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EditorialsOur Choices For the September PrimaryThp courts and its judgss hav%u00a9 always boon a mystorious 3r%u00b0a f^rmost of the public and that mystery has made the judicial system theleast understood part of our process of government. Federal, State andCity courts have appointed judges, some by the President, the Governorand Mayor, while others are selected by the voters. Their terms differtoo: some serve ten years or fourteen year terms while others serve forlife. Voters baffled by a maze of courts and different kinds of judges arenow faced with the task of nominating six Civil Court judges for Brooklyn. These judges usually decide cases of an every-day nature, but ofgreat significance to the litigants involved: someone suing another for afew $1000; a tenant who has a gripe with his landlord, or a landlordtrying to evict a tenant. They%u2019re usually not the cases that make thenewspapers, but require judges of patience, compassion and knowledge of the law, who will give people their day in court. As one candidate put it, the Civil Court %u201c has to be a place where people feel they cango back to and receive justice rather than taking their frustration out oneach other in the streets.%u201dAfter consideration of the field of 12 candidates who are competingfor the Democratic Nomination for the six seats available, we endorsefour candidates who seem to have the potential to serve the people ofBrooklyn. Gabriel Krausman, has the experience, knowledge and concernfor people%u2019s rights to make a good judge. Lorraine Stein Miller, thoughcontroversial. aDDers to have the compassion necessary to deal withcomplex issues while still adhering to the letter of the law. LeonaFreedman%u2019s varied experience in and out of the courts will make her anasset to the Civil Court. Bernard Klieger%u2019s experience and knowledgecannot be disputed but the objections cited by his detractors seemnebulous and we feel confident in endorsing him.Selecting judges for the Civil Court is a straight forward process bycomparison to the convention system of picking nominees for the NewYork State Supreme Court. We believe the best nominees will be presented for election if voters in local assembly districts elect the reformslate of delegates to this county-wide convention. In the 51st AssemblyDistrict (Park Slope and Windsor Terrace) we endorse Joseph Ferris;Peter Me Neill; Denise Pond; John Valentino; Timothy O%u2019Day andKatherine McDonagh. In the 52nd Assembly District (Brooklyn Heights,Cobble Hill, and Carroll GArdens) Mike Pesce; Eileen Dugan; SalvatorFerraioli; Jeffrey Glatzer; Renee Cafiero; Gail Benjamin and JoanMillman. In the 57th Assembly District (Fort Greene, Clinton Hill andBoerum Hill) Evelyn Jimenez, Thomas Rothschild, Edward Guerwitz,Marilyn Mosely, Clarence Knight and Velmanette Montgomery.Community ForumA Teenager Finds Prejudice In His Class But SurvivesBY KEVIN DAVIDSONI hope you will print this letter, for there are many kids who have the same problem and don%u2019t or didn%u2019t know what to do about it. This will also tell kids that everybody gets bothered by bigger kids, but the main thing is to be able to do something about it. I now know that I shouldn%u2019t have just let the kid bother me.During the 78-79 year I went to I.S. 293. It was my second year. Next year I am going to Edward R. Murrow. I am a 14-year old white male. This story has to do with problems in the school. It all started in I.S. 293 (or IS as we used to call it) on Court and Butler street. It was my second and last year there.Although I happened to be in a fantastic three years in two program called the SP, or more plainly the Special Program, I was put in a homeroom with children that weren%u2019t. My homeroom teacher was also my social studies teacher, who happened to be a terrific teacher. I had many friends, but none were in my homeroom, so that I hated homeroom because I would be all alone in a room full of people.My real problem, though, was the fact that I am white, and everybody else wasKevin Davidson lives in Carrol Gardens.either Puerto Rican or Black. I%u2019m not saying Black people and Puerto Rican people are prejudiced, nor am I saying that I am, but just one prejudiced kid can really ruin your school year. This kid was okay, up until the day I ate out and gave him my lunch ticket. Little did I know a friendly gesture would turn into something terrible. After I gave it to him, for no reason at all he put his arm around my neck like he was choking me. I knew he didn%u2019t do it because he thought I had money or more lunch tickets, but I figured he did it because he knew he could push me around.A few days later he started calling me %u201c white boy.%u201d This wouldn%u2019t have bothered me, but people laughed, and that really got to me. I wasn%u2019t about to fight him and find out he could kill me, which would really embarrass me, considering I would have started up with a big Puerto Rican kid thinking I could beat him up, and he%u2019d end up beating me up, to say the least.After awhile, this kid really got to me. I would absolutly dread going to homeroom because this \boy%u201d and people would laugh. I would see his friends telling him to call me %u201c white boy.%u201d Some people would realize after awhile that it bothered me, and would tell him to stop, but it would always betemporary, for the aext day he%u2019d do it again.The homeroom teacher had some trouble with certain kids, but he was usually busyMy real problemwas that I amwhite and everybodyelse was eitherPuerto Rican or black.taking attendance and doing other things to take notice of what this kid was doing, partly because the kid would do it like it was nothing, yet it still got laughs.I told my mother about it, but I didn't want her to talk to my teacher because I was afraid of what the kid might have done if the teacher told him he was bothering me. That was my biggest mistake. I suffered through two-thirds of the school year, most of the time trying to get out ofhomeroom by making excuses, where I%u2019d meet my friends.I talked to my mother again, but this time I was noticeably upset. She wanted to talk to my teacher, Mr. Schiffman, about this kid, but I refused. She went in anyway, and although I didn't want her to talk to him, I was relieved. Mr. Schiffman talked to me the next time he got a chance, and told me he%u2019d let me go to the library when I wanted (my mother had mentioned the reason for my going to the library), which made me feel very happy.After that I felt a little better about going to homeroom. I still hated the kid, and he%u2019d occasionally give me trouble, but it was evident Mr. Schiffman had talked to him (well, I was pretty sure). I made a few friends, and we talked, although I never really had someone I could talk to all of the time. I've had some bad experiences at I.S., but for the most part my teachers and friends were fantastic, and I had fun and enjoyable learning experiences there. I learned that no matter how embarrassing the situation or problem, most teachers really care and want to help you.You learn from your problems, and some lessons you learn are what teachers are really like, how to deal with your problem, and who to come to.Eliminate City%u2019s Peculiar Parking Rules And Save EnergyEverybody says we have an energy emergency. If that is so, it seems that everybody should pull together to help save energy -%u2014 everybody from the Mayor to the working citizen %u2014 but that does not seem to be the case.To save gas it is obvious we need to do less driving, i.e. keep our cars parked. We are all familiar with alternative side parking. Consider how much gas is used by New Yorkers to move their cars four times a week to comply with the alternate side of the street regulations.Assume that, when we have to move our cars, on the average, we go two tenths (.2) of a mile to find a good parking spot. This is not unreasonable because I am sure many of us go further. Those two or three times around the block add up. It should be noted that warm up or idle time is not being considered. So if we, on the average, go two tenths (.2) of a mile it means that every five cars go one mile.Now, let us assume that the average car in the city gets 15 miles per gallon. Again, this is a fairly high estimate, considering some of our big cars and that they are doing city driving. What we have now is that for every 75 cars that move to look for a good alternate side parking spot, one gallon of gas is used up. Multiply this by four for the number of times we have to move our cars in a week and we have for every 75 drivers that move their cars due to alternate side parking regulations 4 gallonsCarlos C. Huerta, B.S., M.S. is a Fellow ofMathematics at Polytechnic Institute ofNew York at Jay Street in Brooklynof gas expended. Note that if 75,000 cars move for alternate side parking at least 4,000 gallons of gas will be used in a week, or 16,000 in one month. If 750,000 cars move just to look for a parking spot that is %u201c good for tomorrow%u201d , 40,000 gallons of gas will be used in a week or 160,000 gallons of gas a month. An incredible waste of energy!The reason people believe that there is no real energy shortage is because our leaders apear to be doing nothing to save energy nor are they helping us conserve energy. What I recommend is that if we truly have an energy emergency, the Mayor of this city consider emergency regulations that would help conserve energy. One thing he can do is change alternate side parking regulations, perhaps to what he began at the start of the barge strike. It is a system we have tried and have not suffered greatly from. Another possibility would be to lower mass transit fares by ten cents or more during the rush hours to encourage people not to take their cars to work. Perhaps the increased patronage would make up for the loss in revenue or the state or federal governments could subsidize it as part of an energy emergency plan.The things that can be done in this city of ours to ease the energy burden are limited only by our imagination and ingenuity. We have one of the greatest forms of natural energy in this city, our ideas; we only need to use them. Perhaps what the Mayor needs is an energy advisor, someone to see what our peculiar problems are in this crisis and to recommend solutions, quickly. To our present leadership i. . ,'ork Isay, if we have an energy problem, let us work together to solve it, not against each other. Be bold and imaginative. I recall what Thomas Edison once said to oneSound OffProtest MTA PlanThe enclosed copy of a letter was sent this day to the Hon. Harold Fisher of the Metropolitan Transit Authority. Also copies were sent to our Borough President, Howard Golden and Councilman Thomas Cuite seeking their intervention.I believe you will be interested in publicizing in your paper the fact that we have our community's best interests at heart.Dear Mr. Fisher:As the leader of the United Democratic Club, located at 303 Court Street, Brooklyn, and on behalf of the residents of our community, I hereby strongly protest the intent of the MTA to eliminate the B-33 and B-71 Bus Routes.As your are aware that the Avenue in questtoais targeted for a one-million dollar Ship Yard and Container Port Facility, and the extensive Urban Renewal Plan, in the near future. There is also a re-vitalizatic of the Columbia Strc ' r* oping area at i%u2019:- p .... in. ..^iore, i stron?!v urgeco-workers about a %u201c impossible%u201d problem he had encountered: %u201cThere is a way to do it. Let%u2019s find it.%u201dReaders Talk Backthat the MTA reconsider their plan to eliminate the two bus lines in question.I also cannot stress the hardship it will create to the Community as a whole, and as a Leader I strongly urge you for the benefit of this community to revaluate this decision. I, therefore, hope that in your judgement you will reconsider the matter. %u2014Leo A. Barrie, Executive Member 52ndA.D. United Democratic Club, 303 CourtSt.Use Foot PatrolsRecently I was enjoying the evening view on the Promenade when two police cars, traveling in opposite directions, passed by. Such an intrusion seems totally unnecessary, wastes resources, creates pollution disturbs the elusive serenity sought users ot the Promenade space, and n damage the structure or surface of walkway. Motorized police ought to be .liminated from the Pros. %u201eae, and toot patrols use, instead%u2014Dave Bersohr Hudson Avenue.September 6. 1979. The PHOENIX, t pge 0