ITfe DITy Reflector, GrenvfllerN.C.Thursday, December!, 1W9

Displayed Faith in Greenville

NOT ENOUGH AT GROUND LEVEL I

Greenville voters have shown that they have faith in the growth of their city by approving $4 million in bonds for expansion of electric, water, sewer and gas facilitii^.

The funds will be Used to enlarge the water treatment plant and the sewage disposal plant; and also to extend Greenville Utilities service lines.

There is a good chance that all of the bonds will never be issued and certainly the full $4 million will not he issued immediately. Rather the Utilities Commission will explore all possibilities of obtaining federal grants through various agencies to meet a portion of the cost of the projects outlined. Since many such grants are[up to 50 percent of the total cost, this can mean a considerable savings for the city.

The important thing now is that Greenville can show that it has its funds available wnen it makes application for federal grants and this can make a great deal of difference in the rapidity with which the applications can be processed and the projects initiated.

The Utilities Commission has moved promptly in the past to obtain federal grants for its improvements projects. This has saved considerable money. At that time the commission had reserves so that it could show that it had funds available to immediately carry out the projects.

Now, thanks to the farsightedness of the vot^, the Utilities Commission can again show that it has the funds available to meet federal grants. This should further savings on future Utilities projects.

Chorlotte Campus Has Reason For Its Growth

Much Depends

A news story from UNC at Charlotte proudly proclaims that that university is the fastest growing four-year institution in the state.

Says Chancellor D. W. Colvard, We fully expected that the institution would reach a point of substantial visibility and acceptance by the people of North Carolina.

Figures were cited which showed that Charlottes enrollment this year is 3,085, an increase of 31.2 percent over last year. Growth of other Greater University campuses over last year: Asheville, 16.2 percent; Chapel Hill, 1.2, Greensboro, 9.1, Raleigh, 5.8, Wilmington, 14.9.

Dr. Colvard feels that there will be a continued high rate of growth for his institution.

There is no reason why the Charlotte campus shouldnt continue to grow and fill the need of a university in the populous Charlotte area. The institution has already shown that it can be of great service to the people of that area and that is what state universities should do, serve the needs of the people.

On Geo. Tillett Nixon's Asset By JAMES J. KILPATRICK

Innocent

By HUGH A. MULLIGAN AP'8peci.l Correspondent GIBRALTAR (AP) - Zohatis there about cashing a traveler s check that unlayers the larceny lurking in the hearts of all men? Why docs the hand tremble and the pulse palpitate' Signing an ordinary bank check, even a dubious, post-dated one, doesnt summon up similar feelings of guilt.

Youve paid for the traveler's checks: Theyre perfectly valid and up to date and suitably crispy, just like real money. There is even a picture of justice or Mercury or some classic cat in his skivvies to denote legal tender, and check is spelled cheque to show that the World Bank or the International Monetary Fund or maybe the Indian money changers have been dealt in on the deal.

Yet, here you are in a crowded shop on an alien shore trembling at the mere formality of duplicating your own signature. Bonpie and Clyde on their first job couldnt have been this jum-

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Great day out, aint it, Mac? You say to the sales

By WILLIAM A. SMIRKS

RALEIGHCircling the square;

A new employerather a new officialmoved into an office in the State Highway Building last week and quietly went to work.

Many millions of dollars in federal highway aid for Norti' Carolina may depend on how well he does his $14,500 a year job and how effective are the results.

It is believed that this new official, George Tillett. is the highest salaried member of the Negro race employed in slate government. His p8st is an important oneassistant coordinator of the Highwa; Commissions equal opportunity policy.

WILLIAM

SHIRES

Federal law now requires that contractors on highway projects involving federal funds must not discriminate in hiring practices.

Check Because of this requirement, the Highway Commission is establishing an equal opportunity division. Prior to Tillelts appointment thi division had only a coordinator. Curtis Collier, a career highway engineer.

Highway administrator George Willoughby says there are plans to expand the division even further. Close check will be kept on a list of non

discrimination requirements including not only hiring but treatment of employes and rates of pay.

List TTie checklist includes;

Hiring, placement, upgrading, transfer or

demotion.

Recruitment, advertising and. s(rficiting for employment,

Treatment of employes^

Rates of pay or other forms of compensation.

Selection for training or awtrenticeship.

Layoffs or termination.

On none of these points, says Willoughby, can there be any discrimination because of

race, creed, color or national origin

Tillett Tillett. 46. from

Edenton. N C. is a former assistant U S. di.strict attorney having served on the staff of Robert Cowen. U S attorney for Eastern North Carolina. Both recently resigned.

Thus Tillett is experienced in identifying and defining

discrimination in legal terms.

There is a fine line here. Discrimination, in the legal scn.se, does not mean drawing a distinction between individuals possessing different capabilities. It means, as the states policy attempts to say. there must be no discrimination because of race, creed or color. Employment opportunity and terms of employment must be equal.- Registration Registration figures reported in the annual analysis by the State Board of Elections resulted in some raised eyebrows.

While the population of North Carolina has been increasing steadily and political interest going up. total voter registration has dropped.

According to the report by Elections Board executive secretar)' Alex K, Brock, total registration has declined by 210,211 during the past year.

Most of the decrease. Brock says, must be attributed to persons deceased or removed from the state over the years but never purged from registration rolls.

In the past year, however, there was an unprecedented number of new county-wide registrations. Brock and Board members are quite proud of what they consider the most accurate accounting of registered, qualified voters ever compiled.

Mandatory Fulltime or modified full-time voter registration in each of the 100 counties was made mandatory by an act of the 1969 General Assembly. Presently there are 37 counties operating under this system. All 100 must install it within the next year.

Meanwhile, only 23 counties have voting n>achines. The chief reason here is the cost of such equipment which is more than many of the smaller counties can bear

In S. Vietnam Reason Serves Us Better

clerk to divert attention from

your quivering hand, realizing too late that it is raining buckets outside and that Mac hap-

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By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERTNOVAK WASHINGTON-New evidence in President Nixons hands hints strongly that his Vietnamization policy, coupled with the slow phaseout of U.S. troops, is creating a more severe problem for Hanoi than foreseen six months ago.

Now deeply worrying the Communist government in North Vietnam is the fact that the U.S. may so strengthen the South Vietnamese army that even after the U.S. pull-out and the probable installation of a coalition government, anti-Communist political and military forces will be powerful enough to stand off and perhaps defeat Hanoi-backed forces in South Vietnam.

The most definitive intelligence on this comes from the long (75 pages in translation) policy statement known as Resolution Nine, issued by the Communist partys clandestine headquarters in the South.

It was Resolution Nine and subsequent enemy directives this fall that led Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird to make his prediction to Congress, in tesimony made public this week, that a "military victory of the South over the North was by no means impossible,

To avoid this possibility. Resolution Nine states that the Americans must be forced to end the war quickly by withdrawing all their troops. Since the puppet (Saigon) troops and puppet government are weak, they will be incapable of carrying out the task assigned them by the U S

It continues: Therefore, we must force them to accept a political solution; that is, establish a coalition. . .and then reunify the country" under Hanois rule.

To deny this Communist hope of a timetable tailored to their needs, President Nixon flatly refuses to set a rigid schedule of U.S. troop withdrawals running into the future.

But already, according to Resolution Nine, the Com

munists have suffered severe setbacks from the program of Vietnamizing the war, along with the accelera.led pacification program and the Phoenix police operation designed to kill, arrest, or subvert local Communist cadres in the villagesthe backbone of the guerrilla war.

The fact that local recruitment of Vietcong guerrillas has hot come close to meeting the demand is implicit, for example, in new directives to military commanders of large, main force unitsjM-esumably including those infiltrated from North Vietnam.

These main force units must now be prepared to disperse into small sapper units, and to act the part of local guerrilla forces, when the occasion requires. Three main targets are outlined: U.

S. command posts to inflict casualties on American troops and thus increase demands at home for faster troop withdrawals. South Vietpi^mese army units newly brought into the field to replace U.S. units, and all areas involved in pacification, particularly the populated delta.

The most interesting reading in Resolution Nine is its recitation of rising , Communist problems in the field. Exhortation to do bettercriticism and self -criticismis standard Communist rhetoric, but in Resolution Nine this criticism is abnormally blunt, as follows:

Efforts to destroy the enemy are still poor and the three types of Communist military unitslocal forces, guerrilla forces, and main forcesare all far understrength and out of correct proportion to one another.

Supply problems are critical, partly due to destruction of vast underground supply depots and arms caches, partly to disappearing sources of rice as the pacification program wins over more and more rice-producing areas.

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THE ( HI HCHIN THE WORLD

The giv ing of the Holy Spirit on the first day, of Pentecost following the crucifixion of Christ has always played an important part in the life of the Church Up to that time a comparatively insignificant numtx>r of Jews who believed in Jesus were accustomed to meet at least wonce a week, study the teachings of Jesus, heal in the name of Jesus and bind them-.selves together in a spirit of fellowship and service. With the, coming of the Holy Spirit, however, the" Church that believed in Jesus and fondly rwalled his minidtry_ among men was made a missionary Church. Today in its different branches the Christian Church goes forth to conquer the world spiritually.

No one claims that the Church is perfect. The Church is not full

of hypocrites, as some maintain, but it is full of persons who frequently ftumble and fall but who get on their feet again and press on, as the Apostle Paul put it. toward themard for the prize of the high calling of God In Christ Jesus (Phillppinas 3:14).

To the extent that the Church loses a sense of the Holy Spirit in its midst, the Church declines in spiritual power To the extent that tjie Church is conscious of the Holy Spirit in its midst, the Church is outgoing, missionary and fruitful in its work.

Life Is a mystery. The spiritual aspects of life constitute its greatest hiysleries. Tl^eChurch looks forward to that Sefctxid Coming of Christ when a spiritual transformation will occur and the Church and the world press-foFward to greater spiritual triumphs. \ .

By EARL L. DOGILASS

The terrible sickness exposed at Mylai. we may be certain, will not be cured by an emotional bl(K)d-lctting here at home. A sense of national shame cannnt be suppressedit ought not to be suppressed but reason will serve us better than revulsion.

The damning facts are now unfolding one by one. It is tempting to say that we dont know what happened at Mylai that day in March of 1968. True; but true only in a lawyers eye. It can no longer be denied that something happenedthat a platoon from Company C. First Battalion, 20th Infantry, 11th Brigade, entered a village in the Pinkville sector, and there gunned the peasants down.

It is immaterialit is merely a dimension (rf the newsto ask

how many died. The shame of 300 is not six times the shame of fity. It is the act itself that sears the soul. These were oi#'men, bearing our flag; and some of them, at least, committed wanton murder on command.

Thaf is the reality, the point of beginning. We work forward and backward from there. If anything of value can be salvaged from Mylai, a host of questions must be answered.

Why was the story so long in breaking? How could these graves stay covered up for twenty months? This poor platoon was part of a vast organization, the U.S. Army, that crawls like a centipede upon its own reports. For five years, correspondents at Saigon have been fed on body-counts. It is

Public Forum

To The Editor:

I have a question for our Greenville merchants. Perhaps there is an answer that I can give my children and many other parents can give their children. Why will "there be no Christmas parade in Greenville this year? Why will it be necessary for us to go to another town to treat our children to one of the traditional introductions to the Christmas season?

The first answer I might receive is; Greenville merchants are graciously giving a gigantic party at Ficklen Stadium instead. Can enough activities, interest and diversion keep the anticipated hundreds of children and parents Satisfied? I dont think so. Children Do watch parades with satisfaction.. .eyes wide and smiles glowing. There is a nr.agic about a parade, the anticipation of seeing santa escorted and preceeded by bands, majorettes, floats and clowns that cannot be matched in any other cir cumstance.

The second answer I might receive is: There was jUst not enough interest from merchants to enter floats, nor scho(s to enter bands or drill teams to organize a parade this year. Surely, considering

the size of Greenvilleand outlying areas, there are enough merchants in the county who would want the opportunity to advertise by entering some type of float, even if only a car with the firm name bannered across the side, and enough schools in the area that would be honored to display their bands ability. Even with the past strife and misunderstanding at Rose High School this year, at least there were enough interested parties to organize a homecoming parade. . .or is this misunderstanding at our schod the real reason for no parade?

Perhaps because of a few isolated incidents at past parades this year, or because of problems that have arisen at our high school, is the third possible answer this: The citizens of Greenville must be protected from any problems that might arise during a parade? Any occasion that attracts a grouping of people can cause problems. The small minority that perhaps might find an opportunity to cause trouble under the label, of racial disturbance will certainly find a party at the stadium a fertile ground... (m-is police protection included in activity plans? This

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impossible to believe that no report of the Mylai incident was ever filed.

have to assume, out of sonie general knowledge of these things, that there were indeed reports, tips, telephone calls, headshaking conferences Washington and Saigon. Who fa I led to follow up? If timely action had been taken months ago. at least the forms of decency and order might have been preserved: A presidential apology, official condemnation of the acts, courts martial for the men involved. Now the most fervent expression of national regret must have a faintly hollow ring, as if we rued only the sin of being caught; and most of the madmen (for so we must suppose them) have left service and escaped the risk of trial.

Defense Secretary Laird already has put his sleuths to backtracking through the maze of pigeonholed reports and classified papers. A separate line of inquiry suggests itself; Are the Armys procedures sufficienttruly sufficientfor detecting battle fatigue before men snap and break? The massacre at Mylai was not the first such incident in warfare; doubtless it will not be the last. But perhaps the Army has something more to learn from scholars of behavi(Xal science. Military training makes men kill, but it ought not, in the usual sense, to make killers out of men. There must be some way to reduce the odds agaipst recurrence. ^

It is not CTOugh, of colrse, merely to pursue stupidity or to lock barn doors. If any deep ' value is to be drawn from the shock of Mylai, it will come with a renewed examination (rf war as an instrument of national policy-^not merely in Vietnam, but everywhere else in this dwindling world. Some of these considerations were in the Presidents mind last week, when he renounced the use of bacterial weapons. He was defining a point, drawing back from one abyss, fencing off a half-acre of hell.

In the somber mood of national self-examination that has developed with the disclosures of Mylai, perhaps a

pens to be a girl.

Her smile is tentative and too quickly withdrawn, a flash of tolerance followed by a lingering glow of suspicion.

Disconcertingly, accusingly, the signature at the top of the check, when you bought it, bears no resemblance to what you have just scrawled at the bottom. Youve left out your middle initial, failed to dot the I and dangled a nervous curlicue in the wake of the whole miserable effort.

Its hard to make em both look alike, you explain with a light hearted laugh, but even that has a counterfeit ring.

If the sales girl is French and weaned on tales of international intrigue, she is by now trying to recall the number of Interpol and to place your face among the pdacards in the post and telegraph office.

If she is miniskirted and British and brought up on a brace of Alex Guinness movies, she is in tears or panic or both.

If she is Spanish, as many of them are in this rocky tourist outcro^Jing, and used to dealing with shady characters from all over, she already is stamping on the foot lever that summons the carabinieri or the grand inquisitors of whoever deals with global riff-raff hereabouts.

By now, the manager is out (rf the back of the shop and the identity cards are out of the windows of your wallet, spread out under the white, hot glare (rf a lamp that has materialized somehow from the third-degree room in the second act of Detective Story. Voila: Your drivers license, your air credit card, your First Communion picture, your Social Security number.

Solid as the rock of Gibraltar, you laugh, trying to establish local identity with your credit references. Or Alcatraz. That last touch was boldly light-hearted, but no one else is laughing.

When you inadvertantly tear the travelers check in half in trying to follow the perforated line, that really tears it.

At the end of your tether, you take the only decent way out.

You dont, by any chance, accept American dollars, do you?

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Money Rumors

By ELMER TOESSNER The Nixon administration is using the surtax and higher interest rates to check inflation. But it is also using jawbone tactics.

ELMER

ROESSNEH

There was an example a few days ago wheft ramors flew that interest rates were to be slightly lowered. Lowering of the rates at this time would ,be\inflationary, of* course. But even rumors of cheaper money woulfl be slightly inflationary, since they would invite specula^on , and create comraitmenls for, spending. '

So the jawbone battalion was sent into action.

Secretary of the Treasury David Kennedy said there would be no easing of interest ratej^.

Secl^etary of Commerce Maurice Stans announced that the governments tight money and fiscal policies would likely continue for three (^r four months. mtM-e. More File ^

Federal Reserve Governor J. Dewey Daane, speaking In .London, declared There are risks of holding on to restarints too long, but there are also risks of letting go too early .... The danger of prematurely letting go especially in the face of potential slippage on the fical sicfe, is much the greater danger ....

Getting the rate of price down to tolerable, acceptable

limits will take time. I doubt that we can achieve this by the end of next year, but, hopefully, we shall make appreciable progress and achieve our goal of price stability sometime there, after. That could read: No interest cuts through all of 1970.

Budget Director Robert P. Mayo told the U.S. Savings and Loan League in (Chicago that restraints had been relaxed too soon in late 1966 and l%7. Instead of inflation and inflationary expectations being subdued, they moved ahead with renewed vigorin fact, right up to the iwesent."

He said the administration would stick to a policy of restraint, even if it means a fu^hier squeeze on \coropate profits.

Gi'oss Nationai Product Ix'veliug

He also said that the rate of growth as measured by the gmss national product would bo less than the average increase during the first three quarters of the year, roughly 2 per cent, and is expected to level off in the first half of 1970.

The Federal Reservt of New York has pointi that third quarter adva the GNP app(ared to i

an annual rate of 5'l* pei

The rise in the third qi over the second, it said, more than aceounted I the July federal pay inc which directly added ab billion t(i the rale of h governmenl purchas Rea,l ouipiif. measured GNP'adjusted for^prii ereast's. rose at an a rale of 2 per cent on the quarter, band added.

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