The People's Forum
THE PEOPLE'S FORUM Campaign Lesson Dear Sirs: Just as I was about to contribute to Senator George McGovern's campaign fund for "liberal" Senators, I learned that the fund had assisted Senator...
...Our Committee, composed of representatives from many departments of the University of Washington, will be responsible for insuring that contributions will be used to provide a fair trial and a legal test of the constitutionality of the laws involved...
...In this case it is a responsibility to share their information and insights as promptly and fully as possible...
...All men's greatest and mutual enemy is war...
...military uniform are Mississippi's Senators John C. Stennis and James O. Eastland and South Carolina's Representative R. Mendel Rivers...
...I had already supported his Democratic opposition, a true liberal who opposes the war in Southeast Asia...
...John Cerniglia, R. Ph...
...military units, is wasteful...
...Most notable among the flag-wavers who have never worn a U.S...
...Is it not the case that destruction on campuses and destruction in Vietnam show an equally furious stupidity, perhaps insanity...
...What some people fail to realize is that the greatest violations of civil liberties occur against unpopular causes, but that the effect of the erosions into civil liberty is upon us all...
...Information about the program is available from these sources: The Office of the President, 1730 Grove Street, Berkeley, California, 94709...
...He was not in uniform and posed as a radical organizer of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), preaching violence and revolution to the students upset by the dishonorable Southeast Asian war...
...Internes can expect practical experience working either with a World Without War Council or with staff and lay leadership of a major organization, developing educational programming and helping to conceptualize and organize public activity in the war/peace field...
...Madison, Wisconsin Christmas Boycott Dear Sirs: We see as hypocrisy the extravagant celebration of Christmas when there is no peace on earth...
...Eight persons were indicted after the demonstrations at the Federal courthouse in Seattle which protested the Chicago conspiracy trial, including the tactics of Judge Julius Hoffman...
...Is it a capsule or a tablet...
...Alice Franklin Bryant Seattle, Washington To the Root of 'Radical1 Dear Sirs: The term "radical-liberal" has recently become a smear word to characterize the "other side" on subjects that are politically controversial...
...We will do without decorations, and may be fasting on Christmas day instead of feasting...
...Pain in itself is difficult to gauge when comparing pain-relievers...
...Anne Stadler Executive Secretary, World Without War Council of the United States Berkeley, California Navy Dumps Waste Dear Sirs: I am with the U.S...
...When interviewed, the sheriff stated that the agent had been sent to him highly recommended by people whose identity he had sworn to keep secret...
...Westport Citizens for Peace P.O...
...The WWWCUS Interne Program offers that opportunity...
...It so happens that it is not always the students who instigate these outrages...
...C. W. Griffin Denvilie, New Jersey Defends Labor Dear Sirs: In your October editorial, "Nixon's National Strategy," a few of your statements exhibit the growing liberal tendency to hold the labor movement in scorn...
...This certainty is intensified by reading in the October issue Thomas Harkin's "The Congressional Jury that Convicted Itself" and "Drifting Toward Armageddon," Richard Falk's review of new books by Sidney Lens, Seymour Melman, Herbert York, and William McGaffin and Erwin Knoll...
...A published letter may make an impact on thousands of persons...
...Navy...
...If those who nonchalantly send young men to useless deaths in Vietnam had to defend publicly their own military records, many might hesitate to support wars they are too old to fight...
...if they had, they would not be the silent majority, but would be aware that far too many men in power have flouted that Constitution they have all sworn to uphold...
...2. Organize picket lines at department stores and shopping centers...
...WWWC-Midwest, Room 1506, 116 South Michigan, Chicago, Illinois, 60603...
...You say: "Organized labor used to boast of its tactic of 'rewarding its friends and punishing its enemies.' Much of organized labor no longer seems to know who its friends or enemies are...
...I might add that Wyant's is one of the most responsible comments on the report I have seen...
...Its excellence would be enhanced if it published more articles dealing with the labor movement and its contribution to American progressive movements...
...The decision in the Chicago case, which acquitted the defendants of the charge of conspiracy, prevents a constitutional test of the conspiracy law on appeal...
...Sure, it made profits doing it, but then it accepted only two per cent of all money spent on research and development from Government funds...
...The Progressive is an excellent publication...
...Let us take time to think about the great advances our drug industry has made to further the health of the American people...
...Dramatize the horrors of war or the contradictions in the thinking of the military...
...that at a World Conference, in Oxford, England in 1952 the Society of Friends declared, "The Christian faith, which we believe is the hope of our troubled world, is a revolutionary faith...
...An unpublished letter sometimes impels an editor to write an editorial using its ideas...
...You agree with the Middle East Plan offered by Senator J. W. Fulbright of Arkansas...
...How is it possible to sort out the truth from such different opinions...
...The Navy, like most U.S...
...The Seattle case may turn out to be the crucial test...
...The Great Gildersleeve (Hal Peary) is alive and well in Los Angeles doing radio commercials for a savings and loan association...
...Name withheld at writer's request] FPO, New York, New York Great Gildersleeve Lives Dear Sirs: In "The Word From Washington" in The Progressive, Potomacus refers to the Great Gildersleeve, and wonders "what had ever happened to him...
...The indictment charges eighteen "overt acts in furtherance of said conspiracy...
...To sit idly by and ignore the conditions which exist today, which can lead to nothing but complete demoralization of the civilization which has been built up by man over hundreds of thousands of years, would make me no better than the majority of that nation of sheep that has allowed the formation of these conditions...
...Ultimately the students realized that they had been deceived, that this young "radical" was actually working for Sheriff Ray Morrow of Ontario County, New York...
...It is on this civil liberties basis that we appeal for financial support...
...Three times in the last twenty-two years, Egypt, Syria, and Jordan have tried to destroy Israel and have failed...
...What suffers from this waste is the taxpayer, the Mediterranean Sea, the Gulf of Tonkin, and all waters crossed by the ships of the U.S...
...For example, it is seldom publicized in liberal journals that Senator Harrison Williams' successful campaign in New Jersey had labor as its backbone...
...It is not only stupid but actually moronic to allow most of the resources of the world to be squandered in producing the means for man's suicide rather than for all the worthwhile and necessary projects...
...They should also be educated in a new language which would make it possible for everyone, everywhere, to be able to communicate—this alone could bring understanding and peace...
...Livingston, who has served in Vietnam, says that "the boys who go into the military are all capable" of massacring men, women, and children, as at My Lai...
...College graduates are preferred, but a college degree is not essential...
...In many cases, Congressional super-patriotism has meant nothing more than cheering the slaughter from the safety of the sidelines...
...A person reacts to a given product in a manner singular to himself...
...Had I supported the McGovern fund, my contributions would have only cancelled out one another...
...We are not going to buy presents this year, nor are we going to receive them...
...News of the environment movements has reached us...
...The anti-riot law was the price that was paid to secure passage of the Federal fair housing act of 1968 to which it was attached...
...Following is an almost unbelievable news story: In the spring of 1969, a young policeman showed up at Hartford College in Geneva, New York...
...Its broader threat to the right of dissent has been recognized by such responsible public officials as former Attorney General Ramsey Clark...
...Instead of spending, we will work for peace on earth by giving our money to help make amends for the suffering we have caused—such as by financially adopting a Vietnamese child, and by giving our time to stop the war...
...It is rooted in inward experience, but, where-ever it is genuine, it leads to radical changes in the ways in which men live and act...
...I would point out that four, not three, commissioners disagreed with the mining law recommendations, three disagreed over oil and gas leasing, and I alone disagreed, in writing, on some other points also...
...If so, then we can say which of these men is nearer the truth...
...The United States, in the eyes of the world and of all informed and intelligent people, has become the most aggressive, corrupt, and power-mad nation in world history...
...Next this undercover man proceeded to encourage the students to wreck the ROTC office which was located in a dormitory where more than 100 students were sleeping...
...Constitution...
...One need not be a strict constructionist to realize that the origin of the term "radical" is "root...
...This statement is inherently false...
...Vast quantities of paper, metal, rags are dumped in our oceans by our Navy, and yet the Navy seems unconcerned...
...As his patriotic service to the republic, Eastland exploits the farm subsidy racket for $150,000 or so a year, a welfare gift from the U.S...
...Contributions should be made payable to the Seattle Eight Defense Committee and sent to the treasurer, Harry McAndrews, Department of Mathematics, University of Washington, Seattle 98105...
...Robert Emmet Clark Professor of Law University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona Readers' Responsibility Dear Sirs: In terms of information, The Progressive's readers are over-privileged people...
...in a recent issue that I agree with but also much that indicates some lack of knowledge—for example, the meaning of dominant use and multiple use...
...The majority of the citizens of the United States have not only become a nation of sheep but of hypocrites also...
...F. G. Kerns Da Nang, Vietnam Youth and Destruction Dear Sirs: Were the articles by Ralph E. Hanson and Gordon Livingston intentionally placed side by side in the November issue...
...The College Edition of the Random House Dictionary gives the first meaning as "of or pertaining to roots or origins...
...Over-privileged people owe it to society to carry an extra load of responsibility...
...The people must be educated enough to know also that there is no actual difference in mankind whether they be black, white, red, or yellow and all the intermediate colors...
...For example, he cited the article in The Medical Letter that "Darvon is not superior to ten grains of aspirin...
...Saul Cohen Santa Fe, New Mexico...
...Erwin Knoll, in your November issue, apparently prefers to present your readers with only one side of the story on Darvon...
...It should be pointed out that studies show one grain of codeine, one-fourth grain of morphine, or seventy-five milligrams of meperidine when taken orally will not outperform ten grains of aspirin either...
...If the creator of the label "radical-liberal" were to browse through George Seldes' The Great Quotations, he would discover that former President Theodore Roosevelt once said, "I am in every fiber of my body a radical...
...These cowardly people, who are disrupting both our loyal law enforcement agencies and our troubled students, are traitors of the first magnitude...
...fundamental...
...Professor Melvin Rader Seattle, Washington Public Lands Dear Sirs: There is much in the review of the Public Land Law Review Commission report by William K. Wyant, Jr...
...And it is extremely important that we do so, since our future depends largely upon our understanding of youth...
...It is hard to express my disillusionment, but I have learned a lesson—to support only individual campaign funds...
...There are so many factors regarding a patient's reaction to drugs for pain relief that it is difficult to say which one is responsible...
...Kerry A. Rudt Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania The Progressive in Vietnam Dear Sirs: As I conclude my stint in Vietnam, I want you to know how much I have appreciated The Progressive during my year in this most unhappy land...
...Israel is the only country in the Middle East that is a democracy...
...It is rather that they are entitled to a fair trial under a law which is constitutional...
...James H. Mitchell Terre Haute, Indiana Defends Drug Industry Dear Sirs: Every time I see an article deriding drugs I wonder if the reporter has taken the time to examine both sides of the story...
...Frances A. Graves Kirkland, Washington Undercover Agent Dear Sirs: People have blamed students for the rash of bombings which have occurred at universities...
...The only two acts not dealing with speech or assembly—the breaking of windows and doors at the courthouse and Federal building—are not attributed to any of the defendants (nor is anyone named...
...Hanson, who has observed destruction at the University of Wisconsin, believes that university students are "the most intelligent and the most idealistic" in our history...
...Mike Kerper La Salle College Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Help for Seattle Eight Dear Sirs: We call attention to the civil liberties aspect of the important case known as United States v. Marshall, et al, scheduled for trial in Federal court in November...
...Rivers' racket is the diversion of Pentagon millions to his hometown, Charleston, South Carolina...
...The students, taken in by his earnestness and never dreaming his true identity, listened carefully as he taught them the uses of the Ml carbine and different ways to build fire bombs...
...THE PEOPLE'S FORUM Campaign Lesson Dear Sirs: Just as I was about to contribute to Senator George McGovern's campaign fund for "liberal" Senators, I learned that the fund had assisted Senator Henry M. Jackson of Washington...
...We can speak up in the various organizations to which we belong, stimulate a demand for well-informed speakers, distribute brief reprints, write letters to newspapers...
...Fortunately the bomb was discovered and dismantled before anyone was hurt or killed...
...It is beyond my imagination how Senator McGovern, who has been one of our most articulate critics of the Vietnam war, could support one of our leading "hawks...
...Hymie Cutler Detroit, Michigan Dear Sirs: I disagree entirely with your point of view in the editorial note, "A Middle East Plan," in the October issue of The Progressive...
...and in distinguishing "radical" from "extreme" and "fanatical" the dictionary says that the term "emphasizes the idea of going to the root of the matter...
...The labor movement has consistently supported progressive programs, and in turn has supported progressive candidates...
...Walter H. Craig Mineola, New York Hawks' Military Records Dear Sirs: As corollaries to the excellent electoral principles outlined by Garrison Nelson in "Nixon's Silent House of Hawks," I propose widespread national publication of Congressional hawks' military records—especially those of flag-waving Southerners...
...The rest of the countries in the Middle East are all in favor of Russia or Communism...
...It is doubtful if the majority of the "silent majority" of flag-waving and aggressive citizens have ever studied the U.S...
...taxpayers...
...Lloyd B. Gale Trenton, New Jersey Peace Internes Wanted Dear Sirs: The World Without War Council of the United States is looking for people who think controlling the threat of war is the central political problem of our time, and who want to spend a year finding out what it means to work on that problem...
...Many "super-dove" candidates would not have been re-elected if it were not for the "reactionary" labor movement...
...Any taxpayer should be glad to hear that...
...Compare this to eighty-one per cent for aircraft and missiles and fifty-one per cent for all private industry...
...and this often seems immoderate in its thoroughness and completeness...
...There is only one solution to bringing peace to the world and that is the formation of a real world government, with every nation giving up part of its sovereignty to a world police force under laws covering the whole of our little world...
...There is simply no excuse for all this waste being dumped into the oceans by our Navy...
...I have shared each issue with some of my fellow soldiers, and although not all have agreed with your positions on Vietnam and the crisis at home, most were impressed by the incisive and objective reporting and editorial comments...
...There are fleet oilers and store ships, and there could be fleet garbage ships...
...3. Stage guerrilla theater on the sidewalk in front of large stores...
...It is ultranation-alism which makes it possible for the people of one nation to attack and kill those of another...
...Although I have subscribed for more than five years, I was most grateful for it this past year because it was refreshing to receive a truly liberal magazine in a country whose government has to rank among the most illiberal institutions ever created...
...Always posing as an organizer for the SDS, this secret agent is now believed to have incited the students at Syracuse, Cornell, and Alfred Universities, and also at Keuka College and the State University at Buffalo...
...No two views of American youth could possibly differ more, Mr...
...One may deplore the fact that he, like others, is a fallible individual who may not be in tune with all the changes characterizing contemporary life and at the same time feel it his responsibility to protest what he believes to be the subversion of his mother tongue...
...The issue is not the wisdom of the demonstration or the political goals and tactics of the defendants...
...Participants also have a full program of seminars and independent study focused on: democratic methods of changing public attitudes, American politics and the political process, international institutions and world order, world development, disarmament, and ten other substantive areas which comprise the war/peace field...
...If it asks for military planes, we should give them and not have Israel pay for them...
...These have actually become a threat to the security of not only the United States, but of the whole world...
...Maturity, a high tolerance for frustration, an interest in forcing change without violence, a need to be involved in solving crucial human and social problems—these are essential...
...The first project is education of the masses to overcome the hatred and superstitions engendered by all the religions...
...6th Fleet in the Mediterranean and last year I was with the 7th Fleet in the Gulf of Tonkin, both times on aircraft carriers...
...We are calling for people to put peace back in Christmas—what better way to observe the birth of Christ than to bring an end to the war this year...
...Dorothy Johnson Norwich, Connecticut Dissent on Middle East Plan Dear Sirs: It has been said that Israel should sign a pact with the United States as proposed by Senator J. W. Fulbright and supported by your magazine, providing that the United States will agree to withdraw to the borders of the original thirteen colonies, as recognized by England in 1783, these borders to be guaranteed hereafter by Israel, and to give Arkansas and Wisconsin back to the Indians...
...We would welcome any criticisms and suggestions readers might have of this proposal...
...Most of the writing has been superficial, uninformed Pavlovian reaction based on a false premise—namely, that the Commission was recommending a giveaway or not aware of the past...
...He refused to divulge their names...
...4. Distribute peace leaflets at high schools, train stations, churches, and shopping centers...
...I strongly disagree that Israel should be forced to give back the Arab-held territories that she had won during the June, 1967, war...
...Here are some possible approaches for organizing the boycott: 1. Contact local clergy—many should be receptive to taking commercialism out of Christmas and putting peace back in...
...Both the anti-riot and conspiracy laws are disturbingly vague, but when played off against one another they represent an especially severe threat to civil liberties...
...I feel that the United States should not ignore Israel in any way or form...
...5. Urge fellow students not to go home for vacation unless their parents agree to participate in the boycott...
...If an item is slightly worn, in the way, or unusable at the time and place, it is thrown over the side into that beautiful blue...
...The indictment of the Seattle defendants invokes two laws: the anti-riot law and conspiracy...
...So there is no reason in the world why the United States should even think about not helping Israel...
...that Phillips Brooks was quoted in The Churchman as claiming, "In the best sense of the word, Jesus was a radical...
...Filling shipping lanes and continental shelves and other bodies of water with garbage while keeping the lanes open to free shipping with our policemen fleets is illogical and a display of ignorance of the environment and its relationship to man by our pro-technology brass...
...The docile Americans whose sons are so ruthlessly sacrificed in Vietnam by these callous old hypocrites might wise up if they knew the facts about their exploiters...
...We are counting on college groups to do most of the local work...
...Box 207 Saugatuck Station Westport, Connecticut A Nation of Sheep Dear Sirs: An article in The New York Times, "Congress's Right to Know," by Senator Stuart Symington, Missouri Democrat, who is a member of both the Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees reveals how our society is not a free and open one, but rather one in which the vast majority of the people know little or nothing of the immeasurable power of entrenched bureaucracies, notably the CIA...
...Surely it is not the purpose of The Progressive to provide the Arab dictatorships greater chance of success the next time they try...
...These factors include the pharmacologic activity of the ingredients, the color of the dose...
...WWWC-Northwest, 4235 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle, Washington, 98105...
...Let us, each one, teach many that ending the great power struggle, using our efforts and resources for human well-being, and giving the United Nations an opportunity to function is a far more moral and hopeful alternative than continuing to drift toward a nuclear Armageddon which may exterminate our race or reduce it to a miserable remnant...
...So our group feels it is time for a Christmas boycott...
Vol. 34 • December 1970 • No. 12
