NEW POLITICS DROPOUTS

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

Those McCarthy supporters like Mr. Peretz, who indulge their own bitterness by refusing to back Humphrey against Nixon and Wallace, on the fantastic grounds that there is negligible difference between Humphrey and his right-wing opponents, destroy any pretensions they may have had to sincere concern for social justice and human rights. Affluent inttellectuals can afford to care only about the war and nothing but the war. But I dare them to tell a welfare mother in Roxbury, face to face, that "the worst of times" will be no worse under Nixon. I dare them to say it to Cesar Chavez. I dare them to tell black children in Mississippi that punishing Humphrey is worth the price of letting a Nixon-Agnew-Thurmond administration halt school desegregation. And if the New Politics dropouts can do all that with straight faces, then I can only marvel at their cynicism and callousness. Or perhaps simply their utter foolishness.

Richard Betts '69

Coordinator,

Student Coalition for Humphrey-Muskie