Civil Rights Bill

Sir: The only unhappy part about the civil rights bill [June 19] is that there ever existed the need for it.

PATRICIA CHERONE Glendale, Calif.

Sir: With God's help, I hope Americans will accept their moral responsibility by doing what they can to make life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness a reality for Negro people as well as white.

DAVID W. MANDYCK Afton, N.Y.

Sir: The civil rights bill is not "the product of national demand." You should have said "the product of noisy minorities who terrify politicians."

DARRELL C. STEERS Chevy Chase, Md.

Sir: What a thrill to see the cover picture of a Senator who is too much of a coward to permit Americans a referendum on the civil rights question. He seems to think he was elected to cram legislation down the throats of people he thinks are too dumb to know what they want.

W. C. CARGILE El Paso, Texas

Sir: I was about to bid a reluctant farewell to the G.O.P. until I read your article on Senator Dirksen. While it is true that we cannot legislate morality, we can legislate conditions that are more conducive to morality. Senator Goldwater's vote against the civil rights bill is another indication of his remarkable shortsightedness.

LYNN HARLAN Fremont, Calif.

Sir: Let us not forget that Goldwater has now voted "no" on three recent major bills to reach the Senate: the civil rights bill, the trade expansion act, the test ban agreement. These bills could not have passed without staunch Republican backing. Mr. Goldwater is merely doing some wishful thinking when he claims to be in the mainstream of Republican thought.

A. DAVID DEGANN Brooklyn

Sir: You assume that a majority of the electorate favors all provisions of this bill. I disagree. And only a national referendum could prove one of us wrong. If the American Mainstream has truly become a polluted effluent bound for the Gulf of Socialism, I will swim upstream with Barry --where the water is clean, the air pure, and the trees tall. This is where the American Dream was spawned.

KENNETH H. LOBITZ Cincinnati

Sir: Can't you salute Goldwater's courage--whatever you think of his wisdom? Who was the last candidate you can recall with such guts? Here is a man who would rather be right (in a double sense) than President--if the choice must be made. A. CULVER GORDON Hawthorne, N.J.

Sir: Republicans of America have, every right in the world to be disgusted with their gutless, confused and wayward party. Let them nominate a man with foresight, leadership, presidential principles and wisdom--Everett McKinley Dirksen.

PETER R. ANDERSON San Rafael, Calif.

Sir: It's a perversion of history to take the famous words, "All men are created equal," in the Declaration of Independence and misinterpret them as a constitutional basis for declaring that all races are equal. All this phrase meant was that the colonial English gentleman was the equal of the English gentleman in the home country.

Surely the aristocratic signers of this document did not think that the weaver, tanner and tavern keeper were their equals. Let those who insist on twisting the facts consider the facts of history: all the Southern signers of this famous document were slaveholders--including our first President.

To say that this famous statement stands for racial equality is to imply that the Founders of our Nation were hypocrites.

HENRY ECKHARDT Fair Oaks, Calif.

Sir: How ironic and sad that Lyndon Johnson, friend of the Negroes, will be defeated in November by an uneducated white populace outraged over the continuing violent demands of crusading Negroes. The ill timing of the leap forward in the civil rights field will unfortunately result in leaps backward in many fields with the inauguration of President Goldwater.

WILLIAM T. BALDWIN II Bakersfield, Calif.

To the Barricades for Barry

Sir: Because of your obscene slant on the Goldwater campaign, indicating that G.O.P. professionals would nominate Goldwater against the voters' wishes, I don't want you to send me another issue of your mud-crawling magazine.

DAVID C. WESTON Los Angeles

Sir: You make me feel ashamed to be seen reading your publication. You are to be pitied. Your cover of Barry Goldwater depicted and mirrored all the hate you feel for him. God help Mr. Goldwater for trying to save a nation filled with people like you. Mr. Goldwater, God bless him, is a handsome, real man, and as kind and gentle as he is handsome. You are all very, very sick. And we're going to win.

DOROTHY E. PEIRCE Studio City, Calif.

Sir: The eminently fair shake you gave Goldwater in the cover story shows me that, unlike your competitors, you are resisting infestation by sentimental young leftists who do not stop at slander to promote self-intoxication with the morally superficial sensationalism which must fill the vacuum of their historical ignorance.

STEWART L. COLTEN Back Bay, Mass.

Sir: Now that we have had a liberal, radical, left-winger, Communist-loving Administration in Washington for over 30 years, I sincerely hope that Senator Goldwater will be nominated for President of the U.S. We want an American for President for a change.

RUSSELL HOUSER Cincinnati

Sir: I don't think that Goldwater will get elected for the reason that the American male has progressed too far down the road of unmanliness to take this one chance to regain his own and the world's self-respect.

ROY A. BATCHLER Denver

Sir: The frantically vocal desperation of the "moderate" Republicans in attempting to stop Goldwater will prove to be like the whimpering of a wet puppy. The "liberal" Democrats will face the same problem in November. There are more of us "nuts," "cranks" and "right-wing extremists" than they think.

JAMES D. HAMILTON Memphis

Crime in the Streets

Sir: Winston Moseley's crime [June 26] was inhumane and horrible, but no more so than the crime of those who might have aided Kitty Genovese and didn't. Those people who believe that giving Moseley the death penalty will relieve them of their own guilt are sadly mistaken. Capital punishment is not the answer. We must fight inhumanity with humanity.

DONNA REDER Detroit

Sir: It was a great disappointment to me and those who knew my husband that the returned verdict was guilty of murder in the first degree instead of not guilty by reason of insanity. As members of his family, we did not expect the law to excuse his crimes, but to treat the condition that made him commit them. Winston Moseley for his 28 years has been quiet, shy and alone. He has been a devoted husband and father; then, it seemed, something snapped psychologically and made him commit antisocial acts. His behavior was called an "irresistible impulse" by psychiatrists, who explained that such people are unable to control themselves. This condition constitutes "medical insanity," but because of an obsolete rule, he was not found legally insane. He is intelligent, but of course we know that sane persons do not behave in such a manner.

ELIZABETH MOSELEY South Ozone Park, N.Y.

Sir: Re "A Savage Stalks at Midnight": as a human being, I am horrified; as a Negro, I am ashamed; as a woman, I am terrified. It could have happened to me. D. M. CHRISTIE Los Angeles

Disembodied Monkeys Sir: Let us hope that those live, disembodied monkey brains [June 19] are not conscious. If they are, however, I believe Dr. White should be urged to volunteer his own brain for these ingenious experiments.

JEAN ROESSINGER Shandaken, N.Y.

Sir: So! Some day our own brains might be used as "cheap computers"--very possibly without our acquiescence. Instead of eternal rest, part of us may end up programming how many boxes of the new detergent should be shipped to the Peoria warehouse in the first quarter. Best recommendation for cremation I ever heard.

C. R. KAMM Lima, Peru

Ray of Hope

Sir: The story on Builder Cortese and Architect Callister [June 19] is like a ray of hope to one bucking the no-architecture boys building the wasteland around us. Indeed, good architecture is good business. The public isn't as ignorant as they believe; it is just the lack of choice. Not many have been offered architecture yet.

WILLIAM ABBOTT Architect Abbott-Wilkinson Associates Glendora, Calif.

No Hitlerian Link

Sir: Anyone who equates contraception with Hitler's precepts, as did Psychiatrist Frank Ayd in his commencement address to Xavier University [June 19], should examine his own mental health. Dr. Ayd's lack of restraint in fathering twelve children cost him only perhaps a sports car or an expensive vacation. Twelve children born to one of lower economic station can mean absolute destitution and lack of education and opportunity for the blameless offspring. I protest being linked with Hitler just because I choose to limit my own family and to help others do the same.

WILLIAM J. CAMERON, M.D. Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics University of Kansas Medical Center Kansas City, Kans.

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