To the Polls by Caddy and Subway

Sir: As a New Yorker, I view the possibility of Mr. Procaccino's election [Oct. 3] as possibly the worst thing that could ever happen to New York City. All progress that has occurred in the city could be obliterated. Let all the "Cadillac conservatives" lend themselves to the struggle of helping our city, and may all of us soon view the dawn of the age of human tolerance.

GARY M. COLE, '71 University of Wisconsin Madison, Wis.

Sir: If only Limousine Liberal John Lindsay & Co. had to ride the subways to work. If they had to send their children to public instead of private school. If they had to put up with the garbage men, teachers and transit workers going on strike. If they had to see their tax money spent on creating the welfare state that exists in New York City while they were working two jobs just to make ends meet. Then, and only then, maybe they would learn that people who do not live with the problems of the middle class cannot go about handing out wholesale advice and solutions and expect the middle class to go along with their hypocritical liberal double standards.

MARGUERITE VERDI South Ozone Park, N.Y.

Sir: When, oh when, will the people of this nation realize that the only way our problems can be solved is through men like John V. Lindsay? Is the white middle class going to buy the preachings of a few shrewd capitalists like Yorty, Charles Stenvig and Procaccino? If so, will the blacks, frustrated for the 15 millionth time, rise up in final, bloody revolt? I hope not.

I pray that some time in the future the majority of the voters will not accuse any man with an imagination of being a dangerous, fire-breathing radical.

DAVID T. GIBSON Houston

Sir: How about identifying the allegedly prominent Procaccino supporters? I consider myself au courant in metropolitan affairs, but many of the names are not known to me. West of the Alleghenies, I expect, most of the names go unrecognized by your average reader. Parochial notoriety, after all, is not national renown.

GEORGE F. MONAHAN Assistant Professor of Modern Languages Jersey City State College Jersey City

> It is not surprising that the backers of Procaccino, who claims to be the candidate of "the little man," are little known outside the New York area; the names were those supplied by Procaccino. Herewith, the gentlemen's titles for readers west —and possibly east—of the Alleghenies:

1. Professor Howard Adelson, chairman of history department, City College of New York

2. Earl Brown, former chairman of Human Rights Commission, New York City

3. John Burns, New York Democratic State Committee Chairman

4. Emanuel Celler, Democratic Congressman from Brooklyn, chairman of House Judiciary Committee

5. Meade Esposito, Brooklyn Democratic county chairman

6. James A. Farley, former Postmaster General of the U.S.

7. Jack Fuchsberg, former president of American Trial Lawyers Association (Mario Procaccino's campaign manager)

8. Bert Gelfand, city councilman from the Bronx

9. Lawrence Gerosa, former comptroller of New York City

10. Hulan Jack, state assemblyman and former Manhattan borough president

11. Rabbi Wolfe Kelman, New York City clergyman