I am fully aware as I write this letter that it will be my "Swan Song." I know I will be harassed until I finally am forced completely out of business, but my losses are so great it no longer matters.

In the month of April 1967 I pumped 64,118 gallons of gasoline. In the month of April 1968 I pumped 43,517 gallons, or a loss of 20,601 this year. This represents a loss to the Federal Government of about $1648.08. A loss of revenue to the District of Columbia of $618.03. A loss to the Humble Oil Co. of $309.01. Also, this represents a loss to me of gasoline only of $824.04 plus profits on related products. These figures represent the losses of just my one gas station and as of May 15, 1968 these conditions have not changed.

Last night I pumped 214 gallons between the hours of six and nine P.M. for a gross profit of $9.63. Two men worked three hours at $1.40 per hour which cost $8.40. Rent on this amount of gas was $3.21. Not counting insurance, light or other expenses, in this short period I lost $1.98.

As you can plainly see, unless someone comes to my aid I cannot continue operating at a loss. The Federal Government, Big Business and myself all seem to be on the brink of disaster and I know of many who are in a like circumstance. While I am wondering what I did to help myself in 1933 would you please attempt to salvage 1968.

Yours truly,

WILLIAM R. THOMPSON.

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 23, 1968.

CONGRESSMAN JOHN L. MCMILLAN: Your immediate attention is requested on the subject of police protection for the employees of the United States Government Printing Office of which 500 are members of the Union that I represent. The members of my Union are loyal employees but cannot any longer tolerate the existing conditions of muggings beatings stabbings being robbed or having damage caused to their personal properties all because of the lack of proper and legal protection. We ask for your immediate attention to this serious problem and ask that steps be taken for the protection of our lives and property. Sincerely yours,

DELMAR L. ALBERTSON,

President, Washington Printing Pressmen's Union.

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 27, 1968.

Hon. JOHN MCMILLAN,

Chairman, Committee on D.C.,

House of Representatives,
Washington, D.C.

DEAR MR. MCMILLAN: As a citizen of this country, and a supporter of peace and order in this city of Washington D.C., I have the honor of addressing myself to you, requesting that the strongest action possible be taken at all the Administration's levels, to provide us citizens with an adequate Police force, thus bringing forward a material reduction in crime, and protection to our person and property, as well as judicial procedures which provide punishments that are adequate deterrents, and procedures which prevent the release of known or dangerous offenders to commit added crimes while awaiting trial.

It is just about time the proper action be enforced to take care of the most pressing problems that we are facing today. It is most unbelievable that we are almost forced to remain indoors at night, due to the fact that it is no longer safe to walk on the streets. An all-out effort should be made to apprehend and punish criminals and to protect the innocent.

In the hope that you will support these issues and move forward to achieve the implementation of the extremely needed measures which will bring order and peace to our cities, I remain,

Very truly yours,

JORGE CARNICERO,

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 30, 1968.

Hon. JOHN MCMILLAN,

Chairman, Committee on D.C.,

House of Representatives,

Washington, D.C.

DEAR SIR: It must be more obvious to you than to us, the law abiding tax paying citizens of the District of Columbia, that the present government of the

District is an abject failure. Under the present regime crime has continued to increase part of the city has been burned down while police stood idly by waiting for orders to use force. Murder, rape and arson continues unchecked, bus drivers are robbed and killed, looting goes on, all over the city.

Sir, the addition of 1000 or 10,000 policemen is NOT the answer. As long as criminals are released "in the custody of their parents" and paroled to commit more crimes the reign of terror will continue.

It is my opinion that Congress should take action immediately to dissolve the present government of the District and regain control over its administration before it is too late.

The occupation of park land which belongs to all the people by the "poor people" is detrimental to the nation's capitol. I hope that you will use your influence to terminate this monstrosity at the earliest possible time. I hope you will support and insist on the passage of the Bill introduced recently to effect this action.

Most sincerely yours,

THOMAS W. HERBON.

DERBY, CONNECTICUT, June 17, 1968.

DEAR MR. MCMILLAN: I am writing to you as chairman of the House District of Columbia Committee. I endorse H. Res. 1129 introduced by Representative John Rarick.

I, too, would like to know why the President didn't immediately put a halt to the rioting and why a state of anarchy was allowed to be built before effective action was taken.

Sincerely yours,

Mrs. EUGENE WIRKUS.

(Whereupon, at 1:05 p.m., the hearing in the above-entitled matter was adjourned.)

(Subsequently, the following material was filed for the record :)

[Editorial broadcast by WMAL/AM/FM/TV, Washington, D.C., during the week of June 30, 1968]

RETURN TO "NORMAL"

District officials have been hailing a "return to normal" since the clearing of Resurrection City and the subsequent civil disorder a week ago.

Statistics just released show that "normal" during the first quarter of this year meant some 40 murders, 1,800 robberies, 700 aggravated assaults, 4,000 burglaries, and 2,000 auto thefts. Since the April riot, of course, crime has increased.

We do not believe there is any longer such a thing as normalcy on the streets of Washington.

The Federal Government could and should help correct this situation by bringing in Federal troops. The troops need not intervene in the local crime problem. They could simply control demonstrations, which are a Federal problem, but take up thousands of police man-hours. This action would allow the police to concen trate exclusively on the local crime problem.

The Federal Government is currently lathered up about controlling guns. We hope the Government will soon become equally concerned about the gun toters who prowl the streets of the Federal City.

[Reprint from advertisement in the Washington Post, June 20, 1968]

WHAT WOMEN CAN DO TO END VIOLENCE IN AMERICA

Many years ago in London, a severe outbreak of cholera devastated the population. An English physician named John Snow had a hunch. He looked up the addresses of all the cholera victims and found that every one of them drew their drinking water from the same pump on Broad Street. Dr. Snow knew little of the nature of the cholera organism or how it transmitted the disease in the water. But he removed the handle of the Broad Street pump. And he stopped the epidemic.

American women may not know the precise reasons for the contagious violence and brutality of our times, where it comes from, what makes it flourish. But they do know some of the sources from which their children are drinking in this violence, and they know they have to turn it off before the poison gets beyond reach.

American women will turn it off because they are weary of the bomb-burst, the gunshot, the fisted hand. They have had enough of violence late and soon, and of the people and groups who use it for their own ends. They are sick with the collective havoc of the mindless crowd, and the individual savagery of those whose discontent has festered into rash destruction.

The bullet that killed Robert F. Kennedy has wounded us all. John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King-each of these murders set off acute phases of our anxiety. There is a pervasive sense of fear, the feeling we are in the grip of terrible forces we cannot even name-within the borders of our country, within the setting of the entire world.

The sickness has been here a long time. It simmers and flares in the ghettos where people have felt its curse for years and would now pay it back in kind. It mows down our men--and theirs-in Vietnam. It erupts on the canrpuses of the nation, where some of our young men and women have turned against their own proclaimed abhorrence of violence and have disfigured not just their universities but their own lives. It stalks our cities, our parks and subways, and destroys the green and gentle calm of the countryside.

It rams its way into our homes, on the television screen that brings instant brutality and savagery, instructing children in the ease and casualness with which life can be humiliated, tormented, twisted. The need to respect the fragility and preciousness of life is blotted out by the thousands of good-man-bad-man deaths that make up the daily television-tube feeding of children.

It weakens those precious arts of gentleness, of compassion, of moderation, of love that women alone can give to their families and the world.

McCall's believes that the violence in our land is not a shameful national flaw of character that must be regarded as inevitable.

Violence is not the accidental product of a few crazed assassins that can be cured by adding some Secret Service men. Nor is it simply a lapse in what is known as "law and order" that can be corrected just by a massive crackdown on youth or restless minorities.

The attack on violence must be basic. It must be knowledgeable. It must be thorough.

McCall's makes no rigid distinction between the breakdown of law and order in the nation and the breakdown of law and order in the world. Violence is airborne. Violence among nations cannot be separated from the violence within nations.

In a very real sense. Robert F. Kennedy paid with his life for the failure of the world's nations to develop an effective mechanism of world law. If the United Nations had been given the workable authority to resolve the crisis in the Middle East, Robert Kennedy might be alive today.

The Middle East is not the only area in the world on which an American President or a Presidential aspirant must take a position. Nor is the Middle East the only area in which passions are attached to triggers.

American women can see to it that the first order of business for American policy makers is to move mightily inside the United Nations in the effort to equip it with the responsible authority to substitute law for force in the affairs of nations.

Attacking the basic causes of violence in the world is inseparable from the need to eradicate it at home. Here, within the United States, there is much that women can do if only they are willing to use the power that is clearly theirs Approximately fifteen million women read McCall's magazine. We believe that these women, by acting together and acting promptly, can play a pivotal role in combating violence where it occurs.

Here is a five-point program that can make a difference if enough women get behind it:

(1) Guns. The present gun-control legislation, existing or proposed, must be drastically strengthened. Millions of letters to Representatives could do it. Sit down today and write informed letters to your Congressmen and two Senators. If you don't know who they are, write to us and we'll send you their names. Tell them it makes no sense to have a gun readily available, as Robert Kennedy pointed -out, to every child, every insane person, every criminal who wants one.

(2) Television and movies.-Women can stop the outpouring of violence and sordidness on our television screens and in the motion-picture theaters. Supposedly, television and the movie industry give the public what it wants; i.e., sexual brutality, depravity, sadism, and everything else that contributes to human desensitization and violence. If this is the case, American women should be loud and clear in letting television and movie executives know that such bilge is most certainly not what they want. Hold their top men responsible. Write to Julian Goodman, President of NBC, 30 Rockefeller Plaza; Frank Stanton, President of CBS, 51 West 52nd Street; and Leonard Goldenson, President of ABC, 1330 Avenue of the Americas, all in New York City. Let them feel the weight of millions of letters. There is a direct connection between the decisions these men make and the violence in the land. Hold them to account. Have you seen a picture lately that sickens you, pains you, makes you fear for your children? You can write to Jack Valenti, at the Motion Picture Association of America, 522 Fifth Avenue, in New York, and tell him so.

(3) Toys.-Mothers and grandmothers of this country can wage a determined boycott against toys that foster and glorify killing. No letters or telegrams are necessary. Just don't buy them, and tell the man in the toy store why you won't. (4) Books and magazines.—This includes McCall's. If we or our colleagues have done something that you feel adds to the spread of violence, write to Henry E. Bowes, President, McCall Corporation, 230 Park Ave., New York, New York 10017. We can testify to the power of strong, reasoned letters. Keep us to the mark.

(5) World law. As we said earlier, women must be heard on the most urgent question of our time-world law in time to prevent war. The long, dismal negotiations in Paris over Vietnam would seem to dramatize the need for a third party at the peace table. The United States cannot indefinitely act as world policeman. If we are to prevent future Vietnams, we will have to do it through a strengthened UN.

There is no point in trying to restore sanity and balance to life in America if the human race is going to be incinerated in a flash of nuclear violence. Both President Dwight D. Eisenhower and President John F. Kennedy called for world law inside the United Nations but did not receive the kind of response from the American people that would have enabled them to press forward in that direction. This is an election year. Your letters to the Presidential candidates on all these questions couldn't be sent at a more opportune time. And don't forget that your ultimate power is the ballot box.

The women of this country have heard enough about black power, white power, student power, senior-citizen power. The greatest power of all for good is theirswoman power. No force on earth can stand against it.

The Editors, McCall's Magazine.

[From the Evening Star, June 25, 1968]

ANSWERING THE DEMONSTRATORS

(By David Lawrence)

The eyes of the world have been turned during the last few weeks on the capital of the nation which boasts of its orderly processes of freedom and democracy. For the spectacle has been one of willful groups of exhibitionists seeking to coerce Congress and the executive departments through the tactics of a "demonstration," whose leaders preach "nonviolence" but provoke disorder.

Nearly five years have elapsed since the first "March on Washington," and what was unhappily foreseen then has since occurred. On Aug. 29, 1963, this correspondent wrote:

"The March on Washington' will go down in history as marking a day of public disgrace-a step backward in the evolution of the American system of government. For the image of the United States presented to the world is that of a republic which had professed to believe in voluntarism rather than coercion. But which on Aug. 28, 1963, permitted itself to be portrayed as unable to legislate equal rights for its citizens except under the intimidating influence of mass demonstrations.

"The press, television and radio, the public forums in halls and stadiums-all have been available heretofore as mediums through which the 'right of petition'

could be effectively expressed and public opinion formed on controversial questions. But a minority group-led by men who drew to their side church leaders and groups as well as civic organizations decided that a massive publicity stunt would be a better way to impress Congress and the President with the idea that unemployment and racial discrimination can be legislated out of existence ... "The right of petition is a fundamental principle of the Constitution, but it assumes an orderly and non-provocative procedure. The federal government had to go to large expense to police the Wednesday demonstration here and to keep people from crowding into the city who might participate in disorders.

"To say that the 'march' was successful because large-scale violence was avoided is to ignore the bitterness and resentment prevalent on that day in a city whose normal community life was disrupted. Tens of thousands of people remained secluded in their homes lest they become injured or subjected to unwarranted delays in moving to and from their residences. American citizens were prevented from pursuing their customary ways. Their right to go to their places of employment was impaired by fear of bodily injury.

"Would this have happened if the petitioners had relied on the process of reason in a voluntary society? *** Are injustices remedied by creating more injustices, and is the cause of civil rights advanced by interfering with the civil rights of nonparticipants in the mass demonstrations?

"These are questions which will need answering, and the full effect of what may come to be called 'the mess in Washington' could be reflected in future eleetions. For what was proved by the big demonstration-that in free America only the mob can get laws passed covering the issue of civil rights?"

Finally, this week, when leaders of the "poor people's crusade" openly defied governmental authority, political politeness was at last brushed aside, and law and order was unhesitatingly imposed. It is a healthful and constructive sign that the people do lose their patience when protesters-no matter how just the causedo not proceed in a lawful and orderly manner to petition their government for the redress of grievances.

Maybe there will be more "demonstrations," but little by little long-suffering officials are getting tired of artificially developed mass protests. It is significant that D.C. Mayor Walter E. Washington, himself a Negro, took part in the ending of the fiasco of "Resurrection City," as 343 of the squatters-including the Rev. Ralph David Abernathy, successor to the late Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.were arrested. Thus was the maintenance of law and order resumed in the capital of the nation.

SILVER SPRING, MD., May 15, 1963.

CHAIRMAN, HOUSE DISTRICT COMMITTEE,
House Office Building,

Washington, D.C.

HONORABLE SIR: Who can we call upon, From whom can we seek relief wher our town is invaded by rioters?

Sympathies from high officials have only been aimed at the law breakers, at the arsonists and at the murderers. It is the voices of the militant anarchistic leaders who have reached the ears of the insurrectionists and have made an army of law breakers.

In a democratic form of government we expect our representatives to consider the welfare of all the people.

It certainly is not the duty of the law abiding citizens to form vigilante com mittees to protect their lives and property. We expect our government to do this for us; otherwise we would tear down the very fabric of the society we have strived to build up for 200 years.

The government must do everything in its power, when conditions affect the welfare of law abiding citizens against the rebellious actions of a few. It was a very small percentage of the Russian population who overthrew the Czarist government and established a communistic regime.

It can happen here!

As one who has labored for many years to build a business and see it wantonly destroyed in a few hours, I can assure you it is a heartbreaking experience. Then, to be coerced, blackmailed and prevented from continuing in business by these same few militants is inconceivable in these United States of America. As law abiding citizens we must have your help now. As our representative to our Federal government you must see to it that our rights and property are protected.