Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-06-11

the tooth X-ray is local not
overall exposure. Survival
need not be hopeless for
everyone.
Lois Sprigg HAZEL.
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I am writing concerning
your recent editorial on the
proposed Government fall
out shelter program. / read
with amaze emit your
espousal of the position
taken by Counsel Kelleher
of the Subcommittee Of the
Armed Services Committee,
which is holding hearings on
this proposal. Mr.. Kelleher's
position was one of sum-
ming up all the objections
ever made to a shelter pro-
gram, so that it could be
seen whether these argu-
ments could be refuted. In
spite of the position taken
by said counsel, you seem to
have taken what he said as
the gospel truth without
bothering to find out wheth-
er these arguments hold wa
ter or not. ! am disappointed
that you give only one side
Of a controversial subject,
where information" not
emotion" is so badly
needed.
Mrs. Sidney JacOby.
Your editorial Of Wednes-
day, June 5, Shelters - A
Cruel Deception" sadly
moderated the intelligence Of
many of your readers. Your
own reports have clarified
the purposes of the National
.Fallout Shelter Program as
providing protection from
fallout but not from fire or
blast. Nobody who reads your
paper regularly is under any
false illusion about this pro-
gram.
I was also disturbed at the
sweeping statements you
published without pointing
out that they were theoretical
and not based on actual tests
1--WE hope they'll never be
tested, in fact). And I was
concerned most Of all with
your undertaking of tn e
American peoples will to
live" The instinct to live is
a very strong one and in the
unhappy event that our eff
forts for peace should be vi
olated by the use of nuclear
weapons. I believe most of us
would still want to live and
rebuild a better world. This
would apply even If circum-
stances were temporarily ad-
verse. Any other outlook
would be decadent and would
play into the hands Of po-
tential aggressors.
Mrs. F. p. Ellinger.
Your editorial entitled
Shelters -. A Cruel Decep-
tion," certainly must be Of
great comfort to the Reds.
Adrian L. LOnsdaIe.
We wish to thank you first
for your splendid recent edi-
torial on shelters, which APP
peared to conclude, as We do,
that peace is our only real
shelter.
And we were also grateful
that some of our statement
to the Joint Committee on
Atomic Energy, regarding
their hearings on fallout Of
the past week. was included
In William Griggs' story Of
June Sd. We are hoping that
public pressure will assure
new hearings TO include nom
Governmental witnesses,
since the testimony this time
was so -sided-with Spe-
cial emphasis upon reassuring
the public rather than pre-
senting all available facts
striving TO arrive at a more
impartial evaluation. News
stories which at least imply
that there is another side %
the question are hence most
necessary.
Jeanne s. Bagby,
Committee on Radiation.
Women Strike for Peace.
Your editorial on fallout
shelters is a masterpiece OF
brevity and clarity. It's about
time the American public
was given the truth about
survival In any atomic at
tack-without regard 10
vested interests or politics.
There is nothing TO add
except thanks.
Janet ". Neuman.
4 e.
Bravo for your excellent
editorial on fallout shelters.
II is a masterful summary OF
the civil defense problem.
We note again that peace
Is our only shelter.
Dorothy w. Bernstein.