues pertinent to the status of West Germany and Communist East Germany.

The Big Three Western Powers sharing responsibility for safeguarding freedom and defending allied rights In West Berlin as an aftermath of World War II the United States, Great Britain and Frances-have formally petitioned the Soviet Government, both orally and in writing, for exchanges of views that might be the first steps toward easing tensions In Berlin and resolving at least some of the problems between East Germany and West Germany. Chancellor Kiesinger and other officials of the West German Gov mi- nu n.ifira.i i ii i i ii i it 1 vi ii in ii XI i i from tfee Oklahema Cttr OVIahomaB Just suppose we do build an ABM, LAWN MOWING TIME Letter of the Days The nip Cost of National Defense Editor ef The Inquirer: ends. A Demoralized Ball Club what happens if the military gets us into another war? The U. S. couldn't afford the costs, even if the military has the lives.

What must the world think of our country when we speak of peace but spend our money for war, and in doing so, let the cities rot and the children starve. True, all this has been with us for centuries, but we now have the means to create a better world. If we don't, we may witness the end of this civilization. We have already used the means to destroy it at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. WAYNE LAUSER Media.

overwhelming majority of our national budget goes to the military. Does our need to be defended this well? Of value is it for this country to prepare possible Russian or Chinese attack in years, when this country is already attack by poverty, racism, and injustice. The military has clearly demonstrated that they will spend as much money are given; the growth of the military industrial complex, that Eisenhower of," is proof of that truth. The social and educational programs that have cut back since the escalation of the war will not receive the money have been promised after this war JOHN S. OILLEN Maaat iaa Editor I.

i to aa far aawapapar aa wall aa AP im diapatchaa. ernment had been consulted by the Big Three prior to their contacting the Russians. An added element of timeliness is given to the moves by internal developments in East Germany, where the Communist regime headed by Walter Ulbricht, an aging Soviet puppet, seems to be facing an uncertain future. Cooperation by France in these diplomatic overtures has been made possible by the departure of Charles de Gaulle who, when he was President, consistently created division rather than unity in the ranks of the Western Powers. The Berlin questions that could be discussed with the Soviets, if Moscow is willing, cover the whole spectrum of issues that have been hanging fire for nearly a quarter of a century ever since Germany was partitioned at the end of the war, with Berlin located deep inside Communist East Germany.

Border questions, which involve Communist Poland, among others, could come up in the talks. It is too early to assess the full significance of the preliminary steps initiated by the Western Powers but it is unmistakably evident that the Soviet Union is being offered a golden opportunity to improve East-West relations if it desires to do so. stepping off doodles, that may or may not mean something, in the vicinity of the bag. Then he misses another bus, or shows his feelings for his teammates by removing his gear' to a solitary place in the clubhouse. Skinner feels deeply that Carpenter and Quinn have let him down.

The fans feel deeply that Allen has let them down. What the players think is not publicly announced, but it would probably be unprintable anyhow. Is this the way to run a ball club? Is this the way to attract fans and inject a winning spark in a desolate team? We should say not. Is a ball player named Allen running the Phillies and running them downhill? The owner and the general manager ought to think enough of the fans to tell them what is going on. on a Hospital, tional assault upon a hospital by any stretch of the imagination.

The hospital clearly was the intended target of a calculated, well planned attack. It is, tragically, the kind of terrorism that all victims of Red aggression in South Vietnam, including especially the South Vietnamese themselves, have come to expect from the Vietcong. Ability of the attackers to get to the hospital, located inside a supposedly well guarded American base, is an aspect not easily dismissed. Security measures apparently were not what they should have been. Explanations, if there are any, should be forthcoming from appropriate levels of responsibility.

and Beyond technology now "to place scientifically meaningful payloads" on or near the other planets in our solar system. And if we don't make a move by the mid 1970s, our chances of such a "grand tour" of the planets will be lost for 180 years because it will be that long before the planets line up again. They foresee flights to Jupiter, Saturn, Pluto, Uranus and Neptune on the "grand tour." It is obvious that if we are to go ahead with a program of exploring the most distant planets in the solar system that they will have to be unmanned probes. Pluto for example is more than 3.5 billion miles from earth, compared to 227,000 miles for the moon and 60 million" miles for Mars. An unmanned flight to Pluto would take several years and the time would have to be doubled for man, because it would be a round-trip.

But it is an indication of the age pf space in which we live that such trips can be discussed in terms of the possible. They also need to be discussed in terms of cost Letters will appear in this spaee each week from readers who wish to comment upon eolumns published in Tht Inquirer whether in agreement or disagreement. The writer's name and address must be signed, not necessarily for publication. The Inquirer reserves the right to eon-dense. Padwe and Allen Sandy Padwe, j'our sports writer, apparently resorts ta reckless and Irresponsible filler when he has nothing worthwhile to write.

His column entitled "Rich the Rebel" was not only an Insult to your readers but, more Important, It was destructive to human relations. Mr. Padwe has the audacity to claim that Philly fans are adverse to Rich Allen's behavior because they are prejudiced against Negroes. Why, then, did Philly fans disrespect Del Ennis, who is white? Why do we appreciate and give standing ovations to Kegro players who hustle? The fact is Rich Allen is not simply Individualistic. He is simply interested In his own individual self.

He is immature and selfish, and he has not contributed to the team effort despite his exceptional ability. He has been disloyal to his teammates and his fans. WILLIS BRIAN Jcnkintown. A Night for Allen Beautiful, Sandy Padwe! I knew we had at least a couple of sportswriters In Philly who write columns which inform, using factual information. I refer to Mr.

Padvve's column pertaining to Richie Allen and the hypocrisy of this city and some of its so-called baseball fans. Baseball fans? Sure, fans boo, at least the ignorant ones, but what kind of fans chase players' wives around in cars, break windows of players' houses, make racial and other insulting remarks to players and their families? None of the stupid, immature capers Allen pulled deserved any of the latter mentioned acts. As a Phillies' fan, I'm glad Richie Allen is back. I only wish there was some possible way he could stay with the Phillies. How about having a "Richie Allen Kight," not to show sympathy or remorse but to show Allen that Philly has more good fans, which it has, than the fools, bigots and acid-writing sports columnists who have been instrumental in instigating and prolonging this unfortunate situation.

Maybe then, Allen would change his mind about wanting to leave Philadelphia and the Thillies. Let's show the entire country Philadelphia is not a "dead" city full of "ghouls." This is the opinion of too many people from coast to coast. JOE MICHAEL Philadelphia. Relevant Criticism In response to the Messrs. Drum-mond criticism of Senators Mans field and Kennedy, I would like to point out that the conditions prevalent in Vietnam do have particular relevance to every United States senator.

The Democratic leadership, which includes both Senators Mansfield and Kennedy, would be recalcitrant in their duty if they did not speak out and advise the President of the United States concerning our nation's foreign policy. This is the very reason for separate but co-operative branches of American government. Also, I do not think it irresponsible for United States senators to note variances to the truth of the South Vietnamese Republic under President Thieu. Messrs. Drummond seem to think that the NLF are not indigenous to South Vietnam and that the-South Vietnam elections were really free from governmental interference.

Let Messrs. Drummond explain why no member of the NLF was allowed to participate in this election or why anv dissident South Vietnamese were not permitted to seek public office. Kennedy and Mansfield are now seeking a sincere peace obtainable by a freely negotiated coalition government or by really free elections. JOHN M. PATTON Philadelphia.

Small Beginnings The column by Joe Alex Morris treating with contempt the capital of West Germany, Bonn, because of its size and small population, recalls to my mind the fact that the capital of the United States for many years was a typhoid and malaria-ridden village on the banks of the Potomac, with mud streets and wooden shacks that hardly made it the equal of such lordly capitals as Paris and London and Rome. The city of Washington emerged from small beginnings; West Germany is emerging too, and the smallness of its capital is only a sign of its intent to put progress ahead of ornateness. JEREMIAH FLAK Philadelphia. If you were the manager of a big league baseball club and you couldn't control one of your players because the front office wouldn't back you up, what would you do? If you had any pride, and a big leaguer's respect for the game and your other players, you would quit, wouldn't you? Like Bob Skinner did. The Phillies have looked like a demoralized team for some time except for the period when Rich Allen was under suspension for missing a double-header.

Then they played the kind of baseball they are really capable of playing, and the Phillies won a string of games. Allen came back, and the Phillies are around 24 games out of first place in their division. The first baseman, who occasionally hits home runs when he feels like showing up at the ball park, has been trying to ignore the fans' boos by Sneak Attack If the Vietcong ire inclined to accept a peaceful settlement of the war in Vietnam they certainly are not showing it by their continuing atrocities and terror tactics. The deliberate attack on a hospital at Cam Ranh Bay is a case in point. More than seven hundred patients were in the American military hospital when the Vietcong unleashed the sneak attack.

They infiltrated past guards and opened fire at close range, throwing bombs into the hospital wards and spraying the buildings with bullets. Scores of American casualties re-1 suited. The incident could not be dis-! missed as an accidental or uninten To Pluto Moon Quarantine To the Editor of The Inquirer: Thanks a million for your editorial, "A Living Moon and Quarantine." Safety precautions are never any better than the weakest link, and it seems to me that the one big leak in the Apollo safeguards means that all the money invested in keeping the astronauts caged up for weeks in airtight chambers might just as well have been used on something else more productive. H. NOBLE Glenloch.

Honey on Space To the Editor of The Inquirer: This letter is to refute those who say that the money, effort and wisdom that went Into the moon landing should have been spent on poverty programs instead. Because of government contracts, extra people were hired and trained to make the parts of the rocket, for the television and tracking system and other things connected with th flight. These people spend their earnings and pay taxes and this benefits the whole community. FRANCE AN RICHLEY Philadelphia. Don't Trust Soviets To the Editor of The Inquirer: The suggestion by Kurt Solmssen that we invite the Soviet Union to coordinate and combine our space exploration programs sounds sensible, if idealistic.

Does he really believe the Soviets would agree unless they You don't have to expert to see what will the price of gasoline if this supply should drop by virtue of a in oil drilling in the For instance, in 1957 14,700 exploratory drilled; ki 1967, only 9620, 1968. And, believe tampering with depletion drilling still further. SAM BOREN Tex. Sell-Out on War Editor of The Inquirer: we giving South Vietnam the Communists? way I see it. a sellout, I don't read anything in the papers.

Doesn't agree with me? A.H.JX Forge. to Senator Editor of The Inquirer: shall appreciate your a copy of the following which we have sent Kennedy: can any man, who is within a few days after young woman, go such a maudlin television performance? posses neither dignity, integrity, nor manly sensibility. sbaH pray for our until you resign." EDITH KOHN HAROLD KOHN ELLEN KOHN JOE KOHN The Voice of the People To the Letters must le brief, written on one side of the paper. The? writer's nam and address 'must be signed, not necessarily for publication. The Inquirer reserves the right to condense.

Tone of Festival To the Editor of The Inquirer: In regard to your article on August 3 concerning the Atlantic City Pop Festival, I would like to give my opinion. As a participating member of the festival on August 2, I too witnessed the fans "Taking over the goose pond, light standard and even dancing on loud speakers." I don't deny the events occurred, yet I feel the "tone" of the article does not pertain to the festival. I think more people should take example from the good of the concert than rant and rave about the sensationalism. These sensationalists were the minority. Why don't you write about the feeling of union throughout the day? For example, everyone clapping their hands and sharing conversation and articles without fear of becoming involved; also the lack of discrimination to people of different races.

I'd like to conclude by saying that I consider myself a fair judge of the tone of the festival. I'm a second year student nurse, do not use drugs and dress conservatively. So I went to the festival dressed conservatively among thousands of individuals "radically" dressed. Yet never was I criticized for my dress and actions or denied their sharings. It's about time we noticed the good ideas of these so called "acid rock addicts." Let the people know that youth is not just something wasted on the young.

LOUISE ANDERSON Philadelphia. He Drills Wells To the Editor of The Inquirer: I drill oil wells, have been for 15 years. I know the terrible risks involved and the higher and higher costs. Contrary to the liberal press, "27V'2 depletion allowance" is not a tax "loophole." Real estate is capital, and oil is real estate. When I sell a barrel of oil out of the ground, I sell a piece of my real estate that is gone forever and irreplaceable when you burn it in a car engine.

The depletion allowance is intended to compensate me for the Joss. Finally, all the oil is gone and the ground is worth zero. Congress recognized this 40 years ago and established the depletion allowance; people have drilled thousands and thousands of wells on this basis. Through depletion I am able to save money to drill still more wells and help supply America with the 13,000,000 barrels of oil used every day (and increasing every day). Chase Manhattan Bank estimates that by 1990 America will be using 18,000,000 barrel The eountry what for a ten under as they warned been Vietnam they cl ofl daily.

be an happen to and oil suddenly slow-down U. S. A. there were wells still less me, will cut Dallas, To the Aren't to That's the but like that anyone Valley Letter To the We publishing letter to Senator "How a man, killing a through "You nor "We country Philadelphia. could see a military advantage to themselves in doing this? Would they be wiling to share their secret techniques in exchange for ours if they thought they could learn ours any other way? Mr.

Solmssen warns against repeating "the error we fell into when we thought we could prevent the Soviet Union from building atomic bombs by keeping 'our He apparently does not know that we not only gave the Soviet Union "our secret," but also supplies of uranium to make the atomic bomb, as reported by Major George Racey Jordan some years ago but largely ignored by the public. ELIZABETH G. COATES Bryn Mawr. Moon Fever. To tibe Editor of The Inquirer: On possible germs the astronauts may have brought back to earth, what did you have in mind, moononucleosis? T.

HARRY THOMPSON Philadelphia. ails' American Sincerity (Cincinnati Enquirer If Hanoi is not moved by the determination that the President voiced during his visit to Vietnam, there is hope that the non-Communist world is being moved by the fruitlessness of what has been happening in Paris. It now takes a partisar of undeviating fidelity to the anti-American cause to doubt the earnestness of the U. S. position.

War on Crime (Richmond Times-Dispatch) Of all the members of President Nixon's Cabinet, Attorney General John Mitchell deserves to be singled out for special praise for his swift translation of campaign promises into administration policy. Thanks to Mr. Mitchell, no one can accuse the administration of failing to live up to its pledges or of dragging its feet, as far as the war on crime is concerned. Czech Dilemma (Edinburgh Scotsman) The people of Czechoslovakia still face the same sort of dilemma that confronted Mr. Dubcek after the invasion.

If they make no protest they lose their self-respect as well as their freedom. But if they do protest, even passively, they risk stern Soviet retaliation. 4 IMapite Wests Now that the United States has succeeded in its stated goal to put a man on the moon by 1970; it is perhaps time to decide on our long-range plans for space exploration. Whether these plans will include a crash program, such as the one that produced Apollo 11, to land a man on Mars by the 1980s or unmanned space probes, such as those envisioned by a panel of leading space scientists, is something that the Nixon Administration very likely will have to decide within the next few years. The decision will be based no doubt on a matter of priorities with the emphasis put on how much we can afford.

The cost of. a "grand tour" of the planets in our solar system and, perhaps beyond will be a small fraction of the total cost of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration program, according to the par.el of 23 scientists. However, thej declined to give specific costs. They noted that we have the Sfom Um Celumbua "But What If It Doesn't Rain?".