LETTERS
Letters In regard to September’s “Tilting at Windmills,” the blatant naivete of your statement that “Volunteers could easily be trained to meet most of the needs of the elderly and could...
...Included in the package were two speeches by Califano and Chapter 1-60, which is becoming a collector’s item...
...Letters In regard to September’s “Tilting at Windmills,” the blatant naivete of your statement that “Volunteers could easily be trained to meet most of the needs of the elderly and could bring to their work the kind of concern and warmth that is increasingly lacking in our health professionals” is amazing to me...
...As an HEW employee, I can provide another perspective to Blythe Babyak’s article, “Califano’s Cigarette Campaign” [July/ August...
...NANCY L. SNIDER Santa Barbara,California See Charles Peters’ response in Tilting at Windmills...
...I for one cannot see it as a shortcoming that Eugene McCarthy, in his speeches and writings, takes an interdisciplinary approach to political problems...
...I frankly doubt that volunteers could even be found “easily...
...It is the height of illogic to deride a man in one sentence f o r n o t proposing solutions, then in the next to demean the solutions he does propose...
...No, Califano didn’t stop the smoking...
...Babyak implies that the only bona fide gesture in that campaign was the curtailing of smoking in HEW buildings...
...Early in January HEW employees received an announcement of Califano’s new policy...
...in fact, he added a lot of smoldering...
...HANNAH KLEIN Silver Spring, Maryland Harry Lesser’s review of Eugene McCarthy’s America Revisited: 150 Years After De Tocqueville in your July/ August issue perfectly suits the reviewer’s name...
...After two months without a reply, I attempted to track down my memo...
...Lesser manages this feat within one maladroit paragraph...
...In June a fat envelope from the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta appeared in my office mailbox...
...Something like 42 per cent of the women in this country work for pay-they were the ones over the past 50 to 100 years who used to do most of the “volunteer” work, because they were economically “free...
...Shortly” apparently meant “after the next tobacco harvest...
...Wake up, Mr...
...I agree that it would be nice if we could get back to the great humane era of volunteer labor, but short of setting women into their 19thcentury “economic slave status” I don’t see how it can be done...
...And even though I think volunteerism is a good way to go-in terms of creating a more compassionate society-as a woman, I am not willing to pay the price of going back to that era...
...The prospect of filing a grievance for each anonymous cigarette puffed i n t o your face is ridiculous...
...alas, she had never heard of Chapter 1-60...
...Many people would like to be able to volunteer-both male and female-but most of them can’t afford to “volunteer” to do anything...
...Perhaps because of the reviewer’s haste to score points off a man whom it has grown fashionable to scorn, lesser understanding could hardly have been shown of an American political activist who propelled many people, Mr...
...The “meat” occurs on the last page...
...Next I wrote a memo to Zeus (as he is affectionately called), requesting clarification and offering assistance in enforcing the policy...
...In case you haven’t noticed, no one is able (even if willing) to do much in our society on a volunteer basis any more...
...The Specialist-on-Smoking finally located it under a pile of travel vouchers...
...Lesser possibly included, into politics...
...It turned out to be the response to my January memo...
...Peters...
...JAMES M. YEAGER Washington, D.C...
...And if this grievance option were sufficiently publicized, the current backlog of grievances could double...
...an employee [who] feels . . . this policy [is] not being implemented is entitled to utilize . . . the grievance procedure...
...yet Mr...
...The assertion that McCarthy lacks firsthand observation of America and of Americans is, of course, ludicrous...
...Surely, some more efficient means of enforcement could be devised, ifthe effort were sincere...
...If Washington Monthly is to be taken seriously as a magazine of commentary on politics or on political books, it will have to do better than it did on McCarthy’s America Revisited...
...In my opinion, this aspect of the program was as half-hearted as the rest...
...In fact, I have always seen it as one of the strengths that distinguishes him from a normal, party-regular or dim-bulb, politician...
...It indicated that further guidelines appeared in Chapter 1-60 of the General Administration Manual...
...I consulted the Keeper-of-the-Manuals...
...He promised to contact me “shortly...
Vol. 10 • November 1978 • No. 8
