4The Daily Reflector, Greenville. N. C.Monday, February 16,1970

The Slowdown Is Not All Bad

A slowdown in North Carolinas business acilvity has been spotted by North Carolina National Banks Economic Trends, a quarterly economic report.

The slowdown so far has been little more than a modest adjustment in the states dominant upward pace of business acitvitv. the reo^rt states. But-with the slowdown, Would gradually come a less rapid increase in the inflation which has plagued North Carolinians throughout recent years '

This should set the stage for an even more dynamic growth rate in North Carolinas economy in the years ahead.

The NCNC economists found only two of six leading indicators inproved during the last three months of 1969.

The publication points out that manufacturing employment in the state has declined in every (juarler since the beginning of 1969; manufacturing workweek is down slightly and production activity .swrns to be slowing. Personal income and retail sales were other areas of weakness in late 1969.

There is nothing alarming about the slowdown in North Carolina's economy, however. It is a part ol the overall changes in the national economy resulting from the inflation fight.

The NC.NB report finds that the business scene is a dramatic illustration of the ability of tight money to bring the economy toa dead halt.

The r.S. is embarked on a classical cure for inllation

Kampant inflation, financed by money creation and fostered by years of deficit spending, cannot be slowed quickly without some economic

pains, the reports says.

Thus North Carolina, and all the nation, is having to pay the price of overspending in recent years. It means a slowing economy for a time but it is necessary medicine if inflation is to be controlled.

Make Resolutidh Now; Buy Early Next Year

As of midnight tonight the 1969 auto license tags w ill no longer be legal for motor vehicles operated in state highways and city streets.

After a day of grace this was the final day to purchase and display the 1970 tags on autos.

So those wliq^fprgot to do so will have the problem of getting to the auto license bureaus tomorrow, picking up their tags and getting them on their vehicles.

For anyone who forgot to get his tags, now is a good time to resolve to purchase early next year.

Soviet-Syrian Friction Seen

ish.^AAay~Se1^ Clean-Up Pace

(Todays guest column was written for the N. C. Associationn of-Afternoon Dailies by. Carlton Harrell. City Editor, of the Durham Sun.)

By CARLTON HARRELL

DURHAM - North Carolina may move to the forefront of the growing battle to lessen environmental pollution.

Two Tar Heel congressmen have identified the Research Triangle as having the potential to serve as the site for a national headquarters to direct stepped-up efforts to clear away the air and water pollution which is reaching dangerous levels in the U. S.

Congressman Nick Galifianakis of Durham, whose Fourth District includes the Research Triangle area, has declared the Research Triangle Park to be the natural spot for location of a center to control pollution.

Efforts to reduce sharply the water and air pollution need a total approach, similar to the technique used by the National Aeronautical and Space Agency for its Apollo program, he said.

Galifianakis is pushing efforts to create a standing committee in the House to supervise efforts aimed at curbing environmental pollution.

Consortium Creation of the Triangle Universities Consortium on Air Pollution last month is a step which will

aid North Carolina to stay in the forefront of the fight against pollution, according to Galifianakis.

If the U. S. will set up a mission control for pollution control, the lawmaker said, this nation could clean up its environment within the decade

One step in that direction, according to Galifianakis, is included in his new bill on pollution control directing U. S. health and scientific officials to convene a national conference at the Research

Park on pollution problems.

With the growing concentration of federal environmental health facilities in the Research Park and the Triangle Universities Con-cortium, he added, the Research Park area will be the logical location for the ation center to direct the total approach."

Agreement Congressman L. Richardson Preyer of ^ Greensboro, in the neighboring Sbcth District, joined in with support of the idea.

He predicted North Carolina will take the lead in environmental questions in the same way Cape Kennedy in Florida has in space.

Tar Heel leaders two years ago won out over a number of other states as the site for the New National Environmental Health Center.

The national center now is operating in interim facilities in the Research Triangle Park, with the permanent center scheduled to be occupied by the mid - 1970s.

When the environmental center is completed, we will have located in the Research Triangle three national headquarters which are going to have more to do with the quality of life in this nation in the decade ahead than anything else, according to Preyer.

Located in the Research Triangle Park along with the environmental center are the National Center for Air - Pollution- and the National

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK DAMASCUS, Syria -Although Soviet influence has reached a new peak in this strategic center of the Middle East, that influence rests on an increasingly shaky foundation, with ^train.s between the Russians and the Baathist regime raising at least the possibility of trouble ahead.

On the surface, Syrian leaders who are willing to chat with American reporters laugh, at reports of friction, but the laugh has a slightly hollow ring.

The Russians help us, therefore the Russians are our friends, one such leader told us. But he quickly added: We draw a very firm line when it comes to political interference by outsiders.

So far, that firm line has blocked the Russians from -infiltrating the tightly -

controlled, ideqlpgicallj^j_

purist Baath party, a reform socialist party started by middle-class revolutionaries in the 1940s.

The Soviet effort to penetrate the Baathists, whose vast and often competing police networks keep every Russian under constant surveillance, began in earnest after the debacle of the 1967 six-day war. It vainly continues today as, with ever - increasing Soviet spending to build a modern society, the Russians pour millions of rubles into Syria and enlarge their influence over the economy.

Third-world diplomats privately say that concern is " rising in Moscow over this mounting investment in the totally unpredictable Baathist regime, which runs the country as though it were in a perpetual revolution. What Moscow now senses is that that enormous - investment will never be recovered a concern comparable to the money down the rathole syndrome

Center for Health Statistics.

Glamor Both Galifianakis and Preyer agree also that the battle to clean up environmental pollution will be the glamor issue on the national political scene during the next few years.

Protecting the nations air and water resources will be the most pressing problem facing the U. S., Galifianakis said.

Preyer observed that President Nixon has made his chief campaign issue for the 1970s the battle to save our environment.

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lhat continues to whittle away at U. S. foreign aid spending.

The extpnt of Soviet spending is breathtaking, encompassing virtually every aspect of the Syrian economy. In 1966, for example, the Russians elbowed the West Germans out of the running with an open - ended (rffer to build the high dam on the Euphrates 'River. The interest rate is not more than 2 percent, with first payment on the loan still years away.

The Germans had spent six years trying to negotiate a contract to build the dam, but they never could get the government to agree to responsible financial terms.

Not only have the Russians been cutting the West out of Syria (except for France, which has traditional ties here), but they have also tried to bar the Chinese, not always successfully. When Peking offered a long-term -4eanT-estifflated at 60 million-Swiss francs, the Russians lobbied hard to make Syria say no. Instead, Syria said no to the Russians and took the loan, obviously concerned that the growing Soviet investments were becoming an oppressive threat to Syrian independence of action.

The advanced stage of Soviet influence was recently dramatized when the Russians successfully demanded the right to build a communications network between their engineers on the Euphrates dam site and Moscow, completely bypassing the Syriain governments tight control over all communications. That shows the extraordinary degree of autonomy the Soviet Union now has in Syria and some Syrian leaders resent it.

Moreover, Russian influence within the Syrian economy is more than matched by its control over the Syrian army and air force. Soviet technicians swarm at major military camps and Soviet experts control Syrian pilots from ground - control centers. A few weeks ago this led to the unannounced death of at least one Soviet adviser, who was killed when a Syrian pilot accidentally fired his rockets into the ground - control post.

In their efforts to make Syria a full-fledged satellite (a highly improbable goal) the Russians keep even more to themselves here than they do in Egypt. The Soviet ambassador, a Moslem who once served on the central committee of the Communist party, has a huge personal staff, but not a single Syrian works in the Soviet Embassy.

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By ART BUCHWALD

Today's Headless Party

INgfON - A lady *os^ Pointe, Mich.,

WASHII from Gross wants to know why I always make fun of the Republicans, but never the Democrats. The answer is so obvious that Im surprised anyone would raise the question.

The reason I dont make ' fun of the Democrats is that, for all practical purposes they dont exist.

1 discovered this sometime back when I ran into a Democratic congressman sleeping on a park bench.

"Take me to your leder."

I said.

You have to be kidding," he replied.

But surely someone is in charge of your party." I protested. j

He shook his head sadly. We havent had a leader in a year. Ever since Chicago, its every man for himself. Say. mister, could you let "me have a quarter to cover my campaign expenses?"

Dont tell me there is no money in the Democratic

Other Editors Say The North Gags

(Goldsboro News-Argus)

Senator (Honest) Abe Ribicoff of Connecticut surprised a lot of people especially some of his h6r-thern liberal friends when he spoke up in favor of a plan calling for uniform desegregation standards.

The proposal was advanced by Southern senators *and declares that enforcement standards shall be applied uniformly in all regions of the United States.

By this, the proposal means

But look what suddenly happened when Honest Abe Ribicoff said he^greed with the South that desegregation decisions apply to the entire country, not just to the South Leftwinger Senator Jacob .lavits of New York suddenly didtit like the idea of his owji district s being fed from the same spoon HEW has been using to force-feed the South.

Senator Walter Mndale of Minnesota home of Hubert Humphrey was among the

' Down to chambermaids and scrub boys, the entire staff has been imported from home.

Not unnaturally, this aloofness further feeds the resentments of the always -suspicious Baathist government.

up Nnh as fell as' liberals joHed by the idea

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The future of the nation depends on citizens who are willing to study carefully and weigh the economic, educational and social issuesand vote for candidates who stand for sound government at every level, national, state and local. Hyannis (Mass.) Patriot.

South.

Racial discrimination is inexcusable anywhere. The Supreme Court says segregated schools are against the law of the land and must be abolished.

But the South has born the brunt of abiding by the law, At every turn, the South has been castigated by congressmen and bureaucrats trying to win favor with liberal and nonwhite voters.

Declared Mndale: "It (a uniform standard of desegregation) would not work in the North unless laws against federally imposed busing to achieve racial balance were repealed , Concern of the liberal senators from the North over problems that would be encountered by applying the same standards nationally point up the very reason why such standards should be so applied

Party treasury"

"The last time I went down to Democratic .National Headquarters I was rolled twice

"How do you explain it? "1 dont know." he said, wiping his grizzled chin with ' an old Humphrey poster. "Would you believe that at one time you could look out from this bench and see nothing but Democrats? We were the toast of Washington. Lobbists vied for our favors; special-interest groups flew us anywhere we wanted to go; some of us ate, at the White House three times a week It was a golden age for the party. Look, I still have a ballpoint pen President Johnson gave me. You wouldnt like to buy it. would you

I shook my head. 1 already bought"^ two from some Democratic congressmen who were selling them on the Capitol steps

1 was afraid of that,_hq said. "How about an almoist brand-new pair of leather boots made in Texas?

"No. thank you. Now, about a leader for the party.Certainly youve discussed this among yourselves."

"Oh, we have, he said. We agreed'that what the party' needs in Congress for leadership is youth, imagination and new ideas Wonderful.

Thats why we decided to stick with House Spteaker McCormack

What about the Democratic National Committee

"As faras the chairman of the party is concerned, we want someone who can speak for the Democrats, raise ((jontinued On Page 5)

Basic,

Human

Needs

By DR. BILLY GRAHAM WjpHten for The Associated Press

No generation has ever been more loved, worried over, spoiled, or caused more concern and frustration than the present one. Millions of adults have thrown up their hands in despair and given up trying to understand modem youThT The suicide rate among students throughout the Western world is rising to an alarming degree. A19-year-old bov burned himself to death in a school yard in France recently and left a note saying. 1 did it because I cannot adapt myself to this world. I did it as a sign of protest against violence and to see love again

An honor student at a Canadian university tore up his do-ploma at the graduation exercises last summer and said, My four years at this institution have been meaningless to me

President Nixon referred to the restlessness, confusion and frustration, of young people in. his State of the Union address when he indicated that young people need a sense of excite-raent. a sense of destinymiF greatest privilege an individual can have is to servejn a cause bigger than himself

1 determinedfthat 1 was going to do my best to find out what was bugging our young people What care they saying What are they talking about 1 began, to ask myself: Is there really a generation gap that is any different from the gap that has always existed between generations^

I began to go to college and university campuses not only to speak but to listen. I put on old clothes and a baseball cap and went to a "love-in" in Winnipeg where several thixjsand young people were gathered for their happening". I joined a group of bearded, protesting studtmts at New York University, asking questions and listening to their answers. 1 sought cit a Black Panther leader and listened to him pour out all his bitterness and alarming threats of vengeance 1 talked for several hours to an early leader of the Students for a Democratic Society .Not tt)o long ago 1 went to the Miami Rock Festival at the invitation of the promoters As I looked at these quaintly dresst>d young people with their sheepskin coats, their untrimmed hair and their eyes filled with longing and fanciful dreams. I couldnt help but wonder who had failed them As they sat around their little campfires at night listening to hard rock music which had lyrics about love, death, heaven, hell and eternity, one boy with long-red hair, starved for love, threw his arms around me and said. Oh. Billy. 1 love you. You told it like it is Even with all the garish and gaudy manner. I could detect the basic human ingredients common to all the young people 1 have talked to throughout the world the need for love, the need for understanding, and The need for purpose Sometime ago the American ambassador to France, Sargent Shriver. invited me to come to his home and have a dialogue with French students. It was one of themost interesting evenings of my life.

For several hours we discussed philosophy, psychology, politics, religion, the problems

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FTC Urges Vanity Press Checks

Strength For Today

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FULL SPEED AHEAD

We often think how pleasant life could be if all the doubts and uncertainties were removed. After all, these seem to cause most of our daily worries: we are forced to choose, to decide, to stop or go, and doubts beset us.

Perhaps we think how much we could achieve if we did not have such doubts. If we could only stop worrying and plunge ahead, regardless of the consequences, how great we might become! Damn thf torpedoes. Full speed ahead! No doubts, no hesitations is that the key to greatness?

No, it is not. Great men are not those who have no doubts, but those who overcome them. Even Admiral Farragut.. in his remark

about the torpedoes (if he is quoted correctly), shows not that he yas unconcerned aboi the danger, but that aware of the danger, he was still resolved to press forward.

The Bible constantly shows us- that even men of the greatest faith had their doubts. When God first called Moses to begin the deliverance of his people from slavery in Egypt, Moses replied, Who am I, th^t I should go unto Pharoah? Peter, later the staunchest of Jesus disciples, was reluctant at the first meeting to obey hirh.

But Moses oi/ercame s his doubts, and so did Peter and changed the course of history.

By Earl L. Douglass

By ELMER ROESSNER The Federal Trade Commission has issued a public warning against the vanity press. The vanity press consists of those publishers who will print, for a price, books that other publishers wont accept. The vanity publishers often offer distribution, promotion and other services as well. Costs

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ROESSNER

to an author may range from $1,500 to $5,000 or more.

Over the years the FTC has ordered a number of companies to cease misrepresenting their services but complaints, it said, still come in.

As a typical case it cites an author who had paid $1,500 in advance fqr what he assumed

were 3,000 bound copies, then discovered that, while . the publisher printed the books, he was under no obligation to bind them. When the author threatened to sue. the publisher bound 290 copies and sent the remainder in flat sheets to the author.

Seven Check Points

The FTC suggested that any author get the answers to the following questions before signing a contract under which he pays to have a book published:

1. Am 1 counting on recovering all or a substantial part of my investment through the sale of my booki*

2. If the book sells only a few copies, can I jffdfd the loss of my investment?

3. If I contract for a specified number of copies of my book, will that number be printed and bound or is the publisher obligated to bind ot^y th(e booli^ for which a bona fide order is received?

4. Will the publisher deliver

to me at no extra cost, all unsold copies of the book at the termination of the contract

5. What do bookstores, book reviewers and librarians in my community think about books published by the vanity press?

6. Will I have to do most of the promotion of my own book?

7. Could I have my book edited, printed and bound locally for the same or lower charges than those quoted by the publisher?

One unhappy poet, who had paid to have hi^ book published, was lat^ told, You would have a ltter chance with reviewers and b(xA stores if you published the book yourself and peddled a out of the back of your car. The Other Side ^

However, it can be argued that if the vanity press does not misrepresent its services, it is essential to the free press of the nation.

While the standard

publishers ^ill occasionally publish a book they are sure won! sell because they think the ideas expressed should be aired, most of their decisions are based on expectations of profits. Otherwise they would be out of business.

The publishers have shown considerable courage, publishing books that champion unpopular and even repulsive causes and present poetry that no one but the author understands.

; Nevertheless, there are financial limits to this do-good publishing and editors reject books simply because they do not believe them good.

The author is still entitled to be read.

He can, of course, find a printer and a bookbinder, make his deals and sell the book out of the back of'his auto. But that is often difficult, even impossible for many authors. The honest sector of the vanity press may be his answer.

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