4The Daily Reflector, Greenville, N. C.Tuesday,November 18,1969

The Restraint Was Story Of Day

The real heroes of the moratorium marches are the overwhelming majority of Americans who feel that the demonstrations are undermining the nations efforts to obtain a Vietnani peace which is in the worlds best interest.

Despite the fact that it has been shown that the marches do not represent the overwhelming majority of opinion in the country, Americans have shown admirable restraint in their attitudes toward the marchers.

This is true despite the fact that the demonstrations can give a distorted picture of American thinking on efforts to obtain peace.

The idea of the marches seems to be to gather as many people as possible in Washington, and through some sort of body count psychology, the entire nation will then join in with the philosophy advocated by the protestors.

Organizers of such marches seem to consider it a great mark of success if they can marshal enough people in the streets to filf the television screens on the evening news shows; or it they can command a favorable commentary from newspaper reporters covering the event. Yet, as we have seen from the October Moratorium, such demonstrations can be failures in changing the bpihion of the American people.

As we learned then, the polls showed after the marches that Americans were repelled by the demonstrations and the comfort they were offering the enemy. We have no doubt that the results will be the same this time.

In thi? age of rapid travel, good communications and plenty of bread it is not extremely difficult to get together one eighth of one percent of the nations 200 million population in Washington or most anywhere else. Even though they literally trample the civil rights of other citizens who want to use the streets in their daily schedules, the public has shown a remarkable patience so far.

Concierges Of Paris Dwindle

In democracy, dissent is essential. Sometimes it rights wrongs; sometimes, as in the case of the moratorium marches, it causes an opposite reac-tin and Americans take a look at themselves to gain new strength for carrying out the nations responsibilities.

Miniskirts Con Even Upset Concert Sound

An expert in California has demonstrated that mini-skirts can upset the balance of sound at a

concert. ^

A physicist, assembled 10 girls in miniskirts in a reverberation chamber and fired a pistol. Hie results showed that girls in conventional skirts absorbed almost twice as much sound as the girls in the miniskirts.

We are convinced that the experiment is absolutely accurate and that something needs to be done about this problem.

We think it is up to the men readers of thte newspaper to get busy and... Men? ... Are you still with us? . . Grentlemen?

Mask Conceals True Contempt

By JOHN VINOCUR PARIS (AP) - They are 68,000 strong in Paris, looking out at the world from behind a curtain parted just far enough to see who you are and what you are doing on thetf turf They are the citys concierges, women whose job as apartment building house mothers is as much as French cliche and truism as a beret or a glass of red wine

Now, the old woman and the job are dying out. The president of the concierge union, gradiosely called Le Syndicat les Gardiens dImmeubles - The Building Guards Union says 20,000 of the women will disappear over the next 10 years and not be replaced. Some 5,000 concierges are now over 75 years of age.

Letter boxes, house telephones, and a desire on the part of landlords not to pay them anymore are pushing the concierge aside.

Traditionally, she had reigned over apartment buildings from a ground-floor apartment called a loge taking mail to tenants, holding their packages and taking out the garbage. In some cases, she has spied on visitors from behind their loge curtain, terrified subleasers with threats and trafficked in apartments with rental agencies.

Done up in a house dress, warmed by a black sweater and wool stockings and reading a copy of the gossip newspaper Ici Paris,, the concierge is a standard character in French theater and literature.

Unlike American apart ment house superintendents, Paris concierges dont tend to

leaky faucets or screw in new fuese. On their wobbly legs and in their felt slippers, amny have enough trouble getting around their ioges.

Concierge salaries run from about $80 to $100 a

mojiih.. according to the

union, but now- that the women are entitled to a months paid vacation and social security, owners of small buildings are just as happy to have them gone. Carpenters and other small businesses sometimes can be fit into their former quarters.

The unions newsletter showed th situatioh clearly. there were more than 100 ads placed by people seeking concierge jobs and only one employment offer Present yourself at Busy Bee Cleaning, 4 Cite dHauteville, for work as a housekeeper The number of concierge jobs is also reduced every year by 200 to 300 as a result of health inspections finding their loges unfit for human habitation.

Its a sad Situation, the union president, Rene Laffon, says, because the women are paid these famine wages. But they accept life in a rat hole because they have nowhere else to go. Our retirament home has only room for 80.

Opinions n Brief

Perfection is attained by dow degrees; it requires the hand of time, Voltaire.

War is an evil whose out oreak is the result of human errors, human ignorance, human greed." Dwight D. Eisenhower.

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By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK WASHINGTON The true contempt of the Greek military dictatorship for the U.S. and Western democracy, generally beneath the mask of surface cordiality, is stripped bare by a confidential Greek document.

This indiscreet documait is a 16-page verbatim account of an official, top-secret foreign policy briefing by Panayiotis Pipinellis, the military regimes foreign minister, on Aug. 26 at Bad Schinznach, Switzerland, for Greek ambassadors to Western European nations.

Foregoing deplomatic *^rcetesrT*^^^ to the U.S. as a so-called democratic country controlled by an irresponsible oligarchy worse than the ruling cliques in Hitlers Germany or Brezhevs Russia, but unhappily concluded that Athens must try to do business with Washington, unreliable though the Americans are. Thus, while the innocents in the U.S. State Department believe in the pro American fervor of the Greek junta and hope for a return to democracy in Athens, the Greek regime thinks and talks privately in a framework of cynical power politics.

What is most remarkable is that this comes not from one of the juntas barracks-hewn colonels but from the regimes most polished figure. Pipinellis, who formerly had close connections with the royal court, is a diplomat of the old European school sophisticated, conservative, and cynical.

In the Schinznach briefing, Pipinellis referred to so-caHed democratic allies of ours headed by the U.S. that are led by secret oligarchies which are much worse than any other oligarchy because they are irresponsible. His specific comparisons were with the Soviet Union of Leonid Brezhnev and Nazi Germany of Adolf Hitler.

He defended the Gredc governments iron press censorship as responsible

while, in the U.S., censorship, instead of bang exercised by the American government responsibly, is being irresponsibly exercised by four or five publishers. . .and the interests hidden behind them. This makes the American system a lie without conscience.

But even if the U.S. is a democracy in name only, Pipinellis continued, it is a country with terrific power and happens to be the ally of Greece of which we have absolute need. The Mettomichian conclusion: We are obliged to the extent possible to have normal relations with them. Nevertheless, tiw lereigii minister cautioned his diplomats not to place much confidence in either the U.S. or the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) contrasting sharply with the Greek regimes public avowals of support for NATO.

To underscore the lack of American depeixdahility, Pipinellis revealed secret discussions in Athens during the 1967 Cyprus crisis between Greek officials led by King Coistantine and Cyrus crisis between Gredi officials led by King Constantine and Cyrus Vance, former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense acting as President Johnsons special emissary. In response, when asked wliat the U.S. would do if Turkish troops invaded Cyprus, Vance replied (according to Pipinelliss account):

We can do nothing absolutely nothing. The U.S. at this very moment is engaged in an adventure in Vietnam, and it is impossible to undertake another adventure in Europe or anywhere. Dont rely on such help.

When King Constantine then asked what Washingtwi would do if Communist Bulgaria and Yugoslavia chose this occasion to invade Greece, Vance answered: We cannot tell you now. We want to have absolute freedom of movement. Accordingly, Pipinellis instructed his ambassadors, have no faith in either

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Strength For Today

AVOID ALL SUCH

Now, confidentially. Just between ourselves. Usually assurances of that sort are about as valuable as' a plugged nickel. The person who loves to take you by the coat lapel or sidle up to you when you are drinking a cup of tea and begin confidential communication is to be avoided even if it does involve a bit of bad manners.

A certain type of person who makes cheating bis business is called a con-man. He is said to be carrying on a confidence game. Pe<^le of this kiiid are usually under the scrutiny of police^ who have hairicuffs ready fw them and nice IHtle room at the lock-up. But the copfidential conversation that goes on at a tea party, or a cocktail party', or the friendly visit from a neighbor gets a nice comfortable

"Today Wc Take on the News Media! Tomorrow, the Whole Asylumr

By J. J. KILPATRICK

Constitution Up-Ended

In the old shell game, the crie of the camie con man was now you see it, now you dont. Wherever you looked, the pea was somewhere else.

Hie U. S. Supreme Court, with the willing assistance of Welfare Secretary Ftach, is engaging these days in a kind of shell game with the Constitution. In a dazzling

feat of sleight-of-hand, applied to desegregation of public schools, the (k)urt has succeeded in making the Fourteenth Amendment mean two diametrically q)posite things. Fifteen years agOi blaekcyidf^ from the Court a precious ri^t; but the right has become a vanishing pea: Now you see

Other Editors Say

He Tackled Network

(The Wilson Times) Congratulations Attorney General Robert Morgan. You are daring to tackle one of the giant communications networks, the Columbia Broadcasting Company for unfair coverage of President Nixons speech. You have written a letter to the Federal Communications Commission saying, I have been concerned for some time about the one-sided news reporting by the CBS network. I cannot help but feel its failure to report both sides of the issue with regard to the Vietnam war has encouraged the enemy and probably cost American lives.

There is an unwritten code among the communication media which tends to silence criticism. In other words criticizing your competitor would and could be interpreted as holding elements 0 jealousy. The press has been concerned because of the playing up of violence and the sensational side of the news to the detriment of a broader and equal treatment of the subject and the press is not blameless,

In fact the so-called liberal press can rightly be accused of playing up the sensational with pictures and story. When a service to the people would be to give the complete story. It was said and not disputed that during the Democratic convention in Chicago there were planned scenes of violence and the networks were notified to be on hand to take the pictures:

News is news, and if there is violence report it but give the facts, the number involved, why the violence and what was done by the demonstrators to bring on tte police and the measures to quell the disturbance.

The television networks have much to answer for. And the showing of violence and crime is not to their credit unless it is followed to the ultimate conclusion and the evils put in^^their {n-oper perspective.

Yes, our hat is off to Attorney General Morgan. We fear his efforts will avail little, but it is a good try. It reminds us of Daniel in the lions den.

it, now you dont.

All this takes some explaining. The heart of the famous :Brown decision of 1954 was simply this: The Costitution says that no State may deny to any persoi tte o)ual prota:li(m of its laws. Under the law, children of all races stand e(iual. Racially constituted schools are therefore unlawful.

This interpretation of the Constitution now has been turned on its head. In a series of decisions over the past 18 months, the Court has

sngtched ^^ck the right it

coiferred in 1954the right of children to be assigned to public schools without regard to race. The state action that was unconstitutional in Brown v. Board of Education has gone throu^ a sea change. In Green v. New Kent County, racial considerations have somehow been restored. How did we get from Brown to Green?

North Carolinas Sam Ervin, one of the Senates great constitutionalists, raised this question the other day in a brilliant but unreported speech. In the old days of Southern segregation, he recalled, it was not Unusual for a white child to have to travel five or ten miles to a white school, >rile a black child was made to travel five or ten miles to a black school. Their buses lumbered past each other on ttie rural roads. This was the old law. And that law, said the Ctourt, was voie.

So what is the situation now? Once again, public school authorities require that a white child travel five or ten miles because he is

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Money

By JOHN CUNNIFF AP Bwlnen Analyst

NEW YORK (AP) There** just isnt enough money to go > around these days.

Thia week the East Cbicago ' Sanitary District will try to'" raise $17 milli(m. by sdling bonds, the Commonweidth of * Puerto Rico will be seeking $50--million for schools, and Pacific * Gas & Electric Co. will be afteri $80 million.

This is just a sampling oi the" need for funds. Municipalities-alone will try to raise more than $1 Nllion tMs week in order to ' rebuild slums, expand sanita-** tion facilities, improve high-*' ways.

Will they get it? Perhaps not all of them will. The bankers^ who purchase these bonds and* thim try to resell them at a prof- it already are holding $100 mil-*> lion from last week. They dont j particularly like their prospects. -Those who do get the money will be paying the highest inter-^ est ratesi^ of this century. The ' [xime lending rate is 8.5 per*! cent, meaning that the very best Triple A rated customers cant hope to pay much less. ^

If you had moitioned an 8.5 per cent rate to a large business;! (X* municipal borrower a year or two ago he would have gagged or, maybe he would have thought you mad. But this rate is paid! willingly these days. !

Tlie tightening money sita-, tion, some bankers fear, is^ going to be with us for a long, long time. Tremendous de-! mands have built up for funds^ at the very time that the Federal Resecve is tightening the supply- ;

The Fed, of course, is not ma-t licious in its intentions, although you wont get some businessmen to Believe that is so. Its avowed purpose is to keq> indi- viduals, businesses and governments from overextending' themselves. '

By making money tight, or hard to come by, the monetary-leaders help to push up interest* rates. This, in theory, should discourage borrowers, and to some extent it has done so. But' obviously a tremendous demand' remains.

Some businessesr such asu^-^ ities and tel^hone companies,* have little choice but to coitinue borrowing, for they must c(m-stantly add to their facilities in' order to accommodate a larger and more demanding populace. The Bell System, for example, has borrowed more than $1 bil-lioln this year.

Equally pressing is the need of growing municipalities for more public facilities. Muh of America has fallen b^ind in its responsibilities. Cities and towns always have built schools, but for years they neglected to build sewers. Now that water supplies are becoming polluted they are forced to act.

They failed also to do much about their slums, and now a social upheaval in the neglected areas of cities is forcing oficiis to get with it, to delay no longer. And so they must borrow money. j

Rates Are Inflationary 3 Ways

chair and then leans over and spills the dirt about all the people along the street these are con-men or con-women and they are doing neither themselves nor the world any good.

To begin with, they are bores. Then, a lot of stuff can bum on the stove while this kind of nonsense is being poured into your ears. Nonsense? Worse than

nonsenseconversation that

arises from brains about the size of nutmegs.

The divorce courts are crowded with peiste who listened to gossip and spread it and then went out and collected mre garbage. The WOTd is full ^ lot of wonderful n^teahd quite a few who a^t (juite so wonderful.

Dont let them make you unhappy.

By Earl L.D9uglas8

By ELMER ROESSNER The Federal Reserves principal weapon against inflation, high interest rates,' is triply inflationary in itself.

First, as has been frequently pointed out, it increases production coats. Manufacturas build plants, replace machinery, carry inventory and meet many othor expenses on borrowed money. This costs them noore in interest and they have to increase their prices to survive.

Second, with prices thus pushed up, labor must demand higher wages. This inflates coats again, creating the endless wage-price spiral.

Ihi^dand this is often overlookedhigher interest rates give everybody, except those on a fully cash basis, less for their money.

How It Shaves Buying Power

Revolving and credit-card credit coets around 18 per cent a year, instalment

purchases cost about as much, often more. Home repair and modernization loans cost less; mortgages are less, perhaps averaging 8 to 12 per cent; small loans are more, often as much as 24 per coit; loanshark rates are astnmomical.

If the average is 18 per cent, that means that the average buyer on credit gets only $84.75iW(Hth of goods for every $100 paid out.

Actually, he nriay do a little better, since the amount of his interest diminishes as he pays off instalments. But the Truth-in-Lending Act tells himor should tell him what his interest charge is.

On tlw other hand, he may get less because the seller ihiist increase prices to cover costs of credit. A credit-card system may charge the sdler 3 to 6 per cent of credit sales. He is assured, of course, that credit cards will increase his sales so much that the fees he

pays will be less than his increased profits. However, the card issuers never tell buyers that they will probably spend more because it is so easy to run up bills. And most sellers on credit increase their prices.

ELMER

ROESSNER

Total Is Massive

' Total consumer credit as of Sept. 30 was $118 billion doUars, If consumers are paying 18 per cent for credit, that means they got $89.5 billion worth of goods. In other words, they were getting $28.5 billion less than they could have got if they had paid cash.

This is not to say that credit is bad. The total includes $36 billion fa autos, and a lot of

people would be thrown out of work if everybody had to pay cash for gas buggies. There was $26 Ixllion in instalment paymoits for other coisumer goods; $4 UUion for hone repair, all of which greased the wheels of the economy. Personal loans were ova $29 tellion, which helped keep the vast travel and resort industry happy.

But we ought to be aware of how much we pay for credit, and that hi^or interest rates makes us pay more.

Cmnes The Revolution, ^YooTI Like Pears!

^Theres a bumper crop of pears this year. To bail out growers, the Department of Agriculture has announced it wUl but DAnjou pears for delivery from Jan. 3 through Feb. 3. Growers can phone Allen E. Henry (503) 226-3361 at Portland, Ore.; Wm. b. Bfackbum (916) 481-6100 in Sacramento; or Norman F. Horsey (202 ) 388-2037 in Washington, D. C. .