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While being in touch would not assure New York or any city of trouble-free weeks ahead, it was a psychologically important part of the battle. Said Martin Luther King last week: "In Watts last year, I asked a rioter what he had gained from his smashing and looting and killing. He told me, 'We made them pay attention to us.' " Really paying attention means, as John Lindsay has shown, trying to do something about housing, sanitation, schools and jobs. Only through responsible and responsive public action to meet the Negroes' needs can white officialdom effectively inspire greater respect for law and order and lead the way to integrated power.