Uncle Sam Ervin
Sir / I would like to propose that any future depictions of Uncle Sam be made in the image of Uncle Sam Ervin [April 16].
ALFREDO CRIADO
Los Angeles
Sir / No matter what more we may or may not learn about the Watergate case, this Administration's concept of honor and law-and-order has been made perfectly clear,
DOROTHY ATTEBERRY
Indianapolis
Sir / I suggest that the erstwhile political spies of Watergate, guilty of a sordid and stupid conspiracy, have now become victims of a political counterconspiracy and deserve sympathy
Politics is an ancient, usually harmless, and sometimes honorable human game. However, when it is the excuse for crushing human lives when merely a reprimand by society is needed, it becomes a hideous piece of cynicism.
WILLIAM E. BARSTOW JR. Hancock. Mich
Sir / Although issues like Watergate, TV advertising and wiretapping are important, they are not crucial. It is high time that Congress quit politicking and devoted its time and energies to crucial issues such as control of inflation and a better, more balanced budget; these questions concern every intelligent citizen.
M.D. RODGERS
Salt Lake City
Economy-Size Criticism
Sir / Your poignant diatribe on "Is There Intelligent Life on Commercials?" [April 16] by Stefan Kanfer was an economy-size box of well-deserved criticism.
KENNETH G. GEISERT New York City
Sir / Were it not for that memo from 45=K29-¼, we YEWESSERS would have simply dismissed another statement on advertising as BAYNEL at worst—an exercise in DAYZHAVU at best.
But a leaked memo .. from outer space ... on TEEVEE advertising?
RTH-SHATTERING!
SUE TEKULVE
Cincinnati
What Schools Cannot Do
Sir / With my 15 years of teaching and counseling experience, let me add some items to "What the Schools Cannot Do" [April 16]: 1) finance themselves despite local unwillingness and federal indecisiveness; 2) force free schooling on those who want paid experience and/or complete freedom; 3) teach the three Rs (by any method) to nearly everybody; 4) believe that vocational schools are for the "less intellectual ones"; 5) defeat segregation and build ethnic pride; 6) combine babysitting, body building and racial tolerance; 7) give a single diploma for the varied results.
E.M. SIMMONS
San Jose, Calif.
Sir / I have alternately attended school and worked at various trades (from factory production to tree surgery) for the past three years. Motivation to learn, and to integrate and implement learning has gradually returned over this period. Obviously this motivation is the gold sought within the lead of formal education.
BRUCE HERMAN
Gloucester, Mass.
Sir / It is interesting to note that American education was the great leveler until the majority of city children became black and Puerto Rican. Since the country finds it difficult to accept non-whites as total equals, the purpose of urban education has changed. It is now incumbent on black and Puerto Rican parents to ensure that education gives their children competency in the basic skills.
The educational system can no longer be trusted to do this.
BETH PETTIT
New York City