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OPEN LETTER TO
BARRY GOLDWATER
JOHN J. SYNON
Dear Senator Goldwater:
Some weeks ago six, per
haps - I wrote you a letter.
After about three weeks and no
reply, I got off another, this
one to the man in your office
who parts his name on the side,
D. Delos Ellsworth.
It was possible, I knew, that
my first letter had gone astray,
so I repeated its substance to
Ellsworth and asked if he would
be kind enough to determine if
my first effort had been re
ceived. No answer from him,
either.
So, I’ll try again; I certainly
would like an answer to my
question.
That question, you may re
call from my first letter, grew
out of an appearance you made
on the TV show conducted by
that rolling-eyed Englishman.
You and David Frost rocked
along. Twice, in the course of
the banter, you identified your
self as a Jew and why you felt
called upon to do that, and to
do it again, is more than I
know. And you told us of your
sympathy for the hippies, that
you yourself had tried to grow
a beard (“but it didn’t look
right”), and so on.
Quite a new Goldwater, I
thought, laughing and scratch
ing with a Left-wing mouth
piece.
Then, towards the end of the
show, Frost rather set you back.
Or so it seemed to me. In his
best oxonian accent your inter
locutor wanted to know how
you differed from George Wal
lace.
From the look on your face,
I thought the question must
have carried an odor as well as
an inference.
“Oh”, you said, “I wouldn’t
want to be compared to George
Wallace”. Horrors!
*****
“Why not?” Frost pressed.
“What do you stand for that
Wallace doesn’t stand for or
vice versa?”
Tribute To Tyrant?
We refer to United Nations
S ecretary General U Thant;
who recently tossed off a gushy
tribute to dead Red tyrant V.
I. Lenin. The Communist
world, with much hoopla,
marked the* 100th anniversary
of that arch-criminal's birth
on April 22.
Thant hailed the creator of
Russia's slave society as a
humanitarian and vigorous filt
er for human rights. That is
really laying it on with a tro -
wal; even Lenin's Cynical s jc
(Forgive me if I have forgot
ten the exact language that went
into this six-weeks-old collo
quy).
You pursed over Frost’s ques
tion for a long moment; a per
son could see your heavy wheels
slowly turn.
Finally, out it came: “George
Wallace uses the Bill of Rights
to deny Negroes and Jews their
rights”.
1 neqrly fell out of my chair.
You said - whatever your exact
language - George Wallace does
deny (or has denied) rights to
Negroes and Jews.
And as fast as I could get off
a letter to you I did so. I asked
you to substantiate your charge,
to name the act, the time, and
tne place.
No answer. Twice, no answer.
* * * *: *
What am I to believe? I still
have scars on my hide defending
you from the tar brush, par
ticularly that of your being
thick headed, slow witted. And
here you are, so far as I can de
termine, engaged in a blatant
piece of character assassination.
What sort of person are you,
anyway? When that publisher
fellow wrote that you were nuts
and therefore unfit to be presi
dent, you sued him. And now
here you are offering a gratui
tous charge, an even more des
picable charge, against a man
whose shoes you aren’t fit to
lace.
Deny rights to Jews and Ne
groes, indeed.
Name the instance, Barry
Goldwater, name the time, and
name the place.
I shall see that a copy of this
column is delivered to your of
fice.
If you have a defense for
,what appears to be an un
founded, unwarranted, scurri
lous, snide attack, all of that,
I will print it.
Sincerely,
JOHN J. SYNON
cessors must have blinked in
disbelief when they read the
words.
Maybe Thant subscribes to
the notion that nothing but
good should be spoken of the
dead. But when there is no
thing good to say, even a dip
lomat has the right to clam up
If the UN chief hasn't
self-respect to refrain from ut
tering such drivel- - h<* should
at least show a little regard far
the office he holds.
-New York Daily News
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By Tom Anderson M
"POLLUTION" IS NOW THEIR THING
The New Left, the Marxists, the liberals, the
do-gooders and President Nixon have all em
braced pollution as their new “thing.”
us always keep in mind that, polluted
as we are, there are worse things than pollu
tion. Nationally syndicated columnist John
Chamberlain touched on this in a recent col
umn:
“One’s personal feeling of elan about the
coming battle for a decontaminated world,
however, is a little dashed when one has one’s
nose rubbed in the scientific complexity of
some of the choices that lie ahead of us. Do
we actually know where the balance lies when
it comes to applying pesticides, for example?
DDT is supposedly bad, for certain species of
birds at any rate. But it is also bad for disease
bearing mosquitoes and flies and many crop
eating insects.
“The Federal Government, listening to the
anti-DDT clamor, has decided in favor of the
birds, which means that the mosquitoes are
going to get a reprieve, too. But now a most
unusual warning comes from a friend of mine,
Robert Sullivan of Sheerlund Forest, Pa., who
is in the business of growing Christmas trees.
He says that complete elimination of DDT
could mean the end of Christmas trees as we
know them.
“The reason is that, since the growing aban
donment of DDT, the gypsy moth is on the
move again. It has been infesting progressively
larger forest areas of New England, New York,
New Jersey, and eastern Pennsylvania, and
has been moving into Canada and Virginia.
“John A. Koch, president of the Pennsylvania
Christmas Tree Growers Association, tells of
one large isolated patch of trees in Centre
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By Marilyn Manion
RETREAT
Anyone who attempts to keep up with
world events is overwhelmed with the sheer
bu.k of daiiy happenings. The newspapers,
magazines and reports pile up. One becomes
immersed in a particular topic for a day or
two—and finds, upon surfacing, that something
e'se has exploded. Where does it all fit to
gether? If only we could back up and see
it all in perspective!
Backing up and seeing the forest through the
trees is an enviable talent. One who possesses
that facility is Mr. Anthony H. Harrigan, who
edits the “Washington Report” for the Ameri
can Security Council. His reports and analyses
probe into the condition of United States se
curity. Mr. Harrigan, speaking over the
Manion Forum radio program, summarized
our country's present condition, which he be
lieves is precarious. Here is what he said:
“The chronicle of political and strategic set
backs in the Sixties is shocking. The Cuban
missile crisis of 1962 had the effect of con
solidating and confirming a Soviet satellite in
the Western Hemisphere. The Turks, a reliable
cold war ally, lost faith in American protec
tion when U. S. missiles were withdrawn in
appeasement of the Soviet Union. In Europe,
the NATO alliance fell into disrepair. In
Southeast Asia, thousands of American lives
and billions of dollars were squandered be
cause the powers-that-bc refused to apply
sound strategic principles and direct massive
air-sea power at the homeland of the enemy.
And on the homefront, the American spirit
and confidence has been eroded by the Soviet
inspired clamor against victory in the Vietnam
War.
A hundred and thirteen U. S. naval vessels
were scrapped in 1969—in what amounted to
unilateral naval disarmament— Congress turned
down proposals for an adequate ship replace
ment program. Though the United States has
lost absolute naval predominance in the Medi
County, Pa., that has been completely denuded
of foliage.
“Mr. Koch and Mr. Sullivan do not profess
to be ecologists. And neither of them wants to
witness the ‘silent spring’ that Rachel Carson
predicted if pesticides were to kill off the birds.
But unless we can come up with a good sub
stitute for DDT, we may get a ‘silent spring’
anyway. As Mr. Koch puts it, ‘I wonder what
all the birds and the bees will be doing when
there aren’t any leaves on any of the trees?’
“Mr. Koch and Mr. Sullivan, since they
raise tree crops, might be accused of making
self-serving statements. But Hardin B. Jones,
a professor of Medical physics and Physiology
at the University of California in Berkeley,
who has no Christmas tree investment to de
fend, thinks that DDT is a ‘remarkable com
pound which has done more than any other
chemical to make the world comfortable and
to increase the food supply.’
“ ‘Of all the pesticides,’ says Prof. Jones,
‘DDT is the safest. At high levels it is de
stroyed rapidly by body tissues; at low levels
it is metabolically inactive and harmless, sim
ply dissolved in body fat. The use of organic
pesticides was a significant step of improve
ment because theretofore many foods were
contaminated with arsenic and lead-containing
pesticides which probably did have a detri
mental effect on health.’ ”
The New Left, of course, is really most
interested in destroying the capitalist system
and our free Republic. They prefer planting
marxism to planting trees.
Our greatest need is not to destroy pesticides
but to create an effective pesticide to be used
on the New Left.—American Way Features
terranean and the Soviet Union is close to
achieving a breakthrough as the greatest mari
time power, the Armed Services Committees
in Congress have to fight to obtain each new
warship. The Air Force also is threatened. By
the end of the 1970 fiscal year, 750 aircraft
will be deactivated. In many areas of defense,
progress is almost non-existent because of a
lack of funding and failure in the 1960’s to
press for innovation—so that the Soviets have
a clear lead.
There are deficiencies in the equipment of
all the armed services. The reason is that for
eight of the last 10 years there was no real
awareness of the impact of the knowledge revo
lution on military technology. New ideas were
not applied to military systems unless they met
an unmilitary accounting test of ‘cost effective
ness.’
“This know-nothing attitude, coupled with
the notion that the economic burden of arma
ments is intolerable —as though freedom had
to be inexpensive in order to be worth invest
ing in—has severely restricted America’s free
dom of action republic enters a new
decade. {
“The deterioration of America’s military
Ccpabilities is not lost on the surrounding
world. The arrogance of petty states such as
North Korea, which snatched a U. S. warship
off the high seas, is a reflection of their aware
ness that the United States is either unwilling
or unable to exercise leadership as it did in the
fifties.
"Nothing is more important than the restora
tion of America's strategic superiority. Yet
there is only faint public awareness of the peril
in the changed strategic balance, with its shift
of superiority to the Soviet Union. The exist
ing and proposed cutbacks in national defense
forces compromise the commitments of the
United States and the safety of its people."—
American Way Features